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Grandparents In Service

My paternal grandparents used to work in service at Wonham while my father was a young boy in the years before WW2. I believe my grandmother was a cook and my grandfather was a driver/handyman. I think my father ...Read more

A memory of South Godstone by Rob Smith

Stokesleys 2nd. Fire Station

For the information of readers, it may be of interest to note that the building just past the Town Hall Block, left side, was known as the Shambles and in the 1800s and early 1900s was open fronted and used as a ...Read more

A memory of Stokesley in 1920 by Alan Swales

Highgate

I used to stay in Beverley with my Aunt who lived at 45 Highgate. She used to knit toys and sell them at her front door, the money she raised went to Beverley Minster to buy cassocks for the choir. Her name was Gertie Forest, she lived ...Read more

A memory of Beverley by Margaret Richardson

Greenlands School

We moved to Ribbleton in 1979, we lived in Arnold Close. At the time there was a large building situated at the bottom of our road, to this day I'm not sure what building it was, I only know it was to be knocked down for new ...Read more

A memory of Ribbleton in 1979 by Heather Caruso

Postwar Childhood In Knypersley

Born in 1940 at Tunstall Rd, I spent hours of my childhood at the edge of Cowlishaw Walker's pool, reached through our neighbour, Mrs Sargent's garden, which sloped steeply up to the railings round the pool. I ...Read more

A memory of Knypersley in 1940 by Sylvia Steer

Dancing On The Forest For The Queens Visit To Nottingham

I think it was 1953 and I was 10yrs. I was at the Bentink Road Scool and as I remember, the schools in Nottingham entered a dancing team and we practiced for weeks. Our practice was in ...Read more

A memory of Nottingham in 1953 by Margaret Wilson Nee Rigley

A Wartime Evacuee

During the war I was evacuated with my family to Dunsmore and we lived in Appletree Cottage, opposite The Fox. I attended Wendover School and returned to London in 1946. At the time Robert Donat lived in ...Read more

A memory of Dunsmore in 1940 by Ken Norris

Trevelyan Road Tooting

I was born on 8th May 1945 (the day the war ended) at 61 Trevelyan Road Tooting. My mum told me that there was a heatwave on the 8th May and whilst she was trying to get some rest there was a street party going n which she ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1945 by Victoria Mason

Albion Place

I was born in 1939 and grew up in Kenfg Hill, living at 65 Pisgah Street, Foster Buildings, and 7 Albion Place during the war years. Albion Place was then in an area of Kenfig Hill known as The Huts, because the dwellings were all ...Read more

A memory of Kenfig Hill in 1945 by Brian Harman

Early Days In Bargoed

I was born, in 1945, in the front room of my parent's rented house in Bristol Terrace, Bargoed. Open the front and you were on the pavement!!. We had no central heating, no double glazing, no indoor bathroom (tin bath ...Read more

A memory of Bargoed in 1952 by Brian Clark

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Caption For Immingham, Pelham Road C1955

In the far distance beyond the road sign is now a housing estate.

Caption For Chelsworth, The Bridge And Peacock Inn C1965

The house on the right has since been rebuilt with dormer windows.

Caption For Ongar, The Lodge, Shelley Hall C1950

Shelley is a parish north of Ongar, consisting of a Victorian church, a hall, and a handful of houses and farms. The Hall was built in the 15th century.

Caption For Cuckfield, Ockenden Manor C1960

This is an ironmaster`s house, built in the early 17th century; it was the home of the Burrell family (whose heraldic device is shown in mosaic on the Burrell Arms pub opposite Haywards

Caption For West Hoathly, The Village 1895

The church dates back to 1096; opposite it lies the picturesque 500-year-old Priest House.

Caption For Eskdale, Outward Bound Mountain School C1955

Eskdale Green, a stop on the popular Ravenglass and Eskdale narrow gauge railway, is perhaps best known for its Outward Bound Mountain School, housed in this former Victorian mansion.

Caption For Sambourne, The Green Dragon C1965

Today, altered and extended 17th-century buildings, such as The Green Dragon, mingle with modern suburban houses.

Caption For Bideford, Bridge Street 1906

The view is still recognizable nearly a century later, although the houses on the left became a car park after a slum clearance programme in the early 1960s.

Caption For Westgate On Sea, Sea Road 1897

These are some of the substantial red brick houses built along the coast at Westgate in the prosperous late Victorian era—the 1880s and 90s.

Caption For Wiveliscombe, The Square 1962

Constructed as the Court House in 1881, it became a bank, then the library. The tall building opposite was the Town Hall, which had lost its colonnaded front when it became a shop.

Caption For Basildon, Town Square C1965

Keay House—on the right—was home to Basildon Urban District Council from 1960 to 1965. It took its name from Sir Lancelot Keay, the first chairman of Basildon Development Corporation.

Caption For New Brighton, Tower 1900

The whole complex was a focal point of entertainment, with a theatre, ballrooms, a roller-rink, snooker rooms, a skating rink, a menagerie, various refreshment stalls, an aviary, a monkey house and a lake

Caption For Houghton, The Village 1914

On the left is a row of three houses with their original front doors; further down the street are two 18th-century mansard-roofed cottages, one of which is thatched.

Caption For Bluntisham, Village Square C1965

The pub has changed from the White Horse to the Swan, but is still a Tolly house.

Caption For Didcot, Broadway C1950

The once busy railway sheds now house the Didcot Railway Centre, where a large collection of steam locomotives and coaches can be seen on display.

Caption For Little Milton, The Post Office C1955

This attractive thatched building still houses the village post office, except that it has moved to the right, where we can see a pram and a dog.

Caption For Horndean, The Village C1955

Today Gales owns over 100 public houses.

Caption For Westleton, The Village Sign C1965

The other mill had already been converted into a house by 1961.

Caption For Bradford On Avon, Town Hall 1900

He won a competition for the design of the Houses of Parliament in Ottawa, and became Chief Architect of Canada.

Caption For Beccles, New Market C1955

Morling's The House of Music (left) remains virtually unchanged. Masters & Stevens, the ironmonger's, has been rebuilt, and The Buttery (the white building) has been refitted.

Caption For Freston, The Church C1955

Freston is well known for the Freston Elizabethan tower overlooking the estuary, the Boot public house, and the parish church.

Caption For Aberaeron, Market Street C1965

The very top of the Town Hall that used to house the Council Chamber is visible on the right.

Caption For Ludham, Main Street 1931

Opposite Ludham Church an interesting row of thatched cottages adjoins two small Georgian houses, one with a slate roof and one with Norfolk tiles.