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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

155 Victoria Road Spares And Repares

We lived in Aldershot from 1970 up until the late 1970s early 1980s, we lived in 371 Williams Park. I went to Heron Wood School and loved every minute of it. My best friend was Peter Hedicker who joined 3 ...Read more

A memory of Aldershot in 1870 by Tim Wiltshire

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

1937 Onwards

I have fond memories of Winchmore Hill where I was born in 1937. We lived in Hadley Way till about 1949, then moved to Slades Hill in Enfield. I went to St Pauls School (Mr Gayler) then Minchenden. I well remember The Intimate ...Read more

A memory of Winchmore Hill

1960''s Kidderminster

My dear old hometown. I was 18 when this picture was taken. The Swan pub is on the left, and the Co-Op is where the blinds are. Just around the corner from The Swan was a broad flight of steps leading up into the market ...Read more

A memory of Kidderminster by Malcolm Knowles

1960's Tunnel Memories

I clearly remember these Land Rover "Tunnel Patrol" vehicles although I was only 7 in 1965.  I thought that they were real Police vehicles (were they labelled "Tunnel Police" I wonder?) and I remember being puzzled by the ...Read more

A memory of Birkenhead in 1965 by Brian Jones

1970's Childhood

I too, remember Mr Foden (Church Coppenhall Juniors) along with Mrs Kruger, who used to scare me when she read 'The Hobbit'. Mrs Barker from Broad Street Infants and even before then I remember being at the nursery school next to St ...Read more

A memory of Crewe by Carole Capper (Stretton)

A Day To Remember

Saturday the 8th June 1963 was predicted to be the hottest day of the year thus far. Setting off by coach from Cheltenham were members of a savings club, myself included, bound for Weymouth. Our first stop was for refreshments at ...Read more

A memory of Warminster

A Great Pub

Truly a wonderful pub when managed by Gerald and Edith Leader, before they moved to the Blue Lion on Broad Lane.

A memory of Bracknell in 1955 by Melvyn Ball

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Caption For Troutbeck, Kirkstone Pass C1870

The pass is said to have taken its name from a large rock which looks like a gable end of a church.

Caption For Troutbeck, Kirkstone Pass C1870

The pass is said to have taken its name from a large rock which looks like a gable end of a church.This view looks south towards Troutbeck, with the shoulder of Broad End on the left.

Caption For Troutbeck, Kirkstone Pass C1870

The pass is said to have taken its name from a large rock which looks like a gable end of a church.

Caption For Lyme Regis, The Bay C1955

The Square and Cobb Gate at the seaward end of Broad Street, eastwards from Bell Cliff, with the line-up of parked cars including Rileys, a Hornet soft-top, Jowett, Standard and Austins.

Caption For Newmarket, High Street 1922

This street, broad and uncluttered by traffic, is lined with Georgian and Victorian houses, and dominated by the splendid Victorian clock tower at the far end.

Caption For Water End, The Village C1955

At Water End, the River Gade runs under the fine three-arched bridge and through water meadows shaded by beech, willow and oak trees.

Caption For Castletown, Derby Haven And Fort Island 1897

The southern end of Derby Haven is protected by St Michael's Island with its ruined chapel, Derby fort and battery.

Caption For The Broads, Home At Evening C1900

What a blissful way to get home at the end of the day.

Caption For Oxford, Broad Street 1897

Broad Street is famous throughout Oxford for its assortment of bookshops.

Caption For Truro, Boscawen Street 1923

Cornwall's cathedral city is at the centre of a mining district and sits comfortably in a broad valley, at the junction of the rivers Kenwyn and Allen.

Caption For Marlborough, High Street 1907

The church at the far end of the broad street is St Peter & St Paul's.

Caption For Moreton In Marsh, High Street C1950

The broad High Street is part of the Fosse Way, and is dominated by the Redesdale Market Hall, a fine Victorian Tudor building designed by Sir Ernest George in 1887.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Gun Cliff And Cobb Gate From Back Beach 1890

This view looks south-westwards from Broad Ledge to Long Ledge (foreground) below Gun Cliff to the Guildhall (top right), the Fossil Depot beside Buddle Bridge and the Assembly Rooms (centre), with the

Caption For Headcorn, High Street C1955

Headcorn stands on the River Beult and is a large village with a single broad, straggling street.

Caption For Lyme Regis, The Square C1955

The seaward end of Broad Street was once the hub of Lyme Regis with its old Custom House, until a devastating fire in 1844.

Caption For Reading, The Arcade 1896

Reading's covered market was built in a landlocked site entered via the Corn Exchange from Market Place and the great archway from Broad Street.

Caption For Fritton, From The Parlor 1890

Fritton Lake, like the Broads, originated as a series of peat pits in the medieval period.

Caption For Ormesby, High Street C1965

Compare this view with No O45043, and note the cottage on the right with the broad light-coloured band above the front door running across the house front.

Caption For Somerton, Broad Street 1904

Broad Street is a later medieval planned extension of the market place, which is beyond the end houses.

Caption For Broadstone, The Broadway C1960

Broadstone is named after Broadstone Farm, which in turn took its name from broad stones spanning a stream.

Caption For Brancepeth, The Village 1914

Of all the villages that surround Durham City, old Brancepeth is particularly well steeped in legend and history.

Caption For Teddington, St Alban's Church 1899

In 1865 the Church of St Peter and St Paul on Broad Street was opened; it became independent of the parish in 1880.

Caption For Teddington, St Alban's Church, The Interior 1899

In 1865 the Church of St Peter and St Paul on Broad Street was opened; it became independent of the parish in 1880.

Caption For Hemel Hempstead, View From Adeyfield Road C1960

During the 18th century, the roads Cherry Bounce, Chapel Street, Bell Road (now St Mary's Road), and George Street were all developing on the east side of the of the High Street and were in