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Memories

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Nine Elms Lane

I was born at 15 Currie Street in a modern prefab which had electric lights when most other houses still only had gas. We had an inside toilet and bathroom luxuries that others could only dream of then. At one end of Currie Street ...Read more

A memory of Battersea in 1957 by Michael Box

Stone Flags

I remember living in a terraced Street close to 'Vikky Park' as a child. We used to visit the war memorial after standing in the freezing cold watching my Dad play football... sometimes you couldn't even see the game for the fog. I ...Read more

A memory of Leicester in 1966 by Cheryl Cartmell

Ellor Street

I lived on Ellor Street for the first 16 years of my life. I went to John Street School followed by Pendleton High School for Girls. I clearly remember the Salford Hippodrome at the end of the street and frequent visits there to see ...Read more

A memory of Salford

Queen Mum Opens New Dining Wing

I remember being in the Beeches Prep School at the time. Anybody else remember the staff I wonder? Miss Lambert in Kindergarten and Transition, Miss Cutler - Form 1, Miss Reid - Lower 2 and Mrs Cotton in Middle ...Read more

A memory of Berkhamsted in 1960 by Pauline Askey(Stanborough)

Suiters And Uxbridge In General

Gosh, how the years roll! I used to go to Uxbridge shopping with my Mum in the late 1940's, we used the 455 bus from Denham. I can remember precious tin toys from the Market House. And, yes, when the cash was ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge in 1940 by Gerard Gilbertson

Ve Day Party An Evacuee!

When the V2 Rockets started to land in London, (June 1944) our whole school was evacuated. We did not know where we were going. We arrived by steam train at Doncaster and were taken to Skellow Village. Various households ...Read more

A memory of Skellow in 1945 by Tony Pink

Lilly Street

I lived in Lilly Street with my family from 1955-1961. Family name was Briggs. We lived in no 59. Mam's name was Laura. There were seven children in our family, but only six lived there. We went to St Edmunds school and ...Read more

A memory of Miles Hill in 1956 by Lynn Whyte Heath

Sacriston Seen Through The Eyes Of My Grandfather.

Hi, my grandfather, Hans Major Embleton, was born in Sacriston 1895. He grew up with his brothers and sisters, 10 in total in Victoria Street. He went down the mine at 14yrs, a mine putter, he ...Read more

A memory of Sacriston in 1900 by Derick Smith

Happy Days

I started at St.Anne's in the early 40's and was evacuated with some of the girls to Baccombe Warren, Wendover, as my father was in the war and my mother was looking after his business in Bond Street, Ealing. I remember Rosemary and ...Read more

A memory of Ealing in 1940 by Bernadette Meddeman

Living In Penge From 1950

I lived with my mum and dad Frank and Gladys Shadbolt (nee Roots) in Woodbine Grove, surrounded by family, grandparents, Bob and Mary Roots also from Woodbine and my Nanny Shadbolt who lived in Hawthorne Grove. I went back ...Read more

A memory of Penge by Linda Crow

Captions

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Caption For Eastleigh, Parish Church C1955

It was designed by G E Street, the architect of the Palace of Justice in London. After being declared redundant, the church has lately been converted into flats.

Caption For Richmond, Kings Head Hotel 1913

King Street on the left was so named not from this hotel but from the King's Arms Inn which stood on the site until 1813, when it was demolished to make way for a more level access for carriages into

Caption For Gloucester, Baker's Clock 1952

One of Gloucester's best-known features is the ingenious clock that stands at first floor level above G A Baker & Sons in Southgate Street.

Caption For Thorley, Church Of St James The Great 1899

Some visitors to Hertfordshire think that Thorley lies on the main road between Bishop's Stortford and Sawbridgeworth - this should, correctly, be called Thorley Street.

Caption For Glasgow, Woodside Place 1897

The nucleus of this was formed by Archibald McLellan (1796-1854); he bequeathed it to the city together with the McLellan Galleries in Sauchiehall Street, where the collection was originally

Caption For Sabden, Wesleyan Church And Wesley Street C1960

This photograph was taken from Wesley Street.

Caption For Leeds, The Town Hall 1894

architect of the Town Hall, Cuthbert Brodrick, also left many other Leeds legacies, including the Corn Exchange (1860), the Mechanics' Institute (1860), the Oriental Baths (1866)and shops on Cookridge Street

Caption For Poole, High Street, Beech Hurst 1904

At the top of the High Street stands this magnificent three-storey residence built in 1798 for the merchant Samuel Rolles, indicative of the wealth which came to the town in the 18th century

Caption For Bury St Edmunds, The Buttermarket C1965

At the end of the street the Midland Bank took over Whipps in 1963 and extended the bank over the site.

Caption For Malmesbury, Market Cross And Oxford Street C1955

We are looking down Oxford Street, with the market cross on the left. The tower of Tower House can be seen at the junction with Cross Hayes Lane (right).

Caption For Minehead, The Parade 1892

The building in the centre of the row, at the end of Bancks Street, was all that remained of the older buildings. Then a bank, it is now an estate agents.

Caption For Llandudno, The Promenade 1898

, Llandudno preserves much of its Victorian flavour, with its sweeping promenade faced by numerous hotels, its expanse of sands between the headlands of the Great and Little Ormes, its pier, its wide streets

Caption For Congleton, Havannah, The Deserted Village 1898

Two streets of terraced cottages were constructed, although many workers must have walked there daily from Congleton.

Caption For Odiham, The Bury 1910

The left-hand house (on Church Street) was William Hole's baker's and confectioner's shop with an entrance from the front of the building. The bakery was situated in the yard behind.

Caption For Cardiff, 1893

At left is Westgate Street where only 40 years earlier ran the course of the Taff. The Cardiff and County Club, later to find a home here, is a new venture founded only three years previously.

Caption For Durham, Old Elvet 1914

The street is unusually wide and spacious for Durham; it was further extended in the 1960s, when road development saw the demise of the Waterloo Hotel, the building beyond the Royal County

Caption For Bury St Edmunds, Buttermarket C1955

At the far end is Abbeygate Street, with the three-storey Barclays Bank of 1881, which incorporated the Post and Sorting Office until 1895, the Midland Bank of 1914, and Whipps the fishmonger.

Caption For Kettering, High Street C1950

Only a few steps further along the High Street brings us to some of the multiple stores. Marks & Spencer had replaced F Spence & Son, a furnishers with an impressive window display.

Caption For Pinner, High Street C1955

The church of St John The Baptist, whose tower dominates the rising High Street, appears to date from the 13th century.

Caption For Accrington, Town Hall 1897

The police station, just visible behind on the left at the top of Union Street, was accessible from the court via an underground passage for the prisoners to pass through on their way from

Caption For Richmond, Kings Head Hotel 1913

King Street on the left was so named not from this hotel but from the King's Arms Inn which stood on the site until 1813, when it was demolished to make way for a more level access for carriages into

Caption For Kettering, High Street C1950

Only a few steps further along the High Street brings us to some of the multiple stores. Marks & Spencer had replaced F Spence & Son, a furnishers with an impressive window display.

Caption For Tilehurst, Parish Church Of St Michael C1955

The remainder of the building is 1856, designed by Street, including the rather wild spire with enlarged pinnacles, flying buttresses and very large lucarnes.

Caption For Dudley, The Market Place C1955

Timpsons shoes, Woolworth's and the Maypole Dairy Co), and local chains, such as Alfred Preedy & Sons (second from right), who were tobacconists, with other shops in the Fountain Arcade and Hall Street