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Where I Grew Up....

- catching the Tillingbourne Valley Bus bus at the top of Newlands Corner to go to school in Shere and afterwards in Peaslake as a child - as a child being terrified and frozen when taken by my older sister sledging down the ...Read more

A memory of Newlands Corner

House Disappeared

We have purchased Harbour Sails, Overgang. In the picture you can see that once upon a time there was rather large house sitting in front,which is no longer there, (where the boats are in corner of quay, there’s 2 masts that point to the old house). What happened to it?

A memory of Brixham by Sharon O’reilly

Happy Days Growing Up In Barnes

The picture of Church Road where it ran parallel with The Crescent with all those familiar shops brings memories flooding back. I started life at 33 Glebe Road in 1944 and spent 5 happy years there before moving to ...Read more

A memory of Barnes by Andrew Taft

The Empak Of Amfix

Ah yes, May & Baker... As a keen amateur photographer in the 1950s and 1960s, I remember using M&B chemicals all the time. Brown, black and white labels - right?? Or was that Johnson's? I remember one particularly ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham by Philip Hewitt

Brushing Off Even More Cobwebs.

In a previous memory of mine I mentioned that the village of Upper Boddington was without mains water in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s . I lived in the School House with my parents, Pat and George Bishop. My ...Read more

A memory of Upper Boddington by Peter Bishop

Frederick Corder,

These are my memories of Ipswich in Early 1960 I had been working in Ilford on C & A Modes new shop. when the job there was finished i was sent to Frederick Corders shop in Tavern Street, Ipswich, to help out with the ...Read more

A memory of Ipswich by Anthony Williams

Walker, Newcastle Upon Tyne

I was born in Moorland Crescent in the 1950’s. This council housing estate was built a few decades earlier and has a variety of different style good quality houses. Most people had nice gardens with flowers etc ...Read more

A memory of Newcastle upon Tyne by James Cooper

Hatch End 50/60/70s Memories

As I’ve only just stumbled on this web page so offer excuses if it’s past its sell by date. I lived in Sylvia Ave Hatch End from 1951 (as a babe in arms) until I married and moved away in 1976. My recollections may now ...Read more

A memory of Hatch End by Martin Harris

History Of Peacock Cottage, Cleeve Prior

In 'Spring Onions' the autobiography of farmer and market gardener Duncan McGuffie, published by Faber & Faber in 1942, the author rents Peacock Cottage. This is the quote from p 49: "Peacock Cottage ...Read more

A memory of Cleeve Prior by Robert Carter

My Time Living In Old Langho.

I moved to Old Langho in I think in 1954, I was an orphan I went to live with Mr and Mrs Pye. We lived at number 42 Larkhill, Mr and Mrs Pye where nurses at Brockhall hospital. There is a bit of a field between the ...Read more

A memory of Old Langho by Terence Pye

Captions

1,235 captions found. Showing results 1,033 to 1,056.

Caption For Singleton, Post Office C1960

Opposite this leafy corner was the vicarage, now a private house. This pleasant Fylde village was rebuilt by Thomas Horrocks Miller.

Caption For Herstmonceux, Hailsham Road C1965

On the left, at the corner of West End, is the Woolpack Inn, which still has the corrugated iron clad function room we see in this view.

Caption For Blindley Heath, The Main Road C1955

Most of the houses are 19th-century, including the shop (dated 1881) on the corner of Ray Lane beyond the now relocated war memorial cross. It is now a private house called The Old Post Office.

Caption For Overton, Post Office C1960

Tucked away in a very secluded corner below Heysham, this little village was mentioned in the Domesday Book as Ovretun; the name turns up very frequently in old documents, usually mentioning the

Caption For Askrigg, Nappa Hall 1889

In 1637 an L-shaped addition was made to the south-east corner. The last Thomas Metcalfe was involved in the South Sea Bubble, and on his death the house passed out of the family.

Caption For Lechlade, The Old Market Place C1950

The 18th-century stone building of the Lion pub looks snug, and the 3-storey red brick New Inn can be glimpsed on the corner.

Caption For Raglan, The Castle 1906

These features included a tower-keep separated from the rest of the castle by its own moat, multiangular towers, and ornate machicolations of the type seen here adorning the tops of the hexagonal corner

Caption For Kettering, High Street C1950

The International Stores, housed in a Georgian building on the left, was in a prime position on the corner of Meadow Road.

Caption For Littleham, Littleham Road C1965

On the corner, behind the now vanished telephone box, are the premises of A & W Riches & Son, an ironmonger's, and further down is the shop of V Carter & Sons.

Caption For Syston, High Street C1955

An attractive corner of medieval Sithestan (1254). The house which forms the angle with Chapel Street on the left is pre-17th-century, lately repainted and rethatched.

Caption For Newark, Ye Olde White Hart C1955

In the south-east corner of the Market Square is its only surviving timber-framed building, Ye Olde White Hart, a superb and rich example of late 15th-century building.

Caption For Newark, Castle C1955

In the south-east corner of the Market Square is its only surviving timber-framed building, Ye Olde White Hart, a superb and rich example of late 15th-century building.

Caption For Stapleford, The Roach C1955

The corner shops are now a Nottingham Building Society branch.

Caption For Sudbury, The Old Moat Hall 1932

The carving on the upper floor oriel window, and on another hidden round the corner, is of a high quality.

Caption For Abingdon, Market Place 1924

We are looking across the Market Place from the corner of Bridge Street, past the Town Hall.

Caption For Tadcaster, Grimston Hall 1906

The old house here was restored and rebuilt in 1840 by Lord Howden to the designs of Decimus Burton, a London architect, who was also responsible for Hyde Park Corner.

Caption For Langport, Bow Street C1955

Head's cycle shop on the right has now moved into the confectioners on the corner, and is an electrical shop.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Sherborne Lane 1907

Holly Cottage and Ivy Cottage are in the corner. The picture is north- eastwards to the gable ends of the Cedars and Garston (centre right).

Caption For Aberystwyth, Terrace Road 1964

The Central Hotel, next to Freeman, Hardy & Willis on the corner, is popular with students, but the young man walking down the road would now be unwise to try this today!

Caption For Chippenham, The Market Place C1955

The building in the corner on the left before The Causeway starts, left, was occupied by John Coles, who opened in the 1870s as a chemist and grocer.

Caption For Gedling, Main Road C1960

The post office on the left is now a house; the post office has moved across the road into Read the tobacconist's next to the Gedling Wine Stores on the corner of Waverley Avenue – this shop is now

Caption For Hailsham, Ersham Road C1960

The walled enclosure on the far bank is inscribed 'This Sheltered Corner was Endowed by Harold and Winifred Morgan in Memory of their Father, James Henry Morgan'.

Caption For St Neots, River Terrace C1955

Even Brierley`s boatyard on the corner of the Hen Brook (right) is back in business.

Caption For Southampton, Westgate 1908

Westgate, dating back to the 14th century, provides access to the south-west corner of the old walled town.