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Dunstaffnage War Years

Like your other contributors I also spent my very early years in Dunstaffnage. Dad had spent the early part of the war from day one as a young Engineer Officer on North Atlantic convoys in the Merchant Navy. When you were lucky to ...Read more

A memory of Oban by john

6 To 20

I lived in Woodgrange Avenue Kenton from 1953 till 1967 when i got married and moved to Bletchley where we bought our first house. I remember at the bottom of our road and just around the corner was an Ironmonger shop run by Mr and Mrs Larkin. ...Read more

A memory of Kenton by dianefash

6 To 20

I lived in Woodgrange Avenue Kenton from 1953 till 1967 when i got married and moved to Bletchley where we bought our first house. I remember at the bottom of our road and just around the corner was an Ironmonger shop run by Mr and Mrs Larkin. ...Read more

A memory of Kenton by dianefash

St Alkmund's Churchyard, Whitchurch, Shropshire

In 1973 a new vicarage was built on part of St Alkmund's churchyard burial ground in Whitchurch, Shropshire which entailed the exhumation of a number of coffins from vaults and the removal of their ...Read more

A memory of Whitchurch by Michael Beach

Tunnel Behind Rookwood Close

My parents lived in Rookwood Close from 1966 to 1972. I remember playing in the woods behind the houses and discovering what looked like a railway tunnel going under the hill. I was able to venture in 20 feet or so but the ...Read more

A memory of Grays by perce.thrower

Wimbledon By The Sea

Every July, the houses with tennis courts in the garden hosted a tournament (don't know who organised it). I remember turning up one year full of enthusiasm, only to be thoroughly beaten by a chap who had been playing in a ...Read more

A memory of Sandilands by philip.oldershaw

'old Trunk', Cove.

My Grandfather and Grandmother, Mary and Charles Warner lived at a house called 'Old Trunk' in Cove, until 1925. I am not sure if this was 'Old Trunk Farm' as it was just a house, with no outbuildings as far as I can see from the one photo I ...Read more

A memory of Cove by Chris Williams

Childhood In Kensington

I LIVED IN CAMPDEN HOUSES, PEEL STREET, THOUGH THE FIFTIES AND WENT TO THE CONVENT OF THE SACRED HEART IN BARNES. I LOVED SEEING THE PEOPLE ON THE TV AND RADIO WHO LIVED CLOSE BY BECAUSE THE STUDIOS WERE EASY TO GET ...Read more

A memory of Kensington by cindyandjohn

Rainham Essex 1939 1948

Hi my name is Ken Craze we moved to Dunroamin' Villa Upminster Rd from Hornchurch in 1935 when I was 4yo, Mum, Dad, my brother George and sister Lily. My first memory being outside Mrs Lindsay's shop with my mother a few days ...Read more

A memory of Edmonton by craze_ken

Kew Bridge Road

My name is Ian Powell and lived at 48 Kew Bridge Road opposite the Plough and Waggon & Horses P/H. We arrived in 1947 when I was 6 mths old. I also had a younger sister Lynne who sadly passed earlier this year. Our house was ...Read more

A memory of Brentford by powlee

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Caption For Walberswick, Village Street C1955

The end of the next house is made up of alternate courses of brick and beach pebbles. Further on is a row of Victorian terraced cottages, with dormer and bay windows.

Caption For Warminster, High Street C1950

The Hants and Sussex coach is parked outside Hill House, a former solicitor's home until it became a café restaurant in 1898.

Caption For Bicester, Old Houses, Market Hill C1950

The buildings housing the premises of Hedges & Son (right), however, have been demolished and replaced by a road and open space leading to a pedestrian shopping precinct.

Caption For Bourne, North Road C1955

The houses do not appear to have changed, and even the grass verge is still in good condition.

Caption For Spilsby, The Terrace C1955

Next door there is now a bookmaker, and the Trustee Savings Bank building now houses Messrs Dexter & Sharp, who are accountants.

Caption For Stilton, High Street C1955

The Stilton Cheese public house takes it name from the famous blue cheese. It is actually made in nearby counties, and was originally brought to Stilton for shipment south by coach.

Caption For Stilton, The Bell Hotel C1955

This famous coaching inn was one of 14 inns or ale-houses in the village in the 19th century.

Caption For Lymm, The Dingle C1955

Today Martin's Bank (centre left) is occupied by an estate agent, reflecting Lymm's status as a housing hot spot, whilst Barclay's Bank (centre) trades from a less harmonious modern building.

Caption For Warrington, Manchester Road, Paddington C1960

Doubtless that would have been one piece of Warrington's heritage which antiquarian Arthur Bennett of Paddington House would not have been anxious to preserve!

Caption For Harlow, The Lawn Tower Block C1955

This nine-storey block was a typical example of housing designed for single people. The first one was built on the corner of Mark Hall Moors in open parkland in the midst of seven magnificent oaks.

Caption For Skegness, Grand Parade 1899

The Marine Gardens below the iron railings on the left are now taken up by the Embassy Centre and the Compass Gardens, whilst the row of boarding houses on the right are converted to food and drink businesses

Caption For Meriden, The Parish Church C1960

St Lawrence's stands on Meriden Hill, aloof from most of the community it serves, but close to a small cluster of old houses and with views towards Coventry.

Caption For Flushing, 1918

From the back gardens belonging to many of the terraced houses, individual steps leading to the water front encourage boat

Caption For Ashford, Cinema 1921

This impressive picture house shows how popular moving pictures had become in the first decade after the Great War.

Caption For York, Bootham Bar & The Minster 1893

To the rear right of the bar we can see the turret on the roof of the Minster Chapter House.

Caption For York, Goodramgate C1866

The houses here, on what is called Our Lady's Row, are amongst the oldest in England - they are early 14th-century. To the right of this view is the Sanderson's Temperance Hotel, now long gone.

Caption For Tring, Zebra Room, Tring Museum C1955

In buildings immediately west of Tring Park is housed the Sir Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum, based on his enormous collectoin of stuffed and mounted animals from every corner of the world.

Caption For London, Cheapside C1886

Because of its prestigious reputation and close proximity to the Bank, city financiers clamoured to live here, and annual rents from a single house could reach the incredible sum of three hundred

Caption For Chichester, Canon Lane Archway, South Street 1890

The houses in South Street become smaller in scale than in the other three streets meeting at the central Market Cross.

Caption For Ayot St Lawrence, Ayot House C1955

The central part of this fine Georgian building became the home of Sir Lionel Lyde, before the later wing on the right was added, and which at the time this picture was taken housed the Lullingstone

Caption For Porthleven, The Harbour Entrance 1890

The clock tower is conspicuous near the pier, and the new lifeboat house faces the sea on the right.

Caption For Abergavenny, The Museum C1960

The buildings now house the town's museum. The museum was opened by Lord Raglan in July 1959, and its first curator was Duggan Thacker. It was extended with the refurbishment .

Caption For Blaenavon, The Eastern Valley C1955

White House cottage to its right, at the end of Bunker's Row, has now been demolished.

Caption For Abergavenny, Linda Vista Gardens C1965

The landscaping of these gardens was only completed in 1964, following the pur- chase of Linda Vista House and gardens by the council in 1960.