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Memories

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My Father

My father, ARTHUR PERCY CRUMP, was born in 1898 in London, but orphanned in 1901. He was sent to Heacham with his older sister, EDITH. The 1911 Census shows him living with foster parents....Samuel Groom, his wife, daughter and 2 ...Read more

A memory of Heacham in 1900 by Angela Haddrill

Palmer And Sims Families

I've never been to Glyncorrwg but my mother, Ivy Lillian Lyonson nee Palmer was born at Nythfa, Cymmer Road (the house didn't appear to have a number only a name) in 1915. Before their marriage, her parents lived next ...Read more

A memory of Glyncorrwg in 1910 by Ann Lyonson

Looking Down On The Fisherman's Cot From Yearlstone Vineyard

Although I have visited this pub for drinks and meals on many occasions, my most recent view of it was unusual! br />I took the 55 bus from Tiverton towards Bickleigh ...Read more

A memory of Bickleigh in 2011 by John Howard Norfolk

Perkinsville

Because I was raised by my Grandparents I inherited their surname Green untill I left Pelton Modern school and started work. Mole Terrace being the street where we lived served not only as a football pitch but also ...Read more

A memory of Chester-Le-Street in 1947 by Gerald Watson

Newington Terrace

When I was young in the 1950s I would spend some weeks of my summer vacation at my grandparents' house at 11 Newington Terrace, Elizabeth and Albert Torr. I remember swimming in the river, we would go to the weir and remove some ...Read more

A memory of Craven Arms by Walter Crooks

Cobham Terrace

I was born at 23 Cobham Terrace in 1943 and lived there until 1953 when we moved to Swanscombe. The road was very quiet then and as children we played in the ditch across the road. This "ditch" was once the water way that connected ...Read more

A memory of Greenhithe in 1943 by Bill Bloss

The Good Life

I was born in 1926 at no 2 The Terrace. My dad was Taity Ponsford and I had 5 brothers and 2 sisters my sister Ida and Cis, who was killed in a motor cycle accident in 1933, at the time she was with Bill Murrant a local golf pro. My ...Read more

A memory of Sunninghill in 1920 by Ronald Ponsford

West Cornforth

I remember the donkey wood, the pit ponies that used to roam in the wood. The old picture house now has the lop house at the time at the bottom of the pit bank. Also the hills and the holes where we used to play as kids. Back to ...Read more

A memory of Spennymoor in 1961 by Lawrence Sewell

Family Visits

I have many memories of visiting my Grandparents, George and Liza Ireland, who lived on the end of Major's Terrace, (I think it was called then) next door to the Crown and Anchor (now the Pottery). A particular fond memory is of my ...Read more

A memory of Mosterton in 1949 by Pauline Morgan

Countryside Memories Holidays In The 1950s

The journey from our home in North Essex to my grandparents’ home in North Derbyshire took almost a full day back in the 1950s, allowing of course for periodic stops along the way. The first, usually at ...Read more

A memory of Glossop in 1955 by Mrs H. L Sharpe

Captions

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Caption For Twickenham, The River And Parish Church C1955

unattractive, too large and unsympathetic to the riverside site, that the proposed access to the new onsite leisure facilities offered was unsatisfactory and, in the case of the Twickenham Riverside Terrace

Caption For Twickenham, York House C1965

unattractive, too large and unsympathetic to the riverside site, that the proposed access to the new onsite leisure facilities offered was unsatisfactory and, in the case of the Twickenham Riverside Terrace

Caption For Haywards Heath, The Broadway C1950

Caffyns moved in the 1980s, and the Broadway site is now a terrace of shops with offices above. The Post Office's Travels The post office in Haywards Heath has had a nomadic past.

Caption For Twickenham, The Riverside C1965

The Twickenham Riverside Terrace Group (a umbrella group of local amenity societies) strenuously opposed this proposal, and argued strongly that as all the land was originally purchased as public

Caption For Rugby, Market Place, High Street And Sheep Street 1932

In 1874 it moved again, to Reynolds Field, off Hillmorton Road, and in 1878 it moved yet again, to the bottom of Railway Terrace and Murray Road.

Caption For Hutton, The Village 1891

Number 20 Hutton Village, the house on the left-hand end of the terrace, was extended during the early years of the 20th century and almost doubled in size.

Caption For Tenby, Old Town Wall C1925

Tenby was never really designed for use by the motorcar, and apart from some Victorian road widening, with the demolition of some old terraces and properties, it still largely adheres to its medieval

Caption For Guisborough, Sunnyfield House, Westgate C1960

The original carriage driveway of the house preceded the 'new' Westgate Road, shown in the foreground here, which was laid out to connect the Victorian streets of Reid Terrace, Gill Street and

Caption For Great Yarmouth, The Sands From Britannia Pier 1922

Seafront terraces and development grew apace from the 1840s, and soon the Wellington Pier (1854) and Britannia Pier (1858) were stretching their airy promenades out to sea; a tradition of entertainment

Caption For Margate, The Sands 1906

The centre for this was a site of many acres behind the houses on Marine Terrace facing the golden sands. In 150 years it has just had two names, the Hall by the Sea and Dreamland.

Caption For Loughborough, C1955

Even today, when the bracken on the Beacon dies down in the autumn, the terraces tilled by farmers of long ago can still be seen. Iron Age smiths forged tools and weapons here.

Caption For Haywards Heath, The Crossroads C1950

The eastern side of the Broadway was totally transformed: in the early 1930s Arnolds Cottage, a double- fronted late Victorian villa, was demolished, to be replaced by a single-storey terrace

Caption For Carlisle, Shaddon Mill From The Victoria Viaduct 2005

Some of this pressure was alleviated by building rows of new terraced brick housing close to the factories in the growing suburbs of Caldewgate, Shaddongate and (after the building of the Nelson

Caption For Dorking, Deepdene House 1891

Charles Howard landscaped the gardens in Cromwell's time; they were laid out in the form of an amphitheatre, with a garden terrace and an open-air conservatory of flowers and rare plants, and were

Caption For Dorking, Cottage Hospital 1906

Charles Howard landscaped the gardens in Cromwell's time; they were laid out in the form of an amphitheatre, with a garden terrace and an open-air conservatory of flowers and rare plants, and were

Caption For Fleetwood, The Harbour 1894

Fleetwood was founded in 1836 by Sir Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood, and laid out to the designs of Decimus Burton, who designed the North Euston Hotel, Queen's Terrace and both lighthouses.