Places

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Photos

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Maps

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1920, The Brook Ref. POP846310
1946, The Brook Ref. NPO846310
1898, The Brook Ref. RNE846310
1901, The Brook Ref. RNC846310
1946, Luddington In The Brook Ref. NPO770362
1901, Luddington In The Brook Ref. RNC770362
1898, Luddington In The Brook Ref. RNE770362
1920, Luddington In The Brook Ref. POP770362
1887 - 1899, Luddington In The Brook Ref. HOSM52755

Books

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Memories

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Duppas Hill Lane & Old Town Croydon.

Hi, I just stumbled on this fabulous site as I was trying to find some photos of the Duppas Hil Lane area. I lived at number 23 Duppas Hill Terrace from around 1963-71 and I would have been 12 or 13 ish when the ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by Simon Harlow Chalton

John Tarver 1850 1932 Grayrigg Father Samuel

My Gt Grandfather above was born in Grayrigg and worked for LNWR. He wrote pieces for The Westmorland Gazette on a variety of subjects. I have found one of his pieces, in his papers and he ...Read more

A memory of Lambrigg Head by Christine Barbour Moore

"Digger" Hunwick Growing Up At No 7, Hall Road.

Born under a table in the front room of No.7 Hall Road on 16/7/1944 while an air raid warning sounded to herald the German V1s presence above. I attended Aveley Infants and Primary schools between 1949 and ...Read more

A memory of Aveley by ted.hunwick

1942 As A School Boy.

It is seven o’clock in the morning and the bugler is sounding reveille to wake the men from their bed, the battalion are camped in Heysham head, towards the cookhouse the soldiers do lurch the noise is so deafening, It ...Read more

A memory of Lower Heysham by Eric Brook

1960's Kidderminster

If you followed this street to the end and turned left it brought you to one of the oldest pubs in Kiddy. I'm pretty sure it was The Seven Stars but my memory is not what it was ( ain't old age a wonderful thing ? NOT ! ...Read more

A memory of Kidderminster by Malcolm Knowles

1966 1982

Ford End is now a shell of its former self, almost like the UK. When I was a child in the village, growing up, there was no better place to be. There was a shop, two pubs, the Spread Eagle at the top of the village and ...Read more

A memory of Ford End by Lawrence Gill

A Beautiful Early Childhood In The 50's.

My Dad and Mum moved to what was then 'The old Cottage', Water Lane in 1954-5 from Cornwall. Mum was pregnant and they couldn't get a cottage, so Dad, Ken Johnson, applied to Corfe's Farm to get a tied ...Read more

A memory of West Peckham by barleysmile

Abercarn Fach Cwmcrn

My parents, Les and Lorna Hodges and my sister, Jean, moved into 22 Abercarn Fach in approx. October 1954 just after I was born. My family were the first family to move into the newly built 2 storey flats. We lived above Bill ...Read more

A memory of Cwmcarn

All Youngsters

What a wonderful site. I came across it while researching an accompanying book for my sister's planned 90 birthday Tour of Brentford in June this year. We lived in Brentford from around 1930 until 1976 when our mother died. They ...Read more

A memory of Brentford by bildoric

An Exciting Place For A 5 Year Old

I used to love Gilda Brook Road when I was little! I lived in Snowdon Road and we would walk in to The Village ( Eccles) via Clarendon Crescent and Clarendon Road. The corner where Clarendon Road met Gilda Brook ...Read more

A memory of Eccles by smithlynne117

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Captions

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Caption For Cropredy, The Lock C1960

The name 'cropredy' is thought to come from Old English - 'redy' meaning brook. The

Caption For Upper Clatford, Village 1899

The village lies at the confluence of the River Anton and the Pillhill brook. The

Caption For Kenilworth, Abbey Fields Swimming Pool C1965

Abbey Fields is dissected by Finham Brook and Inchford Brook. The

Caption For Upper Clatford, Village 1899

This village lies at the confluence of the River Anton and the Pillhill brook. The

Caption For Upper Clatford, The Village C1955

Note the sign on the telegraph pole on the right - 'telegrams may be telephoned.'

Caption For Upper Clatford, Village 1899

The village lies at the confluence of the River Anton and the Pillhill brook. The

Caption For Anstey, Pack Horse Bridge C1960

On the south-east side of the village the five-arch stone bridge, perhaps of the 16th century, steps quietly across the very reedy Rotherby Brook. The

Caption For Uttoxeter, Bramshall Road Recreation Ground C1965

Mr C H Elkes, a local businessman, offered an eleven-acre field sloping down to the Picknall or Hockley Brook. The

Caption For Anstey, Pack Horse Bridge C1960

On the south-east side of the village the five-arch stone bridge, perhaps of the 16th century, steps quietly across the very reedy Rotherby Brook. The

Caption For Anstey, Pack Horse Bridge C1965

Straddling Rothley Brook, the medieval bridge is a feature of this large village that has grown considerably since the last war.

Caption For Anstey, Pack Horse Bridge C1965

The 16th-century stone bridge steps quietly by way of its five arches across the reedy Rothley Brook; the original roadway into the village is now reduced to a footpath.

Caption For Milford, The Cross Roads C1960

From Brook the route heads to Milford, formerly partially on the A3 London to Portsmouth road but now, mercifully, by-passed - but the traffic is still heavy.

Caption For Llanthony, The Priory, From The North West 1893

The tranquillity of the Vale of Ewyas and its surrounding hills must have appealed to the Augustinian monks who founded a church here in 1108, possibly on a site where St David, the patron saint of Wales

Caption For Llanthony, The Priory, From The North West 1893

The tranquillity of the Vale of Ewyas and its surrounding hills must have appealed to the Augustinian monks who founded a church here in 1108, possibly on a site where St David, the patron saint of Wales

Caption For Enfield, Whitewebbs Park, The Pond C1955

The focal point of Forty Hill in the 16th century was the great house of Elsynge, which lay between the site of Forty Hall and the Turkey Brook. The

Caption For St Neots, From The Air C1955

The ancient bridge in the foreground - the site dates from before 1180 - was in 1964 found to be unsafe and replaced.

Caption For Manchester, Brooks Bank C1873

These are the premises of the bank run as Cunliffe Brooks & Co, one of Manchester's private banks.

Caption For Rochdale, Simpson Clough 1895

Cheesden Brook passes under Ashworth Road, flowing to the right to join Naden Brook as it leaves Carr, Gelder and Bamford Woods.

Caption For Nunney, From Bridge 1907

The church lies behind a huddle of dilapidated cottages lining the Nunney Brook; here, wool was washed during the busy years of the cloth trade.

Caption For Uttoxeter, The Hockley C1955

The Hockley brook was a haven for the local children, as there was no swimming pool in Uttoxeter.

Caption For Basildon, Town Square C1965

Brooke House, the town centre's only housing unit, opened on 7 July 1962.

Caption For Blakeney, High Street C1950

Blakeney stands at the edge of the Forest of Dean at the point where Blackpool Brook and Soudley Brook meet.

Caption For Grantchester, The Rose And Crown C1965

The Rose and Crown, now the Rupert Brooke, has been extended at the front, losing the outside seating area.

Caption For Batheaston, Main Road And River C1965

The Fosse Way runs down from the right of this picture to meet the Avon and follow it to Bath, three miles away.