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My Home Town 1947 1969

I was born in Liebenrood Road Maternity Hospital Reading in 1947 and for my first 5 years I lived in Salisbury Road, moving to Whitley until I left in 1969. I remember as a young child having many photographs taken at ...Read more

A memory of Reading by Wendy Fegan

Valentines Park Ilford Gants Hill

Hi there. I'll always have fond memories of Valentines Park, those beautiful swans and Canadian cygnets at the Cranbrook Road end, Gants Hill Odeon, library, the bird cage in Valentines Park, the boat lakes, the ...Read more

A memory of Ilford by bevjoemorris

More Ramblings From A Barking Boy

My first posting concentrated on my birth and school life in Barking, next a little about different memories of my early life. I lived in the prefabs in Ilford Lane on the corner with Victoria road, a few more yards ...Read more

A memory of Barking by geoff.purdy

Music

We lived on Higher Rose Row and could see the back of the church from our back garden. My singing teacher, Donald Broad was the organist there and he organised concerts which were a great introduction to more classical music that widened my ...Read more

A memory of Redruth by hilary.bag

Growing Up In Stanford Le Hope And Corringham 1960 To 1976

When I was born in Chelmsford Hospital, my family were living in a house in Corringham Road, Stanford-le-Hope but my first memories are of 66 Billet Lane. Right opposite what was ...Read more

A memory of Stanford-le-Hope by Gail Taplin

Childhood Memories

In the 1940s and 1950s as a young lad and then teenager, I used to spend my summer holidays with my grand parents who lived at 171 St. Helens Road Hastings. I have very fond memories of Hastings in general and in particular of ...Read more

A memory of Hastings by toebrown

Growing Up As A Boy In Stubbins

I was born at 12 Ashwood Avenue on Peel Brow estate Ramsbottom in 1952. My father after being demobbed from the eighth army in 1945 had always and continued to work in cotton mills. In 1960 ...Read more

A memory of Stubbins by david

Gravesend Shops Etc

Does anyone remember Papas Icecream where they opened the front window of their house to serve the most delicious ice-cream. I know it was a road off Queen Street near the market. What lovely markets Gravesend used to have to. ...Read more

A memory of Gravesend by nita_luce

Boston Manor Part 3

Next to the underground depot on the Boston Road was a litte shop called The Acorn. It sold sweetss etc. On the other side of the line where offices are now was Boston Bumps. This was a piece of waste land where we rode our track ...Read more

A memory of Brentford by Nick Beard

A Boarder's Thoughts From The '60s

What an unexpected but pleasant surprise to have come across this picture of Pennthorpe Preparatory School in Rudgwick. Ironically I left the year it appears to have been taken and I remember my dormitory was on the ...Read more

A memory of Rudgwick by Ian Ward

Captions

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Caption For Hickling, Broad C1965

A large broad exposed to the cold east wind, Hickling can appear grey and unfriendly on a bleak day, but on sunny summer days it provides an exhilarating sail.

Caption For Staindrop, Raby Castle C1955

Built round an internal courtyard, Raby's defences included inner and outer curtain walls surrounded by a broad ditch.

Caption For Harlow, Broad Walk C1960

The many prams and push-chairs were a typical sight in Harlow, leading to its nickname 'Pram Town'.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Parade 1912

Beyond are Madeira Cottage and the Assembly Rooms (centre right).

Caption For Ashford, Lower High Street C1965

The broad expanse of what had been Ashford's original market place and a rendezvous for Kent's sheep and cattle farmers had, by the mid 1950s, been bisected by a central traffic reservation and new road

Caption For Norwich, Thorpe Reach 1899

Wherries carried both passengers and freight all around the rivers and broads of Norfolk.

Caption For Aberdovey, From The Sands 1901

This view looks across the broad expanse of firm sands to a goods train, which is probably carrying slate on the now-vanished harbour branch of the railway.

Caption For Ainsdale, Station Road C1965

Station Road, though quite short in length, still manages to achieve a broad mix of shops and dwelling houses.

Caption For The Broads, A Greengrocer On The Broads C1945

These enterprising retailers are taking advantage of a captive market on the Broads.

Caption For Reading, Broad Street C1965

By the 1960s there has been much rebuilding, but Broad Street is still recognisable.

Caption For Hungerford, High Street 1903

Famous for its many antique shops, which line the broad High Street, Hungerford was given a fishing charter and a brass drinking-horn by John of Gaunt (the Duke of Lancaster), who granted fishing

Caption For Woolacombe, The Bay 1911

Barricane Beach is behind the camera, and we see the broad expanse of Woolacombe sands stretching away south towards Croyde.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Broad Street C1955

The film version, which starred Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons, was filmed here in the 1980s.

Caption For Ludlow, Broad Street 1923

Broad Street was described by Nikolaus Pevsner as 'one of the most memorable streets in England'.

Caption For Church Crookham, The Village 1910

The premises of Mellersh & Son, grocers, can be seen over on the left of this picture.

Caption For Llanfairfechan, The Sands 1890

This pleasant stone-built Victorian seaside resort clusters beneath the steep craggy slopes of the coastal mountains on Conwy Bay, and looks across the broad eastern approaches of the Menai Strait to Anglesey

Caption For Stoborough, Kings Arms Hotel C1955

Both public house and petrol station prospered with the increasing volume of traffic on a road that the Edwardian topographer Sir Frederick Treves had described as 'a delightful walk'.

Caption For Launceston, Newport 1911

This broad junction is now occupied by a mini-roundabout, but in 1911 it appears that nobody was too bothered about which side of the unmade road traffic chose to use.

Caption For Launceston, Newport 1911

This broad junction is now occupied by a mini-roundabout, but in 1911 it appears that nobody was too bothered about which side of the unmade road traffic chose to use.

Caption For Appledore, Quay 1923

This charming Devon fishing village lies alongside the broad waters of the Torridge River, which swings left just beyond the point to join the Taw and the open sea.

Caption For The Broads, 1902

Norfolk folk were sailing on the winding, slow-flowing rivers and angling and wild fowling on the Broads well before holidaymakers from outside the area discovered its virtues in the late 1870s.

Caption For Barry, Windsor Road 1899

Lord Windsor, Chairman of Barry Docks and Railway Company, gave this road its name.

Caption For Frome, Quaint Stone Houses C1950

These late 19th-century houses were in Broad Street, and were demolished during the Trinity clearances in the early 1960s.

Caption For Sidmouth, Fore Street 1918

The River Sid starts its short journey to the sea amidst the high land at Broad Down and Farway; here the Bronze Age inhabitants of East Devon buried their dead.