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Happy Memories

I belonged to St Matthew's Church Choir in Stretford, Manchester as a chorister, and every May bank holiday the choir had a week's vacation at Nash Court.  In those days it was a national association of boys' clubs venue. There were ...Read more

A memory of Nash in 1963 by Roy Lardner

Parkstone Girls' Grammar School

This was the entrance to Parkstone Girls' Grammar school where I went from 1956, with Miss Allen as headmistress, until we moved to the present site in Sopers Lane in, I think, 1960 or 61, when these buildings were taken ...Read more

A memory of Poole in 1956 by Marion Brown

Re Tony Bros Ice Cream

I remember Tony Bros ice cream parlour off Acton High Street. On some Sundays my father would take me for a treat for a cornet or wafer scooped out of the big drum on the counter, it was always after giving our dog Sally ...Read more

A memory of South Harefield by Frank Morrison

Pavenham 1945 1970

This is the village where I grew up, my parents moving into their very old, somewhat dilapidated cottage at the end of the war. This was 'The Folly' at the eastern end of the village opposite one of Tandy's farms. Why it had that name ...Read more

A memory of Pavenham by Stephen Wessel

Wc Sa Great Place To Be

My name is Linda Ashton and I was at WCS 1960-61. This was my 4th boarding school and was far and away the happiest! It felt like family with Mr and Mrs Savage as surrogate mum and dad! I was there because of ...Read more

A memory of Warnham Court School in 1960 by Linda Ashton

Our Early Life

We lived my Dad (Roly Inman) Mum (Topsy Inman) with me Michael, and Roger in Shotover up the rough lane off the road by the grass triangle and near the school. I remember Miss Swithenbank who used to teach and lived in ...Read more

A memory of Burley in Wharfedale in 1950 by Michael Inman

School Hoildays

The days when you could let your children out to play and not worry. We used to sneak up in the hole in the fence to play in the big oak tree that sits above the shelter. It was our camp and was called the Five Oaks. We took food ...Read more

A memory of Aylesbury in 1969 by Debbie Westwood

The Pantiles And The Broadway

I was born in Hurlingham Road, off The Pantiles during the war. The air raid shelters were still there for many years, and the allotments. School was a walk to Bedonwell Primary, joining others on the way. Weekly ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath in 1947 by Mary Wright

Passfield Common.

This photo shows the common looking southeast towards Liphook. The common was a favourite haunt for Canadian troops and local girls during WW2. Spent many hours gathering bracken for bedding for my rabbits, and roaming across it's ...Read more

A memory of Passfield in 1940

Days Gone By

Stumbled across this site and have enjoyed the memories of old barking and the shops it had, thought that I should add my recollections and fill in a few blanks from the sixties and seventies, so starting from the Bull Pub and Heading ...Read more

A memory of Barking by andycairns

Captions

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Caption For Castor, Peterborough Road C1955

This scene has changed little in the past 50 years, apart from the Royal Oak (left) losing its hanging sign and side entrance in the 1980s after a couple of lorries demolished the porch!

Caption For Abergavenny, St Mary's Church, The Herbert Chapel 1898

The reclining oak figure of Jesse in the background has been moved to the north transept to give it more prominence.

Caption For Portchester, Castle Street C1960

There is a small green where an oak tree was planted marking the 1935 Jubilee. Portchester has a railway station.

Caption For York, Guildhall C1885

Each of the pillars in the main hall are from a single oak tree donated by the county families of Yorkshire.

Caption For Thorpe Market, The Tower Gunton Park C1955

There are lakes and extensive woodlands in the park, and also an old oak tree whose height is 42ft and whose girth is 21ft 6ins.

Caption For York, Guildhall C1885

Each of the pillars in the main hall are from a single oak tree donated by the county families of Yorkshire.

Caption For Froxfield Green, The Lychgate And War Memorial C1965

It is oak built and stands in the shade of an ancient yew tree. An inscription on the memorial says 'Sons of this place let this of you be said that you who live are worthy of your dead.'

Caption For Emery Down, The Swan Inn C1960

There are plenty of oak trees, foxgloves and thatched cottages in this pretty New Forest village.

Caption For Ifield, The Village 1905

It was a small and sleepy Sussex village, until then remote in the rolling landscape of the western Weald, a landscape of small dense hedged fields and oak trees.

Caption For Abbey Dore, Dore Abbey C1965

The restoration of the roof required the wood of 204 Herefordshire oak trees.

Caption For Abbey Dore, Dore Abbey C1965

The restoration of the roof required the wood of 204 Herefordshire oak trees.

Caption For Grendon Underwood, Crucks C1960

The name of this cottage is a reminder of a very important medieval and late medieval building tradition in this area, possibly associated with the abundance of oak trees in the Bernwood Forest and

Caption For Oakley, Post Office Corner C1960

The name of this cottage is a reminder of a very important medieval and late medieval building tradition in this area, possibly associated with the abundance of oak trees in the Bernwood Forest and

Caption For Abergavenny, Church, Interior Of Herbert Chapel 1893

The reclining oak figure in the background of this photograph has now been moved to the north transept to give it more prominence.

Caption For Bridport, West Street 1913

Market stalls for animals can be seen between the trees. In the centre is the Royal Oak Hotel and the Wilts and Dorset Bank. Next door (right) Charles Edward Bazley offers Humber and Swift bicycles.

Caption For Winsford, Village 1892

This delightful village of whitewashed cottages focused on a stream has changed little; the tall pine tree has gone, but its stone-walled surround remains.

Caption For Oxted, High Street 1928

Originally called 'Ac stede', 'the place of oak trees', old Oxted now has the busy A25 sweeping through its High Street, and it is unlikely that the two mothers with prams would envisage making such casual

Caption For Amersham, Chesham Road C1955

The oak trees at the junction with Chesham Road have survived while Rectory Hill becomes Sycamore Road to the right of the junction.

Caption For Brampton, The Green C1955

This view showing the now disappeared telephone kiosk was taken from the spot where forty years later the Rt Honourable John Major, a local resident, planted an oak tree to commemorate 100

Caption For Newtown Linford, C1960

This photograph is dominated by a fine example of a stag-head oak, a normal condition, not a dying tree.

Caption For Redbourn, The Memorial And Village C1955

The trees ... are very fine: oak, ashes and beeches; some of the finest of each sort.

Caption For Newtown Linford, C1960

This photograph is dominated by a fine example of a stag-head oak, a normal condition, not a dying tree.

Caption For Quatford, The Church Of St Mary Magdalene C1960

She met her husband under a nearby oak tree (which still survives!) and then built the first church on this site.

Caption For St Neots, High Street 1925

The Westminster Bank (right) has taken over from Ellwoods, and the trees have begun to grow in the front yard to the Congregational Church.