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My Time At Cholderton 1957 1960

I was very young around 5 I believe when I lived there. My Father (Jim) who was a motor engineer ran the Parkhouse Garage where my mother (Eileen) also ran a Cafe. There was a small garden pond in the front garden ...Read more

A memory of Cholderton by mhopkins706

Shute After The War

My sister and I were at Shute between 1949 and 1952, and I hardly recognise some of the memories here! For us it was a happy place, where we rode ponies and made dens in the woods. We learned about wildflowers - Mrs. Clapp was very ...Read more

A memory of Shute by jane.maanley

1958

I lived in this house for a year in 1958 when my father was stationed at RAF Wethersfield. We spent a good deal of time in the kitchen as the warmest room in the house. When spring came it was lovely in the back garden with snowdrops and ...Read more

A memory of Great Easton

Kidbrooke And My Childhood

My dad returned from the war in 1946. My mother and I were living in Eltham with my grandparents and her brothers and sister. It was pretty crowded. We moved into the prefabs on Kidbrooke Way shortly after and my sister ...Read more

A memory of Kidbrooke by Jean Fields Fields

Evacuated To Hele....

I am guessing the year would have been 1944.... I would have been 6 and my brother would have been 5. I dont know how we were evacuated exactly...because we didnt go through the School system, we went with our Mother and our Grandmother ...Read more

A memory of Hele by Maurene Kauter

Bexley Tech

Reading some of those memories of students at what is now a still -thriving grammar school is so nostalgic. I went to BTHSG 1974-81 & just loved it. Not quite sure what that says about me. Reading the 60s students' recollections ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath

Chequers Road

I lived in Chequers Road, called Chequers lane in these photos. The girl in the photo is standing outside her gate in the house that was next door. My house was the other side of the tree. When the photo was taken there were two old ...Read more

A memory of Noak Hill by alfandjanet

Pavenham 1945 1970

This is the village where I grew up, my parents moving into their very old, somewhat dilapidated cottage at the end of the war. This was 'The Folly' at the eastern end of the village opposite one of Tandy's farms. Why it had that name ...Read more

A memory of Pavenham by Stephen Wessel

My Memory

My grandma lived in Varna Road in a bungalow built by my Grandad Fred, The house was called Exley, they had my dad Edward, Albert,Stanley, Margaret,Gladys and Elsie, My grandmother was called Rose, I stayed with them in 1961 and went to ...Read more

A memory of Bordon by Marilyn Davey

Schooling

We moved from Chelmsford to Radcliffe in 1968 - I was 2 years old. I went to Lorne Grove Nursery and my memory of that was the Rocking Horse Toy. I hated sharing it!! I was about 3 or 4 and I remember being so upset at being taken ...Read more

A memory of Radcliffe on Trent by Claire Suzanne Izard

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Caption For Corby, Forest Gate Road C1965

Housing now lines the eastern side of Forest Gate Road.

Caption For Stanstead Abbotts, Easneye Drive C1960

A new house was built to a design by Alfred Waterhouse, the architect of St Pancras Station and London's Natural History Museum.

Caption For Alton, High Street C1955

This now allows access to the car park behind the manor house, some doors along. The post office is four doors down on the left. It still has a date stone of 1901 beneath the roof.

Caption For West End, Swaythling Road C1950

The shop on the right is no longer a shop, now just a house. Today the pub on the left is the Master Builder, and owned by Wadworth's.

Caption For Stroud, From Above Butter Row 1890

Upper Stroud is in the distance, with Park Road below, still at this period containing only a few large private houses.

Caption For St Ives, Moped C1965

Until the modern causeway was built in 1980, this medieval bridge provided the only crossing point over the River Ouse between Huntingdon and Earith.

Caption For Hartlepool, Marine Drive C1955

This attractive terrace of houses lies close to the sea on the north side of the Headland, which is beyond the buildings in the centre distance.

Caption For Borth, Parade And Beach 1899

This parade of large shops and houses are just round the corner from the station. The pebbly storm beach gives way to a vast fine sandy beach, covered in this photograph by a high tide.

Caption For Laindon, Martindale Avenue C1955

In the 1960s the Dave Clarke Five played in the Mecca in Blenheim House. The nightclub was later called Raquel's - it closed in the 1970s.

Caption For Shirley, The Parade C1960

The vaguely Art Deco style of Shirley House (left) contrasts with the Gothic look of the Baptist church, but Stratford Road today is a much more eclectic mix than it was in the 1960s.

Caption For Linlithgow, The Cross Well 1897

The assassin hid in a house belonging to John Hamilton, Archbishop of St Andrews. Moray's friends hanged Hamilton at Stirling in 1571. They did not go to the expense of a trial.

Caption For Odiham, All Saints Church 1924

The red and white pinnacles of the tower, just visible in the picture, remind one of the tower of a Tudor house.

Caption For London, Peter's Lane, Clerkenwell C1880

Close by St John's Gate is this narrow alley of tall tile-hung shops and houses, which lean precariously over so that residents might almost stretch out and shake hands from their windows.

Caption For London, Old Curiosity Shop C1955

This quaint old house sits on a corner in Lincoln's Inn Fields.

Caption For Hastings, The Beach 1925

Many of the seafront houses are in serious decay. By the 1920s the bathing machines had gone.

Caption For Whitby, Baxtergate 1923

By this time, Whitby could boast no less than five hotels in the Dunlop Motorist's Guide, The Angel, The Royal (with 172 bedrooms and garage parking for 20 cars), The Metropole, The Custom House and the

Caption For Poole, Church Street, Almshouses 1904

The house, first mentioned in 1429, was originally built for the four priests serving the four altars in nearby St James's church.

Caption For Bere Alston, Street 1898

A notable Victorian inhabitant of Bere Alston was Percival Johnson, who lived at Ward House from 1846-55.

Caption For Whitby, Baxtergate 1923

By this time, Whitby could boast no less than five hotels in the Dunlop Motorist's Guide, The Angel, The Royal (with 172 bedrooms and garage parking for 20 cars), The Metropole, The Custom House and the

Caption For Abergavenny, Monmouth Road 1914

Today this road has far more traffic than a solitary horse and cart. The buildings on the right stand at the junction with Belmont Road, and are now the Belmont Inn.

Caption For Streatley, The Village 1904

The Bull at Streatley public house is on the left. Here the characters in Jerome K Jerome's 'Three Men in a Boat' lunched, accompanied by their dog.

Caption For Bozeat, High Street C1955

Road improvements in the 1960s swept away these stone houses to make way for the greater convenience of the motorist. The mature cyclist is about to free-wheel into the High Street off to the right.

Caption For Earls Barton, West Street 1967

The village is an architectural mix with older stone houses set amid Victorian brick and slate, and modern 20th-century homes.

Caption For Spilsby, Market Street C1955

The name of the pub on the left is still the same - Nelson Butt – but it is now a Free House and no longer belongs to Bateman's.