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Ledsham Court, St Leonards, Sussex ...Great Memories! By John Franks, (Ex Rascal Boarder).

Well, I would like to bring a little history of our wonderful school in St Leonards back to life with the real colour and warmth of the time when I was there in the early ...Read more

A memory of Great Parndon by John Franks

Summers Holidays Were Invented For Fishing

I remember as a small kid growing up in England I couldn't wait for the summer holidays to arrive.  As the days drew closer I could hardly sleep at night knowing that any day now we would be packing our ...Read more

A memory of Pickmere in 1972 by Darren Crumbleholme

Two Year Student At Cheshire County Training College Crewe

It was an all-ladies' college when I attended. Many friendships were made. Memories of teaching practices at schools in Crew and surrounds. First year students had to go out in "digs" and were ...Read more

A memory of Crewe

Baglan A Wartime Paradise

My Dad did his army training adjacent to Baglan during WW2. The hastily built barracks did not have enough bathroom facilities and asked local residents for permission for soldiers to have a bath in their houses. A super-kind ...Read more

A memory of Baglan

Moat Tea Room

My parents Angela and Leslie Jecks-Wright bought the house in the picture, on the right, and made a successful business called the Moat Tea Room of it!  Our house was at 64 Fore Street. We used to get coaches visiting the castle, ...Read more

A memory of Framlingham in 1970 by Virginia Jecks Wright

Life In Oxshott In 1940s And 50s Royal Kent School

I remember my first day at the Royal Kent School – 8th November 1948 – as recorded at entry no. 1450 in the school's original Admissions Register. It was a few weeks into the Autumn term, as in ...Read more

A memory of Oxshott by Rose Phillips

Railway

I used to catch the train every week to visit my grandmother in Countesthoe. From where I lived in Six Acres it was about a mile walk to the station. The station was often staffed by Paddy a cheerful Irish man. If not him a lady ...Read more

A memory of Broughton Astley by james.b.howes

Coven Heath School In The 1880s

I didn't go to the school but my great-great-auntie did. I have a letter of hers that I have been transcribing. She says.. "I went to a one roomed school on Coven Heath. I was 3. A young lady was the teacher who ...Read more

A memory of Coventry by Jo Hindes

46 Bridge Road, Cove

46 Bridge Road at Cove is very significant to me because I was born in Bridge Road, no 46, on 29th June 1943, in the photo of Bridge Road it is the second house on the left, opposite Cove Supply Stores, so I'm sure my mother would ...Read more

A memory of Cove in 1943 by Graham Davis

My Youger Days

Hello, I lived on Hadleigh Road & I went to Boxford school from age 7 until 11 plus, Mr Sore was Headmaster who lived in the village in Riverside house. The village hall opposite the school was where I would go to have my lunch ...Read more

A memory of Boxford in 1956 by Audrey Pamplin

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Captions

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Caption For Andover, Micheldever Road C1950

Half a mile behind the viewer is Ladies' Walk.

Caption For Plymouth, View From Pier 1892

The steps and diving board below the Sunlight Soap advertisement belonged to the Plymouth Ladies Swimming Club.

Caption For Liskeard, The Railway Station 1907

Great Western trains thundered through Liskeard bound for Penzance, carrying travellers to within ten miles of Land's End.

Caption For Penrith, Brougham Castle 1893

Brougham Castle, a red sandstone pile on the River Eamont, two miles south-east of Penrith, was the last resting place of the legendary Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset.

Caption For Swynnerton, The Village 1900

Swynnerton lies about three miles south of Trentham.

Caption For Leek, Market Place C1955

Swynnerton lies about three miles south of Trentham.

Caption For Midhurst, The King Edward Sanatorium 1907

The ladies gardening are patients in the King Edward Sanatorium, which is situated on Great Common about two miles north of Midhurst.

Caption For Nottingham, Landing Stages, Turney's Quay 1893

Lady Bay Bridge, half a mile downstream, was built by the Midland Railway Company in 1878 to carry their line to Melton.

Caption For Lands End, Longships Lighthouse 1893

A little over a mile from shore, this imposing granite tower, 62 feet in height, rises out of a cauldron of furious waves. It was originally built in 1795. The one seen here was built in 1873.

Caption For Tenby, Fishwives 1890

Note the basket of shrimps, the hats and scarves of their traditional dress and the larger basket one lady has on her back.

Caption For Sutton On Sea, The Beach 1890

Eight miles further north along the coast is Sutton on Sea, another seaside resort somewhat overshadowed by Mablethorpe, the two linked by caravan sites.

Caption For Sutton On Sea, The Beach 1890

Eight miles further north along the coast is Sutton on Sea, another seaside resort somewhat overshadowed by Mablethorpe, the two linked by caravan sites.

Caption For Bishopstoke, C1965

There were two inns in Riverside, the Anchor, still a prominent feature although the front has been reconstructed, and the Anglers, affectionately known to locals as the Annie Miles, the name of the lady

Caption For Thornton Dale, Beck Isle Cottage C1965

Thornton Dale lies 2 miles east of Pickering. This much-photographed cottage stands alongside the beck, in which trout can still be seen. In the village are Lady Lumley's Almshouses.

Caption For Gosforth, High Street 1956

Though only a couple of miles to the north of Newcastle, Gosforth had a character and identity of its own.

Caption For Wisbech, The Market Place 1929

Although it is ten miles from the sea on what is now an artificial River Nene, Wisbech maintains its long tradition as a sea port.

Caption For Rothley, Woodgate C1965

Rothley lies some five miles to the north of Leicester, and to the west of the busy A6.

Caption For Rothley, Woodgate C1965

Rothley lies some five miles to the north of Leicester, and to the west of the busy A6.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Pinhay 1922

This mansion on Lyme's western cliffs, a mile beyond Ware, was the far point on Jane Austen's walk from Dorset into Devon in 1804.

Caption For Littleham, Cottages 1890

Here is the tomb of Lady Nelson, perhaps the most famous of the many visitors who came to Exmouth and decided to stay.

Caption For Worcester, High Street 1931

Summer sunshine has brought out the flowery frocks, but the ladies will still not venture out without their hats.