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Memories

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Valence Park

During the 1940's my Mother worked as a part time Park Keeper at Valence Park, I and my older sister spent many hours in the park, it was the safest place to be during an air raid, I remember the doodle bug hitting the houses in ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham in 1944 by Terry Mayo

Growing Up In The War Years In Prees & Whitchurch

Although I was born in Whitchurch [Bark Hill], we moved to Prees soon after. However, I was sent to stay with my grandmother most weekends and for a period I was sent to the Wesleyan school. My ...Read more

A memory of Whitchurch in 1940 by Jean Mary Copnall

Bombing Of Morland Avenue

Written by my mother when she was 70. She lived in Swaisland Road I think one of the things you would have noticed was the number of barrage balloons all around, high in the sky. The first sound of guns which we heard was ...Read more

A memory of Dartford in 1945

My Grandparent's Home

I received  information from my cousin Leslie about this photo. Now that I have found it I am delighted. My grandparents were Thomas Benjamin Fairminer (1881-1954) who married Louisa Florence Smith (1880 - 1944). They ...Read more

A memory of Frimley Green by Joyce Hunt

St Mark's School In The 1960s

I too have wonderful memories of going to St Mark's, the teachers I remember are Mr Freemantle, Mrs Carmichael, Miss Holmes, Miss Catherine and Mr Legg.  The headmistress at the time was Miss Bowley, who everyone was ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham by Yvonne Harris

Abridge In The 1950's

I moved to Abridge in 1950 when I was ten years old. My parents bought the white cottage on the London Road, which had a wooden building next to it. This very soon became The Poplar Cafe, my mother’s dream of riches! I attended ...Read more

A memory of Abridge in 1955 by Helena Rogers

Dr Barnardos

I was one of the children at the home from 1950 to 1952 and remember Mrs Gunn the matron. It was a beautiful house with lovely gardens. We had quilts on our beds and every night I would go round the room and pick up all the teddies that ...Read more

A memory of Westerham in 1950 by Margaret Cadger

Mulben Station 1901 1909

My grandfather, Robert Urquhart, was a Signalman/ Porter, employed by the Highland Railway. He had served at Forres and Elgin before transferring to Mulben, about 1901. Robert (Bob) and wife Margaret (Maggie) already had three ...Read more

A memory of Mulben in 1900 by R Urquhart

The Southam Family

My great-grandfather William Southam was born in 1829 in Catesby in Northamptonshire. He married Eliza Green, born Wormleighton, Warks. They lived in Ladbroke, Warks, in a cottage next to the School House that still exists but is ...Read more

A memory of Ladbroke in 1870 by Patricia Butler

Pit Village In My Youth

My name is Ken Orton and I lived in Thornley from 1947 until 1974, the year I married. I was born in Shadforth but my parents moved from there to Thornley when I was about one month old. We lived at 72, Thornlaw North until ...Read more

A memory of Thornley by Kenneth Orton

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Captions

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Caption For Cranborne, The Square 1954

Its old manor house was a temporary refuge for Charles I at the height of the Civil War, and the parish church stands on the site of an important Saxon monastery.

Caption For Ashington, Milburn Road C1955

Before the area was opened up for coal mining Ashington was but a farm; it was the Ashington Coal Co who developed the town, building 300 houses for pitmen and their families.

Caption For Cheriton, St Martin's Church 1903

Modern housing now occupies most of the area between the church and the photographer, and the rural aspect is much diminished.

Caption For Pwllheli, The Turnpike 1921

In the days of horse-drawn coaches, this quiet lane would have seen considerable traffic.

Caption For Broad Hinton, The Post Office C1945

These cottages are now called Marloes and Gable House.

Caption For Holybourne, The Village 1898

The village also had a butcher, another grocer, two boot makes, an undertaker, a plumber, two carpenters, a market gardener and bee keeper and an insurance agent, as well as the three public houses.

Caption For Chigwell Row, Jubilee House, Girl Guides House C1965

This hut's name, Jubilee House, dates it to about 1935, the Jubilee of George V.

Caption For Long Sutton, Village 1904

The house on the left is the residence of the headmaster of the adjoining school, opposite the church.

Caption For Odiham, The Bury 2004

In the distance, glimpsed on the right on the corner of King Street, is the former forge, now a private house. Opposite, the Oast Garage opened in the mid 1950s.

Caption For Fleet, Reading Road 1903

The house on the right is the Beacon, one of the more substantial residences in Victorian and Edwardian Fleet.

Caption For East Budleigh, Main Street 1906

The unusual house on the left was demolished soon after this photograph was taken.

Caption For Ottery St Mary, Stocks In Churchyard 1922

The original wooden stocks are now very fragile, and are protected by the later housing we see here. To the left is the stone monument commemorating Queen Victoria's

Caption For Newquay, The Gannel 1925

Houses have been built at Pentire on prime sites overlooking the Gannel.

Caption For Finchingfield, Vicarage Lane C1960

The house in the centre, Cabbaches, proclaims the date 1390 on a plaque near its front door.

Caption For Thaxted, The Guildhall 1951

The Guildhall`s roof caught alight, and several houses in Fishmarket Street (left) were destroyed and never rebuilt. Fishmarket Street was Thaxted`s medieval market place.

Caption For Corby, Beanfield Avenue Shopping Centre C1965

Like many other estates in Corby, Beanfield was provided with a neighbourhood shopping centre and an adjacent public house in the centre of the estate.

Caption For Bakewell, The Bridge C1955

The riverside path on the left has now been metalled, and houses have been built to the left, but little else has changed.

Caption For Dutton, The Village C1960

Dutton post office, on the left, has gone, and been replaced by a new housing estate.

Caption For Wilmcote, The Green And Swan Guest House C1955

With all those pilgrims coming to visit what they thought was Mary Arden`s house, it was obviously necessary for Wilmcote to provide refreshments and accommodation, and The Swan did just

Caption For Allerford, Corner 1923

Behind is Cross Lane House, which was a working farm until 1968 and is now run as a restaurant and hotel.

Caption For Nottingham, Bridlesmith Gate C1950

On the left at the corner of Pepper Street is Lloyd's Coffee House, famous for its cakes and pastries.

Caption For Laindon, Wash Road C1955

Wash Road was a road of many farms: Watch-House, Mundell's, Petchey's, Benson's, Puckle's, Sellers, and Laindonponds.

Caption For Wells Next The Sea, Staithe Street 1950

This is a narrow street of 18th- and 19th-century houses leading down to the harbour.

Caption For Penrith, Lowther Castle 1894

This is not so much a castle, more a country house, built for the first Earl of Lonsdale by Sir Robert Smirke in 1806-11.