Places

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Memories

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Pastures Avenue, Nottingham

I remember Clifton in a different light. We lived at 17 Pastures Avenue during 1966/7, my brother or one of them, he's the youngest, was born there. I met my half sisters and brothers there. I have always liked ...Read more

A memory of Newark-on-Trent in 1967 by Jean Smith

My Holidays In Llandanwg

I was visiting Llandanwg from 1958 until 1965. We used to stay in Dorwyn, which then was a green shed bungalow owned by Mrs Pearce, she used to work with my father and we used to go down sometimes twice a year. We used to ...Read more

A memory of Llandanwg

Combe Florey Primary School

The village school in Combe Florey closed in about 1958 I believe, it exists as a private house now, but I can still remember the mile long walk to and from it, through the lanes every morning and afternoon. Mum ...Read more

A memory of Combe Florey in 1958 by Kathy Farmer C/O Terry Roberts Roberts Flooring Contractors Ltd

Busk Crescent

Late in 1945 my parents moved to 25 Busk Crescent, in Cove. The house was on top of a hill and overlooked the Farnborough airfield. From the front bedroom you could see aircraft landing on the runway. The house was one of a string of ...Read more

A memory of Cove in 1945 by Alan Hickman

Eversley, 1971 1983

Dear Jan, I have found this website quite by chance! I first moved to Eversley with my family as a child (aged 6) in July 1971. My mother became the sub postmistress and we lived in the purpose build, red brick 5 bedroomed ...Read more

A memory of Eversley by Giles Myhill

Innocent Happy Days 1953 67

So many memories of Rayleigh! We moved to Upway in 1953, no. 18, one of the first of the new bungalows, which my dad designed himself. I remember neighbours - The Wyatt family next door, and the Snodes up the hill (who ...Read more

A memory of Rayleigh by marion.sell

Pavenham 1945 1970

This is the village where I grew up, my parents moving into their very old, somewhat dilapidated cottage at the end of the war. This was 'The Folly' at the eastern end of the village opposite one of Tandy's farms. Why it had that ...Read more

A memory of Pavenham by Stephen Wessel

1939 To I960

I moved to Little Brickhill in 1939 when I was 2 years old, my last address in Little Brickhill was 10 Wyness Avenue. We were the first to move to to Wyness Avenue. I also knew Colonel Wyness who Wyness Avenue was named ...Read more

A memory of Little Brickhill by Donald Scott

Tin Tan Tommy

I moved to the hill as a child with my brother and sisters in the early 1950as to Dagnam Park Square. We had a lovely wood there to play in. Tin Tan Tommy was our best game, standing on the sand bin spying out the other kids and ...Read more

A memory of Harold Hill in 1956 by Alby West

A Yokels Tale

A Personal Recollection of growing up during the last days of the pedestrian era in rural England by Tom Thornton A Yokel's Tale My earliest recollection of my Thornton grandparents, Alice and Tom, dates back to my pre-school ...Read more

A memory of Owslebury in 1941 by Tom Thornton

Captions

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Caption For Bexhill On Sea, West Parade 1904

Like Eastbourne, there was an old town up the hill, and like Eastbourne, Bexhill as a seaside resort is Victorian, but even later in starting.

Caption For East Finchley, High Road C1965

At the foot of the hill is the brick and concrete underground station of 1939, designed by Charles Holden and L H Bucknell.

Caption For Effingham, St Teresa's Convent C1965

St Teresa's Convent was established in Effinghamhill House, a stucco early 19th- century mansion in the chalk hills two miles south of Effingham village.

Caption For Goring, Village 1899

Goring is a riverside village lying between the beech-clad hills of the Chilterns and the windswept slopes of the Berkshire Downs.

Caption For Harrow On The Hill, Old School House 1906

Harrow Park winds away to the east of the High Street, past one or two rather grand houses, to arrive at Deynecourt at the foot of the hill.

Caption For Sheffield, Gleadless Valley 2005

While the tide of council house building swept ever outwards, mainly to the north and east of the city centre, the 'scarlet fever' of private red-brick detached and semi-detached houses and

Caption For Edgware, Railway Hotel 1948

the underground station and the parish church, this is a wonderful neo-Tudor pub of 1936 by A E Sewell; he also designed the Crown and Anchor in High Street, Chipping Barnet, and the Goat near Forty Hill

Caption For Hampstead, Jack Straw's Castle C1955

The pub occupies a picturesque setting on the crown of the hill, and is named after the leader of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381.

Caption For Minehead, The Parade 1903

This has been used in some of the older buildings around North Hill, including the tower of St Michael's church.

Caption For Rudgwick, The King's Head C1965

At the top of the hill is the mainly 14th-century church of the Holy Trinity.

Caption For Burwash, The Village 1889

Kipling's literary work 'Puck of Pook's Hill' (1906) is set in the area.

Caption For Accrington, Oak Hill Park 1899

Oak Hill Park was Accrington's second park, and the land was purchased bu the Corporation from Reginald Hargreaves for £12,000 in 1892.

Caption For Sheffield, The Mappin Art Gallery C1965

old town was also increasingly surrounded by rows and rows of terraces in Pitsmoor and Hillsborough to the north, in Walkley and Crookes to the west, in Sharrow and Heeley to the south and Park Hill

Caption For Dorking, Denbies Mansion 1905

On the top of Ashcombe Hill (now Ranmore Hill) there was a farm; here, perhaps, John Denby lived, a one-time farmer who was referred to at a Court Baron held in 1555.

Caption For Savernake, Brown's Farm 1908

This fine old 17th- century farmhouse, built in a mixture of materials, stone, brick, tile-hanging and long straw thatch, is typical of the area around Marlborough.

Caption For Barningham, 1922

This sumptuous red-brick Hall, set in exquisite parkland, was built by Sir William Paston in the early 1600s, and its facade is a grand example of Jacobean work.

Caption For Great Chart, Village 1908

This street scene shows some fine red brick, tile-hung, ivy-clad houses with beautiful old chimneys, lining the left-hand side of the road.