Maps

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Memories

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Ve Day Party An Evacuee!

When the V2 Rockets started to land in London, (June 1944) our whole school was evacuated. We did not know where we were going. We arrived by steam train at Doncaster and were taken to Skellow Village. Various households ...Read more

A memory of Skellow in 1945 by Tony Pink

Waterlooville

My name at the time was John Hancock and I lived in Stakes Hill Road, Waterlooville, Hampshire before Philip Road was built. With fields opposite my home and the Convent Church along the way, it was so idyllic. The horse and cart ...Read more

A memory of Cowplain in 1952 by John Launay

Sacriston Seen Through The Eyes Of My Grandfather.

Hi, my grandfather, Hans Major Embleton, was born in Sacriston 1895. He grew up with his brothers and sisters, 10 in total in Victoria Street. He went down the mine at 14yrs, a mine putter, he ...Read more

A memory of Sacriston in 1900 by Derick Smith

Going Down The Village As A Four Year Old

I was born in Lower Sunbury, I'm the youngest of the White family, 1 of 7 kids. I can remember my mum and her friend walking with me down the village, I was in my pushchair, we would walk past the Vienna ...Read more

A memory of Sunbury in 1970 by Michael White

St Clare's 1961

We were at Pantasaph in the summer of 1961 for 6 months; we were the Sprague's, Pauline aged 12, Barbara aged 8 & Josephine aged 6. We remember the McCabes & Veronica Murtough, in fact Veronica turned up in my life years ...Read more

A memory of Pantasaph by Barbara Cartwright

Cracking Wee Place

A cracking wee place, born in Edingburgh, but used to visit a pal of my brother's Richard (Tich Duncan) his sister Scoots is still in the village, I liked nitten so much I bought a house there?, 13 years now, my kids have ...Read more

A memory of Newtongrange in 1986 by Chris English

Marshs And Kennetts

My mum grew up in a house called Fernlea in West Ashling. She was the youngest of 8 children by Ron and Frances Marsh. Frances was also known as Cissy and was a Kennett - who had been in West Ashling when she was a ...Read more

A memory of West Ashling in 1890 by Liz Purkiss

The Plough, Stoke D'abernon

The building still looks there same, there was a red postbox on the lower right hand corner of the picture turning into Blundel Lane. I lived on the Stoke Road. Just past the pub was a shop called FourWays -where ...Read more

A memory of Stoke D'Abernon in 1965 by Marina Munro

The "I Hate The Dogs Man"

Does anyone remember the "I hate the dogs" man? He was the opposite of Camberley Kate. He loathed canines of all sorts, and shouted "I hate the dogs" in the street. If he met a dog, he would get down on his hands and ...Read more

A memory of Frimley Green in 1963 by Christopher O'd

Childhood On Castleford Road

I remember the fields and Beckbridge prefabs. I and my sister attended the infants school , set back from Castleford road sadly no more except the walls remain .Swam in the old Baths where asda, s store now stands.I ...Read more

A memory of Normanton in 1961

Captions

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Caption For East Barsham, Sheep On The Fakenham Road 1929

An open-roofed car waits patiently outside the pub while the shepherd guides his flock up the road towards the tiny village.

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Caption For Bradford, Lister Park Lake 1921

As well as a Somali Village, the Exhibition also contained a switchback railway and a water chute, which cascaded into this lake. Today, the park is a wonderful oasis away from busy Manningham Lane.

Caption For Milnsbridge, Longwood C1960

A hundred years ago, Huddersfield was a collection of villages - now Milnsbridge has been almost absorbed, and is on the outskirts. The town is packed with mills and machinery works.

Caption For Wilsford, St Michael's Church C1955

Not far from Amesbury and Stonehenge, Wilsford and Lake are small villages strung along a back road.

Caption For Dunoon, The Pier 1904

Until the early 19th century, Dunoon was nothing more than a small village clustered around a castle.

Caption For Dinas Powys, The Square C1960

Even then, many villagers objected to the removal of trees to accommodate the structure.

Caption For Dinas Powys, Highwalls Road C1960

Free from traffic and flanked by the old cottages, this post-war scene evokes an essence of earlier village days.

Caption For Bishopstoke, Post Office, Spring Lane C1955

This is the centre of the old village. Next to the post office (right) is the old Methodist church, now replaced by a new building. Near here is a butcher's shop over which early Methodists once met.

Caption For Churchtown, Botanic Road C1965

As with other coastal locations, Church Town began to attract visitors wishing to take the sea-air and engage in a little sea-bathing; accommodation was offered by the village's two inns, the Griffin and

Caption For Birkenhead, Woodchurch Road, Prenton 1954

Birkenhead is a surprisingly large and sprawling town, and has taken in its outlying villages to become suburbs.

Caption For Abbotts Ann, The Village C1960

King Charles I campled near the village with a force of 5,000.

Caption For Bilsington, Village 1909

Bilsington is a small village on the main Hythe to Tenterden road. Once near the sea, it is now several miles inland. Near this cross-roads stands a jagged finger of brickwork pointing to the sky.

Caption For Ickham, The Old Rectory C1960

Ickham itself is another of the villages of the Little Stour; it consists of a pleasant mixture of weatherboard, brick and tile faced dwellings. There was once a mill on the stream here.

Caption For Prestatyn, High Street & The Chapel 1895

Its development from a little village straggling up a single high street began in 1870. However, it has an ancient lineage, and the Romans established a major settlement nearby.

Caption For Rolvenden, Village 1901

The broad street of the village, with its grass verges, is lined with brick and weatherboarded houses.

Caption For Burton Bradstock, 1909

Beyond in the trees is the village of Burton Bradstock (centre) with the chalk hills between Bridport and Dorchester forming the distant skyline.

Caption For Shillingstone, C1955

The view looks northwards from Shillingstone Hill over Eastcombe Cottage (bottom left) and its beehives (bottom centre) to Eastbrook Farm and the council houses at the east end of the village

Caption For Tickhill, Market Place C1955

Situated nine miles east of Rotherham on the A361, the village of Tickhill once had one of the most important castles in the North, built on a motte no less than 75ft high and surrounded by a wet

Caption For Belbroughton, Church Road C1960

This large village near Clent has Georgian and Tudor architecture and sandstone walls.

Caption For Lyme Regis, The Cobb 1912

The old tracks from the neighbouring village of Uplyme are the original routes into the town before the construction of the present road along the coast.

Caption For Studland, The Beach 1925

Bournemouth, the Needles and the Isle of Wight as they went.The attraction of Studland is not only the splendid beach and picturesque coastal scenery, but also the wild heathland all around the village

Caption For Rake, The Flying Bull 1934

A small village with a common on the Portsmouth to Guildford main road near the Hampshire border. Chalk quarrying is carried out on the hills here.

Caption For Amberley, The Village C1960

It is now a village where artists like to work.

Caption For Heysham, The Foreshore C1950

Can you make out the concrete terraces that have been constructed on each side of the village slipway?