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Memories

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Sixties Longleat

Many fond memories of Longleat over the last 46 years: the freedom we all enjoyed as villagers to roam across the estate - the sixth Marquess was always very generous in this respect. The remains of the American hospital were still ...Read more

A memory of Longleat in 1966 by Geoff Pridmore

The Gamekeeper At Rousdon Manor Peek Estate

Hi, I am Louise Brown of Australia. My grandmother Ellen Maud Edwards (married name Jefferis) lived with her parents Samuel and Alice Maud Edwards (Searle), at the cliff Cottage on the Peek Estates around ...Read more

A memory of Rousdon in 1900 by Louise Brown

The Town I Grew Up In

This was the town I grew up in until I was 8.  There is one day that stands out in my mind.  My mother had been informed that the local fruiterer had oranges. His location was about half a mile from our house.  England was ...Read more

A memory of Edgware in 1949 by Raymond Garfield

Not Much Remains Today...

If you stand outside Toymaster (in the Carfax) and look towards Boots this is about where this photo was taken. The big building to the right remains; King & Chasemore but the buildings to the left were demolished in the ...Read more

A memory of Horsham by M

Pretty Little Ainstable

I was brought up in the white cottage mid-left, by the roadside, by my grandparents. The Crown Inn at the middle of the picture in the distance was run by Jim and Winnie Tuer, and I was friends with their daughter Ruth. ...Read more

A memory of Ainstable in 1949 by Kate Walker

100 Years Ago

My aunt Elizabeth Lloyd Griffiths Jones was born in Blaenau Ffestinog on Feb. 12, 1906. She is the daughter of the late William and Annie Griffiths. She came to America in around 1920. While living in Wales she lived ...Read more

A memory of Blaenau Ffestiniog by Wendy Griffith Bowers

Rats, Rats And More Rats.

This photograph was obviously taken when the road bridge was nearing completion in 1961. My husband grew up nearby, and tells some gruesome stories about the plague of rats they experienced when the undergrowth was being ...Read more

A memory of Saltash in 1961 by Alyson Herbert

Mom Lived In Baynards1930 40s

Mom went to the country to live during the war.  She lived in a big field - the house and land were let by the Fulton Brick Works, I believe that was the name.  I have about 5 pictures of her home with my Auntie Connie.

A memory of Barnard's Green in 1930 by Susie Somerville Franz

Scarning School

At the age of 5yrs I started my education at Scarning School, I lived at Woodhill [see memory of Dereham] which meant about a 2 mile walk to school with my 10 yr old sister usually stopping to play in the stream at Podmore on the ...Read more

A memory of Scarning in 1920 by Tony Blades

There And Back

I remember staying at my Nan and Grandpa's house in Woolwich, we could actually look out of our bedroom window and see the ferries going back and forth. Most times we stayed we were allowed to ride the ferries back and forth ...Read more

A memory of Woolwich in 1969 by Mark Lovell

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Captions

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Caption For Swavesey, The Cobblestones C1965

The house with the 'Sold' sign was the Swan Inn; like the other houses it was built on a bank above the dock.

Caption For Stanmore, Village 1906

The village is now a faceless sort of place, apart from one or two buildings; these include a superb but well-disguised hall house of around 1500 in Church Road.

Caption For Hailsham, The Common Pond C1965

A popular location, it is somewhat surrounded by uninspiring housing estates and housing, such as the 1950s Bell Banks bungalows opposite, but it and Bell Banks Road are living links with

Caption For Wonersh, The Village C1955

South-east of Shalford, Wonersh has an old core with some fine timber-framed houses, including the 16th-century Grantley Arms pub; there are more old houses along the winding The Street, which starts

Caption For Abercairny, House 1899

Built between 1804 and 1844 by Richard Crichton and the Dickson brothers for Charles and James Moray, Abercairny was a break with what had become a traditional approach to the design of country houses.

Caption For Durham, Old Elvet 1914

On the right is that well-known hotel, the Royal County, created in the 19th century out of former town houses belonging to the Ratcliffe and Bowes families.

Caption For Halifax, Town Hall 1900

The builder also worked on sculptures at the Houses of Parliament and Harewood House.

Caption For Salisbury, Kings House Training College 1928

Formerly a theological training college, since 1980 Kings House has been the Salisbury and Wiltshire museum.

Caption For Salisbury, St Ann's Gate C1950

Viewed from the Close and looking East, the room with the large window over the Gate was a chapel belonging to Malmesbury House, the front of which can be seen to the left of the picture.

Caption For Keymer, Keymer Road C1965

Ockley Manor is an 18th-century brick house, with a dovecote. Oldland post windmill is being slowly restored to a good state of repair.

Caption For Amberley, The Gatehouse 1898

The Castle Courtyard 1896 Within the medieval walls of the castle (or fortified manor house cum bishop’s palace) are the living apartments of the bishop: these are complex and varied ranges, with

Caption For Skillington, Village C1965

This is another stone village to the south of Grantham, and houses being built there now must still be stone-faced. The rounded corner house now has lots of roses growing up the wall.

Caption For Tenby, South Sands C1925

Shortly after its completion, Lexden House on the right was occupied by Rees's builder Mr Smith, and today it retains many of its original architectural features and details.

Caption For Orford, Church Street C1960

We are looking east from the Market Square; the battlements of the church can be seen to the left of Church House (extreme left).

Caption For Keymer, Keymer Road C1965

Ockley Manor is an 18th-century brick house, with a dovecote. Oldland post windmill is being slowly restored to a good state of repair.

Caption For Eccleston, The River Dee 2003

Today just the house overlooking the river remains, and it is difficult even to imagine that there was once a wharf and steps at the other side.

Caption For Kingsgate, The Castle 1908

This picture looks towards the castellated Victorian pile of Kingsgate Castle, with the white houses of Kingsgate Bay Road on the right.The largest of these is Holland House, built for Lord Holland

Caption For Great Sampford, View From The Bridge C1955

As recently as the early 1900s, it could still only carry horses - not carts.

Caption For Coverham, Abbey Church 1926

The ruins are now part of a private house. Also in the village near the waterfall is Holy Trinity church, restored in 1878. A 17th-century manor house completes the idyllic

Caption For Framlingham, Market Hill 1909

Aubrey Thomas Wicks traded from London House.

Caption For Thorpeness, Esrtate Office And Boat House Loggia 1922

The Boat House was built in 1911, before the Meare was completed. The houses on the left, built 1911-18, were to be the start of The Netherlands.

Caption For Petersfield, Market Square 1898

Originally it stood in the grounds of nearby Petersfield House, and was given to the town when the house was destroyed in the 18th century.

Caption For Crouch End, Crouch End Hill C1890

Here is the three-storey flat-fronted brick house of the later 18th century, small bungalow shops added to two-storey houses of various dates, and to the left the utility weather-boarding above the barber's

Caption For Hemswell, Dawnhill Lane C1955

The houses on the right were built by the council not long before the photograph was taken, and from their appearance several are now privately owned.