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The Whale

When I was about 10 / 11 years old our entire class, along with many other classes left Garelochhead Primary School, wound our way through Bendarroch Park, all crossed the road as uniformly as Mr Richmond (teacher) was able to manage; ...Read more

A memory of Garelochhead in 1976 by doogz66

Good Times In Willington Quay

I lived at 19 Church St, Willington Quay, just beside the ballast hills. My dad George worked at Cooksons, so we lived in company house - very big and quite grand. We had no electricity in those days but it ...Read more

A memory of Willington Quay in 1955 by Vivienne Duden

My First Home

My parents owned Unlawater House from 1963 until the 1970s. It was their first house when they were in their twenties and they ran it as a private children's home. I spent the first eight years of my life there and have great memories of ...Read more

A memory of Newnham in 1966 by Elizabeth Prankerd

As A Child I Lived In The Estate Office

As a child I lived in the estate office in the square, my father was estate bailiff for W J Brymer for all of the war years. I remember many of the troops were billeted with us in the house, at one time we ...Read more

A memory of Puddletown in 1940 by Richard Gaunt

1st Day At School

I remember walking up that drive in short grey trousers, new blazer, Kerry House tie and a school cap. The Calnebgs website has moved to www.calnebgs.com Cheers Martin

A memory of Calne in 1965 by Martin Summers

Summer Days

It was a happy childhood, I was born in Etwall in 1954 and our council house in Windmill Road is still our family home. Some of my fondest memories are the simple pleasures of life as a young lad in the 1950/60s. Always keen to get home ...Read more

A memory of Etwall in 1963 by Vince Cooper

Growing Up In Dovercourt

I have been trying to remember the exact dates when we lived in Dovercourt but I think it was something like 1953-57, while my father worked for the railway at Parkeston Quay. We first rented a place in Shaftesbury Avenue ...Read more

A memory of Dovercourt in 1955 by Robert Dingwall

First Love

Having lived at Downton from 1958, I grew up opposite Downton Holiday Camp. My father owned the builders next to the pub and I bought my first car at the garage 2 doors to the right. Somewhen in the mid 1960s  I met the new ...Read more

A memory of Downton in 1960 by Jeremy Jez Caesar

My Family Used To Own This!

A photo very similar to this hangs in my bedroom, I am a West and spent many a happy summers here. My family used to own the tearooms, my mother and her brother were caught in the fire in 1966 which resulted in the top ...Read more

A memory of Marlborough by Natalie West

Family Home

The greenhouses you see in this photo were my father's, he also built a house on the ground behind the trees after this photo was taken, we lived there for many happy years. My mother used to rent out the house in the summer months and had ...Read more

A memory of Mynytho by Dewi Griffiths

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Captions

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Caption For Wotton Under Edge, Church Street 1900

They were intended to house six poor men and six poor women of the town. A central domed cupola surmounts their six gables, each with its finial. Beyond is the Jolly Reaper inn.

Caption For East Ham, North Circular Road C1965

These terraces of neat Edwardian bay-windowed houses survive, and lead towards the Town Hall with its tower.

Caption For London, Chelsea, The Kings Road C1950

The dome belongs to Antiquarius, the well-known antiques centre, and the vast block of flats in the distance is the 1930s eleven-storey Whitelands House.

Caption For Sheringham, High Street 1921

The Mary Pym clock sits on top of the town's conduit, which had a trough for horses and a smaller one for dogs.

Caption For Boston Spa, Old Mill On The Wharfe 1893

Upstream is Flint Mill (operational from 1772 to 1954, now converted to a house); this is the larger Thorp Arch Manor Mill, recorded in the Doomsday Book.

Caption For East Keswick, General View C1960

Brooklands, the imposing houses to the right, were built in 1900 to cater for the many Leeds commuters using nearby Bardsey station (open from 1876 to 1964).

Caption For Great Dunmow, High Street C1965

The building on the left is the Tudor Town Hall, also known as the Town House or Geld Hall. It was certainly in existence in 1571, and is now occupied by Trembath Welch, the estate agents.

Caption For Burton Joyce, The New School C1965

Along Padleys Lane, which curves north out of the village amid 1950s and later estate houses, we pass Burton Joyce Primary School.

Caption For Daventry, The Moot Hall C1950

The building at the extreme left of the picture, behind the porch, was the first Methodist chapel in the town; it was later used to house Daventry's fire engine.

Caption For Daventry, High Street C1948

This building, a fine example of a Georgian town house, is now Barclays Bank.

Caption For Earlestown, The Parade C1965

premises have taken the place of some old one-storey shops; the new butchery department and offices take the place of a small brick hutment shop with the addition of a butcher's shop and house

Caption For Surbiton, St Raphael's Church, Portsmouth Road 1893

The estate was sold off after Alexander's death, and by 1855 a number of cottages and houses had been built in what are now Westfield Road, St Leonard's Road, and Cadogan Road.

Caption For Lindfield, Old Place C1955

After buying the farmhouse of Townlands Farm in 1875, Charles Kempe promptly began to enlarge the property in a style in keeping with the existing small house.

Caption For Pontefract, Beastfair 1964

The Merchants' Counting House, down Swale's Yard (right), was the meeting place for countless entrepreneurs from 1400 onwards; recently the building has been restored to an atmospheric pub.

Caption For Chiddingly, Muddles Green C1955

Behind the photographer is the 1906 village school, and on the right the green has been enlarged with new houses built in the 1990s, Willetts Field.

Caption For East Clandon, The Village C1955

The village has many attractive timber- framed and brick houses and cottages, now kept in immaculate order; these include Bay Tree Cottage on the left and Church Cottage on the right, which

Caption For Abingdon, Market Place 1890

The statue was presented to the town by Edwin James Trendell, who lived in Abbey House, and whose gardens occupied the site of the abbey church and monastic buildings.

Caption For Blackburn, Market 1894

Here we see the Market Hall (or House) from the rear, and the back of the Town Hall; its 20ft-high wall guards a courtyard.

Caption For Newent, Broad Street C1955

Newent has been a market town since Henry III granted it a charter in the 13th century, and it is appropriate that the Market House, which stands on stilts and is some four centuries old, is located

Caption For Seaton, Beach And Castle 1898

The building to the right, Cliff House, gained another storey soon after this photograph was taken; in the 1920s, it offered 'furnished apartments - an ideal spot for summer or winter residence

Caption For Stourport On Severn, The Mount, Gothic Arch 2003

The 19th century house is now a hotel (the Stourport Manor Hotel).

Caption For Clitheroe, Church Street C1960

Dates can be seen on house frontages - one drainpipe bears the date 1757.

Caption For Salthouse, The Dun Cow C1955

Situated on the main coast road, this public house is extremely convenient for tourists and the villagers.

Caption For St George, Clarendon School C1960

Kinmel Hall stands on a site said to date back to 1311, but this present country house emerged from the ashes of a former mansion destroyed by fire in 1848.