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The Gable House

The black and white half-timbered building in the photograph was The Gable House, owned by my late grandmother, Nancy Hawkes and her sister, Hilda Cook. The house was run as a short-term residential home for patients staying in ...Read more

A memory of Droitwich Spa in 1940 by David Hawkes

Memories Of Old Church Pontefract 1929 1939 K. Atkinson

The formative years of my early childhood were spent at No. 39 Bondgate, Pontefract, which was one of a block of four small two-up, two-down houses situated immediately adjacent to the front ...Read more

A memory of Pontefract in 1930 by Graham Atkinson

Morchard Road To Crediton Railway 1930

From 1935 to 1941 I was a pupil at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School Crediton, travelling every day by train from Morchard Road Station, leaving home at ten minutes past eight to board the eight thirty train ...Read more

A memory of Down St Mary in 1930 by John Shapland

The Lordship Of Tilstock

I hold the Lordship of the Manor of Tilstock and have many maps and papers relating to its history. The Manor covers 2550 acres (just over 4 square miles) and has existed since before the Norman Conquest, when it was part of ...Read more

A memory of Tilstock in 2009 by Raymond Lescott

An Enchanted Village Lower Boscaswell

I came to know a magic place. Where the sun rises above an enchanted village, follow the two turns in the trackthat time left here unhindered. Sunlight surrounds the three sided island, infusing it with ...Read more

A memory of Lower Boscaswell in 2006 by Jane Chandler

My House

I purchased Outlands in 1987 for £70,000, it was and still is my dream home with so much potential, we are still on generator and spring water, the river Camel with salmon and trout fishing is on one boundary and a stream on another boundry ...Read more

A memory of Bodmin in 1987 by David Newton

Many Fond Memories 1955 56

Hi, I remember with fondness Chiseldon, being at the camp in 1955 and early 1956. My best memories are of Ma's cafe which we all visited throughout the week and the many times we visited the Saturday night dances at the ...Read more

A memory of Chiseldon in 1955 by Allan Reid

Eastville Park

Eastville Park swimming pool was built in 1905, and the lake in 1909, with the present boathouse dating from 1925. Since then, local road building has resulted in the loss of the original boundaries of the park and its walls, gates and ...Read more

A memory of Bristol by Paul Townsend

The Boundary

If you look at the photograph of The Wells, on the crossroad that leads up the hill to Midland Road, the first shop on the corner used to be Barclays Bank but before then it was a tobacco shop and sweet shop combined. In the ...Read more

A memory of Royston by Roland Mitchell

Growing Up In Cold Ash Part Ii

Hello again. I started at Cold Ash School, St Marks C of E in 1953. The school consisted of the original brick building housing two class rooms and a large hall, plus a new wooden extension of two more class rooms and ...Read more

A memory of Cold Ash by grahamfsmith

Captions

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Caption For Ashwell, West End C1951

The first token reference to the growing traffic can be identified in the reflective pillar mounted on the boundary wall (centre).

Caption For Southampton, The Andrews Monument 1908

Today, no other city in England has such a large area of public common, and within its boundaries more than 350 species of flowering plants and over 100 species of birds have been identified.

Caption For Southampton, The Andrews Monument 1908

Today, no other city in England has such a large area of public common, and within its boundaries more than 350 species of flowering plants and over 100 species of birds have been identified.

Caption For Greatham, Front Street C1955

On the left are the boundary walls of the Hospital of God at Greatham, founded in 1273 – this was not a hospital in the modern sense, but accommodation for the elderly and the poor, the earliest present

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 Sutton On Trent, High Street C1955

It is a quirky building in leaded light vernacular style, and the boundary wall has milestones set in giving distances to Edinburgh, London and York.

Caption For Petersfield, The Red Lion C1955

This impractical arrangement came to an end, and the parishes then became responsible for the upkeep of roads within their boundaries.

Caption For Whalley, Moreton Hall 1897

Moreton Hall, Whalley lies just over the boundary from Great Harwood at the other side of the valley of the Calder.

Caption For Belfast, Zoo And Amusement Gardens, Bellevue 1936

When Belfast took over the tramway system to Glengormley, it found itself possessed of property outside the City boundary, along with some very attractive terrain sloping up to the mountains.

Caption For Stanmore, The Old Church, Uxbridge Road C1965

writing, this remarkable building is visually threatened by a proposal to build an estate of run-of-the-mill houses and flats on the redundant RAF Stanmore, immediately to the west of the churchyard boundary

Caption For Epsom, Woodcote Park 1927

This majestic and beautifully proportioned building was destroyed by fire on 1 August 1934, with only the balustrade, some stables, the two lodges and a flint boundary wall left standing.

Caption For Gedling, Coronation Walk And Burton Road C1960

Although they are outside the City of Nottingham's boundaries, Carlton and Gedling are really its eastern suburbs.

Caption For Sileby, Barrow Road C1965

The view looks at St Mary's from the north, along a varied terrace of possibly late 18th- and 19th- century houses which are not enhanced by the long brick boundary wall.

Caption For Barnoldswick, Tubber Hill C1920

This is another village that has moved with boundary changes.

Caption For Harworth, All Saints Church C1965

Moving west to the county's boundary with Yorkshire, our tour reaches Harworth, an old greatly expanded village lying east of the Tickhill to Blyth road.

Caption For Sutton, Gander Green Lane 1898

This road formed the old parish boundary between Sutton and Cheam.

Caption For Dunstable, High Street C1955

Forming a boundary with the original Augustinian priory site established by Henry I, the High Street follows the route of the Watling Street ancient trackway.

Caption For Ickleford, The Fields 1903

The county boundary cuts through the parlour of the old rectory, and an old oak beam in the fireplace was carved with the words: 'If you wish to go into Hertfordshire, Hitch in a little nearer the fire

Caption For Nottingham, Wollaton Hall C1950

The 500 acres of deer park was incorporated in the city boundaries in 1932, but only the east side, a strip along the north side, and a strip along the west side were developed for

Caption For Halifax, Technical School 1896

The law was limited to the forest of Hardwick, including the 18 towns and villages within its boundary.

Caption For Richmond, The Falls C1960

In 1972 Richmond Borough Council rebuilt half of the weir in their part of the River Swale; the rest beyond the Borough boundary was never completed.

Caption For Richmond, The Falls C1960

In 1972 Richmond Borough Council rebuilt half of the weir in their part of the River Swale; the rest beyond the Borough boundary was never completed.

Caption For Tenbury Wells, Teme Street 1898

St Mary's church sits overlooking the River Teme (also the county boundary).

Caption For Eaton Socon, The Green And The War Memorial C1960

In 1965, the county boundaries changed and Eaton Socon, with Eaton Ford, became part of Huntingdonshire.