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Memories

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Brook Street

My memories of Brook Street from around 1955 through to 1969 are numerous. Schooling at University Place and Brook Street primary, junior and senior school which I left in 1963. From one end to the other I must have ...Read more

A memory of Northumberland Heath in 1957 by John Wilson

Brook Street Junior School, Wordsley

Although I lived in Collis St, Amblecote I went to Brook St, Junior School from 1951 until I went to Audnam Secondary in 1955. I remember it had an infants school attached and the little ones would have a sleep in ...Read more

A memory of Wordsley by Constance Phillips

Brook Green

Hi Peter, I was one of those kids playing 50-a-side football on Brook Green; you and your brothers being older than us. I lived in Lindenhill Road up the hill. There use to be a brook going through the green. Also used to play tincan alley up in front of Admiral.

A memory of Bracknell in 1962

Brook School

I lived at no.3 Naccolt cottages 1940/45 and walked every day to Brook school and remember well the Ms Avery and Cooling , these were the best years of my childhood -- and learnt a lot too ! I have visited a few times since and really not ...Read more

A memory of Brook by shelan92

Brook Side

I lived by the brook as a child and spent time catching sticklebacks which I then brought in to watch TV! The brook used to regularly flood the cottages at ground floor level. But recall many happy times in the village and at the village school.

A memory of Rolleston on Dove

Brookhouse

I used to live at Brookhouse with my parents, great aunt and maternal grand mother. Brookhouse was split into 3 houses at the time (131, 133, 135 Holcolme Road). My grandfather (Thomas Lomax) visited at Christmases and holidays. My ...Read more

A memory of Tottington in 1955 by Jol Martyn Clark

Brooks And Pearson Families

My great great grandmother Selina Brooks was born in Cheap Street, Hunslet, in 1875 to an unmarried mother from London named Elizabeth who already had a toddler son out of wedlock. Her stepfather later became William ...Read more

A memory of Hunslet in 1880 by R K

Brookside [ Was The Old Wool Shop ] Westbrook Street

My mum Olive Mary Broomfield known as Mary, was born at Brookside West Brook Street. Blewbury. It was originally The Old Wool Shop and was run by my grandmother Minnie Alice Broomfield [ nee Brogden ] . My grandfather was Charles Broomfield but always known as Ben.

A memory of Blewbury by melanieriley2

Brooside

I remember when my dad brought a run down derelict building across the road from the New Inn. As a child, a building site was a wonderful play ground. He restored it with oak beams and York stone floors, I only wish we still owned it, ...Read more

A memory of Shalfleet in 1975 by Matthew Martin

Brought Up In Harlow

I moved to Churchfield, Harlow, from London in 1955 and I went to the Spinney School and then onto Markhall in 1963. I had fond memories of Churchfield up until 1969 when my brother Kevin Welsh drowned in an accident in the ...Read more

A memory of Harlow in 1963 by Susan Willett

Captions

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Caption For Beer, The Village 1898

As with so many East Devon villages, a tiny stream - the Beer Brook - runs down the main street, first on one side of the road and then on the other.

Caption For Sutton Coldfield, Penns Hall Hotel, The Interior C1965

It looks horribly dated now, but this was state-of-the-art opulence in 1965.

Caption For Sudbury, St Peter's Church And Market Hill 1900

The red brick building is Lloyd's Bank, dated 1879.

Caption For Alton, The Alton House Hotel 1928

Built in the the 1820s, this house was known as Beckington Place.

Caption For Ockley, The Green 1905

A herd of contented pigs rootle opposite the post office on the green which runs alongside a two-and-a-half mile stretch of the Romans' Stane Street.

Caption For Amberley, The Village C1960

We are in a marshy area—Amberley Wild Brooks, beside the tidal and navigable River Arun.The castle was a fortified manor of the Bishops of Chichester; it was crenellated c1377 to defend the coastal

Caption For Newbury, The Clock Tower From Oxford Road C1955

Buses still use the Broadway and Northbrook Street but today traffic cannot use the section of the latter thoroughfare much beyond Wheelers Garage during the daytime.

Caption For Darwen, Bold Venture Park 1895

An ornate 19th-century fountain graces the park.This is one of three parks in Darwen, all very different.

Caption For Little Baddow, Grace's Walk 1906

This point - where Grace's Walk crosses Sandon Brook - has a ghost-story attached to it: Lady Alice Mildmay (d1615), child-bride of Sir Henry, supposedly drowned herself in a pond here after he was unkind

Caption For Little Baddow, Grace's Walk 1906

This point - where Grace's Walk crosses Sandon Brook - has a ghost story attached to it: Lady Alice Mildmay (d1615), child-bride of Sir Henry, supposedly drowned herself in a pond here after he was unkind

Caption For Bristol, St Mary Redcliffe Church 1887

The magnificent St Mary Redcliffe owes much to the generosity of William Canynge the elder (died 1396), and his grandson William Canynge the younger (1394?

Caption For Warwick, St Mary's Church, Northgate Street 1892

At the time this photograph was taken it cost 2d to go up the tower.

Caption For Mundesley, Brooke Cottage 1921

Brooke Cottage was the place to visit for parents and children alike if they had a sweet tooth, for it was formerly the village sweet shop and store.

Caption For Bozeat, High Street C1955

Road improvements in the 1960s swept away these stone houses to make way for the greater convenience of the motorist.

Caption For Wimborne, River Allen From East Brook Bridge 1908

The clear, shallow and gently-flowing waters of the River Allen, fed by the natural chalk reservoirs of Cranborne Chase, make it an ideal habitat for rushes, and commercial rush-cutting flourished here

Caption For Chatham, Town Hall C1955

Sitting lofty and proud on the road to the famous dockyard, this majestic building, built in 1900, was once the centre of the town's administration until it moved to Strood during an amalgamation of Medway

Caption For Budleigh Salterton, The Beach 1925

This charmingly-situated little watering-place lies in a sheltered valley, and its garden-girt villas are further beautified by a sparkling brook, spanned by numerous rustic bridges.

Caption For Dinas Powys, Mill Road C1960

A product of the increasing urbanisation of Dinas Powis at the close of the 19th century, Mill Road preserves the name of the nearby Mill Farm.

Caption For Selsey, Lifeboat House 1930

The quiet little seaside town of Selsey was once part of a small island.

Caption For Daventry, Sheaf Street C1965

Redevelopment of Daventry began in the early sixties under a scheme to house Birmingham overspill population.

Caption For Warwick, St John's 1892

Following the death of Ambrose Dudley in 1589, Warwick Castle was once again in the hands of the Crown.

Caption For Glastonbury, High Street 1909

A view that has changed more than in the previous two.

Caption For Barry, Broad Street 1899

We are looking towards the corner of Island Road, with Brook and Williams's printers and bookbinder's shop and works on the right; this block of shops later became one of the first department stores in

Caption For Otterton, The Village 1906

Otterton's brook seems to be dry in this photograph, as it sometimes is during long dry summers.