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Watchfield/Naafi/Aerodrome Notes

This was the NAAFI shop that served the military quarters at Watchfield, which housed the then many miltary and civilian staff of the Royal Military College of Science, and some of the students at the college, many ...Read more

A memory of Watchfield by Richard Hodder

Wylam Train

August 2012. Its a small place Newcastle how about this for a coincidence. I was out on a walk between Wylam and Newburn and as I passed the Tidal Stone (which I mention in my stories) I met this man walking his dog, we chatted and I ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1910 by Jimmy Burrows

The Boundary

If you look at the photograph of The Wells, on the crossroad that leads up the hill to Midland Road, the first shop on the corner used to be Barclays Bank but before then it was a tobacco shop and sweet shop combined. In the ...Read more

A memory of Royston by Roland Mitchell

The White House

My parents bought the White House - a thatched terrace of 6 cottages in the Main Street opposite 'Thatchers' Shop. I believe I only lived in this village for about three years between the age of 7 and 10. The 'White House' had a ...Read more

A memory of Owslebury in 1957 by Martyn Kelham

The Ryse

My Grandmother lived in Yew Tree Cottage, The Ryse Hatfield Heath with Bob Challis. I was a little girl growing up in London, and would visit at Weekends and school holidays. Uncle Bob was a stockman on the farm but later due to ill ...Read more

A memory of Hatfield Heath in 1965 by Jane Puddephatt

The Roundabout

On the left hand side behind the wall you can just see the top of the roundabout that we used to play on, along with the swings. The wall marked the boundary of Higher Bebington Park. There was a gap in the hedge next to the ...Read more

A memory of Bebington in 1964 by Paul Griffiths

The Lordship Of Tilstock

I hold the Lordship of the Manor of Tilstock and have many maps and papers relating to its history. The Manor covers 2550 acres (just over 4 square miles) and has existed since before the Norman Conquest, when it was part of ...Read more

A memory of Tilstock in 2009 by Raymond Lescott

The Lodge Gate

I was born in 1919 at Bifrons Lower Lodge Gate, which at that time comprised two dwellings. The part we lived in had been a school provided by the Marquis of Conyngham for estate children. It was shaped like a letter T. The ...Read more

A memory of Patrixbourne in 1910 by David Alexander

The Gable House

The black and white half-timbered building in the photograph was The Gable House, owned by my late grandmother, Nancy Hawkes and her sister, Hilda Cook. The house was run as a short-term residential home for patients staying in ...Read more

A memory of Droitwich Spa in 1940 by David Hawkes

The Blake

The following information relates to the opening of the Blake school in Hednesford. The Blake school was built to replace the Central Secondary school for boys which was in Burns Street Chadsmoor (where Chadsmoor junior school is now ...Read more

A memory of Chadsmoor in 1961 by Wendy Barr

Captions

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Caption For Bransgore, C1960

Bransgore, a few miles from Bournemouth, is a beautiful village of considerable antiquity, just outside the present boundary of the New Forest.

Caption For Measham, Magna Motors C1965

This is not a beautiful scene, but some effort has been put into designing the brick boundary wall, flagpoles and railings.

Caption For Brockenhurst, The Railway Crossing 1949

London, Brockenhurst began to expand during the second half of the 19th century and continued to develop in the 20th century, establishing itself as a convenient and pop- ular inland resort within the boundaries

Caption For Linton, Clappers Stile C1955

This little lad demonstrates the ingenuity of a stile which maintains the integrity of the field boundary without the need for steps over the fence.

Caption For Erith, New Flats C1960

Boundary Street was still a rough road when these flats were new.

Caption For Taunton, East Reach 1902

The two streets were once separated by East Gate, the old boundary of Taunton Borough.

Caption For Chagford, A Moorland Path By A Stone Circle 1924

Hence circles and single standing stones also served as waymarkers, and sometimes as boundary markers.

Caption For Chagford, A Moorland Path By A Stone Circle 1924

Hence circles and single standing stones also served as waymarkers, and sometimes as boundary markers.

Caption For Battle, High Street 1910

Astonishingly, the plot boundaries, if not the buildings themselves, were established in the late 11th century.

Caption For Ascott Under Wychwood, Langley Mill C1950

The village had its own mill, Ascott Mill, at one time; Langley Mill, shown here, was outside the village, nudging the Shipton-under- Wychwood border - the River Evenlode marks the parish boundary.

Caption For Nedging Tye, The Village C1960

This view gives the impression of a large open area with houses along its boundary.

Caption For Bucklers Hard, The Village C1960

Although a fair distance from the present limits of the New Forest, Bucklers Hard was certainly within its boundaries at the time of William the Conqueror - there may well have been a small settlement

Caption For Wilmslow, The View From Lime Walk 1897

Many of the lines of old trees in the Carrs are the remnants of old field boundaries, but these trees were planted for their amenity value.

Caption For New Forest, Ponies, Swan Green C1955

Many of the cottages inside the Forest boundary are of considerable antiquity, being either renovations or replacements of buildings that have stood on the same sites for centuries; it is hard to imagine

Caption For Bristol, The Cathedral 1887

The Bristol diocese was created by Henry VIII in 1542, and comprised eighteen parishes within the city boundaries, fourteen others in Gloucestershire and Abbots Leigh in Somerset.

Caption For Bures, High Street C1955

A delightful picture of Bures, a pleasing collection of villages which straddle the river Stour and the county boundary with Suffolk.This picture shows the type of architecture so common hereabouts

Caption For Bebington, Heath Road C1960

Linking Lower and Higher Bebington, Heath Road also forms one boundary of the Wirral Grammar Schools site.

Caption For Rothwell, Squires Hill C1960

The boundary wall of Manor Park lies to the right, with the manor house and vicarage, out of view behind the trees, on the opposite side of the road.

Caption For Widnes, Victoria Square C1965

Once again, having crossed the bridge, we are back in that area of Cheshire that was once part of Lancashire until the county boundary changes of 1974.

Caption For Shirehampton, The George Inn C1955

By 1939, boundary changes had resulted in Avonmouth and Shirehampton being incorporated into Bristol.

Caption For Melbourn, High Street C1965

The shops and houses mix with small workshops and boundary walls.

Caption For Oxford, The Plain 1922

Located on the east side of Magdalen Bridge, The Plain signifies the boundary of the old city.

Caption For Upper Boddington, The Plough C1965

The brick boundary wall has been rebuilt in stone and is now much lower.

Caption For Horsforth, Newlay Wood 1901

Within the Leeds city boundary most of the open areas between the townships gradually dispersed under an urban sprawl of industrial and housing development.