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Commonside East

Yes Bob I remember the grocer and his guard goose. I lived at 81 Commonside East for many years, living above the sweet shop across the alley almost next door. The goose way a worry. Having returned a few years ago, much had ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1957 by Ken Bedwell

A Memory Of Westbury Village 1

The two principal grocery shops in Westbury village, as it was still usually called, in the late 1950s and early 1960s were the Co-operative grocery by the corner of Church Road -- the Co-operative butcher ...Read more

A memory of Westbury on Trym in 1957 by Timothy Purnell

My Home From 1947 1969

I was born here in Newton Green and lived in the house just visible on the left - the last one. It was called Cotswold. The village shop was run by Mark Wilson and that could be him in the photograph, tinkering with ...Read more

A memory of Newton in 1957 by Pete Rowland

A Modern Intrusion

When I first returned to Hereford from Canada in 1979, after a 20 year absence, I was shocked to see the new modern designed Greyfriars Bridge crossing the river not far from the almost 2000 year old Roman Bridge. On the left ...Read more

A memory of Hereford in 1957 by Dylan Rivis

Strolling In The Town

The person in the white macintosh walking towards the camera is myself, Bob Vincent with a friend, Peter Watkins. I lived at 4, Shepperton Street, Chllvers Coton (opposite the Vicarage) and Peter lived in Coton Road close to ...Read more

A memory of Nuneaton in 1957 by Robert Vincent

Post Office

We moved to nearby Kingshurst and the Post Office on the corner of Hurst Lane was the nearest for collecting the much needed Family Allowance. It was a good walk as the buses were not very frequent. When I was newly married 13 ...Read more

A memory of Castle Bromwich in 1956 by Lynda Ridgard

Stone In The 1950s

I am now 57 years of age, and live in Australia. I was born in Stone, Stafforshire in 1949 and would love to go back and visit. As a child I remember walking along the canal and standing watching as a blacksmith mended a horse's ...Read more

A memory of Stone in 1956 by Eileen Page

The Bushey Arches Traffic!

I first saw Oxhey in 1956 when I would take the train from Hatch End to Bushey & Oxhey station (as it was called then) on Saturday afternoons to see Watford play football at Vicarage Road in the old Third Division South. ...Read more

A memory of Oxhey in 1956 by John Howard Norfolk

The Shops And Doctors At Sandiway 1956

We first arrived in Sandiway in 1956. I remember getting off the bus at the top of Mere Lane and walking down towards our new home in Cherry Lane. The house was a 'tied house' belonging to the ICI and our ...Read more

A memory of Sandiway in 1956 by Keith Wilson

Joe Wyche

I remember Joe Wyche very, very well; a very progressive man, and to be frank I owe my success to him. At age thirteen he hauled me into his office to inform me I was lazy and he was going to make me work. In consequence I did work ...Read more

A memory of Poynton in 1956 by Rodney Trippier

Captions

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Caption For Kettering, High Street C1955

The arched Venetian windows of a building of 1880 are still fairly staid, but in 1983 a ritzy V-shaped window would replace the flat front so the customers could see almost all round the display of Foster

Caption For Lyme Regis, Church And Town 1890

The tower was thought to date from the 12th century, but repairs in the winter of 1994 revealed a much earlier window, dating from about AD 980, in the south wall of the ringing chamber on the second

Caption For Rugby, The School Cloisters 1922

Cloisters with studies above run to the south and east of Old Quad, with a tall arch forming the entrance to the School House dining hall at the south-eastern corner.

Caption For Leeds, The Town Hall 1894

At the time of the opening of the Leeds Town Hall in 1858, an arch commemorating Queen Victoria's visit was erected in north Leeds.

Caption For Kettering, High Street C1955

The arched Venetian windows of a building of 1880 are still fairly staid, but in 1983 a ritzy V-shaped window would replace the flat front so the customers could see almost all round the display of Foster

Caption For High Wycombe, The Castle Mound And Castle House, Priory Avenue 2005

These medieval arches and walls survive because they were incorporated into the Grammar (Martin Andrew) The castle's medieval motte became a prospect mound with a garden room on top in the 19th

Caption For Hutton, Highcliff And Cleveland Hills C1885

commissioned the renowned Victorian architect, Alfred Waterhouse (who designed the Natural History Museum in London) to design a new mansion, Hutton Hall, which was completed in 1867; it replaced a much

Caption For Binfield, All Saint's Church C1955

An angel has appeared from a former house in the south chapel; the pulpit is dated 1628, and has blank arches and arabesque decoration; the back panel upper half has caryatids and the tester has strapwork

Caption For High Wycombe, The Grange, Amersham Hill 2005

Two of his later factories survive in Leigh Street (though they are no longer furniture factories): a three-storey one of 1901, brick built, and a much more ambitious one of 3 storeys built in

Caption For Basildon, Whitmore Way 1961

Whitmore Way was the site of Basildon's first proper shopping parade: this included a post office, a Martin's newsagent and a much-needed chip shop.

Caption For Dudley, Castle Hill, The Junction With Tipton Road C1960

Between the two buildings runs the railway, at a much lower level. On the opposite side of the road stands the Plaza cinema with the Hippodrome theatre next to it.

Caption For Wimborne, The Minster, From The Chancel 1886

A striking feature of this picture is the contrast between the rounded, early Norman arch in the foreground and the taller, narrow pointed arch of a later period at the western end of the nave.

Caption For Stafford, Victoria Park 2005

It cannot be claimed that Stafford celebrated the event with much originality or enthusiasm.

Caption For Inverlochy, Castle C1890

1645, after a forced march covering 30 miles in 36 hours over difficult terrain in some of the worst weather in living memory, that the great Marquess of Montrose, with fewer than 2000 men, defeated a much

Caption For Loughborough, All Saints Parish Church C1950

fabric of the present building is known to date from the 16th century, there is internal evidence in the roof beams and fireplaces, and in the large use of timber on one of the external walls, of a much

Caption For Bushey, The Pond And Coronation Arch 1953

Between the Conservative Club building and the stuccoed, wisteria-clad cottages at the Falconer Road end of the High Street, rises the Coronation Arch marking the accession of Queen Elizabeth II to the

Caption For New Brighton, Lighthouse 1892

This was a period when thousands of hard-working Liverpudlians took their families on a much-needed break.

Caption For Southampton, Bargate 1908

Slightly reminiscent of a triumphal arch and a famous landmark in Southampton for 800 years or more, Bargate is an appropriate place to begin a walk along what is left of the city walls.

Caption For Lowestoft, London Road North 1896

Here we see solid Victorian architecture in this tree-lined street, with one well-established family retail chain much in evidence.

Caption For Nantwich, Parish Church 1898

Much of the structure dates from the 14th century, although it is thought that building work was probably interrupted by the Black Death and only resumed much later that same century.

Caption For Much Wenlock, The Bull Ring C1955

Much Wenlock is the most delightfully evocative town, so much so that Ellis Peters (the local author of the Brother Cadfael detective books set in the 12th century) once said of the town that you almost

Caption For Oxted, High Street 1908

Although there has been much expansion in Oxted, this part, known as Old Oxted, has retained much of its charm.

Caption For Sheet, Village Green 1898

Its brand new village hall, right of centre, is outwardly much the same today although the inside is much changed.

Caption For Cranborne, Wimborne Street 1954

Thomas Hardy writes of a journey into Cranborne in 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles', where the present Fleur-de-Lys tavern is depicted as the much less salubrious 'Flower-de-Luce'.