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The building on the left is a carriage shed, used for holding spare passenger vehicles under cover. It is from the North Devon Railway in the 1850s and still appears to have broad gauge track (7ft gauge - not removed until 1877) laid ...Read more

A memory of Barnstaple in 1870

My family lived in Hawkedon from about the mid-1880s and came from Kirtling, Cambs.  I know that they ran the Queen's Head and I think my grandmother helped to teach at the local school. My mother's family (Bacon) were all born at ...Read more

A memory of Hawkedon in 1870 by Barbara Holdaway

My great-grandfather William Southam was born in 1829 in Catesby in Northamptonshire. He married Eliza Green, born Wormleighton, Warks. They lived in Ladbroke, Warks, in a cottage next to the School House that still exists but ...Read more

A memory of Ladbroke in 1870 by Patricia Butler

My name is Elizabeth Bonner, but then it was Elizabeth Esnol. I lived in Cottage 3 with Agnes, the Mcdonalds and Anne, Margaret, and Josephine Murray, and Aunty Irene Munzy, Aunty Anne (House ...Read more

A memory of Quarriers Village in 1870 by Elizabeth Esnol

While researching my family history I came across this article in the Eastern Counties Advertiser 18th October 1879. It is the coroner's report relating to my great great grandfather's brother Thomas Brassett 1815 - 1879 an ...Read more

A memory of Southminster in 1870 by J M Oldman

my great great grandparents mary&william street had this pub in the 1800's and my grandmother says she used to have to get up at 5 a.m. to go and clean for (grandmother and she'd ...Read more

A memory of Warnham Court School in 1870 by Sandra Baldwin

Would anyone reading this, have any knowledge, or photographs of Ty'n y Buarth, Llanrug? Where it once stood, there is now a modern housing estate. My e mail address is: abergele1754@hotmail.co.uk. Iorwerth Selwyn (Blaenau Ffestiniog)

A memory of Llanrug in 1870 by Iorwerth Selwyn

This was the day our house burt down in Oakland's Avenue, 5 fire engines - now that was a day to remember.

A memory of Wistow in 1870 by Alie Tilley

I have recently moved to North Road in Three Bridges into one of the original railway cottages, I can see that the house was there in a map of Three Bridges dated 1874 1:2500 scale. I am really interested in the history and would ...Read more

A memory of Three Bridges in 1870 by Paul Tobin

I lived at No. 16 Cowper Road from 1968 to 1978. A really lovely house, and many happy times spent there. We bought it for £5,500 and our mortgage was £20.00 a month.

A memory of Deal in 1870