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Memories

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Forss Estate

I stayed in a little wooden chalet with my Companion, Sis Remund, when we were Missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, on the Forss Estate. I remember the beautiful river, the sea of blue-bells in the ...Read more

A memory of Forss Ho (Hotel) in 1993 by Stephanie Reynolds

Bicycles And A Happy Hunting Ground.

Being the offspring of parents otherwise engaged, and only partially supervised by a succession of Nannies, whose only concern was that we should be clean and respectably dressed when we got up to mischief, we ...Read more

A memory of New Milton in 1950 by Roger Williams

Boyhood Days

My aunts and uncles lived in East Howle and I was a regular visitor around and before 1950. The two families lived opposite one another in what I think may have been "railway cottages" and my cousins totalled 9. In those days you got ...Read more

A memory of East Howle

Poetry

This poem was sent to mac by Mrs S. Holmes: Death of Chelmsley Wood The sheer delight of summer afternoons, As through the fields in cotton frocks we walked, The long grass licking at our gangly legs, While we in deep contentment ...Read more

A memory of Chelmsley Wood in 1995

St Albans Summer Holidays In The 1950s

A child from Thanet taking annual last week of August holidays with an adored great aunt at Chiswell Green, travelling by train to Victoria Station, London, taking the Greenline to ...Read more

A memory of Frogmore in 1953 by Sandra Dudley

Boyhood Memories

I was born in 89 Abbot Street, just off Sunderland Road, in 1932, then we moved to the Gateshead end of Redheugh Bridge. When the Second World War started we moved to 20 Brussel Street. The Davidson family lived in the flat above ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead in 1940 by Allen Flynn

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

Walks

Going on long walks and picnics up the woods with my mum and 4 sisters, it started out with just us but by the time we had walked through the village we had half the village kids with us! Great times, sandwiches and weak warm juice.

A memory of Cheddington in 1964 by Susan Wesley

Halton Gorse Cottages And Castle Road

I too spent my school holidays in Halton village, my grandparents were Lillian and Benjamin Atkinson, they lived in Gorse Cottages, you had to go up the steps from the underpass to get to it, or down the steps ...Read more

A memory of Halton in 1955 by Beryl Gordon

Captions

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Caption For Bowness On Windermere, Sailing Boats 1896

Almost certainly a race or regatta is in progress, as the distinctive boats of the Royal Windermere Yacht Club pose gracefully against the wooded shoreline.

Caption For Alfriston, Market Square C1955

The Clergy House, a 14th-century timber-framed and thatched hall house, is in the care of the National Trust and is open to visitors.

Caption For Launceston, The Chain Bridge 1906

'Chain Bridge was a great attraction for me and my friends. We always built a hut in the woodsand would like to have slept there, but weren't allowed to.

Caption For West Hoathly, The Village C1950

The forests had deposits of iron ore, and supplies of wood fuel to smelt it; the iron-making families brought much wealth to the parish.

Caption For Launceston, Dunheved Cross 1906

The top part of the cross was discovered in the 19th century at Tresmarrow Farm, and was put in the town museum.

Caption For Herstmonceux, Castle, The Inner Courtyard 1890

Sir Roger Fiennes' ancestor, Sir John, had married the heiress Maud de Monceux in 1320, the last of the family that had held the manor since the 12th century and had given the village the second

Caption For Launceston, The Chain Bridge 1906

'Chain Bridge was a great attraction for me and my friends. We always built a hut in the woodsand would like to have slept there, but weren't allowed to.

Caption For Launceston, Dunheved Cross 1906

The top part of the cross was discovered in the 19th century at Tresmarrow Farm, and was put in the town museum.

Caption For Plaistow, The Village C1955

Located in a remote region north of Petworth, the village was originally formed in a clearing in the woods. The local wealden clay district is remarkable for large oak trees.

Caption For Laindon, St Nicholas's Church C1955

Picturesquely perched on top of its steep knoll and surrounded by a sea of 20th- century housing, the church of St Nicholas, Laindon, possibly dates from the 12th century.

Caption For Huddersfield, Beaumont Park C1960

As early as 1869 he called a public meeting to win support for the acquisition of the Greenhead estate, including Gledholt Glen (now known as T P Woods after former owner, T P Crosland), to prevent

Caption For Lyme Regis, Cannington Viaduct 1903

Having curved from the woods on Shapwick Hill (top right) and around Combpyne Hill (centre), the new six-mile railway line from Axminster to Lyme Regis crossed the deep-cut valley at Cannington

Caption For Dorking, Coldharbour Lane 1907

In 1672, following the Declaration of Indulgence, licences to preach in Dorking were issued to James Fisher and John Wood, who formed the Independent Congregational Church.

Caption For Fittleworth, The Village C1955

Fittleworth is a picturesque village of fine old houses, commons and fir woods. On the left of the picture is the Swan, a 14th-century coaching inn with a sign spanning the main road.

Caption For Preston, Dock, North Side C1960

In this photograph we can see wood stacked for seasoning within the dock area. Frequent visitors here were the Russian ships bringing in hardwoods.

Caption For Preston, Dock, East Side C1955

In this photograph we can see wood stacked for seasoning within the dock area. Frequent visitors here were the Russian ships bringing in hardwoods.

Caption For Blackburn, Exchange 1899

Here we see the grand facade of the Blackburn Exchange & Reading Room, which opened in April 1865. It was known later as the Cotton Exchange.

Caption For Launceston, The Chain Bridge 1906

'Chain Bridge was a great attraction for me and my friends. We always built a hut in the woodsand would like to have slept there, but weren't allowed to.

Caption For Manchester, The Cathedral Choir C1885

The rebuilding took nearly twenty years, and the craftsmen tried to put only the best and finest materials back into Manchester's chief house of God. 192 new traceried panels were fitted to

Caption For Manchester, The Cathedral Choir C1885

The rebuilding took nearly twenty years, and the craftsmen tried to put only the best and finest materials back into Manchester's chief house of God. 192 new traceried panels were fitted to the ancient

Caption For Kippax, The Leeds Road C1960

KIPPAX was a small estate village servicing Kippax Hall and Kippax Park for three centuries before developing rapidly in the mid 19th cen- tury with the discovery of coal reserves.

Caption For Styal, The Cotton Mill 1897

Consequently these mills were often in isolated areas, and the owners had to create a complete infrastructure to support their industry.

Caption For Stourport On Severn, River Severn And Bridge C1955

A new housing estate has arisen there, and a school called The Windmill School has been built.

Caption For Wetherby, Weir On The River Wharfe 1909

The brewery closed during the First World War, and was then used as billets for troops.