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Grew Up In Northwood

I was born there in 1957 and lived there until 1975. Rhodes had those lovely handmade sweets. There was a Delicatessen next door..always had a lovely smell of roasting coffee - and fabulous wheels of Brie.. The reindeer pub always ...Read more

A memory of Northwood

A Million Miles From A Game Of Football.

I wrote this piece for a writing group exercise in April/May 2019, near my home in NE Scotland. LIttle did I know then that some of the memories would form part of my Mum's Eulogy just three months later. The day ...Read more

A memory of Wembley by shea.carol

Childhood

I lived in Balham from the year I was born until 1963 when my family moved. I went to Henry Cavendish School and remember the swimming pool being built after a lot of fund raising. Mr Bassett was the music teacher and wrote many musicals ...Read more

A memory of Balham

Memories Of Wooburn From America

My mother, Vera Brown, was born in Wooburn Green and lived at 135 Boundary Road until she came to America to marry my father after WWII. (My father was based in High Wycombe during the war.) As my gran and ...Read more

A memory of Wooburn Green in 1965 by Valerie Killigrew

The Lodge Gate

I was born in 1919 at Bifrons Lower Lodge Gate, which at that time comprised two dwellings. The part we lived in had been a school provided by the Marquis of Conyngham for estate children. It was shaped like a letter T. The ...Read more

A memory of Patrixbourne in 1910 by David Alexander

The Roundabout

On the left hand side behind the wall you can just see the top of the roundabout that we used to play on, along with the swings. The wall marked the boundary of Higher Bebington Park. There was a gap in the hedge next to the ...Read more

A memory of Bebington in 1964 by Paul Griffiths

On The River Mole

The River Mole forms the county boundary here, south-west of the church, so the right bank in the view is in Sussex. This is Long Bridge, seen from Church Meadow, now a more manicured space. The bridge carried the London to Brighton road for many years; it was rebuilt in the 1970s.

A memory of Horley

Fairview

My memories of Oldends are many and happy - My grandparents - Oscar and Violet Lane (known to many as Mrs Oscar) lived for many years at Fairview. where they brought up their family Victor, Alfred, Bob and Grace. As a small girl in the ...Read more

A memory of Stonehouse in 1953 by Liz Hoather

Farming At Stocks Farm 1957 58

Ernie Styles and I started work on my stepfather and mother's farm (Patrick and Annette Lawford) when we were both 17 (1957). There was also Reg Whittear (mechanic/tractor driver, John Spreadbury and George Langridge. ...Read more

A memory of Meonstoke by Fairfax Luxmoore

Minster Memories

This is a westward looking view of Monkton Road and from what I can remember from my childhood, the building on the left with the bicycle outside was Danters fish & chip shop. Mr. & Mrs. Danter were very ...Read more

A memory of Minster in 1970 by Andy Finn

Captions

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Caption For Shottermill, Three Counties Bridge 1907

The three boundaries of Sussex, Hampshire and Surrey all meet by the bridge across the River Wey.

Caption For Rottingdean, Village Pond C1955

Although within Brighton's boundaries since 1928, it retains much of its character, despite Saltdean's sprawl colliding from the east.

Caption For Harlow, River Stort C1955

Through this area runs the River Stort, which also forms one of the boundary lines for the county.

Caption For Farnborough, Queen's Avenue And Queens Parade 1928

The large grassy area behind the trees on the right is Queen's Parade through which runs the Aldershot-Farnborough boundary.

Caption For Widnes, Runcorn Widnes Bridge C1960

Below the bridges we can see the River Mersey, which was the former county boundary.

Caption For Grayshott, Headley Road C1960

The Hampshire/Surrey border boundary stone stands on this road.

Caption For Bristol, College Green 1887

Bristol also had two hospitals for lepers: St Mary Magdalene's, Brightbow, was for women, while a similar institution for men existed to the east of the town boundary.

Caption For Dumpton Gap, 1894

Dumpton lies within the urban boundaries of St Peter's and Broadstairs; its earlier name, 'Dodemayton', has long been forgotten, as has the hermit Pettit, who lived in a cave at Dumpton.

Caption For Loose, Village 1898

Two miles south of Maidstone, this little secretive village perched on a hillside once had thirteen watermills within its boundaries, powered by the two main streams flowing into the River Medway.

Caption For Kettering, The Market 1922

The shops and houses to the right of the church have all gone; now, trees form the boundary.

Caption For Islip, Church And Lychgate C1955

The river forms the parish boundary with Thrapston, now a small industrial town on the east bank.

Caption For York, St Mary's Tower C1885

At one time the abbey boundary wall stood along the river bank.The little building to the rear, which here has 'baths' written on it, is now used as a store for canoes.

Caption For London, Law Courts C1890

We can see the monument topped by a dragon marking Temple Bar on the City boundary in the middle of the road.

Caption For Filey, The Ravine C1935

Until the 19th century this was a boundary between the north and east ridings.

Caption For Buckfastleigh, General View C1955

The old road still marks the boundary of Dartmoor National Park.

Caption For Rudgwick, The King's Head C1955

The village of Rudgwick stands hard by the Surrey border, its church literally just a few yards from the county boundary.

Caption For Ludlow, Corve Street 1910

The photographer was standing on the position of the old town wall/boundary.

Caption For Sutton, Albion Road 1904

Albion Road, the most easterly of the Victorian developments south of the railway, has its back garden fences along the parish boundary with Carshalton.

Caption For Disley, Market Street C1960

The town also sits on the northern boundaries of the Peak District National Park and beside the estate at Lyme Park (perhaps best known these days for the lake Mr Darcy dived into in the TV version of

Caption For Basildon, Development Corporation C1960

Their headquarters, Gifford House, were just outside the New Town boundaries, a fact that prompted accusations of stand-offishness.

Caption For Cheam, Park Lane C1955

Framed beneath the spreading tree, which previously stood within the boundary of Whitehall before the road-widening process was embarked on in the 1930s, is this view of the Broadway looking south.

Caption For Edgware, St Margarets Parish Church 1954

and the street signs have changed, but the church, with its substantial 15th-century ragstone west tower and mid 18th-century brick-faced body, remains substantially unaltered behind its panelled brick boundary

Caption For South Tidworth, Old Cottages C1962

South Tidworth is situated in the Test Valley, but in the 1974 boundary changes it ended up in Wiltshire.

Caption For Petersfield, Market Place 2004

The 1922 post office has taken the place of Castle House which went in 1913 and if you look you will see that the post office building line exactly corresponds to the line of Castle House boundary