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Memories Of My Family

I was not born when my family lived in Kirkby Green but I have heard my mother tell a few stories of life there. She had a pet trout who lived in the Beck which ran past the back garden. She called him Peter and would go ...Read more

A memory of Kirkby Green by Gillian Emerton

Happy Childhood

I lived with my grandma Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bignell at No 10 Ten Cottages from 1943 to around 1948. The houses were Estate owned (and still are) and my grandad Robert Bignell worked at the manor house first as a shepherd and then ...Read more

A memory of Wormleighton in 1946 by Geoff Taylor

Childhood In The Village!!

I was devastated in 1964 when my mother told me we were to leave the village so that my mother could pursue her dream of owning her own small business elsewhere. It was a dreadful culture shock, one that has remained with ...Read more

A memory of Mollington in 1961 by Vanda Godwin Marriott

Snowing And Floating

Can't be too specific about the year, just know I was young. Perhaps we'd not been long in our house on Carr Lane, having lived in Dronfield before. What a treasure this house was, running water, separate bedrooms and ...Read more

A memory of Dronfield Woodhouse in 1956 by Raymond Gee

Married Quarters Inkerman Road

My dad was a military policeman stationed at Inkerman Barracks and we lived at No. 1 MSQ Inkerman Road. It was great fun there, the woods over the road, next to the Victoria Cafe (all now gone). To the side of No. 1 was ...Read more

A memory of Knaphill in 1959 by John Burbridge

Kennack

I have been coming to Kennack since I was a toddler. But 1972 was the first of many years that stand out to me. My family met another family and we are still in touch now, 36 years and more later. My memories are so many, borrowing ...Read more

A memory of Kennack Sands in 1972

Painful Memories Of Paulton Square.

As a frightened 7 year old, in 1950,  I was plunged into an unfamiliar London life when my meddling and self righteous aunt unfortunately reminded my stepfather of fulfill his promise to my dying mother to 'take care ...Read more

A memory of London in 1950 by Dylan Rivis

Brookhouse

I used to live at Brookhouse with my parents, great aunt and maternal grand mother. Brookhouse was split into 3 houses at the time (131, 133, 135 Holcolme Road). My grandfather (Thomas Lomax) visited at Christmases and holidays. My ...Read more

A memory of Tottington in 1955 by Jol Martyn Clark

Tithby Or Tythby

I used to live in the village of TYTHBY, spelled with a Y and not an I. I did not even know that there was another village close by with a similar name. But I have checked on the computer and there it is, not too far away in the ...Read more

A memory of Tithby in 1944 by Brian Williamson

The Van

The van outside the shop is a Morris and it belonged to Mr Edwards from Cil Llwyn as he was the only one with a new van in that area in 1955, the Vron Farm had a Morris Cowley van the same colour, because when we went to Bibby's Feed in ...Read more

A memory of Bodfari by Anthony Roberts

Captions

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Caption For Navenby, The Church C1965

The path between the hedge and the stone wall is named the Cat Walk.

Caption For Marnhull, New Street C1960

The view is north-eastwards from Finger Corner and the garden hedge of the Homestead (left foreground).

Caption For East Clandon, The Village C1955

The parish church behind the holly hedge to the left at the corner of Ripley Road is partly Norman.

Caption For Micheldever, The Village C1955

The sun is shining on another outstanding Hampshire village with some timeless timber-framed cottages and nicely cut hedges.

Caption For Haywards Heath, Memorial Stone C1960

It is interesting to compare the height of the hedge with the one in photograph H252583.

Caption For Glentham, Main Street 1953

Actually, several more things have disappeared, including the signpost, which has been replaced by much smaller signs that are partially covered by the hedge.

Caption For Uplyme, The Old Mill C1900

On reaching the Old Mill, the footpath across the fields from Lyme becomes a double-hedged dirt track through a carpet of wild garlic into Uplyme village. 17th-century buildings and the wooden paddles

Caption For Kilby, Main Street C1965

This small village is set in an enclosure landscape of straight hawthorn hedges, between Fleckney and Countesthorpe, to the south of the city.

Caption For Flimwell, The Village 1903

Here the photographer looks west along High Street; the picket fence on the right has been replaced by conifer hedging.

Caption For Cocking, Mill 1906

The stream flows in the foreground, and the Mill House is concealed behind hedges.

Caption For Twycross, The Village C1955

The houses of the late 18th and early 19th centuries are almost picturesque behind hedges and walls, with a restrained petrol sign being all that is needed to alert drivers to the garage's presence - petrol

Caption For Newstead Abbey, Byron Tea Rooms C1955

A previous Lord Byron, the fifth, an ex-Naval man, had a warship in the lake and built mock forts around its edges in the 1770s; this one is the only survivor, and is in fact a conversion of the stables

Caption For Cheam, Ewell Road C1955

On the left, two uniformed schoolboys, probably from either Sutton Grammar or Sutton High School, are about to pass the hedge in front of Cheam Hall as they make their way towards the main junction.

Caption For Kingsbury, Kingsbury Road C1960

It is difficult to believe, looking at Kingsbury Road, that the area retains many field hedges and trees; they were preserved quite carefully in the laying out of the 1930s estates, a definite plus for

Caption For Redbourn, The Memorial And Village C1955

The hedges are full with shepherd's rose, honeysuckles and all sorts of flowers, with the most beautiful of all flower gardens and shrubberies on your one hand and corn on the other.

Caption For Glentham, Main Street 1953

Actually, several more things have disappeared, including the signpost, which has been replaced by much smaller signs that are partially covered by the hedge.

Caption For Kilby, Main Street C1965

This small village is set in an enclosure landscape of straight hawthorn hedges, between Fleckney and Countesthorpe, to the south of the city.

Caption For Eype, Village 1930

The top of the same iron-railed gate as in the 1899 photograph (43872) can be seen in the hedge in the foreground.

Caption For Raglan, The Castle 1906

The circular gun-ports at the base of the gatehouse walls are obscured by hedging.

Caption For Bognor Regis, The Parade 1892

On the left edge is the Royal Norfolk Hotel, rebuilt here in 1826 after the earlier one burnt down.

Caption For Kilby, Main Street C1965

From opposite the Dog and Gun Pub, the camera looks along the straight village street with its assortment of restrained houses, hedges and walls.

Caption For Lytham, Parish Church 1890

Church is not far from the large cricket ground, where a socket of a stone cross (marking one of the resting places of St Cuthbert when he was being carried to his final tomb at Durham) was found in a hedge

Caption For Eype, Village 1930

The top of the same iron-railed gate as in the 1899 photograph (43872) can be seen in the hedge in the foreground.

Caption For South Wigston, Blaby Road C1965

As late as 1870, enclosure meadowland and hawthorn hedges stretched away from Wigston, but the ensuing period up to 1900 was to see a trebling of population figures as hosiers and boot and shoe manufacturers