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Memories

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Highgate

I used to stay in Beverley with my Aunt who lived at 45 Highgate. She used to knit toys and sell them at her front door, the money she raised went to Beverley Minster to buy cassocks for the choir. Her name was Gertie Forest, she lived ...Read more

A memory of Beverley by Margaret Richardson

Greenlands School

We moved to Ribbleton in 1979, we lived in Arnold Close. At the time there was a large building situated at the bottom of our road, to this day I'm not sure what building it was, I only know it was to be knocked down for new ...Read more

A memory of Ribbleton in 1979 by Heather Caruso

Postwar Childhood In Knypersley

Born in 1940 at Tunstall Rd, I spent hours of my childhood at the edge of Cowlishaw Walker's pool, reached through our neighbour, Mrs Sargent's garden, which sloped steeply up to the railings round the pool. I ...Read more

A memory of Knypersley in 1940 by Sylvia Steer

Dancing On The Forest For The Queens Visit To Nottingham

I think it was 1953 and I was 10yrs. I was at the Bentink Road Scool and as I remember, the schools in Nottingham entered a dancing team and we practiced for weeks. Our practice was in ...Read more

A memory of Nottingham in 1953 by Margaret Wilson Nee Rigley

A Wartime Evacuee

During the war I was evacuated with my family to Dunsmore and we lived in Appletree Cottage, opposite The Fox. I attended Wendover School and returned to London in 1946. At the time Robert Donat lived in ...Read more

A memory of Dunsmore in 1940 by Ken Norris

Trevelyan Road Tooting

I was born on 8th May 1945 (the day the war ended) at 61 Trevelyan Road Tooting. My mum told me that there was a heatwave on the 8th May and whilst she was trying to get some rest there was a street party going n which she ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1945 by Victoria Mason

Albion Place

I was born in 1939 and grew up in Kenfg Hill, living at 65 Pisgah Street, Foster Buildings, and 7 Albion Place during the war years. Albion Place was then in an area of Kenfig Hill known as The Huts, because the dwellings were all ...Read more

A memory of Kenfig Hill in 1945 by Brian Harman

Early Days In Bargoed

I was born, in 1945, in the front room of my parent's rented house in Bristol Terrace, Bargoed. Open the front and you were on the pavement!!. We had no central heating, no double glazing, no indoor bathroom (tin bath ...Read more

A memory of Bargoed in 1952 by Brian Clark

Payne Family Knaphill / Bisley

I have enjoyed reading the 'Memories of Knaphill' contributions, and though I have not lived there myself, my Payne family did, so thought I might share a few of their memories! In the 1890's, Captain George Payne and ...Read more

A memory of Knaphill

My Years At Woodford Bridge

I lived in Canfield Road, Woodford the very last house on the left hand side, right next to the cricket field. I went to the little mission (The Bridge) run alongside the tie factory. I remember Grants the shoe ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Green in 1957 by Valerie Sims

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Captions

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Caption For Wollaston, St James' Church C1960

The same materials have been used for an adjacent school, the schoolmaster's house and the vicarage, and together they form a harmonious group.

Caption For Rossall, Ockwells Caravan Camp C1955

caravanning grew in popularity during the 1950s, many small sites began to compete with the already established holiday camps, providing facilities, shops and often entertainment in a purpose built club-house

Caption For Woodbridge, Church Street 1906

Further on is the 18th-century red brick Arnott House. Between them the first-floor windows are about to be cleaned. St Mary's rectory is on the right.

Caption For Marlborough, Polly Tea Rooms C1955

This Georgian building, photographed before it was partly destroyed by fire in 1966, houses the Polly Tea Rooms, which were established in 1928.

Caption For Sutton, The Cock Hotel And High Street C1955

Its replacement was an uninspiring office block called Old Inn House.

Caption For Amersham, Garden Of Remembrance C1958

Looking north from an upper window of the Griffin, now an ASK pizza house, the Memorial Gardens were created in 1949 to commemorate the dead of the two world wars.

Caption For Woodbridge, The Promenade 1925

Ahead are the Station House, the theatre, shipyards, and cranes on the dock.

Caption For Woolpit, Main Street C1955

This group includes the Bull (centre left) and the late 15th-century Weaver's House beyond the parked car. On the right is a former 16th-century pub with a decorative Victorian front.

Caption For Bradwell, From The Bridge C1955

This view from the bridge over the Bradwell Brook looks north up the main village street, with the Bridge House Café and Pearce's ice cream shop on the right - Bradwell is famous for its home-made ice

Caption For Chiddingfold, The Old Crown Inn 1933

Standing opposite the church, the 14th-century Crown Inn was originally a medieval house and solar before being let as an inn in 1383.

Caption For Great Waltham, Chelmsford Road C1965

Once again weatherboard has been used on the side of one of the houses. The church of St Mary and St Lawrence stands in the background.

Caption For Westleton, The Village Green And Pump C1965

Pond House has the former village pump outside, here being used by two children.

Caption For Tregaron, View From The Church Tower C1965

On the right is a half-timbered building that houses a bank.

Caption For Piercebridge, West View C1955

On the right is the village police house; its high pointed wooden porch looks more like Welsh architecture than that of the north-east of England.

Caption For Cambridge, 1st Eastern General Hospital C1918

As more and more injured men came back from the front, a larger hut hospital was built on the playing fields of King's and Clare Colleges, with 'open-air' wards such as this one housing the patients.

Caption For Saltfleet, Manor House C1955

North of the old windmill is the Manor House in mid seventeenth-century brick, which retains its original cross windows.

Caption For Waddington, High Street C1960

To the east of Waddington is a vast Royal Air Force station, but the old village core with its mellow limestone houses and cottages remains remarkably unspoilt.

Caption For Richmond, The Channel 1929

Swale House on the extreme left was the home of Joe and Veronica Pease, great hosts of balls and parties.

Caption For Wivenhoe, High Street C1960

The Grosvenor Hotel on the right has now gone, and the building houses shops. Today the University of Essex campus is to the north-west of the town.

Caption For Brookhouse, C1960

New houses appeared between 1950 and 1960.

Caption For Sutton, Post Office And High Street C1955

Both the Crown and the George & Dragon public houses (on the right-hand side of the street) have ceased trading, and are now private dwellings.

Caption For Lavenham, Water Street C1955

De Vere House, on the right, which was largely dismantled and rebuilt in the 1920s, has gables, jetties, oriel windows and brick nogging.

Caption For Martlesham, The Hill C1955

The Red Lion (right) dates from c1580, and has an oriel window similar to those on the Ancient House in Ipswich. The pub figurehead gave rise to the phrase 'As red as a Martlesham lion'.

Caption For Southwold, Park Lane C1955

The bay windows and porch of the adjoining house have now been removed and the building re-fronted. James Maggs (who died in 1890), the Southwold diarist, lived opposite.