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Growing Up
I have some very happy memories of growing up in and around Burwash. Both sets of my grandparents lived in Swife Lane. Mr and Mrs Frederick owned Corner Farm, where my mum grew up, and Mr and Mrs Smith lived in Byeways. I remember as a ...Read more
A memory of Burwash in 1972 by
My Childhood In Knatts Valley
I was born in Knatts Valley, in a bungalow belonging to George and Elsie Lines of Lynwood, friends of my mother and father. George became my Godfather, and one of my names is also George. I was supposed to have been ...Read more
A memory of Otford in 1940 by
Please Get In Touch
I have posted a memory under the other place about Whincroft. Please ring 01892654892 if you want to talk about Whincroft days!
A memory of Crowborough by
The Cavaille Coll Organ
I remember well giving a Recital in the Abbey and playing for the Sunday Mass on this lovely French style instrument. I am informed thar the Organ is now unplayable and will cost many thousands to restore to its ...Read more
A memory of Quarr Abbey in 1978 by
Eels
We lived at the bottom of Chapelton village, our house facing Chapelton station. When the elvers were due, Dad used to put a pillow case,at the end of a wooden clothes line post, and they swam up the river in columns, and Mother would fry them. You don't get many of them up here in the Midlands.
A memory of Chapelton by
Fetcham In The Forties And Fifties
This parade of shops is in my memory for ever - my family moved to Orchard Close - which starts just beside the post office on the right of the picture - in 1946. My brother was five and I was six months old. ...Read more
A memory of Fetcham in 1950 by
Early Years In Park Road
Born in 1947 to Ted & Cred Fowles, I lived in 3 Park Road until 1955 when I moved down the hill to Southsea. I started Tanyfron primary school in 1951 and went on to Penygelli Secondary school, Coedpoeth, in 1958. ...Read more
A memory of Tanyfron by
1955 Raoc
Hello, my main memory was of Cpl Colman in charge of our barracks, he was hard, but fair, especially as I wrecked his room one night for a prank and he gave me cookhouse duties, but it could have been worse. My twin brother Paul was ...Read more
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1 Year At Laleham Abbey
I attended Laleham Abbey just for one year (1953 - coronation year). My surname then was Hebden. I was very shy and didn't make many friends. The one girl I do remember was an Australian whose surname was Snedden who I ...Read more
A memory of Laleham in 1953 by
Walnut Cottage
My Grandparents ran the post-office at Moorland when I was young, we used to visit every Sunday. I loved the atmosphere and the peacefulness of the village. My grandad was Charles Kitch, also named 'Fido', but I can't find out why. ...Read more
A memory of Moorland in 1962 by
Captions
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The two girls are wearing knitted hats, an essential part of post-war dress.
In the days when Botley was an important staging post on the coach route, the village boasted as many as fourteen inns. William Cobbett described Botley as 'the most delightful village in the world.'
Whitmore Way was the site of Basildon's first proper shopping parade: this included a chemist, a hardware shop, a post office, a Martin's newsagent, a Home & Colonial store, and a much-needed chip-shop
Its quaint and gracious market-place hosts some Royal Mail and GPO vans, plus a selection of post-war cars.
Just past the Village Green, the Boot (left), one of the oldest pubs in the village, and the Barley Mow beyond, are both still trading, although the General Stores between them has been demolished to make
Here we see the village post office and shop, which sells toys and gifts. A well-maintained semi-circular bed of roses has been planted on the forecourt - oh for a dash of colour!
Here we see The Blue Boar with its fine Tuscan porch (left), and opposite, The Retreat (now the post office).
Taken from the edge of Parsonage Woods to the north of the town, this view, almost unchanged today, looks past the cornfield towards the historic market town nestling in its Chiltern valley.
The big Greek portico of the General Post Office of 1818 is prominent in the centre of the picture. It played a central part in the Easter Rising in 1916.
Or could it be that his local is Fred Ireland's saloon bar, next to the first lamp post on the right?
The Huer's House is identical today, even down to the granite railing posts. Sited up on the headland near the harbour, this is where the huer waited to spot incoming pilchard shoals.
The wooden stumps (bottom left) are known as strapping posts, and were used to tie up boats. Their state in this view appears to be somewhat poor.
Here in Fore Street the shops include the post office and a hairdresser. A parked motor bike and sidecar is the only traffic.
Nine years before it was taken, a young Flora Thompson, who wrote the trilogy 'Lark Rise to Candleford', came to Grayshott to work at the post office.
Judging by the slogan on the rectory wall, not everyone was happy with the post-war Conservative government.
Next to the post office, Snow's the butchers were well-known for their Piggy Porker sausages - indeed, they used to advertise them on the side of their delivery-van.
First local schools have closed, and then shops, post offices and pubs have followed suit. Sometimes the only way to retain these facilities has been to combine them under one roof.
On the right is G W Roy's fancy repository and the post office, and just beyond that is the Black Horse pub.
This little store and village post office is well remembered for being run for many years by the Moody family. Although the shop area is a little smaller, it is still going today.
This is a post mill, like the one at Saxstead; it dates from 1803, and it was moved here from nearby Aldringham in 1923.
The Old Lion and Lamb was formerly a coaching inn, one of the oldest posting houses on the Great North Road, and associated with the Bishops of Lincoln's palace at Buckden Towers.
On the left of the High Street are the premises of Henfield Post Office and the National Provincial Bank, now defunct.
In the centre of the photograph behind the advertising hoarding is the post office, which later became a wine bar.
The quaint old building to the right of centre still serves as the village post office and shop today. It is quite small, but it is elaborately decorated on its front outer wall.
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