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Memories

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The Kennels, Alice Brown

My auntie Alice ran the kennels in Berwick Bassett in a lovely old cottage with outside toilet and no electricity, I loved going to visit , she was very kind to me and let me help out with walking and feeding the dogs, she ...Read more

A memory of Berwick Bassett by jillbobcarrett

The Moseley Family

My grandmother Elizabeth Moseley married my grandfathergeorge Edwin Pitt in 1938 were the lived at hillend cottages my grandmother was seriously ill after having 2 children Patricia my mother and Stella Ann her younger sister I have ...Read more

A memory of Twyning by kathlerwill

Pitts Cottage

I should have said it was "Over the Way" that was the boarding house opposite Pitts Cottage that belonged to the same people. "The Old Way" was a tea house at the Croydon Road end of the High Street - there was a "co-op" grocery store opposite.

A memory of Westerham in 1963 by Marion Del Favero

Front Street Bells Close

I was born in Corbridge in Dilston Hall when it was a maternity home. My parents lived at No 1 Front Street Bells Close and I have some fantastic memories of my life there. I remember all of the neighbours and our ...Read more

A memory of Denton Burn in 1860 by Jacqueline Irving

War Years Borth Y Gest

I am Anne Keating (nee Drake) and was on holiday at the outbreak of war and stayed there for the duration. My Grannie owned Wendon where Marjorie & Olive were evacuated, I remember them both, we were all about the same ...Read more

A memory of Borth-y-Gest in 1940 by Anne Keating (Nee Drake)

Mill Lane

Hi Everyone i also grew up mostly on mill lane estate (woodlands ave ) and went to St Marks School (head Master Mr Thorpe) you all have jogged my memory to fantastic times around woodley. i also remember snuches ha ha played ...Read more

A memory of Woodley by Anthony Bentley

Walking Up Lane To See Gran And Grandad Foot

I walked Trampers Lane so many times as a child to see my Grandparents George and Jane Foot who lived in Oak View Cottage, also my dear Great Aunts, the Misses Mabel, Hilda and Hazel Foot, who lived ...Read more

A memory of North Boarhunt by Margaret Watts

Corner Cottage. 1950 To Now

My parents moved to Blebo from Dura Den in 1950 when I was six. A windmill for electricity with 12 volt light bulbs. Paraffin lamps and a cesspool. It was several years before the pumping station at Clatto was built to ...Read more

A memory of Blebocraigs in 1950 by Fergus Nicolson

Greywell House, Callow Hill

My family lived in Greywell House from 1955 when I was 9 until about 1965/66. I attended Runnemede House School in Rusham Park Avenue in Egham for a few years then moved on to St Brigidine's Convent in Windsor. I ...Read more

A memory of Virginia Water in 1955 by Wendy Graham

North Road

I have recently moved to North Road in Three Bridges into one of the original railway cottages, I can see that the house was there in a map of Three Bridges dated 1874 1:2500 scale. I am really interested in the history and would ...Read more

A memory of Three Bridges in 1870 by Paul Tobin

Captions

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Caption For Bishopsbourne, 1903

This village comprises little more than this cluster of charming cottages just off Watling Street, but it has associations with two noted authors.

Caption For Chedworth, Upper Chedworth C1955

Chedworth is a sprawling village with Cotswold stone cottages that cling to the valley sides.

Caption For Sherborne, The Post Office C1960

Many of the neat stone cottages, like the ones we see here, were lived in by workers on the Sherborne Estate. The church of St Mary Magdelene was rebuilt in 1850, but it has 14th-century origins.

Caption For Puddletown, The Square C1965

This view is eastwards from Tudor Cottage and Mill Street; the trees are in Ilsington House grounds and beside the parish church (right- hand background).

Caption For Datchworth, The Post Office And The Plough C1965

A parish notice board has been erected in the pillared garden of the next door cottage.

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Caption For Wray, C1955

The village experienced serious flooding in 1967 – flooding is always a threat, and cottagers use flood boards at their front doors.

Caption For Chilham, The Square 1903

what many claim is Kent's prettiest village: the tower of its 15th- century flint-stone church of St Mary looks down on this spacious square lined with half- timbered Tudor and Jacobean cottages

Caption For Chesham, The Broadway 1903

Looking towards Blucher Street the old and admittedly somewhat run down cottages survived until Brandon's store replaced them in the 1930s, a three-storey white painted block at odds with everything

Caption For Amersham, Market Hall And High Street 1957

Hidden from this view until 1939 by Church Alley's cottages, the superb Market Hall was built in 1682 by Sir William Drake of Shardeloes.

Caption For Bourne, Edenham Village C1955

The cottage on the right has been replaced by a stone bungalow further back from the roadside.

Caption For Goring, Village 1899

The village is a pleasing mixture of brick and flint thatched cottages.

Caption For Coverack, 1911

Gently winds the lane down between stone banks towards this picturesque fishing village of whitewashed cottages and bright spring flowers.

Caption For Denton, The Village C1960

Here we see several more of the local ironstone cottages with their well kept and productive gardens. There is a fine crop of runner beans in one garden as well as the usual flowers.

Caption For Uplyme, Church Street C1960

The windows on the left, open wide in the glorious hot summer, are at Myrtle Cottage and Penrith House.

Caption For Cowan Bridge, The Village C1955

A commemorative tablet is on the wall of Bronte Cottage, the first house on the right next to the old road bridge.

Caption For St Michaels, Cherrytree Grill C1960

Most of these cottages were built at the turn of the 19th century, when stops at Robinson's Tea Rooms were part of the popular wagonette trips.

Caption For Empingham, Church Street C1955

Unchanging, though, is St Botolph's Church near the River Gwash as it watches over the limestone cottages.

Caption For St Margarets Bay, Excelsior 1903

These timber-clad cottages, standing at the foot of the white cliffs, are part of a small community which developed both as a bathing resort and as a residential quarter in the closing years

Caption For Eynsford, 1905

with the River Darent running through it and under the 15th-century humpbacked bridge (seen here behind the horse and cart) alongside a ford; it possesses an assortment of Tudor brick and timbered cottages

Caption For Heckington, High Street C1955

Here we look along the High Street, where most of the houses and cottages survive on the left but only No 62, then an antique shop, on the right.

Caption For St Margarets Bay, Excelsior 1903

These timber-clad cottages, standing at the foot of the white cliffs, are part of a small community which developed both as a bathing resort and as a residential quarter in the closing years

Caption For Tywyn, St Cadfan's Church 1892

The area in front of a church was often treated as a public place, here, two boys lead a pony to drink at the pump and atering trough beside a traditional stone cottage.

Caption For Boxford, Swan Street C1955

The adjoining Victoria Cottage with round-topped windows is dated 1839. Commerce House was Kingsbury's the builders, established in 1730.

Caption For Charlestown, The Harbour C1955

The perfect little port with its floating dock is surrounded by cottages, and the outer harbour is enclosed by breakwater piers.