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Childhood Beach Hut

This scene of the old fishermen's beach huts shows my family's beach hut on the left.  The lady just about to enter the beach hut was my grandmother, I am playing on the beach and my sister is in the pushchair next to the lady. ...Read more

A memory of Whitstable by Jan Talikowski

Childhood

I did get the privilege to revisit Mitcham again this year. The fair green has changed little, there is now a main road running striaght to Tooting Broadway opposite the fair green, where the Bucks Head pub was there is a paved off area and ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1964 by Marion Lane

Once An Idyllic Dorset Village.

Since about the 1960s, Child Okeford became a totally different community from the one I first got to know in the early 1930's. The Watts (Harry and Dorothy) had farmed out of Laurel Farm for many decades and ...Read more

A memory of Child Okeford in 1930 by Pauline Bullen

Escape To The Country

I travelled to Chipping Norton to start a new life.  When I stepped off the coach on the high street and looked across the road I saw a very grand looking building and a sign saying The White Hart Hotel.  My next thought ...Read more

A memory of Chipping Norton in 1880 by Jane Mac Callum

The White Hart Inn

My Gt.Gt.Grandparents ran this Inn in Bradwell during the 1870's. Their names were John & Ann Archer. They originally came from West Yorkshire in a place called Kirkburton. John & Ann had a great many children who married ...Read more

A memory of Bradwell in 1870 by Linda Archer

Catching Newts

That building to the left with the little spire was my school when I was 11 in 1966. I have spent many hours catching newts in that pond in the foreground. It was partly surrounded by a brick and concrete wall and they would tuck themselves into little caves.

A memory of Tylers Green by Donald Macdonald

My Time In Foster Care 1970 To 1980

I spent my years living in Langley Middelton Manchester england uk, from 1970, till 1980, i lived thier from beening seven years old till i turned 15 yrs old, i lived with my dad Tony, my sister Christine, and ...Read more

A memory of Rochdale in 1980 by Susan Farrow

Dr Manning's Yard.

My grandma used to live in the Cottage above the head of the Boy leaning on the wall. We use to love visiting and playing in the Yard. Great memories.

A memory of Kendal in 1975 by Nik Esty

Binsted School

I can still remember the day I started school. My Mum walked me from Isington to Binsted, I didn't know exactly where I was going and when we got to the school we had to go up these steps that were overhung with trees, it reminded me of ...Read more

A memory of Isington in 1958 by Linda Cox

Fishing

This is the Fish Pond at Holden Corner, Southborough. This was one of the two accessible and popular places for boys to go fishing in Southborough - the other was the Great Bounds Lake, near Bidborough. As a boy in the 1940s and early 50s ...Read more

A memory of Southborough in 1940 by Michael Willcocks

Captions

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Caption For Falmer, The Village C1955

The picture shows Downland cottages with flint walling and tiled roofs. The village is now cut in two by a very busy dual carriageway, and is the location of the University of Sussex campus.

Caption For Ludlow, The Reader's House C1965

The Reader's House c1965 The sign on the wall indicates a right of way through to the courtyard of the Bull Hotel.

Caption For Great Eccleston, Raikes Road C1965

Amongst these was a very old cruck-built Fylde cottage with clay and straw walls from the 16th century. Leckonby Hall is the most interesting historical building hereabouts.

Caption For Lyme Regis, The Harbour C1955

Across the inner basin from the quay (right) beside the Cobb Warehouses is the 17th-century North Wall (centre), which protects the harbour from easterly gales.

Caption For Horbury, St Peter's Church C1955

The spire of St Peter's Church can be seen from all parts of Horbury.

Caption For Highworth, Swindon Street C1950

The outside gate to the shop is leaning against the wall to the left ready to be locked in place when the shop closes.

Caption For Troutbeck, Kirkstone Pass C1870

This picture also poses interesting questions - why is the solitary traveller leaning abjectly on the wall, and where is the horse?

Caption For Weymouth, Jersey Boat 1890

On the right, just peeping from behind the harbour wall, is what might be the paddler 'Great Western'.

Caption For Bluntisham, High Street C1955

A delivery bicycle is propped against the wall (right). The shelter of the Barograph Memorial has a pyramidal roof and a wrought iron weather vane.

Caption For Aberystwyth, North Parade 1949

The National Provincial Bank of England on the left was built in 1901-03 on the site of the first houses to be built outside the medieval town walls in 1797.

Caption For Stamford, Red Lion Square 1922

On the wall above the shop we can see the old sign from the long-closed Red Lion Inn from which the square takes its name.

Caption For Paignton, Round Tower 1894

We can see that twenty-six years after its completion, the sea wall is as good as ever. The tower was known locally as Smith's Folly.

Caption For Cheam, Malden Road 1894

Further along the road are the King's Hall, advertising 'teas and dances', and the Prince of Wales public house.

Caption For Sabden, Whalley Road C1955

A steep road from Sabden leads to the well-known pass of Nick o' Pendle.

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 Hoylake, Market Street C1960

The ornate canopy over the pavement on the left still shelters pedestrians from rain (and sun), but the shop is now a café called Ruby rather than a shoe shop.

Caption For Enfield, Bush Hill Station, St Mark's Road C1955

The grand pub and the simple working men's houses and shops in St Marks Road and First Avenue are all of a similar date.

Caption For Kibworth Harcourt, Albert Street C1955

The houses on the left have been altered and added to in a reasonably complimentary manner, but to the right the mature trees have gone, and the 18th-century garden wall has mostly been demolished

Caption For Odiham, All Saints Church 1903

The porch of the doorway on the south wall was removed about this time.

Caption For Godmanchester, Bridge 1901

This photograph looks northwards along the Ouse from the riverside walk. The footpath crosses the river firstly over the weir and then across the Chinese Bridge.

Caption For Dudley, Castle Ruins C1955

A close up view of John Dudley's handiwork, showing the hall, centre left, and great chamber, centre right. The castle's downfall was in two stages.

Caption For Hailsham, Bell Banks Road, The Pond C1955

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 Nether Alderley, Old Mill C1955

Inside on the walls are carved the initials of many of the millers, including the last from the 1930s, John Rawlins.

Caption For Lower Slaughter, The Mill And Pond C1950

The sign on the dry stone wall reads 'cycles for hire', which would be the perfect transport for a place like this.