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Brief Memories Of My First School: Noak Hill

It was 1947, when my parents were told they would be able to move from their one room in a house to a Prefab in Harold Hill. My mother was pregnant. You didn't start school until you were 5. The closest ...Read more

A memory of Noak Hill by hilsidkay

Mitcham County Grammar School For Boys

Mitcham County Grammar School for Boys Remembered Memory is a selective thing, the best is easy, but the mind glosses over the worst. Some things recollected as certainties turn out to be not quite so. These are ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham by Jack Simmons

1950s Rosenau Rd.

Hi, I was born in 1946 at the South London Hospital for Women and lived for a while at 15 Etruria St. Battersea, it was near Dogs Home Bridge and Battersea Power Station, where my dad, Charlie Jones worked. Soon we ...Read more

A memory of Battersea by kenjones8

Wrotham Road

Yes, I used to go to Wrotham Road for rock & roll, they were the early days from 1960 to 1963 and it was the meeting place for the lads. I remember taking a break from dancing and going into the Lord Kitchener pub Friday night ...Read more

A memory of Welling in 1960 by Christopher Smith

The Wrong Guy

There at the time when Cawthorne was a tour operator and whether it was coincidence or not the tour operator was called Harry Cawthorne coach tours. I do believe that they were an established firm; it could well be that the village ...Read more

A memory of Gawber in 1952 by Roland Mitchell

My Memories

I am now 53. My parents and I moved to Erith from Suffolk in 1967/68. I remember the old Erith pre concrete jungle. I never really let the old town go. The damage the new building did to the town is only known now. It was not a very ...Read more

A memory of Erith in 1967 by Les Meech

Evacuee

My Grandmother rented a cottage (Era Goch) during the war and I went to live with her as a sort of evacuee. I used to attend the one room school in Dwyran. I played with my friends on the beach. I don't know how we did not drown as we would ...Read more

A memory of Dwyran in 1940 by Joyce Sheard

Halls Of Galmpton

The Hall family lived scattered about Devon since the late 1600's, from what I can gather. In the 1850's to the 1890's they seemed to settle around Galmpton and Dittisham, later into Torquay and beyond. My GGG Grandfather ...Read more

A memory of Galmpton in 1860 by Quentin Hall

Happy Memories

I worked in the Hotel Continental in the very hot summer of 1976 with 3 friends. It was a glorious summer season and the sun shone endlessly, so we spent many lazy days (between work shifts!) on the beach. We danced into the early ...Read more

A memory of Mundesley in 1976 by Jennifer Morgan

My Love Of Brynowen Continues

I do not remember my first visit to Borth as I would have been a few months old around about the spring of 1963. As a family we then returned every year staying at Brynowen, sometimes twice a year, until I turned 18 at ...Read more

A memory of Borth in 1963 by Andy Scott

Captions

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Caption For East Clandon, The Village 1904

Fifteen children have been neatly assembled by the photographer in front of the brick and half-timbered cottages that comprised this small village – it was originally called Clandon Abbots.

Caption For Kettering, Montague Street C1955

Further down, past a wool shop, is the large brick-built Kettering Conservative Club, built on a site donated by the Duke of Buccleuch in 1876.

Caption For Woodford Halse, The Post Office C1965

Church Street and the roads off to the left are part of a grid of Victorian brick, terraced, straight streets.

Caption For Tattershall, Buttercross C1955

The railings have gone, as have the brick wall and the trees behind it.

Caption For Cosby, The Brook C1965

To the right of the photograph is a row of uninteresting 19th/20th-century houses; to the left, and of an earlier era, is a three-story, three-bay brick farmhouse, so common in Leicestershire villages.

Caption For Ascot, Church 1901

This modest building of red brick is attributed to T H Rushworth and was built in about 1864.

Caption For Odiham, The Stocks 1903

A four-hour period in the stocks was the usual reward for misdemeanours such as blasphemy, drunkenness, vagrancy or breaking the Sabbath.

Caption For Wallasey, Capitol Roundabout C1960

The road directly ahead is now pedestrianised with attractive brick and stone flag walkways, benches, trees and ornate lanterns draped with flower baskets.

Caption For Preston, The Harris Institute C1955

At this point it is the Art College, and the rock-pop era is about to break in on our rather sedate photograph.

Caption For Beckhampton, Beckhampton Stables C1955

To the left are round barrows breaking the now contracted sky line, the wandering bunches of sheep, the wheeling plovers, the friendly white-tailed wheatears, and the skylarks innumerable filling

Caption For Elham, High Street C1960

Some are of brick, and others are half-timbered, with their upper storeys jutting out on carved brackets.

Caption For Pinner, High Street C1955

The remainder of the buildings have changed little, including an excellent early 18th-century brick-fronted house halfway up the hill.

Caption For Huttoft, The Church C1960

The church is a curious mix of greenstone and limestone giving a patchwork quilt effect, while the chancel is in brick.

Caption For Wainfleet, Woolpack Hotel C1955

Just off Market Place is the Wainfleet School of 1484, now the public library, another of Lincolnshire's medieval brick buildings, a long first floor hall with giant polygonal towers flanking the west

Caption For Leicester, The Town Hall C1950

After the piped water and the sewers came the benevolent face of bureaucracy in the new brick-faced Town Hall, designed by local architect F J Hames in 1876 in a friendly yet impressive Queen Anne

Caption For Chilham, Old Wives' Lees 1908

His brick Jacobean mansion, Chilham Castle, allegedly designed by Inigo Jones, stands on the west side of the Square at Chilham itself.

Caption For Ollerton, Thoresby Hall, The Queen Victoria Room C1965

To the north of the house Warner's have built a brick and stone-dressed bedroom block and a spa and health club.

Caption For Northampton, Park Avenue Methodist Church C1960

These architects had a prolific practice building non-conform- ist churches in a late Gothic style, usually in hard red brick with stone dressings, as here.

Caption For Sudbury, King Street C1955

The two brick buildings on the left are now Huffer's and Mill House Fabrics.

Caption For Rickmansworth, Bury House 1897

This view is of the west front of this attractive house which, beneath its roughcast facade of about 1800, is a mid 17th-century house with a late 16th-century parlour wing; the three brick stacks probably

Caption For Thetford, The Grammar School 1921

The school is a beautiful knapped flint and brick structure, and so is its surrounding wall; it was built in 1876.

Caption For Boston, Hussey Tower 1893

This mid 15th-century brick tower, here seen in rural tranquillity with cattle grazing, now sits amid football pitches near Boston College's Rochford Campus.

Caption For Shackleford, Village 1906

mixture of houses in different styles, as evidenced here by the creeper-clad building on the right, the tall-chimneyed cottages with their neatly trimmed hedges at the crossroads, and the weatherboard and brick

Caption For Portsmouth, The Floating Bridge, Crossing To Gosport 1898

In 1862 she became a boys' training ship, a role she fulfilled until 1906 when she was sent for breaking up.