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Button Factory

Building on left (large brick wall) was the Button Factory, entry at the back, mum said. At the left at the end of shops used to be tea total cafe or diner where she used to hang out. Good bakers to right further down. Mum used to ...Read more

A memory of Selsdon by Claire Cook

Esgairgeiliog 1956 1961

I was eleven when we moved into the new council estate, Aelybryn, in Esgairgeiliog. My mother had been born in Esgairgeiliog, and her mother was the local, unofficial, midwife of the village at the beginning of the ...Read more

A memory of Esgairgeiliog in 1956 by Delyth Jenkins

The Big Freeze

I lived in Ashford Road for the first 20 years of my life and my mother still lives in the same house; she has lived there since 1933. I was born in 1950 in the new cottage hospital at the top of the road. I went to school at ...Read more

A memory of Fordingbridge in 1963 by Cathryn Candy

Fordingbridge Fair

A few days after starting school, I paid my first remembered visit to Fordingbridge Fair. A funfair visited Fordingbridge every year during the first week in September. It was situated in Church Square and in the land ...Read more

A memory of Fordingbridge in 1955 by Cathryn Candy

The Oaks Park

About the time that this photograph was taken the house was boarded up as being dangerous so some friends and I broke in. The inside was in a really bad state of repair but the piece of architecture that stunned us was the ...Read more

A memory of Carshalton by Tony Arkell

Kilkeel

I particularly remember the Mourne Mountains, stone walls and beautiful countryside my memories of my time there and my grandad are priceless.

A memory of Kilkeel in 1966 by Gina Gibbs

Relations

I have just visited my great aunties house and was very interested to find a photo on the wall of this house with a note attached - it appears to have been the family home of my great Uncle Joe's parents. Would anyone know how I would find ...Read more

A memory of Bacup by Louise Bradley

Grimshaw Lane

I very much so recall Grimshaw Lane, we lived at no.411 next to the Highams and the Howarths, and the Digmoor Primary School with Fred Holmes as the headmaster. Fred was a keen sportsman who encouraged the playing of sport on ...Read more

A memory of Upholland Sta in 1955 by Ken Hesketh

Redhill Swimming Baths

I remember the old swimming baths, just round the corner, and have pleasant childhood memories. The building was made of red sandstone and us kids used to grind red dust out of the walls with our 1d coins whilst queueing to ...Read more

A memory of Redhill in 1972 by David Simmons

Brendon

Around this time I lived on Falconer Crescent on New Parks, the last house before the farm, next to Barnados. It seems a recurring memory for all - the walled garden and orchard, I used to work there weekends. I swept the long drive of ...Read more

A memory of Glenfield in 1962 by James Norman

Captions

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Caption For Belaugh, The Church 1921

The church is in a commanding position 75 yards from the water's edge, which at one time covered all the land at its base, even where the cottages in the picture have been built.

Caption For Brundall, On The Yare C1960

This is a popular spot on the Yare to start and finish a Broads holiday, or merely to top up with fuel for both body and boat; Note the signs for Lyons cakes and Walls ice cream (left), which in their

Caption For Basildon, All Saints' Church, Vange 2005

The Norman church of All Saints in Vange is believed to be the oldest in Basildon.

Caption For Skegness, The Clock Tower C1955

For safety reasons there is now a wall around the path to keep the people away from the traffic. There is a road crossing nearby.

Caption For Kingston Upon Thames, Parish Church Interior 1893

The church has a 14th-century wall painting of St Blaise, and the impressive 16th-century tomb of Sir Anthony Benn; the 17th-century marble font is attributed to Sir Christopher Wren.

Caption For Crickhowell, High Street 1898

Today the post office is gone, but a modern, larger lamp of similar style is attached to the wall of Carlton House, No 25.

Caption For York, Micklegate Bar 1886

Eventually Micklegate commanded the highest rent of the four bars: just over 13s.The walls of the passage are built with Roman stone, including used coffins.

Caption For Skegness, The Clock Tower C1955

For safety reasons there is now a wall around the path to keep the people away from the traffic. There is a road crossing nearby.

Caption For Minehead, The Parade 1892

The buildings to the left of photograph 31223 had just been built, replacing houses with walled gar- dens.

Caption For Alfriston, Market Square C1955

The Clergy House, a 14th-century timber-framed and thatched hall house, is in the care of the National Trust and is open to visitors.

Caption For Portchester, The Castle 1898

The tower keep, which when built was only one storey high, has walls twelve feet thick, and when two further floors were added it was similar to those at Falaise, Norwich and Corfe.

Caption For Southgate, High Street And The Bourne C1965

Behind the high brick wall to the extreme right of the photograph is Southgate House of the late 18th century, built in the form of a neo-classical villa by Samuel Pole; a short distance along the Bourne

Caption For Cosby, Croft Road From The Nook C1965

As so often happens in the county, the quality of the village has gone unsung, with the brook, its major natural asset, now being forced between crazy-paved walls instead of gently enhanced - a pity

Caption For Bush Hill, Elmscott Gardens C1955

Look at the timber windows with their coloured glass, the original front doors, the solid, yet attractive, garage doors, the original gates and boundary walls, and realise that all this has for the greater

Caption For Rochester, Castle Grounds 1908

Though a whole section of the tower collapsed, the siege was not over: the defenders simply withdrew behind a great cross-wall, and it was only starvation that eventually forced them out.

Caption For Berkhamsted, The Castle C1960

Here are the remains of a circular keep, the southern barbican, and two wing walls on the south side of the motte.

Caption For Castle Acre, The Priory, The West Front 1891

The priory occupied over 40 acres - there are remains of its flint boundary walls.

Caption For Bashall Eaves, The Village C1955

Dry stone walls were built to last 100 years. Sett-paved yards (right) withstood iron-shod cart wheels.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Silver Street 1906

Opposite, however, the scene is intact, including the front wall of the White House (right), the gable-end of the Lodge, and at a dental surgery behind.

Caption For Bangor, The Bay 1897

The handsome ornament at the corner of the wall of Kensington Villa is still there, somewhat damaged, but not yet ten years old at this time.

Caption For Saltfleet, Manor House C1955

The big tree has gone, and the outbuilding, whose steps can be seen at the left is now a single ruined wall.

Caption For York, Micklegate Bar C1885

Eventually Micklegate commanded the highest rent of the four bars: just over 13s.The walls of the passage are built with Roman stone, including used coffins.

Caption For Brampton, The Village 1907

One wonders what Henry Stevens, the landlord in 1907, would have thought of the modern Barley Mow - and we might ask why he decided to sport a White Ensign endorsed `The People` on the front wall of

Caption For Standon, High Street And Church C1965

Unique in Hertfordshire, Standon parish church has a detached bell tower and a porch at the west end rather than on the south wall.