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Memories

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Six Weeks In Pontypool

I was evacuated with my school to Pontypool on 1st September 1939. I was taken in with my friend Jim Baker, by a retired miner and his wife, and spent six weeks in what was alleged to be the smallest house in Pontypool. I ...Read more

A memory of Pontypool in 1930

Simms Cross

I was born at 9 Frederick Street, in 1941, and my earliest memory is of flags, streamers and buntings strung across the street every time a soldier came home 'from the war'. I don't know why, but the Union Jack flag absolutely ...Read more

A memory of Widnes in 1941 by Jackie Worrall

Courtenay Road 1953

I moved to Wantage with my parents Ted and Phyllis Willey and my brother Ken and sister Susan. At Garston Lane school one of my first friends was John Campbell who lived in Courtenay Road. We were aged 8. Another friend was Jim ...Read more

A memory of Wantage in 1953 by Keith Willey

Thomas Barwick

Perhaps you would like to know more about Thomas Barwick. Sarah Goodborn was Thomas' s second wife and was possibly the sister of his first wife, Eliza Goodborn, who appears to have died in childbirth. He had three children with Eliza: ...Read more

A memory of Deal by Helen Middleditch

Marching On The Green

I used to live in Niton Road, Richmond from 1946-67 until I married and moved to Kent. I joined the Girls Life Brigade when I was 5 years old and left when I was 12. In that time we used to practice our ...Read more

A memory of Richmond by Linda (Walden)Bexx Stallon

Childhood Memories

My father, Bertram Whittingham was a native of Hemsworth, born 1892 and I am the remaining son of the family born August 1926 in a small miner's cottage located at No. 7 North View. My father was a coal miner, working at ...Read more

A memory of Hemsworth in 1930 by George Whittingham

Melrose Cottage 8 Shalbourne

In the 1950s and early 1960s my brother and I were fostered to a Miss Little and her sister at 8 Shalborne, there were several children living there and I have many fond memories of our stay. We used to sleep in a ...Read more

A memory of Shalbourne by Rob Barnett

My Beginning...

My name is Russell Ham. I was born on May the 10th, 1962. I was adopted at about the age of six weeks, I think. The best thing that ever happened to me. I arrived at number 5, Thomas Street, in the summer of 1962, to the home of ...Read more

A memory of Gilfach Goch in 1962 by Russell Ham

Bourne Avenue Harlington School

I lives in Bourne Avenue from1954-1972 and loved it with my parents and 2 sister Sandra and Pauline, our maiden name is HOWE. We used to go to Harlington Secondary School. I have so many memories of living in Hayes, ...Read more

A memory of Hayes

Memories

I went to Northmoor back in the 1940s and stayed with my parents' friends Mrs Bastable and her family for 6 weeks. The house was thatched and just across the way from a line of trees called "The Causeway". I remember going ...Read more

A memory of Northmoor in 1940 by Joyce Heathfield (Nee Hove

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Captions

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Caption For Godmanchester, The Causeway C1960

Part of this building now houses a fish and chip shop. In 1987 the local newspaper reported that the Causeway was reproduced in a model village outside Canberra in Australia!

Caption For Saffron Walden, Bridge Street C1955

These are the first houses we see as we enter the town from the north; they have been described as 'an outstanding group of mostly 15th- and 17th-century timber-framed buildings'.

Caption For Launceston, The Square 1890

The oval Butter Market was designed by George Wightwick, who simultaneously designed the Lower Market House, which still stands in Market Street and is now an arcade.

Caption For Launceston, The Square 1890

The oval Butter Market was designed by George Wightwick, who simultaneously designed the Lower Market House, which still stands in Market Street and is now an arcade.

Caption For Launceston, The Square 1890

The oval Butter Market was designed by George Wightwick, who simultaneously designed the Lower Market House, which still stands in Market Street and is now an arcade.

Caption For Cowes, Northwood House C1955

Northwood House was the home of Tennyson's friend William George Ward in the 19th century. The poet and Ward would often stroll around Northwood's exquisite gardens.

Caption For Lowestoft, Yacht Basin 1896

He was also involved with the building of Nelson's Column, the Houses of Parliament, and railway lines all over the world.

Caption For Cambridge, 1914

With houses crowded together, yards like this were not uncommon in Cambridge.

Caption For Chilham, Post Office 1903

Its pretty houses grouped around a square by the castle gates lend it a timeless air.

Caption For Largs, The Church And Seafront 1897

New houses have also been erected nearby. St Columba's Parish Church is still a landmark.

Caption For Kirkstall Abbey, 1891

Kirkstall was founded in 1152 as a daughter house of Fountains Abbey. Building work was completed by 1175 and iron forging began in 1200.

Caption For London, Westminster Abbey 1908

Behind are Big ben and the Houses of Parliament.

Caption For Asfordby, Church Lane C1960

Apart from All Saints, little of architectural quality has survived, except for a few rather handsome houses, including the Rectory of 1808 and the Old Hall.

Caption For Loddon, Riverside C1968

Aston Boats' Nissen huts have now been taken over by Princess Cruisers, and the sheds alongside the moorings have been replaced by a house.

Caption For Bury St Edmunds, Cornhill C1965

The range to the right of the Post Office has been rebuilt as Lipton House. Stead and Simpson have traded from a shop on this site since at least 1898.

Caption For Kettering, The Church C1960

This village-like landscape is a reminder of the old centre of Kettering, which clustered around the Manor House and the church. There are now only a few gravestones left in the re-organised area.

Caption For Staithes, 1932

Yards or passages lead to many of the houses; they seem to have been put wherever they would fit, a little like a wrongly-completed jigsaw. This gives the village a unique charm.

Caption For Laindon, Church Road C1955

The bungalows along Church Road are fairly representative of the kind of housing to be seen in Laindon before the New Town came. Several of them are still there.

Caption For Eastleigh, The Airport C1960

The air traffic control centre is housed in a building which rather resembles an old war-time nissen hut; to the right of it is the quaintly-named emergency services rendezvous point.

Caption For Odiham, Canal Wharf 1906

From c1890 the premises was advertised as the Cricketers Inn and Boating House.

Caption For Saunton, Sands 1920

The 'proper' housing lines the Braunton to Croyde road, and the sea (behind the camera) is a noted surfing area.

Caption For Bradford On Avon, Knees Corner 1900

Most of the town's finest buildings are Georgian - the woollen mills and the merchants' houses. Bath stone was used for many of the buildings.

Caption For Bisley, Church 1911

Although the village now has a number of modern housing developments, the church still stands in a rural location.

Caption For Kingsclere, Market Square C1955

The shop 'Chance' has gone and is now a private house. Outside stands a bus stop.