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Memories

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Farming At Stanwell Moor

I lived at Hithermoor Farm,Stanwell Moor from birth in 1951 until 1973.We farmed part of the Reservoirs and a large chunk of Greenhams Gravel Pit land. Many happy memories.Started school at Shortwood,Staines in 1956 with Mrs ...Read more

A memory of Stanwell by John Hutchings

Growing Up At Tombuie Cottage

My name is Drew Ramsay and my father retired from Calcutta India back home to Dundee in 1963 when I was 13 years old. He leased Tombuie Cottage for 5 years as a holiday home which came complete with a little over ...Read more

A memory of Tombuie Cottage by Drew Ramsay

Steamers

I remember being with my family at Craigendoran station to get on the Jeannie Deans steamer. My father worked at that station and waved as we left the pier. Good times. It is always good to remember the past but I don't think it was all ...Read more

A memory of Helensburgh

Great Story But A Few Corrections

The fields along Hospital Lane were for St Michael’s School in Leeds, next to the boys Grammar School - the boys had to get the bus up and change in the old stables! Allan Bennetts family lived in the corner ...Read more

A memory of Cookridge

Pee Gardens

I was very young to have seen the gardens in Middleton but they were well loved and a great place place to take a quiet moment watching the fountain. No one seems to know where the fountain is but rumour has it, it was dumped in the ...Read more

A memory of Middleton by Anne Dodds

Newbury Bridge And Lock

This picture makes me feel warm inside. When I was a young boy, 9-11 yrs old, I would fish from the wooden fence in the picture to the lower right, casting under the Newbury Bridge. Hoping to catch a large barbil or Samson the ...Read more

A memory of Newbury by Paul Frith

Boarding School

I went to st Roses convent in Stroud when I was eleven years old . The boarding house was up the lane called merrymeads. It was named st Bedes . I can remember going to the Holy Rosary church which was next to the convent . ...Read more

A memory of Stroud by Kathleen Ohara

The Old Baths

My memories of the old Dewsbury swimming baths (at the back of the police station) feels like memories from an earlier era older than myself. I used to visit the baths with my school once a wk for swimming lessons/excerise. I was ...Read more

A memory of Dewsbury in 1969 by Ann Hart

My Hometown

I was born in 1928 at Woodhill, Gressenhall and moved to Dereham at the age of 6yrs and left when I married some 20 years later. It was a happy childhood in spite of the war years, in fact it added to the excitement of those years, ...Read more

A memory of Dereham in 1940 by Tony Blades

Early Years!

I lived in Wigton for the first 8 years of my life, so 1955 is a mid point! I have happy memories of the town.  We lived in West Avenue when it was known as 'the avenue' - an unmade up road and for years I thought that if a road was ...Read more

A memory of Wigton in 1955 by Kath Panes

Captions

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Caption For Saltburn By The Sea, Hazlegrove 1932

A delightful view of Hazelgrove, a popular area of the town for promenading.

Caption For Carrickfergus, View From The Quay 1897

The Normans established a town, and provided the church which was dedicated to St Nicholas.

Caption For Irvine, The Harbour 1904

A royal burgh and port, Irvine was, by the 1920s, a town of 7,000 inhabitants.

Caption For Belfast, The Royal Academy 1936

This time the position was right: it was about one and a half miles out of town, and set in the new suburbs along the Cliftonville Road.

Caption For Leeds, The Union, Refectory And Textile Buildings C1960

When Victoria University broke up in 1904, Leeds was left by far the poor relation, unable to match the financial input enjoyed by Manchester and Liverpool.

Caption For Easingwold, Spring Street C1960

A deck chair and a roll of wire fencing stand outside the ironmongers in Spring Street.

Caption For Leeds, The Union, Refectory And Textile Buildings C1960

When Victoria University broke up in 1904, Leeds was left by far the poor relation, unable to match the financial input enjoyed by Manchester and Liverpool.

Caption For Stourport On Severn, View From Bridge 1931

Stourport's close proximity to the industrial cities of the Midlands made the town and the rivers a favourite day out around this period.

Caption For Hungerford, Bridge Sreet 1903

Two hundred and thirty-five years before this photograph was taken, Samuel Pepys visited the town and ate 'very good troutes, eels and crayfish' at the Bear Hotel.

Caption For Colchester, Old Houses

Colchester is often described as Britain's oldest recorded town - this was a town of vital importance to the Romans.

Caption For Somerton, Town Hall And Cross 1906

Alongside the Market Cross, and also in Blue Lias limestone with Ham stone dressings, is the Town Hall.

Caption For Dolgellau, From The Station 1888

This view, taken from the station, shows the town and Cadair Idris, the River Wnion, the famous 17th-century bridge and tollhouse, and the tower of St Mary's church.

Caption For Chester, Curzon Park West 1906

The electric tramway ran from Chester General station through the town and crossed the Dee by way of the Grosvenor Bridge.

Caption For Ashford, Livestock Market 1906

Ashford has for centuries been an important market town, and scenes such as this, with the sheep in the middle of the street, were once a familiar sight.

Caption For Cheltenham, The Promenade 1907

The population of Cheltenham grew from three thousand in 1801 to over thirteen thousand just twenty years later; this was a sure sign of Cheltenham's success as a spa town and residential centre.

Caption For Poole, High Street 1900

Nowadays the greater part of Poole's population lives in the suburbs that have sprawled across the heathlands towards Bournemouth and Wimborne; but when this picture was taken, the residents mostly

Caption For Tonbridge, High Street 1890

Another view of the High Street at a less congested point and on a very hot and sunny summer's day: the shopkeepers have lowered their sun-blinds to protect their wares, and the lady on the left has

Caption For Chulmleigh, Fore Street 2003

This attractive small town sits on a hilltop overlooking the valley of the LIttle Dart.

Caption For Budleigh Salterton, High Street 1918

Once just a hamlet of fishermen's cottages, Budleigh grew as a town and watering place in the first half of the 19th century, when a number of well-heeled society figures took up residence.

Caption For Henley On Thames, New Street C1955

'Henley, a market town, and one of the neatest, cleanest, and most respectable in the County ... is exceedingly pleasantly situated on the west side of the river Thames'.

Caption For Penryn, Broad Street 1897

We are further down into the town and looking back up towards the clock tower, which is just visible.

Caption For Newton Abbot, From Decoy 1906

Another open area of Newton Abbot is Decoy, to the south of town.

Caption For Dawlish, The Beach 1922

Like Teignmouth and Lyme Regis, Dawlish was much-loved by fashionable society during the 19th century.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Broad Street C1955

Broad Street boasts a great variety of inns and hotels.