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Marsala Road Ladywell The Prefabs

I was only a few months old when our family moved to 122 Marsala Road, Ladywell in 1949. I was ten years of age when we moved from Ladywell to Dartford in August 1959 but there are many different and varied ...Read more

A memory of Lewisham in 1958 by Tony Brown

Rowley Bristow Orthopaedic Hospital 1970

I became a Student Nurse, training for the Orthopaedic Nursing Certificate at The Rowley Bristow Orthopaedic Hospital, on the day before my 17th birthday in January 1970. The hospital was divided into two ...Read more

A memory of Pyrford by Robin Hickman

The Ghost

My dad, even though married he was one for playing the field. Mother was taking care of my brother's kids (his wife had died, he was a Flight Sargent), Mother was miles away and Dad played about. One afternoon he had picked up ...Read more

A memory of Royston by Roland Mitchell

Doddlebugs And V2s Plus!

I moved to Lymington Road, Dagenham, in 1939, across the road from the school. At first I attended Green Lane School - same as Dudley Moor. I even had the same piano teacher. Miss Hoggard. But she gave up on me. In the ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham by Joan Fitzgerald

Ashford Cottage Hospital

RE Photo 60335 - Sorry, but this photo is of the building that replaced the original Hospital built (circa 1890) in Station Road (formerly Marsh Street) a few doors from the Baptist Church and next to the town's Gas ...Read more

A memory of Ashford in 1940 by Peter Oliver

Granny Trotter

Immediately on the right here was Eton College's Rectors House (?), mum's mum was cook, she was a WWI widow with 5 kids and walked daily from a railway slum in Stoke Gardens Slough. When mum left school in the 30's at 14 and was too ...Read more

A memory of Eton by Dave Hill

During The War 1942

During the summer of 1942 my uncle who was an American soldier lived in several place in the Savernake Forest and eventually was billeted in "the big house" (Tottenham House)and kept a wonderful journal. I will cut and ...Read more

A memory of Savernake Forest in 1942 by Kristin Simpson

Coalville In The 70s....

So many lovely memories of Coalville. I went to Bardon Hill School and we used to have to walk thru the quarry to get there (would never be allowed now). I remember our teachers, Miss Maloney, Mr Davy, the head and Mrs ...Read more

A memory of Shepshed in 1978 by Tracie Whitmore

Growing Up In Wonderland

In the mid and late forties I attended Kingsmuir Boarding School in what is known today as Alderford Grange. It was owned and mastered by Ms Francis. We were told that the building had once been the Inn attached ...Read more

A memory of Sible Hedingham in 1945 by Paul Erland

The Railway Station At Boat Of Garten

The Speyside Steam Railway is a Heritage Railway which runs from Aviemore to Boat of Garten. I visited in May 2010 with my wife Elizabeth and sister-in-law Margaret on an organised railway touring ...Read more

A memory of Boat of Muiresk in 2010 by John Howard Norfolk

Captions

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Caption For Merthyr Mawr, Rethatching The Old School C1955

Here the workmen are carrying out their highly-specialised craft surrounded by the tools of their trade. Note the bundles of thatch standing to the left of the picture.

Caption For Snape, The Castle 1900

Dating from the 15th and 16th centuries, Snape was once the seat of the Fitz-Randolphs and Nevilles, Lords of Middleham, and was rebuilt by the Latimers during the reign of Henry VI.

Caption For Longtown, The Greyhound Inn C1960

It was one of many castles built by the de Lacy family and was part of a network of castles throughout the area, used to control what was once wild, border country.

Caption For Weobley, The Old Grammar School C1960

Certainly by the early 19th century this was a village in decline.

Caption For Paignton, The Harbour From Above 1890

A number of people, on the beach by the bathing machines in the distant back ground, enjoy the mirror-calm water.

Caption For Cadgwith, From Bathing Rock 1899

Their attention has been attracted by a fisherman handling a box on the beach, whcih could have been handed down by the person inside the boat.

Caption For Welton, High Street C1955

The White Horse pub can just be seen on the right, and on the left by the school sign are familiar adverts for Lyons Ice Cream and Lyons Tea.

Caption For Ingoldmells, Vickers Point And Beach C1955

Here, looking towards Ingoldmells Point, are the sandy beach and the sand dunes, a view now radically changed by the more recent sea defences with a massive concave-fronted sea wall forming a promenade

Caption For Exmouth, The Coastguard Station 1906

By the time this photograph was taken, the coastguards were taking a greater interest in protecting mariners from the power of the sea than seizing contraband.

Caption For London, Hyde Park Corner, Apsley House C1920

It was bought by the Duke of Wellington in 1817 and here were held glittering banquets celebrating the victory at Waterloo until his death in 1852.

Caption For Scarborough, From The Fish Pier 1890

A Lowestoft-registered fishing boat slips out to sea unnoticed by the anglers on the harbour. In the background is the imposing, if somewhat overpowering, edifice of the Grand Hotel.

Caption For Bury St Edmunds, Cornhill 1898

The original market place, as laid out in the Bury St Edmunds' grid pattern devised by Abbot Baldwin in the 11th century, was a good deal larger than it was by the time of this photograph.

Caption For Sonning, The Lock 1917

27 years after photograph 27159, the chamber has been rebuilt, new gear fitted to the gate sluices and a house built for the lock-keeper by the Thames Conservancy.

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 Menheniot, Church & Lychgate 1912

The tower may be 13th century, with the needle spire added by the 15th century. The clock was given in 1907 by General Jago Trelawny after a serious illness.

Caption For Henley On Thames, Hart Street 1893

The photographer walked away from the river bridge up Hart Street towards the Town Hall in Market Place and turned back by the Bell Street junction to take this view towards the church with its dominating

Caption For Pontefract, St Giles' Church And Buttercross 1964

The Buttercross was erected in 1734 by the wife of Solomon Dupier, a former garrison commander in Gibraltar, who later lived in the town.

Caption For Helston, Penrose House 1895

the Godolphin racing stable (ironically owned by Sheikh Makhtoum); it is named after Godolphin Arabian, one of the three Arab stallions from which all British racehorses are descended, and imported by the

Caption For Bawtry, Buttercross, Market Place C1965

This view shows a virtually-deserted Market Place at Bawtry, with a 'half-timbered' Morris Minor prominently parked by the old Buttercross.

Caption For Loose, Village 1898

Two miles south of Maidstone, this little secretive village perched on a hillside once had thirteen watermills within its boundaries, powered by the two main streams flowing into the River Medway.

Caption For Kings Lynn, The Custom House C1955

Built by Sir John Turner as an exchange for merchants in 1683, it was purchased by the Crown for a Custom House in 1715.

Caption For Paston, The Tithe Barn C1965

Constructed by the same craftsmen that built Trunch and Knapton churches, the barn is,160ft long, 24ft wide and about 60ft from floor to roof apex.

Caption For Shirebrook, Main Street C1955

Shirebrook is a small town on the border with Nottinghamshire which grew up with, and was dominated by, the growth of the Shirebrook and Langwith collieries.

Caption For Chipping, Talbot Street C1955

Chair-making was another speciality, and there is still a chair-maker here by the church.