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Evacuees

My brother Tom and I (Donald) were evavuated to Easter Fosterseat in the early 1940s during the war. Mr and Mrs Sim ran the farm and we immediately started work at the age of 7 and 5. Pluscarden School had two classes with five groups in ...Read more

A memory of Fochabers in 1940 by Donald Campbell Veale

A Real Community

I was born in Harborough Magna in 1943 at Rose Cottage, Main Street. I lived there with my mother and grandparents during the 1940s and early 1950s. When I was 4 years old I went to the village school which had a ...Read more

A memory of Harborough Magna in 1943 by Roger Childs

Hedsor Park And The Origins Of The British Computing Industry

By the late 1960's ICL had absorbed much of the country's computer industry and had several manufacturing centres at Manchester, Stoke-on-Trent and Letchworth. It needed a base for running ...Read more

A memory of Hedsor in 1970 by John Howard Norfolk

Childhood Memories

My maiden name was Margaret Connelly and I was taken to Tigna from birth for holidays up to the age of 13. My aunt had a wee place just at at the back of Corran Cottage in the village just at the side of the burn. My ...Read more

A memory of Tighnabruaich in 1920 by Margaret Murdoch

The Dog And Badger Medmenham

I was born in 1942 at the then Liston Nursing Home in Marlow. My first memories are of the Dog and Badger in Medmenham, where I lived for six years, with my mother, and my grandparents, John and Lillian Nye. The pub was ...Read more

A memory of Medmenham in 1947

Glebe Farm Brough

Situation of Farm:  Glebe Farm was situated in the centre of Brough approached along a track off the Fosse Way,,the A46 and approximately 3 miles north of Newark.. About 800mt away was the very busy war time Winthorpe ...Read more

A memory of Brough by David Kind

Bonfires

I remember most fondly the bonfires og Guy Fawkes Night in November. These structures would take weeks to build and always had a three piece suite at the centre. This was where the gang would 'live', yes live for some time prior to the ...Read more

A memory of Frizington in 1969 by Peter Walker

Wilkies Fish Shop

As a small child I remember going to Wilkies fish shop in Western Road and from the counter you could see into their living room at the back. They had a huge fish tank filled with bright coloured fish and I felt very priviledged ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham by Trudy Simpson

Where To Start .....?

I lived in Woodland Close throughout my childhood and started at Kingsbury Green Primary School in 1959. The classrooms were brightly painted, and the smells of plasticine, paints, crayons, pink (carbolic) soap and school dinners ...Read more

A memory of Kingsbury in 1959 by Jackie Hayles

Growing Up In Swffryd.

We moved to Swffryd from Six Bells where we lived with my grandparents. My family; Thomas Griffiths (Dad,) Iris Griffiths (Mam,) and myself Gareth Griffiths moved into a brand new built 2 bedroom flat in 19A Bron-y-Bryn (now ...Read more

A memory of Swffryd in 1953 by Julie Griffiths

Captions

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Caption For Ash, The Village C1965

We are close to the centre of the village. The Ship Inn can be seen on the left.

Caption For Saunton, Sands 1938

The white building right of centre is the Saunton Sands Hotel. Today, this is expanded into a prestigious establishment, still white and gloriously floodlit at night.

Caption For Rochdale, Hollingworth Lake 1892

The 104 acres of the lake are only 3 miles from Rochdale cen- tre and were a popular rendezvous by the mid 1860s.

Caption For Dorking, South Street And Pump Corner 1906

The Bull's Head is centre left and the White Lion is centre right in view 55697 on the previous page. Shops and houses stood where now the bus stops are.

Caption For Skegness, Lumley Road 1899

On the left is the gable end of Hildreds Hotel - demolished in 1987 - and at the centre are what were then the newly-built underground lavatories with a domed ventilator surmounted by a street lamp.

Caption For Launceston, Castle Lodge 1906

The lodge was built in the 19th century to house the gardener, and is now the English Heritage information centre.

Caption For Fair Oak, The Village C1965

To the centre right we can just see the opening of Mortimer Lane, which leads to Bishops Waltham and to Marwell Zoo.

Caption For Irchester, Knuston Hall Education Centre C1960

Now 'Knuston Hall Conference Centre and College of Adult Education,' it is well known for its thatching courses.

Caption For Bourne, Market Square 1955

The Market Square is at the busy cross-roads in the centre of this delightful small town.

Caption For Chapel St Leonards, The Vine Hotel 1959

There were two hotels in the village, the Vine in the village centre and the Grange along Sea Bank Road just behind the sand hills.

Caption For Ingoldmells, High Street C1965

The road is still the A52, with a few bends in the village centre. Skegness is to the right.

Caption For Cockermouth, Main Street 1906

Cockermouth was granted its market charter in 1221, and gradually developed in importance, until it was the chief commercial centre of the old county of Cumberland.

Caption For Sully, The Hospital, The Nurses' Home C1950

For many years the facility operated as one of the primary treatment centres for tuberculosis in Britain.

Caption For Cadgwith, From Bathing Rock 1899

The man and group of boys in front of the centre ground boat are typical of visitors to any sea shore, and form the kind of scene that has not changed over the years.

Caption For Maidstone, High Street C1870

Maidstone has been an important market town since the Middle Ages, although today it is also an important industrial centre.

Caption For Leeds Castle, 1892

Maidstone has been an important market town since the Middle Ages, although today it is also an important industrial centre.

Caption For York, The Shambles C1962

Hay was used to feed the animals awaiting slaughter; it was illegal to graze livestock within six miles of the city centre.

Caption For Porthcurno, C1883

Here, in an otherwise lonely valley, we can see the Eastern Telegraph Co's large cable station in the centre, with employees' housing in the distance.

Caption For Hoddesdon, Fish And Eels Hotel C1965

A few minutes from the centre of the original village and situated by the weir, this small 19th-century hotel on the banks of the River Lea, with its eight rooms, was, and still is, popular with anglers

Caption For Steyning, Church Street C1955

Following the decline of Steyning's port during the Middle Ages, the focus of the town shifted southwards from around the church and became centred on the junction of Church Street and the High Street.

Caption For Acock's Green, Olton Boulevard East C1955

This part of Acock's Green is known as 'the village', but the centre of the community is further east, nearer the railway station, which opened in 1852.

Caption For Wordsley, High Street C1965

The property is occupied by an undertaker's today, and the post office is now a dental centre.

Caption For Chipping Campden, High Street C1955

To this day the town remains a centre of fine craftsmanship.

Caption For Fairhaven, Clifton Drive 1927

Trams ran along the centre of the main road, and in the background stands the distinctive white Congregationalist church, built in 1912.