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Chelmsford, Tindal Street, 1919

This shows the view looking up Tindal Street from the London Road end. In the centre of the photo you can see a sign sticking out. This you can just make out is the Spotted Dog public house which was there until that ...Read more

A memory of Chelmsford by John Crouch

1950 1967

I was a 5 year old when we moved into the new housing estate in Northolt, we lived at 31 Rushdene Crescent. Then always it seamed that we had long hot summer holidays, playing in the woods, or in the sand pit (ex army firing range) or over ...Read more

A memory of Northolt in 1950 by Paul Lamb

Lindsey Cottage And The White House

In 1949 my mother and I moved to Bentworth when my mother became the Health Visitor for Alton. We first stayed at rooms in the White House which was diagonally across from the Dugdales in the Big house at ...Read more

A memory of Bentworth in 1949 by morrowmm

The Windsor Crescent Guest House

I have happy memories of family holidays in Jersey staying at the Windsor Crescent Guest House in the early 1980s. Does anyone know if this hotel was the first building, middle or end? And when it ceased trading? Many thanks Andrew

A memory of Jersey in 1983

An American In Barassie

I lived at 51 Becah Road, Barassie, Troon. My step-father was in the U.S. Air Force and stationed at Prestwiick. I remember the gentleman who lived on the ground floor of our house. His name I think was George ...Read more

A memory of Troon in 1956 by Cheri Gardiner

Chelmsford, Shops In The High Streeet, 1919.

This view is taken from outside the island where the current Lloyds Bank stands, and shows the view down the High Street. In the background can be seen the spire, which was the Wesleyan Church, and to-day ...Read more

A memory of Chelmsford by John Crouch

My First School

My dad was from yr Aber. We lived in Pandy Square until my dad died in Feb 1952, he was the fireman on the little train from Towyn to Abergynolwyn, he was also, I believe, a local football referee. He was an ex soldier in the ...Read more

A memory of Abergynolwyn in 1950 by Michael Jones

Petty France Cottages

I was born in the middle cottage out of three which the Duke of Beaufort owned back those days, now they have been modernised to a high standard and are privately owned. I used to spend a lot of my time in the Seven Mile ...Read more

A memory of Petty France in 1970 by Terry Hewer

Whitfield During World Wat Ii

My father was the Head Gardener and also commander of the local Home Guard. We lived in the servants quarters of the Manor House which was otherwise unoccupied at the time. Later on ...Read more

A memory of Whitfield in 1940 by David Hill

Ward End Park

I can remember the boat shed in the park and where the swings used to be. There was a cafe-cum-ice cream seller in the white house and the most beautiful greenhouse full of strange plants that to a child looked very scary. Every ...Read more

A memory of Washwood Heath

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Captions

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Caption For Ware, High Street 1925

In the 1970s, it housed H Donaghue, the fish, game and poultry merchants.

Caption For Saffron Walden, High Street 1919

The house on the left had belonged to Dr Atkinson, who died in 1917. The Post Office bought it for their use and moved from King Street in 1919. A lamp-post sign stands outside.

Caption For Long Melford, Hall 1895

This early Elizabethan mansion was built on the site of the former house of the abbot of Bury St Edmunds by Sir William Cordell, Master of the Rolls, who founded the hospital on the Green.

Caption For St Ives, Crown Street 1925

It takes its name from the Crown public house (right) opposite the turning to Bridge Street, now occupied by Woolworth`s.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Summer Hill 1909

Summer Hill House, on the west side of Charmouth Road, was the Victorian home of the borough magistrate Walter Banfield Wallis.

Caption For Dorking, Denbies Mansion 1905

Tyre transformed the farm buildings into a modest Georgian house, which was given the name of Denbies. When Tyre died in 1767, the Hon Peter King purchased the estate.

Caption For Lingfield, Church Road 1895

The shingled spire of the 14th-century church of St Peter and St Paul rises above this picturesque collection of old houses and shops at the southern end of the churchyard.

Caption For Burton Bradstock, The Village 1902

Pound House is behind the telegraph pole. The 1879-dated Reading Room is down the street from Rock House (right of centre), with the gable-end of the Three Horseshoes in the foreground (far right).

Caption For Rousdon, House 1900

Built on a massive plinth, with balustrades above and cellars below, the high-Gothic lines of Rousdon House rise above lawns which slope away towards the Undercliff.

Caption For Cockfosters, The College, Trent Park C1965

The present red-brick house supersedes the much smaller original one designed for Jebb by Sir William Chambers; although it is large, with re-used features salvaged from other demolished London buildings

Caption For Skegness, The Clock Tower C1955

Butlin House (left) has been replaced by a functional modern building. Most of the rest of those buildings are in the main still there, but they do not look as impressive as they did in 1955.

Caption For Broadstairs, Promenade 1902

A turn of the century view of the promenade, showing Holy Trinity Church, Bleak House and the harbour.

Caption For Paignton, North Sands From The Pier 1896

We can see the Esplanade Hotel (centre) and Steartfield House (right), the homes of Mortimer and Washington Singer.

Caption For Edinburgh, The Canongate Tolbooth 1897

In the great days of the Old Town, Canongate Street was where members of the Scottish aristocracy had their town houses.

Caption For Belsay, Old Castle C1955

Built of honey-coloured sandstone, the old castle is in fact a 14th-century L-plan tower house built by the de Middleton family.

Caption For Hillsborough, The Castle, Gatehouse 1890

This 18th-century house links the family with the first Hill arrivals. It stands on the foundations of a fort built about 1639 by Sir Arthur Hill after he left a post at Carrickfergus Castle.

Caption For Leicester, Charles Street And Belgrave Gate C1965

Here it is at the northern end of Charles Street, the architects' and planners' vision of utopia a la 1950s and 60s; dominat- ing the photograph to the left, in a Midlands-Miesian style, is Epic House

Caption For Burnley, Barcroft Hall 1895

This is a typical E-shaped house. Some have claimed that the design was a tribute to Elizabeth I.

Caption For Port Isaac, Temple Bar 1906

Closely-packed village houses built almost entirely of slate enclose a small cobbled courtyard. The youngest to oldest inhabitants are represented here.

Caption For Burnley, Hurstwood (Poet Spenser's House) 1895

This picture shows the rear of the property, a very fine example of an East Lancashire house of the later 16th century.

Caption For Shrewsbury, The Boat House Inn And The Ferry 1911

The Boat House Inn ferry offered a more sedate way of crossing the Severn than by the nearby Kingsland Bridge.

Caption For Basildon, Development Corporation C1960

Gifford House, used as its offices by the BDC, was built in 1924 for the rector of Bowers Gifford, who used it as a college for coaching students for the universities.

Caption For Whitby, East Cliff 1932

The donkeys have a long walk every day from their field just below the Abbey House, down the donkey path, along Church Street, over the bridge and down Pier Road to the sands.