Places
36 places found.
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- Chatsworth House, Derbyshire
- Osborne House, Isle of Wight
- Brambletye House, Sussex
- Ickworth House, Suffolk
- Kingston Lacy House, Dorset
- Boscobel House, Shropshire
- Preshute House, Wiltshire
- Bolton Houses, Lancashire
- Brick Houses, Yorkshire
- Quaking Houses, Durham
- Water Houses, Yorkshire
- Bottom House, Staffordshire
- Church Houses, Yorkshire
- High Houses, Essex
- Dye House, Northumberland
- Flush House, Yorkshire
- Halfway House, Shropshire
- Halfway Houses, Kent
- Mite Houses, Cumbria
- Lyneham House, Devon
- Spittal Houses, Yorkshire
- Street Houses, Yorkshire
- New House, Kent
- White House, Suffolk
- Tow House, Northumberland
- Wood House, Lancashire
- Beck Houses, Cumbria
- Carr Houses, Merseyside
- Stone House, Cumbria
- Swain House, Yorkshire
- Smithy Houses, Derbyshire
- Spacey Houses, Yorkshire
- Keld Houses, Yorkshire
- Kennards House, Cornwall
- Heath House, Somerset
- Hey Houses, Lancashire
Photos
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Maps
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Memories
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Bicycles And A Happy Hunting Ground.
Being the offspring of parents otherwise engaged, and only partially supervised by a succession of Nannies, whose only concern was that we should be clean and respectably dressed when we got up to mischief, we ...Read more
A memory of New Milton in 1950 by
Hazel Slade House Racing Stables
I was an apprentice jockey with master Robert Charles Ward from 1954 to 1960, then I went in the Forces, then I emigrated to Australia and now live in Victoria, in Langwarrin. With reference to Mrs Gillian Barsby, ...Read more
A memory of Hednesford in 1954 by
Boddington School Maureen Simpson.
I attended the school from 1946-1951. The teacher at first was Miss Semper, who I do not remember too well. After her came Mrs. Pat Bishop, who was a lovely lady, she and her husband lived in the school ...Read more
A memory of Upper Boddington in 1946 by
Waterman's Almhouses
As a small child, I lived in Beckenham, and we used visit my grandmother who lived in a flat in Queen Adelaide Court. From her lounge window we could see the Almshouses. At that age I did not have any real understanding of what ...Read more
A memory of Penge in 1965 by
I Lived Opposite When Fort House Was Bombed
I remember seeing the house before and after the bomb struck. The front of the house was demolished leaving just the front of the ground and first floor hanging there. At the time I lived opposite and the upper floors of our home collapsed as well.
A memory of Gravesend in 1945 by
John Francis Donald
Hi, my name is Jean. I have been doing my family history for a while now, but cannot find anything at all about my grandfather John Francis Donald. All I know is that he lived on the green and before that in the Coulton by the ...Read more
A memory of Gainford in 1920 by
Aber/Blaengwynfi Silver Prize Band Thankyou For The Music!
I grew up in Blaengwynfi in the 1950s/60s. My father was Don Davies, and he was band-master during most of those years. He'd joined the band in the 30s when he'd been forced to leave ...Read more
A memory of Blaengwynfi by
James Joseph Irvine (Autobiography) 1911 1990
Stretching over about a mile on the A68 road to Edinburgh from Darlington, lies the small mining town of Tow Law. Approaching it from Elm Park Road Ends, on a clear day, as you pass the various openings in ...Read more
A memory of Tow Law in 1930 by
My Paper Round
I worked as a paper boy at Newby's in Taunton Lane. I got up at 5 am and went to the shed behind the shop to sort and mark-up the papers. I then did 2 rounds before school for 6/- a week per round and 5/- for the marking up; a ...Read more
A memory of Old Coulsdon in 1959 by
Great Haseley
I was five when I moved to Great Haseley from Newington, near Stadhampton, with my mother, father and brother. The year was 1957 and Horse Close Cottages was a new housing estate - we were thrilled to have a bathroom and an inside ...Read more
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Captions
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Beyond the playing field, we can see some of the Kingswood neighbourhood's dormy-style houses. These were the first 'quality' private homes to be built in the new Basildon.
New housing has been built in the village, but this part, South End Cottages on Back Street, is just as it was in 1955.
The road has been upgraded, and modern housing has appeared wherever space permits. Note the 'up to date' fencing on the right.
The bowling pavilion on the right, and some of the local housing is in the background.
Trees now almost entirely hide the house from view. The pond is swept and tamed by weeping willows.
It now houses the regimental museum of the Green Howards.
A row of mainly Georgian houses gives a gracious air to the village.
Not far away from Osborne House, Wootton was another of Queen Victoria's favourite excursions.
Whippingham village lies close to Osborne House, and Victoria's consort Prince Albert had a hand in the extraordinary design of the church.
One row of houses further on is the line of the old Roman wall, whilst just off-camera to the right are the ruins of the Norman St Botolph's Priory, the first in the country founded by the Augustinian
Notice the wooden flooring – when the house was still privately-owned this room was built as a bowling alley and the floor was specially laid as the bowling lane.
The whole scene is overlooked by hotels and boarding houses.
Many of the houses in this area, some around 300 years old, were built of stones and pebbles.
The road in front of the houses if Channel View, and beneath if we can see the railway lines, now only a single main line used primarily to transport coils from the Llanwerm steelworks to the Ebbw Vale
The Cranford Hotel on the outskirts of the town began its existence as the Half Way House; it was transformed from a humbler inn to cater for the increase in visitors to the resort and the
Frogmoor was once surrounded by prominent citizens' fine Georgian houses, which have now all gone.
The houses on the left are known as Woodrow Terrace, and the ones on the right Blackmore Terrace. They were built by Spencer's Engineering Works, which moved to Beanacre Road in 1903.
The barn on the left has now been converted into a house.
On the left we can see 'James Webborn, Tea & Coffee, Oysters, Refreshments, Carriages for Hire', the house painter at work on his ladder, and the Dining Rooms.
Railway engineer and businessman George Stephenson settled near Chesterfield at Tapton House and died there on 12 August 1848.
Considered to be one of the finest Gothic Revival houses in England, Arbury is built on the site of an Augustinian monastery demolished during the reign of Elizabeth I.
It is one of the best medieval merchant houses in the city, and is now an excellent museum.
Until about 1800, most of the houses would have had only two stories. Visitors to the town would have stayed in one of the few inns, such as The Black Lion on the right.
Note the array of chimney pots on the houses behind the shelters.
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