Places

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Glades End, Surf Crescent

Eastchurch cliffs My parents bought a plot of land on the Eastchurch cliffs in the 1940s and my father designed and had built our bungalow called Glades End in Surf Crescent. At this time, there were very few buildings on ...Read more

A memory of Eastchurch in 1953 by Susan Copeman

The Council Houses

i moved with my mother two sisters and brother to esh winning in 1956 I think. We had a terraced house in Evenwood Road where my step grandmother Ethel Galley also lived. My mother managed to get a three bedroom council house ...Read more

A memory of Esh Winning in 1956 by Jean Berry

Baildon Bank

Late 50's. As a kid I used to run wild with my dog Spot on Baildon Bank, Baildon Green and through the Knoll Wood, mainly during the long light summer evenings (but really just when ever I could) I used to trail up through Milner ...Read more

A memory of Baildon in 1956 by John Shooter

Old Days

I met my wife who lived in huberton a little village about a mile up the lane from sowerby, back in 1970 . We married and lived at Dean lane paying 10/6d a week for a back to back one up and one down where my son came into the world . I ...Read more

A memory of Sowerby by Frank Thomas

Happy Times At Holcombe Devon

My Gran and Grandpa  had a cottage in Holcombe Village "shrimp Cottage" at the top of the hill. This cottage was later left to me, but I sold it in the 60s during the slump!!! I have some wonderful ...Read more

A memory of Holcombe in 1958 by Jill Butcher

Return To Aveley With Glenda

Hello Glenda, my dear. I remember that name - Lighten. Where is Eastern Ave? Is it the road where Trevor Johnson and David Warren lived? Michael Cox there too. Remember him? Now I remember our dads - good mates - working ...Read more

A memory of Aveley in 1940 by Colin Newberry

The Place Where I Was Born

I was Born in Lon Gefn Bodedern and started school in the Village when I was 4 yrs old ,I have memories of the Head Master Mr Jones and his two daughters the youngest being Guinivere ? I have many happy memeories of the ...Read more

A memory of Bodedern in 1949

Great Times Playing In The Fields.

I was born in Greenford on 1st Oct 1943 (25 Greenway Gardens) We were bombed out & were evacuated to various places. It must have been after the war we moved to 7 Laughton Rd in Northolt. We didn't live there ...Read more

A memory of Northolt in 1946 by Pauline Daly

Down The Slide And Off The Diving Boards

I was a grateful and keen swimmer as a child at the village. It was a delight to go and spend long summer days at Martins pool. I taught myself to swim dive and nearly drown. Many of my friends ...Read more

A memory of Waltham St Lawrence in 1957 by Janet King

Walking To School

I used to walk past hilltop on the way to the old school and still can remember that old musty spell of the old shop still to this day, with the old petrol pump out side....My name then was Linda Zalesny and used to live at no 32 ...Read more

A memory of Loxwood by Lyn Hammond

Captions

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Caption For Redhill, The Earlswood Lakes C1950

Moving west, the route passes through Merstham, a village of two parts: the older part lies west of the railway, and to its east is a large former London County Council housing estate of the 1950s

Caption For Moorsholm, High Street C1960

Moorsholm's one village shop is shown here on the right. The High Street becomes Freebrough Road and leads out on to the

Caption For Charlwood, Recreation Ground 1904

Back at the Victorian eastern end of the village, the photographer looks north-east across the Recreation Ground, where mothers and children are enjoying the summer afternoon.

Caption For Ab Kettleby, St James' Church C1955

On the exposed Wolds, the ironstone church is situated on the south side of the village street, away from the main A606 Nottingham to Stamford road.

Caption For Burgh Le Marsh, High Street C1965

Here we see yet another of the beautiful Lincolnshire windmills; this one was built in 1813. Again it is in the Lincolnshire style, with an ogee cap and five sails.

Caption For Ab Kettleby, St James' Church C1955

On the exposed Wolds, the ironstone church is situated on the south side of the village street, away from the main A606 Nottingham to Stamford road.

Caption For Llanon, St Bridget's Church C1955

The church at Llanon is dedicated to St Bridget, an Irish saint, whereas the village is named after Non, the mother of St David.

Caption For Buckden, High Street 1906

Here we see two fine old coaching inns - the Lion, on the left, dating back to 1500, and the 18th-century George Hotel on the right.

Caption For Ashtead, Woodfield House C1900

This building on Ashtead Common, owned by Frederick Felton, served as the village bakery around the turn of the century, but also formed a focus for the hordes of London day and Sunday school children

Caption For Goathland, Beck Hole C1960

Some distance away from the village is charming Beck Hole, today a magnet for tourists in search of locations from the TV series Heartbeat.

Caption For Greatham, High Street C1955

As well as the Smiths Arms again visible in the centre distance, we can also see two more public houses here - the Hope and Anchor, the long white building on the right, and the Bull and Dog immediately

Caption For Windmill Hill, Posey Green C1955

The road widens to form Posey Green, with the 1930s Horseshoe Inn on the right out of camera shot; it is a rambling mix of local sandstone and timber-framing with a huge horseshoe-

Caption For Shalford, The Village C1955

Our third tour starts in Shalford, in effect a suburb of Guildford on the east side of the River Wey where the Tillingbourne meets it.

Caption For Bothenhampton, The Village 1904

Another of the surrounding parishes into which Bridport borough expanded, Bothenhampton lies to the south-east, with a deep-cut village street which has left a dense cluster of terraces standing on

Caption For Bottesford, Market Street C1955

On the A52 between Nottingham and Grantham, Bottesford is the most northerly settlement in the county.

Caption For Albury, The Village C1960

This chapter's tour finishes with an architectural flourish in Albury, a village still blighted by the A25.

Caption For Chailey Green, The Village C1965

Chailey (thought to mean `clearing in the gorse`) is a village that straddles the A272.

Caption For Pinner, High Street C1955

Pinora, recorded in the Feet of Fines in 1232, is a village of considerable beauty and well-manicured charm.

Caption For Wareside, The White Horse C1955

So often forgotten by travellers through Hertfordshire, Wareside is one of the county's prettiest villages.

Caption For Billingshurst, Church Causeway 1912

St Mary's church, built on a mound with access to the churchyard via a causeway, is shown in the photograph, and has Roman bricks in the walls.

Caption For Glynde, The Square C1955

Glynde is most famous for its internationaly renowned opera house built in the grounds of Glyndbourne. In this view of the village the old building on the left is timber-framed with a false façade.

Caption For North Nibley, The Tyndale Monument 1897

Two carefully-posed groups of young girls are a feature of this photograph of the village of North Nibley, with the 111 foot- high memorial tower to the martyr William Tyndale on the knoll

Caption For Burwash, The Village 1889

Flimwell is centred on a crossroads near the Kent border. Its church, St Augustine's, was built in 1873.

Caption For Caldy, The Village C1955

Pevsner in The Buildings of England says of Caldy: 'Cheshire is something of a Surrey of the North, but Surrey has nothing to compare with this'.