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Memories

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The Breaks

The Breaks youth club with Skip Salmon.... There was motorbike club and canoe building.Great place to meet people I enjoyed my time at Burleigh. Most boys had a crush on Ms Johns geography teacher. But I really liked Mrs Coop math's teacher. ...Read more

A memory of Hatfield by Terence Thoburn

Our Life At Llangwstenin Hall 1983 1986

When we moved here in the summer of ‘83, we were so enchanted with the hall and grounds that even included a gaggle of geese in the adjoining field. They were great ‘guard dogs’ so to speak, as we never ...Read more

A memory of Llangwstenin Hall by Jamie Cuthbert

Higher Lux St Coronation Party

I lived in Higher Lux Street, attended Liskeard Secondary modern school and was a choir boy at St Martins parish church. Mr Andrews was not only the Headmaster but also the "choir master". When my voice started to ...Read more

A memory of Liskeard in 1953 by Tony Davey

Life As A Young Boy In Saltdean

THE LIFE & TIMES OF DONALD CHARLES WILLIAMS Personal recollections from Don Williams from Hailsham who lived in Saltdean from 1937 to 1952 - Many thanks for these wonderful stories & photo's of Saltdean in the ...Read more

A memory of Saltdean in 1940 by Don Williams

Abbotsham School In The 1960's

Growing up at Fairy Cross, Alwington and as our village school had closed in the late 1950s we had to catch the school bus daily morning and afternoon to Abbotsham Primary School. (Shown in the centre back of the ...Read more

A memory of Abbotsham by Derek England

Happy Days

Living not far from Aston Park we would often walk to the park to play and enjoy the fresh air. Aston Hall held a fascination for me and I was forever asking to go inside for a tour. I would go in when ever I could and I never tired of ...Read more

A memory of Birmingham in 1955 by Lynda Ridgard

Dersingham 1954 C

We lived in the village shop Virginia Stores owned by Peatling & Cawdron.  My dad won the Vernons Football Pools in 1955 - a great sum of  £505.6s -  my sister and I had new bikes and Mum and Dad went for a holiday to ...Read more

A memory of Dersingham by Carolynn Langley

1940s In Og St George

Mrs.Ball at the Post Office. Westlecot House (now March House) with the Hayward-Jones family. Imo H-J and self at fete at the Manor house dressed as Shah of Persia and Aga Khan. Old Mrs.Ollie home help/cleaner. Pony ...Read more

A memory of Ogbourne St George in 1940 by Liz Derbyshire

Going To The Shops...

As a fully paid up member of the 'Baby Boomer' generation, born in 1947, I've been reading all the stories posted on this lovely website (which - like many others, I suspect - I came across purely by chance). I was born in Perivale ...Read more

A memory of Wembley by Peter Taylor

Memories Of Ambleside And The Lakes

We as a family first stayed at Rothay Manor in Ambleside in 1953 and it was then that I had my first experiences in fell walking, trout fishing and negotiating the nearby "Stepping Stones" across the river ...Read more

A memory of Ambleside by ducatee

Captions

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Caption For Finchampstead, Church 1906

The parish church of St James, Finchampstead was first recorded in the early 12th century. One of its later additions was the brick tower in 1720.

Caption For Rye, The Windmill 1912

The brick and white weatherboarded smock mill still stands in Mill Lane on the banks of the River Tillingham, though it is now converted for use as a guest house.

Caption For Melton, The Street C1965

Skoulding's shop (to the left) now has a window across the whole building.

Caption For Reading, St Giles' Church, Vicarage And Church Hall 1924

The old buildings in the foreground of the exterior view of the church were swept away and replaced by the well-designed Church Hall; in this view it has just had an extension completed, for its

Caption For Wrentham, Cross Roads C1965

The brick school-like building is the former Reading Room of 1888, now appropriately a bookshop. Beyond is the Gothic pinnacled Wrentham Hall of 1862.

Caption For Debenham, Cross Green C1955

The pump (left) stands on the corner of Low Street; the brick building opposite has been demolished.

Caption For Wendover, Coldharbour Cottages, Tring Road 1899

At the opposite end of the High Street, the Tring Road climbs out of Wendover past this delightful range of early 17th-century timber-framed and thatched cottages.

Caption For Alderton, The Church C1955

The original timber building, dating from c1580, has two gables; the brick extension to the right is 19th-century.

Caption For Rochford, Stambridge Mill C1955

The bicycle was still a very important mode of transport when this photograph was taken. The brick-built buildings look as if they will last for another century at least.

Caption For Sudbury, The Croft Bridge 1900

This bridge over the Stour leads from The Croft (adjacent to St Gregory's Church on the right) to Fullingpit Meadows, part of Sudbury freemen's land, on the left.

Caption For Bury St Edmunds, Churchgate 1929

This photograph shows the more residential character of this street. A rare tin sign for Arthur Rozier, tin and zinc worker, is on the 16th-century jettied building to the left.

Caption For Cardigan, High Street 1968

The architecture of Cardigan is distinct from other towns in Ceredigion: many buildings were constructed from cut slate slabs from local quarries, or from different-coloured bricks from the nearby brick

Caption For East Horndon, Herongate, The Boar's Head 1908

In this picturesque of a long-vanished world, chickens are foraging for food and children playing by the pond.

Caption For Alderton, The Street C1955

This row contained a general and sweet shop (note the Oxo advertisement in the window), with another general store and a teashop at the far end.

Caption For Ockley, The Windmill 1906

This is a smock windmill with some vertical weatherboarding and a single-storey brick base with staging.

Caption For Godalming, Boarden Bridge 1906

Looking south across the River Wey, with a group of children posing for the photographer in front of the wooden Boarden Bridge, the centuries-old crossing point.

Caption For Yetminster, View From Tarks Hill C1960

We are looking north- eastwards from one of the public footpaths across Tarks Hill over Mill Lane and Brister End (centre) to the twin peaks of Honeycombe Wood (top left) and Lillington Hill

Caption For Coxhoe, The Cross Roads 1951

The main A177 road south from Shincliffe leads to Coxhoe; it may follow the course of an old Roman road.

Caption For Saltfleet, The Mill C1955

Moving east off The Wolds, our tour reaches the flat land between them and the sea, with its high line of rolling marram-grassed sand dunes as a backdrop.

Caption For Barnstaple, High Street C1955

The local newspaper offices on the left have been rebuilt with some taste, which is more than can be said for the brick infill on the right that is Timothy Whites & Taylors.

Caption For Little Baddow, Post Office And North Hill C1960

The Post Office had occupied these premises since the 1930s. The brick building on the other side of the road was the school, which had been in the adjacent white house until 1851.

Caption For Totton, By Pass C1965

North of the bypass are Rumbridge Street and the High Street, offering quieter shopping streets.

Caption For Cove Hithe, Church C1960

This unusual view is taken through the east window of the south aisle, with the chancel to the right.

Caption For Stalham, The Mill And Staithe C1935

The Museum of the Broads is now housed in the brick building with decorative arches alongside the staithe.