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Memories Of Cannock

These photographs remind me of Cannock and how it was when I was a child, ten years old in 1965. It's an odd thing to remember and I wonder if anyone else remembers the public toilets that were downstairs beneath the ...Read more

A memory of Cannock in 1965

Memories Of St Peters And Broadstairs

I was born at 19 Church St, St Peters, where my grandfather owned the butchers shop. My first memory is of playing on the lino floor just inside the front door. My father, who served in the RAF during the ...Read more

A memory of Broadstairs in 1950 by Ronald Taylor

The Village Policeman 1979 To 1989

I remember well pushing my police bicycle around Kempston, covering Spring Road across to St Johns Avenue and over to the chantry factory estate. I was the last of the resident beat officers living and working ...Read more

A memory of Kempston in 1979 by Donald Underwood

The Building Of The M1 Motorway

Living on Tongwell farm was for me a great deal of fun and we always had plenty of things to occupy our time. We attended school in Newport Pagnell and usually got there on the bike and went to our grandmother's ...Read more

A memory of Tongwell in 1959 by Bob Anderson

Ackworth

My grandparents (Mr and Mrs Scorah) used to live in Town End Avenue, Low Ackworth. I remember visiting them with my mother, while my dad was at war. We used to catch the bus from Scunthorpe to Waterdale, Doncaster. Then we would ...Read more

A memory of Ackworth in 1940 by Tony Crawshaw

A Wonderful Time In Copper Street

My name is Carole McCarthy (nee MALONE) I was born in December 1951 in a maternity unit on Rochdale Road near to the Embassy Club. I lived in Copper Street in Collyhurst which had Barney's at the bottom of the ...Read more

A memory of Collyhurst by Carole Mc Carthy

Wwii Billet

My mother, Maude Doyle was billeted at a farm in Outwell while stationed at searchlight battery at Sutton Bridge that served as RAF base. Fighter aircraft used the gun butts there to adjust their cone of fire I understand. The farmer's ...Read more

A memory of Outwell in 1940 by Jeffrey Masters

Lodging In Lings

I worked for a company called Biwater. They had a contract at Broadholme sewrage treatment works near Rushdun. I had lodgings with a family in Lings, John and Margaret Conway. John was originally from S. Wales. He worked at ...Read more

A memory of Northampton by Brian James

Statutory Swingin'

As a young lad in the “swingin 60’s”, the swingin’ rather passed me by … and no regrets there. But the word puts me in mind of the swinging we did do. Just down the lane from Allsopp’s garage – the hallowed source of ...Read more

A memory of Ashby-de-la-Zouch in 1969 by Bill Davey

Great Niece Of Joseph Henry Lachlan White

My great uncle's home. I had heard about Bredfield House all my life because it belonged to my great uncle, Joseph Henry Lachlan White. I only saw it in 1960, however, long after it had been demolished ...Read more

A memory of Bredfield in 1960 by Margot White

Captions

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Caption For Street, The Clock Tower 1896

Reaching Street, we are in 'company town', a town dominated by the shoe makers C and J Clark.

Caption For Clydach, The Wells 1893

The county jail was then relocated and the new Town Hall was built incorporating some of the cells.

Caption For Romsey, Market Place 1904

The market town became a borough in 1607 and since then it has had five town halls, including the Guildhall, which is now a pub, the Tudor Rose.

Caption For Penrith, Market Place 1893

This historic, red, sandstone market town suffered at the hands of the Scottish raiders down the centuries—its castle is now little more than a ruin.

Caption For Christchurch, High Street 1900

At the time of the Domesday Book there were already 21 houses in Christchurch, and 24 canons attached to the priory church.

Caption For Taunton, Market Place 1902

Taunton was not always the peaceful town we know today.

Caption For Corby, The Stewarts And Lloyd Steel Works C1955

Long a centre of iron and steel making, using the iron-rich local limestone, Corby already had a vast 1930s steelworks and a population of about 15,000 swamping the original small village when it was designated

Caption For Melton Mowbray, St Mary's Church 1927

This is probably the most beautiful of all Leicestershire churches, floating here above the trees and grassland, its magnificent late 15th-century tower dominating the market place and the south side of

Caption For Sheringham, High Street 1921

The street is dominated by its distinctive town clock.

Caption For Loddon, Chedgrave Basin C1965

This small market town is on the River Chet; even these moored boats and yachts would have had difficulty in navigating this shallow tributary of the River Yare to get to the pleasant town centre.

Caption For Durham, Old Elvet 1914

On the right is that well-known hotel, the Royal County, created in the 19th century out of former town houses belonging to the Ratcliffe and Bowes families.

Caption For Sheffield, The Crimean Monument 1893

Sheffield was once described by Horace Walpole as 'one of the foulest towns of England in the most charming situation'.

Caption For Trowbridge, County Cricket Ground Pavilion 1907

The town has had a cricket team since 1844.

Caption For Annfield Plain, Front Street 1951

Annfield Plain, to the north-west of Durham, was one of several towns to attract industrial development as the number of active pits declined.

Caption For Boston, County Hall, Church Close 2005

Until then Boston Dock and some large factories had to produce their own electricity.

Caption For March, The Bridge From Nene Quay 1929

The town's name comes from the Anglo-Saxon word for frontier or border.

Caption For Ramsgate, The Beach C1880

Opened in 1863, it closed in 1926 when a new station for the town was opened to the rear of the town.

Caption For Stratford Upon Avon, Bridge Street 1922

The Red Horse Hotel is where Washington Irving penned his paper on the town.

Caption For Oban, George Street 1901

Fishing and agriculture played an important part in the economy of the area, but it was the opening up of the Western Highlands to tourism that gave the town the boost it so desperately needed.

Caption For Crouch End, Broadway C1890

The photograph looks from outside the present entrance to Hornsey Town Hall and towards the town centre soon after the completion of most of the buildings, and a decade before the influx of extensive but

Caption For Bala, High Street 1896

This spacious town lies at the head of Bala Lake (Llyn Tegid), the largest natural lake in Wales, with a narrow-gauge railway running along its south-eastern shore.

Caption For Abingdon, Abbey Mill 1890

Abingdon Abbey was founded in 675 AD, and the town grew up at its gates.

Caption For Leicester, The Town Hall C1955

Thirty years prior to the building of the new Town Hall, Leicester was in a dreadful sanitary condition, with privies literally over-flowing into the streets, and it was not until the mid 1850s that piped

Caption For Nuneaton, C1960

Once famous for the manufacture of ribbons, Nuneaton's industrial base diversified to include ironworks, worsted factories, cotton and silk goods.