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Long Hot Summers

MANY HAPPY SUMMERS WERE SPENT AT LEPE. i WAS LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE A GRANDPARENT THAT LIVED IN TH ECOAST GUARD COTTAGES FROM THE 60'S TO THE 80'S. THERE WAS A RAFT NEAR THE BOAT HOUSE WHICH WAS GREAT FUN. NO CONCRETE, FREE PARKING ON THE ...Read more

A memory of Lepe in 1968 by Julie Payne

Cowgate

The view is of Cowgate looking south. The white building in the background is the Green Dragon Inn - once a haunt of Dick Turpin. The beck, mill dam and church are just to the left. Welton once had 3 water mills - the last of which was working into the 1950s

A memory of Welton by Maurice Mann

Grouse Beating

As a student I spent 3 seasons working as a beater on Lord Sopwiths estate. I first worked a few days during a holiday with family friends called Rita and Albert Sparks who had holidayed in Arkengarthdale for many years. The ...Read more

A memory of Arkengarthdale in 1960 by Roy Loudon

Happy Days.

Looking at the photos brought back so many happy memories, I lived at Homefield Gardens across the Heath & went to the Methodist School from 1956 to 1963. Miss Fletcher was the headmistress & I think Miss Watts was my teacher & ...Read more

A memory of Burgh Heath by Chris Silverthorne

Burgh Heath

My grandparents always considered that Burgh Heath was the best village to live in. At one time, it had two swimming pools, two tea rooms and pubs for locals to meet. One pub had a projection room and offered children a free Saturday ...Read more

A memory of Burgh Heath

The Croxley Elm Trees

The 1947 council house development that was built on the north side of Baldwins Lane, west of Manor Way became my home area after moving from Rochester Way in 1948. I loved the beautiful tall Elm trees that lined Baldwins ...Read more

A memory of Croxley Green in 1947 by Leon Moore

Swimming Pool /Pond, My Childhood

We always went to the Gallion swimming pool because it was cheap, maybe one penny ? I don’t remember. But the Sugar bowl was expensive for us, a half crown, I believe . We used to go to the pond to get spawn, which we ...Read more

A memory of Burgh Heath by Valerie Ford

The Lawrence Children's Home, Situated In King Harry Lane

From the age of 2 in November 1949 until December 1953, due to my mother's very early death, I found myself enrolled as a resident at The Lawrence Children's Home in King Harry Lane, St Albans. ...Read more

A memory of St Albans by Peter Thompson

Memories Of A Delivery Boy

Memories of a Delivery Boy 50/60s We moved onto the Beavers Lane Estate in 1951 as it was being built. Our first home was in the Chester Road flats with kids in every flat we soon had a large group of friends, Richard Dave ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow by Jeff Williams

Mid Eighties

From early 1984 to March 1987 I had the pleasure of being the Landlady of this public house. Many good times (some bad), many lovely customers, some of whom became friends and not forgetting all the people who came to ...Read more

A memory of West End in 1986 by Vee Williams

Captions

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Caption For Carlton Husthwaite, C1955

Carlton Hall and the Tudor House both still dominate the village. The small building, centre, has been tidied up and is no longer adored with ivy.

Caption For Sidmouth, Fore Street 1904

The red sandstone cliffs of East Devon break into the green and pastoral valley of the River Sid; Sidmouth lines the slopes of the gap.

Caption For Hemingford Abbots, Abbot's Church 1898

The parish church of St Margaret is built from local brown cobbles. The tower has a fine spire divided by two decorative bands above the spire lights.

Caption For Burnham Market, The Village C1955

On the green is the war memorial to the fallen of the First World War which was unveiled with due ceremony by Lord Leicester in the 1920s.

Caption For Harlow, Terminus Street C1960

Local bus services used Terminus Street, and so did the Green Line and National Express. The furniture and furnishing shops were all concentrated in this area.

Caption For Helston, The Monument And Bowling Green 1922

Helston's Bowling Club was founded in 1760, and the green was laid in 1764.

Caption For Whitburn, The Green C1955

The Green is to the north of St Andrew's Church; around it are some of the village's more interesting houses.

Caption For Richmond, Market Place 1908

In the 1900s these included a tobacconist's, a bank, and two butchers. It now houses the regimental museum of the Green Howards.

Caption For St Annes, Royal Lytham Golf Club House 1901

By 1921 the green fees at the Old Links, St Anne's were 2s 6d on weekdays and higher at weekends, whilst the Lytham & St Anne's club charged a fee of 5s for play on any day of the week.

Caption For Skelton, West End C1955

The west end of Skelton is laid out around a central green area, on which is located the war memorial.

Caption For Warlingham, Ye Olde Whyte Lion 1903

Near the green (now a public garden) are some interesting old buildings including the White Lion Inn, parts of which may date back to the 17th century.

Caption For Thorney, The Village Green C1955

The house facing the green was the Bedford's pied-a-terre from 1550-1910. The quoins are of re-used abbey stone, and the stone slate roofs came from Colleyweston in Northamptonshire.

Caption For Stanford Le Hope, View From Church Tower C1960

The large house next to Lloyds Bank was once a doctor's surgery, and it is now a public house known as the Inn on the Green.

Caption For Brampton, The Green C1960

The green, on the far side of the village from the church and overlooked by the village school, is now enclosed with a low wooden fence.

Caption For Springfield, Church 1892

All Saints' church, admired for its brick tower, has a nave dating back to the 12th century.

Caption For Hawkley, Village And Church Of St Peter And St Paul 1901

The green and the surrounding roads and houses may look a little different today, one hundred years after this photograph was taken, but one landmark remains reassuringly constant and permanent: Hawkley's

Caption For Dublin, Shelbourne Hotel 1897

A view along St Stephen's Green North, showing hansom cabs and the famous Shelbourne Hotel when it was just thirty years old.

Caption For Newick, The Green C1955

Newick is situated halfway between two great Christian centres of worship—Canterbury and Winchester—so the village was used as a resting-place for pilgrims.

Caption For Wicken, Pond Green C1955

Butt's Farmhouse on the green was a medieval open hall. In the 17th century a chimney stack was inserted into the hall, and a cross wing built to the left. The small brick extension was a shop.

Caption For Waterbeach, High Street C1955

The first village settlement was around a huge green beside the Car Dyke, a Roman ditch that connected Cambridge with Peterborough and the north.

Caption For Richmond, Market Place C1965

Richmond, the capital of Swaledale, has been described as one of the most perfect market towns in England.

Caption For Skipsea, The Village C1955

The village store faces the war memorial on the green, which appears to have been fenced off. Surely this was not protection from vandals!

Caption For Datchet, High Street C1950

A view of Datchet High Street from The Green.

Caption For Skelton, The Village C1955

The west end of Skelton is laid out around a central green area, on which is located the war memorial.