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Hilly Fields

Situated at the top of our road, as young children Hilly Fields was something quite magical. During winter time we would trek our home made sledges over to toboggan hill and hurtle down to the brook at the bottom of the hill at ...Read more

A memory of Enfield in 1950 by Roger Davis

Hilly Fields 1955

My former surname was Lovelock, I attended Chace Girls' School in Rosemary Avenue and I used to go through Hilly Fields on my way home from school to Crews Hill where I lived. Yes, I too remember the talent competiton held in the ...Read more

A memory of Enfield in 1955 by Anne Beer

Hilly Fields

We lived at the bottom of Lavender Hill and went to St Michael's School. Hilly Fields, Whitewebbs, Stapleton's farm, Tinky Tops, Flash Lane; they were all our stamping ground. My brother Bob also used to run along the tops of the 14 ...Read more

A memory of Enfield in 1950 by Christine Tyler

His Name Was Desmond Byrne

His name was Desmonfd Byrne and he used to live in Bray in the 1970s, working at the GPO (Dublin). I do hope that someone will read this, and understand my very unperfect English: I'm from Brittany and am looking for this ...Read more

A memory of Bray in 1975 by Marie Combes

Historic St Peter's Hospital

St Peter's Hospital was one of Bristol's finest and most historic buildings, which had been home to pirates and an alchemist as well as a mint and a workhouse among many other uses. It was destroyed in the blitz ...Read more

A memory of Bristol by Paul Townsend

Holiday Memories

My parents spent annual holidays at Taberners boarding House in Albert Road, Blackpool Central, when they were young children, and upon hearing of their eventual courtship and engagement many years later, the then owners vowed ...Read more

A memory of Blackpool in 1959

Holiday Memories

We holidayed in Barmston for two weeks each summer, being a family of six who travelled from Huddersfield. My dad was a turner for a large engineering company who formally was a 'regular' in REME seeing active service throughout the ...Read more

A memory of Barmston

Holidays

I remember camping for 2/6d a night. Mrs Dane (I think) ran the site. Having too much cider, trying to surf. Walking to Trevone Bay, eating in beach cafe run by Ron, and his son Chris looked after the car park. Went back last year, ...Read more

A memory of Trevose Head in 1970 by Richard Irons

Holidays At Clearbrook

My Grandparents lived at Clearbrook, and as a child I used to spend nearly all of my Summer Holidays with them. I used to love going for rides on the train to Tavistock and Princetown. My Gran took me on a train to ...Read more

A memory of Clearbrook in 1955 by Sandie Seward

Holidays In Gorton

I am Kenneth Overend Edwards from LLandudno, north Wales, and my story about Gorton is surprising because from an early age I was sent by my mother Ellen Edwards (nee Overend) to stay with my grandad, Eric Theodore Overend, who ...Read more

A memory of Gorton in 1952 by Ken Edwards

Captions

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Caption For Bebington, Mayer Park 1936

The trees are also much taller today, creating a mature-looking landscape.

Caption For Upton, Ford Road C1960

Traffic lights now stand on this corner, which is much busier today than in the relatively quiet days of motoring.

Caption For Horstead, The Old Mill C1960

The mill was destroyed by fire in 1963: only the millpond and a few brick arches now survive.

Caption For Woodstock, Park Street C1960

The house to the right of the arched entrance at the far end of the street is where the poet Chaucer once lived.

Caption For Stourbridge, New Road C1965

When we compare this picture with 84689 (pages 43-44), it is interesting to see just how much the trees had grown in the thirty years that had passed between.

Caption For Callington, New Bridge 1904

First recorded in 1478, its granite arches were widened on the far, downstream, side in 1874.

Caption For Lustleigh, Wrayland, Old House 1906

Its walls are hidden beneath some rather tatty rendering, but are almost certainly made of granite, which can be seen in the arch below the gable, and in the horse trough in which the little boy is standing

Caption For Ilminster, Market Square 1907

The Post Office c1960 Buckland St Mary Post Office is still a post office, but one wonders for how much longer.

Caption For Frome, Bath Street 1907

Much grander is Bath Street. Its name is appropriate, as its architecture is perhaps reminiscent of some of the later 18th-century parts of Bath itself.

Caption For Kempsey, The Church 1892

Much of this interesting cross church dates back to the 13th century. A monastery which stood here in the 9th century was given to the Church of Worcester.

Caption For Saxilby, Waterside C1955

The arch is that to the 1911 pipe bridge that carries Lincoln’s water from Nottinghamshire. The present footbridge is a Victorian one placed here in 1987.

Caption For Saffron Walden, Myddleton Place C1965

The building has a great number of vertical beams not much more than a hand's span apart.

Caption For Launceston, South Gate Street 1949

The earlier picture shows little traffic bar the donkey cart, but the advent of the car meant that by 1949 a traffic warden was needed to control traffic through the arch.

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Caption For Leyburn, The Market Place C1960

There was not much of an audience to watch the troops as they marched past the Black Swan Hotel in the centre of the picture, although there were a few curious bystanders.

Caption For Devizes, St James' Church, Interior 1898

The four-centred arches cover a short chancel. The stained glass in the east window is by Wailes, 1849. The north aisle's north-east window is by Kempe, 1900.

Caption For Upavon, St Mary's Church Interior C1965

The chancel arch is Norman, with scalloped zigzags. The north and south arcades have four bays and three bays respectively.

Caption For Hailsham, High Street 1902

Much of its wealth and subsequent Victorian building was a result of prosperity based on rope, sacking and string making. The 20th century has added modern shopping centres and a leisure complex.

Caption For Whitby, Sailing From The Harbour C1955

By this time the humble fishing cobles had developed into a sizeable fishing fleet of much larger boats, which meant that they could travel further afield for their catch.

Caption For North Berwick, Tantallon Castle 1897

Tantallon was the stronghold of the Douglases, wardens of the Border Marches, lords of Galloway, and by the end of the 15th century masters of much of Lothian, Stirlingshire and Clydesdale.

Caption For Helston, Grylls Monument 1895

The inscription above the arch proclaims: 'To the Memory of Humphry Millett Grylls'. It was erected to this local worthy in 1834, and paid for by public subscription.

Caption For Hitchin, Churchyard C1955

The view looking north in the Churchyard in the mid 1950s was much the same then as it is today. In 1963, a well was found in the premises fac- ing us, then Wendy's Hat Shop.

Caption For Rothwell, Market Place C1950

Work on the building was finished by J A Gotch, a Northamptonshire architect, who roofed it and filled in the arches.

Caption For Rothwell, Market House C1965

Originally with its ground floor open behind the arches, it was left unfinished, amazingly, for over three centuries, and finally completed in 1895.

Caption For Market Deeping, Market Place C1955

This is the A15 road coming in from Bourne, which makes the traffic island a very busy place - it is now much smaller than it is in the picture.