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A Town Of Inbreds

1) Highest known amount of people infected with chlamadia in one place. 2) Most teenage pregnancies in all of Britain 3) EVERYONE here is on some kind of drugs, usually pills 4) This includes is right now, and we are primary ...Read more

A memory of Banbury by Brogan And Fred

I Miss You

You are the only decent village in the whole of England except for Frogmore I miss the large fields with the llamas I miss trying to rollerblade on the road and falling over I miss the first time I did everything in my house ...Read more

A memory of Newton Longville in 1992 by Brogan And Fred

Lockwood Beck And Lingdale

Hi Everyone what a lovely photo of the reservoir. My family lived at the reservoir for many years. My father and his father were born there with his sisters. He was Henry Marshall born 1923. He was the 3rd Henry ...Read more

A memory of Boosbeck by David Marshall

My Memories

I remember the year of 1968 well, as it is when I left the village of Colden Common; although my Grandfather and Grandmother still lived there (on Main Road) up until their deaths. Colden Common in my time had no Scout Troop, so I ...Read more

A memory of Colden Common in 1968 by Bert Catt

Meeting Street

I have a copy of the Meeting Street photo as the girl standing in the road (with the black sleeve) is my Grandmother SARAH POWE (nee Lesley). The family house was at 29 Meeting Street just out of view. Grandmother also ran the BELL ...Read more

A memory of Appledore by Michael Ewings

Old Northfield

The stretch of road we see is called Bell Lane.  Bell Lane curves back to Bristol Rd. The big house partly seen in the distance is Bell House which has quite a history.To it's left goes Bell Holloway (still fairly unaltered) and to ...Read more

A memory of Northfield in 1930 by Donald Cook

The Two Bob Gun

At the top of Queens Road in Buckhurst Hill is a small newsagents shop. It was owned by the Mr & Mrs. Silk.  The shop sold papers magazines cigarettes, sweets and a few toys. Situated right across the road from where Princes ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill by Denman Lalonde

My Summer Holidays

It is great to see this scene again, 47 years later. My family and I spent our holidays in this village with my grandparents (Russell), and my auntie & uncle and cousins (Shawcross). They all lived in the cottage shown to the ...Read more

A memory of Rendham in 1961 by Mike Horne

End Of An Era

In 1944 I was a 13 year old pupil at Morley Grammar School. One beautifully sunny Sunday evening I walked from my house at 16 Albion Street (now Morrison's carpark) and about 40 yards East of the Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene (since ...Read more

A memory of Morley in 1944 by Vernon Wood

Stratfield Mortimer, C1955

The entrance on the left is to Mortimer Station and the house (red brick) just right of centre is the Old Post Office. The white house just left of centre is Street House. The building to  the right (and slightly closer to the foreground) is the old water pumping station.

A memory of Stratfield Mortimer in 2008 by Paul Johnson

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Captions

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Caption For High Wycombe, The Abbey 1906

IN 1801, according to the first national census, the borough had a population of 2,349 consisting of 565 families living in 448 houses, while the rest of the town, the ancient 'foreigns', had a

Caption For Fair Oak, The Village C1965

This view shows more clearly houses on the right with the same house that we saw in F164012, page 54, in the centre distance.

Caption For Padstow, The Abbey House 1906

This 15th-century slate-hung house is on the North Quay and was once the Guild House of Padstow's merchants.

Caption For Castle Combe, The Manor House And Church 1907

The setting of the 1664 Manor House is stunningly beautiful, as we can see here. The house was given a new wing in 1873, and is said to have been Victorianised.

Caption For Chester, Watergate Street 1888

Food hygiene regulations have changed somewhat since this photograph of the Leche House was taken.

Caption For Sheffield, Weston Park War Memorial C1955

Weston House and its grounds were sold by the Harrison family to the Corporation in 1873, the house itself being converted into a museum; the Mappin Art Gallery was added in 1887.The war memorial

Caption For Aylesbury, Walton Pond C1950

Older houses nearby were destroyed or damaged by a Second World War landmine, Aylesbury's only wartime bomb, which fell close to the pond.

Caption For Potton, Biggleswade Road C1955

The homes in the middle distance would have been built to house the employees of the many market gardens in the area.

Caption For Trumpington, War Memorial C1960

Alas, the public house opposite has long gone, to be replaced with a whole range of modern dwelling houses.

Caption For Gamlingay, Church Street C1965

Here we see a variety of village houses with a bicycle shop selling Raleigh bicycles, inner tubes and puncture kits. At the end of the street is the great medieval hall house, Emplins.

Caption For Adderbury, Oxford Road From High Street C1955

As this was once the Wheatsheaf public house mentioned in the caption to A139009 (page 66), it had obviously closed by the time this photograph was taken. Today it is a private house.

Caption For Uppingham, School, Shrine And Headmaster's House 1922

Behind is the clock tower of the Tercentenary School House of which the Headmaster's House forms part. The lovely lawns and trees are typical of the well-kept gardens throughout the school.

Caption For Brampton, The Royal Oak And Signpost C1955

A few hundred yards along the present B1514 road past the turning to Pepys House, the road forks at the roundabout where the main road runs eastwards towards the A14 and the left road takes us

Caption For Lyme Regis, Broad Street C1905

Down the north side of the street are the post office, and the Great House, where William Pitt the Elder, Earl of Chatham brought his 15-year-old son, Pitt the Younger, to recover from illness

Caption For Ambleside, Bridge House 1912

Easily the most famous and most photographed building in Ambleside is Bridge House, a tiny one-up, one-down house constructed on a bridge over the Stock Beck.

Caption For Poole, Sandcotes, Parkstone 1904

The house on the right is Kenwood, which has its entrance in Corfe View Road. Immediately behind is Eaton Hall in Highmoor Road.

Caption For Stanford Le Hope, View From Church Tower C1960

The large house next to Lloyds Bank was once a doctor's surgery, and it is now a public house known as the Inn on the Green.

Caption For Runcorn, Widnes Bridge C1965

The effect of the new bridge on housing nearby can be seen in this photograph.

Caption For Chigwell Row, Oaklands Farm C1955

This pretty house sits back away from the road, and is the Warden's house for the Girl Guides Camping Ground.

Caption For Ilfracombe, The Harbour 2004

Beyond the slipway (centre) are the open doors of the new lifeboat station, built in 1984 and housing the Spirit of Derbyshire, a Mersey Class boat capable of 16 knots and with a range of 145 nautical

Caption For Congleton, Henshall Hall 1898

The house has now completely gone, and the lands are occupied by a new and very pleasant housing estate. Thre name survives, however, as the estate is called Henshall Hall Drive.

Caption For Grange Over Sands, Holme Island 1921

The original house on Holme Island was built by John Fitchett of Warrington in 1832.

Caption For Thorney, The Village Green C1955

The house facing the green was the Bedford's pied-a-terre from 1550-1910. The quoins are of re-used abbey stone, and the stone slate roofs came from Colleyweston in Northamptonshire.

Caption For Botley, High Street C1960

In the centre the church stands above the distant houses. Note the house to the centre right: the road has been built up here, and the entrance is now below road level.