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Eastry Childrens Home
I had a wonderful upbringing ‘up the hill’ from Buttshole pond… 1958 - 1966 I was raised in one of the seven cottages- mine was Lime Cottage. My matron was Mrs. Aunty Betty Harris- who had a daughter, ...Read more
A memory of Eastry by
My Mother Was Evacuated To Buckinghamshire Twice!
Britain declared war on Germany in September 1939, and this country's involvement in the Second World War began. German air-raids and gas attacks were expected imminently, and many children ...Read more
A memory of Princes Risborough in 1940 by
Molecatcher
My husband's family were conned into selling their grandfather's cottage, he was the local molecatcher, John Henry Scott.(I wonder if he was born on the wrong side of the blanket! - as the name of the local gentry was also Scott.) The ...Read more
A memory of Bellerby in 1958 by
Miss Pett At Burgess Manor School.
I went to Burgess Manor school between 1963-1967. I remember most of the Teachers but i wondered if anyone remembered Miss Pett. She was the English/Drama Teacher. I think of her as a bit of an enigma. She looked as ...Read more
A memory of East Ham by
Growing Up In Foxton Cambridgeshire
How a Family that came to south Cambridgeshire Clifford John Masters, My Story I was born in 4 Chaucer Cottages Foxton on the 9th February 1940 The houses backed onto the “park” all ...Read more
A memory of Barrington by
Spitfire
I recall a huge thermometer erected on the clock tower, it was graduated in pounds sterling with a picture of a Spitfie at the top> We children, and of course the rest of the Wendover community subscribed as much as we could as often as ...Read more
A memory of Wendover in 1940 by
My Wichenford Childhood
I was born at Voyce Farm near Wichenford in 1937. I started school at Wichenford in 1942. My first teacher was miss Connie Alcott who was loved by every kid and adult in the area. I remember fondly Arthur Palmers bakery and ...Read more
A memory of Wichenford in 1940 by
Cann Family History
My Great Great Grandfather was born William Honey Cann. Born: March 12, 1845 in Topsham, England son of John Cann and Jane (Hill) Cann. (William Married - Ann Pidgeon, from England also!). Looking for more information on ...Read more
A memory of Topsham by
Electrics
I am amazed that so few memories of Land's End have been recorded so I wish to add my brief knowledge. My cousin Peter was born in Hampshire in the 1920s. His mother was my father's sister Kathleen Goodey, later Headland, and born a ...Read more
A memory of Land's End in 1950 by
Visit To Ascott Under Wychwood
A few years ago my brother and I visited Ascott-under-Wychwood. My father's family, surname "Venville", lived there for a very long time. Venville as a surname was rather rare and it wasn't until the wife ...Read more
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Midway between the ancient sites of two Norman motte and bailey castles at the extreme ends of the village, Holy Trinity Church is the topographical as well as the spiritual centre of Ascott; old
With its neighbouring village Shipton-Under-Wychwood, Ascott had a reputation for harbouring poachers in earlier centuries.
The village had its own mill, Ascott Mill, at one time; Langley Mill, shown here, was outside the village, nudging the Shipton-under- Wychwood border - the River Evenlode marks the parish boundary.
His architect was Taylor, from Bierton, a village near Aylesbury; he was heavily influenced by George Devey, who had worked for Meyer de Rothschild at Ascott House, near Wing.
Like other villages that are found along the course of the River Evenlode and its tributary streams, Ascott-under-Wychwood's function was milling.
deciduous forest in the North Cotswolds, and a string of picturesque villages take their names from it: Milton-under-Wychwood, Shipton-under-Wychwood and, glimpsed here as it was half a century ago, Ascott-under-Wychwood
It became a parish in 1880, but before the local vicar gave it a name and an identity of its own, it was little more than a scattered collection of houses and cottages.
Hazelbury Bryan is a scattered village, but the church stands on a prominent hilltop, so that it can be seen by villagers wherever they happen to be.
Our tour along the Chess valley towards Rickmansworth starts on the hills south of the valley in Chesham Bois, originally a scattered village with the church at the north end and more houses along
A scattered hillside village on a minor road in a wooded area near the Surrey border.
A scattered hillside village on a minor road in a wooded area near the Surrey border.
Tunbridge Wells was once a scattered hamlet in a forested part of the Weald.
From a scattered fishing village based around two sandy bays on the southern coast of the Lleyn Peninsula, Abersoch has developed into a busy resort.
A scattering of mansions, cottages, and odds and ends of streets nestling beneath a limestone cliff or half hidden away among wooded slopes, this tiny Torquay of Lancashire has, as yet, escaped the notice
Kingswinford has become a place of characterless roads, estate houses and shopping precincts, but it retains a scattering of the elegant houses built by 18th-century ironmasters and glassworks owners
Tunbridge Wells was once a scattered hamlet in a forested part of the Weald.
It is really a scattered hamlet with a church; its setting in the pastoral and wooded landscape of this area is most attractive.
From a scattered fishing village based around two sandy bays on the southern coast of the Lleyn Peninsula, Abersoch has developed into a busy resort.
A scattered village on a hilltop in the centre of Sussex.
This view shows Carbis Bay when it was still largely undeveloped, with just a scattering of houses above the cliffs overlooking the sandy beach.
Also known as Piper`s Hill Common, this beautiful nature reserve has developed from wood pasture; that is, rough grazing with a scattering of trees.
A scattered village on a hilltop in the centre of Sussex.
A scattered hillside village on a minor road in a wooded area near the Surrey border.
Also known as Piper's Hill Common, this beautiful nature reserve has developed from wood pasture; that is, rough grazing with a scattering of trees.
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