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Memories

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The Meadow, Chislehurst.

We lived in The Meadow, the road opposite Rush Pond, for 30years. Our house is not there anymore, it was demolished and a much bigger house on the site. We had a dear little cottage, St Anne's. I still belong to the ...Read more

A memory of Chislehurst by Evelyn Turner

My House

The Semi detach house in the middle of the photo, is my first home purchase, Moved in two months ago.

A memory of Kingswinford by Luke Hamblett

By The Cut

born in 1948 in a place called Cappenfield near Bilston, just off Dudley street, just four houses in a row surrounded by fields,, the canal, or cut, as we all called it ran alongside, and it narrowed down to what we called the stop,it was ...Read more

A memory of Tipton by John Groucutt

The Baker In The High Street Roughly Opposite Anderson's Ironmongers.

Can anybody remember the name of the Baker in the High Street. I can remember him doing his weekly afternoon delivery round to our house being Wingate Cottage behind ...Read more

A memory of Stanstead Abbotts by timcattley

Happy Times

I was there from 1969 to 1972 I remember going to school just over the road from the boys house were I stayed and if you were good you could go home at weekends if not you had to go to church on a Sunday I can only remember a few of the girls ...Read more

A memory of Styal by Steven Talbot

Perfect Place

My name was Sandra Goodfellow when I was born at home in Erbistock in 1954. I lived on Twining hill. I had a very happy childhood there with my three siblings, Mum and Dad. I started Erbistock school in 1957. It was a cosy, two ...Read more

A memory of Erbistock by Sandra Bayley

Working Life Memories.

As a boy of 11 or 12, I left school everyday at 3.30pm. I then drove the cows to Mr Goodings Mill about 30 or 40 yards away from Mr Shepherd's shop. After being milked I drove them back again. In wintertime I'd grind up ...Read more

A memory of Washford by Claire Allen

Family Connections To The Limes.

The house in the photograph is The Limes and has a family connection. A great uncle on my mother's side purchased this property. He was Alfred William Reynolds, who was an innkeeper in the White Hart pub opposite the ...Read more

A memory of Oare by George Davey

Springfield Terrace

This view shows my house. It is the one at this end of Springfield Terrace - you can see a number of the terrace chimneys peeping out over the top of the hill to the left. We overlook the River Torridge. You can see the old ...Read more

A memory of Bideford in 1890 by Terence Sackett

Killie

My memories have a date range from 1958 to date. Although I was born in Irvine due to my mother needing urgent medical assistance I was brought up in a town that I grew to love and found easy to defend against anyone who barracked it. I ...Read more

A memory of Kilmarnock by John Stewart

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Captions

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Caption For Hitchin, Sun Street C1955

On the right, we have W J Roberts, a shoe repairer, and next to him is Philpott's, the house furnisher.

Caption For Castle Ashby, The Church C1955

The church is to the east of the house and looks like a personal chapel, as the village is further away to the west beyond the gates.

Caption For Bridport, Almshouses 1903

Magdalene Almshouses (left), were rebuilt in 1877 on the site of a lazar-house or leper hospital, apparently founded by a member of the de Leyes or Legh family, in the early 13th century.

Caption For Ludford, The Village C1955

The annexe sideways to the road has gone, and the house standing back from the road has been replaced by a bungalow.

Caption For Tenby, War Memorial 1925

The war memorial stands on a site formerly occupied by a stable, a coach house and two single-storey houses.

Caption For Magham Down, Old Road C1955

The late Victorian Red Lion pub on the left is closed and for sale (January 2004), while the post office on the right is, as in many other villages, closed and now a house, Post Office House.

Caption For Blindley Heath, The Red Barn C1955

The house was built as a 15th-century open hall house, but it was altered in the 17th century.

Caption For Buckland, Post Office Corner C1955

In the foreground, on the corner of Dungates Lane, is this 16th-century timber-framed house, now subdivided; its left gabled crosswing is a house, and the rest is now the Buckland Stores, and all virtually

Caption For Leatherhead, High Street 1948

Further along, also on the left, is Cradle's House, a 14th-century hall house, which has recently been restored, a sad reminder of what the town has lost.

Caption For Ranmore Common, The Post Office C1955

The house is L-shaped, and it is no longer either a post office or a tea room.

Caption For Abingdon, Park Road 1925

To its right is Trinity House, a good stone house in the style of a William Butterfield rectory, built as the manse by J Woodman, who had designed the church.

Caption For Boston Spa, Thorp Arch Hall 1895

The lord of the manor, William Gossip, purchased land here with the view to owning a substantial but convenient house in this rural part of the West and North Yorkshire border.

Caption For Gilling West, Village 1913

The White Swan Inn on the left is 300 years old; third house from the right is the old Gilling Club for working men.

Caption For Newport Pagnell, Ousebank Gardens 1956

The High Street turns north, and it and the town end abruptly at the River Great Ouse, which flows through meadows liable to flooding.

Caption For Tickton, The Bridge C1955

Increased river traffic led to this opening bridge being constructed in 1913, at the same time as the hydraulic pumping house (behind with the tall chimney).

Caption For Axbridge, The Square C1955

It retains its medieval plan and character remarkably with tall houses lining its narrow street, many of them timber-framed and jettied, including King John's Hunting Lodge on the left; it is a house

Caption For Bridport, Almshouses 1903

Magdalene Almshouses (left), were rebuilt in 1877 on the site of a lazar-house or leper hospital, apparently founded by a member of the de Leyes or Legh family, in the early 13th century.

Caption For Brixton, Angell Town From The South C1965

This view is from an upper balcony of Eldon House, one of the eleven-storey blocks of council flats built c1960 on the Loughborough Estate.

Caption For Ealing, The Museum, Gunnersbury Park C1960

The 17th-century house had been demolished in 1802, and Rothschild remodelled and enlarged its replacement in 1835.

Caption For Enfield, Bush Hill Station, St Mark's Road C1955

The grand pub and the simple working men's houses and shops in St Marks Road and First Avenue are all of a similar date.

Caption For Great Bentley, The Green And Pond 1892

In its time, it has held tea parties, dancing, football, cricket, flower shows, horse-races and prize-fights.

Caption For Gilfach Goch, Colliery C1955

A farmer in the Neath valley who had moved to Merthyr, and had worked as a haulier and later a collier, he ran the Six Bells public house and brewery.

Caption For Great Easton, The Village C1960

In an area of architectural gems (Rockingham Castle, Lyddington Bede House and Stoke Dry parish church), the village has a number of good ironstone houses of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries

Caption For Harlow, Moot House And The Stow C1960

The paved area in front of Moot House was a sunny meeting place with mature trees, flower boxes and seats.