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My Grandparents Ran The Post Office

My grandparents, William and Rose Broadway ran the Post Office stores in the late 60's and 70's. I can vividly remember jars of sweets, Grandad boiling his own ham, getting up at 5am to give papers to the ...Read more

A memory of Great Tey in 1968 by Julie Thomson

Longley Road

Does anyone know anything about the Bowra family or Raven family? They lived in Longley Road in the late 1800s and 1900s until 1957. The family consisted of Henrietta Bowra, Leonard, Herbert, Sydney and Kate. Kate had a daughter ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1900

The Caravan Shop

I can remember the shop well, both my grandparants had caravans on Mr Wakley's old site (the first gate on the left past the windmill). If the Greenaways shop (that was an old bus parked by the windmill) was shut it meant walking the ...Read more

A memory of Selsey by Colin Harmes

Overstrand 1906 Ref; 56870

I think this picture is of 'The Londs', the narrow lane featuring fishermen's cottages leading from the village main street down to the small green and cliff top.

A memory of Overstrand in 1960 by Phil Dunning

Crump Family

My 2 x great-grandfather, Thomas Crump, was born in 1799. He married Susannah Bond in 1822 and lived...??? at Mill Cottage. He became Farm Bailiff on the Quicke Estate, responsible for the letting of farms. His son, Matthew ...Read more

A memory of Newton St Cyres by Angela Haddrill

Old Church

In the fifties, my mother worked at the Stanmore Cottage Hospital. As I cycled down Uxbridge Road to visit her at work, I imagined the ivy-covered old church to be a Norman Keep. Does anybody know why the old church was allowed to fall into disrepair and the new one built next door?

A memory of Stanmore by Allan Hill

Little Tudor 1900s To Present

Little Tudor was the cottage that my grandmother resided in when she was a young girl. It is located on The Green in Holyport, Maidenhead. She and her brothers and sisters grew up here in the 1900s. I visited it last ...Read more

A memory of Holyport in 1941 by Wendy Hoffman

My Family

My father's grandfather Mark Gadd Lowman was the landlord of the Railway Hotel now Culm Valley pub in 1917 which stood to the right of these crossroads. Mr Evans the station master used to let my dad, Frank Wheller, open the gates for ...Read more

A memory of Culmstock in 1920 by Suzie Wheller

Old Stowey

My parents bought Old Stowey from Major Enderby, sadly after my father's death in 1970 the place was sold for 50.000 complete with farm workers cottages & 600 acres. I now see it's on the market with 40 acres for 1.5 million. I ...Read more

A memory of Timberscombe in 1970 by Fiona Blyth

A Walk From Shotgate Baptist Church To The Nevendon Road Part 2 See Part 1 Below

Continued from Part 1 below. Next to Martins Bank was a record shop, where I remember going with my parents and standing listening to records in the small listening ...Read more

A memory of Wickford by Kevin Mears

Captions

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Caption For Kings Langley, Village Pound C1960

In 1835 it was moved from its position near the Workhouse, but it has now been rebuilt in its original site opposite Pound Cottages in Common Lane to the north east of the town.

Caption For Barnston, Tree Cottage C1955

Tree Cottage appears to be a substantial property, possibly the home of a senior agricultural worker or land agent.

Caption For Isham, Kettering Road And The Old Red Lion C1950

Most of the buildings on the left survive, with the pantiled building behind the white cottage much altered and now the village shop, 'Ram News'.

Caption For Colsterworth, The Village C1960

Acacia Cottage is still the first house on the right. This is still Main Road.

Caption For Castle Acre, The Old Gate 1891

The cottages on the right-hand side are constructed from building materials taken from the castle ruins, as is the case with many other properties in the town.

Caption For Holyport, Main Road 1909

The cottage Fiddlers Folly on the left is now largely rebuilt. All else survives except the shop-in-a-shed.

Caption For Heckington, High Street C1955

Here we look along the High Street, where most of the houses and cottages survive on the left but only No 62, then an antique shop, on the right.

Caption For Mickleham, Byttom Hill And The Forge 1904

the foot of Byttom Hill, the building is still clearly recognisable, although now expanded into a chic Italian restaurant named Frascati, and with a bus stop immediately outside what was then Highway Cottage

Caption For Cockerham, Main Street And Post Office C1960

The village has rows of sandstone cottages and a number of farms. It was self-sufficient in the 19th century.

Caption For Grindleton, The Village C1960

Two bus stops are opposite each other: one is outside the shop advertising Zebrite, a black lead used to clean iron grates and the ranges found in most cottages.

Caption For Stanton, The Village C1960

Today many of the cottages are holiday homes, and consequently Stanton can feel as though the door has been locked while the inhabitants are away.

Caption For Studland, Cottages 1899

These cottages stand in Watery Lane, between Church Road and the Cross and the track to Harry Warren House on the clifftop - the track becomes the coastal footpath to Old Harry Rocks.

Caption For Bradpole, Village And Holy Trinity Church 1907

Forsters Cottage and a memorial commemorate William Edward Forster MP (1818-86), born in the village, who was the architect of the Elementary Education Act of 1870.

Caption For Crossmichael, The Village C1960

Houses and cottages, many single-storey and built of local stone with slate roofs, line the long, winding main street.

Caption For The Broads, The Pool, Wayford Bridge C1945

But the site of the old bridge and the cottages in this photograph can still be seen nearby.

Caption For Garboldisham, The Post Office C1955

At the southern limits of the county, close by Diss, this delightful village of knapped flint cottages sits in wooded countryside in the valley of the Little Ouse.

Caption For Downham, The Village 1921

This pastoral scene posed by the photographer is charming; it shows the steep village street leading to the cottages grouped around the stocks, church and inn.

Caption For Allenheads, Slag Hill Cottages C1965

Most of the cottages and small holdings were originally built for mine workers.

Caption For Worle, The Village 1896

It was converted into cottages in 1931, when the thatch was replaced by tiles. The three-storey building in the centre used to be the Valiant Soldier Inn and was built about 1670.

Caption For Ranworth, Reed Stacks C1930

This is a characteristic scene: the reeds are stacked alongside old farmhouses and cottages waiting to be taken away by wide flat-bottomed craft such as wherries and barges.

Caption For Denmead, Post Office C1960

It became a parish in 1880, but before the local vicar gave it a name and an identity of its own, it was little more than a scattered collection of houses and cottages.

Caption For Bolton By Bowland, Yew Tree Cottages C1955

The cottages and mature trees are typical of Bolton-by-Bowland. This beautiful village, once famous for its skilled bowmen, stands on the edge of Bowland Forest.

Caption For Monks Eleigh, The Street C1965

On the corner of the green is the 18th-century Swan Inn (centre right), while nearer is a pair of Victorian cottages dated 1870.

Caption For Misterton, High Street 1958

Behind the cottages on the left towers the gable of the Methodist church, a grandiose building of 1878 where my great-grandfather was a lay preacher and leading light in the village's thriving