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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

Little Tudor 1900s To Present

Little Tudor was the cottage that my grandmother resided in when she was a young girl. It is located on The Green in Holyport, Maidenhead. She and her brothers and sisters grew up here in the 1900s. I visited it last ...Read more

A memory of Holyport in 1941 by Wendy Hoffman

Service

In the early 1940s Mystole House was one of the first places my Regiment used as a billet for one of the Batteries of Artillery as part of the defence of the South Coast Defence scheme on stand by in the event of invasion by the German ...Read more

A memory of Mystole Ho by William Parry

Jaspers!

The Jasper family moved in 2008, there are 5 children and one adult, a big family in a big house! This is a lovely family who are loving and kind! I am here to give the memory of Kirton End and wish luck for this family for the rest of their lives.

A memory of Kirton End in 2008

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Captions

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Caption For Stourbridge, Market Street C1965

The complex also houses the town's library and various meeting rooms. The earlier sign for public lavatories has now been replaced by a sign which reads, much more bluntly, 'Toilets'.

Caption For Hitchin, High Street 1929

Cock Inn was once a tumbledown, disreputable place, but Alfred Doughty's obituary in 1916 says that after he purchased the inn in 1888, he improved it, 'until today The Cock Inn is one of the finest houses

Caption For Lowestoft, The Harbour C1955

The large shop on the left is Tuttle's, the house furnisher's. The late Victorian terrace includes the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen.

Caption For Lavenham, Lady Street C1960

On the left is a high-quality Tudor house, with arched windows for a shop at the far end. Opposite is the 15th-century Wool Hall, originally the Guild of Our Lady, with an open hall and cross-wings.

Caption For Pinner, High Street C1955

The remainder of the buildings have changed little, including an excellent early 18th-century brick-fronted house halfway up the hill.

Caption For Symondsbury, Village C1940

Symondsbury may be deficient but it can boast the thatched Ilchester Arms Inn (right), which is named for the Strangways family, owning lands from Abbotsbury Swannery to Melbury House

Caption For Chesham Bois, Anne's Corner C1955

In the centre of the view is Anne's Corner, a picturesque house with timber-framing to the upper floor.

Caption For Chesterfield, The Town Hall And Rose Hill C1955

Once upon a time there was a house on the site of the Town Hall called Rosehill.

Caption For Calne, The Town Hall C1965

The right-hand side has double- depth offices along Patford Street, which once housed the police station.

Caption For Clitheroe, Castle 1903

One rooftop of 1860 shows the Royal Insignia; it was the Court House, Lowergate (just out of this photograph).

Caption For Cilcain, The Village C1955

The White Horse Inn (facing us, left) is now the last of seven public houses that are said to have once traded in the village; it is remarkable that the local population of so many small

Caption For Gunnerside, 1923

The old smithy has been here since 1795 - it is still open, and now also houses a small museum.

Caption For Frome, Oldest House 1907

Grape Nuts, Bovril and Rowntrees Cocoa give a clue as to his produce, sold from what Frith called the oldest house in Frome.

Caption For Dudley, The Zoo, The Gorilla C1965

The stylish design of Berthold Lubetkin's enclosures at Dudley Zoo is seen to good effect in this view of the Gorilla House.

Caption For Capel, The Kings Head C1955

The King's Head in The Street in Capel, a village now by-passed by the A24 London to Worthing road, is now a private house, and its once sterile car park is now an attractive front garden

Caption For Chobham, High Street C1955

The White Hart has had the paint removed from its front and is now no longer a straightforward village pub, but a Bluebecker's Eating House.

Caption For Marcham, Church Street C1965

The big painted stone house in the left distance, No 15, is mainly 17th- and 18th-century, and has some stone mullioned windows.

Caption For Sudbury, King Street C1955

The two brick buildings on the left are now Huffer's and Mill House Fabrics. The scene is not so tranquil today, thanks to the traffic.

Caption For Burton On The Wolds, Seymour Road C1960

The photograph clearly illustrates the village expansion with housing that could literally be anywhere.

Caption For Fleckney, The Grand Union Canal C1965

The canal bypasses Fleckney on its eastern side; the photograph looks north east across Second Lock, towards Kibworth bridge and Bridge House, as the waterway winds towards Newton Harcourt

Caption For Hawkhurst, Colonnade 1902

This fairly graceful early 19th-century shopping arcade, with its weatherboarded houses with large shop windows under a colonnade of thin cast iron columns, included a general hardware and implement

Caption For Bedford, Town Bridge C1960

This view was taken from near the Bedford Rowing Club clubhouse just before the buildings on the right were demolished for Swan House in 1960.

Caption For Peterborough, Market Square 1904

The tall lean rickety Dickensian building in front of the church housed the electricity and waterworks offices.

Caption For Aylesbury, Market Square C1955

This view looks east past the much-reduced George pub, with Burton's facade beyond, to the junction of Cambridge Street at the left and High Street to the right of the Round House.