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Wilcot School

I went to Wilcot School from 1943 to 49. Miss Brooks taught little ones. Big boys had to fetch water from the well for each classroom. The crate of milk bottles stood next to the tortoise stove that heated the classroom but we had to ...Read more

A memory of Wilcot in 1949 by Dorothy French

Life In County Oak

I was born in the cottage that was named Morning Dawn in 1937. The house is now a Muslim mosque. I remember the recreation area very well. We played there often. My dad had an allotment nearby. I remember the Covey and Brown ...Read more

A memory of Crawley in 1940 by Ian Cheeseman

My Childhood Memories Of Life In Hooley

Our family lived in The Fruit Shop (the shop currently sells doors) between 1958-’64. Mum and Dad served customers with the support of Mrs Garner,a rotund jolly lady who lived in Star Lane. Dad could often be ...Read more

A memory of Hooley in 1958 by Jan Herd

From 1940 But Historically Long Before

Along with my mother Ruby, I was evacuated to Alconbury on my birthday, 23 September 1940. Unknown to me, my paternal grandparents had already moved there and were in residence in Chapel Street. My Mum and I ...Read more

A memory of Alconbury in 1940 by Barry W J Chandler

Scottie Road

I lived in Chapel Gardens next to St Anthony's church, there were only 3 houses in our street, the Greggs, Mcartheys and us Hawkins. I went to St Anthony's School and left in 1957 when we moved to Kirkby. I worked in Scotts Bakery in ...Read more

A memory of Liverpool in 1957 by Cathy Thomson

Upper Bourne End

My brothers and I returned to Bourne End at the end of the war. We had been evacuated to Nottingham. We lived in a small house called "The Nest". It was the last house on the road. Lunnon's Farm backed on to all the houses and a ...Read more

A memory of Bourne End in 1945 by Eileen Savedra

Some Historical Facts Of The Plumbs In Barroby

The newspaper published at Grantham in England, the original home of the ancestors of the well known Plumb and Parker families of Mills, Pottawattamie, Cass and Shelby Counties, recently carried a story ...Read more

A memory of Barrowby by Alan Plumb

Heather And Gorse Clog Morris Entertain At The Teign House Inn Christow

It was the weekend of the Royal Wedding and on Sunday, the day before the May Bank Holiday, everyone was in a party mood. We took a party of dancers and musicians to the ...Read more

A memory of Christow in 2011 by John Howard Norfolk

Weston Road

This photo brings back memories for me. This picture must have been taken from opposite my home. I was born on Weston Road and my father still lives in the old family house.

A memory of Runcorn

Sawtry 1901 And 1968

Somehow fate seems to draw me to places where some of my ancestors have been living, yet I was born in London. In 1968 I bought a house in Sawtry, off St. Judith's Lane, and where I lived until returning to Sweden in 1974. Now, ...Read more

A memory of Sawtry by Barry W J Chandler

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Captions

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Caption For Chesham, Waterside, From Lord's Mill 1906

Not only Lord's Mill went: all the buildings in this view also went in the 1950s and 1960s for road improvements and were replaced by undistinguished modern houses.

Caption For Chalfont St Giles, High Street C1955

The buttressed wall on the left belongs to the former rectory, a good brick house of about 1700 with seven bays of sash windows.

Caption For Little Missenden, The River Misbourne C1955

Here we look east from the bridge over the Misbourne along the backs of Manor Farmyard, now houses, the Red Lion pub and cottages beyond, a view now somewhat obscured by stables to one of the converted

Caption For Botley, Church Lane C1955

The little cottage on the left has been replaced by a redbrick house, and there is a modern bungalow just to the right of it.

Caption For Sleaford, Southgate C1950

Moving north, just beyond the Handley Memorial, and heading for the Market Place, we see buildings mostly from the late 18th- and 19th-century phase of Sleaford's prosperity, with the castellated house

Caption For Lytham, East Beach 1907

Near the windmill is the lifeboat house, in use at this time. In 1886 the tragic wreck of the 'Mexico' occurred with much loss of life, including lifeboatmen from St Anne's.

Caption For Inskip, Carrs Green C1950

The factory was kept very busy, especially at Christmas, when besides Lancashire cheese, sage and cheddar cheeses were produced; but it was demolished in 1991, and houses were built on the site.

Caption For Clapham, High Street C1965

At this end of the High Street many houses survive; those on the right have single-storey shops in front.

Caption For East Runton, High Street C1955

There are almost as many visitors in this High Street as there are in its neighbour Cromer, with every other premises a cafe or public house.

Caption For Amroth, The Beach C1960

Nearby Amroth Castle is a grand 18th-century house that sits on the site of Amroth's original Norman fortress, just yards from Amroth beach.

Caption For Cheam, Old Cheam, Park Lane 1925

The timber framed jettied house called Whitehall, standing on the corner of Park Lane and Malden Road, is thought to have been built as a farmhouse c1500, and over the last five centuries it has undergone

Caption For Cheam, Cheam Park House Lodge 1938

This building at the foot of Park Lane, with its stuccoed walls, pedimented porch, and ornamental iron gates, was built around 1820 as the lodge to Cheam Park House.

Caption For Shepley, The Bridge C1955

The imposing Bridge House, with a datestone of 1883 (left), was originally the Conservative Club; it was later used as a youth club, and was restored in 2003 and converted into business premises.

Caption For Great Eccleston, The Square C1965

In the 18th and early 19th century, houses were built on the edge of the square; the most famous dwelling in Great Eccleston is Leckonby Hall.

Caption For Whetstone, High Road C1955

The photograph shows an area to the south of the original village as it drops down towards Tally Ho Corner, but just a little to the north, among the modern shops, are 18th-century houses and a fine 16th-century

Caption For Caister On Sea, The Holiday Camp C1955

In 1906, Fletcher Dodd began to provide holidays for groups of socialists from the East End of London in the grounds of his house on Ormesby Road.

Caption For Trimley, High Street C1960

The post office and adjoining house remain, but there have been many changes since 1960. The next building has been demolished, and so has the whole of the right side of the street.

Caption For Road Weedon, The New Inn C1965

The New Inn, sporting its new Watney's Red Barrel sign by the door and the sign board with the house style lettering, stands up the hill in Road Weedon on the old London to Holyhead turnpike.

Caption For Letchworth Garden City, The Council Offices C1950

The Georgian-style council offices, now North Herts District Council's housing department, were built for the Urban District Council in 1935 to a design by Bennet & Bidwell, architects of many of the buildings

Caption For Wickham, The Square C1965

Behind The Old Tea House (centre right), which is still trading, is a hardware shop. At Christmas there is carol singing in the Square.

Caption For Wenhaston, Village C1955

The house with the slated hipped roof beyond is faced with tiny flints, with brick quoins and door and window surrounds.

Caption For Kenfig Hill, Pisgah Street C1965

This kind of view is often found in this region - 19th-century terraces sprang up to house workers in the coal and iron industries - but Kenfig has a long history dating back to the Bronze and Iron

Caption For Bedford, Biddenham Church 1897

Across the Great Ouse we reach Biddenham, now virtually joined to Bedford by housing estates. At the end of a lane near the Ouse the parish church is grouped with Church Farm.

Caption For Biggleswade, Market Square C1955

On a busy market day the former Market House is partly concealed. It was rebuilt in 1937 with fake timber-framing applied to the outside, but it did re-use the original 1565 roof timbers.