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Coleton Fishacre Near Kingswear

Just a five minute drive along Mt Ridley Road to the east of Kingswear will lead you to a glorious National Trust house and garden called Coleton Fishacre. I have two memories of my visit - the wonderful sloping ...Read more

A memory of Kingswear in 2012 by John Howard Norfolk

Glebe Barn

It was such a delight to find our house so clearly captured by the photographer in this composition! The barns pictured to the right of the church were bought by my husband and I in 1998. Originally they were grain storage barns, and in ...Read more

A memory of Sheviock in 1998 by Linda Shelton

I Have A Certificate

I live in the US. In a desk that we purchased years ago in an antique shop, we found a certificate that says: The Royal Drawing Society's Exhibition, "The Children's Royal Academy" London, Highly Commended, Julie Woodhead (aged ...Read more

A memory of Romiley in 1965 by Michelle Witzel

Canoeing On Peter Pan's Pool

to 1966 I lived at Flower House Estate opposite and at every opportunity I would nip over to the pool to have a go on the canoes. It cost 6d I think. I was so good that many years later when I was on an endurance course ...Read more

A memory of Catford in 1956 by Barbara Watts [Nee Ball]

Royal College Of Music

My memories refer to 1955 through 1959. I remember these years with affection - being taught 'cello by Harvey Philips, piano by Hilda Klein (excellent use of swearwords, I remember!!), composition by Herbert ...Read more

A memory of Kensington in 1955 by Ray Lowrey

My Childhood Garden Part V

Beside the strawberry bed grew a large cooking apple tree that produced enormous green apples. We had a variety of both eating and cooking apple trees in the garden, the fruit from which was harvested and then stored ...Read more

A memory of Shamley Green in 1954 by Patricia Clarke

Suntrap School

I attended Suntrap Residential School on Hayling Island from 1953 for 2 years... I loved it! I was sent there because I was small for my age. A lot of the kids had asthma, and it was thought that being at school on the edge of ...Read more

A memory of Hayling Island in 1953 by Ruth Smith Smith

My Favourite Haunt

My memories scan over 50 years, I lived in Anhalt Road and then Ethelburga Street and spent countless hours in the Park. The funfare, with fireworks every Friday night for the end of war celebrations, the tree walk along the ...Read more

A memory of Battersea in 1950 by John Godbold

Where I Was Born

My Beginning, at Sole Street near Cobham Kent. (9th March 1946 - 2nd January 1951) I was born on Saturday March 9th 1946 at 3.29pm at Temperley, The Street, Sole Street, Kent. I was delivered at home by the ...Read more

A memory of Sole Street in 1946

Wartime Memories Of Hay Part Three Final

Wartime Memories of Hay: Part Three. (Continued) Apart from Ration Books and the coupon implications for restricted purchase of food and clothing, my own recollections of life in Hay during World War ...Read more

A memory of Hay-on-Wye in 1940 by John S. Batts

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Captions

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Caption For Bibury, Arlington Row C1960

Bibury itself is an amalgamation of several earlier hamlets, which have all merged together to make the glorious architectural composition we see today.

Caption For Barrow Upon Soar, The Boathouse C1965

The charm of the river is highlighted in this classic composition of moored boats, overhanging trees, and a perfectly-positioned swan - the ultimate vision of a lazy day spent away from traffic and stress

Caption For Eastbourne, Lansdowne Hotel, King Edwards Parade C1965

and, at the right, the Wish Tower Hotel, was the first major devel- opment west of the Wish Tower; it is in the style of the earlier stucco terraces, with its central pediment and 'palace front' composition

Caption For Boscastle, The Harbour 1893

There is much texture in this detailed composition of one corner of the harbour, made by the slate stones of the breakwater wall, the heavy coiled ropes and the basketwork of the crab pots.

Caption For Bath, The Circus C1965

The five great plane trees in the centre of the square remain as a focus for this wonderful architectural composition.

Caption For Kibworth Harcourt, The Old House C1955

Two oeil-de-boeufs and a later Tuscan-columned porch complete this quite picturesque composition.

Caption For Bath, Lansdown Crescent 1896

Lansdown Crescent is one of John Palmer's finest compositions, and dates from 1789 to 1793.

Caption For Market Harborough, Church And School 1922

The classic market-town juxtaposition of church and grammar school create an ideal composition.

Caption For St Leonards On Sea, From The Boundary 1891

Started as New Hastings by James Burton and his architect son Decimus in 1828, and later renamed St Leonards, this seaside resort is a grand composition of palatial stucco terraces.

Caption For Lower Slaughter, Parish Church C1960

But the whole composition still sits comfortably on its more ancient foundations close by the old manor house.

Caption For Hove, The Parade 1921

Behind the spacious promenade are the superb 1820s stucco compositions of Brunswick Square and Terrace and Adelaide Terrace beyond, all rather like Nash's Regents Park in London.

Caption For Kirby Muxloe, St Bartholomew's C1965

The added tower enhances the overall composition, but should the church be locked, an extended search for the key is not justified.

Caption For Kirby Muxloe, St Bartholomew's C1965

The added tower enhances the overall composition, but should the church be locked, do not embark on an extensive search for the key.

Caption For New Romney, Composite C1955

On this composite postcard of New Romney, we have the Dungeness lighthouse, built in 1904, and the Romney and Hythe District Light Railway, which started in 1927.

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 Anstey, The Nook C1965

The picture clearly shows Anstey's 19th-century growth with a quite picturesque composition of tiled roofs and stacks.

Caption For Little Missenden, Missenden House C1955

A most elegant composition with an equally elegant limousine parked outside.

Caption For Collingbourne Kingston, The Village And St Mary's Church C1955

The interesting monuments include one commemorating Thomas Pile and his wife, 1560 and 1561: this is a large composition of two recumbent figures and a younger couple, Sir Gabriel Pile and his wife

Caption For Byfleet, Civic Restaurant C1955

was built in 1898 to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in a typical domestic Tudor revival style with a timber-framed upper floor, a cupola and battlemented stair turrets - an attractive composition

Caption For Milborne Port, Ven House C1955

Now occupied by an engineering firm, it is an interesting composition with its 5-bay arcaded 'cloister', grand dormers and spired clock tower.

Caption For Bath, Fernley Hotel 1935

It is part of the elder Wood's Royal Forum, with its long, formal composition fronting North Parade.

Caption For Melksham, St Michael's Church C1955

Pevsner describes the bell tower as having 'a very pretty composition of the bell-openings'.

Caption For Morley, Queens Street C1965

It was built in 1895 by G A Fox, with a portico formed of six composite columns.

Caption For Blindley Heath, The Red Barn C1955

It makes a picturesque composition behind its pond.