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Rock And Roll Years

I lived in South Harrow from birth in 1945 in 125 Roxeth Green Avenue. I attended Roxeth Hill primary school until failing the eleven plus and then went to Lascelles Secondary Modern. Not the best of pupils although I was ...Read more

A memory of South Harrow in 1959 by Christopher West

Tricorn And Charlotte St

I worked at Fine Fare and the Landport Drapery Bazaar in 1970/71 and was a member of the Tricorn Club on top of the Tricorn. My favourite locals were the Coxs Hotel and the Casbah Pub both in Charlotte St. The landlord ...Read more

A memory of Portsmouth in 1971 by Chris Evans

Earliest Memory

I was born 5 Monica Street in 1943, my earliest memory is of a huge hound leaning over me - for some reason I wasn't frightened. In my twenties looking through some photos with my mum I found my hound, a very small terrier which ...Read more

A memory of Maesteg in 1943 by Janice Rose Nee Mordecai

The Old Odeon.

If you walked around the first corner to the Odeon you got a good view of the old Blast Furnaces that use to turn Corby's night sky orange. It never got dark in the Corby of my childhood. The Candle and all the steel and tube mills lit ...Read more

A memory of Corby in 1962 by Kenneth Little

Ye Original Pharmacy

My dad was Eddie Cattell who ran Ye Original Pharmacy at 104 Leicester Road opposite Sandhurst Street School. We lived at the shop before moving to 41 Fairstone Hill when the houses there were built. I went to Sandhurst ...Read more

A memory of Oadby by Steve Cattell

A Wartime Symbol Of Defiance A Giant Meat Pie!

One of Bradford’s famous literary sons was the author and playwright J B Priestley, who was born in Mannheim Road, Bradford, on 13 September 1894. J B Priestley provided Britain with a rather strange ...Read more

A memory of Bradford in 1940 by Julia Skinner

Happy Days In Bakersfields

I was born in Nottingham in 1939 and we lived on Parkdale Road, Bakersfields. Have many happy memories of Parkdale Junior School - Parkdale Cow Sheds! Mrs Stubbins taught the 5-year olds, then Miss Walmsley, Miss ...Read more

A memory of Nottingham in 1949 by Kathleen East

A Watchet Boy

I was born in Woodland Road in 1948. The houses were brand new. I used to watch the builders from Dates going up the road to work on the houses at the top. I would stand on next door's doorstep and swear at them as they passed. My ...Read more

A memory of Watchet by Noel Taylor

Dancing In The Afternoon Matinee

I remember dancing after school in Horsell town hall on Horsell main street in the 50s. I was at Goldsworth School, Woking in those years. My friend David and I were always dancing there, on Wednesdays I think. ...Read more

A memory of Horsell in 1952 by William Patten

The Coronation

I was only 3 years old and we lived in Elthorne Rd just across the street from The Militia Canteen on the corner of Villier St. I do remember the flags and bunting draped across the front of the buildingl and the coronation ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge in 1952 by Philip Cousins

Captions

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Caption For East Blatchington, The Village 1906

The field in the foreground, with its flint wall, lies to the south of East Blatchington Farm; the view looks south down Blatchington Hill, the village main street, with Belgrave Road passing in front

Caption For Rusper, The Village 1909

Set in remote and well-wooded rolling countryside west of and utterly remote from Crawley, Rusper has a gently curving main street with many good houses and cottages.

Caption For Bridport, West Street 1897

On the north side of the street the confident commercial frontage is that of the Wilts and Dorset Bank, which was absorbed into Lloyds (right).

Caption For Chalfont St Peter, High Street C1950

A Georgian tower and church of the 1710s, heavily remodelled in the 1850s and recast in Gothic style in polychrome brick by G E Street: he had described the Georgian church as 'a very ugly brick

Caption For Luton, C1950

Partially hidden by street furniture and a Green Line bus, the imposing building to the left is Luton Technical College, opened in 1906 as Luton Secondary School and now the site of Luton University.

Caption For Bletchingley, The Church And Post Office C1955

Off the north side of the High Street, the buildings are encroachments on the market place; Bletchingley had been a borough by the 13th century.

Caption For Egham, High Street C1950

This view is at the east end of the High Street at the roundabout where it joins the A30, in effect the northern by-pass.

Caption For Abingdon, Wesleyan Church And Schools 1893

Conduit Road runs north from Ock Street on the east side of the Albert Park estate, and the earliest buildings on it are this church group.

Caption For St Neots, River Terrace C1955

During the 1990s, River Terrace was demolished, and a new complex of houses and flats fills the area between the River and Brook Street.

Caption For Sudbury, War Memorial 1923

This is the north end of North Street with the Masonic Lodge off to the left. The war memorial was dedicated in October 1921.

Caption For Haywards Heath, The Boadway C1960

New street lighting has been installed, and although Caffyns are still here, there is a new Seeboard (electricity) showroom next door. Both businesses have now moved.

Caption For Bridport, West Allington 1899

Further along the south side of the street (left of centre) is the Old Inn. West Court is behind the hand-cart.

Caption For Welton, The Cross Roads C1955

This view looks east along Ashby Road to the small green at its junction with Station Road and High Street (to the right).

Caption For Glentham, Moncks Arms Hotel, Caenby Corner 1953

The A15 is in fact a Roman road – Ermine Street.

Caption For Hunstanton, Green And Pier 1907

In this High Street view there is a dairy, Preston's Library (where you could borrow a novel to enjoy whilst lounging in your deckchair), and a branch of International Stores, which quickly saw off old-style

Caption For Carshalton, Pond From The Bridge 1896

In this view looking southwest from Honeywood Walk to Pound Street, the Greyhound pub is part 18th-century and part 19th-century Jacobean.

Caption For Leeds, The Town Hall 1894

architect of the Town Hall, Cuthbert Brodrick, was also responsible for other buildings, including the Corn Exchange (1860), the Mechanics' Institute (1860), the Oriental Baths (1866) and shops on Cookridge Street

Caption For East Grinstead, London Road 1904

The building on the right, just before the King Street junction, was the Jubilee Institute.

Caption For Broughton Astley, The Stream C1967

The village has been given a sweeping bypass, Broughton Way, on its north side, reducing the volume of traffic negotiating Main Street and the area around St Mary's Church and Old Mill

Caption For South Luffenham, St Mary's Church C1955

The great Gothic Revival architect George Edmund Street (1824-81) restored the building in 1852 and 1861.

Caption For Wallasey, The Village C1965

Also, the High Streets have the quaint name 'the Village', so we have a road named Liskard Village, Upton Village etc.

Caption For Manchester, The Royal Infirmary C1885

A public bath house was also part of the block; as well as serving the people of the back streets around Piccadilly, it meant that patients could be given a bath before entering hospital.

Caption For East Grinstead, London Road 1904

little cottages now adapted into three shops (one of which, Ada Francis, is advertising her Dining & Tea Rooms), and the post office, which replaced that at Maplesden's shop in the High Street

Caption For Wotton Under Edge, Church Street 1900

On the far side of the street are the almshouses bequeathed to the town by the former Sheriff of London Hugh Perry, who held the office in 1632.