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Boac Hatton Cross Part 1

I remember Comet House, Speedbird House, and Technical Block A. Later they were linked together by a walkway above ground level. The board room was originally in TBA but when Speedbird House was built it was ...Read more

A memory of Heathrow Airport London

How Things Were

I was born in Dale St off Hume Hall Lane. Our neighbours were the Rushtons and the Alan's. I remember, in the early fifties, the milk man with his horse and cart and also the ice cream horse drawn carriage - it had two large ...Read more

A memory of Miles Platting by franciscaine7

Selsdon Parade Residential Flat

My family and my father's before that (surname Kent) lived in Selsdon (84 and 32 Foxearth Road, 170 Littleheath Road, and 24 Benhurst Gardens) spanning c. 1930 - 1989. But at one point (after my father's death), my ...Read more

A memory of Selsdon in 1982 by T Kent

High Cross House And Dorothy Elmhirsts Steinway Grand Piano

On the beautiful Dartington Hall Estate there is a unique “International Modernist House”, now used as a gallery, just to the north-east of Dartington Hall School. High Cross ...Read more

A memory of Dartington Hall in 2012 by John Howard Norfolk

A Very Unusual Bank Building In Style

The bank's origins relate to Blackburn, Lancashire, then moved to Manchester where a later generation of the Cunliffe Brooks became a very wealthy local landowner. Opened an Altrincham branch on 7th April ...Read more

A memory of Manchester in 1870 by Trevor Jones

Do You Remember?

Does anyone remember or know about a florist's shop called 'Jedith' which was situated in the parade of shops at the front of the cinema in London Road, on the South Circular opposite Forest Hill Railway Station? It was run by ...Read more

A memory of Forest Hill by Nick Gilman

Triangle Row

We moved in to number 13 after we got married. Our first visitor was unfortunately a policeman with a warrant for the previous owners arrest. I'm sure we were not alone in the house. We often used to hear an over the door type ...Read more

A memory of Norland Town in 1984 by Kate Noble

Happy Youth

I first found out about when I moved to Great Horton in Bradford about 1952. I met a boy called Philip Tempest who lived in a house near by, we became life long friends. His parent took me on holiday with them to a cottage they owned ...Read more

A memory of Nesfield in 1950 by Donald Rumbold

Croydon Advertiser

I worked on the Croydon Advertiser from about 1959 to 1963 and met my wife Frances Dowsett, who was also a reporter there at the office in High Street. We used to lunch most days at Batty's Bar, upstairs in a pub on the corner of ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by barber.david01

Happy Days....Jeux Sans Frontieres

One of many events to take place in this amazing pool was the 1975 International heat of Jeux Sans Frontieres. Stuart Hall and Eddie Wareing compered on a late summers evening when competitors from all over Europe ...Read more

A memory of Southport in 1975 by David A

Captions

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Caption For Upwell, Town Street 1923

A later brick front was added to the 17th-century White Lion.

Caption For Kibworth Harcourt, Main Street C1955

Two oeil-de-boeuf windows and a later Tuscan-columned porch complete this quite picturesque ensemble.

Caption For Kibworth Harcourt, The Old House C1955

Two oeil-de-boeufs and a later Tuscan-columned porch complete this quite picturesque composition.

Caption For Newport, Crown House And Tudor House 1932

It was a late 16th-century building that underwent a makeover in 1692: this was when the shell-hood was added to the doorway, the pargework (or decorative plasterwork) executed, and the pub's name

Caption For Abergele, Market Street 1895

Only 5 years after photograph No 23331, D G Roberts have expanded: their shopfront is longer and fronted by a mini-arcade, and they now have a first-floor showroom with a plate-glass window.

Caption For Abingdon, St Nicholas's Church Interior 1890

It is basically a late Norman and early 13th-century building, but it was much changed in the 14th and 15th centuries, including the battlemented west tower; its interior is relatively plain,

Caption For Leeds, The Headrow C1965

This street scene is dominated by the façade of Lewis's store, with its broad plate glass windows and imitation rusticated pillars.

Caption For Bolton, Smithill's Hall 1894

The Hall dates from the 15th century, when it was the home of the Radcliffe family, though a later occupier, Andrew Barton, extended it in about 1516.

Caption For Canford Magna, Parish Church 1886

Its features include a chancel which started life as the nave of a late Anglo-Saxon church before being converted by the Normans, who also built a new nave with aisles.

Caption For Sudbury, Stour Street 1932

The building on the left is a 16th-century house with a central hall, two cross wings and a later addition at the far end.

Caption For Stamford, View From The Water Meadows 1922

This view from the water meadows is a very well known one and relatively little changed, although it would look very different to a late medieval traveller when there were fourteen parish church towers

Caption For Northampton, Park Avenue Methodist Church C1960

These architects had a prolific practice building non-conform- ist churches in a late Gothic style, usually in hard red brick with stone dressings, as here.

Caption For Pennard, The Castle 1893

The ruins are of a late 13th-century castle built on the site of an earlier stronghold.

Caption For Kibworth Harcourt, Main Street C1955

Two oeil-de-boeuf windows and a later Tuscan-columned porch complete this quite picturesque ensemble.

Caption For Cirencester, Castle Street 1898

A later king, Henry VIII, dissolved the abbey, and only the Spital Gateway remains.The wool industry was delivered into the hands of merchant adventurers, who built the huge perpendicular wool church that

Caption For Brampton, High Street 1964

Beyond it is a late 17th-century thatched house with a tall brick chimney stack.

Caption For Tickhill, Market Place C1955

Among the treasures are the tomb-chest of Thomas Fitzwilliam (died 1478), a late 15th-century font, and an early 17th-century pulpit.

Caption For Frimley Green, The Green C1965

The uninspiring shops and flats on the left were built around 1960, while the shop on the right, a late Victorian building with mock timber-framing, is now empty (October 2001).

Caption For Rickmansworth, Bury House 1897

This view is of the west front of this attractive house which, beneath its roughcast facade of about 1800, is a mid 17th-century house with a late 16th-century parlour wing; the three brick stacks probably

Caption For Leeds, The Headrow C1965

This street scene is dominated by the façade of Lewis's store, with its broad plate glass windows and imitation rusticated pillars.

Caption For Leeds, The Headrow C1965

This street scene is dominated by the façade of Lewis's store, with its broad plate glass windows and imitation rusticated pillars.

Caption For Matlock Bath, New Bath Hotel C1955

The original part of the hotel is on the right of the picture, with a later extension to the left.

Caption For Kegworth, High Street C1960

Further on towards the parish church are a selection of early 19th-century houses, matched on the opposite side of the road by a later three-storey brick terrace.

Caption For Marcham, View From Church Tower C1965

To the left and out of view is Denman College, formerly Marcham Park, a late Georgian mansion.