Maps

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Memories

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Visiting Uncle Fred And Auntie Stina Ashfield.

Growing up in the late 40s and 50s, a highlight of my visits to relatives was the trip to Horseheath to see uncle Fred and Auntie Stina at the post-office. I was always drawn to the large greenhouse ...Read more

A memory of Horseheath in 1955 by Christopher Wright

What A Joy!

I am Pewsey born and bred and what a joy it is to discover a site where memories of our country's unique village life can be shared and stored for the future. So much to share about Pewsey life... I remember playing with all the children ...Read more

A memory of Pewsey in 1976 by Emma Miles

Visiting Friendly Germans

Who still alive remembers the several small bombs dropped on the right side of the mountain looking down the valley. The 2 larger ones dropped on the left side and the three bombs dropped in the village itself that ...Read more

A memory of Cwmfelinfach in 1940 by Thomas Bisgrove

A Message From Someone I Don't Know, And My Reply....

Although I want to come back and add more odds and ends (and I will do), I had a message from someone I don't know, and in my reply rambled a little. It might be of interest..... The message was: ...Read more

A memory of Maesteg in 1965 by Nick Davies

The Wills Family

Ambrose Wills, Inn Keeper and Farmer at the Ashberton Arms West Charleton, buried at the Church. His son George took on the pub and farm when the village was sold by the Marques of Northampton on the 22 of September 1919. ...Read more

A memory of West Charleton in 1900 by James Freeman

My First School

My very first memory is in 1934 when my parents, sister and I came to live in rooms over a private school in The Mount (from memory) near to a new Fire Station that had just been built. I was four years old and my mother was ...Read more

A memory of Chingford in 1930 by Alan Holden

Coles Blacksmiths And Village Hall

Village Hall - I remember Fri night film shows by a travelling projectionist that cost 9d. Sat mornings was a good time to watch Mr Cole shoeing horses next door. The building beyond the blacksmiths was Lands ...Read more

A memory of Stanwell in 1945 by Donald Mason

Childhood Freedom

My brother and I spent very important years in Theydon Bois. We were only there for 5 years but they were probably the most formative. It was a very simple village. There was the school, far too small for the many children born ...Read more

A memory of Theydon Bois in 1953 by Lesley Parry

The Old Post Office

My granddad, Charlie Davies, owned the post office and it was where my dad, Arfon Davies, was born. When my grandad died it was taken over by my Auntie Nellie, my dad's sister. My brothers, Gwyn, Iwan and Geraint came to the ...Read more

A memory of Cwm Penmachno in 1950 by Gareth Davies

Grandpa Farrar,

My wife, Florence May Wilkinson (nee Davies) stayed in Southowram circa 1940 with a Grandpa Farrar. He was an elderly gentleman, quite deaf, and he used to read aloud from his Bible – whilst Florence hid under the large table ...Read more

A memory of Southowram in 1940 by Douglas Barrett Wilkinson

Captions

5,033 captions found. Showing results 2,641 to 2,664.

Caption For Gamlingay, Church Street C1965

Further down the street was the village maltings.

Caption For Kingsdown, Upper Street 1918

The village still has a peaceful and quiet air about it, though the narrow streets can cause problems with traffic in the holiday season.

Caption For Bladon, Grove Road C1960

Bladon was once a sleepy little village, but Grove Road is a great deal busier today than it was in 1960.

Caption For Steeple Aston, C1955

The village has grown quite considerably since the mid 1950s.

Caption For Castle Cary, The Roundhouse C1965

Also known as the Blind House from its lack of windows, the Roundhouse was the village lock-up. Built in 1779, it sometimes held children playing truant from school.

Caption For Winchester, St Cross Village 1919

A stroll across the water meadows of the River Itchen brings the traveller to the village of St Cross, seen here just after the end of the First World War.

Caption For Scawby, Church Street C1960

If you think there is a rather large white gravestone in the church graveyard, you are wrong: it happens to be the village pump.

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Caption For Mitchell, C1960

The A30 through Mitchell became a bottleneck known to thousands of summer holiday makers; but now that it has been by-passed, we may be thankful that the village has returned to this

Caption For Slad, Steanbridge Lane 1910

When this photograph was taken, the village was an isolated rural community with most of its inhabitants engaged in agriculture.

Caption For Welburn, The Village C1965

Welburn was developed as an estate village in the late 19th century around the vast lands surrounding Castle Howard.

Caption For Blackmore, The Green C1960

Blackmore is a typically well kept Essex village. The war memorial lists the names of members of the armed forces who lost their lives, especially in the First World War.

Caption For Hope, Moorgate And Lose Hill 1920

It overlooks the village of Hope and the gabled house known as Moorgate (centre right), which now serves as a Countrywide (formerly Co-operative) Holidays Association guest house.

Caption For Taxal, Taxal Lodge School C1955

Taxal Lodge was a boarding school on the outskirts of the village. Note the single-storey extension and the fire escape ladder from the upper bedroom in the gable of the main building.

Caption For Porthoustock, From Point 1904

This tiny fishing village is reached by way of a steep path, and squats in a cove surrounded by rocky slopes. Coastal vessels docked here to take on stone from the quarries at St Keverne close by.

Caption For Buckden, The Village C1955

In this charming photograph, a collie sheepdog marshals a flock of white-nosed Swaledale sheep past the village green at Buckden.

Caption For Lowick Bridge, Red Lion Inn And Farm C1955

The village pub was, and often still is, the heart of the community. Whilst The Red Lion is still a pub, its appearance is changed—its porch is now a solid one.

Caption For Hope Under Dinmore, Arkwright's Almshouses C1960

The family were great benefactors to the village, hence the name of these almshouses. Notice the man working in his vegetable plot on the right of the picture.

Caption For Earls Barton, The Village C1955

Since the 1960s Earls Barton has doubled in size; now the new housing estates in the village attract commuters who travel daily to Northampton, Wellingborough and elsewhere.

Caption For Rockingham, Village C1960

The village general stores and post office once housed its own manual telephone exchange.

Caption For Gweek, Bridge Shop C1950

Livestock in a Cornish village is not unusual, but Gweek now has some rather unusual mammalian residents.

Caption For Coniston, From Church Tower 1906

The whitewashed cottages of the village cluster around the church where the Yewdale Beck enters to the western side of Coniston Water.

Caption For Woodchester, The Village C1960

Beyond the terraced streets of the village is Woodchester Mansion, set in a remote valley and keeping its secrets within an unfinished masterpiece of Victorian architecture; mysteries and

Caption For Sixpenny Handley, Frogmore Pond And Vicarage C1950

Carpenter and smallholder Alexander William ('Billy') Day (in the cart) played the double bass in the village band wihch was restarted in 1946.

Caption For Bisley, The Village C1955

This quaint village came under the jurisdiction of Woking up to recent times.