Maps

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Memories

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Our Honeymoon

These pictures bring back delightful memories! We spent a week of our honeymoon in the 16th century mill at Lydia Bridge.  Across the lawn was a view of the brook and early spring flowers.  We stepped outside to the sound of the ...Read more

A memory of South Brent in 1999 by Elizabeth Goehringer

Growing Up

I moved to Farleigh Road, New Haw in 1952. I attended West Byfleet Junior School and then Fullbrook School until I graduated in 1960 (after taking a special "commercial course"). Left New Haw in 1966 and moved to Vancouver, British ...Read more

A memory of New Haw in 1952 by Carole Woodward

Unchanged Lerryn

Lerryn is a place that one almost wants to keep secret so that it does not become a popular destination. It has barely changed in a hundred years. A beautiful and unspoilt village in a steep sided valley, Lerryn lies at the tidal ...Read more

A memory of Lerryn in 2004 by Peter Marks

One Lost Cinema

I love this photo of Loughton High Road as it shows just on the edge the cinema we used to have. Kids could go to Saturday morning pictures. We could see locally all the latest films.  To depart this asset from our town was not really progress I think.

A memory of Loughton in 1955 by Kathleen Rice

Angela's Memory Of High Street

I worked at Market Square Cafe in 1949, fond memories of working for the Arpinos Family. Left in 1950 went to Margate to work and met my husband and I went by Rydam Boat to the USA (Mississippi) in 1955 and was ...Read more

A memory of Bromley in 1949 by Bobby Jones

The Second World War

There was an air raid shelter under the green opposite the Three Jolly Wheelers pub. It comprised a number of concrete passageways. My mother my sister and I would use it on occasions when there was a particularly bad ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Bridge in 1945 by Colin King

The Bag Wash In Wednesfield Wton

There was an old bag wash where people could bring their dirty washing to be cleaned around New Street/North Street not far from the police station that was on the main Wolverhampton road.  The police station ...Read more

A memory of Wednesfield in 1959 by David Aulton

Frognal Hampstead London Nw3 6yd

Frognal was mentioned in the early 15th century as a customary tenement and in 1740 Frognal field was the eastern abutment of Northfield, part of the demesne. By the 17th century there were several cottages and ...Read more

A memory of Hampstead by Jon Miller

Looking Back

I was born in St Peters St, Islington, 1935, bombed out late 1943, with nowhere to go, had a makeshift home in Aloysius College for a time until we were given a place in 4 Montague Road, Honsey, N8, that's where I knew what it was like ...Read more

A memory of Hornsey in 1944 by George Burton

Hugh Bell Teachers

Reading John Culberts memories, I was reminded of my own time at Hugh Bell from 1947 to 52. I believe Hugh Bell to have had the most significant influence on my future career together with the Southfield Road Baptist ...Read more

A memory of Middlesbrough in 1940 by Norman Jackson

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Captions

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Caption For Bishopstoke, Post Office, Spring Lane C1955

Spring Lane, originally called Back Lane, branches off from Riverside and can be seen at the top centre turning back into the main road. This is the centre of the old village.

Caption For London, Ludgate Hill And Circus 1897

In wet weather the road became a quagmire and horses pulling heavy wagons slipped and slid up to St Paul's.

Caption For Weston Super Mare, The Sands And The Pier 1913

There are lovely roads and drives in the immediate neighbourhood, notably through the woods, and around Worlebury Hill.

Caption For Welford, High Street C1965

The Leicester to Northampton road passes through Welford's High Street, parallel with the much more tranquil West Street.

Caption For Bedford, County Schools 1897

South-west of the town centre, along the Ampthill Road, on a large site between it and the railway line, the County Schools were built in the 1880s on a grand plan with a massive tower and,

Caption For Dinnington, Laughton Road C1965

year in office for the Labour Government, the Beatles were awarded MBEs in the Birthday honours' list, and an 'experimental' 70mph maximum speed limit was introduced on the new motorways and other main roads

Caption For Knutsford, Toft Road 1900

Judging by the state of the road, rose growing did not appear to be high on the natives' list of priorities.

Caption For Abbotts Ann, The Village C1960

Duck Street forks to the right of the tree, Monxton Road to the left. King Charles I campled near the village with a force of 5,000.

Caption For Broadstone, The Broadway C1960

The Mini first took to the road in 1959, so it was a novelty when this picture was taken (centre left).

Caption For Burton Bradstock, Cliffs 1922

Erosion causes precipitous breaks, producing two miles of sheer cliffs from West Bay to Beach Road at Southover (right), where the boats and a cafe can be glimpsed.

Caption For Boston Spa, High Street 1893

Handsome and dignified Georgian houses and villas line the leafy street.Visitors to the town seem to have been made up from two groups: travellers using the Great North Road, who stopped over just

Caption For West Byfleet, Rosemount Parade C1955

Across the road beyond is a good Art Nouveau/Gothic church of 1912.

Caption For Sudbury, Ballingdon Street 1904

This photograph looks from the railway bridge towards the King's Head in Bulmer Road. On the left, the second house with the lower roof has been demolished.

Caption For Merthyr Tydfil, High Street C1965

The policeman standing on the road (left) was then part of the former Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Police Force.

Caption For Calne, The Strand C1955

The shop closed in 1968 when it was demolished as part of the road widening scheme.

Caption For Lyme Regis, The Cobb 1912

The old tracks from the neighbouring village of Uplyme are the original routes into the town before the construction of the present road along the coast.

Caption For Ashwell, West End C1951

Little has changed at this junction on the roads to Newnham and Hinxworth, known as West End and Back Street.

Caption For London, Fore Street And St Giles, Cripplegate C1880

The road has now been truncated to allow for the building of the Barbican; the church survived severe Second World War bombing to stand in the way of the development, which was completed in the early 1980s

Caption For Mobberley, The Bird In Hand C1955

The Bird in Hand stands beside the road linking Knutsford with Wilmslow. Although the sign portrays a hunting bird, there is sometimes an alternative meaning for pubs with this name.

Caption For Parham, Village 1929

The thatched Old Parsonage at the end of the road is late 15th-century. The exposed timbers have been plastered over. A group of children stand by a 19th-century cottage now called White Gates.

Caption For Willaston, The Old Hall And Smithy C1940

The Hall is situated close to the village green along Hadlow Road.

Caption For Abbotts Ann, The Village C1955

A 1930s Rover saloon is parked on the road. A trout stream flows through the water meadow here.

Caption For Yeovil, The Park And Church 1900

All the houses on the left went to make way for the inner ring road and its roundabout; the gable on the far right belongs to The Armoury pub, which does survive.

Caption For Highbridge, Church Street 1903

This view looks along Church Street from its junction with Market Street and Tylers Way; the latter is a modern road and where the boys stand is now a roundabout.