Maps

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Memories

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Childhood Days

Mitcham a lovely little place, here you used to catch the buses to Sutton and beyond, the picture house and opposite the pictures used to be a sweet shop where I can remember Mars bars used to cost 2/6 in old money, gobstobbers that ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1963 by David Buettner Banks

Early School Days In Crouch End

I was born in 1946 and attended Rokesley Infants school from 1951 to 1953. We baby boomers were too many for the main school and in 1952 my class was in a private house just up the road from the school. We had to ...Read more

A memory of Crouch End by Helen Dickinson

A Village Celebrates

In 1953 the village was chosen by Picture Post to feature in their Coronation special edition under the heading "A village celebrates". On the Sunday nearest the Coronation there was an open air inter-denomination ...Read more

A memory of Hinton St George in 1953 by Sally Ward Enticott

My Childhood

I was born to Victor Owen Colman Emmerson and Jean Florence Emmerson at the family home of Garden Cottage, Holmbury St Mary in September 1957. I have an older brother, John and a younger sister Diane who were also born there. ...Read more

A memory of Holmbury St Mary in 1957 by Barbara Parkes

Daniel Adamson

I recall, as a young police constable, going for a trip on the MSC barge 'The Daniel Adamson'. This was from no 8 dock at Manchester, just by the Trafford swing bridge. The trip went though Mode Wheel locks, Latchford ...Read more

A memory of Manchester Ship Canal in 1972 by David Timperley

Willow Cafe Etc

Returning to Wickford after being in the USA for a few years I remember the Willow Cafe, Egans, Adrian's in a hut in Market Road, the livestock market where the Willowdale Centre is now. Dr. Rentons Georgian house in the High ...Read more

A memory of Wickford in 1967 by Sue Burn

Growing Up

I moved to Combpyne when I was 4 years old with my mum, dad, brother and sister. We lived in the house in the centre of the village called Clock House. Its garden backed on to the churchyard. I spent many happy hours on the Webbers' farm ...Read more

A memory of Combpyne in 1958 by Anne Symons

Weekends At Chapel Row

I didn't live in Bucklebury but was born in Cold Ash where I lived prior to moving to Thatcham. Unfortunately my father died as the result of a motor cycle accident when I was eight years old, and social care being what it ...Read more

A memory of Bucklebury by grahamfsmith

Childhood Memories

I remember well the amazing west road this was a group of houses owned by watney brewery. The road was enclosed by a brick wall at one end and iron gates at the other. No cars allowed. The families mostly only rented two rooms, ...Read more

A memory of Mortlake in 1950 by Kathleen Slark

Secret Factory At Box Tunnel Corsham

This 1904 photo shows both the main line through Box but also the entry to a huge underground military store and factory. When I worked at the MoD in the 1960's I recall that there were 2 lines at one end of the ...Read more

A memory of Corsham by Chris Scott

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Captions

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Caption For Clacton On Sea, Christ Church 1891

To the right, behind the flagpole is the Life Boat House, designed by Charles H Cooke and opened in 1878.

Caption For Southend On Sea, Southchurch Hall, The Lake C1950

The lake is part of the moat surrounding the timber-framed manor house, once the home of the de Southchurch family.

Caption For Faygate, The Village 1929

The scene has now altered: the left-hand side of the road has been developed with houses and bungalows, and the church is now converted to a house.

Caption For Horning, The Swan C1965

Since 1965 an extension to the hotel has replaced the low building beside the thatched house.

Caption For Highworth, Swindon Street C1950

The bus queue to Swindon is forming by the two lime trees outside Ashman's butchers shop, today a private house.

Caption For Accrington, Oak Hill, Formerly The Museum 2004

The extension erected by Jonathan Hargreaves was demolished at the time the Abbeyfield Society took over the house.

Caption For Stafford, The Shopping Centre C1965

The clock in front of the garage at the end on Gaol Square replaced a fountain built to commemorate Thomas Sidney, born in the end house on the right.

Caption For Petersfield, High Street, Clare Cross 1898

In the wake of the war, under the auspices of the Housing Act of 1919, the country set about building 'homes fit for heroes'.

Caption For Bury, Church From The River 1898

Novelist and poet John Galsworthy lived in Bury House from 1926 until 1933.

Caption For Catterick, The Village 1913

Also in the picture are (left to right) Chandler's House; the 1912 Methodist church; the Bay Horse Inn; and below the parish church, Stepping Stones House.

Caption For Kettering, Sheep Street 1922

The house with tall chimneys on the left was the gable-end of the George Hotel, with garaging attached to the main building; the higher gable with the BP sign marks the entrance to the car park.

Caption For Loughborough, Church Gate C1955

There was a guildhall and a manor house, a weekly market and twice- yearly fairs.

Caption For Quorn, Cross C1965

Further along Station Road are a pretty thatched building, a good turn of the 19th century local granite house, and the 18th-century Dower House.

Caption For Birkenhead, Queensway Tunnel C1965

To create the large tunnel entrance and the lead-up area, many back-to-back houses had to be pulled down; the town's library also had to be demolished.

Caption For Holbeach, High Street C1960

Then comes the HSBC bank followed by a building dated 1789 which now houses Calthop, solicitors.

Caption For Horncastle, Market Place C1965

The Butter Market of 1853 (centre) is now Achurch Hardware Store, and the snack bar next door is now a pizza and kebab house.

Caption For Odiham, High Street C1960

The first house on the left is a 16th-century timber-framed structure with an early 17th-century façade.

Caption For Quorn, Cross C1965

Further along Station Road are a pretty thatched building, a good turn of the 19th century local granite house, and the 18th-century Dower House.

Caption For Stafford, Pennycrofts Court C1965

The Stone and Eccleshall roads used to divide in front of the Waggon and Horses public house, but by this time a roundabout had been built to the rear of it, on the left.

Caption For Hemel Hempstead, Kodak House 2005

The 18-storey Kodak House was built in 1971.

Caption For Dorking, South Street And Pump Corner 1906

On the corner stands the Bull's Head public house.

Caption For Wolverton, Stratford Road 2005

The Works' fire station (centre) and bath house (centre left) can be identified by their gabled roofs.

Caption For Westmill, The Village Green C1955

The house on the right of the row, covered with ivy, is Parliament House.

Caption For Lytham, Windmill And Lifeboat House 1924

The Lifeboat House, very busy in 1924, is now being refurbished, and houses a museum telling the history of the lifeboats' activity on this stormy coast.