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Bank Street

We lived in an old Victorian house on the Bank, I was eight years old. I remember a shop on the corner of School Street owned by a man named Ted Weihton and on the other corner Tates fish shop, the owner was a friend of my Great Aunt ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead in 1954

Mustow's Cafe.

I lived with my family in St Athan village from the time of my first birthday in 1946 to my marriage in 1970. My wife and I were married at the church shown in the photograph. The church is dedicated to an Irish saint by the name of ...Read more

A memory of St Athan by Claire Allen

Mr James Bishop.

The elderly man on left is my grandfather Mr James Bishop. He had probably popped in to the Post Office to get tobacco for his pipe. He was born in Worcester in 1883, his father was a master builder and from an early age he used to ...Read more

A memory of Redditch by Claire Allen

Shopping Memories.

My father was a greengrocer and his shop appears in this photograph on the left side going into the Rex Cinema arcade, a butchers shop was on the right side. During the war years and into the very early 1950s, he was the largest ...Read more

A memory of Bridgwater by Claire Allen

Fondest Memories Of Gt Oakley 1938 To 1961

That was when I was born along with a bunch of other kids who grew up  with  me and with whom I played during the WW2 years and eventually went to C of E school together.  Mr Porter was a teacher there, ...Read more

A memory of Great Oakley by Shirley Reading

The Long Walk To Hire A Trike

Millport to me was, as I'm sure it was to most who have visited over the years a place where cars were few and pedal power ruled. All my memories of Millport as a child involved a long walk over the hill from the ferry, ...Read more

A memory of Millport in 1980 by Ronald Andrews

Postman Standing On The Corner Of Galgate West With John Street

The Postman is believed to be John Blenkinsop. Five of the entrances to ‘Barney’ have the word ‘gate’ (meaning ‘way’) in their street names.   Galgate is the northern way into ...Read more

A memory of Barnard Castle in 1890 by Dave Charlesworth

Victory Parade And The Sudden Downpour

What memories this picture brings back to life again!! I had just been discharged from the Fever Hospital having spent six weeks there with Scarlet Fever. Nothing was going to stop me from taking part in the ...Read more

A memory of Pitsea by Thelma Hurly

My Family

My father's family moved to Harwich in the early 1900's to cottages below Upper Dovercourt Church and lived there for many years. I was born in 1950 when my parents lived in Ramsey then we moved to Valley Road. I still have family in the ...Read more

A memory of Harwich by Robin Wenlock

Society Farm

In 2001 my husband Derek and I visited Assington. We had been researching Derek's family history, and had discovered that his great-great-grandfather John Crisell was the bailiff, in the middle of the 19th century, at Society Farm, ...Read more

A memory of Assington in 2001 by Rosemary Bennett

Captions

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Caption For St Ives, High Street 1922

The High Street remains the main entranceway to the older part of St Ives, and is an important shopping street.

Caption For Aldershot, Union Street 1918

Union Street is littered with shop names and advertisements. On the left are signs for Frisby's Boot Stores - 'Best for Shoes, Best for All'.

Caption For Southend On Sea, Palace Hotel And Beach C1950

Awnings protect the many shops, seen in the background. This is already a busy area, well used by pedestrians. Southend The Palace Hotel

Caption For Boston, War Memorial, Wide Bargate 2005

On a happy day in August 1916 Alice Oldrid, one of four sisters who then owned the famous drapers shop in Boston, married Alan James Derrick of Redcar on Teesside, a 2nd Lieutenant in the 7th Reserve

Caption For Tunbridge Wells, Mount Ephraim 1885

By the end of the 17th century it had been rapidly developed by the building of shops, taverns, hotels and houses as the town flourished as a fashionable spa resort.

Caption For Ealing, C1950

Many locals still work in and around Ealing, and the town has retained its excellent shopping centre.

Caption For Ullenhall, The Village C1955

Like so many villages, however, Ullenhall has lost its shops, post office, school and vicarage.

Caption For Camberley, London Road C1955

Here we see the Osnaburgh Parade, with the Odeon Cinema, next door to Overs shop.

Caption For Camberley, London Road C1965

Here we see the Osnaburgh Parade, with the Odeon Cinema, next door to Overs shop.

Caption For Askrigg, Little Askrigg 1911

The confectionery shop and the chemist's (right) are now private cottages.

Caption For Lutterworth, Church Street C1955

The commercial centre of the town for over a hundred years, this area had long-established tradesmen's shops.

Caption For Shenfield, The Market Place C1955

Market Place is now known as Hutton Road, but the row of shops shown here is easily recognisable today.

Caption For Stanford Le Hope, The Green C1960

These shops face the small bus shelter in the centre of S258082. Above G W Ager's 'Complete Outfitters' is an advertisement for Dunlop boots.

Caption For Beccles, High Street C1960

On the left is the jettied Falcon Inn, now a butcher's shop; Geoffrey Nudd next door, a tobacconist's, and Woolworth's have been rebuilt. The three gables over Hepworths have been removed.

Caption For Polruan, Fore Street C1965

Ice creams and postcards are for sale at the village shop.

Caption For Chatham, Town Hall C1960

The adjoining shop, displaying the Spratts Scottie dog, was that of Charles Carvell, bird dealer.

Caption For Guisborough, Westgate 1899

On the extreme left is the watchmaker's and jeweller's shop of George Page, a keen amateur photographer; many of his photographs of events in the town were taken from his first floor drawing room

Caption For Hitchin, Churchyard C1965

Such shops would not have been out of place when the first Frith photographs of Hitchin were taken.

Caption For Biggleswade, Market Square C1955

This closer view of Market House also reveals the Crown Hotel (on the other side of the High Street and next to Larkinson's shop) which was the source of the Great Fire of Biggleswade in 1785.

Caption For Warrington, Bridge Street 1955

Woodhouse's store has recently opened in what was previously Singleton's; the shop received a new frontage and complete refit.

Caption For Bournemouth, Richmond Hill C1955

Westover Road, with its clean-cut and dramatic lines, runs from the direction of the sea to the square; it is still an important shopping street.

Caption For Newbury, Northbrook Street C1965

Some of the shops on the right of this photograph have Georgian fronts, while others date from the Queen Anne period.

Caption For Accrington, Blackburn Road 2004

The opposite side of the road from A19709 (above) shows the new frontage of Altham's, now very much a travel firm; the tea sales are a distant memory, although the shop still occupies

Caption For Acle, View From Acle Bridge C1929

The old Bridge Inn building has gone, but the pantiled outbuilding survives as a craft and gift shop.