Maps

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Books

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Memories

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Early Memories

I lived just outside the village in a small army camp as my father was in the army. My most vivid memory is standing in the lunch line at the junior school and hearing that King George VI had died. The whisper started at the ...Read more

A memory of Chadwell St Mary in 1952

Edwardian Idyll

My mother, Eileen Keith, was born in Farncombe in 1908 and her brother Ben in 1912. She often spoke with pleasure of her childhood there, and of her teachers (Miss Alexander and Miss Kate Gresham) and the vicar, Canon Bowring. She ...Read more

A memory of Farncombe in 1910 by Katharine Martin

School Holidays In Wartime Shutford Nr Banbury Oxon

My earliest memories of Shutford date back to around 1944, when as an eleven year old schoolboy I spent summer holidays with my grandfather Fred Turner (son of plush weaver Amos Turner), ...Read more

A memory of Shutford in 1944 by Brian Grainge

St Hilary In The 1970s

I lived in the village in 1972 until 1980, everyone knew everyone's name and all the ladies of the house were known by 'Auntie', like 'Auntie Beryl' etc. It was a real village in those days and had lots ...Read more

A memory of St Hilary in 1972 by Robert Price

My Grandparents And Visits To Them

My grandparents William and Amelia Love lived in Ryall. My grandmother purchased the cottage they lived in on her marriage. They had three sons Wilfred, Howard and Edward. My father Howard died in 2007. I ...Read more

A memory of Ryall in 1957 by Pauline Love

Ancestry

East Witton's interest to me began as it was the birthplace of my grandfather and his parents resided in Wast Witton Without (i found this through the 1901 census), though I cannot get any further back in time. I worked in nearby Leyburn ...Read more

A memory of East Witton in 1890 by Dee Poulter

Grandad Dudley

My Grandma and Grandad lived in a tied cottage in Budby, and I spent many happy times there when I was a little girl. Grandad Dudley was a cabinet maker at Thoresby Hall, and I was given a lovely little music chair by Lord Manvers, but ...Read more

A memory of Budby in 1940 by Penny Bradford

First Love

Having lived at Downton from 1958, I grew up opposite Downton Holiday Camp. My father owned the builders next to the pub and I bought my first car at the garage 2 doors to the right. Somewhen in the mid 1960s  I met the new ...Read more

A memory of Downton in 1960 by Jeremy Jez Caesar

Do You Know Tony And Roberta Williams Of Nefyn

My memorys of Nefyn: Our family used to stay on a caravan site just outside Nefyn village up by the little garage and football pitch. We came from Liverpool, and me and my sisters Ann and Tereasa and ...Read more

A memory of Nefyn in 1967 by Ronnie Proffitt

Childhood Memories Of The Village Pond

My friends and I spent many hours catching Sticklebacks in the pond. A fishing net cost tuppence in those days and was regarded as a lot of money but worth every penny. After the war it was so sad to see the pond gradually disappearing and like so many other childhood memories just fading away.

A memory of Chalfont St Giles in 1930 by William Taylor

Captions

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Caption For Rudgwick, The King's Head C1955

The village of Rudgwick stands hard by the Surrey border, its church literally just a few yards from the county boundary.

Caption For Fairhaven, The Bowling Green C1955

Bowls has long been a popular game in Lancashire, and there is considerable rivalry between the many clubs of its towns, villages and pubs.

Caption For Britford, St Peter's Church 1906

Britford is a tiny village just outside Salisbury to the south east.

Caption For Wildboarclough, Post Office C1960

Now a truly lovely private home, this would have been an extremely grand post office for such a remote village.

Caption For Beoley, Village Inn C1965

In the early 20th century, when Beoley was still completely rural, The Village Inn used to be a popular destination for people venturing out of town by horse-drawn carriage or by bicycle.

Caption For Biddenden, The Village C1960

Home to Kentish cider and several vineyards, this village quite rightly had a thriving wine merchant's, left. Is the man outside deciding whether to opt for a bottle of spirits or local brew?

Caption For Dorridge, The Village C1965

Taken from Station Approach, looking towards the village centre, this view is much the same today.

Caption For Worstead, The Weaver's Cottage C1955

The village is famous for being the centre of the worsted cloth trade. The manufacture of this material started in the 13th century and finished 600 years later.

Caption For Gayton, The Mill C1955

The mill had a bakery supplying bread for the whole village, which was displayed in baskets and delivered by horse and cart.

Caption For Tylers Green, The Green C1955

The village surrounds a large green and common and this view looks across the pond towards the bellcote of the 1870s primary school.

Caption For Elmstead, The Bowling Green C1965

Beth Chatto's well-known garden can be found on the edge of the village.

Caption For Beoley, Village Inn C1965

In the early 20th century, when Beoley was still completely rural, The Village Inn used to be a popular destination for people venturing out of town by horse-drawn carriage or by bicycle.

Caption For Sawston, High Street C1965

Crampton the printers and the Co-op face the cross that in 1919 became the village war memorial. It bears the names of those who died in two World Wars and the Korean War of 1950-51.

Caption For Minster In Thanet, The Square C1955

One of the earliest centres of Christianity in Kent, this village, with its main street and small shops running down to the large 12th-century Norman church on the left, was the site of a nunnery founded

Caption For Overstrand, Main Street C1965

It has two large villas and a Methodist Chapel built by the well-known architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, most famous as the designer of the city of New Delhi.

Caption For Eastleigh, North Stoneham Church C1955

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

Caption For Amberley, The Church 1899

Amberley church lies between the castle and the village at the western end of a ridge of high ground, which is about one mile north of Houghton Bridge.

Caption For Cawthorne, Taylor Hill C1955

Cawthorne is a village on the edge of the Pennines west of Barnsley on the Holmfirth road in the valley of the River Dearne.

Caption For Sonning Common, Wood Lane C1960

Here we see the village post office and shop, which sells toys and gifts. A well-maintained semi-circular bed of roses has been planted on the forecourt - oh for a dash of colour!

Caption For Harnham, The Village 1906

Now it is all part of Salisbury, and the village is disappearing into the city.

Caption For Porlock, On The Road To Hawkcombe 1890

In 1891, to the left beyond the cottages, a new cemetery for the village was opened on land that actually belonged to Luccombe parish.

Caption For Gidea Park, Hare Street C1950

Hare Street is the name of a village. The two cinema posters on the left are for the Gaumont, which was previously the Plaza, and the Odeon, which was the Havana, neither survives.

Caption For Puncknowle, Village 1906

The village name, incidentally, is pronounced as 'Punnel'.

Caption For Hothfield, On The Common 1921

Many villagers sought out the cool of the local school (centre) or the medieval church, which sits a mile from the common.