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Hopedene Mother And Baby Home

Hi I am trying to contact any mothers that were in Hopedene, Elswick, in the 1950s and 1960s...what was it like? Did you have any choice regarding having your baby adopted if you wern't married? My mother ...Read more

A memory of Elswick in 1959 by Lisa Anderson

Oldchurch Hospital 1956 57

I have such memories as a 17 year old of working in the 'Admins Office' in Oldchurch Hospital. I think I just walked in one day, got an interview and started on the Monday - no job centres or CVs needed then. The boss ...Read more

A memory of Romford by Glyn Mallett

Schooldays At Arley Castle

I went to Arley Castle as a boarder in 1943/44. It made a lasting impression on me. The Arboretum was my favourite place and we had names for many of the trees which we would climb from time to time. Miss Kell and ...Read more

A memory of Upper Arley in 1943 by lucyontheinternet

St Michael And All Angels Church Of England School

I would love to hear of anyone who went to Tatenhill school around the late 1940 into the 1950s. It was such a magical time with Miss Read our teacher who inspired us and fired our imagination. ...Read more

A memory of Tatenhill in 1948

My Childhood In Houghton Regis.

My name is Daniel (Danny) Cronin, the youngest of 5 and the only boy of Harry 'H' and Ann Cronin. My life began on the 27th of November 1970. My first place of residence was Recreation Road where I have ...Read more

A memory of Houghton Regis in 1970 by Daniel Cronin

Club Outing

Our ciu club in Watford came here for a weekend break. It was the Toby Club, as was called, that raised money for the old folks Xmas party. As we were from South Wales, my husband suggested we come down. What agreat time we all had!

A memory of Porthcawl in 1990 by Eira Waite

Cove Farnborough Hants

I was born in Farnborough and lived in Pinehurst Cottages until the age of six. My father, Charles Dunbar was an engineer at The Royal Aircraft Establishment. Later we moved to 166 Keith Lucas Road and later to 16 Fowler Road in ...Read more

A memory of Cove in 1950 by Vyvyan Dunbar Campbell

The Nag''s Head

One didn't have to travel to London in the past to watch pro bands plying their trade. The Nag's Head public house was a much attended venue during the late 1960s and early 1970s for watching many of the (what was then known as) ...Read more

A memory of Wollaston in 1969 by Mick Austin

Happy Days

my husband and i were tenants of the old hewitts brewery at the crown inn ror about two years in the sixties we had some marvellous characters as regulars the appleby brothers what jokers, herman the butcher len the baker jim the ...Read more

A memory of Saltfleet in 1964 by Dorothy Atkinson

Morning Service At St Mary's In The 1960s

Like many young folks of the 1960s who grew up in Cheshunt churchgate area, when the time came to marry you almost always chose St Mary's as the place to have your wedding. It is a lovely old church. I ...Read more

A memory of Cheshunt in 1965 by Dave Spooner

Captions

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Caption For Fakenham, Norwich Street C1955

Looking west along the High Street, we see buildings which are characteristic of North Norfolk: flints set in mortar, with brick facings.

Caption For Sheffield, Endcliffe Woods 1893

This park was laid out for the benefit of working people to give them a break from the dust and grime of industrial Sheffield.

Caption For Southwold, From Lighthouse 1893

While many houses burned down in the fire of 1659, the 15th century church of St.

Caption For Desborough, King Street C1955

The brick-built Congregational church on the corner of Union Street and King Street was opened in 1912 and still flourishes, now as the United Reformed Church.

Caption For Bracknell, High Street 1901

Some time during the second half of the 19th century, Bracknell became a town, helped by the coming of the railway in 1856 and the development of market gardening and brick-making.

Caption For Thorpe St Andrew, Village And River Yare 1922

The Rush Cutters has a late 16th-century core, evident in the octagonal brick chimneys on the right and the massive stack behind the left hip.

Caption For Maidstone, Museum 1898

This splendid red-brick Tudor house was once Chillington Manor, home of the Wyatts; one of the family, Sir Thomas the younger, led the rebellion against Queen Mary's marriage to Philip of

Caption For Long Melford, Kentwell Hall 1895

The red-brick Tudor manor house of Kentwell Hall stands at the northern end of Long Melford.

Caption For Ferring, Greystoke Manor Hotel C1960

This hotel near the sea front has brick walls with flint gables and garden walling.

Caption For Waltham Cross, Post Office And High Street C1950

This bustling fifties shopping scene, with a substantial and surprising number of bicycles in evidence, shows the prominent red-brick Post Office on the left standing out against its rather dingy neighbouring

Caption For Chesterfield, Market Place 1902

The Italianate, red brick Market Hall with its imposing clock tower was built in 1857, and still forms the centrepiece of the town's lively regular outdoor market.

Caption For High Wycombe, The Rupert Gates On Marlow Hill 1906

Wyatt clad the brick house in the local hard granite- like Denner Hill Stone and gothicised the house with turrets and battlements.

Caption For Fleetwood, The King Orry Leaving For The I.O.M C1955

The first 'King Orry' paddle steamer was built in 1842 by shipbuilders Aitken & Napier and sold in 1858.

Caption For Bisham, The Abbey 1893

This splendid photograph shows Bisham Abbey overlooking a scenic stretch of the Thames.

Caption For Ewhurst, The Mill 1925

Hurt Wood Mill is a small brick tower mill with four patent sails and a fantail.

Caption For Biddenden, The Windmill C1920

This is a Kentish white weatherboarded smock mill with a two-storey octagonal brick base, powered by four eliptic spring sails and winded by a fantail.

Caption For Leigh On Sea, 1891

Essex lacks natural rock so skills in the use of wood and brick-making have been well developed over the centuries.Attractive wrought iron fencing surrounds the long gardens on the right.

Caption For Ipswich, Tavern Street 1896

On the left is the red brick and stone Lloyds Bank building, with its fretted skyline, while to the right is the neo-classical Post Office, built in 1881.

Caption For Epsom, Race Day C1955

Loyal enthusiasm reached a peak with Queen Elizabeth II's arrival at the Derby, but spectators' loyalties were divided between the two horses that fought out the finish.

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Caption For Newlyn, 1903

Here we see a corner in the old part of the fishing village, with a Victorian granite house added on the right.

Caption For Great Chart, The Village 1908

Three small children play on the long village street leading up the hill to the church, lined with well-kept red-brick and timbered cottages and neat gardens, and with the Swan public house halfway along

Caption For Rye, West Street 1888

Thomas House, the timber-framed building on the left, has been well restored, while the corner house was replaced in 1920 by a brick and tile-hung Neo-Georgian Lloyds Bank, a most attractive building fronting

Caption For Stoke Poges, Church Cottage 1929

The spire, a timber one added in 1702, was replaced by the present low tiled pyramid in 1924, for the visual benefit of the church.

Caption For Blackdown Camp, Garrison And Institute 1906

Here we see the brick-built army buildings of this military settlement in Surrey's army quarter on the high heathlands of the north west of the county.