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Memories

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Army Life As A Child

I lived in Larkhill as a small child in the very late fifities. In those days you could walk to Stonehenge and there were no barriers to stop you going right up to the stones. In the local primary school most of the children ...Read more

A memory of Larkhill by Dianne Hughes

#11 Station Road Family 1916 Till Present

My family, the Wicketts, were the first family to move into #11 Station Road, just after it was built. I believe not long before my father, Wilfred, was born in 1916, or prehaps just after his birth(?). My ...Read more

A memory of Totnes by Clive Wickett

Hounslow 1970's

I was born in West Mid Hosp and we lived in Worton Way which was technically Isleworth but very close to Hounslow High Street. Our surname was Pritchett. I went to Spring Grove Infant School in Star Road from 1962-1969 and then ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow by Christine Callow

Growing Up

I was born in Stepney and grew up in Hatherley Gardens. Fond memories of Brampton Junior School and especially Miss Aylward and Mr Price. Went on to the Grammar School and spent lunch wandering up and down the high street with a bag ...Read more

A memory of East Ham in 1970

Pontypool Town Centre

I lived in Upper Bridge Street and remember a few of the shops in town, I think! On the corner of Upper Bridge Street and the Bell Pitch was Franketti's fish shop with an awesome Art Nouveau till and free chips if you took ...Read more

A memory of Pontypool in 1960 by Sandra Rudd

Selby Market 1960's

I remember on Mondays in the market there used to be a little hand cranked roundabout for small children. I think it had seats like wooden ducks. I also remember an old country man used to come into town to sell his eggs in the market and he wore a white smocked top.

A memory of Selby in 1965 by Katharine Hope

Nostalgia

Greenfield Road was known as Greenfield Villas before World War II. I lived and grew up in 4 Greenfield Villas with my grandparents, Mr & Mrs W A Davies, my mother, Nancy, and sister, Gertrude, from 1937 until 1947. My father was ...Read more

A memory of Llanelli in 1940 by Rhys Northwood

Holes, Hoardings & Hythe Ferry

On returning from the Middle East, my family holed up across the water at Fawley. A big city was very exciting for me and after getting off the Hythe Ferry it was all bomb craters up to about the Dolphin. Above Bar ...Read more

A memory of Southampton in 1954 by Jeannette Lomas

Town Hall Roundabout

Living in Watford from the early 1950's, I well remember the Town Hall roundabout before they moved it. Can't recollect whether it was nearer or further away. I can recollect, not far from a pub called the OBH, or almost ...Read more

A memory of Watford in 1952 by Jacqueline Hathaway

Evacuation To Fonab Castle Sept.1939

Evacuation - September 3rd 1939 The government decided that mothers and children should be moved to the countryside away from areas at risk from bombing. On the 3rd, parents and children all gathered at their ...Read more

A memory of Pitlochry in 1930 by Anne Jackson

Captions

5,112 captions found. Showing results 1,081 to 1,104.

Caption For Port Talbot, Station Road 1952

Port Talbot is an industrial town in the county of Glamorgan.

Caption For Saltburn By The Sea, The Queen Hotel 1891

The impressive edifice of the Queen's Hotel is angled and was originally envisaged to form one section of a 'circus' of buildings, close to the approach road to the town's railway station.

Caption For Conwy, Castle And The Tubular Steel Railway Bridge 1898

Conwy was already something of a tourist attraction by 1898 with its castle and remnants of the planned medieval town.

Caption For Laindon, The Arterial Road And School Lane Crossroads C1955

The A127 arterial road (in the foreground) was opened in 1925 by Prince Henry, and succeeded Wash Road as the main east-west route through Laindon.

Caption For Runcorn, The Two Bridges C1955

there has been considerable investment in rejuvenating and developing the town, so much so that apparently property prices in and around the town are now rising faster here than in

Caption For Wokingham, Market Square 1906

Wokingham's triangular market place is the town's focal point; it is dominated by its red brick Victorian town hall, which is triangular in shape and replaces a 17th-century timber-framed building.

Caption For Uppingham, Beast Hill C1965

This view of the church, which was taken away from the town centre, also shows a pretty ironstone thatched house and numerous houses roofed with the local slates.

Caption For Battle, High Street 1910

The small town of Battle grew up when the people who built and maintained the abbey and its buildings settled there.

Caption For Sherborne, The Abbey Quadrangle C1955

Sherborne is in some people's estimation the most attractive of the Dorset towns.

Caption For Laindon, The Arterial Road And School Lane Crossroads C1955

The A127 arterial road (in the foreground) was opened in 1925 by Prince Henry, and succeeded Wash Road as the main east-west route through Laindon.

Caption For Brentford, High Street C1960

In the days when Middlesex encompassed much of what is now Greater London, Brentford remained the important county town, though the title was more or less ceremonial - real administrative

Caption For Dunstable, High Street C1955

The reverse view from D69020, looking south towards the ancient cross-roads of Watling Street and the Icknield Way.

Caption For Macclesfield, Market Place C1955

Macclesfield became a borough in 1220, and by the17th century it was described as 'one of the fairest towns in Cheshire'.

Caption For Steyning, High Street 1914

Steyning was a prosperous little town before the Roman Occupation.

Caption For Port Talbot, Station Road 1952

Port Talbot is an industrial town in the county of Glamorgan.

Caption For Stockbridge, High Street C1955

Stockbridge looks as if it might easily be confused with a town in the 'wild west'.

Caption For Darlington, Woodland Road 1892

In the second half of the 19th century, Darlington was growing fast, attracting industry and business.

Caption For Lulworth, 1894

AT LAST he [Troy] reached the summit, and a wide and novel prospect burst upon him with an effect almost like that of the Paci?

Caption For Grantham, St Wulfram's Church, The Chained Library 1889

During the First World War, two enormous army camps were situated within two miles of the town, and in 1915 the Machine Gun Corps was founded in Harrowby Camp.

Caption For Stourport On Severn, The River Upstream From The Bridge C1960

The market town of Stourport lies in the borough of Bewdley at the junction of the Staffordshire and Worcester Canal, the River Stour and the River Severn, which led to flourishing trade with other parts

Caption For Horncastle, The Bull Ring C1955

Horncastle is one of the county's most ancient towns.

Caption For Bournemouth, Town Centre C1955

By the 1950s, Bournemouth was at the height of its popularity and one of the most prosperous towns in England, as this view of the town centre shows.

Caption For Taunton, East Street C1950

A stroll along present day East Street from the town centre to East Reach is a fascinating experience for any would-be town historian.

Caption For Saltburn By The Sea, Waterfall Near The Viaduct 1913

Queen's Hotel, built in 1875, flanks the right of the view and in the centre can be seen the colonnaded arcade of the town's railway station, which brought tourists from all over the country