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Memories

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Wilcot School

I went to Wilcot School from 1943 to 49. Miss Brooks taught little ones. Big boys had to fetch water from the well for each classroom. The crate of milk bottles stood next to the tortoise stove that heated the classroom but we had to ...Read more

A memory of Wilcot in 1949 by Dorothy French

Life In County Oak

I was born in the cottage that was named Morning Dawn in 1937. The house is now a Muslim mosque. I remember the recreation area very well. We played there often. My dad had an allotment nearby. I remember the Covey and Brown ...Read more

A memory of Crawley in 1940 by Ian Cheeseman

My Childhood Memories Of Life In Hooley

Our family lived in The Fruit Shop (the shop currently sells doors) between 1958-’64. Mum and Dad served customers with the support of Mrs Garner,a rotund jolly lady who lived in Star Lane. Dad could often be ...Read more

A memory of Hooley in 1958 by Jan Herd

From 1940 But Historically Long Before

Along with my mother Ruby, I was evacuated to Alconbury on my birthday, 23 September 1940. Unknown to me, my paternal grandparents had already moved there and were in residence in Chapel Street. My Mum and I ...Read more

A memory of Alconbury in 1940 by Barry W J Chandler

Scottie Road

I lived in Chapel Gardens next to St Anthony's church, there were only 3 houses in our street, the Greggs, Mcartheys and us Hawkins. I went to St Anthony's School and left in 1957 when we moved to Kirkby. I worked in Scotts Bakery in ...Read more

A memory of Liverpool in 1957 by Cathy Thomson

Upper Bourne End

My brothers and I returned to Bourne End at the end of the war. We had been evacuated to Nottingham. We lived in a small house called "The Nest". It was the last house on the road. Lunnon's Farm backed on to all the houses and a ...Read more

A memory of Bourne End in 1945 by Eileen Savedra

Some Historical Facts Of The Plumbs In Barroby

The newspaper published at Grantham in England, the original home of the ancestors of the well known Plumb and Parker families of Mills, Pottawattamie, Cass and Shelby Counties, recently carried a story ...Read more

A memory of Barrowby by Alan Plumb

Heather And Gorse Clog Morris Entertain At The Teign House Inn Christow

It was the weekend of the Royal Wedding and on Sunday, the day before the May Bank Holiday, everyone was in a party mood. We took a party of dancers and musicians to the ...Read more

A memory of Christow in 2011 by John Howard Norfolk

Weston Road

This photo brings back memories for me. This picture must have been taken from opposite my home. I was born on Weston Road and my father still lives in the old family house.

A memory of Runcorn

Sawtry 1901 And 1968

Somehow fate seems to draw me to places where some of my ancestors have been living, yet I was born in London. In 1968 I bought a house in Sawtry, off St. Judith's Lane, and where I lived until returning to Sweden in 1974. Now, ...Read more

A memory of Sawtry by Barry W J Chandler

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Captions

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Caption For Retford, Chesterfield Canal C1955

This has now gone, to be replaced by the caretaker's house for the Elizabethan High School, whose grounds are behind the fence on the left.

Caption For Daventry, Dryden Avenue C1965

Looking down New Street to the Moot Hall, we can see on the right a brick Georgian house where many BBC trainees lodged in the 1960s.

Caption For Uppingham, High Street C1950

It was built in 1859 by Rev R Hodgkinson as a school boarding house and named after Rev 'Spot' Constable, one of its most illustrious housemasters.

Caption For Uppingham, West End, High Street C1955

The buildings are a mixture of 18th- century cottages and 19th-century grander houses which were built on the site of former farmyards.

Caption For Rothley, The Temple C1955

The triple gables of the early 17th-century house form the centrepiece, with flanking wings. John Ely, a Manchester architect, added the Tudoresque bay window to the right in 1894.

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Caption For Basildon, C1955

In the distance, right of centre, is the long, pale form of the recently-completed Keay House.

Caption For Waterlooville, London Road C1965

Here a few Victorian houses survive, mostly rendered, some with verandahs. Further north is a small oak forest. To the north-west is the church of St George, rebuilt in 1970 with a concrete tower.

Caption For Woodhall Spa, Golf Hotel C1965

The building was formerly the Clevedon House Preparatory School and a boarding school for boys. Almost next door to this attractive hotel is the English National Golf Centre.

Caption For Gilling West, Village 1913

The village shop and post office in the distance beyond the children still functions, but the shop-like Gilling Club (to the left of the woman in the middle of the road) has become a house

Caption For Westerham, The Green C1955

by the copper statue of General James Wolfe, the conqueror of Quebec in 1759, who was born at the local vicarage and spent his childhood here at the 17th-century building subsequently renamed Quebec House

Caption For Burton Bradstock, The Village C1955

The Three Horseshoes public house is behind the parked cars (centre).

Caption For Grange Over Sands, From Allithwaite Road 1921

A housing development has grown up in the field from which the picture was taken.

Caption For Beer, The Village C1955

In the foreground is the Beach House Hotel, now Beach Court (left), with the Marine Snack Bar on the opposite side of the road.

Caption For Chigwell, Bald Hind Hotel C1955

This is an Edwardian building, but there has been a house of this name here since at least the 18th century.

Caption For Odiham, The Stocks 1903

A four-hour period in the stocks was the usual reward for misdemeanours such as blasphemy, drunkenness, vagrancy or breaking the Sabbath.

Caption For Somerton, Long Sutton And Langport Roads 1904

The thatched house in Langport Road was rebuilt in about 1910. Everything somehow looks less characterful, and more sanitised.

Caption For Sewerby, The Hall C1885

The house and grounds were bought by Bridlington Council in 1934 and opened to the public by Amy Johnson.

Caption For Ditchling, High Street C1965

A range of 16th-century houses and cottages descends the hill towards a central crossroads, notably Old Forge, Bowries and Ricksteddle.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Harbour 1890

Further along Marine Parade is the coastguard station (right) opposite the Custom House, the latte replacing an earlier building in the middle of the town which burned down in 1844.

Caption For Chideock, 1927

The row of council houses is at Broadmead (left foreground).

Caption For Berwick, Drusilla's Park, The Cottage C1955

The lane leads to Alfriston further down the Cuckmere River, a popular tourist village with its Clergy House.

Caption For Michelham Priory, The Gatehouse C1965

The 'island' formed by the moat is entered over a 16th- century bridge and through a fine 15th-century Wealden sandstone gatehouse, seen here from within the moat; the house is out of view

Caption For Mobberley, The Bird In Hand C1955

The Bird in Hand is the most easterly of four old public houses serving the community.

Caption For Malmesbury, The Market Cross C1955

At a much later date, in 1997, the Abbeyfield Society took over the premises and opened Abbeyfield House, providing sheltered accommodation for the elderley.