Places
36 places found.
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- Chatsworth House, Derbyshire
- Osborne House, Isle of Wight
- Brambletye House, Sussex
- Ickworth House, Suffolk
- Kingston Lacy House, Dorset
- Boscobel House, Shropshire
- Preshute House, Wiltshire
- Bolton Houses, Lancashire
- Brick Houses, Yorkshire
- Quaking Houses, Durham
- Water Houses, Yorkshire
- Bottom House, Staffordshire
- Church Houses, Yorkshire
- High Houses, Essex
- Dye House, Northumberland
- Flush House, Yorkshire
- Halfway House, Shropshire
- Halfway Houses, Kent
- Mite Houses, Cumbria
- Lyneham House, Devon
- Spittal Houses, Yorkshire
- Street Houses, Yorkshire
- New House, Kent
- White House, Suffolk
- Tow House, Northumberland
- Wood House, Lancashire
- Beck Houses, Cumbria
- Carr Houses, Merseyside
- Stone House, Cumbria
- Swain House, Yorkshire
- Smithy Houses, Derbyshire
- Spacey Houses, Yorkshire
- Keld Houses, Yorkshire
- Kennards House, Cornwall
- Heath House, Somerset
- Hey Houses, Lancashire
Photos
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Maps
370 maps found.
Books
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Memories
10,328 memories found. Showing results 21 to 30.
Henrietta Hope Porter
Growing up I had a good friend and neighbour, who I knew as 'Miss Porter'. She inherited her house from her Uncle who (according to her comments to a young boy) used to be a footman to Queen Victoria and was the first owner ...Read more
A memory of Guffogland by
Sunday Mornings
My mother in law, then Marie Elizabeth Burston born 1921 in Wales, whilst in service at Hartlebury House used to go to church every Sunday morning. The postman played the big organ. Every morning she had to give him and the ...Read more
A memory of Painswick in 1930 by
Pear Tree Cottage Greenway
We used to visit my grandparents on Sundays. Quite often during the Spring we would drive through the flooded levels and see boats on the water. I remember wanting desperately to go for a ride in one! It didn't ...Read more
A memory of North Curry in 1946 by
Waifs And Strays Society
From approximately 1939-1945 the house was taken over by the Waifs and Strays Society becoming a home for 40 boys. They had moved from Chislehurst, Kent. The house was also used as a landmark by German bombers during their attacks on Coventry.
A memory of Warwick in 1940 by
Stepping Back In Time
It started when my mother was dying, when we asked her about the family history, and she gave us names and dates. Her family came from France in late 1500. They were Hugenots and they were Puritans, and were chased out of ...Read more
A memory of Cinderford in 1995 by
Summer 1980
My memories of the heath are from 1980 when my mother - Kathleen (Topsy) Whybrow and father bought me and my brother to the heath in the summer of 1980 for five months. My parents had emigrated to NZ and gave myself and my ...Read more
A memory of Hatfield Heath in 1980 by
The 50s At School
I remember starting school at the 'old' school and then after 3 years moving to the new school - it seemed huge and daunting and many of us got lost in the first few weeks. Pyrford was great to grow up in then - we had fields to ...Read more
A memory of Pyrford in 1959 by
Coopers And Booths
My Great, Great Great Grandfather, William Booth, used to push a cart up and down the streets of Clayton le Moors with his son John Booth, selling shellfish. He was known as 'Muscle Bill' and his son, 'Oyster Jack'. (This ...Read more
A memory of Clayton-Le-Moors in 1890 by
Greys Drapers
Grandfather William Grey owned a number of shops in Wingate, Co. Durham one was at 47 North Road West, Wingate, it was a drapers shop. Grandfather died in 1962, his last remaining shop was closed by my mother Winnie England and made ...Read more
A memory of Wingate in 1957 by
Torpoint Memories
I was born in Tor House Torpoint in 1933. Tor House was purchased by my Grandfather R S G Norgate, Royal Navy, in the early 1900s. My Uncle Dr Robert Norgate inherited the property in 1934. My Brother Joseph and I lived with my ...Read more
A memory of Torpoint in 1943 by
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Captions
6,977 captions found. Showing results 49 to 72.
All the familiar seaside fun is here: happy holiday-makers digging in the sand, deckchairs and bathing machines fill this evocative picture of Edwardian Broadstairs.The steps and the lift house are
It was in this house on the left that Jane Austen wrote Mansfield Park, Emma and Persuasion.
Centre left at No 33 is the Green Dragon, a cider house, which closed in the late 1960s.
Looking east with terrace houses on the left, then a thatched cottage and a 19th-century house with an Ionic porch.
Tynevale House was built in 1754, Town Head in 1796, and the Miners Arms in 1750.
Wyatt clad the brick house in the local hard granite- like Denner Hill Stone and gothicised the house with turrets and battlements.
Two fine country houses lie close by.
This slightly severe-looking three-storey mansion was built in 1767 on the site of a Benedictine priory, long ruinous and partly converted to a house around 1550.
The stone-fronted houses match the shops with their sturdiness and `built to last` qualities.
In 'Pride and Prejudice' Jane Austen calls Hatfield 'a busy little street that leads to my Lord Salisbury's house'.
Ray Park Avenue was one of the first roads laid out and has some houses of the 1870s.
West of the church and across a stream is The Bury, the manor house until 1741.
Many estates of what we now call social housing sprang up around Britain following the war.
Bridge House, the Post Office Stores and the adjoining houses (centre bottom) follow the curve of the street, named after The Swan Inn.
It was once three separate houses, Nos 8,10, and 12 High Street, so there are still three entrances onto the pavement.
To the left are the arched and mullioned windows of the 1661 Almshouses; partly hidden is Ashlar House, which is mid 18th- century and set at the corner of Pound Lane, which leads to the moated Manor
The Well House is dated 1642.
The house on the left is still there, but well hidden by trees now.
This village is noted for its beautiful woods, a railway tunnel under the Balcombe Forest and a brick viaduct over the Ouse valley.
Uppingham School's Memorial Hall and classroom block dominate the street, replacing houses which were demolished in the 1920s.
Built on a 1660s terrace, today's Cliveden is a Victorian mansion by Sir Charles Barry, one of the architects of the Houses of Parliament.
The square box of the Co-op building (straight ahead) does not sit well with the older stone houses.
The Green has attractive Georgian houses - note the fine portico and parapet of High House on the left.
Under the Mendips, the Old Post House (by the phone box) and Weare House (to its left), now private houses, and the Lamb Inn (behind the photographer) offered refreshment and accommodation to travellers
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