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Little Wakering

I lived in a cottage close to Little Wakering church until the late 1970s and then several properties in and around the village. I have so many happy memories of a close family, good neighbours and brilliant friends. Walking ...Read more

A memory of Great Wakering by Sue Potter/ Deeks

Ted Turner Was Landlord Here

Ted Turner was landlord here, and his father before him, then Ted went to the Holly & Laurel at Holmwood where my family lived, they had a cottage behind the pub, I think the cottage is still there, there were ...Read more

A memory of Beare Green by John Francis

Tracing My Family

I have no memories of Hawkchurch. But I am trying to trace my family history, and so far have got nowhere. And I am hoping that someone might remember hearing about them. According to the 1911 census they lived at Berry Cottage, ...Read more

A memory of Hawkchurch in 1910 by Christine Elliot

Plough Inn

The Plough Inn, in High Bentham was bought by great grandfather Harold Slinger in the early 1900s. He then refurbished it in to two cottages. Harold Slinger was also the registrar for birth deaths and marriages as I recall. After his ...Read more

A memory of High Bentham in 1970 by Nick Louth

A Happy Childhood

I lived in Jubilee Cottages in Nethercote with mum and dad. My dad, Charlie Wilson, collected milk from the farms in the area, his lorry being based at Swepstone Dairy. Mum, Florence, worked in the dairy making Stilton ...Read more

A memory of Newton Burgoland in 1955 by Christine Mattinson Ne Wilson

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

James Joseph Irvine (Autobiography) 1911 1990

Stretching over about a mile on the A68 road to Edinburgh from Darlington, lies the small mining town of Tow Law. Approaching it from Elm Park Road Ends, on a clear day, as you pass the various openings in ...Read more

A memory of Tow Law in 1930 by James Irvine

Great Haseley

I was five when I moved to Great Haseley from Newington, near Stadhampton, with my mother, father and brother. The year was 1957 and Horse Close Cottages was a new housing estate - we were thrilled to have a bathroom and an inside ...Read more

A memory of Great Haseley by Linda Twibill (Nee Ring)

Eastwood Nottinghamshire

I lived with my grandmother (Elizabeth Jones), mother and sister at 72 Church Street Eastwood until I was about 7 years old (1956). My grandmother owned 4 (possibly 5) cottages in a row (ours being number 72) in Church ...Read more

A memory of Eastwood in 1954 by Diane Elizabeth Hobson

Captions

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Caption For Glaisdale, The Memorial C1965

Cottages here date from the mid 18th century. There is still easy access to the village via the Esk Valley Railway running between Whitby and Middlesbrough.

Caption For Woodhouse Eaves, Main Street C1955

The essence of the village still holds firm, with some delightful cottages. Note the Swithland slate roof, small upper rooms and window shutters in this photograph.

Caption For Brampton, The Green C1960

Beyond the thatched cottages the Methodist chapel still attracts a large congregation, whilst the roadway becomes jammed with cars at school times.

Caption For Nottingham, River Trent Beneath Clifton Grove 1893

After taking a tram or trolley-bus ride to Wilford Bridge, a walk to Clifton would perhaps be followed by tea at a cottage on the Green.

Caption For Cheam, Park Lane 1925

These picturesque and simple weatherboarded cottages were once among many in the old village; they were originally built for workers on the Nonsuch estate.

Caption For Saltburn By The Sea, The Beach 1927

Nestling in the hillside below the Promenade, we see, to the right, The Cottage (or 'Teddy's Nook') and, to the left, The Spa.

Caption For Wickhambreaux, The Post Office 1903

Little Stour, whose waters flow peacefully under the bridge on the left, the small general stores and post office on the right served this little hidden village with its 18th- and 19th-century brick cottages

Caption For Frome Vauchurch, The Village 1906

Its tiny towerless church stands sentinel over the cottages, gardens and meadows as it has done for some eight hundred years.

Caption For Wendover, Coldharbour Cottages, Tring Road 1899

This wonderful range of 17th-century thatched timber-framed cottages sweeps down the Tring Road towards the clock tower.

Caption For Helston, Wendron Street 1906

In 1863 the boxer Bob Fitzsimmons was born in a thatched cottage at the top of Wendron Street.

Caption For Cadgwith, C1910

Even innocent-looking cottages like this were often involved in the smuggling trade.

Caption For Finchingfield, Haverhill Road C1960

The mill lurks behind the attractive cottages in the foreground.

Caption For Mevagissey, The Harbour 1920

Numerous fishing boats are moored around the harbour, overlooked by a terrace of picturesque cottages.

Caption For Newbury, The Church From West Mills C1950

This picture of it was taken in West Mills, where the tower and west door suddenly loom large between tightly packed houses and cottages.

Caption For Colesbourne, Lower Hilcot C1960

An ancient ford and footbridge, an abandoned cartwheel and the splash of water running over a tiny weir - this delightful photograph of stone cottages and attractive gardens reminds us that

Caption For Lowick Bridge, Red Lion Inn And Farm C1955

Teas and Hovis are no longer available at the cottage on the right.

Caption For Polperro, Jew's House 1924

The fishermen are carrying casks of pilchards from the harbour past one of the many quaint old cottages that make Polperro so attractive to visitors.

Caption For Rockingham, Village C1960

Many picturesque thatched cottages and flintstone houses line the street. The village general stores and post office once housed its own manual telephone exchange.

Caption For Coniston, From Church Tower 1906

The whitewashed cottages of the village cluster around the church where the Yewdale Beck enters to the western side of Coniston Water.

Caption For Eyam, Composite C1920

The other pictures show (clockwise from the top left) Eyam Hall and the stocks; Mompesson`s Well; the plague cottages and the church; and the parish church from the south east.

Caption For Brassington, C1960

This is a general view showing the limestone cottages of the village.

Caption For Hovingham, Brookside C1955

Here we see a pleasing mixture of pantile-roofed cottages at Brookside, in the centre of the village.

Caption For Wilberfoss, Beckside C1960

Here past the beck is Bridge Cottage on the right, and hidden behind the left-hand tree is the 12th-century church of St John the Baptist.

Caption For Northrepps, The Cottage And Country Club C1965

Northrepps Cottage was built for Bartlett Gurney by Norwich architect William Wilkins in the 1790s.