Maps

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Books

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Memories

4,713 memories found. Showing results 1,291 to 1,300.

Village Shop

My partner Tim and I have owned this shop since 1999. This has been a family busines for 12 years with our daughter Amanda helping us. This was originally the "paper shop" which is how many older resdents of the village still refer to ...Read more

A memory of Epsom in 2011 by Teresa Cass

Chideock School

I started school at the age of five following in the footsteps of my brother John and sister Pam and walking each day to school from Quarr Lane, sometimes we used the footpath starting at Frogmore farm and coming out above the ...Read more

A memory of Chideock in 1943 by Patricia Homewood

Evacuee

My memories of Kiddington are happy memories. I was evacuated there from 1940 until 1942 during the Second World War. I was billeted with Mr & Mrs Reynolds at upper Kiddington They were very kind and looked after me well. I was eight ...Read more

A memory of Kiddington in 1940 by William Dowler

Below Hambledon

I spent my early years playing and later working in the fields in the valley between Hambledon and Shillingstone hills. At one time I worked for Mr Harry Watts and later his daughter Jo. I can remember once Harry Watts and Mr ...Read more

A memory of Child Okeford in 1955 by David Moon

Threeways

I was born in a house called Threeways in the centre of the village. I think it used to be an Offficer's mess during the war and then became a Country Club long after we moved out. The building no longer exists and has been replaced by a ...Read more

A memory of Downderry in 1955

Sway In My Time

My family have lived in Sway all their lives. My father, Peter Veal and mother, Pam Veal my grandparents Jim and Ida Dukes. i now live in Ireland but still remember the the New Forest and all its changing seasons. I still have ...Read more

A memory of Sway in 1964 by Kevin Veal

Treasured Memories

My family moved to West Horndon from Millwall during the war, my nan and grandad already lived at 13 cadogan and we lived at 9, later to be changed to 29. I lived in the village for twenty four years, got married at St ...Read more

A memory of West Horndon in 1940 by Beryl Lloyd

Latest Residents

Purchased by the current residents in 1978. Sadly, decline in the village population resulted in closure of the Old Post Office in 1980 and a change in name to Is y llan. Aside from renovation the property remains unchanged.

A memory of Llangwm in 1978 by David Brown

Wyleboro Farm, Havering Atte Bower

Does anyone remember Wyleboro Farm in Havering atte Bower, owned by my grandmother Mrs Maggie Saward? She also owned the riding school near the Green with her sons John, Tom and my mother Nancy,and I ...Read more

A memory of Havering-atte-Bower in 1950 by Wendy Tait

School Days

I remember attending the village school opposite Holy Trinity Church of which I was a chior boy for a few years. We had a local football team made up of choristors - we were very good. I lived at the bottom of the village in New ...Read more

A memory of Long Itchington in 1950 by Roger Sheasby

Captions

5,033 captions found. Showing results 3,097 to 3,120.

Caption For Burton, The Village C1955

As with picture No B561032 (below), this is looking east along the village.

Caption For Polgooth, The Wesleyan Chapel C1955

There were few Cornish villages without a chapel; this one is typical of many, situated near the top end of old Polgooth.

Caption For Deddington, Market Place C1965

It is difficult to imagine that the village was once a prosperous agricultural centre. The ground floor, on the far side of the building, once housed old hand-operated fire engines.

Caption For Grasmere, Red Lion Square 1926

The Red Lion Hotel, on the right of the picture, gives its name to the square in the centre of the village, now dominated by traffic in a one-way system.The two cyclists meandering down the middle

Caption For Wraysbury, High Street C1955

Here we have a view of the church steeple from the opposite end of the village. The church has a Tudor pulpit. The house on the right was once an inn called the Perserverance.

Caption For Ampthill, Market Place C1955

In late morning sunshine, the boys of the village head for the newsagents, possibly to collect their wages for the daily delivery run.

Caption For Deeping St James, Church Street C1965

The village itself is a mix of stone and local brick, as in the terrace on the right.

Caption For St Mary Bourne, Post Office Stores C1955

Thatched cottages line the main street, and the village stores on the right has signs in the window for Brooke Bond Tea, as well as Kodak and Ilford photographic stock.

Caption For Abridge, The Village C1960

Here we have a quiet village scene, little changed by time. The weatherboarded building on the right has served as the post office for many years, and the white building on the left is the Blue Boar.

Caption For Bletchingley, Church Walk 1907

Running between the church and Nutfield Road, this narrow cobbled alley, with red tile-hung Tudor buildings approached by red brick steps, was once the High Street of the village.

Caption For Sherborne, C1960

The road from the village leads to Lodge Park, some two miles away from the spot photographed here.

Caption For Sutton Coldfield, The Parade C1949

In 1885 Solihull was described as a ‘very pleasant village, but a few miles distant’.

Caption For Carn Brea, The Monument 1891

They consist of possibly the oldest known Neolithic village in England, and are dated about 3700BC.

Caption For St Cleer, The Village 1890

This placid village hangs at the skirts of Bodmin moor, and is noted for its antiquities.

Caption For Eastleigh, Market Street C1955

Originally a village, Eastleigh expanded rapidly around Bishopstoke Junction after the London and South Western Railway Company's carriage works moved here in 1889-90, followed by the locomotive workshops

Caption For Grasmere, Red Lion Square 1926

The Red Lion Hotel, on the right of the picture, gives its name to the square in the centre of the village, now dominated by traffic in a one-way system.

Caption For Great Brington, Post Office 1922

The village Post Office on the right has a small sign attached to the wall which reads 'Post Office for money orders, savings bank, parcel post, telegraph, insurance and annuity business'.

Caption For Irchester, High Street C1955

The last building on the right was originally the village bakery and next to it, as seen in this picture, was an off-licence.

Caption For Fordington, St George's Church 1898

The church stands proudly above the village, which used to be totally separated from Dorchester.

Caption For Alton, The Ideal Cafe, Lower Village C1955

When W H N Nithersdale wrote his book on the Highlands of Staffordshire, he was impressed by the number of public houses in the village, all of which did a roaring trade during the summer months and at

Caption For Great Haywood, Essex Bridge C1955

We are looking towards the village from across the Trent. All the way across the bridge are pedestrian refuges built atop each of the bridge's triangular- section cutwaters.

Caption For Cranborne, The Square 1954

Once at the heart of King John's hunting ground of Cranborne Chase, the village of Cranborne is rich in history.

Caption For Grasmere, Red Lion Square 1926

The Red Lion Hotel, on the right of the picture, gives its name to the square in the centre of the village, now dominated by traffic in a one-way system.

Caption For Biddenden, The Village 1901

The village is still celebrated on Easter Monday as the home of the Maids of Biddenden, Eliza and Mary Chulkhurst, two Tudor Siamese twins joined at the shoulders and hips, who lived for thirty-four