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Memories

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Machen

Fond memories of Machen - my Mum and Dad, Doris and Edgar, used to go dancing at Machen club in middle 60's also The Tradesmans Arms was their local when it was a quaint little local pub. I remember there also used to be a Pub - it was more ...Read more

A memory of Machen in 1966 by Diana Toms

Abbotts Hall Chase Army Huts From 1946 1948

I was four years old when our family moved from Liverpool to squat in one of the army huts. I remember it very well, and the German prisoners of war who made such a fuss of us children. We had ...Read more

A memory of Stanford-le-Hope in 1946 by Irene Lewsey

School Days

I lived at 27 Radnor Street, last but one tennament to be flattened. My first year of school was at the "new high school", on Bouquanaran; 10 class rooms open, we had to scramble among the bricks to get to class. Then I went to ...Read more

A memory of Clydebank in 1940 by Amy Worrick(Sullivan)

The People Of Kilfinan

The year my mum and dad got married in Kilfinan Church. My mum was born and brought up in Kilfinan Post Office where my granny, Mrs Maclachlan was the post mistress for many of my childhood years. I don't actually remember ...Read more

A memory of Kilfinan in 1951 by David Goodman

Wallsend Central

Central Girls school Wallsend was operational during the ten years I was there from 1941. It was one of three large units that were respectively, The Infants, Boys, and Girls. We were segregated once we survived the 'Infant's, ...Read more

A memory of Wallsend in 1951 by Bob Proud

Upper Day House

The women of my father's family decided to go to Shropshire to get away from the bombs in London. There were about 7 women, mostly Harts, who went & rented Upper Day House with their children, about 10/11 children. The ...Read more

A memory of Church Preen in 1941 by Patricia Bunce

Holliday Fun

I SPENT MANY HAPPY HOLIDAYS WITH MY UNCLE JIM ROUTLEDGE AT HIS COTTAGE CALLED WOODEND TINDALE FELL. MY BROTHERS AND I WOULD FISH IN THE BURN THAT RAN PASSED HIS COTTAGE WE WOULD PADDEL ,MAKE DAMS. GO UP TO TINDALE POST ...Read more

A memory of Tindale Fells by Edith Frearson

Brentford

What wonderful memories of Brentford. My name was Dorothy Pearce I lived in Netley Road with sisters Beryl and Hazel and brothers Richard and Philip. My Nan lived in Potteery Road next door to Edie Joyce. The Shepherds lived ...Read more

A memory of Brentford in 1943 by Dorothy Hill

Trecco Bay!

I have some of the most fond memories of my childhood on holidays in and around this place, so much so that to this day I still remember the caravan number CY17 that was drummed into both my sister and I so that we did not get lost on ...Read more

A memory of Porthcawl in 1969 by Lana Morgan

A Life Time Ago

I would like ti know if there are any of my old mates are still there my name was ina Namylor loved living there. my head teacher was mr browm my first teacher was mrs neil mr smith to words the end as I left to go to England I ...Read more

A memory of Twechar

Captions

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Caption For Empingham, Nursery Close C1960

On the left are RDC houses perhaps built in the 1950s. Further down, a large barn and an old house beyond.

Caption For Chippenham, The Market Place C1955

This view was taken looking south to the Bear Hotel at the top end of the car park. The new Bear Hotel was built some time after 1750 by John Provis, a painter, and leased out.

Caption For Manchester, Old Trafford 1897

Here we see the stand of the Lancashire Cricket Ground, called Old Trafford, as it looked just over a century ago.

Caption For Bradford On Avon, Old Tithe Barn 1900

The Great Barn, or Tithe Barn, is part of Barton Manor Farm, which comprises 8 or 9 buildings grouped around a large open courtyard.

Caption For Ruislip, High Street C1965

The camera looks away from the original village centre into the alternative Ruislip of the 1930s and towards the Metropolitan line station of 1904.

Caption For St Michaels, Garstang Road C1960

Glebe Farm and the tithe barn disappeared in the 1960s; the original thatched roof was under corrugated iron sheeting.

Caption For Avebury, The Cove 1899

The barn and outbuilding seen here were demolished in the 1940s as part of the long-overdue restoration programme.

Caption For Slaidburn, Hammerton Hall 1921

This is the most northerly of all the photographs in our book. The Hall lies in a crook of the River Hodder, with a stream called Barn Gill and its waterfall in the Hall grounds.

Caption For North Harrow, The Tithe Barn, Headstone Manor C1965

The camera looks at the early 16th-century Great Barn, which was originally one of four opening onto the farmyard; a second smaller one has quite recently been particularly well restored from a skeletal

Caption For Abbotsbury, The Tithe Barn 1890

The Great Barn of Abbotsbury Abbey was built in about 1400.

Caption For Sudbury, Friar Street Congregational Chapel 1900

Here we see the interior of the chapel as designed by Frederick Barnes in 1859, with the classical sanctuary filled with the organ.

Caption For Sproughton, Lower Street C1955

The herd of dairy cattle is making its way to Hall Farm, which included the former tithe barn dating from the 17th century.

Caption For Eastcote, Field End Road 1964

Eastcote is a mediaeval settlement; it is only as one emerges from the shopping parades of the 1930s grouped around the underground station into a series of timber-framed vernacular buildings of the 16th

Caption For Bury, Church From The River 1898

The tour has to reach Bury by road, but until the 1950s you could get from Amberley to Bury by ferry. The wharf was restored in 1997 with concrete steps.

Caption For Stamford, Barn Hill 1922

Just a few yards up the hill from All Saints' Church, Barn Hill is a far cry from the commercial bustle of Red Lion Square.

Caption For Clayton Le Moors, Wesleyan Chapel 1897

Barnes Square Methodist Chruch was built in 1863, replacing an earlier building which had become too small. John Mercer laid the foundation stone.

Caption For Sydling St Nicholas, East Street C1955

The initials of the courtier and his wife are carved on a timber in the village's tithe barn.

Caption For Oakham, The Hawthorne Horse 1932

Situated at the corner of Cemetery Road and Station Road, this topiary horse was a local attraction. It was in the paddock of Mr J Littler, a veterinary surgeon.

Caption For Bocking, Bradford Street 1902

Villagers pose for the camera outside their homes in this little village near Braintree. This was the earliest English settlement of the Knights Templar, who were given the manor in 1135.

Caption For Appleton Le Street, The Village C1960

The quiet village street at Appleton-le-Street, west of Malton, shows little passing traffic outside the village pub.

Caption For Haverfordwest, Barn Street 1906

Looking down Barn Street towards the spire of St Martin's Church, the Bethesda Baptist Chapel can be seen on the right.

Caption For Easington, Seaside Road From Church C1955

Easington is set alongside the coast of the North Sea, some five miles north of Spurn Point.

Caption For Polgooth, Village C1955

The old village is seen from near the Wesleyan chapel, looking across to Van Vean Farmhouse in the trees on the far side.

Caption For Twickenham, Richmond Road C1955

In 1965, the municipal borough of Twickenham was merged with those of Barnes and Richmond (against the wishes of many residents) to become the London Borough of Richmond-upon-Thames under the