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Photos
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Maps
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Books
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Memories
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1950s
I was born in the war years in the area where the Workmen’s Club was later built and later moved to Hall Lane Est ( 28) as the first intake. I remember well the coal loader at the end of Railway Terrace and the great times out and about around ...Read more
A memory of Crook by
Ancestral Home
With my newly obtained lawyer´s degree and after joining a British bank based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, I was sent to London, to follow an international training course of one year, along with my wife Rosemarie and our one ...Read more
A memory of Car Colston in 1972 by
Wellock
My great great great grandmother Margaret Wellock was born in this village in 1811. She married Mathew Edward Bywell from Middleham and lived most of her life in West Witton. She later lived in Aysgarth were she died and is buried in ...Read more
A memory of West Burton by
Happy Days In Latimer
It was only two years or so, from 1959-61, aged 6-8, but it still seems as if the happiest period of my childhood in Latimer was one long, endless, glorious summer. My dad was in the army, in the King's Own Scottish ...Read more
A memory of Latimer in 1959 by
The Happiest Days Of Your Life
Brambletye school, well set between the beautiful Ashdown Forest and thriving town of East Grinstead on the Sussex/Surrey border was a paradise on Earth for any schoolboy with an aesthetically romantic (!) ...Read more
A memory of Brambletye House in 1959 by
Growing Up In Newton
I was born in the old cottage on the left, 175 High Street, in 1948, as June Glencross, my parents squatted there after the war, my dad became the local builder. In 1956 we moved up the road to the old congregational ...Read more
A memory of Newton-le-Willows in 1948 by
Living In Thringstone
I moved to Thringstone just before the millennium. I found Thringstone to be a wonderfully quaint village atmosphere, Lovely walks in the countryside and through the Grace Dieu woods. Living in Thringstone for about four ...Read more
A memory of Thringstone in 2000
Lindsey Cottage And The White House
In 1949 my mother and I moved to Bentworth when my mother became the Health Visitor for Alton. We first stayed at rooms in the White House which was diagonally across from the Dugdales in the Big house at ...Read more
A memory of Bentworth in 1949 by
Memories Of Raf Lichfield
My father was an officer in the RAF and was based in RAF Lichfield from 1954 - 1956. My brother and I went by bus to St. Christopher's School in Alrewas. The school building was on the side of the canal and from one ...Read more
A memory of Lichfield by
Balcary
Hi, I was born in New Luce and brought up at Balcary holdings by my dad, aunt, and gran. I went to Glenluce school. My uncle was a mechanic in Mclellands garage in the village, his wife worked in the bakers. I visit twice a year as the aunt who brought me up still lives in the village, aged 94.
A memory of Glenluce in 1950 by
Captions
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The canal at Drayton Manor, with its unique Gothic-style footbridge, complete with battlements.
C ottages with steep, tumbling thatched roofs abound in this view of the village street. At this time Trumpington was a village separate from the city of Cambridge.
A classic village scene with heavy thatched roofs and brick and timber cot- tages.
Hobby Drive was completed just before his death in 1829 by Sir James Hamlyn as part of his project to landscape the cliffs to the east of the village.
The road to Brynmawr winds around the hillside from the village of Gellifelyn, on the right.
There is a pub in the village with the lovely name of the Spinner and Bergamot - apparently it was named for two local racehorses.
Taken from outside St Mary of the Angels, the village's Catholic church, this view looks along The Nook past 17th- and early 18th-century houses.
Pictured from Highland Brow, the scene looks across the railway and the A6 to Thompson Mill, which operated as a silk mill from 1792 until 1971.
The parade of shops on the left are currently occupied by Thomas Cook, Abbey, a hairstylist and a photographic shop, whilst Boots is in the adjacent block.
Taken at the western end of the village, this photograph shows the Jolly Farmer pub on the right. It was formerly known as the Wheatsheaf.
The farmhouse, now a private house, still stands at the junction of the High Street and Cardigan Road in the centre of the village.
This picture depicts an old watermill in a picturesque setting just outside the village. Over to the right is a horse- drawn mowing machine.
The village of Pyecombe lies close to a long railway tunnel which passengers on the London to Brighton line will know well.
The nave of Tideswell church dates from the 14th century, and its size and standing give the building the air of a much larger church or even a cathedral.
The village church is seen here from the Gothic, six-arched river bridge of 1864, which links Clifton Hampden with the Barley Mow inn.
Time stands still in this peaceful view of the village; but on 12 March 1470, the Battle of Loscote Field, one of many during the Wars of the Roses, was fought in the parish.
The stone cross was erected to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria.
All Saints' Church stands proudly at the top of a sharp double bend and hill on the A607 road going towards Lincoln from Grantham.
Ampleforth is probably best known for its Roman Catholic boys' school situated to the east of the village, founded by Benedictine monks in 1808 and based on their abbey.
Cheddar Gorge is dry, but here at the end of the village the River Yeo emerges from its subterranean course.
'Morlund', an ancient spelling preserving the word 'lundr', suggests that hereabouts Norse settlers entertained a superstitious awe for a wood or sacred grove set upon or close by moorland
Livestock including sheep, cattle, poultry as well as agricultural produce were the mainstay of the villages surrounding Penrith until relatively recent times.
Standing on a plateau overlooking the Arun Valley, Amberley is often described as 'the pearl of Sussex' and 'the loveliest village in Sussex'.
The little village of Loose, pronounced 'Luse', is pleasantly situated on the little river of the same name just to the south of Maidstone.
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