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Rowes Of Netheravon.

As a little girl I remember visiting Auntie Alice and Uncle Bill Rowe. They lived in Vine Cottage just down from the SSW Army Camp. Dad was stationed there after the Second World War, that's where he met my mother Margaret Ada ...Read more

A memory of Netheravon in 1965 by Christina Jobling

Rye Grammar School

I have a great-grandfather and several of his brothers who went to this grammar school in the 1830s and 1840s and they all had very nice writing with perfect copperplate. So maybe the severity on the outside was reflected in the ...Read more

A memory of Rye

Hammer Cottage

I left Coolham 1n 1957 to go to sea to become a Salvage Diver. I was very fortunate to have achieved my ambition and became the senior diver within Admiralty Salvage. My family lived and owned Hammer Cottage, together with Saddlers ...Read more

A memory of Coolham in 1957 by Shaun Gandy

Camping On The Benthills

I too, as others, have many fond memories of holidays in Sizewell. During summer school holidays I travelled from Scotland to London to be with my grandparents. They were well connected with Sizewell and would take me there ...Read more

A memory of Sizewell in 1953 by Ronald Mcdowell

Growing Up At Newton Poppleford

I was born in London, moved to Oak Tree Villas at Newton Poppleford in Devon at 9 months. Jean Bastin lived on one side and Brian Pring on the other, with Mrs Harrison the church organist in the fourth house, ...Read more

A memory of Newton Poppleford in 1930 by David Page

My New House

We have just bought a cottage here in North End and I am immersing myself in the wonderful history of the place. It looks nearly the same as it did all those years ago. Does anyone know when these cottages were built? I am like a ...Read more

A memory of Higham Ferrers in 2009

My Wedding Day

At 3 p.m. on Saturday 10th July 1965 I married Tony. Our marriage was conducted by Thomas Stanley Archer (Curator) of St Michael's Church. At the time I was living in The Cottages, Littlethorpe (now demolished) but had previously lived ...Read more

A memory of Cosby in 1965

Little Jims Cottage

Does anyone have any information about John Guy who lived in Little Jims Cottage in the early 1960's? John was my fathers cousin and I understand that he was a musician.

A memory of Polesworth in 1960 by Anthony Gee

Our First Visit To Eyam

My husband's family comes from the Derby area. Our son is very proud of his Derbyshire roots, and sought to buy a house close to Derby yet - if possble - in a village in the Peak District. He and his wife spent many days and ...Read more

A memory of Eyam by Margaret Mosley

Home

I was born in Grassington in March 1953, in a small cottage in a row of three on Chaple Street. They were known as the "Monkey Houses", as they are probably, still known today. By true locals anyway. My father was born at the town hall as ...Read more

A memory of Grassington in 1953 by Ian Kayley

Captions

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Caption For Hemingford Abbots, Common Lane 1914

In its place stands a row of brick terraced cottages. In the distance, the thatched building with the brick chimney forms part of the original village school and the School House.

Caption For Faygate, The Village 1929

Charcoal-making was a forest industry until the 1960s, and was carried out on sites within the forest.There were two brick works in the village.A road of brick cottages is seen next to the Wesleyan

Caption For Worthing, View From The Pier 1899

Much of the old village with its rows and terraces of small flint cottages survives amid the sprawl.

Caption For Bishopsbourne, 1903

This village comprises little more than this cluster of charming cottages just off Watling Street, but it has associations with two noted authors.

Caption For Elstow, The Swan Inn 1921

Most of the village was owned by the Whitbread family, including these rows of 16th-century timber-framed cottages.

Caption For Aylesbury, Church Street C1960

He founded the Thomas Hickman charity, which built almshouses; it is an active housing charity still, buying and refurbishing houses and cottages in the old town for rent.

Caption For Queniborough, The Village And St Mary's Church C1955

The thatched cruck cottage, with its museum-piece petrol pump and the amazing interlocking of roofs, lead the eye inexorably to the needle-like spire, which crowns the pink granite tower of the church.

Caption For Hunstanton, High Street 1907

It was a quiet village of simple fishermen's cottages until the coming of the railway in 1862.

Caption For Bodinnick, The Ferry Inn 1888

The cottages above the Ferry Inn are a joyous sight in summer, their gardens packed tight with bright flowers.

Caption For Castleford, The Bus Station C1965

Listed buildings remaining in the town are the Rising Sun inn (a former village institute built in 1905), and a nearby row of miners' cottages.

Caption For Cheam, High Street 1925

The house on the right was Vine Cottage, where Mr Dealy, the butler at Cheam School, lived with his family.

Caption For Elvington, The Post Office C1960

Opposite is the Grey Horse Inn, and on Church Lane is Glencoe Cottage of 1874, with a passage from the Psalms on a corner tablet.

Caption For Hamble, The Village C1955

With its steep, winding streets and pretty cottages, there is a definite hint of Devon or Cornwall about it.

Caption For Upper Dicker, Coldharbour Road C1955

The late Victorian estate cottages in the distance are in a more picturesque Sussex tile-hung style with ornate bargeboards to their gables.

Caption For Windmill Hill, Posey Green C1955

The village hall on the right has given way to houses, but the cottages on the left remain.

Caption For Corfe Castle, From The West 1890

Vineyard Cottage, with a haystack beside it, is in the foreground.

Caption For Coleshill, The Church C1955

This village was an enclave of Hertfordshire, being transferred to Buckinghamshire in 1832, and there are many good 16th and 17th century timber-framed farmhouses and cottages within the parish.

Caption For Bushey, The Pond And Coronation Arch 1953

Between the Conservative Club building and the stuccoed, wisteria-clad cottages at the Falconer Road end of the High Street, rises the Coronation Arch marking the accession of Queen Elizabeth II to the

Caption For Botley, High Street C1960

The white cottage on the right of the High Street is now the premises of an estate agent, and the ivy which covers the house on the left has gone.

Caption For Cemaes Bay, High Street C1955

Notice the small row of cottages on the right with its rendered roof and catslide dormers; the traditional shop fronts; the plain render; and the sash windows.

Caption For Littledean, The Village C1955

Beyond the delivery van parked on the same side as The George Hotel stands a row of cottages once quaintly named Ship's Yud Row.

Caption For Ryde, Cross Street C1955

The novelist remarked on the beautiful setting of what was then just a straggling line of fishermen's cottages.

Caption For Bothenhampton, The Village 1904

Clematis Cottage (left) faces a long line of dwellings, all of which survive, from No 5 (left end) to No 39 (far right).

Caption For Teddington, 14 & 16 Park Road 2005

(Vicky Higgin) Clarence Cottage to the right is 18th-century, but Adelaide Cottage to the left is early 19th-century; at one time the two were adjoined as a common house.