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Memories

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Thomas Binns 1845 1921 No 1 The Green Later No 3 Grange Cottages

Hello - I would be very grateful for any information - especially photos - of my ancestor Thomas Binns who moved from Cowling to Micklethwaite c. 1898. He had built ...Read more

A memory of Micklethwaite in 1900 by Joan Tindale

Will It Be Open?

My family moved from Bermondsey, where we shared my grandad's house, to Enfield, where Mum and Dad had managed to buy their own house (for £2,000) in 1960. It was some years before Dad could afford driving lessons and then a car. We ...Read more

A memory of London in 1966 by Carol Fisher

Growing Up In Bradninch

I was born and lived in Bradninch until I went to college when I was 19 in 1969. I was born in the house in Townlands and lived there all the time. After Dad died, Mum moved to Millway Gardens, It was a great place to ...Read more

A memory of Bradninch by Hilary Fraser

''the Grapevine'' And Others!

My uncle, the late William John Wilcox, was the proprietor of the 'Grapevine' from the mid 1930s through to the early 1960s. I remember it as a truly old fashioned 'pub' complete with a 'games room' with darts, shove ...Read more

A memory of Meare in 1940 by Barrie R Collins

Bonners Drive Post 1963

I have lived in Bonners Drive since March 1963, it has changed a lot, all the hedges on the left side of photo have been removed, there is also another 4 houses which have been built on that side as well, built in ...Read more

A memory of Millwey Rise by Brian Downton

The Back House

I was born in Sedgefield and lived in North Bitchburn until I was 7 years old, me and my twin sister Elizabeth and my mam amd dad who worked at the pipe yard. We lived in no 1a Constantine Terrace, it was the back half of ...Read more

A memory of North Bitchburn by Margaret Cummings

Grandparents Shop

My Grandparents, Joseph and Lilian Stokes, had this property built about 1953, they opened a general stores, the only one for miles around, and also ran the local post office in the shop, a few years later. Many many ...Read more

A memory of Compton Bishop by Sharman Keen

Pound Street

My first main job on leaving school (Shaw House) was as a tea boy-dogsbody at H C James timber and builders merchants in Pound Street. For quite a while I cycled daily from Highclere Castle, approx 4 miles, it took me just over half ...Read more

A memory of Newbury in 1956 by Percival Mills

Distant Memories

I had returned to UK from Queensland to visit my mother who was ill and waiting at the platform entrance at Waterloo station when a former colleague from Post Office Overseas Telegraph came up to me and we began a ...Read more

A memory of Frimley Green in 1978 by John Scott

Langley 1979 83, Good Old Days

I was at Langley between 1979/83, Mr and Mrs Wright, good people, Mr Trameer and good lady daughter Alex, she'd be 31 year now, I wonder what she's doing. I haven't seen anyone from my day exept Ronnie. I've been to ...Read more

A memory of Baildon in 1880 by Mark Bradley

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Captions

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Caption For Parkgate, The Beach C1939

Some of the boys on the beach were probably from Mostyn House School in the town; the yacht in the foreground is a typical 12ft vessel favoured by the school.

Caption For Fonmon, The Castle 1899

Parts of the original castle were incorporated into the 17th-century manor house. The castle appears to have been rebuilt in the 18th century and repaired during the 19th century.

Caption For Ide Hill, C1965

This small hamlet, with its modest houses clustered around a village green, was known as 'the dome of Kent' from a crown of beech trees surmounting its position high up on the sandstone ridge overlooking

Caption For Bath, From Grosvenor Hotel 1935

Looking back to the former Empire Hotel, opened in 1901 and a poor counterweight to the Abbey, we see the houses of Terrace Walk on the left, now with ground-floor shops, which faced the Greek temple-style

Caption For Ipswich, Christchurch Park 1921

Its very Dutch-looking curved and pedimented gables came when the house was rebuilt after fire destroyed the upper storey in 1674.

Caption For Grantham, Avenue Road 1904

There are now fewer trees, and several of the houses are offices or hotels. At the left is the rock-faced stone St Peter's Hill United Reformed Church of 1869.

Caption For Lincoln, Castle Gates C1955

The Norman castle building involved demolishing over 160 Anglo-Saxon houses; since the Middle Ages it has served as a prison and assize courts. This concludes our brief tour of Lincoln itself.

Caption For Metheringham, High Street C1955

Roughly east of Navenby, where the limestone descends to the flat east of the county, Metheringham is a large village with a mix of stone and brick older houses interspersed with Victorian and later development

Caption For Bishop Auckland, The Castle 1892

Begun as a manor house, Bishop Auckland was castellated around 1300, though much of the building shown here dates from the extensive alterations carried out in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Caption For Heyshott, Cobden Monument 1906

With the funds of the National Testimonial to him, he purchased and re-built Dunsford House, his birthplace, which was presented to the Liberal Party in 1924 by his daughter.

Caption For Forest Row, Hartfield Road 1907

As its name implies, it was originally a single row of houses, but it developed rapidly after the opening of its own railway station in 1866.

Caption For East Grinstead, Tooth's Shop 1927

This interior of a 15th-century Tudor house is part of Tooth's stationery shop, located on the south side of the High Street.

Caption For Leicester, The Tudor Gatehouse, Castle Street C1955

This attractive close-studded timbered house of the mid 15th century provides a fine, almost secret entrance to Castle Yard.

Caption For St Ives, Market Hill C1955

Looking in the opposite direction to No S23030 (page 79), we can see on the right-hand site of the street two of the 48 public houses that could be found in the town in 1889.

Caption For Warrington, Bridge Street C1950

came the Public Benefit Boot & Shoe Co, Gaskell's the butchers, Hallett the jewellers (goldsmiths and silversmiths), Carter's Cafe and finally the awnings of Hodgkinsons, another traditional drapers and house

Caption For Gipping, The Chapel C1955

The chapel of St Nicholas was built in the 1480s adjacent to his manor house by Sir James Tyrell.

Caption For Castleton, Main Street C1955

Solid sandstone terraced houses line the Main Street of Castleton in Eskdale, on the northern edge of the North York Moors.

Caption For Newbury, Market Place C1960

The statue was made by Doulton Potteries and remained on this site until the early 1930s when it was removed to the grounds of Greenham House, and then later moved to Victoria Park.

Caption For Gnosall, High Street C1950

One of the few thatched buildings in the area, the Duke's Head is no longer a public house.

Caption For Langwathby, The Post Office C1955

In the centre is Clyde House, once the post office, which along with the village store is now to be found in the converted sandstone barn on the left.

Caption For Godalming, Church Street 1906

The arch led to the rear of the Angel Hotel yard, owned at that time by John Jasper Taylor, who also had a temperance hotel, Deanery House, further down Church Street.

Caption For Godalming, Branksome School 1906

This very substantial bargate stone building - five storeys and a basement - was originally a private house, but became a prep school known as Silvesters, the headmaster's name.

Caption For Cleeve Prior, The Green C1960

The scene has hardly changed at all, except that there are now more houses beyond the road. Like so many villages locally, the population has grown considerably in the last few years.

Caption For Dovercourt, High Street C1955

Built in 1902, it housed their store, as well as a billiards room, a reading room, and a concert hall.