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Memories

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Church Farm

My father Kenneth Walker and his father once owned the farm across the road from the parish church. We have photos of the farm before houses were built on fields behind the farm house.

A memory of Barton-under-Needwood in 1956 by Ian Walker

A Cold And Dim Visit To Banstead Asylum

I cannot remember the exact year but it was very cold. I was a TV repair man at Raylec in the High Street and we had a call from a doctor living in a house at the Asylum. She complained that the picture on ...Read more

A memory of Banstead in 1961 by Adrian King

Year Of The Appendix

During that summer my family made a trip to stay at Mount Edgcumbe for a fortnight or so, my mum being a distant relative of the occupying family, so to speak. On the journey down the A.38, (no M5 then), I ...Read more

A memory of Mount Edgcumbe Country Park in 1961 by Giles Daubney

Shackerley

My mum and Dad moved to Shackerley just as I started secondary school, which I think it was 1972. I attended Tyldesley Boys County Secondary School. We lived in a bungalow on Hertford Drive, they couldn't build a house opposite because ...Read more

A memory of Tyldesley in 1972 by Victor Groves

Pellon Lane Area In The 1950s

I used to live just off Commercial Road on Gibson Street in the 1950s. The houses were very basic with a living room, a bedroom, attic and cellar. We shared a toilet with another family which was at the end of the ...Read more

A memory of Halifax by Susan Higgins

Luther Paxton Plumber

The building jutting out into Castle Hill on the left upper of this picture is no. 17 and was my Great Uncle Luther Paxton's plumbers shop. The shop was on the ground floor and he and his wife, Amy lived on the upper two ...Read more

A memory of Richmond in 1948 by Peter Hodgson

Welsh Girl From Six Bells

Born in Abergavenny in Dec/ 1951. Brought home to my Nanna's house who we lived with in 1 Lancaster Street where my family lived. Dad worked down the six bells pit at the time, and I have fond memories while I was growing ...Read more

A memory of Six Bells in 1958 by Angela Davis

Carrog Memory, As A Ww2 Evacuee.

I first visited Carrog in 1939 as an evacuee, at the start of World War 2. I was accompanied by my two sisters, having travelled by train from Birkenhead on the Wirral. All the evacuees were escorted to the Church Hall ...Read more

A memory of Carrog in 1940 by Edward James

Hanmer Family

My grandmother, Sarah Jane Hanmer, was born a twin in Eyton in 1910, her mother, also Sarah Jane Hanmer, is buried there. They were a large family, and my great-grandfather was a farmer. All the children went ...Read more

A memory of Eyton in 1910 by Christine Adams[Nee ,Murray]

Castle Hill House

This is Castle Hill House bought that year by Augustus Brandt of William Brandt's and Sons bank, my Great Grandfather. Mostly now demolished, and the rest converted into flats.

A memory of Bletchingley in 1910 by Jason Mullins

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Captions

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Caption For Broad Hinton, The Post Office C1945

These cottages are now called Marloes and Gable House.

Caption For Holybourne, The Village 1898

The village also had a butcher, another grocer, two boot makes, an undertaker, a plumber, two carpenters, a market gardener and bee keeper and an insurance agent, as well as the three public houses.

Caption For Chigwell Row, Jubilee House, Girl Guides House C1965

This hut's name, Jubilee House, dates it to about 1935, the Jubilee of George V.

Caption For Long Sutton, Village 1904

The house on the left is the residence of the headmaster of the adjoining school, opposite the church.

Caption For Odiham, The Bury 2004

In the distance, glimpsed on the right on the corner of King Street, is the former forge, now a private house. Opposite, the Oast Garage opened in the mid 1950s.

Caption For Fleet, Reading Road 1903

The house on the right is the Beacon, one of the more substantial residences in Victorian and Edwardian Fleet.

Caption For East Budleigh, Main Street 1906

The unusual house on the left was demolished soon after this photograph was taken.

Caption For Ottery St Mary, Stocks In Churchyard 1922

The original wooden stocks are now very fragile, and are protected by the later housing we see here. To the left is the stone monument commemorating Queen Victoria's

Caption For Newquay, The Gannel 1925

Houses have been built at Pentire on prime sites overlooking the Gannel.

Caption For Finchingfield, Vicarage Lane C1960

The house in the centre, Cabbaches, proclaims the date 1390 on a plaque near its front door.

Caption For Thaxted, The Guildhall 1951

The Guildhall`s roof caught alight, and several houses in Fishmarket Street (left) were destroyed and never rebuilt. Fishmarket Street was Thaxted`s medieval market place.

Caption For Corby, Beanfield Avenue Shopping Centre C1965

Like many other estates in Corby, Beanfield was provided with a neighbourhood shopping centre and an adjacent public house in the centre of the estate.

Caption For Bakewell, The Bridge C1955

The riverside path on the left has now been metalled, and houses have been built to the left, but little else has changed.

Caption For Dutton, The Village C1960

Dutton post office, on the left, has gone, and been replaced by a new housing estate.

Caption For Wilmcote, The Green And Swan Guest House C1955

With all those pilgrims coming to visit what they thought was Mary Arden`s house, it was obviously necessary for Wilmcote to provide refreshments and accommodation, and The Swan did just

Caption For Allerford, Corner 1923

Behind is Cross Lane House, which was a working farm until 1968 and is now run as a restaurant and hotel.

Caption For Nottingham, Bridlesmith Gate C1950

On the left at the corner of Pepper Street is Lloyd's Coffee House, famous for its cakes and pastries.

Caption For Laindon, Wash Road C1955

Wash Road was a road of many farms: Watch-House, Mundell's, Petchey's, Benson's, Puckle's, Sellers, and Laindonponds.

Caption For Wells Next The Sea, Staithe Street 1950

This is a narrow street of 18th- and 19th-century houses leading down to the harbour.

Caption For Penrith, Lowther Castle 1894

This is not so much a castle, more a country house, built for the first Earl of Lonsdale by Sir Robert Smirke in 1806-11.

Caption For Plymouth, George Street 1889

The site is now occupied by sheltered housing.

Caption For Botley, The Village C1950

Signs on the wall of the house on the left advertise Lyon's Tea, Red Bell Tobacco and Borwick's Baking Powder.

Caption For Hook, London Road C1955

In the 1960s, housing estates emerged everywhere, and Hook was to be no exception. Until this time growth had been gradual; now it has soared.

Caption For Luton, Town Centre C1965

We can see that the 1960s have arrived with this modern shop and office block, which is housing an enlarged Boots the Chemist.