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Being There The Day The Rex Burned Down!

I lived in Consett from the mid-fifties onwards and have many mixed memories. One distinct episode was the burning of the REX cinema. I was living in the Black Horse in Front Street at the time and ...Read more

A memory of Consett

Belhus Mansion 1957

Being one of the first residents in Belhus Estate (Foyle Drive) I remember the night in 1957 when the fire engines came when the old mansion burned down.

A memory of Aveley in 1957 by Kevin O Donoghue

Best Drop

It was about 1953. Saturday afternoon was a great day down at the Imperial picture house in Newburn. Roy Rogers and Trigger, Gene Autry with his guitar and six guns, Flash Gorden with his ray gun, Batman and his cape. I remember an older ...Read more

A memory of Newburn by Jimmy Burrows

Best Holiday Ever !

My family come from the East End of London. My mum and dad took us on holiday from Chingford on a Grey Green coach to Stoke Fleming for two weeks, we stopped en route in Yeovil for tea.... My parents had booked a caravan ...Read more

A memory of Stoke Fleming in 1956 by Christine Jeffrey

Best Place In The World

I was born in Wallsend in 1951 at the Green and first lived at Rose Hill. Everything about the High Street, the shipyards (Slipway, NE Marine, Swans), the Rising Sun Pit, St Peter's School, the Grammar, the Burn, the ...Read more

A memory of Wallsend in 1951 by Bryan Brooks

Best Year Of My Life

We lived for a year in Middleton Cheney. My great grandfather was from England, but we never looked up relatives. I was only seven, but I remember so much of the town. We would go to market uptown everyday, our milk ...Read more

A memory of Middleton Stoney in 1966 by Lori Smart

Betton A Rural Idyl

I literally stumbled upon this website and have been interested to read the memories of people who lived in Betton, a place well known to me. I lived there as a wartime evacuee in the 1940s, and Marc Chrysanthou's ...Read more

A memory of Market Drayton in 1940 by Edward Gill

Birthplace

I was born in Lound in 1937 and lived there until I was called up for national service December 1957. My grandparents were the last family to farm at East View farm, the farmhouse is now a private house, the land was sold ...Read more

A memory of Lound in 1940 by Kenneth Wagstaff

Bishton 1945 1950

My family moved to Bishton in 1945 when my father began working at Bishton Signal Box. Because of the returning soldiers, few houses were available in the Newport area so we settled at Bank Cottage, Bishton. The cottage ...Read more

A memory of Bishton in 1945 by Bob Stinchcombe

Black Cat Cafe

I was born in Wythenshawe in 1954. My father was the local Policeman, he had a large ramshackle allotment on the junction of Stockport road and Bloomsbury Lane. It was entered by the side of a building which for years was a ...Read more

A memory of Timperley in 1960 by Graham Ingham

Captions

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Caption For Smallhythe, The Village 1900

The ancient harbour of Tenterden, this was once a shipbuilding centre and was visited by Henry VIII in 1538.

Caption For Slaidburn, Church Street 1921

Now very much part of Lancashire, the village of Slaidburn was in Yorkshire at the time of our photograph.

Caption For Charlwood, Place Farm 1904

The Old Mill 1906 This is the brick lower storey of a windmill built around 1800 by a Crawley millwright, Morley, and situated east of the Recreation Ground.

Caption For London, The Houses Of Parliament C1955

A little further north along Albert Embankment we get this wonderful view of the houses of Parliament.

Caption For Rickmansworth, Church Street C1960

Only the tower survives of the original church. The building was rebuilt and restored on a number of occasions, first in 1630 and later in 1870 to a plan by Blomfield.

Caption For Preston, Town Hall 1893

This splendid town hall was burned down in 1947; it was built in the Market Place on the site of the old town hall, which was demolished in 1862.

Caption For Harlaxton, 1890

Gregory Gregory, a bachelor, was probably responsible for as much of the design as his architects, Anthony Salvin and later William Burn, as it rose slowly throughout the 1830s and 1840s.

Caption For Boston, Bargate C1955

This narrow but busy street is located between the Market Place and Wide Bargate, and is for pedestrians only now - the traffic lights have gone.

Caption For Plympton, St Mary's Church 1898

Construction of the Church of St Edward, King and Martyr was commenced in the 14th century but the building was not completed until the late 15th or early 16th centuries.

Caption For Worksop, Canch Walk C1955

Along the north bank of the Canch is a footpath that leads east to Priorswell Road, with the Memorial Gardens on the right bank behind the trees that line it.

Caption For Wakefield, The Rose Gardens, Thornes Park C1953

Next to the gardener's house is the present-day rose garden, with delightful walkways and tropical houses. The last occupant of Thornes House was the Morley MP, Charles Milnes Gaskell.

Caption For Smallhythe, The Village 1900

The ancient harbour of Tenterden, this was once a shipbuilding centre and was visited by Henry VIII in 1538.

Caption For Charlwood, The Old Mill 1906

This is the brick lower storey of a windmill built around 1800 by a Crawley millwright, Morley, and situated east of the recreation ground.

Caption For Gilsland, The Village C1950

Poltross Burn, which flows through the middle of the village, marks the border between Northumberland and Cumbria.

Caption For Abingdon, High Street C1965

We are now further west in The Narrow, as this part of High Street was called. Woolworths, on the site of the Lion Inn, can just be seen beyond the third shop blind.

Caption For Hothfield, Church 1901

Hothfield Place was the seat of the Tufton family, but was pulled down after the Second World War. In the 16th century Sir John Tufton entertained Queen Elizabeth I over two days.

Caption For East Dereham, Market Place 1901

This is the time when Dereham was in its prime.

Caption For Great Eccleston, Cartford Lane C1965

In the 1950s a new and busy road separated the two villages of Little and Great Eccleston.

Caption For Gisburn, Main Street 1921

The River Ribble is one of the major rivers in the north-west of England.

Caption For Manchester, Ship Canal, Grain Elevators C1965

Here we have a fine aerial view of the large No 9 dock and the area around it.

Caption For Standon, High Street C1965

In many a village, the loss of its transport system and main employer in the course of a couple of years would have sounded its death knell; but for Standon the situation could not have been more different

Caption For Easthampstead, Church 1901

Inside this expansive parish church the many signs of the Early English era are manifest in the pulpit, for instance, which is inscribed and dated 1631 on a large arched panel with a good helping

Caption For Hatfield, St Etheldreda's Church C1960

Opposite the old Salisbury Arms public house in Fore Street stands St Etheldreda's church.

Caption For Luton, The Town Hall C1960

The clean forceful lines of the neo- classical new town hall were in marked contrast to its rather sedate and friendly looking predecessor, built by the Luton architects John Williams & Sons