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Wartime In Ivybridge 1939

I was one of ten little girls, plus our teacher, who arrived in Ivybridge as evacuees from Acton, London, at the outbreak of the Second World War. We were taken to a hall (probably at the school) where we were ...Read more

A memory of Ivybridge in 1940 by Geraldine Gasparelli

Hazel Road

My father was born in 1930 and lived in Hazel Road, opposite the Supermarine factory. He left in the 1930s as his father, who was in the Navy, was moved to Coventry to become a recruiting officer. At the beginning of this year, I had ...Read more

A memory of Woolston in 1930 by Hannah Race

29 Seagate, Irvine

Hi, my name is Colin, I live in Lowestoft, Suffolk. The picture you have of 29 Seagate, Irvine is part of the building we lived in, the part you see was used as a workshop when we lived there, he did upholstery. We had no ...Read more

A memory of Irvine in 1953 by Colin Porter

Grocery Stores

My grandfather Thomas Edwin Mantle had a grocery and creamery in Newgate Street. He died before I was born but strangely my father Herbert Clayton eventually had his own store in Newgate Street, it was called H Clayton ...Read more

A memory of Bishop Auckland in 1900 by Marion Klein

Easington Lad

Although I moved away from Easington Colliery over forty years ago I still regard it as where I belong. Born in Glebe Terrace, I spent my early schooling attending the infant and junior departments in the colliery. I had ...Read more

A memory of Easington Colliery in 1951 by Stuart Ayre

Lemington Dance

Lemington Dance was held in a prefabricated building at the bottom of Woodburn Street, we used to go there on a Saturday and Sunday night, in fact I met my husband there. We would dance to all the 60s' music, great times. I think ...Read more

A memory of Lemington in 1962 by Elizabeth(Betty) Phillipson Nee Scott

Woodgate, Frog Island

During the war my grandparents moved from Great Yarmouth to Leicester, my grandmother worked at Freres biscuit factory in Woodgate, my father went to Slater Street School and they lived in Henry Street. It was a cul-de-sac ...Read more

A memory of Leicester by Lee Orbell

An Ashbourne Childhood

My family moved to Ashbourne in 1942 when I was 6. I went to school at what must have been the last of the old "Dame" schools run by an elderly lady called Ethel Hunter. The school was at the top of a big house in Church ...Read more

A memory of Ashbourne in 1943

My Gran Grandad

My grandparents lived in Mountain Ash at 37 Allen Street, the name of Richard and Ada Parsons. After the harvest had finished in Surrey, we, as children, were always taken to Wales for wonderful holiday. We could climb up the ...Read more

A memory of Mountain Ash in 1940 by Pamela Storey

Food Outlets

I can remember the suppliers of food and the taxi rank on the island at the Clock Tower - their pies were particularly nice and the taxi drivers very friendly. At the same place the freshly loaded coal wagons used to park ...Read more

A memory of Thornton Heath in 1940 by Peter Lake

Captions

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Caption For Kettering, Montague Street C1955

At the Stamford Road end of the street, the newly-built showroom of Tutty's sold kitchen units and appliances. Newman's next door was an old-fashioned ironmongers, which has resisted change.

Caption For Stamford, Cheyne Lane C1960

This narrow passage leading down to St Mary's Street was home in 1900 to a fishmonger and hairdresser, as well as the Hole in the Wall Inn, previously the Coach and Horses (although it is hard to imagine

Caption For Eastbourne, The Pier 1912

To convey any notion at all of this watering-place to those who have never visited it, one must mention that there are noble tree-planted streets and shady avenues, an imposing sea-front of about three

Caption For East Grinstead, High Street 1895

Here the photographer looks east along High Street, a wide market place with typical market encroachment blocking the view at the end; the building with the gable is a rebuild in 1877 of a 17th-century

Caption For Newark, Castle Gate 1904

The marooned ornate street lamp would end its days painted with black and white bands and carrying signposts for London, Grantham, Leicester, Nottingham, Sleaford, Gainsborough and Lincoln.

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Caption For Tredegar, C1955

Saron chapel stands alongside Market Street on the extreme right. The roof of the fire station can be seen in the foreground.

Caption For Malmesbury, The Market Cross C1955

The shop front visible at the top of the High Street is the Chippenham Co-op Society.

Caption For Dudley, Castle Street And St Edmund's Church 1968

The developers have struck in Castle Street.

Caption For Three Bridges, Post Office 1906

Window displays include net curtaining, boots and shoes and hats.The shopfront and street corner have gas lamps, and the small front gardens have wood fencing.

Caption For Brasted, C1955

Brasted Place was the seat iof the Tipping family, and once the retreat of the ousted monarch Louis Napoleon, who could be seen walking the streets with his tame eagle.

Caption For Three Bridges, Post Office 1906

The shopfront and street corner have gas lamps, and the small front gardens have wood fencing. A boy waits near the shop doorway for the photographer.

Caption For Burnham On Sea, The Promenade 1918

This view looks north from the corner of Pier Street past the Queens Hotel, now painted to protect the rapidly- eroding stone work, towards the short pier; its pavilion-roofed structure is now named

Caption For Godalming, Bridge Street C1955

A view of the southeast side of Bridge Street. While many of the buildings on the right remain, several were pulled down in the 1980s and their sites now form part of a supermarket car park.

Caption For Wrecclesham, Village 1907

Today, the pottery buildings are being restored by the Farnham Trust as craft workshops, and the West Street Potters, a teaching group, continues the tradition of making ceramics.

Caption For Grange Over Sands, Hazlewood Terrace

The iron fence and bushes in the foreground at the junction with Meathop Road have now gone, and the old street lamp at its end has been replaced by a modern one by the side of the road

Caption For Bridport, East Street 1902

Duplicating an earlier shot from 1897, this view is looking westwards up East Street from the River Asker and East Bridge.

Caption For Prestatyn, High Street 1895

This charming study shows the lower part of the High Street on a breezy summer's day.

Caption For Grays, The Lightship C1955

South of the town, a long-redundant lightship lies on the slipway near Argent Street; its light was hauled up to the masthead on cables.

Caption For Plaxtol, Village 1901

A lone carriage is parked on the other side of the street from the newly-built Red Lion Inn. Just beyond, down the road, is J J Bacon's Stores.

Caption For Barnstaple, High Street 1894

Taken almost from the bottom of High Street, many of these buildings are unchanged a century later, even if their uses have. Brook's Cafe Restaurant is now The Bradford & Bingley Building Society.

Caption For Chorley, Chapel Street C1965

Chapel Street is framed by the arched entrance to St Mary's Roman Catholic Church and its grounds. The arch is a memorial to a past priest, Father Crank, and was put up in 1913.

Caption For Aylesbury, Market Square 1901

Livestock was sold here until 1927; after that time the stock market moved to a site off Exchange Street, now built over by a multi-screen cinema complex.

Caption For Kidlington, Cross Roads C1955

Corn Market 1951 This classic market town is famous for its broad streets and many inns - The Black Horse can be seen on the left in the picture.

Caption For Sleaford, West Banks C1955

To the south are further artisan terraces and short side streets. The early 19th-century cottages on the left were lost in the 1960s.