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Memories

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2 High Street

I spent an idyllic childhood in Wargrave from 1944 until 1955/6. It was wonderful. We moved on to Twyford when I was 11 as our house was torn down and replaced by the fish shop. I wonder if the Chapel which was behind these houses is ...Read more

A memory of Wargrave by Susan Coleman

Home Memories.

I moved into these cottages with my family in 1935 and my parents were there until 1959. Originally it was a barn hence the name 'Barn Row' and was converted into cottages in 1836 as marked in the brickwork on the other side ...Read more

A memory of Paglesham Churchend in 1930 by Claire Allen

Golden Memories Of Childhood Days

Central Hall I believe used to house the big Saturday market!, Tooting was a Saturday trip out as a boy from Mitcham, I can vaguely remember many special days, going to the pictures, and the joke shop on the Mitcham ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1963 by David Buettner Banks

The Lock

I was looking through the photes of Beverley, the man in the picture of the Lock, in the flat cap and shirt sleeves must be Mr Block. He used to come round to my house when I was a boy selling mushrooms that he collected on Figham.

A memory of Beverley in 1960 by Tony Foster

My Old School

This is a view which I know very well as it is taken from Hardgate School playground - the school that I attended from 1939 to 1946.   The little cottage on the left was occupied by Peter McAlister & his family and the next ...Read more

A memory of Haugh of Urr by Jim Cook

Great Grays

I was born in 1942 in Hathaway Rd at my Nan's. We moved to Milton road. When small I remember the house being damaged by the rocket that fell in the pit. Later playing on the bomb site in Cromwell Road. Went to Quarry Hill school, remember ...Read more

A memory of Grays by Carl Thomson

Saturday Cinema

I was born in 1950 at my grandparents house on Quebec Street, in the Werneth/Westwood area. I lived in Limeside at 86, Pine Tree Road and attended Limehurst junior school and then went on to Hollins Secondary school. Saturday always saw ...Read more

A memory of Oldham by Larry Walton

Tulse Hill Garden Which Bordered Brockwell Park

Where the present Tulse Hill Tesco Shop and Esso Petrol station stands today, was the home of my grandfather Alfred John Thomas from the 1920's to the 1950's. Through the 1960's & 70's his daughter ...Read more

A memory of Brixton by Gemma Gemma

In 1939 At 222 Stone Street Tobacconist & Confectioner Edward John Russell

Edward John Russell was born in 1888, by 1939 his father John Small Russell was deceased but his mother Mary Emma nee Tyler from High Halden was a widow aged 75, living with His wife Ada nee Butler. They also had a daughter Hazel Russell aged 18 who helped in the house.

A memory of Cranbrook by Gemma Gemma

My Boyhood Memories. With My Grandad

I hope that anyone left of my family can read this, as now being 72 , I lost all track of coming to Kent. My home town was Lytham St Annes where my mother lived and dad was in the RAF and met my mother there. My ...Read more

A memory of Faversham by Peter Manuel

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Captions

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Caption For Abridge, The Village C1960

The Malsters Arms (left), originally a beer-house, is still very much the same, although it has expanded into the cottages to the left.

Caption For Great Bardfield, High Street 1903

Bardfield has a wealth of old buildings: the house on the left is 15th-century, as is Gobions - the distant white house.

Caption For Thaxted, Clarence House C1960

Clarence House is now one of Essex County Council`s community education centres: it runs such things as residential art courses.

Caption For Parham, The Village C1955

Church Farm (right) of c1480 is a hall house with cross wings. The parlour wing is double jettied, with the arms of the de Ufford family, Earls of Suffolk, under the oriel window.

Caption For Taunton, Fore Street South C1950

The Market House, seen here on the left, was built in 1772 and has fulfilled a variety of roles since.

Caption For Sudbury, Friars Street 1895

Beyond the draper's awning is the Quaker Meeting House and Buzzards, the home of Thomas Gainsborough's uncle Thomas.

Caption For Sandilands, Sea Lane C1955

The biggest change is that the shop is now twice as big: it includes the post office, and takes up the whole of the downstairs of the semi-detached house.

Caption For Fenstanton, Chequer Street C1955

The Manor House, built in the late 17th century, was the home of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, the great landscape gardener. He was lord of the manor of Fenstanton, and his monument is in the church.

Caption For Wellow, Manor House And High Street C1955

This view looks west along the High Street past the Manor House on the right, a good 17th-century house with a tall gabled three-storey chamber wing.

Caption For Morden, Looking North East C1965

Crown House provides a view of London Road and Morden Court and the slightly earlier mock Tudor York Close to the left.

Caption For Camberley, High Street C1955

The house at the top of this view was that of the Sergeant Major from the Staff College.

Caption For West Bay, 1907

These are the gaunt Victorian lines of the Coastguard Station at West Bay, looking eastwards towards East Cliff, with Rocket Houses seaward from it (right).

Caption For Datchet, The Village 1905

The houses behind them are often mistaken for the Manor House because they look so impressive. They are private residences.

Caption For Salisbury, South Corner Of The Close C1955

The house to the left of the Gate is an integral part of the wall. The house facing the photographer was built in the 18th century by John Talman, the Vicar Choral.

Caption For Dorking, Deepdene House 1891

A fine view of a house whose gardens were compared by John Aubrey with 'the kingdom of heaven'.

Caption For Hertford, Port Hill 1929

The Reindeer Inn on the left was originally a house called The Running Deer in 1740, owned by the Dunster family.

Caption For Frampton, Almshouses And St Mary's Church 1906

The old manor house of Frampton Court was demolished in 1939. In 1840 its then owner dismantled a large portion of the village to improve his view.

Caption For Bodmin, Fore Street 1931

The Market House was built of granite in 1839-40 for the sale of meat, poultry and butter, and the four carved ox heads above the pillars (left) are a notable feature of the street frontage.

Caption For Ludlow, Feathers Hotel 1904

The world-famous Feathers Hotel was built as a private house in the early 1600s by a lawyer, and no expense was spared.

Caption For Asfordby, The Old Hall C1960

Formerly the manor house of about 1620, this fine red brick building is now itself deteriorating. Sashed windows, within stone surrounds under triple gables, grace a quietly elegant facade.

Caption For Southam, Southam Delabere 1901

One of the largest surviving 16th-century houses in the county, this magnificent house was owned by the de la Bere family until around 1831.

Caption For Runcorn, Higher Runcorn, Highlands Road C1955

Many of these houses were originally built in the 1800s as housing for immigrants coming to the area from Cumbria and North Wales to work in the local quarries.

Caption For Margate, The Fort 1892

This splendid view of the site of the former cliff-top fort was taken prior to the extension of the cliff-foot promenade.The terrace of houses in the centre of the picture, Fort Paragon, was constructed

Caption For Calne, The Green C1960

No 30, left, is an attractive early 19th- century double-fronted house with a Roman Doric pedimented porch.