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The Convent In Orwell Road

I was brought up in a Convent in Orwell Road between the years 1947 and 1954. The Convent was vacated in the summer of 1954 and moved to Hastings a year after the sea wall broke which demolished the old school in ...Read more

A memory of Dovercourt in 1950 by Ruth Wright

Gwendoline Hodges

It is as if my grandmother Gwendoline Edith Hunt, nee Hodges, has ceased to exist. For years and through various forums I have searched for information about her and her family (Wooton locals....Horace and Ethel Hodges who ...Read more

A memory of Northampton in 1930 by Sheridan Davies

St Marys School And Church Hall

I was born and grew up in East Barnet and went to St, Mary's C of E Junior and Mixed Infants School in Churchill Road.  It was a small school with only four classes and the boys left at seven and ...Read more

A memory of East End in 1940 by Barbara Owen

The Saturday Morning Matinee

THE SATURDAY MORNING MATINEE Of course you remember it ... well most of us do!!! It all seems so long ago now! but it's beginning to drift up from the fog of 'times gone by'. Hot and damp and steaming gently in the ...Read more

A memory of Felling in 1955 by David Hinge

Hardham

Hardham was a place to bicycle to from Pulborough, and visit St. Botolph's Church. One of the many very very old churches in West Sussex. The drawings on the walls go back hundreds of years depicting the tortures of the early Christians, ...Read more

A memory of Hardham in 1964 by Sheelagh Mac Donald

Church Town

In 1960 my home was just out of shot: next door to the house that is partly visible on the far right of the picture. I lived at number 18 Church Street, Church Street being the road that is accessed by turning right in the middle ...Read more

A memory of Minehead in 1960 by Pam Gotham

Quieter, Carefree Days.

I am Pauline Morgan (nee Real) and I am the little girl standing by the boat, whilst my brother Cliff is wading through the water. The cabin cruiser on the opposite side of the river is 'Silver Swan' owned by Gilbert Hazel of ...Read more

A memory of Axmouth in 1954 by Pauline Morgan

I Lived In Hope Cove

I lived in the coastguard station from about 1952 to 1955. I spent alot of time sitting on the sea wall in the summer. I worked for a time at Greystones Guest house. I met my future husband in Hope Cove, he lived in a house ...Read more

A memory of Hope Cove in 1952 by Patricia Perring

Preston Road Shops

My great Grandfather, George frederick Rogers ( c1880 ) owned the Newsagents ( still named Rogers ) on the Preston Road at Preston road station, way back in the 1920's ?. Before the parade of shops where built he had a ...Read more

A memory of North Harrow by Pete Rogers

Scole Stores

My parents Bernard (better known as Syd) and Margret (Peggy) Blunsom owned Scole stores in the main street of Scole. I rember the house well across the road was pretty"s garage. Old Mrs Johnsons cottage was sandwiched between us and the ...Read more

A memory of Scole in 1957 by Sally Smith

Captions

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Caption For Porthcawl, The Lower Promenade C1955

Deck chairs on the paving and on the kerb above, concrete pillars, a wall to obscure the view and a rocky shore at high tide seem to invite only the intrepid holidaymaker.

Caption For Grindleton, Stone Hill And Post Office C1960

At the post office (center left), reached by a narrow ginnel, Wall's ice cream is sold.

Caption For Hawkhurst, St Laurence's Church 1902

A defoliated oak tree is supported by a wall which has been constructed to support it.

Caption For Borrowdale, The Hotel C1870

view of the Borrowdale Hotel, with Grange Crags behind, shows the Lake District as it was before the tourist invasion really took hold.The traffic-free minor road meanders south between drystone walls

Caption For Southampton, Westgate 1908

Westgate, dating back to the 14th century, provides access to the south-west corner of the old walled town.

Caption For Wallasey, The Village C1955

The building to its left has been demolished to create a car parking area, and the ornate clock on the wall of W Sumpter's stationer's shop (left) is also, unfortunately, a thing of the past.

Caption For Harrow On The Hill, Peterboro Road 1906

It all looks neater now, and the trees have been thinned. Nothing new architecturally has been added.

Caption For Chippenham, The Market Place C1955

A brass plaque on the wall in the old block of the technical college commemorates his 21 years as Chairman of the Governing Body for Secondary and Technical Education.

Caption For Burnley, Colne Road 1895

On the extreme right, the wall is that of the Bank Hall estate, the home of General the Hon Sir James Yorke Scarlett, the hero of Balaclava and the reason for the proximity of the Russian cannons.

Caption For Twycross, The Village C1955

The houses of the late 18th and early 19th centuries are almost picturesque behind hedges and walls, with a restrained petrol sign being all that is needed to alert drivers to the garage's presence - petrol

Caption For Stamford, View From The Water Meadows 1922

From left to right, the four churches are All Saints', St John's, St Michael's and St Mary's. At the far side of the meadows stand the Bath Houses.

Caption For Winchcombe, High Street C1960

Winchcombe was once the walled capital of Winchcombeshire, whose abbot sat in the Saxon parliament; it was the site of the martyrdom of Kenelm, the child king of the Mercians, who was allegedly

Caption For Petworth, Lombard Street 1906

Lombard Street is one of the least changed streets in this delightful market town, a tangle of narrow lanes and alleys winding to the east of the towering walls of Petworth House's grounds.

Caption For East Blatchington, The Village 1906

The field in the foreground, with its flint wall, lies to the south of East Blatchington Farm; the view looks south down Blatchington Hill, the village main street, with Belgrave Road passing in front

Caption For Belsay, Old Castle C1955

It is not known if Belsay was protected by a curtain wall, or if there were any other buildings associated with the original tower. The attached manor house was erected in 1614.

Caption For Hailsham, Ersham Road C1960

The walled enclosure on the far bank is inscribed 'This Sheltered Corner was Endowed by Harold and Winifred Morgan in Memory of their Father, James Henry Morgan'.

Caption For Rousdon, The Landslip And Whitlands Cottages 1900

Only the remains of ivy-clad walls now survive in the heart of Undercliff National Nature Reserve, which is managed by English Nature.

Caption For Lyme Regis, The Cobb C1955

We are looking eastwards from the Gin Shop at high tide to the Cobb entrance between the North Wall (centre left) and Cobb Warehouses (right). These date from before 1723.

Caption For Lyme Regis, The End Of The Cobb C1910

Frith's photographer, standing on the High Wall, must have been soaked.

Caption For Pembroke, The Castle 1890

Pembroke was also an important port and quays can still be seen under its walls.

Caption For Braemar, Castle C1960

It was here in August 1714 that a so-called hunt was assembled by John Erskine, sixth Earl of Mar.

Caption For Epsom, Clarendon Park 2005

Tom Walls made 'Derby Day' in 1952, and when 'Esther Waters' was filmed in 1947 the downs were populated by tin people, who were cheaper by the day than crowd extras.

Caption For Berkhamsted, The Castle C1960

All that now remains of the huge structure, apart from the surrounding earthworks, are the broken ruins of the 12th-century flint and mortar curtain walls within the bailey, which encompass a bowling

Caption For South Cerney, The Manor, Park And Church C1965

At the entrance to the Norman church is a notice that reads: 'Enter this door as if the floor within were gold/ And every wall of jewels, of wealth untold./ As if a choir/ In robes of fire/ Were saying