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Fond Memories

This photo is significant to me since I attended this school in the late 1930s/early 1940s. I was a member of Hanson House and played football on the sports field to the right of the pool. I rode a bicycle to school from Weyhill. I ...Read more

A memory of Andover by Peter Kent

Strone Youth Hostel

I have fond memories of Strone. My mother was the warden at the SYHA hostel at Strone which was Dunselma on the hill. Strone Primary was my first school. I remember the US floating docks and the protesters ...Read more

A memory of Strone in 1959 by Gavin Redfern

An Evacuee Remembers

A South Londoner, I was 12+ when WWII started in September 1939. I was evacuated with Wandsworth Central School to Farncombe, and remember sitting on the floor in a large hall waiting for someone to 'adopt' me. Eventually, I ...Read more

A memory of Farncombe in 1940 by Ronald Waller

Early War Years

This is very much a shot in the dark. My parents, Jim & Eva Davidson, moved to Barnhurst in the late 1930s and lived in a maisonette, ground floor I believe. My father worked at the Woolwich Arsenal ordinance factory and I ...Read more

A memory of Barnehurst in 1940 by Gordon Davidson

The Century Cinema And Other Memories

My parents, brother and I moved to Loughton in 1959. Our next door neighbours (Mr & Mrs Angel) were already retired and called Loughton 'The Village'. My mum got a job working in the sweetshop next ...Read more

A memory of Loughton by Julia Spicer

Plympton In The Blitz

My name is Robert Best. I was born June 24th. 1939 in Plymouth and evacuated to Princetown in 1941. My Mother, her parents and I moved to Plympton when I was 3 years old. I have clear memories of Princetown, of riding the train ...Read more

A memory of Plympton by rjbmk

Muriel The Half Caste Girl

That's how most people outside of the Edith Brough Whickham home referred to me. My sister (Dorothy) and I were transferred from the South Shields home to the Whickham home when I was about 11 years old after I ran ...Read more

A memory of Whickham

Old Manafon Character.

Anybody remember my old uncle Nathaniel (Watkin) who used to live at the Green Cottage, the Green, Manafon? He was Church warden for many years, a real old Montgomeryshire character, fondly remembered even though he died in ...Read more

A memory of Manafon by Brian Bennett

Frecknalls

My mother lived in Dunmow from 1932 until 1946 when she left to live in Edinburgh. My mother's name was Rosalind Frecknall and she and her family lived at The Close initially, then The Downs. Her father, Claud Frecknall, taught ...Read more

A memory of Great Dunmow in 1930

River Walk 1947(Ish)

My friend and I would take the bus from Hounslow bus station, and dressed in our Sunday best (50's style) go walking along the River Walk from the bridge. I have a photo of us taken by a street photograther who ...Read more

A memory of Richmond by Patricia Symons

Captions

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Caption For Cobham, The Village 1911

A half century after the era of Dickens there are still several places where the traveller can take refreshment: Webb's is advertising teas, next door is a tea garden, and beyond that yet another sign

Caption For Harrogate, Valley Gardens 1907

Valley Gardens was a favourite place for a mild constitutional after taking the waters.

Caption For Crystal Palace, 1890

The grounds around it were transformed into fantastic gardens with temples, pleasure walks, lakes with islands and fountains, a maze, a grotto, groves and lawns.

Caption For Horning, The Swan C1965

An attractive garden borders the river in front of the Swan Hotel. Since 1965 an extension to the hotel has replaced the low building beside the thatched house.

Caption For Corby, Corby Hotel C1965

local limestone, with sash windows and an impressive multi-entranced facade, it had twenty bedrooms, central heating, private lock- up garages, a private lounge, a croquet lawn and a rose garden

Caption For Lyme Regis, The Parade 1925

Here we see landslipped Langmoor Gardens (left) before the building of retaining walls and amusement arcades.

Caption For Lyme Regis, The Harbour C1955

Beyond are Langmoor Gardens and the Bay Private Hotel on Marine Parade. The wooded skyline above the town extends from Rhode Barton and Thistle Hill to Penn Hill and Timber Hill.

Caption For Pegwell, High Street 1907

On the left are the Floral Tea Gardens followed by the Pear Tree Inn, later Samuel Banger's potted shrimp paste factory.

Caption For Clitheroe, The Castle 1927

In 1919, amid the pain and sadness after the First World War, the peo- ple of Clitheroe raised £15,000 to buy the Castle and its grounds, and a Garden of Remembrance was laid out.

Caption For Bangor, The Esplanade 1897

This shows the heart of the Victorian holiday town, with the required esplanade and gardens for strolling.

Caption For Hunsdon, The Green C1960

When Hunsdon won the Hertfordshire Best Kept Village competition in 1960, the winner's sign was erected in the garden of the house next door.

Caption For Odiham, The Bury 1910

He built the adjacent office in part of his garden (the white porch on the right).

Caption For Bush Hill, Elmscott Gardens C1955

Unaltered pairs of such houses do exist, but most have received the treatment meted out at the hands of the double-glazing salesman and the need to park that extra car in the front garden.

Caption For Manchester, The Public Gardens Piccadilly C1965

This is a central and popular spot for shoppers and office workers to sit and relax in the well-laid-out formal gardens.

Caption For Wells, New College 1892

Recently, extensive excavations in the garden revealed pottery and ceramics dating back to late Saxon times.

Caption For Malmesbury, Abbey Ruins 1924

The grass area in the foreground of the photograph is now the Garden of Remembrance.

Caption For Dorking, Horsham Road 1905

Another tea-room in South Street was French's Tea Gardens, which adjoined the Stone Roof Café. The buildings have changed little over the last century.

Caption For Dorking, South Street 1906

Another tea-room in South Street was French's Tea Gardens, which adjoined the Stone Roof Café. The buildings have changed little over the last century.

Caption For Kettering, High Street C1955

The National Westminster Bank (extreme right) is next door to a seed merchant, still an important trader in a country town before seeds were brightly packaged and sold by garden centres.

Caption For Guisborough, Westgate C1965

The first and second floors provided a manager's residence for many years, which enjoyed a walled garden to the rear.

Caption For Godalming, Wesleyan Church And School 1903

The gardens were laid out to a design by Gertrude Jekyll.

Caption For Minehead, The Parade 1903

The town had two brickworks, the one on the Warren operating from 1750 to 1919 and one on the Porlock road operating from 1897 to 1947.

Caption For Epsom, Meadway 1927

Harry and Frank Roll built up Hookfield, where Basil Braithwaite had held his garden parties, and Ron and John Harwood developed ten roads in the old grounds of Woodcote House.

Caption For Pembroke, The Castle C1955

Poyer drew the blank, and he was shot in Covent Garden Market on 25 April 1649. Note the sign advertising public tennis courts on the Castle green.