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Summer Holidays

Does anyone remember Woodchurch caravan park? We used to go every year from 1969 until its closure in 1973. My aunt and uncle had a caravan there. If you came up from the village it was past the windmill over the crossroads and ...Read more

A memory of Woodchurch in 1973 by Karl Turner

1967 1968 Latimer House

I was posted to joint services staff college as it was then, I was there for 6 months during which time as a cook I served many famous people, including the Queen! Many fond memories for me, it was a very nice place.

A memory of Latimer by Robert Fuller

Lymm Parochial C Of E School

We moved to Lymm from Altrincham soon after the war when my mother remarried (she was a war widow).  It was lovely having a new Council house which had a bathroom and inside toilet - I had been used to an outside toilet ...Read more

A memory of Lymm in 1947 by Margaret Hampson

The Eclipse Pub

The public house in this picture is 'The Eclipse'. I lived in the Eclipse as a small boy in the mid 1950s. My bedroom was on the top floor. I use to lie in bed at night and watch the Bovril electric sign across the road. My ...Read more

A memory of Leicester in 1955 by Steven Scotney

The High Street Sayer's Store 'nim' And Phyl Alen

My name is Barbara Tester and I live in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. My beloved (late) husband, Brian Tester, was born on 26th July, 1930 at No. 1 Station Cottages, 1 Station Road, Ardingly. His ...Read more

A memory of Ardingly in 1958 by Barbara Tester

Ugbrooke House

I visited Ugbroooke House in June 2009 for an Open Day they hosted to raise funds for local RNLI stations. It is a beautiful old stone mansion with a fascinating history associated with the Clifford family over the centuries. ...Read more

A memory of Ugbrooke Ho in 2009 by John Howard Norfolk

Davies

Hello. My name Roger Evans, I now live in Spanish Fork, Utah, USA. My birth place was Ystrad Mynach. I was wondering  if someone out there has any information on the Davies family who moved to Pontywaun from London in the 1960s? They lived ...Read more

A memory of Pontywaun in 1963 by Roger Evans

Tina Carrol

Hi Tina. I also have good memories of Cliffe, I can remember going to your house for one of your birthday parties  and I think at one time you were my girlfriend! I was always down the marshes on old motorbikes and scooters, and I used ...Read more

A memory of Cliffe by k_beagley

Holidays With Grandad

Thank you for showing the photo of Bank Houses, the house on the right was where my grandad lived and I spent a lot of very happy holidays there. His garden was aways full of lovely things to eat and as I lived in an ...Read more

A memory of Somersham in 1954 by Pamela Binns

A Wonderful Aunt

My Aunt Emma was born Emma Blood, she had two sisters Ivy and Lily all born in Middleton by Wirksworth. Emma was born circa 1903. In the 1920s she was a domestic at what she called the 'big house at Ashbourne'. She ...Read more

A memory of Middleton by Elizabeth Park

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Captions

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Caption For Plymouth, George Street 1889

The site is now occupied by sheltered housing.

Caption For Botley, The Village C1950

Signs on the wall of the house on the left advertise Lyon's Tea, Red Bell Tobacco and Borwick's Baking Powder.

Caption For Hook, London Road C1955

In the 1960s, housing estates emerged everywhere, and Hook was to be no exception. Until this time growth had been gradual; now it has soared.

Caption For Luton, Town Centre C1965

We can see that the 1960s have arrived with this modern shop and office block, which is housing an enlarged Boots the Chemist.

Caption For Hixon, Green Man Inn C1955

In the 19th century the Bank House brewed its own beer: the wall and steps of the malt kiln and the cellar can be seen on the right.

Caption For Gerrans, The Village C1955

The houses and telephone box are the same today, but a public toilet has replaced the hedge on the left.

Caption For Hermitage, Slanting Hill C1955

Several substantial new houses have been built on the left of the road in recent years.

Caption For Hope Under Dinmore, The Church C1955

Stagecoaches would have been forced to stop here to pay their toll at the toll house overlooking the junction. Notice the AA phone box, a common sight around the countryside in the 1950s.

Caption For Coventry, St Michael's Church, Interior C1884

St Michael’s housed six chapels belonging to the town’s dyers, cappers, mercers, smiths, girdlers, and

Caption For Egremont, Promenade 1902

At first he built himself a house which he named Egremont, after his home town in Cumbria, and the name spread from there.

Caption For Astbury, The Village And Church 1902

The ivy-clad cottages facing the village green were built in the 19th century for agricultural workers, and are an example of the general improvement in housing for estate workers.

Caption For Weston Super Mare, Pier 1904

The pavilion at the end of the pier housed a 2,000-seat theatre where all the top music hall stars of the day appeared.

Caption For Wickford, High Street C1950

The shrubs conceal Ladybrow, a former doctor's house and surgery. It was demolished in the late 1960s, and the site is now occupied by the Ladygate Shopping Centre.

Caption For Falmouth, Jacobs Ladder 1924

It was built in the 1830s by the builder and tallow-chandler Jacob Hamblen to create a direct, if somewhat exhausting, route between his shop and house.

Caption For Colchester, The Sign Of The Old Rose And Crown C1955

A range of 15th- and 16th-century timber- framed houses, some jettied, the Rose and Crown follows the curve of a lane linking Ipswich Road and East Street.

Caption For North Walsham, Market Place 1921

The fine timber-framed Market Cross of 1602 replaced the 1549 one, which was destroyed along with more than 100 houses in a disastrous fire in 1600.

Caption For Lowestoft, The Yacht Basin C1960

Yachts and motor launches idle in the Yacht Basin under the gaze of the Royal Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club, housed in the startling white building at the end of the harbour.

Caption For Oundle, West Street C1950

The Victoria Inn on the left of the picture is now a private house. Oundle School occupies many buildings in and around the town.

Caption For Newnham, The Cottage C1955

Here we look up School Hill, past New Cottage (new in 1716 when built) to Stone House.

Caption For Fulbourn, High Street C1950

Down by the crossroads is the Six Bells public house, while to the left, the church is one of only two in England dedicated to Saint Vigor.

Caption For Ambleside, Bridge House 1912

Easily the most famous and most photographed building in Ambleside is Bridge House, a tiny one-up, one-down building constructed on a bridge over the Stock Beck.

Caption For Hitchin, Park Street 1901

The lane to the right leads to Gosmore, and at the top of the hill in front of us, hidden by the bushes, is the Moorhens public house. The footpath follows the original level of the road.

Caption For Bradford, Post Office, Forster Square C1950

The fine open square also housed the nearby Midland Station and warehouses.

Caption For Maldon, Market Hill 1909

, with onlookers watching the Frith photographer, who has set up his camera where Market Hill turns sharply to descend to Fullbridge Flow Mill and a bridge over the River Chelmer.The tall house