Maps

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Books

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Memories

8,147 memories found. Showing results 531 to 540.

The Cadena Cafe

This shot of the High Street presents the signage for the Cadena Cafe, a chain of national cafes (in the 'Lyon's' mould) where shoppers met for coffee and light meals. I have fond memories of visiting the cafe with family and ...Read more

A memory of Worcester by Chris Hardwick

The Town Hall Steps

When I was very young I can remember that my mother used to let me run up and down the town hall steps.

A memory of Llantwit Major in 1975 by Ceri Bosley

Wonderful Times Spent With My Grandparents

My mother and her family are from Stiffkey. I was christened in the Stiffkey church in September of 1965. My grandparents lived at Camping Hill and I was always visiting them. I have lovely memories of ...Read more

A memory of Stiffkey in 1965 by Sarah Brooks

1970's And 1980's East Ham Memories

I left East Ham behind around 1983 for Essex, my mother and father told me we were moving because East Ham was changing, becoming dirty and run down, I was devastated. Recently I have met up with old class mates ...Read more

A memory of East Ham in 1983

Early Childhood

After retiring from the RAF, my father was with Air Ministry Constabulary and we moved to Stanwix in 1938 when my father was posted to 4 MU. We lived in Knowe Park Avenue and I attended Stanwix School. My sister attended the ...Read more

A memory of Stanwix in 1930 by Lorna Jennings

Living In Chilton

My family moved to Chilton Foliat and took over the "Old Post Office". I was still young then and went to the old school run by Mr & Mrs Hassall who lived next door to the school. Two classrooms and very fond memories. ...Read more

A memory of Chilton Foliat in 1964 by Steve Elliott

My Memories Of Burnt House Farm Alfriston Circa 1938

I remember being taken down to Alfriston in the 1930s before the Second World War. My great-aunt and great-uncle, Polly and Arthur Newell, had a smallholding on the downs, about half a mile ...Read more

A memory of Alfriston by Margaret Mosley

Bungay And Woodton

Early years - Nurse Britton was a friend as she was to most I believe. I was too young to be exact with memories but my gran lived opposite Whitemans shop which got hit by a bomb in the Second World War. I remember the garage ...Read more

A memory of Bungay in 1951 by Gerald Wase

Fond Memories

I think it was around this time (1993) that I attended St Clots! I was sent there as I had been enjoying, to date, my time at bording school in Berkshire. My mother and my auntie had spent many many happy years here when my ...Read more

A memory of Lechlade on Thames in 1993 by Kate Norris

Days Gone By

My family arrived in Seaforth late in 1939 after we were shipped back from Gibraltar where my father was stationed with the Kings Regiment. Early memories of our house in Holly Grove are vague. My sister Maureen and I, along with ...Read more

A memory of Seaforth in 1940 by Charles Hegarty

Captions

2,258 captions found. Showing results 1,273 to 1,296.

Caption For Stourbridge, Market Street C1965

This photograph is taken further down Market Street.

Caption For Penistone, The Railway Bridge C1960

This 29-arch viaduct carries the Sheffield to Huddersfield railway over the River Don. It was built in 1849 a short distance from Penistone station.

Caption For Goudhurst, Village 1901

This scene was snapped from the church and faces down the hill. On the right is the Goudhurst Coffee House, and it looks as if a shop is next door. Eedes the chemist sits behind the trees (centre).

Caption For Tetbury, Long Street C1960

Originally an Elizabethan building, this was knocked down in late Victorian times and rebuilt as a mock coaching inn.

Caption For Leek, Market Place 1959

They must either all be at work, or down at Rudyard Lake for the day.

Caption For Cawsand, The Bay 1904

The fields and woods of the Mount Edgcumbe estate reach down to the water.

Caption For Bristol, Muller's No 3 Orphan House 1901

Prussian-born George Muller arrived in Bristol in 1833 and three years later started building five orphanages on this site at Ashley Down. This is the third.

Caption For Preston Candover, The Purefoy Arms Hotel C1960

Forty years before this photograph was taken, war memorials like Preston Candover's (centre right) were being erected in villages up and down the country to commemorate the young men of these communities

Caption For Market Drayton, The Swimming Pool C1960

The open-air swimming pool in Market Drayton was built in the 1930s; it attracted people from a large area around the town, even from as far away at Stoke on Trent.

Caption For Crewe, Market Street 1956

This shot was taken at the southern end of Market Street, which leads to that area of town that was traditionally the main shopping centre.

Caption For Havant, East Street C1960

Today the varied selection of shops down this street includes a ski shop. Havant Arts Centre and Havant Museum are also to be found here.

Caption For Slad, Steanbridge Lane 1910

Down the lane which passes behind it and leads to the right is the pond in which, in Cider with Rosie, the body of the unfortunate Miss Flynn was discovered floating.

Caption For Abergavenny, From Near The Station 1893

The stone half way down the other side of the road marked the entry to Mill Lane which led to Mill Street, the main entry road to the town for many centuries.

Caption For London, St Paul's 1890

Its position above London Bridge - the successful docks were all in broader reaches down-river - led to its inevitable decline.

Caption For Launceston, Castle Lodge 1906

Down the lane to the left, on the other side of the castle green, is Northgate and Doomsdale, the prison which included among its inmates the Catholic martyr St Cuthbert Mayne, the Quaker George Fox, and

Caption For Dublin, St. Patricks Cathedral, Nave East 1897

A view taken from the west entrance, looking straight down the nave to the east window. St Patrick's is the largest church in Ireland, and this picture demonstrates its spacious proportions.

Caption For London, Regent Street C1890

creation was compromised by poor building work, but all agreed that Nash conjured for this region of the West End a genteel and polished atmosphere that has considerably added to its prosperity down

Caption For London, St Paul's 1890

Its position above London Bridge - the successful docks were all in broader reaches down-river - led to its inevitable decline.

Caption For Holywell, High Street 1959

Much of the prosperity of the town derived from the nearby Greenfield Valley.

Caption For Sudbury, The Mill 1904

The tall silo above the granary fed grain down the chute and over the road into the mill. The chimney, silo and granary hoist have all gone.

Caption For Llangennith, General Stores And Church C1965

According to legend St Kennith was sent down the river Loughor in a coracle, landed on Worm's Head and founded a monastery at Llangennith.

Caption For Bradford On Avon, Holy Trinity Church 1914

This was rescued during renovation work in the 1860s - it had been used, face down, to repair paving.

Caption For Langham, Well Street C1950

Can you see the sign of the Noel Arms further down on the left, and the Wheatsheaf on the right? Dulcie Ellingworth was headmistress here.