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Summer Memories Of Picktree Village

In the late 1950’s and as a young boy around 8 or 9 living in the west end of Newcastle, I used to visit my Auntie Bella and Uncle Ted regularly. They lived at Number 3 Picktree Cottages, a short row of picturesque ...Read more

A memory of Picktree by Ben Haddon

Hainton

I hope, I think I am the first to write - I lived in Hainton 1951/54. Our dad worked on the farm just up the road (Stockman). I went to the little school in Hainton. Headmistress - Mrs Slingsby. Do not remember her deputy, but Miss Officer ...Read more

A memory of Hainton by John Brown

Bluebells

My godmother and her parents lived 'forever' at Gravel Road, just up from the small shop on the Park Avenue end. With a marvellous garden of flowers, fruit and poultry; a walkway tunnel of Quince, a black & white tiled pathway to ...Read more

A memory of Farnborough in 1950 by Olivia R S

Daily Chats

I remember when I was a van salesman with Sunblest in Aberdeen - my round was Royal Deeside. My morning started at 02.30hrs in Northfield in Aberdeen. Loaded, I would head for Deeside. I enjoyed my round but more so when I ...Read more

A memory of Bridge of Gairn in 1983 by Ron Ewing

Great Memories

I was at Angus house garden city woodford Essex. in the 60s I used love going on holidays to yarmouth we used put our mattresses in the back of a van and go to the church hall it was great every day uncle that was mr and mrs ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Bridge by Bryan Callahan

Oxlow Lane....Eastbrook School

I was Carole Eadie Eldest child of 7 Happy memories Swinging on our garden gate Dancing at the Ilford Palais Pondfield Park paddling pool Standing on bridge near park and been covered in smoke from steam trains on ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham by Carole Eadie

Revisit To My Home

February was a very sad time for all my family. There was a light at the end of a very sad day. My youngest son took me to Wednesbury, Old Park Rd, Dudley, and my home 5 Wells Rd. The day was brilliant, parked right outside my ...Read more

A memory of Bilston by Eddie Potts

Error And My Memory/Memories Of Sonning Common...

Not sure if it is an error, but 'Brinnds Corner' is spelt 'B-R-I-N-D-S C-O-R-N-E-R' after the butchers shop, (now an off-licence), on the corner of Peppard Road/Wood Lane and Brinds Close which ...Read more

A memory of Sonning Common by Philip Reeve

I Was In Hutton Poplars Childrens Home.

From the age of 3 until I was 15 years of age I was in Hutton poplars I was in Humber House Mr and Mrs Healy were in charge. I then after some years in Humber House was transferred to Windermere House with Mr ...Read more

A memory of Shenfield

Living In Addlestone In 1976

I lived in Addlestone above a shop 178 Station Road. I remember the day the old signal box was taken down to be replaced by automatic barriers. Once the signal box had been removed there was an enormous mound of tea ...Read more

A memory of Addlestone by Anna Ramsden

Captions

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Caption For Dorridge, The Village C1965

The Victorian shops on the right were among the first to be built in Dorridge, and fortunately their upper floors are largely unspoilt, though they have been re-roofed.

Caption For Kessingland, Church Road C1955

The road was developed in the Victorian period, and most of the houses and shops, like those on the right, are of that date.

Caption For Petersfield, Lavant Street 2004

A line of genteel houses is now an indifferent row of shops.

Caption For Widnes, Lugsdale Road C1960

Perhaps this view was taken on a Sunday - notice that the entrances to all the shops on the left have gates closed across them.

Caption For Accrington, Broadway 2004

The Arndale House building is much the same, but the cinema has made way for the Cornhill shops, and beyond the canopy of the Town Hall extension are the new shops which have

Caption For Strood, High Street C1950

Early chain stores, including Home and Colonial Stores, International Tea Stores and Boots the Chemist, were all represented in Strood High Street by now; but older shops, like Mence Smith (on the left

Caption For Butley, The Street And Post Office C1955

The shop had been run by Robert Hazelwood since the 1880s. His son Robert and his grandchildren continued at the shop and post office until its closure in September 1975.

Caption For St Ives, Market Hill C1955

Both the Golden Lion and the Robin Hood are still trading, but the cycle shop (near right) has been replaced by a ladies' dress shop.

Caption For Stockton Heath, Old London Road C1965

This view towards the Ship Canal shows London Road free of today's endless stream of traffic.

Caption For Warrington, Bridge Street C1950

Bridge Street was clearly Warrington's shopping centre in the 1950s. The west side offered some of Warrington's finest shops.

Caption For Salisbury, Bridge Street C1955

Like many other shopping streets in Salisbury, Fisherton Street has changed very little over the last fifty years, in spite of most of the shops themselves moving or closing down and being replaced

Caption For Wainfleet, High Street C1955

The Nottingham Co-operative Society (centre) is no longer on the left of the High Street - the building is now a pet shop, and the Co-op has moved to a more modern building across the street.

Caption For Whitby, St Ann's Staith 1886

The second shop from the left is T E Clegg's shoe shop; how many fisher families could have afforded shoes?

Caption For Sale, Northenden Road C1965

Northenden Road was one of Sale's main streets for shops, along with Chapel Road, School Road and Washway Road.

Caption For Somersham, High Street C1965

Both the Rose and Crown (left) and the George (right) public houses thrive, but the corner shop (left, beyond the Rose and Crown), in this photograph Norman the grocer's, has led a chequered life, being

Caption For Debenham, Market Green And High Street C1955

The market pump (right) stands outside Wright's newsagents shop. Nearer the painter on his ladder (extreme right) are a hardware shop and 'Granny' Clarke's general store.

Caption For Mobberley, Town Lane C1960

This is a typical parade of local shops intended to give the housewife access to all that she might need for her family, before the days of deep freezers and universal motor transport.

Caption For Cheam, Upper Mulgrave Road C1950

The parade of shops which lined this section of Upper Mulgrave Road on the approach to the entrance to Cheam Station, which is behind the trees on the left, includes on the extreme right a branch of the

Caption For Hemel Hempstead, The Marlowes C1965

Originally a tree lined thoroughfare, Marlowes when it was developed in the early 1950s became the main shopping centre for the new town.

Caption For Spilsby, Market Street C1955

Godsmark's (second from left) have been in business and in the same shop for over 80 years, but most of the other businesses have changed. W M Kirk (left) is now Ambridge's Fish and Chip Restaurant.

Caption For Odiham, The Old Telephone Exchange, The Bury C1955

Sydney Carter's butcher's shop occupied the cottage on the left from about 1914 to 1946.

Caption For Accrington, Blackburn Road C1955

Our 'Cash Clothing' shop is now just an ordinary shop (next to the Savoy Cafe on the right).

Caption For Aylesbury, Cambridge Street C1955

The Barley Corn pub survives, albeit now (in 2000) archly renamed the Farmyard and Firkin; the shop with the crested fascia, a pork butchers in the 1970s, is now (in 2000) The Bacon Shop, but the Old Harrow

Caption For East Grinstead, London Road C1965

Only two of the small shops - the nearer of which is Arthur S Fry, family butcher - now survive from the four converted from cottages in the 1890s; the other two were demolished in July 1965