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Memories

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Barnsley Town Hall 1955 The Year I Started To Work There.

I was two weeks short of my 16th birthday, when I started work in the motor tax office which was situated in Barnsley Town Hall. Although we were employed by the Borough Treasurer's ...Read more

A memory of Barnsley in 1955 by Mary Lipscombe

Netherthong Public Houses Part 1

This chapter is a work in progress and as it is more than the 1000 words allowed in this memory, I have split it into 2 sections. The current title is : Public House, inn, alehouse, tavern, pothouse, beer ...Read more

A memory of Netherthong by Michael Meitiner

Wartime Memories Of Hay Part Two

Memories of Hay during the Second World War: Part Two. (Continued from Part One) Thoughts of 'Dad's Army' remind me that the local Home Guard occasionally used Forest Road for some kind of exercise. I've dim ...Read more

A memory of Hay-on-Wye in 1940 by John S. Batts

Wartime Memories Of Hay Part Three Final

Wartime Memories of Hay: Part Three. (Continued) Apart from Ration Books and the coupon implications for restricted purchase of food and clothing, my own recollections of life in Hay during World War ...Read more

A memory of Hay-on-Wye in 1940 by John S. Batts

When My Life Was Innocent And Care Free

I am an American and from 1959 to 1965 my family of seven lived on '9 The Drive', in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England. We were there with my father who was a U.S. Airforce Seargent stationed ...Read more

A memory of Wellingborough in 1960 by Anthony Wynn

Royal Merchant Navy School Bearwood

The Royal Merchant Navy School As far back as 1827 the Royal Merchant Navy School was established under the name of the Merchant Seaman's Orphan Asylum to provide a home for the destitute offspring of ...Read more

A memory of Winnersh by Sylvia Lambert

A Walk From Shotgate Baptist Church To Wick Lane

My name is Kevin Mears, I lived in Wickford from my birth in 1958 until I got married in 1980. I shall describe my memories of Wickford as a couple of walks around the Wickford area. My first ...Read more

A memory of Wickford by Kevin Mears

A Walk From Shotgate Baptist Church To The Nevendon Road Part 2 See Part 1 Below

Continued from Part 1 below. Next to Martins Bank was a record shop, where I remember going with my parents and standing listening to records in the small ...Read more

A memory of Wickford by Kevin Mears

Paignton Was My Crucible 1947

My mother gave life to me in Paignton hospital (now a hospice I believe) in July of this year (1947) and I spent much of my early years in and around this lovely little town. Not so lovely or little now but still ...Read more

A memory of Paignton in 1947 by Peter Chave

A Week To Remember

It was always a sense of adventure searching for new place to visit on our holidays - and certainly we found an idyllic spot just a mile or so outside the town of Cemaes Bay. Mother had been staying with my younger sister ...Read more

A memory of Cemaes Bay in 1976 by Margaret Mosley

Captions

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Caption For Launceston, The Square 1935

It has always been at the centre of town life, hosting hunt balls and providing accommodation for the Sheriff and his men when the Assizes were in session.

Caption For Swindon, Regents Circus 1902

This photograph reflects the prosperity and commerce which the Great Western Railway yards brought to the town.

Caption For Richmond, Friars Wynd 1913

A fragment of the medieval Town Wall, this postern gate allowed the townsfolk to obtain drinking water from springs at the Greyfriars.

Caption For Teignmouth, Whale Bones 1922

These whale bones were brought to the town by a local trader, a reminder of Teignmouth's importance as a port.

Caption For Barnstaple, View From Mount Sandford 1929

The lush fields are clear to see, as is the bridge, Raleigh Cabinet Works, and the estuary.

Caption For Aldershot, Wellington Monument 1891

One of the town's most famous landmarks is Matthew Wyatt's magnificent statue of Wellington on horseback.

Caption For Sheffield, The Botanical Gardens 1893

The Town Trustees agreed to buy the Gardens for £5445 and it was they who undertook a series of improvements.

Caption For Menai Bridge, Suspension Bridge 1891

This elegant suspension bridge, built over the Menai Strait by Thomas Telford as part of his Holyhead Road, gave its name to the little town on the northern side of the narrow strait, between the island

Caption For Waltham Abbey, Town Hall And Highbridge Street 1921

The Town Hall stands on the left of this photograph, which was taken from outside the church and looking down Highbridge Street.

Caption For Bournemouth, The Square 1904

The Square stands at the very heart of the town, astride the River Bourne.

Caption For Swanage, The Beach 1899

Thomas Hardy described Swanage as '…a seaside village, lying snugly within two headlands as between a finger and thumb'.

Caption For Barnstaple, High Street 1894

The town has a long commercial history, and was once the home of many prosperous textile merchants.

Caption For Sheffield, Pinstone Street C1965

Pinstone Street was laid out in the mid-1870s as part of a major development of Sheffield town centre that saw wide well-planned streets replace a hotch-potch of alleyways, small workshops, stables and

Caption For Sheffield, Pinstone Street C1965

Pinstone Street was laid out in the mid-1870s as part of a major development of Sheffield town centre that saw wide well-planned streets replace a hotch-potch of alleyways, small work- shops, stables

Caption For Southend On Sea, Southchurch Hall C1950

The well-known local Dowsett family gave this beautiful moated manor house to the town.

Caption For Upton Upon Severn, Bridge 1904

Upton-on-Severn is a pleasant country town on the right bank of the Severn, some ten miles south of Worcester.

Caption For Wallingford, The Bridge Boat House 1899

On the left of the picture is the long 900-ft bridge of sixteen arches, and on the opposite bank is the Town Arms.

Caption For Falmouth, Penryn From Viaduct 1890

At the top of the town Brunel's Great Western Railway crossed the broad wooded valley on a mighty viaduct.

Caption For Beaminster, 1902

Its name is always pronounced Be'mister as in Barnes's famous poem, and it remains the quaint old market town it always was.

Caption For Sidmouth, High Street 1906

That the area is not disfigured by Victorian brickwork is an indication of how slowly the town developed.

Caption For Bakewell, Bridge Street C1955

This view looks towards the town.

Caption For Castle Donington, Market Street C1955

The photograph is dominated by a brick and stone building typical of its turn-of-the-century date, but in this southern sector of the town earlier houses are to be found, including a stone-faced building

Caption For Menai Bridge, Suspension Bridge 1891

The elegant suspension bridge, built over the Menai Strait by Thomas Telford as part of his Holyhead Road, gave its name to the little town on the northern side of the narrow strait, between the island

Caption For Sheffield, Whirlow Brook Park C1955

In 1946 a joint effort by the Town Trust and the J G Graves Charitable Trust secured the grounds for use as a public park.