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Happy Days

The main memory that I have is growing up in a small village with lots of friends, the pear tree wall will last in my memory for ever, the meeting place for all, playing football on the green, fathers aginst the children, everyone was ...Read more

A memory of Haskayne in 1962 by Richard Melling

Married Quarters Inkerman Road

My dad was a military policeman stationed at Inkerman Barracks and we lived at No. 1 MSQ Inkerman Road. It was great fun there, the woods over the road, next to the Victoria Cafe (all now gone). To the side of No. 1 ...Read more

A memory of Knaphill in 1959 by John Burbridge

Beards

My family the Beards used to run the mill in the 1800s. They also had the shop on the green which was there for over three hundred years.

A memory of Chailey

Escrick Park Gardens Market Gardens 1950 1966

My aunt and uncle - Mr and Mrs George Pratt - used to manage the market gardens in Escrick. We had many happy holidays there, and I remember the peaches and apricots growing up the wall, rows and rows ...Read more

A memory of Escrick in 1950 by First Name Last Name

Childhood In Addlestone

I have many memories of Addlestone having lived there from 1940 to 1964. My family lived in Bourneside Road, at the far end was Coxes Lock Mill and the mill pond. We knew almost everybody that lived on Bois Hall estate. I ...Read more

A memory of Addlestone by Jacqueline Parsons

Personal Reflections

I was born in Sandleaze, Worton in 1957. I was brought up at 1 Mill Road near the Marston boundary. I remember many things about the village especially the Rose and Crown Pub and the Mill. I remember with pride the ...Read more

A memory of Worton by Teresa Lewis

Upleatham Church

I remember that The Green Howards (Army) did a renovation on the church some years ago. It could be anywhere between 1960 / 1970 ish, but I do remember that as a philatelist, a First Day Cover was issued and I bought one. ...Read more

A memory of Upleatham by Jim Humphrey

1901 Wickhambreux

Sarah Clayden Rudd nee Wacey and her daughters lived in Wickhambreux.  They were listed there at the time of the 1891 census as living 'the green' and in 1901 she and her daughters, Sarah and Rebecca, are living there and ...Read more

A memory of Wickhambreaux in 1890 by Mrs L Byrne

Church Street Camberwell

1950s. This is the view down Church Street from the cross road which we all knew as and called "the green" which is to the left of this picture. The large double fronted shop on the right was at the time a Joe Lyons ...Read more

A memory of Camberwell in 1950 by Richard Norman

My Great Granny Barker

At the far end of photo number H183005a - on the right - is a white wall. Mr and Mrs Barker lived in a one room plus a tiny kitchen downstairs, two tiny rooms up, from the 1930s until my great-grandmother died in the ...Read more

A memory of Heighington in 1944 by First Name Last Name

Captions

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Caption For Lincoln, Green Dragon Hotel C1955

The Green Dragon pub is a heavily restored fourteenth-century timber-framed building with a stone ground floor and two jettied or projecting upper storeys.

Caption For Ewell, High Street C1955

On the extreme right, the Green Man pub sign advertises its car park facilities, with Dunfold's bakery and Hodges the draper's and outfitter's shop just beyond.

Caption For Falmouth, Green Bank Hotel 1890

The Green Bank Hotel, on the south bank of the Penryn River, was built in 1785 to cash in on the trade brought to the town by the mail packets.

Caption For Horsforth, Church 1902

St Margaret's Church occupies a commanding position, which gives some panoramic views over farmland and around the town.

Caption For Kettering, Bus Station C1965

Until the 1960s, most people relied on public transport, and the green-liveried buses of United Counties carried workers and shoppers in and out of town on busy timetables.

Caption For Grayswood, Grayswood Road C1955

Back at ground level, this view looks across the pond near the church, past the railings alongside the A283 to the houses on the south side of the Green.

Caption For Bere Regis, St John The Baptist C1950

The memorial seat commemorates the six agricultural labourers who met beneath the sycamore tree (centre) in 1834, and were transported to Australia for taking an illegal oath during an initiation

Caption For Bridlington, Priory Church And Bayle Gate 1903

One mile inland is the church of St Mary, which includes the nave of the Augustinian priory founded here in 1119 by Walter de Gant.

Caption For Hartest, The Green C1960

To the right of the picture are the Hall, now the Crown Inn, and the church. Behind the war memorial is Church House, the former Guildhall.

Caption For Ascott Under Wychwood, The Swan C1950

Very much a village pub, the Swan has a beer garden at the back to cater for the local populace, who number around 500, and visitors who come this way to walk round this quiet spot.

Caption For Castleton, Market Place C1955

The village war memorial (right), on the green in Castleton's Market Place, takes the form of a Celtic cross.

Caption For Malham, Village C1877

The limestone cliffs, crags and scars make the setting for Malham a delight for urban eyes. The beck that flows over the cliff separates the village into western and eastern sections.

Caption For Westerham, The Green C1955

As its name implies, this small town is the westernmost in Kent, almost on the border with Surrey.

Caption For Harlow, High Street 1903

The road to Harlow was a turnpike costing 1s for a coach and horses, and 1d for a horse.

Caption For Calne, St Mary's Church C1955

This shows the war memorial on the corner of Kingsbury Street which leads to The Green.

Caption For Wrentham, The Cross Roads C1965

The A12 runs through the village, with Chapel Road (leading to the Congregational chapel of 1778) to the left and Blythburgh Road to the right.

Caption For Tetbury, The Green C1965

Once the centre of the Anglo-Saxon village, the Green is overlooked by houses mostly dating from the 16th and 17th centuries.

Caption For Sheet, Green 1898

The about-turn view of the last picture, this shows the unmistakable path beaten across The Green to the Queen's Head.

Caption For Tywyn, College Green 1901

The green was at the heart of the old village. The tower of the Norman church of St Cadfan stands in the centre. The church was restored and partly rebuilt in 1882.

Caption For Brimington, Manor Road C1965

The local garage is in on the Green Shield stamp craze; you were given so many stamps depending on the value of your purchase, which you then stuck in a booklet, each booklet holding a given number of

Caption For Haddenham, The Green C1950

After crossing the ancient causeway known as the King's Highway (which runs from Belsars Hill at Willingham to Aldreth) we reach the green at Haddenham and the road to Ely.

Caption For Havering Atte Bower, The Stocks And Whipping Post 1908

There is still a stocks and whipping post at Havering-atte-Bower, and there has been since at least the 17th century, when they were destroyed by a mob.

Caption For Alton, Bowling Green C1955

In 1949, the question of having a bowling green in the Public Gardens was raised with the Urban District Council, but it felt that it was not the right moment.

Caption For Glasgow, George Square 1897

Whereas Glasgow Green had been a part of the common grazing land of the burgh since the earliest times, the greening of Glasgow really began in 1852 when the city acquired the estates of Woodlands