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Station Road Meopham

My parents moved into Station Rd in 1963, as a newly married couple. There was a terrace of new houses built in Station Rd in 1962/63 & theirs was the furthest house down the road, the end of the terrace, I think No.28? I ...Read more

A memory of Meopham in 1963 by Tracey Acton

School Days

Before becoming the home of George Harrison of the Beatles, Friar Park was run as a school by sisters of the St. John Bosco order. This was my first school and I remember having to walk all the way to the main door along the ...Read more

A memory of Henley-on-Thames in 1960 by Mandy Lester

An Outing To Babbacombe Model Village

My wife Elizabeth and I went to Babbacombe on 1st April to give our granddaughter Anna a treat on her second birthday. We spent almost the whole day in Babbacombe Model Village which is close to the top of ...Read more

A memory of Babbacombe in 2008 by John Howard Norfolk

Police House 1939 45

The Police House was located on Radcliffe Road, Cropwell Butler. (now called 'The Old Police House').  On the front wall it bore a sign bearing the words 'County Police'.   From 1939 to 1945 it was occupied by the ...Read more

A memory of Cropwell Butler in 1940 by peterb6136

Arthog

From early 1960s onwards:  At school in London we had 2 summer holidays at Min-y-Don. The first time we travelled by coach, we got lost and arrived in the dark.  The following year we came by train from Paddington.  We had to change at ...Read more

A memory of Arthog by Alan Spillett

My Childhood In Burton In The 50's And 60's

I was born in the village in 1949, in an end terrace No.1 Woodview. It was down a small road in the centre of the village and at the top, I believe at one time there was a timber yard/sawmill. ...Read more

A memory of Burton in Lonsdale by ian.blundell

Brimscombe Corner & Burleigh 1910 62690

This photo is taken 100 yards up Brimscombe lane, looking back across the Golden Valley. The lane itself leads back up to Thrupp Lane & Dark lane, which is on its way to Quarhouse and the Lypiatt Manor, ...Read more

A memory of Brimscombe by Philip Baker

Evacuation

I am with my Dad, peter Brandon, who was also evacuated to the area during the war with his 2 brothers and sister and parents. They were in a terrace of cottages, Dinnaton Cottages south od Swimbridge. he went to Swimbridge school, ...Read more

A memory of Swimbridge by Tony Brandon

Frederick Corder,

These are my memories of Ipswich in Early 1960 I had been working in Ilford on C & A Modes new shop. when the job there was finished i was sent to Frederick Corders shop in Tavern Street, Ipswich, to help out with the ...Read more

A memory of Ipswich by Anthony Williams

Visiting Salford Circa 1955 60

My Grandparents Henry and Alice Dorning lived on Brighton Street which on trying to trace the existence of has proved to be a struggle. I remember visiting them with my parents at the age of 5-9 years of and at the time ...Read more

A memory of Salford

Captions

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Caption For Melton, High Street C1955

Three of the four terrace houses on the right were once shops. On the opposite corner, Skoulding's grocer's and draper's had traded since the 1850s.

Caption For Purfleet, London Road C1955

The row of cottages on the left is known as Station Terrace, with the post office close to the camera with a post box and stamp machine set into the wall.

Caption For Daventry, Recreation Ground C1965

This view of the Rec shows the steam engine hiding the terrace of houses known as Mount Pleasant.

Caption For Exmouth, Maderia Walk And Bowling Green 1931

The terrace, begun in 1791, became the place to live for those wealthier members of Georgian society who had settled in Exmouth, including Lady Nelson, the estranged wife of the hero of

Caption For Warwick, Bridge End C1955

Bridge End may have escaped major development, but the house on the right is a 20th-century addition, built onto the end of the terrace (compare this photograph with 72355, above).

Caption For Burnham On Sea, The Promenade And Beach 1913

From the plain late Georgian- character stuccoed terraces, the architecture gets more seaside Victorian, with a profusion of bay windows and the use of various building stones; the four gabled houses

Caption For Hammersmith, The Dove Pier C1960

Beyond the pier is Upper Mall where William Morris lived from 1878 to 1896, naming his Georgian terrace house, number 26, Kelmscott House after his country house in Oxfordshire.

Caption For Chelmsford, The River Can 1906

Museum Terrace, just to the left of the iron bridge in New London Road, was built in the 1840s.

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 Trowbridge, Silver Street And Town Hall 1900

A scene of undramatic terraced houses. In the background the tower of the Town Hall dominates the street. Trowbridge was famous for its cloth trade; the Bristol Drapery company is on the right.

Caption For Cockermouth, Wordsworth's Birthplace C1955

His father was steward to Sir James Lowther, and moved to the house in 1766.The house overlooks the River Derwent and has a delightful garden and terrace.

Caption For Aiskew, The Village 1900

Looking along Storey Terrace, we see in the distance the tower of Bedale's church of St Gregory.

Caption For Ticehurst, Church Street 1903

Further up Church Street, these late Victorian terraces of cottages, numbers 12 to 20, adopted the Sussex vernacular style with tile-hung upper floors, bay windows, dormers and tiled roofs.

Caption For St Athan, West Orchard Farm, Higher End C1955

It is interesting that the terrace of old Welsh cottages appears to have been re-roofed with modern tiles and not stone slates - this is an indicator of the lack of planning regulations at this time

Caption For Sheffield, Botanical Gardens 1900

Two new plant houses were built in 1900, and in 1903 over £2000 was spent on refurbishing the conservatories, terraces and shed.

Caption For West Bay, 1930

The largest building, hip-roofed and dating from the late 19th century, is Pier Terrace (left of centre). Built as apartments, it is alternatively known as Noah's Ark.

Caption For Crowland, Broadway C1965

The stump of the windmill now has no chimney and is incorporated into the house next door, which is named Mill Terrace and dated 1860. Over the years it has lost one chimneystack.

Caption For Bath, Walcot Parade C1965

Unlike many of Bath's terraces, the designs of individual houses are not uniform.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Harbour 1890

The view is southwards to the Cobb warehouses and Cobb hamlet (left), beyond Westfield (centre) and a terrace of early 19th- century town houses.

Caption For Coulsdon, Brighton Road C1965

A Victorian terrace was demolished to make way for the commanding Tesco store in the early 1960s, but after several changes the building presently houses the Kabada restaurant, a snooker

Caption For Addlestone, 'holly Tree' 1904

Addlestone grew up in the mid 19th century with the arrival of the railway, when a few villas and many more terraces and pairs of artisan houses were built.

Caption For Hastings, From Pier 1890

The earlier stucco terraces are dominated by the towering Palace Hotel, which opened in 1886 with a busy roofscape and a French pavilion roof.

Caption For Southend On Sea, The Beach 1898

There are still remnants of Southend's more select era when it became a fashionable seaside resort after 1791: Royal Terrace and the Royal Hotel, for example.

Caption For Melton Constable, The Village 1922

Children from the rather plain terraced houses have been given the job of taking the baby out for a pram ride.