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The Old Jolly Waggoners, 1940 ...1960

Is there a photo of the original pub.? We lived a few yards away on Kingston Road. The old building had two bays with the door in the middle. It opened on to the road and the bus stop was right outside the front door. ...Read more

A memory of Ewell in 1900 by Chris Bragg

Life In County Oak

I was born in the cottage that was named Morning Dawn in 1937. The house is now a Muslim mosque. I remember the recreation area very well. We played there often. My dad had an allotment nearby. I remember the Covey and Brown ...Read more

A memory of Crawley in 1940 by Ian Cheeseman

From 1940 But Historically Long Before

Along with my mother Ruby, I was evacuated to Alconbury on my birthday, 23 September 1940. Unknown to me, my paternal grandparents had already moved there and were in residence in Chapel Street. My Mum and I ...Read more

A memory of Alconbury in 1940 by Barry W J Chandler

Teenage Days

My parents bought the little cottage, 1 Harbour View (end of Boringdon Rd) in Coronation year. The area at that time was, quite frankly, a slum and many of the surrounding houses were being condemned and pulled down. Our cottage was ...Read more

A memory of Turnchapel in 1953 by Delphine Plaskett

Times Long Gone

My memories of Rickarton go back to wonderful times spent with my great aunt and uncle at Roadside Cottage in Rickarton. Uncle Willie was the postie and aunt Bella managed the chickens and the bees. I remember walking to Murgie (A ...Read more

A memory of Rickarton in 1954 by Andrew Crowther Green

Tunstall Village Circa 1949/50

My parents used to own the local post office/ grocery store which I now believe is a private house. One of my brothers took it over from my mother and I used to stay there on holiday. When my parents ...Read more

A memory of Tunstall in 1949 by Barry Ellis Brown

Mevagissey Museum

I have many childhood memories of Mevagissey. My parents bought a cottage in Cliff Street, Mevagissey during the late 1950s. We used it as a holiday home until 1965 when my father retired from designing Colt Houses (all timber ...Read more

A memory of Mevagissey in 1969 by John Hilder

Kay Key Moss Farm Witherslack

My great-great-great-grandfather JOSEPH FLETCHER Esq lived at Kay Moss Farm (as it was called then), now known as Key Moss. He is buried along with 3 of his children who died young and 1 daughter Ellen at St Paul's ...Read more

A memory of Witherslack in 1870

Molecatcher

My husband's family were conned into selling their grandfather's cottage, he was the local molecatcher, John Henry Scott.(I wonder if he was born on the wrong side of the blanket! - as the name of the local gentry was also Scott.) The ...Read more

A memory of Bellerby in 1958 by Carol Steele

My Birthplace

I was born at 228 Springhill Cottages, Haverah Park, Beckwithshaw in 1939. I don't remember anything about Beckwithshaw as we moved to North Shields and lived at 3 Vickarage Street for a while,then came back to live at 23 Brunswick ...Read more

A memory of Beckwithshaw in 1930 by Muriel Grasso/Nee Currie

Captions

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Caption For Plaxtol, Village 1901

There is a lovely group of cottages near the church, which date from the 17th century. The church has many riches, including a hammerbeam roof.

Caption For Castle Combe, Village 1904

Here we see the By Brook flowing placidly past the rows of exquisite cottages, with their steep stone-slated roofs and dormers. A man sits on the bank with his granddaughter enjoying the tranquillity.

Caption For Burwash, The Village 1889

Seacox is a French chateau- style house built in 1871 for the Goschen family, who were great benefactors of the village; they built a number of cottages for estate staff.

Caption For West Marden, Village C1955

This sizeable hamlet on the Downs south of Harting has no church, but boasts some attractive flint cottages and fine scenery.There is plenty of history here: Bow Hill was a great Stone Age centre

Caption For Bishops Hull, The Church Of St Peter And St Paul 1906

Since 1906, the cottage on the left has gone, and the church porch has been rebuilt.

Caption For Waterrow, The Village C1955

Rock Cottage, on the left, has had its render removed to expose the thin-bedded ancient Devonian sandstone rubble used for building on Exmoor and the western hills of Somerset.

Caption For Galgate, Main Road C1960

Facing the Green Dragon across the road is a terrace of stone cottages, with the New Inn at the end. Next door to the Green Dragon, an antiquated Regent petrol pump indicates a garage.

Caption For Carew, The Bridge And Castle C1960

The view has changed very little today, except for the development of the cottage next to the bridge, the Riverside Restaurant.

Caption For Bildeston, Chapel Street C1965

The weavers' cottages (right) are reminiscent of Kersey and Lavenham. They were restored in about 1960, when seven dwellings were reduced to three.

Caption For Uppingham, West End, High Street C1955

The buildings are a mixture of 18th- century cottages and 19th-century grander houses which were built on the site of former farmyards.

Caption For Great Yarmouth, Blackfriars Tower 1891

The Blackfriars, otherwise known as the South-East Tower, was used in the 19th century as a shop at street level with accommodation above—there was even a small cottage built on top.

Caption For Anstey, Puttocks End C1955

These thatched cottages are on either side of the road to Brent Pelham at the eastern, outer reaches of Anstey.

Caption For Market Bosworth, Ye Olde Red Lion C1955

The adjoining ancient cottages have gone, and have been replaced with housing that remains in keeping with the town.

Caption For Chesham, The Waterside 1897

The road is lined by mainly 19th-century cottages in which lived the workers from the watermills, workshops and small factories that were originally powered by their water wheels, later by steam engines

Caption For Lympstone, The Village Square 1904

It achieved a status as a modest resort in the early years of the 19th century when a number of the cottages we see here were built to accommodate visitors.

Caption For Lyme Regis, The Beach And Harbour C1955

The shot is southwards from Bay Cottage and the Royal Standard to the Cobb Warehouses (centre right).

Caption For Chieveley, The Manor And Church C1965

Chieveley boasts many fine period houses and cottages; here and there are new estates too.

Caption For Ditchling, High Street C1965

A range of 16th-century houses and cottages descends the hill towards a central crossroads, notably Old Forge, Bowries and Ricksteddle.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Harbour 1890

Bay Cottage (left) provided the real-life original for Jane Austen's character Captain Harville in her novel 'Persuasion'.

Caption For Sandgate, High Street 1906

The weatherboarded cottages are prominent among the stone fronted shops and restaurants, whose rich assortment of goods and services are lavishly advertised.

Caption For Wherwell, Village 1901

However, it is easy to become lost in the winding lanes, and to suddenly come upon the village with its wealth of thatched cottages, fringed with great trees.

Caption For East Clandon, The Village 1904

Fifteen children have been neatly assembled by the photographer in front of the brick and half-timbered cottages that comprised this small village – it was originally called Clandon Abbots.

Caption For Geddington, Village C1955

Rows of stone cottages surround the Cross in Geddington village centre, built in 1294 to commemorate Queen Eleanor of Castile, wife of Edward I.

Caption For Wicken, The Pond C1955

Thatched cottages abound in the pretty village of Wicken. Nearby Wicken Fen is virtually the only remaining piece of natural undrained fenland left.