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The Plantations

Well not just for the 1930's but for twenty years after as well.  Memories come flooding back - not just for this picture but for Wigan itself.  I was born there in 1931 - in my grandparents home 38, Dicconson Street - a section no ...Read more

A memory of Wigan in 1930 by Thelma Hurly

Dads First Cattle

My dad had a yard here before the houses were built back in the 40s. He bought his first cows and used to milk them in a barn there. I can remember as a small child being in the barn with mum and dad when an aeroplane crashed ...Read more

A memory of Lower Heyford in 1940 by Marion June Messenger

Savage Memories Of Pilsley Pit

I have two professionally taken pictures of an official visit to PILSLEY COLLIERY, the pit as grandad called it, by what looks to be the colliers wives. The last pit closed in 1957 & I suspect the ...Read more

A memory of Pilsley by Chris Nee Savage

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

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

King Edward V11 Grammar School

How sad to see the old school now razed to the ground. I was a pupil there from 1962 to 1964 when we moved away from the area. I travelled in by bus and we disembarked in front of what was then the Sarson School. ...Read more

A memory of Melton Mowbray by Jacqueline Hatton

School Days And After

I lived on the Shelley estate at 12 Crispsey Avenue and went to the primary school in Ongar town near the town hall. Later I went to the new primary school on the Shelley estate on Milton Crescent. On the Moreton Road ...Read more

A memory of Chipping Ongar by Peter Mcguire

Two Year Student At Cheshire County Training College Crewe

It was an all-ladies' college when I attended. Many friendships were made. Memories of teaching practices at schools in Crew and surrounds. First year students had to go out in "digs" and were ...Read more

A memory of Crewe

Early Memories Of Southwick

I was born in Steyning in 1954. My father was a police constable and at only 2/3 months old we moved to the 'police station' in Whiterock Place in Southwick. The station consisted of 2 large semidetached houses with large ...Read more

A memory of Southwick by Liz Burchell

Clare Coles Of Coptfold Hall

In circa 1964 to 1969 I was still at school in Romford ( Clark's College) and had the " hots" for Clare Coles who lived in part of the old house with her mother and father. I think he was the estate manager , he had ...Read more

A memory of Coptfold Hall by Chris Parkhurst

Captions

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Caption For Rugeley, Market Place C1955

In 1878 an indoor market hall was built, to the right of this photograph.

Caption For Ribchester, The New Bridge C1955

The photograph looks to the south bank, where a footpath follows the river downstream through Marles Wood to Salesbury Hall.

Caption For Oundle, Market Place C1950

The Victorian Town Hall in the centre of the Market Place was built by the Watts-Russell family; today it is occupied by local businesses.

Caption For Bildeston, The Clock Tower C1960

Its only clock dial faces Albert Hall's grocer's and draper's shop (left), now Bank House Stores.

Caption For Henley On Thames, Hart Street 1893

The photographer walked away from the river bridge up Hart Street towards the Town Hall in Market Place and turned back by the Bell Street junction to take this view towards the church with its dominating

Caption For Newport, Commercial Street C1955

Barclays Bank is along the left-hand side of the street in front of the distinctive Town Hall tower.

Caption For Staines, View From The Bridge 1907

As we pass beneath the bridge, still on the Egham bank, the 18th-century Swan Hotel on the right now also occupies the boathouse and garage in front of it, behind the ladies with their parasols.

Caption For Wendover, Coldharbour Cottages, Tring Road 1899

The brick and flint walls on the left were demolished for road widening; this took the 1960s concrete panel retaining wall near to Bank Farm, whose chimney is on the left.

Caption For Market Deeping, Market Place C1955

The 17th-century Bull pub (centre left) is still there, as is the Town Hall, but two banks now stand along that side of the street.

Caption For Brent Eleigh, The Street C1960

Beyond is High Bank, a medieval hall house.

Caption For Brigg, Wrawby Street 1954

We can see the Midland (HSBC) Bank to the front right and the National Provincial (NatWest) to the far left.

Caption For Glasgow, Kelvingrove Park 1897

Sir Joseph Paxton, designer of the Crystal Palace, laid out this park on the banks of the river Kelvin.

Caption For Haworth, General View C1955

This view of the village on the hill from Hebden Road is dominated by the two big mills, the Ivy Bank Mills on the left and Bridgehouse Mill in the foreground.

Caption For Accrington, Blackburn Road C1965

The Market Hall is just visible on the left, and the area beside it still serves as the town's main bus terminal.

Caption For Clare, Market Hill 1962

Barclay's Bank closed in 2000, but the Co-op still trades from the ground floor, although it now has a mid-1990s shop front.

Caption For Haworth, General View C1955

This view of the village on the hill from Hebden Road is dominated by the two big mills, the Ivy Bank Mills on the left and Bridgehouse Mill in the foreground.

Caption For Glasgow, Kelvingrove Park 1897

Sir Joseph Paxton, designer of the Crystal Palace, laid out this park on the banks of the River Kelvin.

Caption For Worthing, South Street 1895

This photograph of South Street shows the premises of the London and County Banking Company on the left.

Caption For London, London Bridge 1904

All to the left on the north bank, apart from the grand pedimented and columned Fishmongers Hall of 1831 near the bridge, has now gone.

Caption For Waldringfield, The River C1955

This is the River Deben, viewed from near the Sailing Club House looking downstream towards White House; Waldringfield is to the right and Petistree Hall, in Sutton, is over to the left.

Caption For Hertford, Fore Street 1922

A view from the Shire Hall along what was to become a heavily congested street, until the building of the new relief road, with a string of Georgian and early Victorian shopfronts overshadowed by the

Caption For Market Deeping, Market Place C1955

The 17th-century Bull pub (centre left) is still there, as is the Town Hall, but two banks now stand along that side of the street.

Caption For Brigg, Market Place 1954

We can see the Midland (HSBC) Bank to the front right and the National Provincial (NatWest) to the far left.

Caption For Brent Eleigh, The Street C1960

Beyond Cundys Lane is High Bank, a medieval hall-house; then comes the thatched 17th-century Tudor Cottage and the former post office.