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1890 The Year My Great Grand Mother Alice Maud Taylor Was Born

My great grand mother was born in 1890 and lived in Burton in Lonsdale all her 83 years. She was my guardian after my father died (Jim Coates) at the young age of 21 in 1969. ...Read more

A memory of Burton in Lonsdale by gjcoates

Boreham School

Our family the Portways lived in Boreham from 1926 when our dad Alf moved with his family from Howe street Great Waltham. Our parents met in the RAF and married in 1945. Our mum Pat lived on Boreham airfield then my sister was ...Read more

A memory of Boreham by jap48

Written While I Can Still Remember .

My name is Bernard Hagon I was born 1933 in city Road maternity home which had a direct hit during the war everybody killed . My parents had the British Empire in Barking Road Plaistow a Taylor Walker’s house just ...Read more

A memory of Calmore by bernard.hagon

On The Buses

I was a bus driver on the united counties in 1965, my name is john errington I lived at the top of wellington street from 1944 till 57 . when we all moved to far cotton.

A memory of Northampton by johnerrington0

Holywell Cross

I lived on Devonshire Street just off Holywell Cross from 1950 to 1963 and I can still remember the area quite vividly. Devonshire Street was a short cut for workers walking to the Trebor factory. Our landlord, Mr Pashley, had a ...Read more

A memory of Chesterfield by malcjgough

Come For A Stroll Back In Time Through South Hackney

Hi Guys , I recently wrote on this site about the childhood memories I have of South Hackney, apparently it triggered quite a lot of interest on Facebook by people who connected with my ...Read more

A memory of South Hackney by vickyb60

Happy Memories

I lived in Kenton Avenue from 1959 to 1972 and have so many very happy memories. The old swimming pool (the manager was John Cuffley), Vienna Bakeries, the hairdressers (Mr Kirby) in the High Street, the sawdust on the floor of the ...Read more

A memory of Sunbury by Stephen Bechervaise

Sainsbury In Tonbridge

I may well have a poor recollection here as I would have been only 3 or 4 years old at the time but wasn't Sainsbury's first Tonbridge store located on the west side of the high street just south of the old post office / just ...Read more

A memory of Tonbridge by m102691

Lower Tranmere

Hi, my surname was Rivington and we use to live on the corner of Seymour Street and Holt Hill. Looked like the house of the Munsters 😁I was a real tomboy. Use to go to mersey Park primary then prenton high. I remember family names of ...Read more

A memory of Birkenhead by hazeshimmo69

Morris Bros

Does anyone remember Morris Bros, Gents' Outfitters - I THINK must have been in Ealing High Street. I worked there for three summers in the early 70s, walking over from my sister's house in Mayfield Avenue. Mr Morris himself (I suppose a ...Read more

A memory of Ealing by tenterer64

Captions

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Caption For Salisbury, High Street 1906

On the left street lighting has appeared.

Caption For Winchester, Cathedral 1922

She died at a house in College Street in 1817.

Caption For Castleford, Carlton Street C1965

The shell remains as a walkway through to Carlton Street, and it stands next to the 1905 Carnegie Library.

Caption For Petersfield, Sheep Street C1965

Look towards the bottom of the street and you see a glimpse of The Spain.

Caption For Charing, High Street 1901

These two views of the steep high street as it winds up the hill towards Canterbury show some of the rich assortment of buildings built of brick or black-and-white half timbering.

Caption For Cheltenham, The Promenade C1960

Once eulogised in The Times as 'the most beautiful thoroughfare in Britain', Cheltenham's Promenade began its existence as a walkway from the High Street to a spa pump room that stood where the Queen's

Caption For Smeeton Westerby, Westerby Corner C1955

This attractive village retains its quiet rural atmosphere; it is ranged along its north-south street about a mile to the south of Kibworth Beauchamp.

Caption For Widnes, Technical School And Public Library 1900

This is the building on the far left of picture W97078, but this time was taken in an age before the motorcar was to change the look of our streets for ever.

Caption For Ambleside, The White Lion And Royal Oak Hotels 1912

We are in the centre of Ambleside; Lamb's Royal Oak Hotel is on the left, and the White Lion Hotel is in the centre.A coach-and-four has pulled up outside the White Lion, while bustle in the main street

Caption For Wellington, Fore Street 1938

As can be seen in this view, Fore Street exhibited a rather heterogeneous range of architectural styles.

Caption For West Monkton, The Street C1955

This view along the main street towards the church has little changed during fifty years.

Caption For Shrewsbury, Old Market Hall And Princess Street 1911

Once named Candle Lane because candles were sold here, the street was renamed to commemorate the visit of Princess Victoria in the 1800s.

Caption For Chesham, St Mary's Church From The River 1897

This view looks north-west across the water meadows towards the church from beside the stream where it passes under Germain Street.

Caption For Shefford, North Bridge Street 1951

Sheep on the High Street are a distant memory, but the town has managed to preserve a number of older buildings - including the 16th-century porch on the left.

Caption For Burford, High Street C1955

The High Street runs down between pollarded lime trees and mellow stone houses to the River Windrush.

Caption For Peterborough, The Town Hall C1955

The only real change to this scene is that now there are no cars - the whole of Bridge Street up to Cathedral Square has been closed to traffic and paved over.

Caption For Lindfield, High Street C1960

This photograph shows Lindfield's very long, curving main street, which climbs gently towards the unusually tall spire of the mainly 13th-century church.

Caption For Plymouth, Bedford Street 1904

It was demolished in 1947 to make way for the new street plan. Its tower occupied a position which today is on the west side of Armada Way near where the Western Morning News office now stands.

Caption For Huddersfield, New Street 1957

When this photograph was taken, with the white painted Commercial Hotel on the left, there were still trams running up and down the town's streets.

Caption For Pinner, High Street C1960

The scene has changed very little since 1955, except that this fine street has been blighted by the thoughtless introduction of ugly lighting columns; the parking problems, very apparent in 2000, are beginning

Caption For Warwick, The Lord Leycester Hospital 1892

This view looks from Lord Leycester's Hospital along the High Street. Built in 1571, the hospital provided accommodation for 12 poor brothers, former soldiers who had seen service with the family.

Caption For Bath, North Parade And Abbey 1949

This view, closer in from the junction of North Parade and Pierrepont Street, shows the site of the Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, now a bustling bus station.

Caption For Alton, High Street 1898

Note the shopkeepers diligently scanning the High Street in search of custom. Outside E.W.

Caption For Wrotham, St Mary's Road 1903

Its long street winds between brick, tile- and timber-clad cottages with their pleasing confusion of rooflines. Note the safe walkways above the road.