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Tree Cottage
This building is still known as Tree Cottage, Old Lane, but the postal address has been changed to Barnston Road which causes a lot of confusion. I have lived here since 2002 and traced the previous owners back to 1851, but apparently the cottage is much older.
A memory of Barnston in 2006 by
Police House 1939 45
The Police House was located on Radcliffe Road, Cropwell Butler. (now called 'The Old Police House'). On the front wall it bore a sign bearing the words 'County Police'. From 1939 to 1945 it was occupied by the ...Read more
A memory of Cropwell Butler in 1940 by
Jackson's Mill
I grew up in Bourne End and went to the Primary School from 1954 to 1960. My father, Dennis Sharley, was the catering manager at the Mill. I vividly remember collecting newspaper to be weighed and sold for a few shillings. Also ...Read more
A memory of Bourne End in 1955 by
Mitcham
As a child I grew up in bomb ravaged Mitcham. I lived in 16 Ashtree Avenue, Mitcham. We were bombed as so many other people were. I attended the 'Star School, Benedict Road. until around 1947ish then the family moved to Battersea. The Star ...Read more
A memory of Mitcham in 1944 by
Ancestry
while researching family tree information, I discovered that my great great grandma was born in the property know as three mills. Sarah Benbow was born in 1818 or thereabouts, the daughter of a miller. I would love to get more information ...Read more
A memory of Bromyard by
Three Kings Piece
I don't know why we called it Three King's Piece but in the mid 50's to the early 60's when I was growing up, that was what we called it. I lived in the flats in Armfield Crescent and when we went to Three Kings Piece we went the ...Read more
A memory of Mitcham in 1958 by
Summers In Porch Cottage Luccombe...The Happy House.
Porch Cottage must be called the happy house because as three little girls from a chemical town in the North West we also spent our summers there......of course we are now aged 58, 61 and 63 years ...Read more
A memory of Luccombe in 1958 by
Teenager In 70s Chatham
I was born at Luton Chatham as was my Dad and Grandparents. I used to sat around the cafe with my mates in the paddock watching the Pentagon being built. After going to Fort Pitt my first job in 1976 was working as an office ...Read more
A memory of Chatham
I Lived In Those Cottages!1948 1957 Ish
In 1946 my late father, Ron Goodliffe, got a job as a tractor driver for the vast Pemberton estate, and we moved into one of their tied-cottages in Swans Yard, that used to be off the High Street. Then, ...Read more
A memory of Trumpington by
Happy Memories Of Slaidburn
My first introduction to Slaidburn was in the middle of the very cold and snowy winter of 1949-50. I had just driven down from Inverness to this charming Lancashire village with my Dad. It had been a long, cold drive ...Read more
A memory of Slaidburn in 1950 by
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This is a pretty scene with a handsome ash tree in the background, and two children in a quiet side street.
The unusual placename of Kippax, a village to the east of Leeds, comes from the Saxon, and means 'Cyppa's ash tree'.
In the 19th century, fungus started to attack the elm and ash trees, and in August 1891 an ancient mulberry tree planted by monks from Blackfriars Monastery blew down.
This is the magnificent ash tree under which the ageing John Wesley, founder of Methodism, preached his last sermon on 7 October, 1790.
The village is named after five ash trees on the green.Twits Gill was once the home of Sir Austen Chamberlain, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1903 and Foreign Secretary in the 1920s.
The village is named after five ash trees on the green.
He spotted a young ash tree growing by a fence and named the house after it.
The green now has five ash trees and a modern phone box.
It was here that Jerome K Jerome, two friends and his shamed-looking dog took a train back to London, having abandoned their journey which was written up as 'Three Men in a Boat'.
This building was built as three cottages in 1637; it was converted into almshouses before becoming a pub in 1945.
The scene is unrecognisable now, as trees and plantings have matured to remove the bleakness of this Edwardian view.
Students formerly referred to Old Elvet as Three Taverns because of its trinity of locations to sup their ale.
The heavy clay soil, known to farmers as 'three-horse land', held water in winter and became deeply cracked in dry summers, and was difficult to work.
built every modern facility into the house, including the insulation of the ceilings with snail and other shells, and he also improved access to the estate — he had his own railway siding, as well as three
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