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Edmonton Mid 60’s

Hi my name is Andrew Saunders and lived in Edmonton in the mid 60’s with my family. We moved into 36 Oakfield Gardens around 1962/3. It was a lovely house, a brand new 3 floor town house. We had moved from Noel Park Wood Green where ...Read more

A memory of Edmonton by Andrew Saunders

Edward Jones Of Nannerch

Not so much a memory, more an ancestral bond. My great great grandfather, Edward Jones, was born in Nannerch in or about 1803. A long time ago!I don't know how long he remained there but I do know he moved to Anglesey for ...Read more

A memory of Nannerch by Michael Jones

Elizabeth Emma Wheeler

Hi My grandmother was Elizabeth Emma Wheeler, who, as far as I can ascertain, came from Watlington. I have not been able to find much information about her, even from her only surviving daughter. The only indication I ...Read more

A memory of Watlington in 1880 by Raymond Mitchell

Elm Park

I grew up in Elm Park from 1963 until moving away in 1978. I loved the carefree childhood I had, going over the park with the beautiful weeping willow trees, the huge lake and woods, the brilliant swimming pool, and doing penny for the guy ...Read more

A memory of Elm Park by siandodd

Elmers Mill Family History

Hi there. Harry Elmer (who I understand was my Grandad's brother) owned and ran this Mill into the 1940s. The Muggeridge Collection has some wonderful images of him replendent in the very gentlemanly working clothes of a ...Read more

A memory of Woolpit in 1890 by Les Elmer

Erith And Belvedere

I lived in Upper Belvedere from the time I was born until I married 1n 1954. I used to catch the 99 bus from the Eardly Arms pub, on a Saturday morning. to the Ritz cinema in the high street Erith. There was no Odeon then. The ...Read more

A memory of Erith in 1930 by Stanley Gray

Escape To The Country

I travelled to Chipping Norton to start a new life.  When I stepped off the coach on the high street and looked across the road I saw a very grand looking building and a sign saying The White Hart Hotel.  My next ...Read more

A memory of Chipping Norton in 1880 by Jane Mac Callum

Esh Winning

I left Esh Winning with my family in 1963 when I was 5 or 6 for a new life in Staffordshire. We initially lived at North Terrace, which is no longer there and later 4 South Terrace. Like Ruth Hill, my father worked at Esh Winning ...Read more

A memory of Esh Winning by Ray Beecham

Evacuated To Burwash 1936/37

We were twin sisters, Audrey and Yvonne Long. We were evacuated to Burwash, I only have a photo of us sitting in a field somewhere with more young children of our age, and some younger. I have no memories of the ...Read more

A memory of Ticehurst in 1930 by Yvonne Taylor

Evacuation From London To Harpley

I remember Harpley as a four-year-old, when it had no running water, electricity or gas.  I was evacuated there when first born, in 1939 during the war years and stayed in a cottage opposite to the village ...Read more

A memory of Harpley in 1940 by David Newman

Captions

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Caption For London, Chelsea, The Kings Road C1950

This view pre-dates the Swinging Sixties, with echoes of a less materialist era: the Gothic-arched building on the right is the former Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School of 1903.

Caption For Digswell, The Viaduct C1960

Opened on Monday 6 August 1850, the 40 semi-circular arches are built from sixteen million locally made bricks capped with Hexham stone blocks; the cost was £80,000.

Caption For Boston Spa, Old Mill On The Wharfe 1893

Upstream is Flint Mill (operational from 1772 to 1954, now converted to a house); this is the larger Thorp Arch Manor Mill, recorded in the Doomsday Book.

Caption For Whalley, Broad Lane 1906

Here we have a grand view of the railway arches heading out of Whalley.The railway arrived in the village in 1850, and the 600yd- long viaduct carries the Blackburn to Clitheroe line at a height of

Caption For Chelwood Gate, Beaconsfield Road 1928

Not far away are Chelwood Vachery, a re-created hall-house originally called Trimmer's Pond, and Kidbrooke Park, a much altered and decorated house with gardens laid out by Repton.

Caption For York, The Station And The Hotel 1907

The wall had to be breached and an arch built in order to allow the tracks to enter the city.

Caption For Warrington, The Knutsford Road Swing Bridge C1960

The fact that all of its manufacturing products had to be shipped through the port of Liverpool – Manchester's arch-rival – dented the city fathers' pride.

Caption For Warrington, The Knutsford Road Swing Bridge C1960

The fact that all of its manufacturing products had to be shipped through the port of Liverpool – Manchester's arch-rival – dented the city fathers' pride.

Caption For York, Walmgate Bar C1955

It was partially rebuilt after the siege, and completed in 1648 - this is recorded over the outer arch.

Caption For Great Somerford, The Church Of St Peter And St Paul C1955

The church was restored by Hakewill in 1865, but the chancel roof still has painted flowers, and the arch near the nave still has its 14th-century mouldings.

Caption For Malmesbury, The Market Cross C1955

This photograph was taken from under the arch of the gateway leading to Malmesbury Abbey, looking out towards the market cross.

Caption For Leeds, Cookridge Street C1955

A view of Leeds Mechanics's Institute.This imposing Italianate building, with its lofty round-arched windows, was built by Cuthbert Brodrick in the late 1860s. It later became the Civic Theatre.

Caption For Blackburn, Corporation Park, The Entrance 1923

No expense was spared in the making of the park and its lodge.The Borough coat of arms and its motto,'Arte et Labore', is cut into the stone, along with the name of the park over the entrance arch

Caption For Stamford, Town Bridge 1922

Built in 1849, it replaced four arches of a medieval one, while to the right is Lord Burghley's Hospital, built in 1597 on the site of an older hospital founded in the 1170s.

Caption For Bridport, West Street 1949

A remarkably foreshortened shot, westwards down West Street, with the 1785-built arch (far left) being the north-west corner of the Town Hall.

Caption For Linton, The Church 1900

This is the splendid 12th-century church of St Michael and All Angels with its Norman arches.

Caption For Newnham, St Michael's Church C1955

There is a picture with the arches walled up, but they were unblocked in the mid 1800s. From then until 1940 the bell ringers operated in the open air!

Caption For Trowbridge, St James's Church Interior 1900

Inside, St James's Church has an air of newness; its five bays have wide arches and four-shafted slender piers. The panelled nave roof was restored in 1847, the same date as the chancel roof.

Caption For Ellington, All Saints Church 1906

The chancel arch of the present church dates from the 13th century, and the tower was added in around 1390.

Caption For Dunsop Bridge, Entrance To Brennand Valley 1921

In Slaidburn's Church Street there is a plaque stating that the school there was endowed and erected by John Brennand, a much-respected benefactor, who died in 1717.

Caption For Stonehenge, From The East 1887

As we look southwards from the Hele stone, through the middle arch, we can see the tallest stone of the inner horseshoes of trilithons.

Caption For London, Temple Bar 1875

Beneath its arch Queen Victoria and Albert passed on their way to State services at St Paul’s.

Caption For Andover, Anna Valley, The Foundry 1899

The schoolhouse survives complete with its arch into the works.

Caption For Salisbury, Poultry Cross And Silver Street 1906

People sit and watch life go by under the hexagonal arches of the Poultry Cross. For five hundred years commerce has surrounded this area with ironmongers, shoemakers and fish and meat shops.