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 Totternhoe, the Village 1897 (ref. 39754) | An air of tranquillity pervades this pretty scene with its unmetalled road, and it could almost be a photograph of modern Totternhoe. Certainly, many of the houses in the village are thatched, and are constructed in the same way as the house in the foreground. Totternhow Knolls is the name given to the remains of Totternhoe Castle, a Norman motte and bailey built over Saxon remains. |  Add your own Memory Add to your Album |
 Turvey, Village 1897 (ref. 39970) | Turvey village owes its character to estate building, much of it by the Higgins family, whose Castle Ashby-style mausoleum of about 1847 is in the churchyard. The tall terraced cottages on the right are in their simpler vernacular style, while the school and halls are Tudor in style, with stone mullioned and transomed windows. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Cookham, High Street 1908 (ref. 61017) | Cookham will forever be associated with the artist Stanley Spencer, who died in 1959. The former Methodist chapel is now a gallery devoted to his work. The village, which stands opposite Cliveden Woods, is also famous for a sarsen boulder known as the Tarry Stone, which has occupied different positions in the High Street over the years. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Goring, Village 1899 (ref. 42991) | Goring is a riverside village lying between the beech-clad hills of the Chilterns and the windswept slopes of the Berkshire Downs. The inn covered in ivy on the left of the photograph is the Miller of Mansfield, a famous pub in the Thames Valley. The coming of the railway and Goring's close proximity to the river helped put the village on the map around the turn of the century. The village is a pleasing mixture of brick and flint thatched cottages. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Pangbourne, the Village 1910 (ref. 62218) | Pangbourne is home to the famous Nautical College, established on top of a hill in the village in 1917. The village was fashionable during the Edwardian era as a residential and holiday resort, and its station on the Great Western Railway widened its appeal. The ancient Ridgeway passes close by. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Pangbourne, the Bridge and the Old George 1899 (ref. 42998) | Here a carter waits patiently while his horse rests and drinks from the river under the bridge. In the background is the Old George. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Streatley, the Village 1904 (ref. 52933) | Streatley lies at the junction of several major routes as they converge on the Goring Gap. This peaceful unmetalled street is now the busy A329; the B4009 Newbury road emerges between the Bull at Streatley public house on the left and the Georgian Elm House just beyond. The characters in Jerome K Jerome's 'Three Men in a Boat' are said to have lunched at the Bull. The 'Wells' grocer's sign survives today, but the shop is now a private house. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Waddesdon, the Five Arrows Hotel 1901 (ref. 47469) | Baron Rothschild transformed a bare hilltop near Aylesbury into a wooded park, crowned with a spectacular French-style chateau. In the valley he built Waddesdon, an estate village. On the left is the Five Arrows Hotel, a splendid Arts and Crafts building with elaborate moulded brick chimneys, built in 1887. The five arrows was the badge of the five Rothschild brothers. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Wooburn Town, the Village 1910 (ref. 62231) | These 19th-century facades fronted older buildings. No longer shops, they have been decked out with modern leaded casements and bow windows. To the right behind the tree (now gone) is the wall to the churchyard. Although the medieval manor house of the D'Eyncourt family was demolished in the 1920s for road widening, the fine parish church remains. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Ellington, Village 1906 (ref. 55436) | With just a sprinkling of snow, this delightful scene could very easily make a traditional Christmas card! Ellington's church is mentioned in the Domesday Survey of 1086, but the oldest surviving part dates back to the 13th century. The spire was restored in 1899, and the nave roof a year after this photograph was taken. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Grantchester, High Street c1955 (ref. G44005) | A thatcher is at work repairing the thatch around a deep-cut dormer window. The poet Rupert Brooke lived in this picturesque village. Serving at the front in the First World War, Brooke wrote a short poem called 'The Soldier'; surely he had Grantchester in mind when he composed these lines: 'If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England ...' | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Grantchester, the Village 1929 (ref. 81768) | C ottages with steep, tumbling thatched roofs abound in this view of the village street. At this time Trumpington was a village separate from the city of Cambridge. Although only visible from its sign in this photograph, the Green Man is a magnificent timbered public house. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Eccleston, the Ferry 1895 (ref. 36454) | Eccleston is a few miles up the River Dee from Chester. Here the river charts a more leisurely course as it makes its way to the sea. This photograph shows the chain-operated flat-decked ferry; it was attached to both sides of the river and winched across. Horses, carts, wagons and coaches could be carried, and the basic fare was 1d. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Prestbury, High Street 1896 (ref. 37439) | The tower of St Peter's church can just be seen above the roofs on the right-hand side of the picture. In the churchyard lies the grave of Maria Rathbone, a little girl who died having lost her way home, and whose body was recovered several weeks later as the result of a dream by a stranger. The village is renowned for its famous half-timbered Priest's House, which is thought to date from the 14th century. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Norton, Pond and Village Green c1955 (ref. N69004) | Hardly any changes have occurred here; the custodians of Norton's past are determined to protect it for future generations. Norton was lucky in that it escaped the worst ravages of industry. There was a tannery on the Green, and a glue factory, but agriculture was always the mainstay of the village. A legend is still told here about the hound of Blakestone. By accident he was supposed to have led a pack of hounds to their deaths over the edge of a quarry, and the ghost is said to reappear to stop a similar accident happening again. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Staithes, Church Street 1925 (ref. 79004) | As with several other fishing villages along the Yorkshire coast, Staithes clings alpine-like to the sides of steep cliffs and ravines. Though the old man could be delivering milk, yokes were also used for carrying all manner of things up the steep streets. During the 19th century, Staithes was a fishing port of some standing, being a centre for cod, haddock and mackerel. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Cadgwith, the Village 1911 (ref. 63994) | A fish seller or 'jouster' loads his trap with baskets packed with the latest catch. He will tour the local villages, travelling perhaps as far as Helston on the Lizard with his wares. These thatched granite cottages have turned their backs to the weather and the comfortless winds off the open seas. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Coverack, 1911 (ref. 64004) | Gently winds the lane down between stone banks towards this picturesque fishing village of whitewashed cottages and bright spring flowers. Out in the bay a mile and a half from the shore are the dreaded Manacles, a reef that has been the downfall of many a ship down the centuries. A steamer puffs placidly by. Coverack men were infamous for smuggling, and early coastguards reported that '7,000 ankers of brandy' had been run ashore in a single 12-month period. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Downderry, 1894 (ref. 34895) | The house on the right, outside which the rather formidable-looking woman is standing, is reputed to be the oldest in Downderry. The subject of her conversation with the equally stern-looking woman with the donkey cart is probably not last night's party. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Cotherstone, Village 1898 (ref. 41444) | Cotherstone lies between Lartington and Romaldkirk, and was once a grange belonging to Egglestone Abbey. The abbey was founded by the Premonstraterians; they were an order noted for preferring secluded areas, both for building their religious houses and for rearing their sheep. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
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