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The War Years From The Eyes Of An 8 Year Old Boy.

I was born on Rodman Street, Woodhouse Mill on the 15th November 1931. That makes me 79 now. I remember the Second World War and the shelters in the back garden. I remember the poppy day ...Read more

A memory of Hemsworth in 1930 by Jack Maltby

William Bernard Taylor Family Farm Before They Emigrated To Australia In 1853

SUDBURY 591/0/10020 GREAT WALDINGFIELD 21-NOV-05 HOLE FARM II House. Formerly a mid-C15 service building remodelled as a house in c.1600; later C17 extension to ...Read more

A memory of Sudbury in 1860 by Phyllis Willis

1950s Westgate On Sea Childhood

Westgate Carnival - Coronation fancy dress competition and party in the rec - church parades and Remembrance Service on the cliffs by the war memorial, singing 'Eternal Ruler Strong to Save' as the North ...Read more

A memory of Westgate on Sea in 1953 by Sandra Dudley

Childhood 1941 1947

I was born in Tavistock in 1941, but my family lived in Bere Alston until 1947. We lived in a house called The Firs, but perhaps it is no longer there. My father was the doctor and during the Second World War, the local ...Read more

A memory of Bere Alston in 1945 by Claire Barker

Butchers Shop

Browsing Ampthill, for the first time, I came across the above photo.  On the left just above the logo is a shop blind that used to protect the meat in the window display from sunshine (when it appeared).  That blind was the bain of ...Read more

A memory of Ampthill in 1952 by Paul Guyton

Up And Down Poverest Road

When my wife & I were courting I walked up and down Poverest Road many times. She lived at 1 Forest Way at the top of Poverest. I lived in St Pauls Cray. It was such a serious courtship that I was out in all ...Read more

A memory of St Mary Cray in 1954 by Anthony Beere

Smedleys By Pa

These memories actually date back to the summer of 1967 as well as that of 1968. Sometimes, there was no work in the fields, or I needed money because I was such a lazy fruit picker. So I left Leverington and applied to be hired at ...Read more

A memory of Wisbech in 1968

Captions

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Caption For Cromer, Hall 1925

Classical statues are placed at each end of the building, and stone knights in armour stand in protective pose near the main entrance.

Caption For Wymondham, The Abbey 1891

Inside there are elaborate wood and stone carvings, a hammer-beam roof and a modern altar-screen, which is a war memorial.

Caption For Hurst Green, The Bayley Arms And The Village C1955

The Barley Arms (right) is an 18th-century inn with stone quoins and stone window surrounds.

Caption For Sudbury, North Street 1895

On the right is the White Horse, run by George Rampling; next door is Boggis's the drapers in the 18th-century building with dormer windows; then comes William Alston's 'Second Hand Furniture Warehouse

Caption For Fakenham, Hempton Mill 1921

This large mill situated below the town on the river Wensum was built in 1833, and constructed of white brick and stone.

Caption For Amberley, The Village C1960

The varying height of the old houses built of flint and stone with thatch and tile, contrasts with the varying width of the roadway.

Caption For Bury, Church From The River 1898

The church of St John the Evangelist has a shingled broach spire; flint and stone are used for walling and buildings.

Caption For Eastham, Stanley Lane C1965

There was a church here in Norman times, and stones from that building were incorporated into this church.

Caption For Cranbrook, Stone Street 1902

Cranbrook's High Street, entering the town from Hawkhurst, and Stone Street, leading on towards Tenterden and Maidstone, form a L-shape with the tile-hung fascia of the 15th-century George Hotel at

Caption For Avebury, St James' Church 1899

It is ashlar-faced, and so is the upper part of the flint and stone south aisle.

Caption For Loughborough, Market Place C1965

Look up from Loughborough's modern shop frontages and you will see another age in the windows, brick and stone of the buildings.

Caption For Loughborough, Market Place C1965

Look up from Loughborough's modern shop frontages and you will see another age in the windows, brick and stone of the buildings.

Caption For Waltham St Lawrence, The Church C1955

A majestic yew tree marks the approach to St Lawrence's, which has a west tower of flint and stone blocks topped with early brick.

Caption For Glasgow, Crookston Castle 1897

This turf and stone rampart, with forts at two-mile intervals, served as the farthest frontier of the Roman Empire for barely half a century before it was abandoned and Roman Britain withdrew

Caption For Colchester, East Gate C1955

It uses salvaged Roman bricks, septaria and stone from ruined Roman buildings, a habit continued by the Normans after 1066, when the town was a prosperous one with seven priests.

Caption For Broadwater, Church 1890

St George's, built in flint and stone to a design by George Trufitt, displays an original use of the Gothic style.