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An Ashbourne Childhood

My family moved to Ashbourne in 1942 when I was 6. I went to school at what must have been the last of the old "Dame" schools run by an elderly lady called Ethel Hunter. The school was at the top of a big house in Church ...Read more

A memory of Ashbourne in 1943

3 Into 1 Will Go!

Before being converted into a single house, probably in the 1960' or 1970s, there were three families living there, Mr and Mrs Feltham, Mrs May, and the Shears family. Before this, Mr and Mrs Cards lived there, and their ...Read more

A memory of Broughton in 1940 by Thomas Dowthwaite

Chirbury Road Wood Relatives

Some time in the 1980s, my mother Dorothy visited her gt-aunt Rhoda Wood (b1901), who had lived in the same cottage, 15 Chirbury Road, Montgomery, all her life, one of 10 children of Charles (b1849) and Ellen Wood ...Read more

A memory of Chirbury in 1900 by Gillian Morgan

My Village As A Child

I was born at Grainthorpe in 1945 at Chapel Hill Cottages to Jim and Ivy Holdsworth Dad was a Geordie who came to the village in 1943 with the Royal Ulster Rifles. My mother was Ivy Loughton and was brought up by her ...Read more

A memory of Grainthorpe

Single Street Berrys Green

Back in the 1950's I can remember living in No 1 Bertrey Cottages, Single Street very near Berrys Green. I can remember the Berrys Green Post Office where we could buy sweets by spending as little as a farthing. A ...Read more

A memory of Berry's Maple in 1950 by Raymond Marks

My Old School

I went to Meonstoke School in 1976, soon after moving back to Hampshire from Cornwall. We lived for a while with my Gran Tricia Howe at Govers Cottage, who still lives there today! The School always smelt of Germolene!

A memory of Meonstoke in 1976 by Catherine Howe

New House

I was born in Fiddington in 1947, in a very old thatch cottage, so I was told. we moved to Northway in 1950 to a new house in Elm Road - number 6. It was a three bed and living room and kitchen, we felt very pleased ...Read more

A memory of Northway in 1950 by David Trenfield

Childhood To Marriage

MY first memory of"LLan"was driving down the hill from Swffryyd, to my new home at No.6 High Street. My father Thomas Hughes, with my mother Eileen, had purchased Barttlets Grocery Store,a long held wish of my fathers to own ...Read more

A memory of Llanhilleth by Derek Hughes

That Morris Minor Traveller Has To Be Our Dad's Car!

My family lived at No 3 (the top flat), Corner House, at the top end of Broad Street, first on the left looking at the photo (but just out of the picture) for many years from 1947 or so. I ...Read more

A memory of New Alresford in 1947 by John Dear

The Post Office

My Aunty Evelyn ran the post office in Oxwich for many years. There was a huge orchard attached to the post office. Upon retirement, she had the bungalow built next door and lived there until her death. As a young boy, I lived in the ...Read more

A memory of Oxwich in 1948 by David Bevan

Captions

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Caption For Abingdon, Looking South From The Church Tower C1945

The river is immediately beyond the road in front of Brick Alley Almshouses, but until 1884 there were cottages, a pub, warehouses and wharves fronting the river.

Caption For Bridport, East Road 1904

The street becomes East Road and was gated with a level crossing (in front of the thatched cottage) for the West Bay extension of the Bridport Railway, in use from 1884 to 1962.

Caption For Chenies, Old Manor House 1897

The lodgings range became five cottages.

Caption For Clifton Hampden, The Plough Inn C1960

The old village consists of a number of small, picturesque thatched and timber-framed cottages to the west of the church and along a lane running west from the river bridge.

Caption For Grendon Underwood, Crucks C1960

The name of this cottage is a reminder of a very important medieval and late medieval building tradition in this area, possibly associated with the abundance of oak trees in the Bernwood Forest and

Caption For Oakley, Post Office Corner C1960

The name of this cottage is a reminder of a very important medieval and late medieval building tradition in this area, possibly associated with the abundance of oak trees in the Bernwood Forest and

Caption For Caldecott, High Street C1955

Roman remains are extant at Caldecott, but it is the later thatched and slated farmhouses, and rows of cottages (some with date panels) fronting onto the High Street which present a unified entity

Caption For Kegworth, High Street C1960

In the photograph, a butcher's shop front (left) with its rather flimsy canopy has been built into a rather good 17th- century cottage.

Caption For Swindon, Regent Street 1948

The View North-West This thoroughfare was originally lined with workers' cottages, but from about 1865 many of these dwellings were converted into shops.

Caption For Ashwell, Forester's Cottages, High Street 1951

The Foresters Cottages, in the right foreground, were to be demolished in a few years after the photograph was taken, but were saved and extensively restored in the 1960s through the Hertfordshire Building

Caption For Westbury, Composite C1965

In nearby Westbury Leigh, part of the parish of Westbury, cloth mills and weavers' cottages remind us of its past.

Caption For Stanmore, The Broadway C1965

In the distance can be seen the jettied row of cottages, now offices, which identify the 1906 photograph.

Caption For Ansdell, Entrance To Fairhaven Golf Links 1927

On St Anne's Old Links, Granny Fisher of Cross Slack Cottages supplied golfers with refreshments. This lady had twins four times!

Caption For Mundesley, High Street 1921

The thatched cottage was used by Spurgeon the butcher and then by Mace the cobbler; it is now a florist's.

Caption For Cawthorne, Memorial Corner C1955

The lane past Fountain Cottage leads to the quiet surroundings of All Saints' Church.

Caption For Otford, The Archbishops Palace 1895

Built by Archbishop Warham in the early 16th century, this small manor house, consisting of a three-storey brick tower, a gallery (later turned into cottages), and the single-storey storehouse beyond

Caption For Quorn, Cross C1965

The battlemented tower of St Bartholomew's (left) just shows above the row of rather good brick and tile cottages, into which the post office has been thrust.

Caption For Rickmansworth, Church Street 1897

On the right, all the red brick cottages went about 1900 to be replaced by the buildings seen in view 49245.

Caption For Fenstanton, Chequer Street C1955

The Rover 90 is parked outside a row of late 19th-century terraced cottages. These have been replaced by a row of similar, but modern, terraced houses.

Caption For Brookwood, Basingstoke Canal C1955

This view is of Pirbright Lock, No 15; we are looking past the lock keeper's cottage (then a café, now a private house) to the girder bridge across the canal.

Caption For Clifton Hampden, From Bridge 1890

The cottage with the smoking chimney was rebuilt in about 1910, and houses the Clifton Hampden Post Office and General Stores.

Caption For Abingdon, Culham Bridge C1950

The lock keeper's cottage is not of 1809: it was, like many others, rebuilt by the Thames Conservancy, in this case in 1958.

Caption For Belvoir Castle, 1890

In the foreground, the cottages are roofed in attractive pantiles, a common material in this part of the county.

Caption For Quorn, Cross C1965

The battlemented tower of St Bartholomew's (left) just shows above the row of rather good brick and tile cottages, into which the post office has been thrust.