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Photos

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Maps

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1920, Buckton Ref. POP654886
1924, Buckton Ref. POP654887
1899, Buckton Ref. RNE654886
1909, Buckton Ref. HOSM39394
1902, Buckton Ref. HOSM39396
1903, Buckton Vale Ref. RNC654896
1924, Buckton Vale Ref. POP654896
1901-1903, Buckton Ref. RNC654886
1903-1904, Buckton Ref. RNC654887
1947, Buckton Vale Ref. NPO654896
1896, Buckton Vale Ref. RNE654896
1947, Buckton Ref. NPO654886
1947, Buckton Ref. NPO654887
1897, Buckton Ref. RNE654887

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Memories

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Stepping Back In Time

It started when my mother was dying, when we asked her about the family history, and she gave us names and dates. Her family came from France in late 1500. They were Hugenots and they were Puritans, and were chased out of ...Read more

A memory of Cinderford in 1995 by Brenda Mccartie

The Shore Of Wood And Glass

Eynort shore is not the prettyist in the west, but it's washed up some odd things from time to time, Both myself and my brother have found messages in a bottle, and a least half a dozen bombs or old test missiles which all ...Read more

A memory of Eynort

My Early School Years In Mill Hill 1943 1950

I have few memories of my primary school which was in a private house in Croft Close a turning off of Marsh Lane, but I do remember being very happy there. This was during the latter war years. However I ...Read more

A memory of Mill Hill by Ron Sargeant

Two Days Full

My husband and I were visiting the UK in 2019 and checking out areas ancestors had lived in. One of these was Corfe Castle, specifically Ower Farm. When we arrived in Corfe we noticed the visitor center, went in and I asked if there ...Read more

A memory of Corfe Castle by Sara Renee Soule Chapman

60 Years On And I Still Love It!

My Auntie May Howard and her husband Frank, from St. Helens, had a wooden holiday bungalow she called Homestead in Dee Avenue Talacre - it was definitely 1961 onwards and possibly just before that and the community centre ...Read more

A memory of Talacre by joan.bohan

1965

1964 and my parents announced to us kids that we were going to move to the countryside from Great Bar in Birmingham where we were all living at my grandmothers house My Father had died back when I was seven and mother had eventually ...Read more

A memory of Market Harborough by Keith Luckman

More Memories From A Boy Growing Up In Burghfield

Back in Burghfield around 1962, I clearly remember one day during the School Summer Holiday seeing a Huge Red and Green Steamroller coming towards me with a whole host of Road Tar making ...Read more

A memory of Burghfield Common by Andrew Cooper

Family Involvement

My memories of our familý's involvement in Sanderstead Church is only from the late 1940's and early 50's. I was a pageboy at the age of about 8 or 9 yrs old at my sister's wedding.  Then, one of my older brothers was a choir boy ...Read more

A memory of Sanderstead by Eric Lovett

Newarthill 1950/60s Tosh And I

Every now and then I reminisce and take a trip down memory lane, of my childhood days growing up in Newarthill on Burnside Rd. I remember Tosh McGarry and I going to Father Gillan's jumble sale and buying an old fox fur ...Read more

A memory of Newarthill by Peter Laird

Stone In The 1950s

I am now 57 years of age, and live in Australia. I was born in Stone, Stafforshire in 1949 and would love to go back and visit. As a child I remember walking along the canal and standing watching as a blacksmith mended a horse's shoe. ...Read more

A memory of Stone in 1956 by Eileen Page

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Captions

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Caption For Saxtead, The Mill C1955

There are two pairs of stones in the buck and two pairs and a centrifugal dressing machine in the round house.

Caption For Aylesbury, Market Square C1955

Between the lions is a statue of Major-General Charles Compton, third Baron Chesham, the commander of the Bucks Militia, who fought in South Africa during the Boer War.

Caption For Wadhurst, Castle 1903

This is not a real castle, of course, but rather a battlemented house of about 1818; it was greatly enlarged by Edward Buckton Lamb, that eccentric Victorian architect, and others by 1870.

Caption For Chipping Norton, The Rollright Stones, The King's Men C1960

Just north of Chipping Norton, in the parish of Great Rollright, lie the Rollright Stones, set in a circle about 100 feet in diameter.

Caption For Chipping Norton, The Rollright Stones, The King's Men C1960

Just north of Chipping Norton, in the parish of Great Rollright, lie the Rollright Stones, set in a circle about 100 feet in diameter.

Caption For Kingston Upon Thames, The Coronation Stone C1955

The Coronation Stone was placed upon a stone plinth set within decorative railings right in the heart of Kingston outside the Kingston municipal offices in 1850, but as traffic increased in the 20th

Caption For Shaw, Chamber Road C1950

The stone-fronted houses match the shops with their sturdiness and `built to last` qualities.

Caption For Wainfleet, Market Place C1955

Back in the Market Place, the clock tower is an architecturally undistinguished brick structure with a stone plaque telling us that its foundation stone was laid on 26 January 1899.

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Caption For Muker, Village 1896

The village of Muker, set toward the western end of the dale, dates back to 1274.

Caption For Dodington, The Hall 1929

Partly bare stone and partly whitewashed, and with numerous stone-mullioned windows, its cross passage is behind the two-storey porch.

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Caption For Muker, Village 1896

The village of Muker, set toward the western end of the dale, dates back to 1274.

Caption For Waddington, Church 1899

Stone from Waddington Fell was used to rebuild the church of St Helen in 1901.

Caption For Billesdon, Back Street C1955

At the southern end of Back Street, mud walls survive opposite the 17th-century Old School building, and the turn-of-the-century Stone House displays the builder's artful use of a cheaper brick shell adorned

Caption For Stonehenge, 1887

Stonehenge is the most well- known stone circle in the world.

Caption For Lincoln, Guildhall 1890

Through Stone Bow we look back across the setts to its rear, with the High Street stretching away into the distance through the archway.

Caption For Horsforth, Mechanics Institute 1901

This building is still standing in Town Street, and was built in the early 1880s in local stone quarried at Golden Bank.

Caption For Horsforth, Mechanics Institute 1901

This building is still standing in Town Street, and was built in the early 1880s in local stone quarried at Golden Bank.

Caption For Lower Swell, The Village C1955

The stone flaming urn of the war memorial, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, holds centre stage at the crossroads in this attractive village built exclusively in the native Cotswold stone.

Caption For East Grinstead, College Lane 1907

Founded in 1609 by Robert Sackville, Earl of Dorset, as almshouses for twenty-one poor men and ten poor women, it was completed in 1619 in the local sandstone and is set back from the High Street.

Caption For Mansfield, Toothill Lane C1950

Going back under the railway viaduct, we ascend Toothill Lane to its junction with Leeming Street, which crosses the foreground.

Caption For Hungerford, The Church And Canal C1955

Records show that St Lawrence stands on the site of a Christian church dating back to at least 1108.

Caption For Caldecott, The Green C1955

Caldecott is situated in the rural Welland Valley; its origins go back to Roman times.

Caption For Walsingham, The Old Pump 1922

This old dome-shaped weather-beaten pump dates back to medieval times, and is situated at an important junction in the middle of this historic town.

Caption For Botley, Mill Hill C1955

We are at the bottom of the hill looking back towards the Square.