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Family Holidays

We had many happy family holidays at Polzeath. We always stayed in a bungalow above Tristram Cliff and could walk down across the fields to the beach. In the early days cars were not confined to the area at the top of the beach and ...Read more

A memory of Polzeath in 1960 by George Barbour

The Convent

My father died the year after I was born and his employer Burton's, provided for myself and my three brothers to attend private schools, which is how I came from London to the Convent at the age of 4. I followed my brother Colin who ...Read more

A memory of Bridport in 1947 by Alan Noon

"Kiss Me, Hardy"

I've only been onboard the Victory once. It was enough to profoundly strike my imagination. I stood where Nelson fell ! It brings tears to my eyes to think of it now as I write. She is an incredible vessel. You can almost hear the ...Read more

A memory of Portsmouth in 1955 by Dylan Rivis

Little Sutton In 1950s And 1960s

What memories your comments conjure.  How I loved the 'rec'  as a child.  We started on the 'baby swings' and progressed to the 'big swings' and see-saw and round-a-bout.  The old shelter there was a favourite ...Read more

A memory of Little Sutton in 1960 by Janet Lee

Evacuee During World War 2

I was privately evacuated to Croxton Kerrial with my sister in 1940, we were billeted in a cottage named Woodbine Cottage, this was next to the Bakery. We attended the village school, I still remember some of the ...Read more

A memory of Croxton Kerrial in 1940 by Keneth Harris

Newmarket Hospital

I worked in racing stables in Exeter Road. In the spring of 1960 I was injured when a  yearling I was exercising suddenly reared and I 'went out the back door', narrowly missing the edge of the pavement, but hitting my ...Read more

A memory of Newmarket in 1960 by Eunice Chambers

Best Guinness In Town!

The little white building in the middle is the Lamb & Flag. I spent many a happy lunchtime & evening there in the '80's. It was a Marstons pub, run then by Don & Sheila Jones, an Irish couple who I think had been ...Read more

A memory of Worcester by bru.enzer

My Childhood In Wolverhampton 1946 1955

I played in the standing corn stooks behind our house, had my first pony/horse ride at Dixon's farm where my horse went berserk in a potato field, so I was put onto and stayed on a horse lead. I flew my ...Read more

A memory of Wolverhampton by Alan Hickman

Fairdene School

I was a pupil at Fairdene School from 1960-1965. I had lived in New York until I was 6, so being a girl with a Yankee accent in a school for young ladies was quite a challenge! The two female headmistresses, Miss Turner and Miss ...Read more

A memory of Chipstead by familylock

Happy Days Growing Up In Barnes

The picture of Church Road where it ran parallel with The Crescent with all those familiar shops brings memories flooding back. I started life at 33 Glebe Road in 1944 and spent 5 happy years there before moving to ...Read more

A memory of Barnes by Andrew Taft

Captions

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Caption For Prittlewell, The Church 1891

It dates from Norman times, but parts of an older arch, containing some Roman bricks, may be seen in the nave.

Caption For Fordwich, The Town Hall C1955

Now a National Trust property and open as a museum, this stone, brick and timber building is said to be the smallest town hall in Britain.

Caption For Norwich, Old Cow Tower And The River Wensum 1891

It is the oldest surviving brick building in Norwich, and is reputedly haunted by Old Blunderhazard, a ghostly rider who gallops past on Christmas Eve.

Caption For Prestbury, The Village 1907

The record-breaking champion jockey Fred Archer, who was born in Cheltenham in 1857, grew up in the 16th-century half-timbered King's Arms Inn where his father was landlord.

Caption For Charing, High Street 1901

These two views of the steep high street as it winds up the hill towards Canterbury show some of the rich assortment of buildings built of brick or black-and-white half timbering.

Caption For Ickham, The Church 1903

Behind the barn is the red-brick rectory where the great 17th- century scholar Meric Casaubon lived and died.

Caption For Launceston, Windmill Hill C1960

Just up from the pub are the elegant red brick offices of Peter, Peter and Sons, Solicitors, built in 1911 by Claude Hurst Peter.

Caption For Cambridge, Girton College 1908

But while these red-brick buildings offered women higher education, it was only fifty years later that women became entitled to receive degrees.

Caption For East Dean, Village Green C1955

A view taken from the war memorial pictured in No 71402, showing the subtle changes wrought in some thirty five years - a flint-built house with brick decoration now stands on the left, creeper

Caption For Bramber, The Village C1955

Some are built of brick or flint, and some are creeper-clad.

Caption For Polzeath, The Sands 1895

Hayle Bay, with its lines of evenly-breaking surf and golden sand, is now a mecca for surfers and tourists, and New Polzeath has grown along the low cliffs on the opposite side of the beach.

Caption For Morecambe, The Clock Tower C1950

The marked two colours of brick are not so easy to distinguish fifty years on from our earlier photographs.

Caption For Horsmonden, The Village 1903

Bricks were made here in Victorian times, and there were several flour mills.

Caption For East Challow, Post Office And Village Hall C1965

During the 1980s the green wooden Village Hall, opposite, was replaced by a modern brick building.

Caption For Puriton, Middle Street C1955

Puriton's brick and tile industry has now gone, but Middle Street is much the same today.

Caption For Thornton Cleveleys, Marsh Mill C1955

Marsh Windmill is a large Fylde-type brick tower mill with four patent shuttered sails and a fantail.

Caption For Colchester, St Martin's Church 1921

The late 17th-century tower with its liberal use of salvaged Roman brick fell in the 17th century.

Caption For Braunston, High Street C1950

Some of the houses are built of brick, some of stone.

Caption For Wellingborough, River Nene And Victoria Mills C1965

These vast buildings, the brick ones in part dated 1886, are well known landmarks when approaching Wellingborough from the south.

Caption For Salisbury, Catherine Street 1906

To the left, Wilson's façade is a fine example of Victorian decorative brick work.

Caption For Heacham, High Street C1955

The railway from Heacham to Wells was a lifeline for the export of local grain, vegetables, bricks and shellfish for metropolitan markets.

Caption For Rye, Mermaid Street 1888

Its historic buildings, ranging from medieval half-timber to Georgian brick, are well-preserved today.

Caption For Upchurch, The Village C1955

Although actually very old, this is another Medway-side village that was left with a distinctly Victorian appearance by the 19th century building boom, when it was a source of brick earth and also chalk

Caption For Southborough, St Peters Church 1896

Consecrated in August 1830, St Peterís church is built in brick and stone; it consists of chancel, nave, north and south porches, and an eastern tower with a spire containing a clock and six bells