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Memories

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Holiday In Heavon

I remember travelling by coach to Edgeworth with my aunt and grandmother to stay at this lovely old house for a week that seemed like forever, in about 1943. I now find that this old house is called Duntisbourne Abbotts ...Read more

A memory of Duntisbourne Abbots in 1943

Gomersal Working Mens Club

Does anyone have any pictures of Gomersal Working Mens Club. I was born there in 1957 and my parents were the Landlord and Landlady - Mr & Mrs Potter. I would love to see some pictures of the house and hear of ...Read more

A memory of Heckmondwike in 1960 by Margaret Barrett

Woodland Blaenavon

My Grandmother Abigail Owens was born in a street called Woodland, in Blaenavon. She is on the 1891 census aged 4 but there is not a house number. Many years later in 1944 my mother Thelma, Abigails daughter, stayed at 92 High ...Read more

A memory of Blaenavon

Visits To My Grandfathers @Fullers End

Every year in our school holidays we would stay at my aunt's house at Sawbridgeworth and all my family would meet at my grandfather's house at Fullers End, Elsenham for a day. Me and my brother, Thomas, would ...Read more

A memory of Elsenham in 1949 by Michael Marlow

Find My Family The Flemings

Hello anyone who can help me! My dad was born in the Renton. I am trying to find any of my aunts/uncles or cousins. My dad's name was Alexander (Alec) Fleming. He was one of five brothers, Bill, Dan, Jim and Tommy. There ...Read more

A memory of Renton in 1960 by Ann Webb

Charlemont Avenue

I lived in Charlemont Avenue as a child for several years until 1966. I remember Charlemont Farm Estate being built, a group of us spent many hours investigating half built houses and flats - no health and safety in those ...Read more

A memory of West Bromwich by Sally Foster

The Old Village

I remember George's second hand shop in the village, my nan would take me and my brother there for a treat that was the highlight of the week for us. Also the pie and eel shop, with the brightly coloured tiles outside on the wall. ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham in 1951 by Norma Dignum

My Birthplace

My mother, Lily Mathtews and I, were both born in the same miner's cottage at 109 Station Rd, just cross from the Welcome Church. She was born in 1903 and I in 1932. My granny, Ada, was an artist and moved to 8 Sunnyside, and during ...Read more

A memory of Cramlington in 1940 by Charles Mc Gregor

Some Of My Early Years In Old Eccles

I lived in Eccles from 1939 until 1942 and went to Eccles Parish School. I lived in Evelin Street, off Salters Lane. There was a big gang of young kids inbetween the the houses. At Ladywell Hospital there was large ...Read more

A memory of Eccles by Robert Scott

Life In A Kent Village During World War Two

Benenden was my home for the first 5 years of my life. We lived in Greenwood, a lovely white Kentish weather-boarded house on the Cranbrook Road, sadly knocked down and modernised a couple of years ago. I ...Read more

A memory of Benenden in 1940 by Anthony Doran

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Captions

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Caption For Cottesmore, The Sun Inn C1955

This wonderfully atmospheric pub, now an Everards house, is photographed before the universal advent of lager and 'Kids Welcome'.

Caption For Penrith, Aerial View C1953

On the same side, behind the Musgrave Monument are the white ashlar premises erected for the National Provincial Bank, now housing the National Westminster Bank.

Caption For Hailsham, Wesleyan Church 1902

To the left, the bell turret belongs to the Old Court House and former police station, built a little earlier in 1861.

Caption For Hailsham, High Street 1902

To the right the ivy-clad house is now a shop, Tendring Garden, and of course now without the railings.

Caption For Haslemere, High Street C1955

On the right is the Georgian House Hotel in buildings dating from around 1740.

Caption For Milford, The Cross Roads C1960

Lloyds bank has gone, and its premises are now called Bargate House, and the tall lime tree in the garden of Vine Court (left of centre) is no more.

Caption For Abingdon, Bath Street C1965

There is a good range of Tudor and 17th-century timber- framed houses on the right, all with rendered fronts.

Caption For Corfe Castle, The Cross 1899

Beyond is the 18th-century Town House, with the Mayor's robing room upstairs, and teas offered downstairs at 8d each.

Caption For Lower Slaughter, The Mill And Pond C1950

The long, low 17th-century house, right, has fine stone-mullioned and drip- headed windows.

Caption For Twickenham, Church 1899

The Queen's Head public house on the left can be dated back to the 17th century.

Caption For Bolney, Main Street 1957

The tower of the church of St Mary Magdalene can be seen behind the houses on the left.

Caption For Haywards Heath, Perrymont Road And Commercial Square C1950

Beyond the bus stop on the left-hand side is the Perrymount cinema, which also housed a dance hall and a café.

Caption For Cromer, East Beach From The Pier 1954

The Bath Hotel (centre) is situated on the site of Bath House, which was smashed into pieces by a very high tide in 1836.

Caption For Grange Over Sands, Main Street 1912

The third one up the road proclaims 'breakfast, dinner and tea services, toilet and glassware', and the second one 'houses furnished for cash or on the hire purchase system'.

Caption For Chilham, The Square 1903

many claim is Kent's prettiest village: the tower of its 15th- century flint-stone church of St Mary looks down on this spacious square lined with half- timbered Tudor and Jacobean cottages, houses

Caption For Calne, Central Gardens C1960

The Lloyds Bank building (right), originally a pair of attached houses, was built about 1870 before the decorative façade was added in two stages.

Caption For Charlwood, The Old Mill 1906

It looks in this view more like a dovecote, and was converted to a house in 1934. The miller's wagon poses proudly in front of the mill.

Caption For Puddletown, The Square C1965

This view is eastwards from Tudor Cottage and Mill Street; the trees are in Ilsington House grounds and beside the parish church (right- hand background).

Caption For Kings Lynn, Nelson Street 1908

To the left of the photograph we can see the gable of the Valiant Sailor public house, which abutted with Priory Lane.

Caption For Broughton Astley, The Stream C1967

The photograph looks south-east along the culverted stream bordering Station Road, with housing of the 1920s and 30s on the extreme right.

Caption For Liverpool, Custom House 1887

Liverpool's fifth Customs House was built on the site of the Old Dock and opened in 1839.

Caption For Newhaven, Fishermen's Cottages 1897

On the west coat of England, the old fishing communities tended to be housed in cottages with thatched roofs.

Caption For Calne, The Old Alms Houses (1682) C1955

Originally built as eight houses in 'limewashed limestone rubble with ashlar ridge stone mullioned windows', in what Pevsner refers to as 'the local vernacular style', they were later