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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

The Delta

This memory of 1961, and me and me pal Wes Coulthard started work at the Delta Rolling Mills (this was over Scotswood Bridge towards Blaydon, left along the river by the Skiff Inn). It was hard work but the dosh was better than other ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1961 by Jimmy Burrows

A Walk From Shotgate Baptist Church To Wick Lane

My name is Kevin Mears, I lived in Wickford from my birth in 1958 until I got married in 1980. I shall describe my memories of Wickford as a couple of walks around the Wickford area. My first walk ...Read more

A memory of Wickford by Kevin Mears

A Walk From Shotgate Baptist Church To The Nevendon Road Part 2 See Part 1 Below

Continued from Part 1 below. Next to Martins Bank was a record shop, where I remember going with my parents and standing listening to records in the small listening ...Read more

A memory of Wickford by Kevin Mears

Cedar Grange, Caterham Valley

I am fairly sure that this is where my grandmother - Julia Millie Crocker, grandfather William Crocker - and father Horace George Crocker b 1915 lived from about 1916 to at least 1920. Recently bought my ggrandmothers ...Read more

A memory of Caterham by Julia Crocker

Born At 9 High Road

I was born next to the United Dairies and the tube station. At night I could hear the horses in the stables and the trains arriving and leaving at the train station. There were also steam trains that worked the siding ...Read more

A memory of East Finchley in 1950 by Barrie Barrell

Paignton Was My Crucible 1947

My mother gave life to me in Paignton hospital (now a hospice I believe) in July of this year (1947) and I spent much of my early years in and around this lovely little town. Not so lovely or little now but still grand ...Read more

A memory of Paignton in 1947 by Peter Chave

A Week To Remember

It was always a sense of adventure searching for new place to visit on our holidays - and certainly we found an idyllic spot just a mile or so outside the town of Cemaes Bay. Mother had been staying with my younger sister who ...Read more

A memory of Cemaes Bay in 1976 by Margaret Mosley

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Captions

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Caption For Wingham, The Dog Inn C1955

it is currently a public house serving real ales and an imaginative menu.

Caption For Chandler's Ford, The Parade C1960

As in Eastleigh, the ground floors of houses have been converted. An unseen advantage is that they all have cellars, as the ground slopes away behind.

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 Nether Alderley, Welsh Row 1896

After this picture was taken a new wing was built on the far side, brick, but painted to match the rest of the house, and ornamented with the Stanley crest in the gable, a common feature

Caption For Halton, From The River C1955

The River Lune runs south of the village, which has Saxon and Roman remains under today's sprawling housing estates.

Caption For West Bay, The Harbour C1960

We are looking north-westwards from the Quay beside Pier Terrace to the old Salt House (centre), which is now the Harbour Museum.

Caption For Abingdon, Abbey Mill 1890

The mill ceased functioning in 1958, and the buildings were converted into a house (at the left) and bedroom suites for the new Upper Reaches Hotel, retaining the mill wheel as a feature inside.

Caption For Allenheads, Slag Hill Cottages C1965

It was here, dur- ing the heyday of the lead mining industry, that the lead was smelted in a mill, though the only intact remnant today is the peat house.

Caption For Andover, Bridge Street C1960

General Shubrick's clock over the door came from the Round House when the Andover Turnpike Trust was wound up.

Caption For Goodworth Clatford, The Village C1965

Barrow Hill runs off to the left with modern houses. Just a mile or so up-river, Upper Clatford has the same appeal.

Caption For Barnstaple, The Square 1912

The horse is still the only means of propulsion, but changes are afoot. The old house to the left of photograph 49616 has been replaced by a car garage.

Caption For Crowcombe, Cross And Carew Arms 1929

The house on the left in Church Lane has recently been rethatched.

Caption For Gayle, The Village 1906

We see (centre) Force Head Farm (1711), and on the right the steps remain outside the bonny baby's house, which is dated 1695. Wensleydale

Caption For Horley, Station Road 1905

Single and two-horse traps wait by the roadside.

Caption For Haywards Heath, Jireh Court C1965

The buildings replaced a large Victorian house. The sloping site was successfully incorporated into the design of the blocks of flats, allowing for garages to be unobtrusively accessible.

Caption For Welton, High Street C1955

Frith's photographer has moved into the High Street and is looking south towards The White Horse pub - which is little changed today.

Caption For Grantham, St Peter's Hill 1904

To the right is the town hall of 1867, now the Guildhall Centre, while the house to its right was replaced by a library and museum in the 1950s.

Caption For Coningsby, The Mill C1955

Coningsby, on the south bank, has lost much of its historic character: in this view of Silver Street the house in front of the mill survives, but not the mill; all to the left has gone, and the road at

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 Newhaven, Fishermen's Cottages 1897

On the west coast of England, the old fishing communities tended to be housed in cottages with thatched roofs.

Caption For Wakefield, Wood Street C1953

Further up is the Mechanics' Institution, or Institute of Literature and Science, which now houses the Wakefield Museum.

Caption For Bishopstoke, Montague Terrace C1955

The house left centre was St Agnes, and became a doctor's surgery. The River Inn has now been built there.

Caption For St Margarets Bay, Excelsior 1903

The popular composer Noel Coward later owned one of the small houses here.

Caption For Eynesbury, St Mary Street 1897

Most of the houses on the left survive, although the leaded casements have been replaced.