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780 memories found. Showing results 61 to 70.

Moulds My Dad's Old Shop

After the war Dad found work as an assistant in a long established family-run department store called Moulds. Situated in Leatherhead High Street, it was an imposing sort of place with double glass doors set well back from ...Read more

A memory of Leatherhead by Brian Simmons

Even More "Ramblings" From A Barking Boy.

My fourth set of memories carries on with shops in Barking. Previously I had recalled those along from Fanshawe Avenue to the station. Over the other side past Cambridge Road was Lloyds bank on the corner, my ...Read more

A memory of Barking by geoff.purdy

William H Johnson's Memories Of New Waltham Primary School In The 1930's

I lived in Station Road from 1932 to 1943 and attended the Primary School until 1935. I walked to school and remember often having to wait for trains at the level crossing. ...Read more

A memory of New Waltham by whj

Memories Of A Stubbington House Scoolboy

I am responding to a memory placed here by Peter Madden in 2010 - which I have just spotted. I was intrigued to read Peter Madden's memory of Stubbington. I was a contemporary of Peter's and recall that ...Read more

A memory of Stubbington

Denbigh Road Schools Luton

I attended Denbigh Road school in 1944 at the age of five and had advanced to both junior and senior schools by the age of twelve. My sister Margaret took me in on my first day but I was not too keen on staying as I ...Read more

A memory of Luton by ducatee

Bobby Rab

I remember Bobby Rab and his roan & white Clydesdale horse that pulled the big cart with Bobby Rab sitting on it. They worked for Murray Forrest the coal merchant in Beresford terrace and delivered coal. They could be seen in Burns ...Read more

A memory of Ayr by Mrs Morna Wilson

V2 Missile Strike At Braughing During Ww2

My great friend Mr Vernon Blyth passed away in 2017 (Vernon Frederick Raymond Blyth 15/02/28- 31/01/17). In the year prior to Vernon’s death, I made a short video with him. In this he relates being ...Read more

A memory of Braughing by Ian Mason

Wood End

I lived in Wood End Lane until rather late in life really. Moved out of the family home when I was 29 and moved to Ruislip. I went to Wood End Nursery, infants and Junior Boys school, then moved to Horsenden Secondary Boys School. Both ...Read more

A memory of Northolt by c_bovingdon

Before The Fire.

We moved into 1Greenhill Rise in 1958 when it was the very edge of town, the United counties bus turned around next to the house. We watched the building all around us and watched them build St Andrews, it was directly across the street ...Read more

A memory of Corby

1940s And 50s

I was born in 1942 and lived in Ovington Grove behind The Lonnen. My memories would fill several books, but for starters:- the Regal; Quadrini's; Number 2 blue bus; Holy Cross Church; Cowgate then Wingrove Schools; playing football ...Read more

A memory of Fenham by David Kemp

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