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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Captions
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Helston's Bowling Club was founded in 1760, and the green was laid in 1764.
The Green is to the north of St Andrew's Church; around it are some of the village's more interesting houses.
In the 1900s these included a tobacconist's, a bank, and two butchers. It now houses the regimental museum of the Green Howards.
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.
The west end of Skelton is laid out around a central green area, on which is located the war memorial.
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.
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.
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.
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.
All Saints' church, admired for its brick tower, has a nave dating back to the 12th century.
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
A view along St Stephen's Green North, showing hansom cabs and the famous Shelbourne Hotel when it was just thirty years old.
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.
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.
The first village settlement was around a huge green beside the Car Dyke, a Roman ditch that connected Cambridge with Peterborough and the north.
Richmond, the capital of Swaledale, has been described as one of the most perfect market towns in England.
The village store faces the war memorial on the green, which appears to have been fenced off. Surely this was not protection from vandals!
A view of Datchet High Street from The Green.
The west end of Skelton is laid out around a central green area, on which is located the war memorial.
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