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Memories

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The Croxley Elm Trees

The 1947 council house development that was built on the north side of Baldwins Lane, west of Manor Way became my home area after moving from Rochester Way in 1948. I loved the beautiful tall Elm trees that lined Baldwins ...Read more

A memory of Croxley Green in 1947 by Leon Moore

Burcot Grange

I went to Burcot Grange School in Mere Green. From 1961-1964 or there about. Mrs Keates was the Headmistress and her husband was the vicar. Mrs Shinner was deputy head. I got told off for dangling my legs out of the top floor ...Read more

A memory of Sutton Coldfield by Lorraine Gaunt

Plymstock Memories Late 1950s

Having moved out of Plymouth, and awaiting a new build house off Dunstone Road, I lived for a while at my grandparent's house on Dean Hill whilst attending Goosewell Infants. At that time Dean Hill was a tranquil leafy ...Read more

A memory of Plymstock

Joe Allmans Junk Shop

This shop had solid soil floors. It was full of old junk which now I suppose would be classed as antiques. Joe Allman was the owner and was made to leave as the Council stated that the building was unfit for human occupation; ...Read more

A memory of Northwich by Paul Dean

Thermopylae

I was brought up in Claughton Village (Wirral) and in the holidays as children we regularly walked through Bidston Hill to Thermopylae Pass.  We would spend all day on the Hill and at Thermopylae and walk home at the end of the day exhausted ...Read more

A memory of Upton in 1959 by Joan Grey

My Dad's Memories Of The Boys Garden City (Bgc)

My Dad, Thomas Brisland lived at the BGC for 9 years from around 1924. He was housed in Natal Cottage with 34 other boys and they were cared for by a matron and a house mother. The matron was Mrs. ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Bridge by Rod Brisland

Pure Nostalgia

Hello to my fellow Fedsden inmates, whoever and wherever you are now! So nice to find things like this online these days ... I was a boarder at Parndon Hall between about 58 and 61 - stupid gangly blond kid, with my younger sister ...Read more

A memory of Great Parndon by Ross Paterson

The Brown Family Who Lived In A Cottage Called The Groves

I was surprised to find no memories recorded for Auchinairn, even though it is a small place, so the following is a start. When I was about the age of 10 in the mid 1950's my mother told me ...Read more

A memory of Auchinairn by vernoncoles

Wembley Happy Days

My friends and I used to cycle. To Wembley stadium from Wembley House. School to play netball !!!!

A memory of Wembley by Janine Fogden

Crampy’s

I remember happy times at the Vine public house . It was renamed Crampy’s , due to Cecil Bowles ( the landlord ), being nicknamed Crampy. His little wife Marge used to work behind the bar also . We loved Marge . When Crampy was out of the ...Read more

A memory of Wickham Market

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Captions

6,914 captions found. Showing results 985 to 1,008.

Caption For Kimbolton, High Street C1960

Mainly Georgian houses front Kimbolton's wide High Street, laid out in medieval times to accommodate a market.

Caption For St Margarets At Cliffe, The Droveway 1908

These large houses stand in an idyllic situation on the cliffs above the Channel overlooking St Margaret's Bay.

Caption For Ashwell, The Village Museum 1951

The timbered 16th-century Town House on the left was originally the Abbot of Westminster's Tithe office.

Caption For Abingdon, Abbey Mill 1890

The mill, functioning in 1890, is now a house, and the weatherboarded bag-hoist house has gone.

Caption For Hatfield Peverel, The Green C1960

The large house on the left is Brewery House, and behind the post box is Brewery Barn with Brewery Cottages close by.

Caption For Amberley, Castle Courtyard 1896

Within the medieval walls of the castle (or fortified manor house cum bishop's palace) are the living apartments of the bishop: these are complex and varied ranges, with medieval parts jostling with later

Caption For Slad, Steanbridge Lane 1910

The L-shaped building in the foreground, with its blocked windows, was known as The Old House.

Caption For Loose, Village 1898

The shingle spire of All Saints Church rises above the surrounding houses, while halfway up the hill is the Tudor timbered Old Wool House, in which the fleeces of sheep were washed.

Caption For Willenhall, Ye Olde Toll House C1965

One of Willenhall's more eccentric buildings, this mock-Tudor, mock- Gothic, former toll house became a restaurant in 1929 and has also been known as the Round House, though it is not really

Caption For Wordsley, High Street C1965

This picture gives a tantalising glimpse of the wonderful Red House Cone, which belongs to Stuart & Sons, makers of crystal glass.

Caption For Haverfordwest, The Castle C1960

The Prison Govenors House, now the home of the excellent Town Museum, built in 1779 at the same time as the first prison, was biult within the castle precinct.

Caption For Kings Lynn, The Custom House 1898

The Purfleet, with its low bridge, is an old tidal inlet of the Ouse. Here stands the exquisite Custom House of 1683, with its graceful classical-style facade.

Caption For Wendover, Aylesbury Road C1965

The Red House on the left, one of the best houses in Wendover, is built in brick with earlier Georgian box sash windows with characteristic thick glazing bars and fine pedimented doorcases

Caption For Higham Ferrers, Market Square C1955

It is most famous for the superb church and the 15th-century Archbishop Chichele Bede House and School. Note the quality of its stone houses, albeit with some later brickwork.

Caption For Haywards Heath, Perrymount Road C1950

The trees on the left have now been replaced by large multi- occupied office blocks, whilst those on the right shield the grounds of Jireh House; the house was demolished, and a development

Caption For Soham, Churchgate Street C1955

Of the two public houses shown here on the wide main street leading up to St Andrew's church, only the Fountain (centre right), originally known as the Crown and rebuilt after a fire in 1900, is still

Caption For Alton, Ashdell 1928

The two houses on the left were owned by Spicer Brothers, who owned the paper mill, and were called Orps Mill Cottages. In 1878, they were insured for £210 and the fuel houses for £40.

Caption For Thaxted, Newbiggen Street C1955

The triple- storeyed house (centre left) is where the Thaxted Morris Ring was constituted in 1934.

Caption For Woodmansterne, Rectory Lane C1960

The disappearance of the distinctive fence on the left makes the exact location hard to determine but it is likely that the photograph was taken just south of The Old School House on the left and Eastlands

Caption For Fittleworth, Lea Hill 1908

In this view from the west, the man in the straw boater looks past the school with its attached hipped-roofed master's house to Lea Hill, now known as Fittleworth Common.

Caption For Spalding, High Bridge C1960

There are roads along each bank and houses face the river, giving it a slightly Dutch feel. Indeed, there are some fine Georgian houses, particularly on the east side near the good parish church.

Caption For Aylesbury, Parson's Fee C1965

Parsons Fee leads south-west from Market Square past Prebendal House, the home of John Wilkes, the radical MP for Aylesbury from 1757 to 1764, and behind high brick walls.

Caption For York, A Tudor House C1950

This house stands on the corner of Coney Street and New Street. The lower part of the house is now a shop that sells mobile telephones, but the upper storey remains virtually unchanged.

Caption For Ramsgate, St Cloud Hotel 1901

Built between 1881 and 1882, these eight large houses were known as Granville Terrace. In 1897, a Mr Robert Stacey bought the first five houses and converted them into the Hotel Saint Cloud.