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Memories

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The Brad

I was born in Coedybrain Rd in 1948 and my family moved to School St. I remember going to the school until I was 6, when we moved away to a new housing estate. The school had a stuffed squirrel in a glass case. I was in the nursery class ...Read more

A memory of Llanbradach

Growing Up In Edgware

I was actually born in Bushey but I grew up in Edgware. I always thought it a funny little town but in it's own way it was beautiful. The parks were beautiful and always had Rose Gardens and ponds to visit. Walking was a way of ...Read more

A memory of Edgware in 1961 by Edna Ryan

Hilton House, Western Shore

Does anyone have any pictures or information relating to Hilton House set in Westwoods? It's demolished now. The story goes... an old lady lived there and the house was pulled down 1935 (ish); Watneys aquired the site but ...Read more

A memory of Woolston

Family Connections 1950's To 60's

My grandparents, aunts and uncles, plus my mum and dad used to live in Bowyers House down the lane from the Phipps Arms pub. My grandad, dad and uncles used to work in the Old Tanyard. I remember the smell ...Read more

A memory of Westbury Leigh in 1953 by Michael Moore

Lound School

I remember walking up (what seemed like then) the long steep hill every morning to go to Lound School... apparently the old one..with the stone walls around it, and the Vicors house across the road. There used to be a ...Read more

A memory of Chapeltown by Mark Carter

Woodhorn Village

I lived in one of the cottages at Woodhorn, my dad worked on the farm. I remember a big windmill behind the houses. We had no indoor toilet, had to go cross the back lane, and no bathroom, had a tin tub, we had hot water from the ...Read more

A memory of Woodhorn in 1954 by Lorraine Preston

Eveswell

My father, John, was a doctor at his surgery/house, Corporation Road and I and my brother John plus mother and father were in the shelter when the mine was dropped. I remember a discussion later about loss of panel patients (Lysaghts and ...Read more

A memory of Newport in 1940 by Michael Savage

St. Catherines Church

I was at Mount Pleasant School as a boarder for 6 years from 1946 to 1952. The school was in Dalmeny Road but apparently was taken down in 1965. I have been trying to find anyone who attended this school. Before going to ...Read more

A memory of Southbourne in 1948 by Michael Chambers

Childhood Memories We Never Forget

To anyone reading this; I was born Valerie Harding and lived in Wedges Mills and I remember so many things about my childhood in Cannock. The Maypole dancing at John Woods school, attending Church each Thursday ...Read more

A memory of Cannock in 1953 by Valerie Van Ramesdonk

My Childhood In Southall

My parents were born in India. My grandfather settled in Africa and had a good job. When my father got married he stayed Africa where all my brothers and sisters were born. My dad was a carpenter by trade; he arrived in ...Read more

A memory of Southall in 1962 by Amy Bhambra

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Captions

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Caption For Steventon, High Street C1955

An Usher's Brewery lorry is making a delivery to the Railway House Hotel, which advertises Usher's ales.

Caption For Melksham, Church Walk C1955

On the left, No 5, the house with the centre gable and timber frame, is 16th-century. A local map of 1543 records its original jettied gable.

Caption For Alford, The Church C1950

Alford is a most attractive small market town on the eastern edge of The Wolds, noted for its thatched Manor House in West Street, a 16th-century hall house with crosswings, all encased in brick in 1661

Caption For Colsterworth, The Village C1960

This view on the Stainby Road, with the houses on the left fronting onto the High Street, which runs left from the signpost, hardly does justice to this large and attractive village in whose part-Norman

Caption For Chesham Bois, The Common 1906

Our tour along the Chess valley towards Rickmansworth starts on the hills south of the valley in Chesham Bois, originally a scattered village with the church at the north end and more houses along

Caption For Goring By Sea, Bull Inn C1960

This popular public house in Goring Street was formerly known as The Bull's Head; the old sign, which hung over the door for years, was removed by the brewery and transferred to a public house in East

Caption For Knowle, High Street C1965

The gabled, timber-framed building is Chester House, which has functioned as a library since its restoration in 1975.

Caption For Hatfield Peverel, The Green C1960

The large house on the left is Brewery House, and behind the post box is Brewery Barn with Brewery Cottages close by.

Caption For Amberley, Castle Courtyard 1896

Within the medieval walls of the castle (or fortified manor house cum bishop's palace) are the living apartments of the bishop: these are complex and varied ranges, with medieval parts jostling with later

Caption For Slad, Steanbridge Lane 1910

The L-shaped building in the foreground, with its blocked windows, was known as The Old House.

Caption For Soham, Churchgate Street C1955

Of the two public houses shown here on the wide main street leading up to St Andrew's church, only the Fountain (centre right), originally known as the Crown and rebuilt after a fire in 1900, is still

Caption For Walsingham, The Gatehouse C1965

They came to see the Holy House, a miraculous re-creation of the house in Nazareth where Jesus was brought up, together with other wonders.

Caption For Kimbolton, High Street C1960

Mainly Georgian houses front Kimbolton's wide High Street, laid out in medieval times to accommodate a market.

Caption For Marlborough, High Street C1950

Tucked in behind the Bear is an early 19th-century rebuilding of a timber house, which may have survived the Great Fire.

Caption For Thaxted, Newbiggen Street C1955

The triple- storeyed house (centre left) is where the Thaxted Morris Ring was constituted in 1934.

Caption For Haywards Heath, Perrymount Road C1950

The trees on the left have now been replaced by large multi- occupied office blocks, whilst those on the right shield the grounds of Jireh House; the house was demolished, and a development

Caption For Woodmansterne, Rectory Lane C1960

The disappearance of the distinctive fence on the left makes the exact location hard to determine but it is likely that the photograph was taken just south of The Old School House on the left and Eastlands

Caption For Alton, Ashdell 1928

The two houses on the left were owned by Spicer Brothers, who owned the paper mill, and were called Orps Mill Cottages. In 1878, they were insured for £210 and the fuel houses for £40.

Caption For Willenhall, Ye Olde Toll House C1965

One of Willenhall's more eccentric buildings, this mock-Tudor, mock- Gothic, former toll house became a restaurant in 1929 and has also been known as the Round House, though it is not really

Caption For Wordsley, High Street C1965

This picture gives a tantalising glimpse of the wonderful Red House Cone, which belongs to Stuart & Sons, makers of crystal glass.

Caption For Loose, Village 1898

The shingle spire of All Saints Church rises above the surrounding houses, while halfway up the hill is the Tudor timbered Old Wool House, in which the fleeces of sheep were washed.

Caption For Haverfordwest, The Castle C1960

The Prison Govenors House, now the home of the excellent Town Museum, built in 1779 at the same time as the first prison, was biult within the castle precinct.

Caption For Wendover, Aylesbury Road C1965

The Red House on the left, one of the best houses in Wendover, is built in brick with earlier Georgian box sash windows with characteristic thick glazing bars and fine pedimented doorcases

Caption For Ashwell, The Village Museum 1951

The timbered 16th-century Town House on the left was originally the Abbot of Westminster's Tithe office.