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Before The Town Centre Was Built ...

My family came to Basildon in 1957 as part of the overspill from London. My late father was a toolmaker and was offered a job and a house. Money was tight and we made out own entertainment. Collecting wood from the ...Read more

A memory of Basildon in 1957 by Susan White

46 Bridge Road, Cove

46 Bridge Road at Cove is very significant to me because I was born in Bridge Road, no 46, on 29th June 1943, in the photo of Bridge Road it is the second house on the left, opposite Cove Supply Stores, so I'm sure my mother would ...Read more

A memory of Cove in 1943 by Graham Davis

My Father

My father worked for BP Llandarcy from the 1960s. I was born in 1971 and some of my earliest memories are the smell of my dad coming home from Llandarcy. He worked on a machine called the catreformer. He rescued my first cat Sooty from ...Read more

A memory of Llandarcy in 1974

Cooksons Leadworks Part 2

1965. During my time working here I carried out a number of different jobs, one was to make Zinc ingots, my shift would start with my furnace fired up and there next to it would be my "charge" this would be a pile of old ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1965 by Jimmy Burrows

Higher Bebington Road

I grew up in Higher Bebington Road, my mum lived there from 1957 up until she died in 2008. I have seen so many changes. When we were kids we would pond-dip in the ponds on the fields at the back of the Oval now football ...Read more

A memory of Bebington by Sue Fowler

Spring House Farm And Spring Cottage

I also have special memories of the two houses shown - Spring House Farm and Spring Cottage. Tilly and Fred (as mentioned by Marie Sloane) were my great aunt and uncle as were the Davis sisters and ...Read more

A memory of St Mary Bourne by Jan Doling

Living In The Village

We moved to Compton Bassett in 1957 when I was 11 and lived there until my father died in 1986. My parents were George Edward (Ted) Jones and Lucy. First we lived in Dugdales Farm house with Mr and Mrs Monck, and then ...Read more

A memory of Compton Bassett in 1957 by Jennifer Mera

Etchingham Banks

I lived on Wedds Farm from around 1948 to 1963. My father, George Couzens, a wartime Battle of Britain fighter pilot, was manager of the farm which was owned by Mr A. Howeson. They had met in the RAF during the war. I believe ...Read more

A memory of Ticehurst in 1957 by John Couzens

Doseley

When my dad Derick John Jones was born in 1944 he lived in a row of houses called Dill Doll Row or Dill Da Row as some people called them, they were situated at Sandy Bank, Doseley, just behind the Cheshire Cheese pub at Doseley. My dad lived ...Read more

A memory of Doseley in 1944 by Angela Mathison

The Station On The Willows

My grandfather and grandmother Dixon lived in the station house. My grandmother had a marquee on the Willows, from memories of conversations with my mother who lived there also for 4 or 5 years, on Sundays she would serve ...Read more

A memory of Ryton by Irene Oxley

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Caption For Chideock, Village 1903

Next down the street (left of centre) is the Castle Inn which was rebuilt by Sir Frederick Weld after a fire in 1887, with Chideock House below it.

Caption For Rothley, Old Cottages, Fowke Street C1955

The medieval core is rich in vernacular houses, and this atmospheric photograph shows a quite excellent example.

Caption For Porthmadog, The Harbour Showing Cnicht And The Moelwyns C1955

The right of the harbour now accommodates some rather incongruous housing, while the warehousing on the left has also given way to housing.

Caption For Rochester, High Street 1908

Not a hatless head to be seen as the open-top tram, en route to Frindsbury across the river, passes the lantern and railings of Eastgate House, threatening conflict with horse-drawn traffic.

Caption For Newnham, Badby Road C1955

This row of houses is still there today, but perhaps looking a little more looked-after.

Caption For Egremont, Promenade 1898

The name Egremont was given to a big house built by John Askew, who bought land here. He called the house Egremont to remind him of where he was born in the Lake District.

Caption For Addlestone, Station Road C1955

Addlestone grew up in the mid 19th century with the arrival of the railway, when a few villas and many more terraces and pairs of artisan houses were built.

Caption For Ockley, Stane Street C1955

The Old Hatch, the cross-winged house on the left, has heavy Horsham sandstone roof slates. The petrol station on the right has been replaced by a 1970s pair of houses.

Caption For Allenheads, Ropehaugh C1965

New Houses was built in 1788, and Fawside Green and Dudley Place in 1790. Also dating from 1790 is Iceton House, which was once the pay office.

Caption For Andover, The Union Workhouse, Junction Road 1906

A girls' hostel was added in 1972, and sheltered housing for the elderly was built in 1982. That year the hospital moved to Charlton Road and Cricklade College took overe the workhouse as classrooms.

Caption For Cliffe, High Street C1950

It is now an unprepossessing village, with some pleasing weatherboarded houses in the High Street. On the right are two public houses - the Victoria and the Black Bull.

Caption For Stafford, Greyfriars C1965

The Stone and Eccleshall roads used to divide in front of the Waggon and Horses public house, but by this time a roundabout had been built to the rear of it, on the left.

Caption For Whitby, The Upper Harbour C1955

Directly above St Michael's Church (right) one can see Abbey House and the ruined shell of the classical banqueting hall built by Sir Hugh Cholmley in 1672, roofless since the 1790s; at the

Caption For Kettering, Sheep Street 1922

The house with tall chimneys on the left was the gable-end of the George Hotel, with garaging attached to the main building; the higher gable with the BP sign marks the entrance to the car park.

Caption For Fittleworth, From Lea Hill 1908

Here the photographer looks across the back of the Victorian elementary school and schoolmaster's house at the left of the hay ricks.

Caption For Fittleworth, The Village 1908

This view looks north-east along the A283 past its junction with Church Lane on the right in front of White Horse Cottage, whose chimney stack is here covered in creeper.

Caption For Epsom, Woodcote Park 1927

This is the grandest house in Epsom. It was originally built in the 17th century for Richard Evelyn, the brother of the diarist, and remodelled in stone for Lord Baltimore.

Caption For Abinger Hammer, The Village C1955

Abinger Hammer is most well known for its spectacular clock, which is attached to the corner of a typical late 19th-century Surrey vernacular tile-hung house.

Caption For Hoghton, The Tower 1895

The home of the de Hoghton family, the house (which is still there today) was mainly built in the reign of Elizabeth I.

Caption For Whalley, Moreton Hall 1897

The original house was built about 1490, and remained in the Moreton family for many years. Later it was home to the Nowells and then the Taylors.

Caption For Luton, Hoo C1955

Originally designed in 1767 by Robert Adam for the 3rd Earl of Bute, this unique country house was reconstructed in 1843 after a fire in which little of the original building was left untouched.

Caption For Luton, Luton Hoo C1955

Originally designed in 1767 by Robert Adam for the 3rd Earl of Bute, this unique counrty house was reconstructed in 1843 after a fire in which little of the original building was left untouched.

Caption For East Hoathly, South Street C1950

Belmont is a Georgian house, and the gatehouse is an early Victorian house sited to the rear of Belmont. The village is noted for trug manufacture at a local steamed wood works.

Caption For Faygate, The Village 1929

The scene has now altered: the left-hand side of the road has been developed with houses and bungalows, and the church is now converted to a house.