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Watchfield/Naafi/Aerodrome Notes

This was the NAAFI shop that served the military quarters at Watchfield, which housed the then many miltary and civilian staff of the Royal Military College of Science, and some of the students at the college, many ...Read more

A memory of Watchfield by Richard Hodder

Memories Of Greenford

My parents home was in Costons Avenue in Greenford, I was born there in 1937 and lived there for 30 years. The rear of our house looked out to trees which grew on the boundary of Perivale Park some eighty yards away across the ...Read more

A memory of Greenford by vincentlees

Childhood

My Mum, Dad and I moved to the new council houses in Boundaries Road (built on a bombsite) in 1957 when I was 1 year old, so obviously my first memories are of Balham. Dad went to work and Mum and I went shopping every day. These are some of ...Read more

A memory of Balham by Liz Foster

Growing Up In Selsdon

I was 9 when we returned from Australia in the summer of 1967, we lived at 37 Farley Road after three different houses in Littleheath Road all belonging to friends of my parents, who conveniently were away on holiday by consecutive ...Read more

A memory of Selsdon by Martin Cooper

A Grand Opening

We lived briefly in Ferndale Crescent (nr 35). This was defined as Uxbridge then but the boundaries were never quite clear and have become even more blurred with the march of time. It must have been around '57 when we moved in and the ...Read more

A memory of Cowley in 1957 by Philip Cousins

Home

I was born on this road in 1957 at number 21 and well remember it looking like this for years as my friends and I grew up here. There were no hedges, or very few then, and I still remember the concrete posts with two strands of galvanised ...Read more

A memory of Killamarsh in 1960 by Keith Dye

Memories Of Edmonton

I grew up in Park Avenue, Edmonton near Pymms Park. My gran and grandad Bert and Dolly Uff owned the "oil shop" at 247 Fore Street and my sister Ginny and I used to help out in the shop on Saturdays and in the school holidays. ...Read more

A memory of Edmonton by Sylvia Lock

The White House

My parents bought the White House - a thatched terrace of 6 cottages in the Main Street opposite 'Thatchers' Shop. I believe I only lived in this village for about three years between the age of 7 and 10. The 'White House' had a ...Read more

A memory of Owslebury in 1957 by Martyn Kelham

Fifties And Sixties

we moved into Boundary close 1954. I remember a huge storm 1955 when the Norwood Road was flooded in front of willesdon dairies from where we used to get our milk. Using the swings on the Green which was flanked ...Read more

A memory of Norwood Green in 1961 by David Rodwell

Stretford, Barkway Road.

I loved living in Stretfrod, although I lived at the other end of Stretford, on the Urmston boundary. I can remember those days very well. My mum had an account at Cromptons grocery shop, where she would get most of her ...Read more

A memory of Stretford in 1958 by Peter Ferguson

Captions

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Caption For Bitteswell, Russett Cottage C1965

This is an almost ideal two- storey chocolate box cottage, with its thatched roof and door hood, small pane timber casement windows, and a profusion of flowers and creepers adorning the boundary

Caption For Upper Boddington, The Village C1960

Close to the Warwickshire county boundary and its near neighbour Lower Boddington, Upper Boddington has changed a good deal since this photograph was taken.

Caption For Windsor, Great Park, Copper Horse 1937

Most of the Long Walk, including the Copper Horse, is within the boundary fence of a Deer Enclosure.

Caption For Brockenhurst, The Railway Crossing 1949

It continued to develop in the 20th century, establishing itself as a convenient and popular inland resort within the boundaries of the New Forest.

Caption For Bath, Milsom Street 1895

Looking north from New Bond Street, this late 19th-century view captures well the quality of Milsom Street, one of the earlier streets laid out beyond the boundaries of the original walled town.

Caption For Sutton Courtenay, Village 1890

The Swan pub dates from the 1870s and, apart from the loss of the boundary wall and railings, remains, as do the cottages.

Caption For York, St Mary's Tower C1885

At one time the abbey boundary wall stood along the river bank.

Caption For Petworth, North Street 1908

The spire of St Mary's church soars above the town, and to the right is the boundary wall of Petworth Park, the great mansion built by the Duke of Somerset towards the end of the 17th century.

Caption For Stamford, View From The Water Meadows 1922

The River Welland is the boundary between it and Northamptonshire.

Caption For Rimington, Newby C1955

Fluctuating Lancashire and Yorkshire boundaries have confused and annoyed villagers.

Caption For Batchworth Heath, 1903

Across the Colne the main road to Pinner reaches Batchworth Heath, just before the old Middlesex county boundary.

Caption For Woodmansterne, The Village C1955

Nestled in the rear slopes of the North Downs, the village derives its ancient name from the Saxon word 'wudmeresthorn', meaning 'thornbush by the boundary of the wood', and was mentioned in the Domesday

Caption For Blacko, From Noggarth C1960

Blacko Tower (just visible on the top of the hill), marking the boundary of Pendle Forest, was built by Jonathan Stansfield in 1891.

Caption For Barnoldswick, Tubber Hill C1920

Barnoldswick is pronounced 'Barlick' by the locals.This is another village that has moved with boundary changes.

Caption For Nork, The Parade C1955

Nork is a suburb that merges south into Burgh Heath in the large triangle between Reigate Road, Brighton Road and Fir Tree Road, the north boundary of Nork.

Caption For Chalford, On The Canal 1910

As the River Frome marked the boundary, the Red Lion was once in Minchinhampton parish, and the locals took advantage of the different pub closing time!

Caption For Billesdon, Market Place C1955

does the ancient 'Jurassic Trackway' run on a north-south line to the east of the village towards Tilton-on-the Hill, but a Neolithic road from Leicester, eastwards towards Ingarsby, skirts the northern boundary

Caption For The Broads, St Benet's Abbey Ruins C1945

Little remains of the Benedictine Abbey except this gateway, though traces can be found of the foundations (known by marshmen as groundsels) of the boundary wall and of a cruciform church.

Caption For Halse, Village C1955

The boundary walls on the left are in Blue Lias rubble stone left unpainted, while the lean-to at the left of Manor Cottage behind the huntsman has its rubble thickly limewashed.

Caption For Charlwood, The Street 1904

Charlwood was in Surrey until the 1970s administrative boundary changes.

Caption For Chester Zoo, Molly The Elephant Steps Out C1950

She was looked after by an Indian mahout, and in those days, before the zoo had the proper boundary fences that it has today, he was regularly to be seen taking Molly for walks in the

Caption For Stanmore, Village 1906

Here are buildings of the second half of the 19th century, with an object lesson to be observed in the treatment of boundary walls and railings - all neat and carefully designed.

Caption For Corfe Castle, The Hotels 1899

It is an ideal centre for exploring the Isle of Purbeck, and there is much of interest within the village boundary.

Caption For Plymouth, Drake's Island 1890

The nearby vil- lage of Kingsand still has a stone showing where the boundary used to lie.