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Little Waltham

I was born in Little Waltham and lived there until 1967. I only left because I got married and the cost of housing in the village, even then, was way out of our reach, so we had to move 20 miles north to Sible Hedingham. I had a ...Read more

A memory of Little Waltham by Richard Mansfield

Memories Of Baby Burial At Dilston Maternity Hospital

by Mr Alex Hillary (April 6th 2007) - as reported to Susan Hedworth, Community Care Assistant No, we don’t get the snow like we used to! Like it was in 1941, I mean. I was a taxi driver at ...Read more

A memory of Corbridge by Susan Hedworth

Broxhill Secondary Modern School

I lived in Heaton Avenue from when I was 2 to when I was 14. I had the good luck to be part of the first pupils to go to Broxhill in the 60's when it was first built, we were at Harrowfield's huts at the start of ...Read more

A memory of Harold Hill

Wow, I Used To Work Right Here

My first job as a teenager was with ICT, which subsequently became ICL and I think has now disappeared. I used to repair punch card equipment at Ilford Film, Plessey and Ilford Town Hall back in the early 60's. I ...Read more

A memory of Ilford in 1962 by Robert Graham

Memories Remembered

Memories Remembered After reading Brian Keighley’s story of his memories in Lifton, my memories came flooding back and has prompted me to recall a few of my own. I was born in Lifton 18 months after my sister Jean in 1927 at ...Read more

A memory of Lifton by geoffbailey29

Life In Cannich And Fasnakyle

My family and I moved from Elm Park in Essex to Scotland in the last weeks of 1948. My father, Leon A. Lalonde, had accepted a position as Chief Mechanical Engineer with John Cochrane and Sons, a construction ...Read more

A memory of Glen Affric in 1949 by Denman Lalonde

Heston Middlesex 1950s

It was good to see people's memories of Heston, as I spent much of my childhood there. My father was manager of a branch of grocers called Platts Stores Ltd, Norwood Green, although we were on the corner of Fern Lane Heston and ...Read more

A memory of Heston by Rita Burgess

Sparking A Memory Of Rnwt Station New Waltham

I was based here in 1972, as a very young RN Radio Engineer. Antony’s memory sparke a few of my own. Long nights in the transmission hall monitoring an old B&W TV to make sure we weren’t ...Read more

A memory of New Waltham by starplots

The Plantations

Well not just for the 1930's but for twenty years after as well.  Memories come flooding back - not just for this picture but for Wigan itself.  I was born there in 1931 - in my grandparents home 38, Dicconson Street - a section no ...Read more

A memory of Wigan in 1930 by Thelma Hurly

Dads First Cattle

My dad had a yard here before the houses were built back in the 40s. He bought his first cows and used to milk them in a barn there. I can remember as a small child being in the barn with mum and dad when an aeroplane crashed ...Read more

A memory of Lower Heyford in 1940 by Marion June Messenger

Captions

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Caption For Newbury, The Town Hall C1955

The original Town Hall building in Newbury dated back to 1742 and included a part known as the 'shambles'.

Caption For Ambleside, From The Gale 1886

The solidly constructed tower to the right is part of the Market Hall of 1863.

Caption For Hutton, Hutton Hall C1885

Here we see Hutton Hall from the north, showing the main entrance and driveway, the view that house party guests would first see upon arriving by carriage, having been brought up from the Pease's

Caption For Appletreewick, Monks' Hall 1906

Further up the village is High Hall, built by the Craven family.

Caption For Burnley, Towneley Park Gate 1895

The castellated entrance to Townley Hall, on the A671 Todmorden Road at Burnley Wood, was photographed when it was still a private estate.

Caption For Blackburn, Market 1894

Here we see the Market Hall (or House) from the rear, and the back of the Town Hall; its 20ft-high wall guards a courtyard.

Caption For Accrington, Market Hall 1897

Here we see a close-up view of the Market Hall with its imposing front and large statues mounted over the entrance.

Caption For Goudhurst, Twissenden Manor 1904

This half- timbered Wealden Hall House has a late 16th- century sandstone facade at the back.

Caption For Accrington, Market Hall 1897

Here we see a close-up view of the Market Hall with its imposing front and large statues mounted over the entrance.

Caption For Brompton, Cockpit Hill C1960

This one, with the beck running through it, was built up in the 19th century to house workers at the nearby mill, where for a hundred years John Wilford & Sons produced linen, flax and wool.

Caption For Osmotherley, High Street C1960

The flax mill at Cod Beck is now a Youth Hostel, while the old School Room of 1836 is now the Village Hall.

Caption For Blackburn, Market 1894

Here we see the Market Hall (or House) from the rear, and we can also see the back of the Town Hall; its 20ft-high wall guards a courtyard.

Caption For Romford, St Edward's, Church House And Wykeham Hall 1910

The present Church of Edward the Confessor was built in 1850 on the site of earlier churches dating back to the 15th century.

Caption For Marske, Village 1913

Marske is an attractive and unusual Swaledale village, neither nuclear nor linear, nestling in a fold of hills just above the River Swale.

Caption For Somerleyton, Somerleyton Hall 1891

Somerleyton Hall dates back to Elizabethan times, although it was extensively rebuilt in 1846 by Sir Samuel Morton Peto, who made his fortune out of the railways.

Caption For Ambleside, Bridge House 1912

Easily the most famous and most photographed building in Ambleside is Bridge House, a tiny one-up, one-down building constructed on a bridge over the Stock Beck.

Caption For Oxford, Queens College Front Quadrangle 1890

The Front Quadrangle, seen here, dates back to 1710-34 and is based in part on designs by Hawksmoor.

Caption For Oxford, Brasenose College Quadrangle 1890

Founded early in the 16th century, Brasenose College takes its name from an ancient brass door knocker which, some sources suggest, was brought back here in 1890 after it had been removed by rebellious

Caption For Aylesford, The Friars Courtyard C1960

The Friary Courtyard c1960 All is quiet except for a friar crossing the courtyard.

Caption For Andover, Town Hall 1898

The Town Hall dates back to 1826; the building's Greek Doric style makes it one of Andover's most distinguished landmarks.

Caption For Aylesbury, St Mary's Square C1965

In this view, the photographer looks back past the Bucks Evangelistic Mission Hall to the Georgian-fronted cottages on the right of photograph number A84022.

Caption For Uppingham, 1927

The large house on the left has been built on South Back Way with a pleasant southerly aspect and a spacious garden.

Caption For Accrington, Market 2004

The new outside market stalls which stretch along the Peel Street side and the back of the Market Hall were built in 2003 to replace the concrete umbrella market, which was demolished in 2002.

Caption For Oxford, Magdalen College And River Cherwell 1947

The New Buildings, which date back to 1733, blend harmoniously with the older parts of the college; the hall has an impressive Jacobean screen and there are some valuable manuscripts in the library.