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Places

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Memories

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Purveyor Of Sweetshops

I knew all the best sweet shops on Lavendar Hill Rd. Easily the best was Browns Sweet shop where Stormont Rd met Lavendar Hill. It had every sweet you could think of and seemed to be open 7 days a week until 9pm. I think the ...Read more

A memory of Battersea by tedpettit

Fishing In Vernon Park Lake.

As a boy I often fished in Vernon Park Lake. I'm now eighty-six and now living in Bingham. However, a year ago I paid a nostalgic visit to the Park to see if there had been any changes.Of course there had. Through the ...Read more

A memory of Old Basford by Anthony Knight

United Dairies High Rd

My Nan and Grandad lived for many years in the flat above United Dairies in High Rd Chadwell Heath. I have many happy memories of staying with them in the 60s and early 70s. We used to enter via a lane just inside ...Read more

A memory of Chadwell Heath by Beverley Burton

Wonderful Times Growing Up In South Ockendon

It’s been a real pleasure to read all the various memories of South Ockendon back in the 50s and 60s. I was born in Brixton and moved to West Norwood. My Mum & Dad both wanted to move out of ...Read more

A memory of South Ockendon by Stephen Wood

Ramblings Platts Common

I Lived at 14 Barnsley Road Platts Common from 1950 until 1957 when we moved to 46 Kingswood Crescent. I went to Market Street school where Mr Ellis was headteacher. I remember miss Mac Parkalin, Mrs Hill, Miss ...Read more

A memory of Platts Common by David Webster

Subury Road Feltham

That was a wonderful write-up by Carol about Sunbury Road and it brought back so many memories of my childhood. I was born in Fulham in 1932 and in 1934 I moved with my lovely parents to Feltham where we first lived over the ...Read more

A memory of Feltham by Ralph Burton

Linton Locks

I remember Linton Locks very well as the upper lock gate enabled me to visit the Power Station that was manned 24hrs a day, year in year out. There were three attendents, Aleck Musgrove, an unknown, and Ernest Muir. In the ...Read more

A memory of Linton-on-Ouse in 1940

Happy Days!

Ohh...if there was ever a place to find peace ...it was/is Chellow Dene. I was born at St. Lukes hospital in 1967. We lived on Manningham Drive until I was about five ...then moved to the new Dale Croft Estate on Sandy Lane and our ...Read more

A memory of Bradford in 1974 by Victoria Tillson

Fond Memories Happy Days

I was born at 44 Main Street, better known as Music Row, in 1943 and moved to Kimberley in 1958. I have many fond memories of living there, huge bonfires on the "donkey piece", making "winter warmers" out of a tin with ...Read more

A memory of Awsworth in 1943 by Denis Morley

Princess Margarets Visit

I too am from Six Bells, and lived in Richmond Road and also Princess Street before that. If anyone remembers the picture in the papers next day of her visit, I was the little girl playing with her ducks in the cast iron ...Read more

A memory of Six Bells in 1950 by Sharon Mc Cullough

Captions

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Caption For Hascombe, The Village C1965

There is a large Iron Age hillfort at the end of Hascombe Hill's ridge a little south-east of the village.

Caption For Abingdon, St Helen's Church 1900

The bridge on the left beyond the barge is a cast-iron one dated 1824 and built by the Wilts & Berks Canal Company - the ironwork was cast at Acramans of Bristol.

Caption For Abinger Hammer, The Village 1928

On the road linking Guildford and Dorking, this hamlet was one of the medieval centres of the local iron industry, and is named from the hammer-pond that worked a furnace here.

Caption For Barrow In Furness, Salthouse Road Railway Cottages 20004

Barrow-in-Furness sprang from a tiny hamlet in the 19th century to become the world's largest producer of iron and steel, and a major force in the world of shipbuilding.

Caption For Launceston, Church Street C1949

WH Smith is the only business surviving on the same premises today, although with a modern shopfront and a plain blue and white sign rather than the old wrought iron one seen here.

Caption For Watford, Cassiobury Park And Iron Bridge Lock 1921

Under the magnificent spreading canopy of the Cassiobury Park trees, just beyond the keeper's cottage, the barge horse and his female driver enjoy a brief rest while waiting for the Iron Bridge lock

Caption For Whitby, East Crescent 1925

What is more likely is that it was taken at the time when the country needed scrap iron for munitions.

Caption For Gloucester, Eastgate Street 1949

The Saracen's Head, with its ornate, wrought iron portico (right), was one of the city centre's leading hotels.

Caption For Rugby, St Andrew's Church And The Clock Tower C1965

High Street and Sheep Street are now shopper-friendly, pedestrianised areas with trees and raised flowerbeds, reproduction Victorian lampposts, bench seating and wrought iron bus shelters.

Caption For Launceston, Church Street C1949

WH Smith is the only business surviving on the same premises today, although with a modern shopfront and a plain blue and white sign rather than the old wrought iron one seen here.

Caption For Launceston, Church Street C1949

WH Smith is the only business surviving on the same premises today, although with a modern shopfront and a plain blue and white sign rather than the old wrought iron one seen here.

Caption For Plaistow, The Village C1955

In the iron industry era there were smelting furnaces and forges here; Sussex marble was also dug in the area.

Caption For Runcorn, The Railway Viaduct 1900

The three iron spans of this bridge (which is still in use today) weigh around 700 tons each, and the piers are sunk to a depth of 45ft into the solid rock of the river bed.

Caption For Luton, Vauxhall Motors C1955

The Vauxhall Iron Works moved to Luton from its London base in 1905. Thereafter it enjoyed some considerable sporting success and built cars for the wealthy and influential.

Caption For Crickhowell, High Street 1898

Outside it stands a row of watering cans on a sheet of corrugated iron balanced between two barrels. Farther along are more barrels and boxes.

Caption For Haslemere, High Street 1927

of the two hundred navvies engaged in building the Portsmouth Railway line were drinking here late one evening, when Donaldson attempted to enforce closing time, and was struck down by a blow from an iron

Caption For Conwy, The Bridges C1960

On the right is Robert Stephenson's tubular wrought iron railway bridge, which was opened in 1849.

Caption For Saffron Walden, The Baptist Church C1955

On the other side of the road is the lamp-post which was first in the Market Square, with its black-painted cast iron base.

Caption For Crumlin, Viaduct 1893

Designed by Thomas Kennard, the eight-pier viaduct was constructed by Charles Liddell, using castings from Falkirk and wrought iron from nearby Blaenavon.

Caption For Bridport, East Street 1897

Opposite the Old George Hotel is the premises of James Beach, pharmaceutical chemist and maker of the Poor Man`s Friend ointment, with iron merchants and supplier of sewing machines H N Cox

Caption For Cowfold, St Peter's Church 1958

St Peter's Cottage, once a priest's house and now a restaurant, has an inglenook fireplace with a cast iron Sussex fireback of 1657.

Caption For Belfast, S.S. Dynamic 1897

ships were sold, releasing funds to allow BSC to order the 'Dynamic' from Harland & Wolff - she was the first vessel to be built at the Queen's Island Shipyard, and the last in the BSC fleet with an iron

Caption For St Briavels, Chepstow Road C1955

Iron, coal, ochre and rock are worked by Freeminers in the Forest to this day.

Caption For Sawbridgeworth, London Road 1903

All the wooden fences still stand today, although many of the cast iron railings have disappeared, probably as part of scrap metal collection during the two world wars.