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Ancestral Home

With my newly obtained lawyer´s degree and after joining a British bank based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, I was sent to London, to follow an international training course of one year, along with my wife Rosemarie and our one year ...Read more

A memory of Car Colston in 1972 by Enrique Martin

Happy Days In Latimer

It was only two years or so, from 1959-61, aged 6-8, but it still seems as if the happiest period of my childhood in Latimer was one long, endless, glorious summer. My dad was in the army, in the King's Own Scottish Borderers, ...Read more

A memory of Latimer in 1959 by John Sayer

The Happiest Days Of Your Life

Brambletye school, well set between the beautiful Ashdown Forest and thriving town of East Grinstead on the Sussex/Surrey border was a paradise on Earth for any schoolboy with an aesthetically romantic (!) ...Read more

A memory of Brambletye House in 1959 by Giles Daubney

Growing Up In Newton

I was born in the old cottage on the left, 175 High Street, in 1948, as June Glencross, my parents squatted there after the war, my dad became the local builder. In 1956 we moved up the road to the old congregational ...Read more

A memory of Newton-le-Willows in 1948 by June Bennetts

Holiday Park

I am from Brigend, South Wales, and for some reason my mother decided on our summer holidays to take us to the Isle of Sheppey, why at this time we would travel that (in those days) distance I do not know. I was 16 and my sister ...Read more

A memory of Leysdown-on-Sea in 1964 by Clayton Hier

Stockdales Greengrocers Shop

Stockdales shop was owned by by grandma Winnie Stockdale and her husband Jim. She retired from the shop in 1965 and lived at Church Street, Cudworth. She opened the shop in about 1937. My grandad Jim worked at Monk ...Read more

A memory of Cudworth in 1956 by Peter Haigh

Trolley Bus Routes 630 And 612

These routes passed along the road which comes down to the right hand corner to Croydon following that road or to Hammersmith etc. passing round the Majestic to London.

A memory of Mitcham in 1940 by Douglas Tunbridge

Luther Paxton Plumber

The building jutting out into Castle Hill on the left upper of this picture is no. 17 and was my Great Uncle Luther Paxton's plumbers shop. The shop was on the ground floor and he and his wife, Amy lived on the upper two ...Read more

A memory of Richmond in 1948 by Peter Hodgson

Growing Up In Stafford Until 1975

I grew up on the Weston Park Estate and my close friends were Ann Parker and Linda Jay, as we all lived a few doors away. We used to go to Riverside disco approximate 1970 and the Young Farmers disco on Friday ...Read more

A memory of Stafford by Angela Née Rafferty

Growing Up In The War Years In Prees & Whitchurch

Although I was born in Whitchurch [Bark Hill], we moved to Prees soon after. However, I was sent to stay with my grandmother most weekends and for a period I was sent to the Wesleyan school. My ...Read more

A memory of Whitchurch in 1940 by Jean Mary Copnall

Captions

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Caption For Stoughton, The Barracks 1906

The barracks were opened in 1876, following the reorganisation of the army in 1872.

Caption For Rillington, School Corner C1955

East of Malton we find the mostly Victorian village of Rillington - its development followed the arrival of the railway.

Caption For Chiddingstone, The Church And School 1891

The construction of St Mary's Church and its neighbouring primary school followed shortly after.

Caption For Barns Green, The Village C1960

Initially a hamlet, the village of Barns Green dates from the Middle Ages, but grew rapidly during the 18th and 19th centuries following the opening of the Mid-Sussex railway line.

Caption For Fullerton, Vine Cottage C1960

Here the single line track divided left for Andover, right to follow the Test to Wherwell, Longparish, Hurstbourne Priors and then to the London main line.

Caption For Aylesford, Preston Hall And Fountain 1898

The fountain, also by Thomas, was added the following year.

Caption For Edinburgh, Black Watch On The Castle Esplanade 1897

The Edinburgh Castle we see today is, with a few additions, that built by the Earl of Morton following the siege of 1572.

Caption For York, The View From The City Walls 1897

This and the following three photos, although from the same vantage point, span a period of 60 years.

Caption For Langley, Ridgegate Reservoir C1955

It was constructed in 1850, and as demand outstripped supply, others followed in 1871 and then in 1929.

Caption For Whitegate, Main Road C1965

Nearby there is a 5½-mile trail, the Whitegate Way, that follows an old railway line built in the 19th century to transport salt.

Caption For Coxhoe, The Cross Roads 1951

The main A177 road south from Shincliffe leads to Coxhoe; it may follow the course of an old Roman road.

Caption For Accrington, Christ Church 1897

In 1968 the roof was removed, and in March 1969 the church was re-hallowed following restoration.

Caption For Hadlow, The Castle Entrance C1950

Demolition was begun in 1951, but was almost immediately stopped following protests by the local artist Bernard Hailstone.

Caption For Poole, Church Street, Almshouses 1904

The building was extensively altered in 1586 following the loss of the clergy when Elizabeth I came to the throne.

Caption For Frensham, Troops At Frensham 1917

How many were to return alive by the end of the following year?

Caption For Southampton, The Old Town Walls 1892

Following the Norman invasion of 1066, Southampton became a key port, and the walls and other buildings are a permanent reminder of Southampton's wealth and prosperity in those days.

Caption For Leamington Spa, The Parade And Memorial C1960

Following a favourable report on the medicinal properties of the waters, a baths and hotel were built, and Leamington was on the spa trail.

Caption For Runcorn, Weston Church And Village C1955

serve as a school for the children of workers who came into the region to work on the Manchester Ship Canal, it was closed in 1902 after the canal was completed and these families all followed

Caption For Bognor Regis, 1890

Bognor's growth from a tiny fishing village started in the 1780s, with Sir Richard Hotham's grand scheme inland (modestly named Hothamton) aimed at the nobility and gentry being followed by

Caption For Wangford, The Village 1895

In the gabled building was either Harry Benstead or William Terry, saddlers, followed by the Swan, run by Mrs Mary Newberry.

Caption For Bodiam, The Castle 1925

Following the burning of Rye in 1377 and of Winchelsea in 1380, Bodiam Castle was built in 1385 because of the imminent threat of invasion by the French.

Caption For Sherborne, School 1903

Following bomb damage in the 1940 air raid, the building was altered in 1956; its outward appearance took on an Elizabethan style in contrast to this austere Gothic design.

Caption For Sheffield, Angel Street C1965

The front of the C & A store collapsed into the street following three direct hits, and around seventy people died in the Marples Hotel when it too took a direct hit and was destroyed.

Caption For Basildon, Industrial Estate C1965

Built in the mid 1950s, it was followed into the town by the Ford Engineering Research Centre at Dunton.