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My Younger Days

t the house he retired to in White St Green. My brother in law, Colin Lewis, served his apprenticeship and became a proficient bricklayer with his building company. I wonder did we know each other or did you know me.

A memory of Boxford by Nigel Clark

American Student And Muswell Hill Memories

I was so lucky to have landed in Muswell Hill to take up residence with a family of three headed by their matriarch, Cecelia in 1980. She regularly took in students of all kinds to live in the house ...Read more

A memory of Muswell Hill by Sharon Van Buskirk

Heeley

I am trying to find Photographs, Drawings, or Paintings of the houses and if possible the Old Farm Cottages opposite the Heeley Parish Church on Gleadless Rd. Heeley. They consisted of a block of 4 bay windowed terraced houses, numbered from ...Read more

A memory of Heeley in 1956 by Leonard Young

Recent Observations

I have been looking at the photograph shown on this page and may have jumped to an incorrect conclusion. The area shown in the photograph is / was Corner House and there used to be a house on the r.h.s. of the road as you ...Read more

A memory of Shermanbury in 2014 by Christopher Whittton

Youth Conferences And Holiday Work

I first got to know Hollybrook in November 1961 at a Methodist Youth Weekend. I attended, eventually leading, such weekends until the house closed. I also worked as a member of staff during summer holidays and at ...Read more

A memory of Ilkley in 1962 by Robert Davies

Memories

HI, Colin Smith.does anyone remember my mum and dad .Alice Mary and Teddy Smith.I remember the good old times in St,Helens going fishing in spoggy brook for stillte backs.and the old Taylor Park and Victoria park when you go ...Read more

A memory of St Helens by Mark Mith

Sparkhill/Sparkbrook

I grew up in Sparkhill between 1960s-1986, , My Father lived in Sparkbrook with his Grandmother Florence Stubley & Aunties, Flora, Dora, Freda & his mother Phyllis for many years before he met & Married my Mother ...Read more

A memory of Sparkbrook

Pencillin The Cure

It is not widely known but the first time penicillin was used successfully was when it was used on a fourteen year old boy to save his left leg. He had a badly infected leg and was in fact dying with because of the fast spreading ...Read more

A memory of Bredfield

Brandy

I'm pretty sure this photo is of me on a my pony Brandy outside our house (Barclay House) in St Keverne Square. I recognise the jumper and shoes .... pretty bad!!! Awful to think that he's long gone now, he was such a lovely animal. Those were the days!

A memory of St Keverne in 1968 by Rachel Allen

My Early Years

Going to the local school which was opposite the Church. The Headmistress Miss Griffin lived in the cottage attached to the school. We were all given a small amount of garden to cultivate and one of my jobs was to go on to the ...Read more

A memory of Aston Cantlow in 1954 by Susan Edkins

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Captions

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Caption For Hailsham, High Street 1902

Beyond Parkers, all has gone, replaced by a modern shopping centre, while to the right the tree has gone, and all the houses are now shops.

Caption For Ospringe, Water Lane C1955

It fulfilled several purposes, serving as hospital, almshouses and pilgrims' hostel, but the two houses were the homes of chantry priests.

Caption For Bath, Queen Square C1955

His novel idea was to treat each side of the Square as a single architectural composition, so that the terraces of houses looked like single grand palace fronts with central pediments on three sides of

Caption For Wellow, High Street, Looking East C1955

This view looks in the opposite direction, east past the Manor House on the left with cottages and the former Ebenezer United Methodist Chapel of 1869 beside the raised and railinged pavement.

Caption For Bronygarth, The Post Office C1955

This is now a private house called Rose Cottage; the building has been painted white, and is almost completely unrecognisable, with just its roofline remaining the same.

Caption For Wanborough, High Street C1965

In the foreground is Shear's Farm, once the Axe & Compass public house which closed in 1907. The building is now two private cottages. The road to the right leads to Callas Hill and Foxhill.

Caption For Chatham, Gun Wharf Gardens C1955

Immediately below St Mary's church, practically the only surviving reminder that this was the site of the earliest Chatham Dockyard is Command House, the building with the five white-framed

Caption For Broadstairs, View From The Cliffe 1962

We are looking from the Cliffe; Bleak House is prominent in the centre of the photograph. Note the small train ride in the left-hand corner of the beach.

Caption For Newton Le Willows, Legh Arms Corner C1965

These photographs are not an opportunity to comment on the drinking habits of Newtonians, but an interesting study in contrasting styles in licensed premises - road house, local welcome

Caption For Croston, Town Bridge C1955

High walls enclose the water channel, for although the village lies some seven miles from the coast, it is barely above sea-level: the houses lining the river bank have been flooded many times over

Caption For Drayton, Church Lane C1965

The row of houses on the left has since been demolished.

Caption For Anna Valley, Tasker's Works C1955

Today modern housing can be found running alongside the river.

Caption For Launceston, Fore Street 1893

It is one of the most changed areas of the town, with nearly all these houses demolished in 1964 as part of a slum clearance programme that was resisted by many local people.

Caption For Knowle, Guild House C1965

The timber-framed Guild House stands next to Knowle's magnificent church, and was completed in 1412.

Caption For Whitby, Baxtergate 1923

By this date, Whitby had five hotels featured in the Dunlop Guide: the Angel, the Royal (with 172 beds and garaging for twenty automobiles), the Metropole, the Custom House, and the seventy-bed West Cliff

Caption For Eastwell, Church And Lake 1901

The church and the house amongst the trees beside the lake in Eastwell Park make a haunting and atmospheric view.

Caption For Runswick, Cliffemount Hotel C1960

Originally built in 1924 as a three-bedroomed house, the building was added to over the following six years to become a hotel. The pavilion to the right is a café that was operated from the garden.

Caption For Ulrome, Top View Stores C1955

The end house is in use as a shop, which would have served the caravan park on the land next to it.

Caption For Devizes, Hartmoor 1899

East Lodge can just be glimpsed at the entrance to the drive from Hartmoor Road which leads to Old Park House.

Caption For Newark, Ossington Coffee Palace 1890

Erected in 1882 as a coffee house and temperance hotel by Viscountess Ossington as a memorial to her late husband. The Palace is said to be a replica of a 17th-century hostelry.

Caption For St Ives, The Wharf 1890

'Its old rickety houses lie nestling on the very skirt of the sea.' It would be hard to find a straight edge in St Ives.

Caption For Horning, The Village 1934

Horning is blessed with a wealth of reed-thatched cottages with eye- browed dormers, as well as other more unusual buildings—the house alongside where the car is parked has crow-stepped gables, revealing

Caption For Alton, Anstey Manor 1897

At the time of this picture, the house was newly built by Gerald Hall, son of Henry Hall, owner of one of Anstey's breweries.

Caption For Selborne, The Wakes, Gilbert White's House 1898

he planted French and African marigolds, nasturtiums, sunflowers, larkspur, lupins, double scarlet lychnis, purple double stocks, sweet williams and lilies, as well as a passion flower near the brew-house