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Memories

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Madeley As It Was

I was born in 1949 in Victoria Road, Madeley and have many memories of life as it was in the 1950's onwards. I remember Jones' buses, Pooles the cobblers, Carters, Stodd's the Drapers, Shums the chemist, and most ...Read more

A memory of Madeley in 1949 by First Name Last Name

A Town Of Inbreds

1) Highest known amount of people infected with chlamadia in one place. 2) Most teenage pregnancies in all of Britain 3) EVERYONE here is on some kind of drugs, usually pills 4) This includes is right now, and we are primary ...Read more

A memory of Banbury by Brogan And Fred

Little Sutton In 1950s And 1960s

What memories your comments conjure.  How I loved the 'rec'  as a child.  We started on the 'baby swings' and progressed to the 'big swings' and see-saw and round-a-bout.  The old shelter there was a favourite ...Read more

A memory of Little Sutton in 1960 by Janet Lee

Middle Rasen Farmer Sires Two Mayors For Grimsby

My 2nd G/Grandfather, Robert Milner (1794-1870), married Mary Ann Norton on 25th April 1821 in St. Peters Church, Middle Rasen, winessed by Thomas Miller, Nicholas Danby and Frances Popple.  They ...Read more

A memory of Middle Rasen by Ilynn Anne Miller

My Fading Memories

I was but a lad of 8 when my folks bundled us all off to a wide land downunder. Since 1968, Australia has been my home. I often speak of my fading memories of Queensbury, my walks through the village, living on 'The ...Read more

A memory of Queensbury in 1968 by Stephen Mckinley

Wallingford During The Second World War

I arrived in Wallingford as a 10 year old boy with my sister and mother on a cold winter February night. We had been bombed out from our house in Dagenham just a few days before and my brother, who was ...Read more

A memory of Wallingford in 1943 by Leslie Nash

My Childhood In Burton In The 50's And 60's

I was born in the village in 1949, in an end terrace No.1 Woodview. It was down a small road in the centre of the village and at the top, I believe at one time there was a timber yard/sawmill. ...Read more

A memory of Burton in Lonsdale by ian.blundell

Peggy Leggy Steps

Peggy Leggy Steps! I remember my mother used to talk of these steps, over the railway line in the East End. When she was a kid, she was told not to have anything to do with the boys from over the Peggy Leggy Steps as that was, ...Read more

A memory of Canning Town by bernardhort4876

My Childhood In Wolverhampton 1946 1955

I played in the standing corn stooks behind our house, had my first pony/horse ride at Dixon's farm where my horse went berserk in a potato field, so I was put onto and stayed on a horse lead. I flew my ...Read more

A memory of Wolverhampton by Alan Hickman

Expat Memories From Australia

Billy Benson here. I now live in Victoria Australia, but I grew up in Aveley and lived at 5 Crescent Walk. Loved the pictures of the local shops and the old town. My family moved to Australia in 1963. I have been back since ...Read more

A memory of Aveley by billbenson1

Captions

5,112 captions found. Showing results 937 to 960.

Caption For Normanton, High Street C1955

This view shows a virtually-deserted High Street in the undistinguished former colliery town of Normanton, three miles north of Wakefield in South Yorkshire.

Caption For Horsham, Town Mill 1891

The coming of the railway made Horsham a natural target for expansion, helping to boost the town's economy.

Caption For Walsingham, The Common Place C1965

The town of Little Walsingham grew up to serve the many thousands of pilgrims that came to the priory; it has more early 17th-century houses than any other town in Norfolk.

Caption For Newquay, Trenance Gardens 1928

These civic gardens are in the Trenance Valley and fringe the River Gannel as it twists away from the eastern edge of the town.

Caption For Kings Lynn, High Street 1908

This street of small distinctive shops and fine 18th-century terraced buildings is the commercial hub of the town.

Caption For Castleford, Valley Gardens C1965

Described as a new lung for the town, these recreation grounds and ornamental gardens were constructed from derelict land next to the railway embankment.

Caption For Nelson, Scotland Road And Leeds Road C1955

Standing in the centre of the town at the junction of roads to Yorkshire and the north is the extravagantly ornate Union Bank Building, occupied by Barclays in the 1950s and now by the

Caption For Banbury, Town Hall 1921

The second largest town in Oxfordshire, Banbury has long been famous as the main meeting point of routes from the Midlands to London and Oxford.

Caption For Harlow, Broad Walk C1960

The many prams and push-chairs were a typical sight in Harlow, leading to its nickname 'Pram Town'.

Caption For Thrapston, Midland Road C1955

Thrapston is a small medieval market town engulfed in 19th- and 20th-century housing and factories.

Caption For Stourbridge, Town Hall And Market Street C1960

Designed by Thomas Robinson and completed in 1887, the red-brick town hall deserves a more spacious and prominent setting than Market Street.

Caption For Lyme Regis, The Cobb 1912

The old tracks from the neighbouring village of Uplyme are the original routes into the town before the construction of the present road along the coast.

Caption For Saltburn By The Sea, Hazelgrove Caravan Site C1955

The Hazelgrove Glen was given to Saltburn by the Marquis of Zetland in 1899; it became the town's first free park in 1904, after some initial reluctance by the Town Council to adopt and develop it.

Caption For Slough, High Street 1961

Many of Slough's town centre buildings are relatively new, dating from the post- and pre-war periods.

Caption For Basingstoke, Market Place C1955

Basingstoke's role as an important market centre dates back to medieval times; it was established as a borough in 1622 when James I granted the town a charter giving it a weekly market and a twice-yearly

Caption For Basingstoke, Market Place C1955

Basingstoke's role as an important market centre dates back to medieval times; it was established as a borough in 1622 when James I granted the town a charter giving it a weekly market and a twice-yearly

Caption For Newnham, The Clock Tower C1955

The clock tower dates from 1875, by which time Newnham had long ceased to be the most important Gloucestershire town on the west bank of the river.

Caption For Chipping Norton, High Street C1955

Chipping Norton's imposing Town Hall can be seen in this 1950s photograph.

Caption For Runcorn, Feeding The Animals 1929

Following the New Towns Act of 1964, 37 farms and 7,500 acres of land were taken over and absorbed as the new town developed.

Caption For Caldicot, The Castle C1955

We are looking towards the cross and what was to become in 1968 a redeveloped town centre with new shops, flats and offices.

Caption For Fishguard, Harbour C1955

Warehouses can be seen centre and on the right.

Caption For Washington, The Village C1955

The Village c1965 This photograph was taken after the formation of Washington New Town.

Caption For Kirkburton, North Road C1955

The town was full of woollen mills and corset factories and was surrounded by numerous collieries.

Caption For Tamworth, George Street 1949

Even the close proximity of several coal mines did not cause Tamworth to lose its market town image.