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Memories
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Blackwell!
I once found the long lost "Blackwell" in Blackwell Street, Kidderminster......It was very large, and very deep..... it was around 1967-68 time! We had to locate it as it was somewhere beneath the location of the proposed Swan ...Read more
A memory of Kidderminster in 1968
Manod Boy.
Nice memories. Post office behind the bus, across I think was Crosville depot. There was a billiard hall on bridge somewhere. Central School till war broke out then work; Joined RN, spell in Malta, was AA Man in Bettws Y Coed ...Read more
A memory of Blaenau Ffestiniog in 1940 by
The Mount Maternity Home Northallerton
I gave birth to my daughter Emma Benson on 18/01/80 and then later my son Michael Benson 25/09/81 I also worked as an Auxiliary nurse until the move to the Friarage hospital I then went on to become an ...Read more
A memory of Northallerton in 1980 by
Police Station
I have only just found this site. I was born in 1944 in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, my Mom was sent there as bombs were falling still in the London area and Woodford was still getting there fair share. We lived in an alleyway ...Read more
A memory of Woodford Bridge in 1947 by
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
Memories Of Council Estate And Football
My family moved to the council estate in Elstree in the mid sixties. I used to play football on the pitch opposite Hill House, now sadly a new housing estate. Robert Stores for groceries, the aptly named ...Read more
A memory of Elstree in 1967 by
Eastend Cottages
We've lived in one of the Eastend Cottages by Eastend Farm for nearly 13 years, and would really love to find out some history and even more see any old photos. If anyone could post any on here or get in touch I would be really grateful.
A memory of Roydon by
Reply To Carol Stebbing
Hi Carol, I am Shirley's brother-in-law; she has been told of your posting and would love to catch up with you.
A memory of Wrecclesham by
Lost Childhood
I was in the orphanage in the early 1950's. It was a terrifying experience, I remember having to stand around a bed with other kids to witness a nude child get beaten with a stick to teach everyone a lesson not to wet the bed. I ...Read more
A memory of Pantasaph in 1952 by
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
Captions
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Further along is a newsagents where Picture Post and Farmers' Weekly are advertised. Next door was the Market Tavern.
A lane leads south-west from the green by the former post office to St Paul's Church and Culham Manor.
On the left just off camera is Christ Church, and over to the right is the Post Office.
Most of the attractive lamp-posts are used for advertising. The policeman in the foreground is casting a watchful and perhaps thirsty eye on the wine barrels being transported slowly up the street.
The Post Office is to the left, the Harris Public Library on the right, and the County Sessions Hall in the middle.
With the forge next door (left), it was an important staging post for coaches travelling from London to East Anglia or the North. Many coach routes started and finished here.
This is an East Anglian-style post mill with a white-painted weatherboarded body, four spring patent shuttered sails and winded manually by a tailpole.
The Post Office building dates from the 16th century.
The Tiger public house was once Church House - behind the brick façade it has a king post roof and a 15th-century hall.
A straight and wide road leading to the quay creates an impression of past importance.The Romans, the Saxons and the Vikings used the area for invasion.
The village of Cranley originally took its name from the craneries at Baynards and Vachery to the south, but it was renamed Cranleigh in 1867 at the instigation of the Post Office because of confusion
The Hop Pole Hotel on the left in this photograph was a posting house, where horses could be changed and packages left for delivery to other towns.
Crossing the River Clun in the valley is the most delightful medieval bridge, which we can see here just beyond the white van.
We may be glad that the ugly power line post has also gone.
There is a poster for cocoa in the window of the Co-op shop on the left. A boy is sitting between the shafts of a handcart in the middle of the road.
This now lost view looks from Market Street towards Silver Street: the timber-framed building on the left has been replaced by a 1970s building.
The carrier's wagon outside the post office gives an old-fashioned view to this 1950s view - but milk floats and rag and bone carts were also still horse-drawn well into the late 1950s.
The south porch is timber, and in the north aisle there are two wooden posts. The stained glass windows were designed by Gibbs.
The general stores next door is now the Willow Guest House, whilst the dwelling next door again has been renamed The Old Post Office.
The timber work and carving is of outstanding quality; there is a carved porch, a bressummer beam, corner posts, original windows and an oriel window towards Lady Street.
The front of Cleveley Lodge was also extended at the time to accommodate the post office and a chemist's shop.
On the left, a striped post bearing the red torch of Lancashire County Council denotes a school ahead.
Cissbury Ring is an Iron Age fort, with flint mines, 602 feet up on the Downs to the east.The Post Office has a pillar-box with a sign on top with an arrow pointing to the entrance a few feet away.
Further down is the Post Office, erected in 1889.
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