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Memories

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Recollection Of June 1953

I recall receiving a Coronation Commemoration Mug, in my nursery school in June 1953. I was 5 at the time. My father was a resident Doctor in St. Michaels Hospital in Braintree. Does anyone know the name of the school ? ...Read more

A memory of Braintree by Dominic M Conlon

Bombing Of Morland Avenue

Written by my mother when she was 70. She lived in Swaisland Road I think one of the things you would have noticed was the number of barrage balloons all around, high in the sky. The first sound of guns which we heard ...Read more

A memory of Dartford in 1945

The Bathing Hole

The stream in front of the war memorial ran down to the Browney river a few hundred yards below the Dean, where half of the Witton school kids learned to swim in deep pools created by dams made by Harry Bell and Davy ...Read more

A memory of Witton Gilbert in 1954 by David Leckenby

Home

I was born in Mid Calder; my sister in Pumpherston; and my brother in Uphall Station. We lived at 17 Nettlehill Road until we emigrated to Canada in October 1957. We all went to the school in Uphall Station and my favourite teacher ...Read more

A memory of Uphall Station in 1957 by Betty Lappage Irvine

The Saughs

My Mother (know as Betty Scott in those days) who is now 91 lived at The Saughs (Saughs Cottage now) from 1923 to 1936 (ish)  - probably aged 3 to 17. Mum was a foster child and went there to live with "Auntie" (Christine Hunter Mc ...Read more

A memory of Ochtertyre in 1920 by Joyce Rawlings

Memories Of Leadgate And Iveston 1938 1943

I came to live at Leadgate when I was 12 years old and attended Leadgate Council School which was a large red brick building for infants and juniors, boys and girls. I was at the school for only 2 years, ...Read more

A memory of Leadgate in 1930 by Wilf Wallace

Childhood Days

My mom, my brother and myself lived in Heath Street off Winson Green. I remember we had no hot water and no bathroom, so we had the tin bath in front of the fire. I remember the old washhouse where Monday was always washing day ...Read more

A memory of Winson Green in 1952

Charlwood Garage The Old Forge

We lived in a 400 year old cottage at the back of The Old Forge, later Charlwood Garage. My brother was born in the cottage in October 1965. I am trying to locate any photographs of the old house behind the forge ...Read more

A memory of Charlwood in 1965

During The Second World War

This story is a memory during the Second World War. My father Samuel Fredrick Richardson was the air-raid warden. There was a brick shelter, built on the village green. Most of the village used to use it. One ...Read more

A memory of Frimley Green in 1940 by The Frith Memory Archivist

Stoney Beach & The Lifeboat Station

Parents in the (old) Kinmel Arms, boozing over an extended lunch time - my brother and me exiled to the adjoining Stoney Beach where we passed the hours away crushing the softer red ...Read more

A memory of Moelfre in 1957 by John Kandel

Captions

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Caption For Launceston, South Gate 1893

Southgate is the only surviving gate of the three that used to give access to the old walled town.

Caption For Byfield, High Street C1955

On the right is Adams, the family grocer, and further down is the Rose and Crown. The village once had its own railway station and iron workings, as well as a farm with nine dairy herds.

Caption For Irchester, Knuston Hall Education Centre C1960

Between Rushden and Urchester lies Knuston Hall, situated in parkland leading down to an artificial lake.

Caption For Stanion, Shop And Cardigan Arms, Cardigan Road C1965

Now within the village, Frith's photographer looks down one of the estate roads, with their undistinguished 'Anywheresville' modern houses, towards the High Street.

Caption For Gilwern, The Main Road C1955

Further down on the left is the road junction for Llangattock and Crickhowell just before the white building, the Beaufort Arms.

Caption For Coventry, The Lady Godiva Clock C1965

When the clock strikes the hour the doors slide open and Godiva rides once again, while Peeping Tom (a mythical figure) leers down at her from a niche in the wall above.

Caption For Cadgwith, From Bathing Rock 1899

Their attention has been attracted by a fisherman handling a box on the beach, whcih could have been handed down by the person inside the boat.

Caption For Ottery St Mary, Market Place 1907

The awnings are down over the windows; it is a hot, sunny day.

Caption For York, Bootham Bar 1911

The figures that now look down are Nicholas Langton, a Lord Mayor, a mason holding a model of the bar and a medieval knight.

Caption For Hove, The Parade 1921

Hove's genteel grandeur continued to appeal to those who found Brighton somewhat too lively, and the town expanded north into the Downs in tides of suburban housing.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Broad Street 1900

With the waters of Lyme Bay visible beyond the Hillcliff grocery store further down this steeply-sloping street, the pleasing 18th-century façades of the shops and buildings frame this scene of late

Caption For Launceston, St Thomas' Church C1955

St Thomas's was once a chapel of ease to St Stephen's church, down in the valley next to the River Kensey and close to Launceston priory, of which some ruins remain.

Caption For Coventry, The Lady Godiva Clock C1965

When the clock strikes the hour the doors slide open and Godiva rides once again, while Peeping Tom (a mythical figure) leers down at her from a niche in the wall above.

Caption For Woodbridge, The Beach 1898

This was taken from Buss's Dock looking down river.

Caption For Kersey, The Village From The Church C1965

We look down through the ironwork of the churchyard entrance to the water splash, and up to Stay Barn on the other side of the Brett valley.

Caption For Leek, Market Place 1959

The stall holders and the ice cream man must be wondering where the customers are.They must either all be at work, or down at Rudyard Lake for the day.

Caption For Morecambe, The Central Pier 1906

They called it 'the Taj Mahal of Morecambe', and it was a wonderfully eccen- tric and ornamental building until it was burnt down in 1933.

Caption For Kingswood, The Village C1955

Beyond the bus stop the cluster of petrol pumps has been replaced by a BP garage slightly lower down the hill, and the garage on the right has been re-built as GVC (Vans Direct).

Caption For West Witton, The Duck Pond 1911

The stream ran down from Pen Hill through this pond to provide motive power for the corn mill over the road and below the Heifer Inn.

Caption For Blaenavon, Broad Street C1955

We are looking down the street in the opposite direction to photograph B672001, with the Forge Hammer now on the right.

Caption For Beer, The Village 1898

As with so many East Devon villages, a tiny stream - the Beer Brook - runs down the main street, first on one side of the road and then on the other.

Caption For Felsted, The Mill C1960

The current building here dates from 1858, its predecessor having burned down.

Caption For Chesterfield, Knifesmithgate C1960

Timothy Whites down on Stephenson Place has a new frontage, and the billiards sign has been consigned to history.

Caption For Beachy Head, Lighthouse 1912

At the eastern extremity of the South Downs, the Royal Sovereign Lighthouse at the foot of Beachy Head warned shipping of the hazards of the chalk cliffs, which now lie under the sea.