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Memories
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Clarence Road & Village
My parents built No 20 - it was a plot covered with trees & brambles. My father, Cyril Russell, turned it into a wonderful garden. The road in 1949 was unmade with few lights - when it was tarmacked there were a crowd of ...Read more
A memory of Reigate by
Martin Street
I remember S C Cummins quite well, their factory was close to the corner of (I believe) William Street. My grandparents lived at 55 Martin Street for many years and my aunty lived on Earle Street. My uncle lived on William Street and ...Read more
A memory of Crewe in 1970 by
My Life In The Village
My memory of Hartest, a place that is very dear to me, relates to the period between moving down from Somerton in 1945 and living there until I moved to Hadleigh in 1970 for my work. As an Evacuee, together with my brothers ...Read more
A memory of Hartest by
Llandanwg Lost Church
I can remember the church being engulfed in sand and unloved by everyone. I have explored this church, albeit unofficially, with a friend of mine who lived in Llanfair village. His name is Emyr, whom I met when I started at ...Read more
A memory of Llandanwg in 1964 by
East Anglian Marshland Memories
I sat and talked with a man of God, about people and places we have known and loved. As part of my life being spent on the Marsh, formative years that were oft-times harsh. Such happy memories tumbled back ...Read more
A memory of Holbeach St Marks in 1960 by
War Years
Although very young at the time, about three, I spent several years during the war in Great Oxendon, living at The Cot which was owned by a Mrs Bland, opposite the village school where my aunt, Miss M Pressley was one of the two ...Read more
A memory of Great Dalby in 1944 by
Holbeach Bank School Indebted
We didn't have modern technology, it wasn't invented then anyway when arriving at our village school to learn our lessons each day. We didn't need endless classrooms with miles of corridor to walk, just a desk ...Read more
A memory of Holbeach Bank in 1957 by
Rose And Crown
George Robert Brown was my Grandfather. He was manager (or whatever the title was) in the Rose and Crown from 1950/51 until 1953/54. I lived there as a baby, born 1st March 1953. Although some years younger I feel an affinity ...Read more
A memory of Grantchester in 1953 by
Lots Of Past Memories
I grew up in Eccles, descended from two of the original families to first come into the village when Eccles Row was built. Everyone knew everyone in Eccles in the 1950s and 60s. The local school, St Marks, had two rooms - ...Read more
A memory of Eccles by
Barrow Hill School
I went to Barrow Hill School in the early fifties, Mr. Rees was the Headmaster. On a Friday evening we would go into his home and watch the Cisco Kid on television, the first television I ever watched. I also remember ...Read more
A memory of Frimley Green in 1951 by
Captions
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Harnham Bridge crossed the Hampshire Avon just south of Salisbury between the twin hamlets of East and West Harnham. The former was a parish in its own right.
To the west of Jervaulx lies this pretty village, nestling around the spacious green.
The parish church of St Michael is one of the most interesting in the Lake District.
This attractive village stands in the beautiful valley of the River?Darent north of Sevenoaks. Here we see an empty street scene before motor traffic was commonplace.
Wartling is another parish like Herstmonceux, with its parish church and part of the village over a mile south of the main road and on the edge of the Pevensey Levels.
It is a sunny day in this quiet village that stands between the water meadows of the River Wey and Alice Holt Forest.
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
A small village at the western edge of St Leonards Forest, on the main road and railway line between Horsham and Crawley. Local legends say that dragons and serpents inhabited the forest.
Grindleton is a classic case of village development: here ancient roads cross, and ribbon building took place along those roads.
From industrial Desborough we move three miles east to the quiet village of Rushton.
Saltwood dates back to at least the year 833, when it is mentioned as a land grant by King Egbert.
Oving, west of Whitchurch, lies off the main road, and is a very pretty village on the Portland limestone ridge.
The High Street may look quiet and rural, but five years earlier this street was pounded with traffic day and night.
This tranquil scene shows the village green in this attractive coastal village. Some thirty years later, Bawdsey was to play a vital part in the defence of Britain.
Glynde is most famous for its internationaly renowned opera house built in the grounds of Glyndbourne.
This village, archaeologists believe, is the 'Cloveshoo' of Saxon times - known then as a big town with several ancient councils. Its full name is Cliffe-at-Hoo.
One advantage its fishermen enjoy over many other villages along this part of the Cornish coast is that the harbour faces east, away from the prevailing south-westerly gales.
But when this photograph was taken, it was a village with its own character and community.
Two miles south east of Rotherham, Whiston was a large village by the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
Prior to the development of the coastal resort at Colwyn Bay in Victorian times, the old village, lying to the east and just inland from the coast, was known merely as Colwyn.
Wadhurst, a village about six miles south-east of Tunbridge Wells, was a centre of the iron industry during the 16th and 17th centuries.
A hilltop village on the southern edge of the Worth Forest with distant views of both the North and South Downs. St Leonard's church was built in 1895.
Moving north-east of Waddesdon, the last two villages on this tour, Oving and Whitchurch, are on the Quainton- Whitchurch Hills, a ridge of Portland limestone that gives fine views over the Vale of Aylesbury
It is said that he wrote 'Robinson?Crusoe' in a back-room above the wash-house.
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