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Weekend Visits

I was only about 6 years old but I clearly remember visiting my grandparents' house on weekends. My grandfather was a gamekeeper on the moors until his retirement. In the early 1970s he and his wife moved to nearby Penistone. ...Read more

A memory of Upper Midhope in 1970 by David Salmon

Landslips

I remember the houses on the right as being very crooked! Presumably the land movement had shifted the foundations and cracked the walls, but both of them survived and were inhabited - the owners had repaired the damage without ...Read more

A memory of Lyme Regis by Emmdee Shhh

Weddings & Christenings

The Parish Church at Hemsworth is where my parents were married and where me and my twin sisters were christened. In 1959 I was a bridesmaid for my aunt when she got married. The last time I was in the church was for my ...Read more

A memory of Hemsworth in 1949 by David Johnson

Ye Olde Gate House

This picture is of the Old Gate House, taken from the West Street side.  The sign over the front door was "Ye Olde Gate House".  It was a very old house and is shown on some of the old maps of Wilton. It had two addresses - The ...Read more

A memory of Wilton in 1920 by Wendy Ross

Priory Church

This view has hardly changed, I have recently took a photo from about the same place and it is almost the same. The wall running in front of the church as gone now but the park on the left and the school wall on the right is still ...Read more

A memory of Worksop in 1959 by Barbara Whiteman

The Memories Are Endless

Good morning from Waterloo, Canada. I was absolutely thrilled with your site and stumbled on it quite by chance. I was born in 1943 at my grandparents house at Yew Tree Terrace just off Station Rd. I grew up in Shepley, ...Read more

A memory of Shepley in 1957 by Marilyn Haywood

Treasury Farm

The building on the right-hand side of the photo in the foreground is in fact the wall of the garage which belonged to Treasury Farm, my home for many years. Many a time I was in the forge with my ponies getting them reshod ... to think this is how it looked just one year before I moved there.

A memory of Ickham in 1961 by Diane Long

Early Schooldays

My memories of Byfield, where I lived on the brand new council estate, in Lovett Road, are idyllic. I was there from age 6 to 10, then we moved to York. We children had to walk what seemed like miles, in all weathers, to the ...Read more

A memory of Byfield in 1954 by Rosemarie Delaney

Mixed Feelings

I first arrived in Llanegryn at the latter end of 1939 along with my younger sister and a lot of other kids from my school (St Johns)in Birkenhead. I was eight years old at the time and my sister was six. We were all put into the ...Read more

A memory of Llanegryn in 1930 by Bob Boyd

My Schooldays 1952 54 Near Skipton

My Grandparents lived at 26 Otley Street in Skipton from the 1940 ( or earlier ) and I had first visited them in 1945 after VE day, They were Thomas Henry Jackson, my Grandmother Charlotte Jackson and their ...Read more

A memory of Skipton in 1952 by Trevor Jackson

Captions

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Caption For Cardiff, City Hall C1960

The Marble Hall forms a magnificent approach to the spectacularly ornate Assembly Room.

Caption For Plymouth, Onion Sellers 1907

Two young lads stand by the harbour wall with their strings of onions.

Caption For Southampton, Bargate 1908

The adjoining walls and buildings were subsequently destroyed so that traffic bypassed Bargate.

Caption For Erith, New Flats C1960

Only the last two far sections of the pub garden wall on the right survive.

Caption For Furness Abbey, 1892

The red sandstone walls of Furness Abbey were built in the 12th century, started under the Savigny Order by Stephen, Count of Boulogne, later King of England.

Caption For Reading, St Giles Church Interior 1896

Out of view are the numerous Georgian wall tablets and monuments transferred from the old church.

Caption For Colchester, Old Tudor House C1960

This view looks in the opposite direction to view C136050, downhill to the heart of the Dutch Quarter, past the former Angel Inn dating from about 1450 and now well cared for by a firm of solicitors

Caption For Thorpeness, The Village C1955

The wall to the left, now higher, marks the edge of Barn Hall of 1925, the Estate Office.

Caption For Holywell, The Ferry Boat Inn C1960

The river floods in the winter, and can rise up to the height of the walls.

Caption For St Ives, Fish Street 1906

There is a typical wall-mounted gas lamp of the time.

Caption For Alderton, The Street C1955

Beyond is the old post office, which still retains the original sign on the wall.

Caption For Portloe, Beach And Village C1955

The cove faces east and is therefore relatively sheltered, but in 1959 an extra sea wall was built.

Caption For Monsal Dale, Cottage C1864

The limestone rubble walls, the mullioned windows and the heather-thatched roof indicate that it probably dates from the 17th or 18th century.

Caption For Winchester, Westgate 1896

Notice the old city wall pub, the Plume of Feathers, to the right of the gate.

Caption For Winchester, High Street From Westgate 1906

Notice the old city wall pub, the Plume of Feathers, to the right of the gate.

Caption For Canterbury, St Peter's Street C1955

As we look from inside the city walls through the arch to St Dunstan's Street, we can see the route taken by Henry II when he came as a penitent after the murder of Thomas Becket in 1174, and by Henry

Caption For Warwick, The Castle, Caesar's Tower And Guy's Tower 1922

There are guardrooms on the top floors: only here are there arrow-loops in the tower walls.

Caption For Over, The Church C1965

Situated on the Great Ouse (Over actually means 'river bank'), the church of St Mary is lavishly built from Barnack stone, with an ornately decorated interior, and stone seats extending around much of the walls

Caption For Banbury, Market Place 1921

Banbury once boasted a castle which enabled the town to grow in the shadow of its protective walls.

Caption For Maresfield, Park Entrance 1902

The 19th-century Gothic style gatehouse to The Park has a turret and plenty of ivy growing up the stone walls.

Caption For Tideford, The Church C1960

The apparent bricks in the wall are in fact neatly dressed stones; the west window tracery is carved from a pale freestone.

Caption For Sidmouth, Esplanade 1904

The sea wall was constructed in 1835 and the shingle beach can be clearly seen.

Caption For Yoxford, High Street C1965

The side walls have several painted dummy windows.

Caption For Colchester, North Hill And The Market 1892

The houses on the right have long gone, and have been replaced by a wide modern road whose only virtue is the exposure of the Roman wall formerly concealed behind the houses.