Places
36 places found.
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- Leitrim Village, Republic of Ireland
- Swanley Village, Kent
- Ewden Village, Yorkshire
- Glentrool Village, Dumfries and Galloway
- Aycliffe Village, Durham
- Clewer Village, Berkshire
- Crookham Village, Hampshire
- Church Village, Mid Glamorgan
- Carn Brea Village, Cornwall
- Elan Village, Powys
- Luccombe Village, Isle of Wight
- North Hinksey Village, Oxfordshire
- Cumeragh Village, Lancashire
- Hulland Village, Derbyshire
- Park Village, Northumberland
- Model Village, Warwickshire
- Outlet Village, Cheshire
- Hansel Village, Strathclyde
- Portlethen Village, Grampian
- Stockbridge Village, Merseyside
- Talbot Village, Dorset
- Abbey Village, Lancashire
- Aber Village, Powys
- Chelmer Village, Essex
- Dog Village, Devon
- Glenprosen Village, Tayside
- Hutton Village, Cleveland
- Heathfield Village, Oxfordshire
- Grange Village, Gloucestershire
- Perkin's Village, Devon
- Mawsley Village, Northamptonshire
- Wynyard Village, Cleveland
- Albert Village, Leicestershire
- Brockhall Village, Lancashire
- Cardrona Village, Borders
- Dutch Village, Essex
Photos
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Maps
517 maps found.
Books
26 books found. Showing results 3,505 to 3,528.
Memories
4,713 memories found. Showing results 1,461 to 1,470.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Captions
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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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This must be one of the most attractive villages in Surrey, with its large, sloping triangular green surrounded by good houses.
This skyline is a useful synopsis of Thaxted: we see a half-rural, half-industrial village, with a cathedral- sized church.
Brinklow is town- sized today, but it is basically a commuter village.
Several early 19th- century houses group around The Green, and in the mid l9th century the village was described as large.
Only a modern lamp-post detracts from the rural tranquility of Rectory Lane on its way to the old village.
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.
As Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick looked out over his land, he would have seen acres of the Yorkshire countryside full of villages.
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.
This delightful village completes our tour of this most attractive and historic county.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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