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The Capitol Cinema
I used to look forward to the weekend so I could pay my 'tanner' and go to the Saturday morning pictures at the Capitol (now Marks & Spencer I believe). I was born and raised in Barking, Sutton Road (off Movers Lane). Went to ...Read more
A memory of Barking in 1956 by
The Bearsted Boys
I have put 1947 but infact it is from earlier than that to 1954. I think this was a great place for us as kids as we had freedom and not much parental control, I think mainly due to our parents who had just survived the war ...Read more
A memory of Bearsted in 1944 by
The Baker Family At Wroughton
My mother's family were all from Wroughton. They lived at 51 High Street since the 19th Century. When I was a child in the 60s/70s we visited often. My great grandparents, Francis William and Fanny Baker, are buried ...Read more
A memory of Chiseldon in 1969 by
The Awakening
On the right of the photograph the second shop belonged to Arthur Sansom, the Newsagents and Confectioners. It has a sign board above the shop front: PICTURE POST. In the Easter holidays of 1959 at the age of 14½, I took my first ...Read more
A memory of Locksbottom
That Morris Minor Traveller Has To Be Our Dad's Car!
My family lived at No 3 (the top flat), Corner House, at the top end of Broad Street, first on the left looking at the photo (but just out of the picture) for many years from 1947 or so. I ...Read more
A memory of New Alresford in 1947 by
Tewkesbury Station Road Tottenham N15
I was born in 1938 in Tewkesbury Road,Tottenham. When I was of age I attended Stamfordhill School, in Seven Sisiters Road. I remember they used to have a Barrage Balloon in the playground and we often had to ...Read more
A memory of Tottenham in 1940 by
Temple Sowerby
My grandparents Lol (Lawrence) and Edith Johnston owned and operated the Black Swan Inn for many years. I would love to find out some family history, their son Tom emigrated to Australia in 1964, I was 2 and my sister ...Read more
A memory of Appleby-in-Westmorland by
Tales Of A Wandering Vocal/Sharpshooter
I so remember the 7777 club & the owner Clem Williams ....Clem would book my show several times through the year & I considered him a friend I used to love the rides in his old Rolls Royce ...I often ...Read more
A memory of Maesteg by
Tab Packets
I was eleven in this year 1954 and me and the lads were by this time avid collectors of anything, tab packets was top of most lists, we would scour the streets and gutters wherever we went for that elusive cardboard. The bins behind ...Read more
A memory of Newburn in 1954 by
The Odeon
Every Saturday morning my brother Frank and sister Lorna and I were there for the children's matinee so much fun. We were born during WWII and I remember how close our neighborhood was and the Odeon was part of it. When I got a little ...Read more
A memory of Hounslow in 1950 by
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Once upon a quieter time, the broad street through the village was perfect for a fair.
Both the house and lodge are roofed in local Norfolk reed, known throughout the land as the best material for this purpose.
This building, which was part of Leeds University, was designed by T A Lodge and opened in 1951.
A young man enjoys the broad prospect of Gorleston sands from the worn and pocked cliff.
This photograph was taken on or near the old wooden viaduct built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel in 1848 to take the Great Western Railway, which originally ran on a broad gauge track.
The view from the gritstone escarpment of the Ravenstones above Cross Hills, near Keithley, overlooks the broad Aire Valley and towards the distant limestone uplands of Craven.
In the foreground is Edwin Broad's draper's shop.
Note the children playing in the centre of the picture, and the sun awnings over the first-floor balconies.
Barricane Beach is behind the camera, and we see the broad expanse of Woolacombe sands stretching away south towards Croyde.
The broad High Street, once the site of the market established under a charter from Edward I, was, at the turn of the last century, still very much a rendezvous for the cattle and sheep farmers of the
The broad tree-lined Promenade is lined with elegant houses, whose delicate and graceful wrought- and cast-iron work on the balconies and verandas has long been particularly admired.
Though Fawkham was given a station on the LC & DR railway in the late 19th century it has retained its unspoilt charm and tranquillity.
Outside the city walls and isolated from the rest of Portsmouth, Spice Island was once filled with sailors and press gangs.
Outside the city walls and isolated from the rest of Portsmouth, Spice Island was once filled with sailors and press gangs.
When the new Worcester Bridge opened in 1781 it gave Broad Street quite a boost, helping it to support three coaching inns.
Looking up Broad Street one can see a great variety of inns and hotels.
This is a pretty scene with a handsome ash tree in the background, and two children in a quiet side street.
This village is popular with visitors to Broadland, with St Catherine's Church and its beautiful hammer-beam roof and painted rood screen dating from 1493.
The right to hold a weekly market and an annual fair was granted in 1227.
Now one of the busiest road junctions in the rural region, in 1952 the centre of Woburn was a study in tranquillity.
The Broad Hinton (or Hackpen) white horse is on Hackpen Down between Avebury and Swindon on the Marlborough Downs.
The Broad Hinton (or Hackpen) white horse is on Hackpen Down between Avebury and Swindon on the Marlborough Downs.
In the second half of the 19th century, Coltishall was a major wherry building centre, and even at the time this photograph was taken, Allens were turning out the sleekest, fastest wherries on the Broads
St Ives, the pilchard capital of the west and Mecca for artists, encapsulates everything Cornish.
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