Maps

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Books

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Memories

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4 Years At The Castle School Stanhope

In 1945 I was placed in South Hetton Remand Home at the age of 10 by Sunderland Magistrates Court.(I had a difficult homelife with a very physically abusive stepfather, otherwise I would have been fined 5 ...Read more

A memory of Stanhope in 1946

Nostalgia

I lived in Burton from 1948 until 1966. I have such fond memories of the village as it was then. There were a group of lads that I was part of viz. Brian Bradshaw, Stewart Salrein, Roger Taylor, Anthony Blundell and we were then ...Read more

A memory of Burton in Lonsdale in 1948 by Peter Willan

Pub Crown And Thistle Just Out Of View

I moved into the Crownd and Thistle about 1941 aged 4 and I left village in 1960. Arthur Benstead was landlord for many years. He and Muriel his wife retired just across the road to a house left by Mr Knowles ...Read more

A memory of Fulbourn in 1940 by John Benstead

We Lived At 3 Chapel End With Mrs Crook

I was evacuated aged 5 years old to Akeley during the war with my mother. I can remember going to the school on the village square and being allowed to play in the field behind when the weather was fine. My ...Read more

A memory of Akeley in 1942 by Pete Smith

Me Granda

I am writing this because I have been back to Clara visiting after I was contacted by Brian and Helen who now live in me Granda's house, they had read my memories of Newburn which mentioned Clara and sent me a message. Me Grandad Cecil ...Read more

A memory of Clara Vale in 1947 by Jimmy Burrows

Dunstaffnage The War Years 1942 45

In 1942 aged 5 due to my father being a shipwright in the Portsmouth Dockyard he was transferred to a satellite dockyard at Dunstaffnage where we stayed as a family until the war finished and we then moved back to ...Read more

A memory of Oban in 1942 by Brian Woodward

Fond Memories Of 1950s Goffs Oak

I was born in 1945 at the end of the Second World War at was then 3 Park Villas, Goff's Lane, the home of my grandmother, Alice Emma James. House renumbering during the 1950s resulted in the house becoming 393 ...Read more

A memory of Goff's Oak by Leslie Selby

Wingate

I was born 1943 in 6 Moor Lane, Wingate at my grandparents' house (Joe and Margaret(Ginny)Lee, then moved to 53 Kings Road, before moving to Trimdon Village in 1953 just after the coronation. I too have fond memories of the place. The Palace ...Read more

A memory of Wingate in 1952 by Joe Cunningham

Growing Up In No 3 Eardiston View

My name is Derek Hall, the brother to Martin Hall & Pamela Hall, we used to live at No 3 Eardiston View in Menith Wood in the 1960s with our mom Velta Hall. I am now 58 years old living in London with four ...Read more

A memory of Menithwood in 1965 by derekhall2006

1966 1982

Ford End is now a shell of its former self, almost like the UK. When I was a child in the village, growing up, there was no better place to be. There was a shop, two pubs, the Spread Eagle at the top of the village and the ...Read more

A memory of Ford End by Lawrence Gill

Captions

5,033 captions found. Showing results 3,601 to 3,624.

Caption For Donington, The Church C1965

The village bypass is just to the other side of the church.

Caption For Formby, Town Centre C1960

Formby was once a fishing village, but the sea has receded at a number of places along the west coast (as at Southport), leaving the town two miles inland from Formby Point.

Caption For Bonchurch, The Pond And Cafe C1955

Horses have given way to the ubiquitous motor car, and the village is catering for the car-borne tourist.

Caption For Acock's Green, The Roundabout, Olton Boulevard East C1955

It is strange to think that until the 1830s Acock's Green was a rural village. In 1839 the estate was sold to developers, but it was 1911 before it became part of Birmingham.

Caption For Churchill, Clock Tower C1955

It was erected by Sidney Hill, a local benefactor who also provided several almshouses for the elderly in the village.

Caption For Botley, All Saints' Church C1955

He lived at Fairthorn Farm, and described Botley as 'the most delightful village in the world'.

Caption For Langton Matravers, Kings Arms & High Street C1965

Once largely occupied by stoneworkers from the nearby stone quarries, this village stretches along the highway for a considerable distance, hence its name, a corruption of 'Longtown'.

Caption For Grayshott, Headley Road 1906

One of its customers was George Bernard Shaw, who rented a house in the village.

Caption For South Shields, Laygate Lane 1900

In 1850 South Shields (including Westoe) became a municipal borough; Harton was added in 1901, and Cleadon Bank and Harton Village in 1921.

Caption For St Brides, The Village 1906

In late Victorian and early Edwardian times, this part of the village was regarded as a select residential area. The turning to the right off St Bride's Hill leads down to the Glen.

Caption For Minster In Thanet, The Abbey C1955

The abbey, the oldest building in Minster, is to be found at the lower end of the village.

Caption For Thurstaston, Thors Stone C1960

Given the Viking origins of the village, one should not be too surprised to find 'evidence' of romantic legends.

Caption For Bollington, Church Street C1955

'A thriving village with some collieries and extensive cotton factories' was how Bollington was described in 1848. Those factories were especially renowned for the quality of their Liberty cottons.

Caption For Bishops Cleeve, Station Road C1955

A bygone era of rail travel is perpetuated in the name of this road, photographed some five years before the village station closed.

Caption For Cley, The Church 1957

St Margaret's stands on high ground at the southern end of the present village near the green at Newgate.

Caption For Sheet, Village Green 1898

Its brand new village hall, right of centre, is outwardly much the same today although the inside is much changed.

Caption For The Men Scryfa, 1890

Near the village of Madron, to the north of Penzance, is the 8-foot tall Men Scryfa,which means 'written stone'.

Caption For Medstead, The Village C1955

Just beyond R Arnold & Son's butcher's shop is a building that had been the village smithy. Ten years after this picture was taken, Ernest King, the Medstead blacksmith, died aged 70.

Caption For West Lulworth, C1965

The village of West Lulworth is seen looking north- westwards from the slopes of Hambury Tout.

Caption For Axmouth, The Village 1898

Axmouth is one of Devon's loveliest villages, and boasts one of Britain's finest and most unspoiled Norman churches.

Caption For West Bay, 1930

West Bay has now become the setting for a popular television series, 'Harbour Lights', which has brought many more tourists to the village.

Caption For Madeley, Court 1896

Madeley Court dates from the Tudor period, and was the oldest building in the old village of Madeley (now a part of Telford).

Caption For East Dean, War Memorial 1921

East Dean's simple war memorial fits well on the green of this flint-built village.

Caption For Baslow, Nether End C1955

The eastern end of the village of Baslow is known as Nether End. This 50s view is from outside the Cavendish Arms Hotel, looking west.