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Wartime In Ferndown

I have so many memories of growing up in Ferndown during the Second World War, when it was just a village. Collecting pigswill and old papers to aid the war effort. Scouting adventures with scoutmaster Doug Gabe. Playing games on ...Read more

A memory of Ferndown in 1940 by Brian Davis

History From 1954

My mother and father lived in Downton, Wilts, and my brother and I joined the Royal Marines, and were in 'A' Troop, 40 Commando. I became the Light Welter Weight Champion of the Royal Marines when I was a recruit at ...Read more

A memory of Charlton All Saints by Raymond Pidgley

Tracing Poeple

Does anybody have any information on the Cummings family? The head of the family was Herbie and his wife was Annie. They lived on the council estate at the bottom of the village.

A memory of Easington in 1960 by Michael Brown

School Days At Stapleford Primary

I was born in the village in 1953 and went to the junior school from 1958 until 1969 when I then went to Sawston Village College, I had many a happy day at the schoo. I can remember my first ...Read more

A memory of Stapleford in 1958 by David Pugh

The Mining Community

Although I no longer live in Northumberland, I still have a soft spot for North Broomhill. I was born in School Row in 1943. From there we moved to Coronation Terrace in 1947 which was a complex of rudimentary row of two ...Read more

A memory of North Seaton in 1940 by Albert Taylor

The Lights Of Home

I was brought up in Glenboig. I went to the school that sank, what great memories I have of the old teachers, Mr Mcafee, Mr Gallacher, Mr O'Neill, Mrs Hughes, Mrs Deerie, Mrs Egan and Mrs Clinton in Room 1. I had moved away by the ...Read more

A memory of Glenboig by Maria Graham

Riding School

I remember the ponies coming along the beach and back to the stables along the high street, past what was then the cinema, now a village hall.

A memory of Rhosneigr

My Memories Of Wickford

My parents and I lived in North London near Hendon aerodrome.  Because it was well known as an RAF base the German Luftwaffe raided the area regularly.  My parents decided to move to somewhere safer and because my mother's ...Read more

A memory of Wickford in 1940 by Denis Mitcheson

Born In The Village

I was born in the village in a nursing home, that was in January 1949, just up from the old police station on the opposite side of the A30. Then I grew up in 13 Mildmay Terrace with my mother, father, grandmother and ...Read more

A memory of Hartley Wintney in 1949 by Alan Bartlett

Memory Of Brockhall Hospital

I arrived in Brockhall hospital in 1970 from Mauritius to become a 'Subnormal Nurse' as it was known then. I am still baffled how I managed to reach Brockhall with so little knowledge at the tender age of 19 years. I am ...Read more

A memory of Langho in 1970 by David Oozageer

Captions

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Caption For Limpley Stoke, Lower Village C1955

Further down this lane, the centre of Lower Limpley Stoke is reached, with the Hop Pole Inn on the left, the post office and village shop on the right, and the garage beyond, although the Esso sign has

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 Countesthorpe, St Andrew's Church C1965

The original heart of this sprawling village, the battlemented tower is the complete surviving remnant of the medieval church.

Caption For Gorran Haven, The Harbour 1890

The characteristic square block of the fish cellars just above the two gigs in the picture betrays Gorran Haven's past as a fishing village.

Caption For Earith, High Street C1955

The site, now occupied by the decorative village sign, is still referred to as George Corner.

Caption For Waterbeach, High Street C1955

In the 1960s two large housing estates were laid out on the east and west of the main street, and in 1972 a Village Society was formed to oppose the continued growth.

Caption For Eynsham, The Village C1965

Eynsham has developed from a small agricultural village, and is now almost the size of a small town. We are looking along Acre End Street.

Caption For Woodstock, Park Street C1960

Just beyond the row of buildings on the right are the village stocks under the triangular wooden cover.

Caption For Robin Hoods Bay, Town And Bay 1927

Part of the village is clustered around the top of a ravine. Notice the steep steps in the lower foreground, dropping away toward the sea.

Caption For Lanivet, St Benet's Abbey 1931

The old abbey just outside the village was founded in 1411 as a Benedictine hospital, but at the Dissolution it came into the hands of the Courtenay family who made it into a residence.

Caption For Hessenford, The Church C1955

St Anne's church, consecrated in 1833, was built on a slope above the village near the site of the old church of the same name which had been attached to St Germans Priory.

Caption For Combeinteignhead, The Church And The Village 1890

Conditions here were so bad during the Great Blizzard of 1891 that the local blacksmith and his apprentice had to dig their way to the local well and then dig back across the village to get water to relatives

Caption For Great Haywood, The Clifford Arms C1955

Its successor, the present A51, now by-passes the village. The Lamb and Flag Hotel, on the left beside the car, was another old inn which catered for travellers.

Caption For Greystoke, The Green C1965

The centre of the village, with its attractive houses round the green, is marked by a market cross reminding us that Henry III had granted a license to Thomas de Greystoke for a weekly market and fair

Caption For Byworth, The Village 1906

Byworth is a pretty village with a single winding street a mile east of Petworth; it is set on hilly ground above a small stream flowing in a steep valley towards the Rother.

Caption For Hambledon, St Peter's Church 1904

There are two old yew trees here, and in 2000, to mark the Millennium, numerous cuttings were taken and planted throughout the village.

Caption For Hartley, The Black Lion C1950

Henry Treadwell was one of several generations of yeoman farmers in the village, and was the landlord of the inn during the second half of the 19th century.

Caption For Rake, The Village 1901

A small village with a common on the Portsmouth to Guildford main road near the Hampshire border. There is chalk quarrying being carried out on the hillside on the left.

Caption For Cholmondeley, Castle And Park 1898

In the 14th century the nearby village of Malpas was under constant threat of attack from the Welsh, and there was an unsuccessful attempt to have the chapel on the Cholmondeley estate raised in status

Caption For Goring, The Lock 1896

Goring collected a number of late Victorian and Edwardian riverside houses and boathouses between the river and the village proper. The now tiled boathouse on the right is today a doctor's surgery.

Caption For Bramshott, Tin Town 1917

To the west lies the village centre and the partly Norman church of All Saints. The First World War poet Edward Thomas lived at nearby Berryfield Cottage.

Caption For Coltishall, The Village 1902

Horses graze the rich meadows that keep the waters of the River Bure from the village street. Here are handsome pantile-roofed red brick houses. A rotted hulk squats in a narrow inlet.

Caption For Polperro, The Harbour 1888

Built in a narrow gully in cliffs 400 feet high, this was once a smuggling village.

Caption For Grassington, The Wharf And Old Mill 1926

The railway finally came to the village in 1902 with the opening of a line to Skipton. Here we see a quiet moment on the banks of the Wharfe.