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Maps

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Books

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Memories

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Clare School

I was at Clare School in the latter part of the fifties and recently visited East Coker and was unable to find the school. Mr H T Bowden started the school. What has happened to the old building?

A memory of East Coker in 1957 by Robin Mc Cormack

My Fading Memories

I was but a lad of 8 when my folks bundled us all off to a wide land downunder. Since 1968, Australia has been my home. I often speak of my fading memories of Queensbury, my walks through the village, living on 'The Mountain', ...Read more

A memory of Queensbury in 1968 by Stephen Mckinley

Sundays

Sundays were memorable, after a proper Sunday roast we would walk from our house at Chingford Hatch, up to the Royal Forest Hotel, then through the woods to the Owl pub, we would sit in the gardens with a drink and a bag of crisps, they had ...Read more

A memory of Chingford in 1956 by Christine Jeffrey

A Family Business

To anyone local to Dorchester this was a familiar scene day in and day out for almost 50 years. My grandfather Ben Courtney started selling 'fruit and veg' in 1947 from hand-carts on the roadside. His son Doug started in 1950 and ...Read more

A memory of Dorchester in 1955 by Trevor Courtney

Sparrows

I remember Sparrows very well. I lived in Laxfield from 1967 - 1972 I remember going up to the attic at Christmas time and buying some goodies. Also, I remember the phone box outside, a friend and I got into trouble for making false phone ...Read more

A memory of Laxfield by Jane Johnson

In The House Of The Laird

My parents were 'in service' to the local 'laird' who was Lord Doune, traditionally the eldest son of the Earl of Moray and owner of lands around Doune. Lord Doune owned the beautiful old mansion on the hill 1.5 miles north of ...Read more

A memory of Doune in 1948 by Alastair Macdonald

Salters Lode C1900 Painting

I have a painting by Charles A Challis c1900 of Salters Lode. I've tried to research him & believe he was a schoolmaster at Salters Lode or nearby.

A memory of Salters Lode in 1900

Wickham Bishops Born And Bred

In 1950 I was born on a cold winter's night to my mother Rosemary Jesse, at 'The Black Houses', Kelvedon Road, Wickham Bishops, built by architect, designer and socio-economic theorist Arthur Heygate Macmurdo. I ...Read more

A memory of Wickham Bishops by Marilyn Jesse

Blacksmith's Yard

My paternal grandmother Annie Cowell came from Stanford and I have always been led to believe that the space on the left of the house in the foreground, where the trees are, was the site of her father's blacksmith's ...Read more

A memory of Stanford-le-Hope in 1940 by Gordon Mead

Youngs Bakers And Saint Saviours

I went to Saint Saviours around approx 1967/1968. We used to live at Number 6, Webster Gardens. My grandparents used to own Youngs Bakers which was opposite Ealing Studios and my father and his brother used to do the ...Read more

A memory of Ealing in 1963 by Jayne Young

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Captions

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Caption For Penrice, The Castle, Tower Lodge 1910

The earliest castle was an earthwork and timber fortification at Mounty Brough, built soon after the Normans had taken the Gower.

Caption For Eton, College And Street 1895

At the junction of Common Road and Slough Road, two College schoolboys, one carrying a cricket bat over his right shoulder, are seen walking past the 'Burning Bush'.

Caption For Cambridge, King's Parade 1933

This photograph looks out onto King's Parade from the front of King's College. To the left is the Senate House, while the tower with four distinctive turrets belongs to the Church of Great St Mary.

Caption For Hinxton, Red Lion C1960

Very few changes have been made to this attractive 16th-century coaching inn since the photograph was taken.

Caption For Rugby, Clifton Road C1950

ST ANDREW'S Parish Church is situated in Church Street, opposite the site of the original School House.

Caption For Alderley Edge, The Wizard Inn 1896

All the local farming families tried to get back to Alderley for Wakes week in the third week of August.

Caption For Romsey, Sadler's Mill C1955

Most written material about Romsey's mills seems to relate to problems in obtaining that most important item — water. Romsey's mills depended on the river Test and its branches for their power.

Caption For Wrotham, The Church 1901

St George's Church, chiefly 13th- and 15th-century, boasts an imposing tower with a vaulted passage at its base to allow processions to remain on consecrated land.

Caption For Froggatt, Bridge 1896

The elegant double-span bridge over the River Derwent at Froggatt dates from the 17th century; it is unusual in that it has a large, pointed central arch nearer to the village and a smaller one on the

Caption For Metfield, The Village Street C1960

The group of cottages on the right, now called Honeymoon Row, have had many subsequent changes made to the roofline and dormer windows.

Caption For Pulborough, Clements Bridge 1906

Along the southern boundary of Pulborough lies the River Arun, popular with Edwardian fishermen and boating enthusiasts.

Caption For Stiffkey, Aa Camp C1955

The Stiffkey Anti-Aircraft training camp was erected as a satellite to the larger AA camp at Weybourne in the late 1930s.

Caption For Clevedon, The Pier 1892

In late Victorian tour guides, Clevedon was noted for its good beach, its pier, and the surrounding countryside, which was considered to be exceptionally beautiful.

Caption For Barnard Castle, 1914

Trinity Methodist church stands at the bottom end of Galgate, and was completed in 1894.

Caption For Eastbourne, Marine Parade 1901

Past the Georgian remains of Sea Houses, at the junction of Royal Parade with Seaside, is the flamboyant Albion Hotel, now renamed the Carlton Hotel, its red brick all colour- washed.

Caption For Littlebourne, High Street C1955

Littlebourne is one of the charming villages which are scattered throughout the orchard-rich swathe of countryside which reaches between Canterbury and Wingham.

Caption For Sherborne, The Castle C1955

There has been a castle at Sherborne for nearly a thousand years. King Stephen seized an earlier fortress in 1139, during the Anarchy.

Caption For Oakengates, Market Street C1955

Only the traffic and styles of dress seem to have changed.

Caption For Marlborough, The College, Preshute House 1910

Built in the early 19th century, Preshute House was home to the Rev P W Taylor, MA at the time of this photograph.

Caption For Chester, Eastgate Street 1891

The Rows are a unique feature to Chester; they provide shops on two levels, the roofs of the shops at street level forming a pedestrian walkway for the shops on the second level.

Caption For Dalton In Furness, Tudor Square 1966

Bus shelters, one with a shopper waiting, occupy Tudor Square, once called Bally Green, at the end of Market Street, which is Dalton's main shopping street.

Caption For Trenarren, Black Head 1912

Black Head is at the west end of the true St Austell Bay.

Caption For Carlyon Bay, The Carlyon Bay Hotel 1930

Tourism was boosted in 1930 by the opening of the high-class Carlyon Bay Hotel on a headland overlooking St Austell Bay.

Caption For Prittlewell, The Church 1891

The Church of St Mary stands at the top of the hill above the old Cluniac Priory of Prittlewell.