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Madame Le Terrier
Watching the Wainwright Walks programme this week, which covered the Swale valley part of the coast to coast route, I was reminded of Brompton on Swale. My best friend's sister and her husband went to Brompton on Swale in ...Read more
A memory of Brompton-on-Swale in 1952
The Potters Cottage On The Hilltop
I knew Fred Potter and his family in the early 1960s - Fred and I dated for a while. Many times we got off the bus on the main road (I lived in Nailsworth), often straight from school - he at Marling, me at High ...Read more
A memory of Brimscombe in 1962 by
Brickmakers Factory New Road
I don't suppose anybody knows anything of the Brickmakers Factory and the brickmakers' cottages in New Rd c1930, the cottages were built around 1929 I believe? I was told this about 10 years ago and I have not yet met ...Read more
A memory of Smallfield in 1930
Memories Of Ottershaw
My family came to live in Ottershaw in 1952 when I was 5 years old. My father, Charles Coulson, had moved us from the North of England owing to lack of work since his de-mob from the RAF. He was employed as a ...Read more
A memory of Ottershaw in 1952 by
Happy Memories Of Rhes Y Cae
My mum's best friend's father owned a cottage - Bryn Siriol- near Rhes-Y-Cae in the 1950s and 60s and some of my happiest childhood memories are of our annual holidays there. I remember going down to the farm (Black ...Read more
A memory of Rhes-y-Cae by
Family Connections
I understand my great grandfather worked in this forge. He was born Charles Holness around 1830 and married Ann Marsh in the 1850s. My father's mother Agnes Annie Holness was one of their children. She had an older sister ...Read more
A memory of Wickhambreaux by
Railway Info.
The building on the left is a carriage shed, used for holding spare passenger vehicles under cover. It is from the North Devon Railway in the 1850s and still appears to have broad gauge track (7ft gauge - not removed until 1877) laid ...Read more
A memory of Barnstaple in 1870
Alma Friston Nee Oldfield
I was born in Smeeton on April 23rd 1935. I remember staying with a Mr and Mrs Webb. As you approached Smeeton there were cottages on the left hand side, we stayed in the last one next to a lane. The cows came up this ...Read more
A memory of Smeeton Westerby in 1945 by
Growing Up In The 1960's
We lived in Headon's Cottage, Fairy Cross - it had been an old German doctor's cottage in the 1700s, a Doctor Wacerill who is buried in St. Andrew's churchyard, and his faded plaque was still above the front door - walls made ...Read more
A memory of Alwington by
Childhood In Welshpool
I was born & spent my childhood in Welshpool. St Mary's was our Parish Church, it has beautiful stained glass windows which always fascinated me as a child. I was christened and confirmed in this Church and later in May 1965 ...Read more
A memory of Welshpool in 1965 by
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These include St John's Church, Howell's store and the Cottage public house. At left is Westgate Street where only 40 years earlier ran the course of the Taff.
Opposite the Five Arches were cottages built so closely that only a man walking or a horse being led could pass between them.
Here we have another view of the village, with its cottages and barns built in its local sandstone.
The cottages straight ahead were built in the 1860s. On the left is the Crown Inn, where a gruesome event took place in 1944.
The parish pump is situated out of shot to the right, the Hovis sign and shop has been replaced by a more elaborate chemist's premises, and some cottages have gone, but the Pear Tree Pub continues
A range of 16th-century houses and cottages descends the hill towards a central crossroads, notably Old Forge, Bowries and Ricksteddle.
These events were amongst fundraising activities for the provision of a Cottage Hospital. Recently refurbished, the ballroom is still in regular use today for a variety of events.
In 1933 nine Hayling coastguard cottages plus a building plot were sold for £3,280, and in 1965 a 4-bedroom house with garden and garage in Hayling cost £10,500.
We may be thankful that Mere Cottage (right), dated 1756, remains.
About the size of an A4 paper sheet, the turf was neatly cut, stacked and dried, and when ready for burning was taken round to cottages for sale.
The houses past Burr Meadow and the Windmill pub (left) are known locally as the Three Bears - Little Bear, Middle Bear (Ivy Cottage) and Big Bear (Standon House).
Sir Edward Elgar, the composer, lived at Brinwell's Cottage in 1917.
These proceedings at Lewes Assizes were popularly referred to as 'The Bungalow Murder', and involved the killing of 37-year-old Emily Kaye at an isolated former customs officer's cottage at The Crumbles
These include St John's Church, Howell's store and the Cottage public house. At left is Westgate Street where only 40 years earlier ran the course of the Taff.
As the population grew throughout the century, more and more cottages were built even closer together, giving this smoky tint to every street.
Many of the old houses were weaver's cottages, built in a time when hand-loom weaving was the major industry in the area.
Some of the cottages go back to the 1500s. The local lords were the Lister family, many of whom lie in the small village church.
Manor House is a 17th-century half-timbered house that has been converted into cottages.
Next along were a range of old cottages, which were replaced around 1900 by the Little White Hart Hotel.
Washing dries in the breeze in the gardens of plain, mellow cottages.
Dunchurch, 4 miles to the south- west of Rugby, is a small village of thatched cottages and popular public houses and restaurants.
On the left, by the Hillman Imp, we see the opening created by the demolition of cottages in the early 1960s to make way for the town's Register Office and Library.
The cottage to the left and the elegant brick bridge would appear to be contemporary with the date of the canal.
Traditional thatched cottages lined the cobbled streets leading to the church. Outside it stands an ancient slim pillar; some villagers call it the cross and others the sundial.
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