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Our Pub!

Gidday to all! Having recently travelled  to Penmark to rediscover my family history, I am sure that this is a photo of 'Kenson Cottage',which used to be the 'Rose and Crown' pub .My family(Gabriel) used to own the pub and smithy until ...Read more

A memory of Penmark in 1860 by Chris Gabriel

Childhood Memories

My Father was stationed at nearby wittering,he retired & then he & my mum took on the Hare & Hounds public house,it was a tiny then until of course stuart & patterson did a welcomed re-furbishment!!This was the ...Read more

A memory of Greatford in 1960 by Dougie Brown

Houseboats In The Picture Of Bursledon Bridge

In the photo are several houseboats and yachts moored up to the bank on the LHS of the picture, which was 'Deacon's Boat Yard' (no relation to me!). I lived on the large white motor torpedo boat (when ...Read more

A memory of Bursledon in 1974 by Tim Deacon

Growing Up In South Woodford

I lived In Priory Close which faces the shops on South Woodford high road, I left when I married aged 19. My memories are of a wonderful childhood. I used to play out with all the other children who lived in the ...Read more

A memory of South Woodford in 1965 by gelobeney51

Change Of Ownership

I bought the proerty named "The Gatehouse", being the timber framed buiding to the left of the gateway, in 2007. There are various records in the church archives which relate to the building being ariginally being built for the ...Read more

A memory of Polesworth in 2007 by Bob Lodge

M2 Bridge Worker In St. Bart's Hospital

I remember being in St. Barts Hospital in 1961 or 1962, aged 11 or twelve, to have my appendix removed. At that time there was a construction worker recovering from a very serious injury received while working ...Read more

A memory of Rochester in 1961 by Keith Mungham

The Howard Family At Hammersmith And Barnes

My Great-Great-Grandad, Henry Howard, lived in the early 1800’s - a time of great rural depression - and so he left his Devon home to look for work in London with the result that several generations of ...Read more

A memory of Hammersmith in 1860 by John Howard Norfolk

My Life There

I remember the days when I lived on a farm that was owned by Mark Carter from Eccleshall Castle. I had so much fun living in Eccleshall that I didn't want to move when the farm was sold. I had loads of friends and good memories, I ...Read more

A memory of Eccleshall in 1970 by Caroline Owen

Aeron Express

The first time we visited Aberaeron, apart from the road bridge, one way of getting across the river was by the Aeron Express. Propelled by some sort of pulley arrangement, it looked like it could seat about 6 to 8 people. It wasn't ...Read more

A memory of Aberaeron by Trevor Page

Memories Of The Church

My best friends father used to be Vicar here back in 1960's (Rev J Gaunt).  Sabrina and I would hang around Hatch End at various places getting up to all sorts of mischief. I had my confirmation at this Church under the ...Read more

A memory of Hatch End by Elaine Stephens (Nee Ockwell)

Captions

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Caption For Sutton Coldfield, The Walkway By The Gracechurch Centre 2005

If you look around you'll see the emblem incorporated into various designs, including one of the walkways by the Gracechurch Centre.

Caption For Hemel Hempstead, Queen's Square C1960

The Mayor of Dacorum, Councillor Catherine Appleby, was greeted by the association's president, Hon Alderman Les Tabor, after which she opened the fair.

Caption For Formby, The Old Lifeboat Cottage C1965

The tower was a lookout tower, and many a sailor has been grateful after being rescued by the men who once manned this station.

Caption For Runcorn, Top Locks C1955

By the time of our photograph, the locks had been closed and filled in, so the canal finished here at Waterloo Bridge. The Waterloo Hotel is on the left on High Street.

Caption For Wallasey, Church And Tower 1895

It was destroyed by fire in 1857: by the time someone had raced to Birkenhead to alert the fire brigade, and they had harnessed the horses to the fire tenders and galloped back to Wallasey, little remained

Caption For Braughing, The Maltings And St Mary's Church C1960

Upstream, a few hundred yards before the river reaches the churchyard, the ford over the river is jealously guarded by the village ducks, geese and swans, who challenge pedestrians and motorists; usually

Caption For Norton, The Village C1950

Tea rooms and public houses, like the Three Horse Shoes (left), have always been a necessity in the village - when the estate was being investigated for purchase by the First Garden City company, Norton

Caption For Avebury, The High Street C1950

It is a Scheduled Monument, owned by the National Trust and protected by English Heritage. Along with Silbury Hill, it is a World Heritage Site.

Caption For Launceston, Newport 1935

The electorate consisted of those men who had a hearth in Newport and St Stephens, and they voted as they were ordered to by the Duke of Northumberland; this effectively meant that the Duke decided who

Caption For Wells, New College 1892

This was one of the houses held by the bishop and granted to the canons. Recently, extensive excavations in the garden revealed pottery and ceramics dating back to late Saxon times.

Caption For Ravenscar, The Terrace And Robin Hood's Bay 1901

In 1912 the charms of the coast were captured in films made by the Robin Hood Film Co from Bradford.

Caption For Preston, Dock, North Side C1960

Firefighting was hampered by the fact that the crew spoke no English, and could not be understood when they raised the alarm.

Caption For Henley On Thames, Temple Island 1899

By the 1890s the leisure boathouses and boat builders had taken over, interspersed with inns and hotels catering for the visitors who flocked to the river in and out of the Regatta season.

Caption For Glasgow, The Necropolis 1897

Glasgow received its first charter from King William the Lion in about 1175, and for the first time it was designated by the Latin term civitas (city).

Caption For Luton, The Town Hall C1960

The clean forceful lines of the neo- classical new town hall were in marked contrast to its rather sedate and friendly looking predecessor, built by the Luton architects John Williams & Sons

Caption For Whitby, West Cliff C1955

The big building by the harbour is Slaters, who exported many cargoes of lime at that time.

Caption For Glastonbury, The Tribunal 1886

It was later used by the infamous Judge Jeffreys when he was trying support- ers of the Duke of Monmouth after the failure of the Duke's rebellion.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Broad Street 1909

As with Whistler's other major Broad Street portrait, it was bought by the Boston Museum. Down the street, the Assembly Rooms (centre) can be seen protruding from behind Middle Row.

Caption For Launceston, Newport 1935

The electorate consisted of those men who had a hearth in Newport and St Stephens, and they voted as they were ordered to by the Duke of Northumberland; this effectively meant that the Duke decided who

Caption For Chelmsford, Queens Head Inn, High Street 1892

By the end of the 14th century these had solidified into a block of shops called Middle Row.

Caption For Chelmsford, Tindal Street 1906

By the end of the 14th century these had solidified into a block of shops called Middle Row.

Caption For Lynmouth, Countisbury Hill 1929

LYNMOUTH, set on the rocky north coast of Devon, was 'discovered' in 1812 by the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who stayed here with Harriet Westbrook, his first wife.

Caption For Huddersfield, Open Market 2005

market Huddersfield's Open Market, once the popular 'Monday Market', has been given a new lease of life by its relocation to the renovated former Wholesale Market, a listed building of 1889 designed by the

Caption For Wells, The Ancient Gatehouse C1960

The Mitre Inn had occupied three other sites here before vanishing by the late 19th century with the arrival of the temperance movement.