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A Tiny Hamlet Lost In Time

The year was 1970. Myself and a friend were typical 15 year old youths of the time, well, typical for our type of neighborhood. We had long hair, pierced ears, denim jeans and jackets and owned but a couple of shillings ...Read more

A memory of Trelights in 1970 by Rod Templar

Two Of My Uncles Memorailzed On Obelisk At Wooburn Green

My grandfather was GM of Glory Mill in the early 1900s. My father and his siblings were raised in a house located on the grounds. There were four brothers and all served in the British ...Read more

A memory of Wooburn Green in 1920 by Jack Eccles

Horse & Groom

Not sure but my great grandad may have owned/run this inn back then

A memory of Merrow in 1910 by j.ketchell

My Fathers Birthplace.

My father Cornelius Henry Johns (Naily to everyone who knew him) was born in the little Round House on the left of the photo. He was the youngest of a large family, and there were 11 people living there in 1899. They then moved to ...Read more

A memory of Veryan in 1890 by Donald Johns

My Mothers Was Evacuated To Penny Bridge During Ww2

My mother Iris Woods was evacuated to Penny Bridge during WW2. She first stayed at Penny Bridge House with the Stanley sisters - Franny & Alice? She then was moved to Mrytle Cottage to ...Read more

A memory of Penny Bridge in 1940 by Rebecca Woods

Ww2 Pontllanfraith

My paternal grandfather, Joseph Cook, lived at No 24 Newbridge Road, Pontllanfraith and to avoid the bombing where we lived in South London, we stayed in his house. I was too young for school, but my brothers, Joe and Pat ...Read more

A memory of Pontllanfraith in 1944 by Ken Cook

Flimby

I cannot remember a time where Flimby did not feature in my life. My father was born on Ryehill Road, and my grandfather was born and bred in Flimby. It once was a pit village and my grandfather John Watters was an engineer, his father was the ...Read more

A memory of Flimby by Sharon Swallow

Childhood Memories

I have very happy memories of a childhood spent in Mynydd Isa. I was only there for 4 years ('72 - '76) but I crammed a lot of adventures into that time! My friend Audra and I used to go cycling down Rose Lane and look a the ...Read more

A memory of Mynydd Isa in 1973 by Jayne Storer

Escrick Park Gardens Market Gardens 1950 1966

My aunt and uncle - Mr and Mrs George Pratt - used to manage the market gardens in Escrick. We had many happy holidays there, and I remember the peaches and apricots growing up the wall, rows and rows of ...Read more

A memory of Escrick in 1950 by First Name Last Name

The Passing Of A Grand Old Theatre

The old Grand Theatre at Byker, Newcastle upon Tyne was one of well over 65 theatres and cinemas in the city in the heyday of entertainment. Kenneth More in repertory, Winifred Atwell playing her first ...Read more

A memory of Newcastle upon Tyne by David Hinge

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Captions

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Caption For East Grinstead, London Road And Catholic Church 1925

The ivy-clad house, named the Hollies, would be replaced by more shops in 1928.

Caption For Sandsend, East Row 1925

These old red-roofed houses on East Row are the first we reach if we are coming from Whitby.

Caption For Belfast, Northern Parliament House Stormont 1936

It housed the Northern Irish Parliament until 1972.

Caption For Castle Donington, Bondgate C1955

We can still appreciate in these photographs the quality of houses and shops, before the destructive work of the modern window salesman spread like a rash over the country.

Caption For Rothley, Woodgate 1951

Here we see the mundane suburban face of the village, which has grown around a core of rather special later medieval houses and the Rothley Temple, built on Knights Templar land in c1315.

Caption For Stokes Bay, The Beach 1898

Having travelled by train from London to Gosport, it was from here that Queen Victoria used to set sail for Osborne House, her beloved summer home on the Isle of Wight.

Caption For Winchester, The Brethren, St Cross Hospital 1906

The Hospital of St Cross was founded by Bishop Henry de Blois in 1136 and is the oldest almshouse in England, originally built to house, clothe and feed 'thirteen poor impotent men, so reduced in strength

Caption For East Wittering, Church Road Corner C1950

The Royal Oak public house sold Henty and Constable ales. An interesting range of cars and vans occupy the car park.

Caption For Middlesbrough, Linthorpe Road 1913

Originally, development along here had been for residential purposes, but as early as the 1860s some of the houses were being converted into retail premises.

Caption For Rye House, 1904

Rye House 1904 These are the public gardens behind the gatehouse, with its modern glass conservatories and colourful flowerbeds lined with benches.

Caption For Ayot St Lawrence, The Village C1955

winding lane, was captured from a point near the ruins of the old 14th-century church, which was partly demolished by Sir Lionel Lyde in the late 18th century because it marred his view from new Ayot House

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.

Caption For Nottingham, King Street C1950

The Rookeries were the alleyways packed with slum dwellings which were giving Nottingham such a bad reputation for housing.

Caption For Arkengarthdale, The C.B. Hotel C1960

The white-painted CB Hotel in remote Arkengarthdale recalls the initials of Charles Bathurst, the 19th-century lead mining master who owned the circular powder house of the CB Smelt Mill nearby.

Caption For Green Hammerton, Main Street C1960

Whitewashed houses and pantiled roofs characterise this photograph of the deserted Main Street of Green Hammerton, a small village in the Vale of York and on Roman Dere Street, just off the main A59 Harrogate

Caption For Rochester, College Gate And Cathedral 1908

Next door, the Gate House Tea Rooms boasts some lovely 16th-century linenfold wooden panelling.

Caption For West Lulworth, The Village 1904

Mill House (centre) has been converted into holiday accomodation.

Caption For Trowbridge, The Parade 1923

Notice the pitched paving in front of Parade House (left), where stones are embedded between 6in and 18in deep, a method used in the county.

Caption For Salisbury, High Street C1955

changing with the introduction of the ugly concrete street lamp post outside the timber- framed building that was Beach's bookshop.There is a striking coat of arms high up on the wall of Mitre House

Caption For Burton On Trent, High Street 1961

The parish church is dedicated to St Modwen, the founder of a 7th-century Christian settlement at Burton.The first monastic house in the county was founded at Burton, endowed by the Saxon thegn,

Caption For Ferrybridge, The Village C1955

One piece of history remains - the old Toll Bridge House in the centre distance.

Caption For London, Parliament Square And Big Ben C1965

His statue now stands at the far end of this path and facing the Houses of Parliament. The figure of the left is General Smuts.

Caption For Colchester, High Street 1892

church of St Nicholas and St Runwald.This replaced two older churches (St Runwalds and St Nicholas), but was itself demol- ished in 1955 and replaced by a parade of shops, known as St Nicholas House

Caption For Studley, The Old Castle C1960

The house sits in fields beside the River Arrow, away from the built-up part of Studley.