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Walking Around Collessie In Late Spring

We came to live in the centre of Collessie nearly three years ago, and it is a beautiful, quiet hamlet that is truly untouched by the modern world that surrounds it. The village is a peaceful haven with a ...Read more

A memory of Collessie in 2012 by Lin Walton

Wading In The Bristol Channel

It is quite possible that the the little boy to the right in this picture is me at age six. My family used to stay at a friend's caravan in the park above the cliffs. During the summers of 1954 through 1958 we ...Read more

A memory of Lavernock in 1955 by Phillip Armour

Ww2 In Bratton

As a child living in Bratton during the war there was no sense that it was going on lucky for us, but I do remember a goup of people coming into the village and instructing us how to take care of any injuries that might happen. ...Read more

A memory of Bratton in 1943 by John Coleman

Who Remembers

THIS IS A LONG SHOT BUT IS THERE ANYONE STILL LIVING THAT REMEMBERS MY GRANDFATHER WHO WAS A RAG AND BONE MAN IN SALTBURN IN THE 1930'S. OR DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY RECORDS OR PICTURES OF GEORGES CAFE, IT IS NOW THE POST ...Read more

A memory of Saltburn-By-The-Sea in 1930 by Sharron M Ontes

Vincent Secondary Modern School 1963 To 1967

I was just checking out Northolt history and came across this site...looking through it ,I have seen a few names I remember, so thought I would check it out ! My name is Jacky, surname was Burns, lived in ...Read more

A memory of Northolt by jackybenjamin

V2 Missile Strike At Braughing During Ww2

My great friend Mr Vernon Blyth passed away in 2017 (Vernon Frederick Raymond Blyth 15/02/28- 31/01/17). In the year prior to Vernon’s death, I made a short video with him. In this he relates being ...Read more

A memory of Braughing by Ian Mason

Upper Heyford School

My father was stationed at RAF Upper Heyford 1949 to 1953.  My brothers, Peter, Michael and myself, Mary, went to the village school.  My older brother Richard went to school in Steeple Aston.  I remember the ...Read more

A memory of Upper Heyford in 1949 by mooremary4

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

Upper Chute School 1935

I remember well the school, the huge playing field and the long walk there and back, sometimes having to wait for the cows to get out of the way. I still have a school photo of the pupils and the teachers. I lived in a ...Read more

A memory of Upper Wield in 1930 by James Brain

Upleatham Church

I have happy childhood memories of walks to Upleatham's tiny church with my dad when I spent 15 years of my childhood living at Skelton. We would walk to the church through the fields from Barns Farm. Even though I was so young I ...Read more

A memory of Upleatham in 1967 by Paul Watson

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 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 Abbotsbury, The Tithe Barn 1890

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

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