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1940, All Cannings Ref. NPO621482
1898, All Cannings Ref. RNE621482
1899, All Cannings Ref. HOSM35910
1898-1899, All Cannings Ref. RNC621482
1919, All Cannings Ref. POP621482
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Memories

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The Crown Inn, Market Street.

On the left of the photo is the Crown. For many years, this was my local. A good combination of beers & ciders, great bar staff (John Ellis, the landlord, Rachel, Mel, Carol, Yvonne & Keith, the last two sadly ...Read more

A memory of Oakengates by bru.enzer

Wood House

Early C20 formal gardens and parkland designed and landscaped by Thomas Mawson and implemented by Robert Mawson of the Lakeland Nurseries, Windermere, surrounding a house designed by Dan Gibson with a ground plan by Thomas ...Read more

A memory of Taw Green by Tonnie Keith

Learning To Swim On The Rye

I was born in Amersham Hospital in 1956. It should have been the Shrubbery, but it was full on the day I decided I had had enough of the womb. Cut to the mid 60's and I'm a student at Crown House Primary in London Road ...Read more

A memory of High Wycombe by Hugh Bristow

The Great Children's Summer Garden Party

During the1950's, long before the introduction of Green Shield and other reward stamps, members of the Co-operative Society in the days before the Co-op as we know it today, earned tin coin cash money to the ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath by Bernard Schofield

Joe Allmans Junk Shop

This shop had solid soil floors. It was full of old junk which now I suppose would be classed as antiques. Joe Allman was the owner and was made to leave as the Council stated that the building was unfit for human occupation; ...Read more

A memory of Northwich by Paul Dean

Slough A Time In A Life

Monday 7th July 1958, aged 8, moved to Britwell, Slough from Merstham in surrey with my brother Martin, Mum & Dad (Joan & Ron). Transport was a problem - we didn’t have any. There was only room for three of us in the ...Read more

A memory of Slough by Phil Cooke

Windmill Road, Brentford 1945

My parents, Nora & Harold (Jock) Palmer, lived at 112 Windmill Road, Brentford where I was brought up, along with my twin brother David and older brother Michael. Later we were joined by sister Janis and brother Jeremy ...Read more

A memory of Brentford by Linda Nicholas

Life As A Young Boy In Saltdean

THE LIFE & TIMES OF DONALD CHARLES WILLIAMS Personal recollections from Don Williams from Hailsham who lived in Saltdean from 1937 to 1952 - Many thanks for these wonderful stories & photo's of Saltdean in the ...Read more

A memory of Saltdean in 1940 by Don Williams

The Visitation Convent Bridport Dorset.

For unruly behaviour, I was delivered to boarding school at the age of 4, after enjoying wonderful times on a Devon farm. I was taken to the Convent by my parents in an Austin 7. I remember crying and staring at ...Read more

A memory of Bridport in 1948 by Rex Duffy

Raymond Jones

I was born in Sandiway but during my primary and secondary school days we would go to Northwich which I remember from the late fifties and when all the old shops, such as Joe Allman's cottage and Eachus etc were all doing a good trade, ...Read more

A memory of Northwich by Raymond Jones

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Captions

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Caption For Sleaford, Cranwell C1965

This impressive building was begun in 1929 and completed in 1933.

Caption For Swithland, Reservoir C1965

A mile or so south of Quorn, the camera looks north towards the weir, with Hawcliff Hill and Buddon Wood to the left.

Caption For Swithland, Reservoir C1965

A mile or so south of Quorn, the camera looks north towards the weir, with Hawcliff Hill and Buddon Wood to the left.

Caption For Sleaford, Cranwell C1965

This impressive building was begun in 1929 and completed in 1933.

Caption For Osmington, St Osmond's Church C1955

Osmington is an ancient manor founded by the Saxon King Athelstan, though most visitors pass through the village to see the chalk figure of a later king, George III, carved on the downlands to the north

Caption For Beckington, Ravenscroft School C1950

A fine stone village a mile from Frome, Beckington has some superb stone houses and a church with an excellent Norman tower.

Caption For Devizes, St Mary's Church 1898

It shows an uninterrupted view to the church.

Caption For Woodmansterne, Chipstead Valley C1955

The slopes below Banstead Wood make a fine vantage point above Outwood Lane meandering on its way towards Kingswood.

Caption For Egham, Bell Weir Lock 1907

A later owner, Sir Robert Vyner, notoriously cooked one of his deceased servants, displaying the corpse in an open coffin to visitors - a macabre spectacle that delighted Samuel Pepys, who recorded

Caption For Gloucester, Cathedral North East 1891

This photograph shows sheep grazing in what is now almost the city centre.

Caption For Longparish, St Nicholas Church 1899

This church is worth a visit and the east window by Morris and Co, as late as 1912, should not be missed.

Caption For Panfield, The Church Of St Mary And St Christopher 1906

This mid-15th-century church was Victorianised in 1858.

Caption For Billingham, Ici Office Building C1965

This is a later photograph, with the futuristic-looking covered car park visible on the right - a car can just be seen there, giving an idea of its scale.

Caption For Ickenham, Swakeleys House C1965

A later owner, Sir Robert Vyner, notoriously cooked one of his deceased servants, displaying the corpse in an open coffin to visitors - a macabre spectacle that delighted Samuel Pepys, who recorded

Caption For Eastbourne, The Pier 1925

1925 marked the building of a new 900-seater music pavilion at the shoreward end of the pier.

Caption For Westdean, 1921

Here we see a rural scene in a fold of the Downs - now much more wooded and obscured by trees.

Caption For Banbury, Town Hall C1965

Banbury's splendid Town Hall with its noble entrance and tower, built in the 15th-century Gothic style, opened in 1854.

Caption For Midhurst, North Street 1921

Midhurst is a town of contrasts, with an early medieval core around the church, west of the Norman castle earthworks on St Anne's Hill, and the wide North Street, a later medieval planned market place.

Caption For Calne, Church Street C1965

Wiltshire & Sons (left of photograph) opened their first supermarket in the 1960s, which later became Gateway in 1973.

Caption For Saltburn By The Sea, Tea Gardens C1955

Here we see another restful feature in the Valley Gardens, but this is a later design.

Caption For Corbridge, Main Street C1955

The building facing our cameraman is Monksholme, built in the early 17th century as an inn; it has genuine attic dormers, and was restored in 1891.

Caption For Pennard, The Castle 1893

Pennard stands high above a tidal creek some eight miles west-south-west of Swansea.

Caption For Matlock Bath, New Bath Hotel C1955

This view shows the Georgian façade of the New Bath Hotel, originally known as Mr Tyack's New Bath Hotel.

Caption For Rickmansworth, St Mary's Church 1897

Taken from the upper storey of a cottage in Church Street, this view of the north side of the church looks beguilingly medieval.