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Maps

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1898, Broad Town Ref. RNE650829
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1899, Broad Town Ref. HOSM39002
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Memories

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Written While I Can Still Remember .

My name is Bernard Hagon I was born 1933 in city Road maternity home which had a direct hit during the war everybody killed . My parents had the British Empire in Barking Road Plaistow a Taylor Walker’s house just ...Read more

A memory of Calmore by bernard.hagon

16 In 1966 Croydon

In 1966 my first job was as an office junior for the Bought Leger Department at Findus for Nestle on the 18th floor. One of my jobs was to open the post and someone sent in their false teeth because they had bitten into a fish ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by triciariver50

18 Happy Years

We moved into Avon Carrow in November 1991, just after the M40 motorway had been extended to Warwick, and started the most rewarding living experience of our mature lives. The Carrow has an interesting history for such a ...Read more

A memory of Avon Dassett in 2009 by Ian Hiley

18castle Street

I was living in Castle Street at number 18 when this photo was taken. I remember the hunt gathering in the car park opposite on Boxing Day and the bakers on the road down to Tungstate where mum would get me and my sister an iced bun, and playing in the castle grounds on my scooter.

A memory of Guildford in 1965 by Bob Whitehead

1970s Allington

I moved to 71 Hildenborough Crescent, Allington, Maidstone, Kent in 1973 aged 10 years old. In the nine years I lived there I saw many changes. Parts of Allington were still being built. There were no houses built in between the ...Read more

A memory of Allington by Andrew Parker

A Life Of Cockney Wit And Humour

Hi Guys , Another piece of East End literature from Vic B , I was thinking back the other day of the things that made me laugh as a youngster growing up in the East End although it must have applied to the whole ...Read more

A memory of South Hackney by vickyb60

A Long Line Of Pennies

I'm Not sure whether that was the actual date but as a child of five I recall my mother standing on the top step of our home where she would watch me go over the brow of the bridge on Midland Road on my way to ...Read more

A memory of Royston in 1954 by Roland Mitchell

A Million Miles From A Game Of Football.

I wrote this piece for a writing group exercise in April/May 2019, near my home in NE Scotland. LIttle did I know then that some of the memories would form part of my Mum's Eulogy just three months later. The ...Read more

A memory of Wembley by shea.carol

A Pool Of Evocative Tears

I was 8 years old when this picture was taken. It is hard to express how evocative this innocuous little picture is to me. Is that a box of tissues on the right?. Well this picture really set me off blubbing. At this ...Read more

A memory of Barnehurst in 1955 by jeanhaedicke

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

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 in the 1960s and 1970s as a couple of walks ...Read more

A memory of Wickford by Kevin Mears

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Captions

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Caption For Sidmouth, Milford Road 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.

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.

Caption For Ipswich, On The River Orwell 1909

A sailing barge makes its way along the Orwell, with lush wooded hillsides coming down to meet the broad tidal mudflats at the water's edge.

Caption For Ryde, Union Street 1913

A fine view down the length of Union Street in the last peaceful days before the First World War.

Caption For Broad Hinton, The White Horse C1955

The Broad Hinton (or Hackpen) white horse is on Hackpen Down between Avebury and Swindon on the Marlborough Downs.

Caption For Broad Hinton, The White Horse C1955

The Broad Hinton (or Hackpen) white horse is on Hackpen Down between Avebury and Swindon on the Marlborough Downs.

Caption For Sidmouth, Sid Vale Dairy 1906

Sidmouth nestles in a broad valley where the pastoral countryside of East Devon sweeps down to the sea.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Broad Street C1905

Broad Street is the town's most fashionable shopping street, though the busy traffic of today prevents dogs lying down in the road!

Caption For Somerton, Broad Street C1960

Somerton was once a thriving medieval town with fairs, markets, trade and inns.

Caption For Lyme Regis, The Smithy 1909

Broad Street is the town's most fashionable shopping street, though the busy traffic of today prevents dogs lying down in the road!

Caption For Wroxham, The Broads 1902

This broad is almost a mile long, and at this part of it the dinghy passengers and the cattle are enjoying a quiet moment.

Caption For Bude, The Town 1929

With its shallow sandy bays, broad grassy downs, civic gardens, and terraces of unpretentious lodging houses, Bude is almost completely an Edwardian construction.

Caption For Westbourne, The Beach 1918

Spacious houses and hotels are situated around a dramatic woodland chine leading down to the sea.

Caption For Lyme Regis, The Square C1955

We are looking down on The Square from Middle Row at the bottom of Broad Street.

Caption For Wimborne, West Borough 1936

Here we have a long view down a broad Wimborne street, with the towers of the Minster in the distance.

Caption For Westbourne, Herbert Home 1892

Westbourne, on the west side of Bournemouth, retains a village atmosphere even today, with spacious houses and hotels situated around an attractive woodland chine leading down to the sea.

Caption For Gorleston, The Sands 1894

A young man enjoys the broad prospect of Gorleston sands from the worn and pocked cliff.

Caption For Penzance, Market Jew Street 1920

This, the most westerly town in England, has been raided down the centuries by Spanish ships and by pirates.

Caption For Truro, Victoria Place 1897

This bustling scene reveals the pressures for change that beset the Victorian provincial town in the 1890s.

Caption For Bingley, Boating On The Aire 1923

The River Aire cuts a winding course through broad pastures, stony valleys and bustling industrial areas on its way to join the Ouse and the open sea at Asselby Island.

Caption For Low Row, General View C1960

We are looking east down the broad, U-shaped valley of Swaledale from the oddly-named village of Low Row.

Caption For Filey, North Beach C1960

Filey is a popular coastal resort, and its broad bay runs down from the prominent coastal feature of Filey Brig jutting out into the North Sea.

Caption For Horning, The Queen Of The Broads 1934

A pleasure steamer, the 'Queen of the Broads', crowded with tourists and well equipped with life belts, ploughs her way round the wide bend of the river Bure and down towards the sea.

Caption For Ludham, A Spring Morning At The Staithe C1931

The crews of the three motor launches are preparing their vessels, and in the background a sailing cruiser has already departed down river.