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Much Loved Memories.
I have such good memories of Much Hadham. My grandparents, Mr & Mrs Morris lived in a lordship cottages just outside of Much Hadham village - the house went with my grandfather's job which was a gardener for Doctor & ...Read more
A memory of Much Hadham by
The Old Thatch
Ah, The Old Thatch. I remember it well, for this is where I grew up from the early 1940s until 1956. By today's standards it was grim: no heating, no running water, no flush loo - nothing. Yet it was a wonderful place in which ...Read more
A memory of Nether Wallop in 1940 by
Stubbington 1955 1960
I arrived accompanied by my father in 1955 not really knowing what to expect as I had been born and brought up in Jersey, which in those days was rather different to the mainland. My father, uncle and grandfather had all ...Read more
A memory of Stubbington by
It Was Different Then!
I lived in the house at the back of the picture in the 1950s. The small upstairs window at the front was my bedroom. In the winter my mum sent me across to Mr. Davey the greengrocer (next to the post office) for wooden orange ...Read more
A memory of Slough by
Sutton High School For Boys Closed In 1962
Does any one remember or, like me, go to this school that had the same purple-mauve school uniform colour as the twinned girls' school just along the road? The alumni blog (with photos of teachers like ...Read more
A memory of Sutton by
War Time
During the WW2 war my dad was posted at R A F Finningley and we his family lived in the village at a small holding across the road from the school. I can still see in my mind Wilf the owner who lived there too with his wife. Also the ...Read more
A memory of Finningley in 1945 by
The Post Office
1971 - 1984: Whilst I lived in village the Post Office was where you got all you needed in an emergency. As a little one, I personally loved the vending machines on the wall. In those days we all used to be sent out for groceries ...Read more
A memory of Polgooth by
Probably Strangely Out Of Place At Hawthorns.
It was 1952 or '53. I was one of a few young boys boarded at Hawthorns in those Post-War days. I was sequestered there while my parents toured the United States for a year. I didn't remember them ...Read more
A memory of Frinton-On-Sea by
Hornsea Convalescent Home For Children
this place held a lot of bad memories for me, I was sent 3 times in the 60s a lot of cruelty , especially once you left the nursery and was old enough to be on the dormitory up the flight of stairs. the nurse ...Read more
A memory of Hornsea by
The Start Of My Career
I spent my first period of nursing training in this hospital (now converted into luxury apartments I believe). I can remember its endlessly long corridor with wards off, left and right and flights of stairs to the upper ...Read more
A memory of Aldershot by
Captions
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Also prominent in the picture is the General Post Office, opened in 1818 and scene of the opening of the Easter rising in 1916.
Buildings such as Woking's fine, if somewhat dull, Old Bank had no place in the exciting, post-war redeveloped Woking.
Forty pairs of horses were maintained at the inn for posting.
Opposite the Cock Inn (left) stands the tiny village Post Office, with a pensioner eyeing the photographer suspiciously.
It was redeveloped in 1885, when the old Market House Inn to its left became the post office, and again in 1937.
The 16th-century thatched Plough public house with its low ceilings, exposed beams and stone flagged floor is still open today, but the post office, across the road, has closed since the time this photograph
According to a directory of 1899, it then consisted of a post office, a blacksmith, a grocery shop, a bakery-cum-beer shop, and a few farms.
This view shows the road layout, sign posts and lighting before modernisation.
photograph H167008, here we have a rainy morning in downtown Hadleigh by the Rectory Road shops.A pram is parked outside the butcher's shop, whilst on the opposite side of the road outside the Post
This town, which stands above the Colne in the north of the county about five miles from Braintree, was once famous for its silk and crepe.This wonderful post-war view looks up the High Street, with
The third house from the right, slightly lower than its neighbours, is now the post office.
Note the village post office on the left, and the other sturdy, gritstone-built Georgian cottages with their uniformly white-painted doors and windows.
Hook, a sprawling commuter settlement, was expanding 40 years ago, and this picture shows the village stores on the right, the post office next door to it and Lloyds Bank just beyond.
The Post Office boasts a range of enamel advertising signs.
The 1930s Shoe Inn can be seen between the post office and the thatched cottage.
Note the cycles outside the building - this was a good stop-off point on the way home from work for workers from the docks and post office.
Converted from a Georgian private house, the Village Stores and Post Office was the communal centre of the former West Yorkshire village of Wortley, which is now not much more than a suburb of the city
Apart from the old post office, much of the left-hand side survives, but on the right only The William Hardwicke pub remains amid rebuilding, including the 1930s Bobby's department store, after which the
On the left is the red brick and stone Lloyds Bank building, with its fretted skyline, while to the right is the neo-classical Post Office, built in 1881.
This is a useful spot in the street: the Post Office is on the left, the Trustee Savings Bank is adjacent to the bus, and the shiny new frontage of the Co-op is second on the right.
The white cottage on the left used to be the Post Office, before it was moved to the other side of the road in the 1930s.
Martin's General Stores, on the right, also served as the local post office for this pretty village south of Frensham Ponds, which William Cobbett failed to reach one stormy night in November 1822 after
It is very ornately carved - notice, for example, the carved head on the corner post to the left.
The post box is still there.
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