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Glades End, Surf Crescent

Eastchurch cliffs My parents bought a plot of land on the Eastchurch cliffs in the 1940s and my father designed and had built our bungalow called Glades End in Surf Crescent. At this time, there were very few buildings on ...Read more

A memory of Eastchurch in 1953 by Susan Copeman

V2 Rocket Dropped On Hatley Avenue

Late in Feb 1945 (I think it was the 25th) I was at Geary's school when during the dinner break a neighbour of my own age Sheila Solomon told me that my house had been bombed. At the time I lived at 39 ...Read more

A memory of Barkingside in 1945 by John Zammit

Waiting For The Bus

To the right of this picture, on the High Street was the town hall. For seven years I waited there every morning for the Jump Circular bus, or if I missed it the Rotherham bus to take me into Barnsley where I was at the then ...Read more

A memory of Hoyland in 1961 by David Webster

Wonderful Memories Of Kessingland

My father was born in Kessingland in 1915 and as little children my sister, brother and me would go regularly to visit my grandparents there. They ran a grocery shop in Chapel/Church Road, the first house from ...Read more

A memory of Kessingland in 1953 by Sue Robertson Danells

My Youth In Thornley

I was born at 128 Thornlaw, North Thornley. I am one of 8 children. My perants where Mr & Mrs Coles, Mary Ellen & Eric. My brother's names, Eric, Charles, Lawrance and Joseph. Sisters are Margaret, Mary, Pauline and ...Read more

A memory of Thornley in 1963 by Pauline Bagnall

Kennards, Grants And Allders

I was born in 1950, and only left when I married in 1973. I remember the donkey rides in Kennard Arcade in the 50's - they had little bells on their harnesses and for sixpence you could have a ride which seemed like for ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1955 by Rosie Lee

Growing Up

I was born on the 24th of July 1929 above a shop next to a pub called the Rose of Denmark, in Hotwells, Bristol, very convenient for Father to wet his whistle and my head at the same time. Father was born in 1893, Mother in 1895. They ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1930 by Arthur Cottrell

My Wedding

I was married in St Leonards and St Marys Church, Armthorpe, on 26 December 1963. My husband was Reg Ford from Balby. We worked together at Peglers Ltd, Brassfounders, Balby. We emigated to New Zealnd in 1965, through the Peglers ...Read more

A memory of Armthorpe in 1963 by Linda Norton Barker

Part 10

And the upper floor as the church for worship. This remained like this until approx 1880 when the old primary school was built. (This is now demolished and turned into a housing estate). Between the junior and senior school ...Read more

A memory of Middle Rainton in 1945 by John Harvey

Growing Up In Sutton

We lived at no 6 Greenfields, Sutton. My nan lived at four with my grandad Tom - in fact it was my family which helped forge Sutton village. I remember many families; Mr and Mrs Harland who ran the village shop, ...Read more

A memory of Sutton by Giles Mceachern

Captions

388 captions found. Showing results 337 to 360.

Caption For Brixton, Angell Town From The South C1965

Nearly all the villas have since been demolished and replaced by four-storey council flats in yellow stock brick.

Caption For Palmers Green, Broomfield House, Broomfield Lane C1965

Through the 16th century, and into the 17th, rooms were added; in c1820 the brick wing clearly visible in the photograph was built.

Caption For Wrexham, Town Hall In High Street 1895

The town developed fast during the 19th century, and became an important centre for brick and tile manufacture.

Caption For Smallhythe, The Village 1900

The half-timbered house on the left was the Priest's House, and it stands beside a small church which was rebuilt in brick after being burned down in 1514.

Caption For Darwen, Bold Venture Park 1896

Built of local brick with wide stone viewing balconies, it is modelled on the bell-tower of St Marks Square in Venice, and it took fourteen years to build.

Caption For Leeds, Infirmary 1894

This imposing brick building was built in the Gothic style to the design of George Gilbert Scott in 1868.

Caption For Aylesbury, Church Street C1960

The brick front dates from 1739, and is a re-fronting of a mid 16th-century timber-framed house by Thomas Hickman, a native of Aylesbiry born in 1695.

Caption For Byfield, The Village C1960

The 1905 primary school is on the left beside the Ford Consul, next to a pair of 1920s brick houses.

Caption For Wokingham, St Sebastian's Church, Nine Mile Ride 1910

The building is of red and blue brick diapering, and it has a small bell turret with Jacobean balusters.

Caption For Hemingford Abbots, Village C1955

On the right of the tree, the low tiled building is the Forge (now Forge Cottage), whilst the brick-fronted houses are the delightfully named April and May Cottages.

Caption For Lechlade, The Old Market Place C1950

The 18th-century stone building of the Lion pub looks snug, and the 3-storey red brick New Inn can be glimpsed on the corner.

Caption For Kempston, The Mill C1955

Semi-derelict; a collection of rusting iron and crumbling brick, its former glories (few) were well hidden.

Caption For Norwich, Old Cow Tower And The River Wensum 1891

This massive medieval structure, formed of flint and ruddy Dutch bricks, squats close by the river, near Bishop Bridge.

Caption For Barkway, High Street C1965

The building on the right with the tall brick chimneys is the Reading Room, erected in the 1860s to provide a respectable meeting place for the young men of the village.

Caption For Southend On Sea, Southchurch Hall, The Lake C1950

the de Southchurch family.The central hall is open to the roof beams.A Tudor extension was added to the west of the building in 1560.Here we have an excellent view of part of the moat around the brick

Caption For Minehead, Church Town 1929

Most were enlarged upwards, with bedrooms added, their little semi- dormer windows breaking the line of eaves.

Caption For Rickmansworth, Church Street 1897

On the right, all the red brick cottages went about 1900 to be replaced by the buildings seen in view 49245.

Caption For Crouch End, Clock Tower And Broadway C1965

The quirky terracotta and brick Clock Tower was designed by F G Knight 1805.

Caption For Ruislip, High Street C1955

Not many years ago, in an unprepossessing house off the High Street, a timber-framed building of the 17th century was found, quite by accident, wrapped in its 1930s brick overcoat.

Caption For Otford, The Archbishops Palace 1895

Built by Archbishop Warham in the early 16th century, this small manor house, consisting of a three-storey brick tower, a gallery (later turned into cottages), and the single-storey storehouse beyond

Caption For Quorn, Cross C1965

The battlemented tower of St Bartholomew's (left) just shows above the row of rather good brick and tile cottages, into which the post office has been thrust.

Caption For Corby, High Street C1955

It is a curious contrast of building styles, ranging from the fine thatched stone house dated 1609 in the distance to the mundane brick of John Manners Ltd, now an engineering supplies store.

Caption For Quorn, Cross C1965

The battlemented tower of St Bartholomew's (left) just shows above the row of rather good brick and tile cottages, into which the post office has been thrust.

Caption For Durham, Market Place C1915

This wonderful photograph shows a beautiful convertible car, probably belonging to one of the landed gentry; the two delivery men enjoy a break whilst their horses tuck into their nosebags; and the little