Maps

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Books

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Memories

4,713 memories found. Showing results 411 to 420.

Woolen Mill

My grandparents George and Sarah Ruddick lived in Heads Nook. He worked as a guard on the railways, she worked in a small room repairing woollen blankets in the Mill. They lived in Glenn Terrace, Heads Nook. I have many happy memories ...Read more

A memory of Heads Nook in 1940 by Anne Hirst

Summer And Sadness

It was the summer of 1981 and we had rented a cottage in Mousehole for the summer school holidays. My friend's aunt and uncle lived just across the road and it was through them that we were able to rent the cottage. I took my two ...Read more

A memory of Mousehole in 1981 by Christine Ramsey

60 Years Ago

In 1950,1951 and 1952 I spent two months summer holidays/year at the Lodge. The house belonged then to Mrs Webster. Her daughter Annet had married Mr. (first name forgotten) Nickisson. Together they ran a riding school. I was ...Read more

A memory of South Warnborough in 1950 by Eric Denzler

Holiday Memories

I have very happy memories of a family holiday spent in the village of Auchencrow in 1956 or 1957. The village was tiny then, consisting of one main street with an Inn and a general shop. At least that's how I remember it. My ...Read more

A memory of Auchencrow in 1956 by Patricia Mc Aulay

My Beloved Bonk

I have loads of memories of village life as a kid. I was born in 1961 and still live on the Bonk. I will probably die here as well. There were many old characters back then. Iron Bates the vegetable cart man (did some boxing ...Read more

A memory of Cheslyn Hay in 1969 by Philip Burgess

Wonderful Times In Cheriton Fitzpaine

I grew up in Cheriton Fitzpaine, I lived at 1 Wordland Cross and went to the local primary school before going to the Shelley School in Crediton. I loved living in that village, I remember lots of ...Read more

A memory of Cheriton Fitzpaine in 1972 by Russell Kenneford

Walk About

Now living in Australia - Arriving back to visit relatives, a previous life time of my walk about ways seems so dream-like. Living at The Greig Farm above the Wier Farm (The Wier which had been in my family forever) was the best ...Read more

A memory of Ewyas Harold in 1965 by Sally Bell

Upbringing

I went to school first at Tondu infants and then to the Primary school, I remember when we had the school photographs taken in the play yard (where are they now?). I had a really great and happy childhood there living with all the ...Read more

A memory of Aberkenfig by Jeffrey Warner

Happy Days

I was born in 1953 and lived in Nelson until 1978 when I moved to Scotland with my husband. I've lived in Hampshire for 26 years now. I used to live in High St and from the early 60s in Ashgrove Tce, by the bus station. The ...Read more

A memory of Nelson by Denise Blakemore

Thanks For The Memories

My goodness this brings back memories! I grew up in Irby and we lived in Oaklea Road from the late 40’s to the late 60’s – I’m now a true blue Aussie having lived in Queensland since the mid 70’s but about to revisit Irby in ...Read more

A memory of Irby by Daphne Titus Rees

Captions

5,033 captions found. Showing results 985 to 1,008.

Caption For Ticehurst, Church Street 1903

The camera is looking along Church Street, which curves away uphill to the village square of Ticehurst, another Wealden iron-making village.

Caption For Staverton, Oakham Lane C1955

Oakham Lane is one of the streets leading from the village green. The building with the white window partially obscured behind the tree was the village school.

Caption For Holybourne, The Village C1960

The village shop still has its awning out, but the sign now reads H T Houghton.

Caption For Cranleigh, The Village Hall C1960

View C180008 was taken in front of the village hall. It is dated 1935, and is a large timber-framed building of some quality, convincingly done.

Caption For Wethersfield, The Green 1903

Like Finchingfield, this village is based around a triangular green - though Wethersfield`s is smaller than it once was, owing to road widening.

Caption For Funtington, Hallidays 1965

An isolated village of flint and brick cottages, to the west of Chichester. In the village are Adsdean, a gabled Tudor style house of around 1850, and the parish church of St Mary, built in 1859.

Caption For Bradwell, From The Bridge C1955

Bradwell is a bustling little former lead mining village on the south side of the Hope Valley in north Derbyshire.

Caption For Westleton, The Village Green And Pump C1965

Off to the left is the village and the pond, famous for its ducks. One of the benches records that 18 lime trees were planted in memory of the men who died in the First World War.

Caption For Piercebridge, West View C1955

Situated six miles west of Darlington, Piercebridge is unusual in that the village was built within the ramparts of a Roman fort that once guarded the bridge over the Tees carrying the road between York

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Caption For Burley, C1955

In the 1960s this New Forest village was home to a white witch who roamed around with a crow. A man is hunched over his parked car (right), no doubt tinkering with the engine.

Caption For Medstead, Post Office C1955

This post office and hardware shop is near to the church of St Andrew, the church hall that was previously the village school, and the Castle of Comfort pub.

Caption For Lindfield, The Common C1960

Just a couple of miles from Haywards Heath railway station is the attractive and ancient village of Lindfield, named after the lime (or linden) trees which flank the village High Street.

Caption For Ockley, Post Office 1914

The village centre with the Crown pub and the old church is a pleasant spot. To the south of the village, brick making has been an important local industry.

Caption For Shalford, Village Sign 1925

The village sign was erected in 1922 and depicts St Christopher, the patron saint of travellers, and a small child, traditionally, the infant Jesus, crossing a ford.

Caption For Hutton, The Village 1891

Often referred to as 'the Alpine village' because of its sylvan setting at the head of a wooded valley, the cluster of houses known as Hutton Village dates from the mid 19th century, when Mr Thomas

Caption For Whiston, The Post Office C1960

Two miles south east of Rotherham, Whiston was a large village by the end of the Napoleonic Wars.

Caption For Oving, Church And Black Boy Inn C1955

Oving, west of Whitchurch, lies off the main road, and is a very pretty village on the Portland limestone ridge.

Caption For Brockworth, The Church And Brockworth Court C1960

But when this photograph was taken, it was a village with its own character and community.

Caption For Woolsthorpe, The Village By Belvoir C1955

Many of the village houses are built of the local ironstone; this gives them a rusty red colour, the same as the houses in Denton.

Caption For Pluckley, 1901

The 19th-century squire, Sir Edward Cholmeley Dering, had every window in the village altered to have rounded lights under an exterior arch in the belief that this would bring good luck.

Caption For Anstey, Pack Horse Bridge C1960

On the south-east side of the village the five-arch stone bridge, perhaps of the 16th century, steps quietly across the very reedy Rotherby Brook.

Caption For Glynde, The Square C1955

In this view of the village the old building on the left is timber-framed with a false façade. It has been rendered, tile-hung and weather- boarded, and substantial porches have been added.

Caption For Langham, The School And School Lane C1950

There are two prominent buildings of quality in the village, firstly the 13th-century parish church of St Peter and St Paul, and Langham Old Hall with its date stone of 1665 built into the

Caption For Eynsford, 1905

This attractive village stands in the beautiful valley of the River?Darent north of Sevenoaks. Here we see an empty street scene before motor traffic was commonplace.