Places

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Maps

18 maps found.

Books

13 books found. Showing results 793 to 13.

Memories

4,612 memories found. Showing results 331 to 340.

Childhood Wwebsters Village Shop

I was born in 1951. My parents owned the W Websters store in Barmoor Lane. I believe the old premises is now known as Orchard Cottage. I remember the sandshoes for sale dangling from the rafters and the butter was ...Read more

A memory of Ryton in 1957

Smithy House

1969, I visited my great aunt Vi and great uncle Frank at the Smithy House. His anvil is in the center of town. Frank Topley, the last village blacksmith.

A memory of Rolleston on Dove in 1969 by G Ribbeck

Growing Up In A Small Village

My parents moved to Twycross from London in the early 1960s. We lived on Sheepy Road next door to Mr Charlie Brooks and Louie Jones. On the opposite side were Stan and Ilma Jones and Len Gibbs and his daughter Joan. I ...Read more

A memory of Twycross by Tracy Wright

A Glance Backwards

I came to live in Stadhampton in 1954 from Henley on Thames. My father was the village Policeman. I found that even for 1954 life in Stadhampton was comparatively primitive compared with what I was used to! But it was a very ...Read more

A memory of Stadhampton in 1954 by John Harker

Holidays In Laugharne

I and my family stayed at the Ferry House, next to the Boat House from 1965 to 1973. The house was then owned by the wife of my dad's boss and we used to be able to go for a fortnight each summer. We used to park our car, with ...Read more

A memory of Laugharne in 1965 by Julia Hammonds

Raf Radar At Inverbervie

I was based in Inverbervie from March 1957 till March 1958 with 977 Signals Unit of the Royal Air Force. 977 SU operated radar from an underground site on the hill a couple of miles north of the village. Height finding ...Read more

A memory of Inverbervie in 1957 by Martin Dilly

Rayne In 1950 1960

I was born in Rayne and in the 1950s.I have fond memories of being able to play various sports in the road at School Road with my brother Peter and friend Richard Dodd, gaining a few more players as word got around! We used to mark ...Read more

A memory of Rayne by Hugh Walker

The Chequers Inn

Annette and I (Annette Schofield and George Allen) became landlords of the Chequers (no longer a pub) on 23 January 1967. It was a BYB pub and James Hubert Dibb was the landlord before us. We ran the pub for about 18 months and ...Read more

A memory of Monk Fryston in 1967 by George Allen

Hubert Atkinson

Hubert Atkinson was my grandfather and his mother lived in the house next to the blacksmiths. I was born in 1961 and have a photo of my great-grandmother, mother and grandfather standing outside the cottage (with me in her arms). ...Read more

A memory of East Harlsey in 1961 by Stephen Byrne

My Village In Youth

I was born in Wellington in 1936 and grew up there for the first 10 years,living in No 3 Rumwell Cottages in the centre of the village. I remember just before D-Day all of the American troops passing our house on the way to ...Read more

A memory of Rumwell in 1944 by John Naylor

Captions

5,016 captions found. Showing results 793 to 816.

Caption For Wass, Main Street C1955

Here we see the entrance to the charming little village of Wass, which lies in a shallow valley under the wooded southern escarpment of the Hambleton Hills, seen in the background.

Caption For Runswick, From The Beach C1885

The older houses of this charming little village, like many others on this coast, are built hanging precariously onto a cliff. The villagers once relied almost solely on fishing.

Caption For Walberswick, Village 1919

The pub and the tea room (right) point to the village's new role. A trader is about to make a sale, but he will not make a fortune from this cart unless all of Walberswick turns out.

Caption For Abbots Bromley, The Market Place C1955

There are quite a few old, half-timbered buildings still extant in the village, but perhaps the most interesting is the old market house, which can be seen on the left of the picture.

Caption For Amberley, The Village 1901

Like most of the villages in this area, Amberley played its part in the cloth making industry, but the larger houses built on the higher level of the steep hillside were well away from

Caption For Crays Hill, London Road C1955

Pump Cottage (in the middle of our photo) was—as the name suggests—the source of the village's water-supply. It dates from about 1860. The well pre-dated the cottage by a decade.

Caption For Bromborough, Raby Mere C1955

Raby Mere lies two miles east of the village of Raby, and has always been a popular Wirral destination, especially with Sunday School outings.

Caption For Prestbury, The Burgage C1955

The word 'burgage' is an old legal term referring to a plot of land in a town for which a tenant paid a yearly rent in money or service to the landlord.

Caption For Goring, Thatched Cottage 1896

The ivy-clad inn on the left of the photograph is the Miller of Mansfield, a famous pub in the Thames Valley.

Caption For Boscastle, The Village 1906

Boscastle's steep, narrow roads with their tricky hairpins have reduced the impact of development; Old Hill looks much the same today as it did in 1906.

Caption For Garsington, The Village C1955

Garsington derives its name from the Anglo Saxon 'gaerse dun', which means 'grassy hill'.

Caption For Childrey, The Pond C1960

The duck pond, a typical feature of many Oxfordshire villages, has changed very little since this photograph was taken.

Caption For St Athan, The Village C1955

This village is near the mouth of the river Thaw, twelve miles from Cardiff. The car on the left is an Austin, and behind it is an MG.

Caption For Finedon, The Village C1950

Finedon is a large, scattered village with many houses and cottages built by the last squire of the village who tragically lost all three of his sons.

Caption For Falmer, The Village C1960

This flint and brick village on the downs north of Brighton is now severed in two by the main A27. The village pond is an old dewpond; it is surrounded by sarsen stones found on the downs.

Caption For Grantchester, The Village 1929

The poet Rupert Brooke died in the Dardanelles in 1915. In the years that followed, the village became a popular place to visit, with a number of places of refreshment springing up.

Caption For Winster, Main Street C1955

Winster Rocks, also known as Wyns Tor, is an outcrop of Dolomitic limestone to the south of the village, on what is now a long distance footpath known as the Limestone Way.

Caption For Winster, View From The Rocks C1960

Winster Rocks, also known as Wyns Tor, is an outcrop of Dolomitic limestone to the south of the village, on what is now a long distance footpath known as the Limestone Way.

Caption For Broadway, China Square 1899

Both Charles I and Oliver Cromwell stayed in the village during the Civil War. This tumble-down cottage had probably changed little since those stirring times.

Caption For Weston Under Redcastle, Hawkstone Park, The Lake C1955

Unfortunately, when the bypass was built it actually went right through the village, cutting off the original settlement on the hill with its church from the later roadside settlement.

Caption For Staithes, C1885

This view and view No 79002 show how Staithes nestles in the shadow of the two mighty cliffs.

Caption For Buriton, Pond 1898

Located at the western extremity of the South Downs, Buriton captures the essence of the traditional English vil- lage.

Caption For Polkerris, The Village C1960

The gable end of the lifeboat house is seen in the background, almost at the end of the road through the village.

Caption For Runswick, The Village C1885

The fishing village of Runswick Bay is set on a sheer cliff. It is also one of the most attractive harbourless villages along the Yorkshire coast.