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Memories

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Boundary Road/Frinton Road

Being born in Boundary Road, listening to the yells from West ham on a Saturday, the old Co op butchers and grocery shop, Brampton school/ park, the bakers, the milkman with a horse, playing in the street, calling car ...Read more

A memory of East Ham in 1945

General Memories

I was born in '47 at West Mid so a pre NHS baby boomer (just). I have been looking on Google maps at our old house in Staines Road. It looks so much much smaller though it is a 3 bed detached. It is next to what was Hollygrove Works ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow by Howard Sanders

Wylam Train

August 2012. Its a small place Newcastle how about this for a coincidence. I was out on a walk between Wylam and Newburn and as I passed the Tidal Stone (which I mention in my stories) I met this man walking his dog, we chatted and I ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1910 by Jimmy Burrows

Happy Days

I used to live in norwood green boundary close remember playing football and cricket on the green and playing in the public field near ron brewers donkey field people I remember peter tuck chris and mike ede and tony uff and mike uff be great to hear from any of these people .

A memory of Norwood Green in 1955 by Emrys Thickens

The Ryse

My Grandmother lived in Yew Tree Cottage, The Ryse Hatfield Heath with Bob Challis. I was a little girl growing up in London, and would visit at Weekends and school holidays. Uncle Bob was a stockman on the farm but later due to ill ...Read more

A memory of Hatfield Heath in 1965 by Jane Puddephatt

Pinehurst Caravan Site

What a surprise to find a picture of Pinehurst Caravan Park, very likely the only postcard to survive! The site was in Hewarts Lane, Rose Green. My late mother and my great-aunt purchased a caravan 'Romany' on the site and ...Read more

A memory of Aldwick in 1958 by Colin Read

Memories Of Bitton In Gloucestershire

The Grange at Bitton was the home of the Seymour family, one member of which was Jane, the third wife of King Henry VIII. The village is dominated by its open countryside setting. This relationship arises from ...Read more

A memory of Bitton by Paul Townsend

Doctor's Cottage On Church Lane

This lovely cottage looks like the one which was located near where I used to live and go to school back in the 1960s. If I am right then the curved space in the bottom right of this picture was the boundary of a ...Read more

A memory of Balsham in 1969 by Judith Tack

Park House Estate Blackwater

Hello, If you know about this place please add your history, I live in Beech Drive which is in the grounds of old Park House, A30, we understand it had tennis courts and a drive from the A30, its boundery is with the ...Read more

A memory of Blackwater in 1900 by David James

School Days In Hornchurch

I was born in Hornchurch and attended North Street School, I can still smell the greens from the canteen. We had little beds put up in the hall and after dinner we had to have a little sleep before afternoon school, then ...Read more

A memory of Hornchurch in 1946 by Doreen Trigg Ne Birleson

Captions

233 captions found. Showing results 193 to 216.

Caption For Sutton, Banstead Downs, Golf Links 1903

This scene is of Banstead Downs, which are actually outside Sutton's boundaries, south of Belmont station.

Caption For Cheam, St Dunstan's Church And Lychgate 1925

The wall on the extreme right of the photograph once marked the boundary of West Cheam Manor.

Caption For Stanmore, Village 1906

Gone the row of cottages, probably only thirty years old when the photograph was taken, and now gone is the Red House, an 18th-century building behind its boundary wall, but out of sight to the extreme

Caption For Lytham, Parish Church 1890

In later years the cross defined monastic lands; one boundary was at the hamlet of Cross Slack.

Caption For Waddington, War Memorial 1921

Beating the parish bounds was important – the ceremony impressed upon young people the extent of the boundaries.

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 Tarring, The Church 1890

To the right is Church House, which shortly before this view was taken had ceased to be a farmhouse; the flint walls in front are remnants of its barns, retained as boundary walls.

Caption For Oldcotes, Main Street C1965

Still close to the Yorkshire county boundary and south- west of Harworth, Oldcotes village is situated at the crossroads of the A634 and A60; Main Street runs east from the A60 Doncaster Road

Caption For Abingdon, The Bridges From The Church Tower C1945

Oxfordshire's boundary was on the right bank with the riverside path until 1974, when Abingdon and north Berkshire became part of Oxfordshire.

Caption For Harrow On The Hill, Peterboro Road 1906

Behind the camera, built into the boundary wall, is a small stone plaque commemorating, what may well have been Britain's first fatal motor accident.

Caption For Bridport, Bradpole Road 1903

A horseman rides north-eastwards, along what is now St Andrew's Road towards Bradpole, when this was part of that parish before boundary changes brought the northern suburbs into Bridport borough.

Caption For Westbourne, County Gates 1913

The lodge became known as County Gates because this junction on the main Bournemouth-Poole road was also the boundary between both the two towns and Hampshire and Dorset.

Caption For Bush Hill, Elmscott Gardens C1955

Look at the timber windows with their coloured glass, the original front doors, the solid, yet attractive, garage doors, the original gates and boundary walls, and realise that all this has for the greater

Caption For Worthing, The Broadway 1919

The trees and flint wall in the photograph marked the southern boundary of the Warwick estate.

Caption For Castle Acre, The Priory, The West Front 1891

The priory occupied over 40 acres - there are remains of its flint boundary walls.

Caption For Simpson, Main Road C1958

Back in the new city of Milton Keynes, Simpson is one of the villages it engulfed; but it is conserved within its boundaries.

Caption For Royston, Therfield Heath 1929

Skirted by the Icknield Way on the right, the expanse of Therfield Heath originally stretched from the boundary of Baldock to Royston.

Caption For Bridport, West Allington 1897

Street names intially included 'Reform Place 1835' to commemorate electoral changes after the Boundary Commission had reported: 'The chief trade arises from the manufacture of hemp and flax, and Allington

Caption For Broxbourne, The Parish Church C1955

Hoddesdon was a small hamlet on its northern boundary, but when its church of St Paul was built, it broke away.

Caption For Worthing, East Parade 1919

Visitors, when looking westwards from the pier in 1899, would have seen terrace after terrace of lodging houses, interspersed with the occasional Victorian hotel, stretching to beyond the Heene Parish boundary

Caption For Tadcaster, The Bridge 1906

The centre of the bridge marks the boundary of the West Riding and the Ainstey of York - a grant of land by King John to the city that contained some twenty villages.

Caption For Hemingford Grey, St James' Church 1898

The gentle Great Ouse not only formed the northern boundary of the village, but it was a main source of trade and communication with Huntingdon and St Ives.

Caption For Southsea, Dagmar Terrace 1890

In 1895, the borough boundaries were extended to include the Great Salterns, and in 1904, the whole island was incorporated into the borough.

Caption For Southsea, South Parade Pier 1892

In 1895, the borough boundaries were extended to include the Great Salterns, and in 1904, the whole island was incorporated into the borough.