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"Kiss Me, Hardy"

I've only been onboard the Victory once. It was enough to profoundly strike my imagination. I stood where Nelson fell ! It brings tears to my eyes to think of it now as I write. She is an incredible vessel. You can almost hear the ...Read more

A memory of Portsmouth in 1955 by Dylan Rivis

Little Sutton In 1950s And 1960s

What memories your comments conjure.  How I loved the 'rec'  as a child.  We started on the 'baby swings' and progressed to the 'big swings' and see-saw and round-a-bout.  The old shelter there was a favourite ...Read more

A memory of Little Sutton in 1960 by Janet Lee

Evacuee During World War 2

I was privately evacuated to Croxton Kerrial with my sister in 1940, we were billeted in a cottage named Woodbine Cottage, this was next to the Bakery. We attended the village school, I still remember some of the ...Read more

A memory of Croxton Kerrial in 1940 by Keneth Harris

Newmarket Hospital

I worked in racing stables in Exeter Road. In the spring of 1960 I was injured when a  yearling I was exercising suddenly reared and I 'went out the back door', narrowly missing the edge of the pavement, but hitting my unprotected ...Read more

A memory of Newmarket in 1960 by Eunice Chambers

Best Guinness In Town!

The little white building in the middle is the Lamb & Flag. I spent many a happy lunchtime & evening there in the '80's. It was a Marstons pub, run then by Don & Sheila Jones, an Irish couple who I think had been ...Read more

A memory of Worcester by bru.enzer

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

Bramcote Children's Hospital

I was placed in Bramcote 1983 at the age of 9 for a year. I liked it a bit but only as I was getting physically abused by my step mum at home daily,it was a break from the beatings for a week,we would all go ...Read more

A memory of Bramcote by Georgina Brack

Captions

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Caption For Holton, The Mill C1960

The tarred brick roundhouse and fantail are Victorian; the roundhouse has two storeys, one of which is below ground level. The machinery and stones were removed c1900.

Caption For Doddington, Church 1906

Immediately north-east of the Hall is St Peter's Church, almost entirely rebuilt in the 1770s by Thomas Lumby in partly scholarly Gothic, although a cheery Strawberry Hill Gothick breaks out here

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 Torcross, The Sands 1896

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

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 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 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 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 Willingham, The Mill C1955

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

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 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 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 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 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 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 Liverpool, Ss Adriatic 1890

Laid up at Birkenhead in 1890, she was taken to Preston for breaking up in 1899.

Caption For Beccles, Market Place 1894

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