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Memories

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Connies Field

In the late 1950s and 1960s we used to stay in a field halfway down the road into the village of Amroth and a lady called Connie owned a small farm, so we called it Connie's field. At first we used to just camp then later Dad got a ...Read more

A memory of Amroth in 1960 by Issy Lawrence

The Other Village Shop

I was born and brougt up in the village of Garboldisham in Norfolk and have so many memories of when I was a child - I always felt safe and everybody knew each other, a real village. One of my best memories is of the ...Read more

A memory of Garboldisham in 1975 by Amanda Cruttwell

Happy Days In Forest Hall

I was born and lived in Forest Hall, 1952-1968. I have very happy memories of living in Forest Hall,as a child. I was born and lived in my grandparents' house, in Firtree Avenue, until I was 2 years old, then I lived in ...Read more

A memory of Forest Hall by Brenda Glover Nee Malone

Memories Of Thornley

Having read Kenneth Ortons' memories, it brought back visions in my mind of the good times growing up in the loveliest little village I know. When I was born in 1947 my mam and dad lived with my grandma at 60 Thornlaw North so ...Read more

A memory of Thornley in 1947 by David Thompson

My Father

My father, ARTHUR PERCY CRUMP, was born in 1898 in London, but orphanned in 1901. He was sent to Heacham with his older sister, EDITH. The 1911 Census shows him living with foster parents....Samuel Groom, his wife, daughter and 2 ...Read more

A memory of Heacham in 1900 by Angela Haddrill

Moving To Graianrhyd

My parents Joyce and Ellis Jones moved into the village shop and cafe, Y Fron, during the last week-end in October, 1969. My brother, David, and I had viewed this move with varying degrees of intrepidation as we were ...Read more

A memory of Llanarmon-yn-Ial in 1969

Bill And Joan Turners Fruit And Veg Shop

My nan and grandad ran a fruit and veg shop in the village for as long as I can remember (I'm 38 now) when the old A17 was the main road through to King's Lynn. I remember people coming from as far ...Read more

A memory of Walpole Cross Keys by Justin Turner

Morley Cottage

I remember Wareside so well. I lived at Morley Cottage just outside the village. I went there in 1937 with my parents - my father Jim McGowan and Mother Elizabeth.They both worked at Fanhams Hall for Lady Brocket. My mother then ...Read more

A memory of Wareside in 1940 by Shelagh Bunce

Delivery Days

I was born and bred in the (then village) of Biddulph, south of the hall. My closest memories of the Old Hall were the stories my mother related to me, especially about the incidence of the siege during the Civil War and the use of the ...Read more

A memory of Biddulph in 1947 by Victor Mayer

Joppa House

I was there at the time Theresa writes about, and my 4 children were too. I remember you and your brother playing in the hall, and nearly getting killed when you knocked the grandfather clock down. Your mom and I would walk to the ...Read more

A memory of Innellan in 1963 by Doris Wickerd

Captions

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Caption For Mobberley, The Cricket Ground C1955

Victory Hall (shown in picture M238008 on p.53) serves as the village hall, and was built to commemorate the First World War - hence its name.

Caption For Bare, The Promenade C1955

Once little more than a fishing village, the area became popular as a sea-bathing resort during the mid 19th century after the arrival of the railway.

Caption For Greystoke, The Village C1955

The growth of the urban one- stop convenience store and filling station unexpectedly reflects a return to the situation found here, where F & F Hawell's shop is located next to the village

Caption For Gloucester, The Docks 1912

For years two small steam packets provided a daily scheduled service between Gloucester and Sharpness, calling at a number of villages and convenient stopping-places along the way.

Caption For Langham, Well Street C1950

When the village school was built in the 19th century all was quiet, but by 1955 it was getting busier - there are Belisha beacons across School Lane.

Caption For Newtown Linford, The Village C1965

The village is the gateway to Bradgate Park, a very large medieval deer park, which was donated to the people of Leicester for recreation in 1928.

Caption For Syston, Clock Tower C1965

Apart from the Baker's Arms on Barkby Road corner and an extended bank, the village's main shopping area is now but a memory.

Caption For Moore, The School C1955

Moore's village school was showing its age in 1955. Built in 1877 for a much smaller community, its facilities had failed to keep pace with its teaching standards.

Caption For Chiddingfold, The Village C1955

This must be one of the most attractive villages in Surrey, with its large, sloping triangular green surrounded by good houses.

Caption For Thaxted, From The West C1955

This skyline is a useful synopsis of Thaxted: we see a half-rural, half-industrial village, with a cathedral- sized church.

Caption For Brinklow, Broad Street C1955

Brinklow is town- sized today, but it is basically a commuter village.

Caption For Bitteswell, C1960

Several early 19th- century houses group around The Green, and in the mid l9th century the village was described as large.

Caption For Woodmansterne, Rectory Lane C1960

Only a modern lamp-post detracts from the rural tranquility of Rectory Lane on its way to the old village.

Caption For Little Haven, 1898

Strawberry Hill, above the village, was the site of an Iron Age fort. A boat is being beached to the right beyond the slipway and the other boats in the centre.

Caption For Middleham, The Castle 1893

As Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick looked out over his land, he would have seen acres of the Yorkshire countryside full of villages.

Caption For Bishopstoke, St Mary's Church C1965

The tower was added as a memorial to Admiral Kepple, who had lived in the village and was a church warden. There is a peal of ten bells.

Caption For Aynho, The Green C1955

This delightful village completes our tour of this most attractive and historic county.

Caption For Woolsthorpe, The Village C1955

This is not Isaac Newton's Woolsthorpe, but the village west of Grantham in rolling countryside right on the Leicestershire border; it has fine views of Belvoir Castle a mile away on its hill on the other

Caption For Hove, The Drive 1898

Hove, a small fishing village west of Brighton, developed slowly from the mid 19th century onwards. As at Brighton, large areas of working class housing arose away from the sea front.

Caption For Ifield, The Village 1905

It was a small and sleepy Sussex village, until then remote in the rolling landscape of the western Weald, a landscape of small dense hedged fields and oak trees.

Caption For Gilsland, Roman Wall 1924

Here we see a section of Hadrian's Wall near the village of Gilsland. 73 miles long, with seventeen forts, mile-castles and turrets, the wall was one of a number of linear defences built to designate

Caption For Benenden, 1901

This pleasant, tucked-away village, three miles from Cranbrook, is open and scattered in structure, like others in this part of Kent. It was once noted for cloth manufacture.

Caption For Aylesford, Village From The River C1960

One of Kent's most ancient villages, Aylesford occupies a strategic crossing of the Medway, and dates from the time of the Saxons. The parish church crowns a hillock and is principally Norman.

Caption For Ospringe, Water Lane C1955

Here we see the appropriately named Water Lane in the village, which was named after the spring that arises here. Ospringe was once a pilgrims' stop on the way to Canterbury.