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A Ramble In The Dunsford Nature Reserve And Lunch In The Royal Oak

Today I joined a group of friends on an organized ramble through the Dunsford nature reserve run by the Devon Wildlife Trust. My friends are all dancers and musicians with Heather ...Read more

A memory of Dunsford in 2010 by John Howard Norfolk

My Family

My father's grandfather Mark Gadd Lowman was the landlord of the Railway Hotel now Culm Valley pub in 1917 which stood to the right of these crossroads. Mr Evans the station master used to let my dad, Frank Wheller, open the gates for ...Read more

A memory of Culmstock in 1920 by Suzie Wheller

Cedar Grange, Caterham Valley

I am fairly sure that this is where my grandmother - Julia Millie Crocker, grandfather William Crocker - and father Horace George Crocker b 1915 lived from about 1916 to at least 1920. Recently bought my ggrandmothers ...Read more

A memory of Caterham by Julia Crocker

My Life In Seaton

1943! The year I was born, where I lived and was brought up at my grandparents' shop, 'S W Pearce & Son'. I went to school in Downderry and Antony, then later Liskeard Grammer. On leaving school, I worked in the family ...Read more

A memory of Seaton in 1943 by Mike Pearce

“Play Up, Play Up, And Play The Game!”

My memory bank has been activated by the contributed items about Hugh Bell Central School, though my recollections of Hugh Bell are older than those published on this website. My years at Hugh Bell were 1938 to ...Read more

A memory of Middlesbrough in 1940 by Harry Killick

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

The Railway

I was born in 1941 in Cefn Coed House, Pentwyn, Upper Cwmtwrch. The house I was brought up in was one of five my grandfather, Richard Lougher, had built for his chiidren. At that time there was a road, a railway, and the River ...Read more

A memory of Upper Killay in 1940 by David Lougher

Shows In Happy Valley

This photo of Happy Valley brings back many memories! Great Shows with Alex Munro (actress Janet Munro's father). Janet was married to actor Ian Hendry. Great times, comedy, songs, dancing, talent shows. Pay for seating ...Read more

A memory of Llandudno in 1961 by Sue Oliver

Memories Of The Close Primrose

My father built a caravan just after the war, we took it to Primrose Valley in 1946 and sited it in The Close after negotiating the rent with Mr Smart who was the manager, also the same family as the shop owner. ...Read more

A memory of Primrose Valley in 1940 by David Winn

Hillside Standon

My parents (Harold and Peggy Warden) bought Hillside (which was the miller's house, the mill fell down after the First World War) and moved my sister (Rosemary) and I from Surrey in April 1951, I was then 7 years old. Later that ...Read more

A memory of Standon in 1951 by Richard Warden

Captions

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Caption For Great Harwood, The Roman Catholic Church 1898

Great Harwood lies to the north of Accrington, and commands a lovely part of the Hyndburn Valley.

Caption For Stocksbridge, From The Clock Tower C1955

A retired steelman looks across the industrial landscape of Stocksbridge, the steel-making town in the valley of the River Don between Sheffield and Penistone, on the edge of the Pennine moors.

Caption For Borrowdale, The Hotel C1870

The Borrowdale Hotel is in one of the wildest valleys of Lakeland, and only the hardiest of early tourists made their way this deeply into the dale.

Caption For Sheffield, Rivelin Valley C1955

In 1899 the council took the decision to acquire the Rivelin Valley and made a number of purchases of land over the coming years.

Caption For Bishopsbourne, Church 1903

Bishopsbourne is next to the Nailbourne, which runs along the Elham Valley eventually to become the Little Stour.

Caption For Matlock Moor, 1892

This view from the west shows John Smedley's massive Hydro on the opposite side of the valley, which brought spa town prosperity to the town after its erection in 1853.

Caption For Bamford, The Reservoir, Ladybower C1960

The Ladybower Reservoir, the last in the series of three which flooded the Upper Derwent Valley, was built to provide water for Sheffield and the East Midlands.

Caption For Seaton, The Sands 1920

The valley of the River Seaton runs inland from the beach to Hessenford.

Caption For Cranham, The Village C1965

Cranham has not suffered too much at the hands of unsympathetic development over the years, partly because it is situated in a steep valley and surrounded by dense woodland.

Caption For Kingsbury, The Boating Pool C1955

What is now called Kingsbury Water Park contains 30 pools like this, set in 600 acres of the Tame Valley.

Caption For Brighton, Old Steine 1902

The Old Steine (pronounced 'steen') is the traditional centre of Brighton - in earlier times it was a broad grassy valley where fishermen dried their nets.

Caption For Litton Mill, The Mill C1955

This early cotton mill in the valley of the River Wye was the scene, if the propaganda is to be believed, of some of the worst horrors of the exploitation of child labour in the 19th century.

Caption For Bingley, Boating On The Aire 1923

The River Aire cuts a winding course through broad pastures, stony valleys and bustling industrial areas on its way to join the Ouse and the open sea at Asselby Island.

Caption For Sabden, Old Bull Bridge C1955

Thought to have been used since the Bronze Age, the track through the valley was one of several routes followed by packhorse drivers, who carried goods across the moorland hills between Lancashire

Caption For Honistor Crag, 1889

The Gatesgarthdale Beck flows through the valley. To the left can be seen the workings of the Honister Slate Quarry, which produced some of the finest-quality green slate roofing and walling.

Caption For West Stockwith, Basin, The Lock 1958

The 'Trent Valley Way' long-distance footpath stretches from here to beyond Nottingham.

Caption For Lincoln, School Of Art 1890

Here Broadgate starts to climb out of the valley. Whites Mineral Waters was rebuilt in 1994 as a county library, but the battlemented and towered former Drill Hall of 1890 survives.

Caption For Warminster, High Street From St Lawrence's C1965

Warminster, on the A36 at the head of the Wylye valley, was an important market town and communication centre.

Caption For Malton, Market Place 1959

Malton stands at the junction of several roads above the Derwent Valley south of the North York Moors, and has been an important market centre since the Middle Ages.

Caption For Lostwithiel, On The Road To Restormel House 1906

Motorists drive this way today to visit the shell keep of the medieval castle standing high above the Fowey valley.

Caption For The Wrekin, The Forest Glen 1895

It is said that two giants were digging in the area to form the valley of the River Severn, and the Wrekin was formed from all the spoil they dug out.

Caption For Stourpaine, The Weir Over The River Stour C1960

There were several dramatic floods in the valley of the Stour in the last half of the 20th century, though its waters seem calm and restrained in this photograph.

Caption For Morland, The Village 1893

A local character lounges on a wall on the left in the charming and unspoilt village of Morland, in the Eden Valley. A

Caption For Droxford, The Mill C1960

Izaak Walton fished here in the Meon, reflecting that the valley 'exceeds all England for swift, shallow, clear, pleasant brooks and store of trout'.