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Old Lewisham Central Library

In the early 1950s I worked at the Central Library, near St Mary's Church. My most vivid memories are the long working hours (difficult for the social life of a young girl) and having to manually count the 'issue' before we ...Read more

A memory of Lewisham by rita

Rowley Bristow Hospital

This hospital played a big part in my childhood. My sister spent several weeks there after suffering a severe cut to her knee in the 1960s, her godmother worked there as a physiotherapist, and not long before it closed, my ...Read more

A memory of West Byfleet by Julia Edwards

Breaking In A Yearling

A further photo of my father Charlie King breaking in a yearling.

A memory of Newmarket by buttercup696

School Days And Beyond

Having just stumbled on this website I felt compelled to add my recollections of living in Fenham in Cheeseburn Gardens from circa 1961 to 1980. I lived 2 streets down the hill from the first contributor who lived in Ovington ...Read more

A memory of Fenham by keith.hindson

Growing Up In Buckhurst Hill 60's 70's

I used to live in The Meadway, and went to St Johns infants School-a few memories of playing on 'the boxes' at play/lunchtime. These were actually old beer crates, and long before health and safety spoiled ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill by Richard Morgan

My Memories Of Melworking At Leybourne Grange Hospital

Hi yes I remember my time at the hospital well,I worked in the play therapy from 1971 to 1976. I loved working at the hospital and have many happy memories. I worked as a night nurse for two ...Read more

A memory of West Malling by wendycatt22

My Childhood In Wolverhampton 1946 1955

I played in the standing corn stooks behind our house, had my first pony/horse ride at Dixon's farm where my horse went berserk in a potato field, so I was put onto and stayed on a horse lead. I flew my ...Read more

A memory of Wolverhampton by Alan Hickman

Fairdene School

I was a pupil at Fairdene School from 1960-1965. I had lived in New York until I was 6, so being a girl with a Yankee accent in a school for young ladies was quite a challenge! The two female headmistresses, Miss Turner and Miss Delmege ...Read more

A memory of Chipstead by familylock

Happy Days Growing Up In Barnes

The picture of Church Road where it ran parallel with The Crescent with all those familiar shops brings memories flooding back. I started life at 33 Glebe Road in 1944 and spent 5 happy years there before moving to Madrid ...Read more

A memory of Barnes by Andrew Taft

Doon The Den

I stayed in Denhead and used to play down the den almost every day. We used to go to school via the gap either next to Ciff Bells house or the gap next to smiths shop. We used to go along the cliffs behind the scrappiest then straight ...Read more

A memory of Kennoway by John Walker

Captions

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Caption For Braunston, High Street C1950

Some of the houses are built of brick, some of stone. The van parked on the left of the street is advertising Mackeson's stout.

Caption For Wellingborough, River Nene And Victoria Mills C1965

These vast buildings, the brick ones in part dated 1886, are well known landmarks when approaching Wellingborough from the south.

Caption For Horsmonden, The Village 1903

Bricks were made here in Victorian times, and there were several flour mills.

Caption For Bildeston, Duke Street C1955

At the end is Red House, a Tudor farmhouse with a brick front of c1715. The school playground is on the right.

Caption For Bildeston, Market Square C1965

The clock tower was built of red and white brick in 1864. It was renovated in 1987, and has seating on the ground floor. Chandler's ironmonger's shop to the left has closed.

Caption For Rye, The Windmill 1912

The brick and white weatherboarded smock mill still stands in Mill Lane on the banks of the River Tillingham, though it is now converted for use as a guest house.

Caption For Stoneleigh, Birmingham Road C1960

The houses in this scene are typical of Stoneleigh, which retains a pleasant mixture of brick, timber and local red sandstone.

Caption For Banbury, High Street C1955

Plaster, timber, brick and stone have all been employed to provide an interesting variety. The twin-gabled Old Wine House, near right, is dated 1537.

Caption For Cropredy, Station Road C1955

We can almost feel the peace and tranquillity typified by a road deserted apart from a solitary horse-drawn delivery cart, standing near an attractive row of brick-built thatched cottages.

Caption For Marton In Cleveland, Stokesley Road C1965

On the left is the end of a long and attractive terrace of Victorian brick houses, which still survives.

Caption For Melton, The Street C1965

The doors and windows have been altered on the next pair of cottages, whilst the white Rosemary Cottage and the brick gable end beyond remain unchanged.

Caption For Eastbourne, Holywell Retreat 1910

It is here that the sea can be reached, albeit by a steep path, in a break in the cliffs enlarged by quarrying.

Caption For Ilfracombe, From Capstone Hill C1875

The imposing yellow brick Gothic Revival building, with 210 rooms and a 1,000ft terrace, put Ilfracombe in the first rank of resorts when it was opened on 15 May 1867.

Caption For Odiham, High Street C1955

Further on, the three-storey brick building has been a draper's shop for some 170 years; its name Commerce House records that this was where Odiham's first bank opened in 1806.

Caption For Billericay, Chapel Street C1965

The substantial building behind the trees is Billericay church, which was rebuilt in 1780, though retaining its fine 15th-century brick tower.

Caption For Tiptree, Messing Maypole Mill C1955

In 1775 a brick tower-mill was built near the crossroads by John Matchett, a Colchester millwright.

Caption For Reading, Prospect Park 1912

The house, originally a brick one of 1759, was extended and given the Regency stucco villa treatment in the early 19th century.

Caption For Reading, Broad Street 1913

Beyond the bank with its pyramid-roofed tower are the elegant terra cotta and brick buildings flanking the entrance to Queen Victoria Street.

Caption For Willingham, The Mill C1955

Cattell's Mill is a black-tarred weatherboarded smock windmill on an octagonal single-storey brick base.

Caption For Torcross, The Sands 1896

During a storm in the winter of 1978-9, waves were breaking over the tops of the houses.

Caption For Towcester, The Pickwick Restaurant C1960

Watling Street has a good range of buildings, mostly dated 18th and 19th century, built in a mix of materials - stone, brick and render.

Caption For Swanbridge, The Slipway C1950

The slipway was privately owned, but with perhaps too little investment the reinforced concrete sections had begun to deteriorate and break up, with the metal rods exposed and rusting.

Caption For Horley, Constitutional Club 1905

The building on the left was the Constitutional Club; it was built in a Bedford Park Domestic Revival style around 1890 with steep tiled roofs and much use of brick banding.

Caption For Beccles, Market Place 1894

The tall brick building was Thomas Self, greengrocer and market gardener; to the left was Clement Poll, butcher.