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Drumtochty Grampian

This picture is of some houses in Methven, Perthshire now demolished. The village of Drumtochty was a made up name by a Perthshire author on or about 1880. It was based on a Perthshire village. This has nothing to do with ...Read more

A memory of Drumtochty Castle by Eddie Cairns

Childhood Holidays

My gran bought 3 caravans in 1957 which were on the caravan site at Lower Largo.  My parents, brother, me, my aunt, my uncle and their 2 children all spent all our holidays there - summer, easter, bank hols, etc. Us children ...Read more

A memory of Lower Largo in 1957 by Maureen Drake

Fatso & Friend

It was 1970 before I found myself working in this enclosure with 'Fatso' the male lion and his mate, whose name I, unfortunately, cannot remember. I began working at Dudley zoo in 1970 as the Giraffe Keeper and was moved to the 'Cat Round' ...Read more

A memory of Dudley in 1970 by Nicholas Ordinans

This Was My Grandmas House As A Child

This house was where my grandma grew up, and her father before her. Her father was a gardener and her mother was a seamstress, she grew up to be a nurse. She currently lives in Bromley and is now 72 and has been ...Read more

A memory of Farningham in 1930 by Gillian Cox

Grandfather Hatcher

My grandfather, Frederick John Scott Hatcher, married a Guernsey girl, Alice Bougourd. There are Bougourds buried in the Churchyard at Haselbury. I believe the family lived in Haselbury Plucknett, and I know that ...Read more

A memory of Haselbury Plucknett in 1860 by Jill Harris

My Home

I lived with my parents and brother, Ray, at the top of the High Street at 2, Grove Cottages, Leatherhead Road.  I lived there until I married Jean Rumming from Hersham, Surrey in 1960. This used to be a public house later closed down by ...Read more

A memory of Great Bookham in 1943 by Tony Davie

Rose View

1970 - 1984: As you look at this photo the last building on the right, the barn like cottage with the small window, is Rose View. My mum and dad bought it for £1,000 in 1970, and set to work modernising it as I was due 1971 and my brother ...Read more

A memory of Polgooth in 1970 by Tami Cross Halls

Great Part Of The Village

1970's and 80's: We had a great childhood playing at this end of the village. It was quiet except for the cars of people that lived up here. Everyone knew each other. My old house is in the background, all you can see is the ...Read more

A memory of Polgooth in 1980 by Tami Cross Halls

Through The Kitchen Window

I was born in my Grandparents house - "Wimbourne" - in the valley below the Mill. Many pleasant hours have I spent sitting in the kitchen with my grandmother shelling peas that granddad had grown in the garden. The Mill could ...Read more

A memory of Barham in 1959 by Mark Whitaker

"The American University"

The school was converted for use as the campus for The United States International University in Europe. I was fortunate to be working as a Careers Advisor in nearby Watford whilst it was operating as a university and so I had ...Read more

A memory of Bushey in 1989 by John Howard Norfolk

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Caption For Little Haseley, Haseley Court C1960

In addition to the topiary garden, this fine medieval house has a 15th-century barn on the estate.

Caption For Crossgates, The Post Office C1965

A handsome brick building houses the post office and store in this tiny hamlet. Smokers had not become the social outcasts of today, as the Players sign affirms.

Caption For Grantchester, Village 1914

The photographer has managed to capture someone either entering or leaving his or her house. A few seconds either way, and the photograph would have had a person in it to add a touch more interest!

Caption For Bristol, Old Houses And Tolley's Bank 1890

High Street was where Joseph Cottle opened a bookshop and publishing house in 1791.

Caption For Wigan, Haigh Park, Entrance Gate 1895

The 200-acre estate was acquired by the corporation in 1947; the hall now houses a local history museum, and is also used for exhibitions.

Caption For Linlithgow, Palace From The Boat Station 1897

King David I built the first manor house at Linlithgow, and the church of St Michael next to it.

Caption For Stanstead St Margarets, The Crown Inn 1929

The formidable arboreal specimen behind the building may account for the Crown's alternative name of 'The house up a tree'.

Caption For Hope, Village 1932

The Old Hall is on the site of the original manor house of the local Balguy family, from which it takes its name.

Caption For Falmouth, Flushing From Green Bank 1893

Flushing's quays were built by Dutch engineers in the 17th century; with the arrival of the Royal Mail Packets, it became a flourishing port with elegant houses occupied by naval officers.

Caption For Dartmoor, River Dart, Dartmeet 1890

The buildings of the small hamlet remain, but the thatched house on the right has been altered greatly and now has a slate roof.

Caption For Cark In Cartmel, The Bridge 1897

There are a number of bridges serving mill-works houses.

Caption For Llanelli, Parc Howard C1955

Across the small valley is a pleasant mixture of modern semi-detached and older terraced houses.

Caption For Peasmarsh, Post Office C1955

Peasmarsh strings itself out along the main A268 road; its ancient centre of Norman church and Georgian manor house are isolated down a lane to the south.

Caption For East Grinstead, Hermitage Lane 1904

Ten years before this photograph was taken, this part of East Grinstead became known as Hermitage Lane, taking its name from The Hermitage, an 18th-century house demolished in the 1970s.

Caption For Great Sampford, Church Corner C1955

It is little changed today, with these attractive gabled houses near the lovely old 14th-century church of St Michael, built by the Knights Hospitallers.

Caption For Beer, The Village 1895

This led to some changes: one 1920s guidebook writer complained that 'the newer, stoutly built houses have almost replaced the cottages that were the joy of artist and photographer'.

Caption For Somerton, The Cross C1960

The building behind the Jaguar was built in 1550; now the Market House Café, it has been used as tea rooms for many years.

Caption For Aylesford, Preston Hall And Fountain 1898

He was sculptor to Prince Albert, and the Fountain is one of the more successful aspects of the design of the house. Note the tower to the right of the main building.

Caption For Horning, The Ferry Inn C1960

Horning is one of the prettiest villages in Broadland: almost all the houses along the river have waterways and boathouses of their own.

Caption For Ely, View From The West Tower C1955

The distant green fields and trees are now replaced by in-fill housing.

Caption For Scarborough, The Beach C1960

In the shadow of the Lord Nelson Hotel and the lifeboat house, a century on from the first day-trippers, some of the surroundings have altered, fashions have changed and deckchairs are in abundance, but

Caption For Brixham, The Harbour 1925

Lyte was the much loved Victorian parson of the fishing town, living high above the town at Berry Head House.

Caption For Bodiam, Oast House C1960

Oast houses are common in the Weald of Sussex as well as in Kent, and indeed wherever hops are grown.

Caption For Billesdon, C1955

the village, shows the broach spire of the church of St John the Baptist, rebuilt in 1861, rising above the very attractive slate and stone roofscape of a village of mainly brick and ironstone-faced houses