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Holland On Sea 1993

Holland is a bustling Essex coastal town `resplendent`-a bride in her wedding day gown, tree lined avenues, with neat little plots, well kept gardens and a place for the tots, a school, four churches, library and hall, a ...Read more

A memory of Clacton-On-Sea in 1993 by Allen Warrender

Working Days Then Retirement

After attending Newton village school from the age of 5 to 14, I found employment at a place called Tholthorpe where a new airfield was being built. Being 12 miles from my home I had to use a bicycle to get there ...Read more

A memory of Newton-on-Ouse in 1989 by Guy Jefferson

Only A Year!

My name is Elena Zoerman. We were the American family that lived in the cottage right the across the street from the church. I loved that cottage. I remember one winter being snowed in and my sister and me playing in the snow. My father ...Read more

A memory of Mixbury in 1986 by Elena Zoerman

Move To Horton

I think it was about 1986 when I moved to Horton, I was around 7 years old. We only moved from Wraysbury Road near Staines but it may as well have been 500 miles, leaving all my friends that lived all along the road to moving to Horton. ...Read more

A memory of Horton in 1986 by Jon Burkin

Winter Weather

I worked as an apprentice coach painter in Archibald Grays at the time. It was the coldest winter I had ever known. We went on strike over the conditions we were working in, because the heating had packed in (the diesel had frozen in ...Read more

A memory of Glenboig in 1980 by boabadamsfam1

Ron Pat Shelton 1977 To 1981

In 1977, my late husband, Ron. and I moved from Melbourne, Australia into 28 Stoke Lyne at the end of the village. It was very dilapidated, consisting originally 2 workman's cottages. They had been converted to one ...Read more

A memory of Stoke Lyne in 1977 by Pat Shelton Astley

Bells Close And Lemington As A Boy In The 70s

I remember living in Bells Close from early 70 to mid 80s, in fact I delivered papers to Bells Close and Sugley from the paper shop that used to be along from the new Lemington Centre, on the block that ...Read more

A memory of Lemington in 1977 by Michael March

What A Fright

If you have read my account as a child at Felkirk Church, I as a grown man and with some time on my hands, visited Felkirk Church on many occasions. It was on the last occasion where I went there around 15.00 hours. I recall that the ...Read more

A memory of Ryhill in 1976 by Roland Mitchell

Being A Kid At Heart

Going swimming in Harpurhey swimming baths, in the old stone steps pool, then when we finished, was allowed to have a bath in the cast iron baths - brings back memories.

A memory of Harpurhey in 1976 by Brian Green

The Best Of Times

My Mum and Dad first brought me to Fairbourne when I was born in 1966. My father and his father before him had been coming to the same bungalow (Min-y-Don on the Coast Road - Penrhyn Drive South) all their lives. Mum Dad and my ...Read more

A memory of Fairbourne in 1975 by William Cock

Captions

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Caption For Botley, Mill Hill C1955

We are at the bottom of the hill looking back towards the Square.

Caption For Sherborne, The Village C1960

Sherborne Park separated the village into east and west ends back in the 14th century, but there is a uniformity throughout of well restored cottages, fronted by long well stocked gardens and bounded by

Caption For Margate, The Harbour 1906

RECORDS of a harbour in Margate go back to the 14th century, when it appears to have been a small wooden structure sheltering the local fishing vessels.

Caption For Downham, The Village 1921

Picturesque stone cottages line the main street through the village, which climbs from a bridge over Downham Beck to St Leonard's Church.

Caption For Bashall Eaves, The Village C1955

Stone lintels, dripstones above the windows fitted with 16 panes and glazing bars (left) go back to the days when Bashall Eaves was mainly self-supporting.

Caption For Bourton On The Water, Harrington House C1950

The village is blessed with fine country houses as well as more modest cottages, built from locally quarried stone that has mellowed to the colour of honey on butter.

Caption For Shoreham By Sea, Norfolk Bridge 1919

The Lighthouse c1960 The striking stone-built lighthouse at Southwick dates back to 1846; though no longer in use, it is still regarded fondly as a local landmark.

Caption For Morecambe, The Beach 1888

The stone jetty that we can see in the background was the main terminal for ships to Ireland and the Isle of Man, until Heysham Harbour was cut in the 1900s.

Caption For Newnham, The Cottage C1955

Now firmly back in the ironstone hills, we reach Newnham, two miles south of Daventry.

Caption For Bishop Monkton, The Village Stream And Post Office C1960

The small stone bridges still cross the beck in front of the village Post Office in the pretty village of Bishop Monkton, south of Ripon in the valley of the River Nidd.

Caption For Oakham, Northgate C1945

We are looking eastwards back down the street.

Caption For Mousehole, Harbour 1893

The winding road out of Newlyn rounds Penlee Point then dips down to this celebrated fishing village that nestles within stout stone breakwaters.

Caption For East Grinstead, London Road 1904

Further north-west the photographer looks back towards the town centre past the Moat Road junction to Moat Church, the Congregational Church opened in 1870, now the United Reformed Church and its unusual

Caption For Chippenham, The Old Town Hall C1955

The stone-built building to the right of the Yelde Hall was a butcher's run by Greig & Co in the 1950s.

Caption For Downham, And Pendle Hill 1921

This ancient and beautiful village dates back to Saxon times.

Caption For Adderbury, Oxford Road C1955

The Red Lion, seen on the right, is the oldest inn in Adderbury, dating back to the 16th century.

Caption For Stafford, Market Square C1960

Well-known stores occupy buildings of very different periods.

Caption For Burford, High Street C1960

The town, once an important centre for the woollen trade, has many fine golden Cotswold stone buildings dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries, when many affluent wool merchants made their home here

Caption For Robin Hoods Bay, 1901

With a little imagination, it is almost possible to smell the uncovered weed drying in the sun, as a lonely figure tramps with bowed back along the lower part of the slipway towards the boat trolley,

Caption For Twickenham, King Street 1909

This view of King Street looks east towards the grand Portland stone bank at its end.

Caption For Bath, Victoria Park 1920

On each side of the bandstand are stone canopies protecting marble vases.

Caption For Stafford, Market Square C1955

Well-known stores occupy buildings of very different periods.

Caption For Garstang, Market Place 1961

The town's reputation for its fine market harks back to the 14th century, when the first rights were granted to the abbot of Cockersands.

Caption For Corfe Castle, The Village And Castle C1955

Originally the site of a Saxon hunting lodge, much of the present Corfe Castle, which gives its name to the stone-built village beneath, dates back to the troubled reign of King Stephen.