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Childhood Memories
This view brings back many childhood memories, I was born in the cottage on the right hand edge of the picture, in 1947, growing up on the farm there, and have lived within three miles of the area for the majority of my life.
A memory of Ticehurst in 1947 by
My Son Kevin Was Born
This was taken the year my son Kevin was born. His brother Stephen was 2yrs old and we spent many happy days walking to the sweet and paper shop with my mum and dad, Bill and Joan Harris and also my brother Paul.
A memory of Toddington in 1965 by
My Memories Of Broadstone
My earliest memories of Broadstone stem from about 1937 when I was five years old. We lived in Southbourne at the time and frequently went to Broadstone at weekends to visit my "aunt Flo" and her family who lived at Lower ...Read more
A memory of Broadstone by
Families
On the 27th of December 1956 my ex-husband KEITH GEORGE JEARY was born at 6 UPPER CLOSE where he lived with his parents until we were married at Holy Trinity Church on the 6th of November 1982 - both of my children Emily and Dominic were ...Read more
A memory of Forest Row in 1956 by
First Memories
My father, Richard (Dick) Cherrington was the village policeman in Nether Wallop during World War 2 and I was born in the Police House in the village in August 1944. My first memories ever were of an apple tree in our garden which ...Read more
A memory of Nether Wallop in 1947 by
Pagham Fisherman
I was born in 1972 and lived with my Parents and younger Brother on Pagham Beach where my Father Chris Dodd was the local Pagham Fisherman...he is still fishing with his mate Don and my father is now 62 years in 2006. Lots of the train ...Read more
A memory of Pagham in 1972 by
Tilshead In The Last Century!
Tilshead was the place where I was born and have lived in for a long time. It is a quiet village of around 400 or so people. There was and still is a post office. There was a pub called The Bell but is now a private ...Read more
A memory of Tilshead in 1966 by
Priestfield Road
I was born in Priestfield Road and lived there until my family moved across the river to to Hoo when I was 14 years-old. I have fond memories of peers with whom I would play either in the road or we'd go to The Rookery, Strand or ...Read more
A memory of Gillingham by
Ww2 Raf
My father was in the RAf and stationed in Bicester. I was born in 1948. He was still in the RAF and my mother took me to live in Bicester until I was about 3. She lodged with a woman there. I have been trying to remember her name but up to now ...Read more
A memory of Bicester by
Margaret Burdenie Nee Rushby
I was born at Easton Hall in July 1944. My father was away at sea in the Royal Navy and my mother told me that the residents of Eaton Hall had moved into the servants' quarters to let the Hall be used as as a maternity home for service wives. Our family lived nearby in Retford.
A memory of Eaton Hall by
Captions
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The Hoad Hill Monument at Ulverston is a replica of the Eddystone Lighthouse, and was built as a memorial to Sir John Barrow, founder of the Royal Geographical Society and for 40 years Secretary to the
The Doric column on the right is a monument to William Wilberforce, who was born in Hull, and was responsible for the abolition of slavery throughout the Empire.
A few hundred yards from the hall stands South Farm, where Mary Ann Evans was born in 1819.
By the 1950s, with the advent of popular motoring, Broadway was starting to attract car-borne tourists in considerable numbers.
Both the hillside and village are named after the Devon-born churchman who brought Christianity to Germany. The original Saxon church may have been founded by the saint before he went abroad.
John Skelton, poet laureate and tutor to Henry VIII, was born here and served as rector for 25 years.
It was at Winsford that Ernest Bevin was born in 1881.
Major-general Thomas Harrison, who served in the Parliamentary army during the Civil War, was born in a house on the High Street.
Major-general Thomas Harrison, who served in the Parliamentary army during the Civil War, was born in a house on the High Street.
Dating from 1926, the war memorial was opened by the Earl of Derby, though its cost was borne by Caleb Thornber, a cotton manufacturer and former Mayor of Burnley.
Situated half-way between Edinburgh and Stirling, Linlithgow became a favourite royal residence, though during the wars with the English it was often under siege or counter-siege.
The long village High Street running down from the ridge overlooking the Weald and the 13th-century church of St Peter is lined with picturesque tile-hung cottages.
Henry Tudor, the future King Henry VII, was born here in 1457.
Edward Melly was born in Liverpool in 1857, but came to Nuneaton after being educated at Rugby School.
Sir John was born at Dragley Beck in the town, and went on to become Second Secretary to the Admiralty; he decided Napoleon's place of exile.
The village main street is little changed, although Bel and the Dragon on the right is no longer also a garage.
The distinctive central tower of King William's College was designed by John Welch and was a feature of a major rebuilding programme following a fire in 1844.
Beyond the draper's awning is the Quaker Meeting House and Buzzards, the home of Thomas Gainsborough's uncle Thomas.
Conistone clusters around its village green, and is still just as dependent on farming as when this photograph, complete with ewes and new-born lambs in the foreground, was taken.
Bethesda, a village born of slate and the workings of the Penrhyn Quarry, has always had a vibrant community.
Beckbury, just a mile or so to the south, can certainly be described as a village, and it still retains its pub, the Seven Stars.
It provides a welcome resting place for shoppers and visitors. The modern shop fronts in the town hide many old medieval houses.
The house below that was home to District Nurse Georgina Montgomery, who was born in India, and then to Nurse Bendall.
One of the most famous shipyards was that of John Scott, which built the first steamer to trade between Glasgow and Liverpool.
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