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The picture titled "Uplyme Mill 1892" is incorrect.  The location is Lyme Regis and is called Higher Mill along the banks of the River Lym in an area known as "Monkeys Rough" locally, opposite the original "Jericho" and "Paradise ...Read more

A memory of Lyme Regis in 1890 by Buster Webb

My Grandfather William Hazell came from Pentlow and was a legend in our family. the rest of his family spelled their name Hasell and there seem to be many in Pentlow going back to the 1700s. Grandfather William found himself in Pentlow and ...Read more

A memory of Pentlow in 1890 by Keith Hazell

My grandmother used to tell me stories of Gateshead days when I was a kid, for example Tommy-on-the Bridge, area Bottle Bank, apparently was a permanent fixture in those days, he stood on the Swing Bridge, might have been ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead in 1890 by Derek Bell

My father Cornelius Henry Johns (Naily to everyone who knew him) was born in the little Round House on the left of the photo. He was the youngest of a large family, and there were 11 people living there in 1899. They then moved to ...Read more

A memory of Veryan in 1890 by Donald Johns

My father was Arthur Marsden Taylor born in Elton 1896, he had two brothers William (1900) and Benjamin Aaron (1890), their mother was Sarah Ann Taylor (no father named), and her mother I believe Elizabeth Taylor, daughter of ...Read more

A memory of Elton in 1890 by Gwendolyn Cooper

It was built in 1897 and was designed in the Queen Anne style by the architect Frederick Wheeler FRIBA who had offices in Horsham. It is now the home of the Nat West bank. The bandstand has been moved ...Read more

A memory of Horsham in 1890 by M

I have photos of Walreddon Manor from my ancestors who lived there in the 1890s. One is similar to the photo here, but was taken in August of 1892, and the back inscription, written about the same time, said the children were ...Read more

A memory of Tavistock in 1890 by Cristy Watson

Just found out my grandad was born in Derby and lived at 45 Colville Street with 8 other siblings. Joseph the father worked at Midlands Railway as a wireman. Violet and Blanc worked as weavers. My grandad Bernard enlisted in ...Read more

A memory of Mickleover in 1890 by Karen Villadsen

This is going back a bit - but I wonder if anyone knows or remembers a family with the surname 'English' who lived at this address in the 1890-1900's? My great grandmother was born here - Elizabeth Magretta ...Read more

A memory of Talywain in 1890

My grandmother Selina Lucy Tank Hotten fell pregnant at the age of 18 years. Her father, Charles Henry Hotten was a gardener and felt he would lose his job if anyone found out about this. Selina was sent to a workhouse to have her ...Read more

A memory of Newton Abbot in 1890 by Susan Trickett