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These cottages are now known as Ryders, but it appears that in Edwardian times the place (or maybe this corner) may also have been known as "Seven Trees Well": I have a postcard with this picture on it sent on 7th May 1906 to a ...Read more

A memory of Okewood Hill in 1900 by Gary Crouch

Ormerod House passed out of the Ormerod family when the male line died out and the three daughters of the last Ormerod married. Their husbands were John Hargreaves, a local coal mine owner, the Rev William Thursby who became vicar of ...Read more

A memory of Burnley in 1900 by Claire Allen

Hi, I am Louise Brown of Australia. My grandmother Ellen Maud Edwards (married name Jefferis) lived with her parents Samuel and Alice Maud Edwards (Searle), at the cliff Cottage on the Peek Estates around the ...Read more

A memory of Rousdon in 1900 by Louise Brown

I was born in rented 'rooms' at Wordsworth Road in 1936 and came to move with my parents to five different addresses at Easington before I moved away from the area, when I married in 1963. But although my ...Read more

A memory of Easington Colliery in 1900 by Harold(Harry) Barnes

My father Edward Potts was born in Kibblesworth in 1900 his brothers were William Potts, Noble Potts and his sister was Hilda Potts. All the brothers were miners in Kibblesworth. When dad married we moved to Birtley ...Read more

A memory of Kibblesworth in 1900 by Catherine Cowing

Relating to the two little girls standing in the street, the one on the right is Nellie Davy, my aunt. She was the eldest child of Harry and Mary Ann Davy (nee Ferrett). Nellie and three other siblings were born at Butts but ...Read more

A memory of Boscastle in 1900 by Kay Davy

This shows an early Victorian horse-drawn omnibus on the Park Street, Clifton, City Centre Bristol Zoo route. The fleet commenced with various horse trailers, totalling 109 with 678 horses. These were ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1900 by Paul Townsend

My husband's great-grandfather David Deal was one of the police constables for Leiston and is mentioned in the 1901 Census aged 39 living with his wife Marianna and two of their three children at Valley Road, Leiston. My husband ...Read more

A memory of Leiston in 1900 by Rhonda Deal

My grandfather, Robert Urquhart, was a Signalman/ Porter, employed by the Highland Railway. He had served at Forres and Elgin before transferring to Mulben, about 1901. Robert (Bob) and wife Margaret (Maggie) already had three ...Read more

A memory of Mulben in 1900 by R Urquhart

In 1907 my Great-uncle, Arthur Jarrett, married Elizabeth Daniels in Ermington church. Elizabeth was the daugher of Frederick Daniels, who was then the landlord of the 'First and Last' Inn in Ermington. Arthur Jarrett ...Read more

A memory of Ermington in 1900