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Rcaf North Luffenham

My father was in the RCAF, stationed at the former RAF base. We lived in the village from 1952 to 1954. The picture on this site was where we lived at the time. The village shop was next door and was operated by Mr and ...Read more

A memory of North Luffenham in 1952 by John Langston

The Old Fox And Goose

We moved to the old Fox and Goose (next to the tiny shop and just up the road from the Blue Bell pub) in 1962. I was 8 and my brother 3. We stayed for around 2 years. My Dad worked for Alne Brick Co. My Mum cleaned houses. Our ...Read more

A memory of Alne in 1962 by Sharon High

Wartime Memories Of Hay Part Two

Memories of Hay during the Second World War: Part Two. (Continued from Part One) Thoughts of 'Dad's Army' remind me that the local Home Guard occasionally used Forest Road for some kind of exercise. I've dim ...Read more

A memory of Hay-on-Wye in 1940 by John S. Batts

Wartime Memories Of Hay Part Three Final

Wartime Memories of Hay: Part Three. (Continued) Apart from Ration Books and the coupon implications for restricted purchase of food and clothing, my own recollections of life in Hay during World War ...Read more

A memory of Hay-on-Wye in 1940 by John S. Batts

Longley Road

Does anyone know anything about the Bowra family or Raven family? They lived in Longley Road in the late 1800s and 1900s until 1957. The family consisted of Henrietta Bowra, Leonard, Herbert, Sydney and Kate. Kate had a daughter ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1900

Royal Merchant Navy School Bearwood

The Royal Merchant Navy School As far back as 1827 the Royal Merchant Navy School was established under the name of the Merchant Seaman's Orphan Asylum to provide a home for the destitute offspring of British ...Read more

A memory of Winnersh by Sylvia Lambert

Cranborne

I was a pupil at Cranborne First School at the time of Ms Rogers and lived across the carpark at 9 Water Street. I remember ending up with prizes for cooking and mini garden and doing the show at the old village hall singing '1, 2, 3,4,5, ...Read more

A memory of Cranborne in 1974 by Adam Cooper

My Great Grandmother Mary Eve

Mary Ann Eve was from this area. She was my great-grandmother and joined her husband Robert Chilvers in South Africa after the Boer War. she died when I was sixteen years of age and I knew her very well. A feisty ...Read more

A memory of High Easter in 1890 by Susan Jones

Sandycombe Road

I was born in Kings Farm Avenue, just off Manor Road in Richmond in 1964. When I was a baby we swapped council houses with my Uncle and moved into 28 Sandycombe Road - this was to be my home until 1987. My grandparents lived at number ...Read more

A memory of Kew in 1969 by Garry Smith

Crump Family

My 2 x great-grandfather, Thomas Crump, was born in 1799. He married Susannah Bond in 1822 and lived...??? at Mill Cottage. He became Farm Bailiff on the Quicke Estate, responsible for the letting of farms. His son, Matthew ...Read more

A memory of Newton St Cyres by Angela Haddrill

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Captions

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Caption For Abergynolwyn, The Village 1968

There is little apart from the Mini van parked in front of the terraced house on the bottom right of the picture to give away the date of this view, which looks north over Abergynolwyn.

Caption For Belfast, Botanic Gardens And Queens College 1897

In 1840 a long conservatory was built, and 12 years later the palm house was added.

Caption For Southend On Sea, Pier Hill C1960

Towards the bottom of the hill The Gaiety Bazaar may be seen, a treasure-house for holiday gifts. Nearby the well-known Rossi ice creams are sold.

Caption For Wells, Cathedral, Chapter House 1890

The chapter house was completed in about 1306. Behind the pillar is the bishop's seat, and each member of the chapter has his own stall.

Caption For Sutton, Church Road 1904

The houses on the left have been replaced by Civic Offices and the Central Library, which opened in 1978.

Caption For Bourne End, The Marina And Boatyard 1899

The renowned Bourne End Regatta was based here, established in 1897, with the club house to the right of Shaw's boat works.

Caption For Heckington, High Street C1955

Here we look along the High Street, where most of the houses and cottages survive on the left but only No 62, then an antique shop, on the right.

Caption For Grosmont, Front Street C1965

Houses here date from the early 19th century, and for shopping the Co-op (left) opened in 1867. Motor cars in this scene are from the same period as TV's Heartbeat, also set in the mid 1960s.

Caption For Grindleton, The Village C1960

Some houses had ledges fitted near chimneys for a witch to rest upon and be appeased. It was always wise to keep on the right side of a witch - their malice was a real fear in Pendle country!

Caption For Maidstone, High Street C1953

At the bottom of Maidstone High Street both the Queen's Head public house, on the left, and the Rose and Crown Hotel across the road have gone; the trolleybuses also went in 1966.

Caption For Studland, Cottages 1899

These cottages stand in Watery Lane, between Church Road and the Cross and the track to Harry Warren House on the clifftop - the track becomes the coastal footpath to Old Harry Rocks.

Caption For Swindon, Regent Street C1955

The store was greatly extended from its original size in the mid 1930s by taking over the site of the adjacent Artillery Arms public house.

Caption For Cobham, Leather Bottle 1894

It was the 'clean and commodious ale-house' where the love-lorn Mr Tracy Tupman stayed in Charles Dickens' 'Pickwick Papers'.

Caption For Tenby, The North Bay 1950

Above the cliffs we can just see the Park Hotel, built as a terrace of three houses, part of a larger development of North Cliff which never materialised.

Caption For Rickmansworth, The Splash, Bury Road C1955

One of the best-recognised beauty spots in Rickmansworth, the Splash (the town ditch), which is being crossed by the Austin A40, had originally been part of the drive to Bury Manor House, whose gates can

Caption For Brant Broughton, High Street C1955

There is some very attractive brickwork on the house facing the camera.

Caption For Skegness, Lumley Avenue 1904

The house on the extreme left belonged to G J Crofts, who could look down the street and see customers entering his large drapery shop in Lumley Road; it later became the offices of the Skegness Standard

Caption For Launceston, Church And Castle And Dockacre House 1906

Built during the reign of Elizabeth I, Dockacre House is the oldest home in Launceston.

Caption For Crossmichael, The Village C1960

Houses and cottages, many single-storey and built of local stone with slate roofs, line the long, winding main street.

Caption For Rothesay, From Chapel Hill 1900

A row of houses, beginning with the headland church tower, lies almost subdued below the tree-covered hills overlooking this bustling sea port.

Caption For Boston Spa, High Street 1893

Handsome and dignified Georgian houses and villas line the leafy street.

Caption For Richmond, Market Place 1908

It now houses the regimental museum of The Green Howards.

Caption For Basildon, Development Corporation C1960

Their headquarters, Gifford House, were just outside the New Town boundaries, a fact that prompted accusations of stand-offishness.

Caption For Prestbury, High Street 1896

The village is renowned for its famous half-timbered Priest's House, which is thought to date from the 14th century.