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School Days

I was born in Hereford in 1944 and moved with my parents, George and Gertrude, to Whitecross Farm Cottages at 9 months - dad worked on the farm. At 4 years we moved to a new council house, 4,Green Gates where I lived until 15 when I ...Read more

A memory of Bridstow in 1944 by Heyland George Howells

My Childhood Memories...

My name is Dawn Thompson, I grew up in one of the Cottages next to the Pub (no 3). My father Peter Thompson, worked there for many years. I remember the Hunt meetings and I remember Tom Hatton, who ran it many years ago. After ...Read more

A memory of Pirbright in 1970 by Dawn Thompson

A Wartime Evacuee

During the war I was evacuated with my family to Dunsmore and we lived in Appletree Cottage, opposite The Fox. I attended Wendover School and returned to London in 1946. At the time Robert Donat lived in ...Read more

A memory of Dunsmore in 1940 by Ken Norris

Dunblane Wedding

I was married in Dunblane registry office on 5th May 1976. Afterwards, we had our photos taken in front of the cathedral, just across the square, to make it look as if we had been married there! Then we went home to our rented ...Read more

A memory of Dunblane in 1976 by Patricia White

Re: The People Of Kilfinan

It was lovely to see the Ferguson’s mentioned in David Goodman's article. I was born in 1947 and spent many happy summer holidays there, in the 50’s and early 60’s. We got the post van from Tighnabruaich. My father James ...Read more

A memory of Kilfinan by Ruth Canning

Gamblesby Memories

My grandparents moved from Whitley Bay to Ainstable in 1948 when my grandfather retired (Jack and Kate Storey). My parents moved with them, and then took the Red Lion at Gamblesby in 1952 (Jack and Ethel Storey). I had a very ...Read more

A memory of Gamblesby in 1951 by Katherine Walker

Craft Cottage

My grandmother Doris Palmer, lived in Craft Cottage which is right next to the pump. We spent all our family holidays there during the 50's and 60's. Granny was a war widow and she worked in Adams tobacconist, which was on the corner ...Read more

A memory of Steyning in 1958 by Simon Palmer

Working At The Pleasaunce

I worked at The Pleasaunce from 1958 - 1961. My memories of wonderful Christmas house parties, and 'tradesmens' parties on New Years Day when all the tradesmen who had any contact with the Pleasaunce over the year, were ...Read more

A memory of Overstrand in 1958

Nanny Goats Common

My friend used to live in one of the small cottages on Nannygoats Common. I think there was a scrap metal merchant who also lived in same row, I think his name was Tiny Wakefield. Today flats and more flats dominate this area, the ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham in 1956

Memories Of A War Time Evacuee

I spent 3 years at Dumbrell's Farm, Milton Street, Sussex. I was a little Birmingham evacuee (aged 9 years). I went to school at Alfriston, my 'Uncle John' took me fishing in the River Cuckmere and we went ...Read more

A memory of Milton Street in 1940 by Gordon Cooper

Captions

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Caption For Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham Road C1965

The bishop also set up schemes for the unemployed, paved the streets, built 50 cottages, endowed a boys' grammar school and financed extensions to the church.

Caption For Yealand Conyers, The Village 1898

The original cottage was 'gentrified' during the early 19th century and later, the local doctor added extensions, which he used as his waiting room and surgery.

Caption For Churchtown, The Village C1955

The village derives its name from the fact that it was the location of Garstang's parish church, St Helen's, which lies beyond the cottages at the far end of the street.

Caption For Heysham, Main Street 1947

Heysham old village is an attractive place, with an assortment of stone cottages lining the streets.

Caption For Long Melford, The Bull Hotel C1955

Two cottages to the right were rebuilt in the 1960s and incorporated into the hotel, retaining the chimneystack.

Caption For Alfold, The Crown Hotel C1950

Like its near neighbour Dunsfold, this cluster of weather-tiled cottages close to the Surrey-Sussex border derives part of its name from the term for a cattle enclosure.

Caption For Lyme Regis, 1925

Marine Parade (left centre) stretches beside the Bay Private Hotel and Madeira Cottage (centre) to Cobb Gate. Gun Cliff and Church Cliffs complete the town's seascape.

Caption For St Alban's Head, Bottom Valley 1899

Cottages in the deep gully in Hill Bottom housed a Victorian Coastguard Station, where Thomas Austin was the chief boatman in 1889, with six men as his crew.

Caption For Hessenford, C1955

Outside the near cottage, note the two milk churns awaiting collection by a dairy lorry.

Caption For Great Dunmow, High Street C1965

The four pointed gables were built in 1899 on the site of two small cottages and a plastered building that seemed to be the remainder of an ancient chapel.

Caption For Great Sampford, Church Corner C1955

This row of cottages started life as one 15th-century house of the hall-and-wings type. It is now all one house again. St Michael`s Church is mainly early 14th- century.

Caption For Stony Stratford, The Memorial, Horsefair Green C1965

Nowadays the green is edged with lime trees; attractive Georgian and later cottages surround it, and the Baptist Chapel of 1823 faces its north side.

Caption For Chideock, Gathering The Hay 1922

The main road to Bridport snakes up the hill above Park Farm and Clammers Field, towards Turnpike Cottage and Miles Cross (left).

Caption For Hawkshead, Pillar House C1955

These cottages are typical of this lovely Lakeland village, which clusters around its 16th-century church.

Caption For Wheaton Aston, The Lock C1952

From here the canal maintains a level for over twenty miles until it reaches Tyrley, where a flight of five locks alter the level by 33 ft.At Tyrley the lock keeper's single storey cottage is situated

Caption For Feckenham, High Street C1967

Today, Feckenham is only a village, but a large, prosperous one with fine houses and charming cottages, many of them formerly inhabited by needle makers who worked at home.

Caption For Houghton, The Village C1960

This later photograph shows Manor Farm after the plaster had been removed from the timber frame, and also those 18th-century mansard-roofed cottages more closely.

Caption For East Meon, The River C1955

In 1965 one of the two-bedroom cottages beside the river sold for £2,350; it would now cost £235,000.

Caption For Penally, Looking Towards Tenby 1890

The white building in the middle ground is Crossing Cottage; beyond are the gentle slopes of the burrows and Tenby golf course, the oldest links course in Wales, established in 1888.

Caption For Swithland, C1955

Pretty cottages with iron latticed windows compliment thatches old and new all along the main street.

Caption For Askrigg, Little Askrigg 1911

The confectionery shop and the chemist's (right) are now private cottages. Askrigg was the village where the James Herriot's TV series 'All Creatures Great and Small' was set.

Caption For Ilkley, The White Wells 1923

This cottage high up on the moors contained two stone plunge baths, one of which is still on display today. The well spring and the house date from the early 1700s.

Caption For Eype, Jessamine Cottage 1897

The tea room at Jessamine Cottage at Eype, run by Mrs Edith Warren, had a rustic look, accentuated by moss on the thatched roof and the windows open for air in a hot summer.

Caption For Sea Palling, The Village C1955

Here we see the 19th-century cottages of the village; the older part is well inland, and the newer development stretches from the old centre towards the sea.