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Small Boystoys And Other Pastimes 1930s

bill.haylor@btinternet.com  Resident in and around Smallfield for 81 yrs A large number of our toys were made from wood, dependant on what tools were available in fathers shed, if it was unlocked! The only ...Read more

A memory of Smallfield in 1930 by Bill Haylor

Drayton Jottings

Drayton Jottings. Auntie Alice, in Kings Avenue, regularly seen, out on her front doorstep, she kept it clean, the 'raddled' red stone was buffed to a shine, 'Old fashioned traditions', here continued,so fine. one day, from ...Read more

A memory of Market Drayton by Allen Warrender

Where I Was Born

My Beginning, at Sole Street near Cobham Kent. (9th March 1946 - 2nd January 1951) I was born on Saturday March 9th 1946 at 3.29pm at Temperley, The Street, Sole Street, Kent. I was delivered at home by the ...Read more

A memory of Sole Street in 1946

Going To Junior School In Radcliff On Trent In 1960

My dad was in the Canadian Air Force (RCAF) stationed in Langar (born in England though) but my family lived at 16 Douglas Close just outside Radcliffe. I remember walking daily to the ...Read more

A memory of Radcliffe on Trent in 1960 by John Reid Wilkinson

Happy Days 1950s And 60s

I was born and brought up in Weaverham until I left to move to Altrincham with my new wife (and job). Over that 20 year period I have so many happy memories; too many to record in 1000 words. Lived in Lime Avenue all that ...Read more

A memory of Weaverham by George Ellis

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

Pixton

My grandfather - Jim Williams - worked on the estate, he lived at Newbridge Lodge for many years. He took me with him to work one day when I was about 8 or 9 years old, I don't remember much apart from that they were cutting a hedge in ...Read more

A memory of Pixton Park by Ian Lovell

School Days

I remember moving from a one up one down back to back house in Hunslet at the age of approx 4 years to a brand new council house in Newhall Road, Belle Isle. I had a great time, my father borrowed a pony and trap, and we went back to ...Read more

A memory of Belle Isle by Steve Hall

My Beloved Bonk

I have loads of memories of village life as a kid. I was born in 1961 and still live on the Bonk. I will probably die here as well. There were many old characters back then. Iron Bates the vegetable cart man (did some boxing ...Read more

A memory of Cheslyn Hay in 1969 by Philip Burgess

My Memories Of Mossband

I lived with my parents at 28 The Green, Mossband from around 1942 (when I was one year old) until 1949, when my Father, Edward Lovie (a WD constable) died from throat cancer. My memories are all fairly traumatic and ...Read more

A memory of Mossband Ho in 1940 by Iain Lovie

Captions

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Caption For Dorridge, Dorridge Road C1960

The older houses are surrounded by mature trees, but later infilling has led to modern houses and bungalows with hedges of the dreaded leylandii.

Caption For Polkerris, C1950

The garden plots of the houses are prominent, sheltered by hedges and mostly on the south-facing slope on the right.

Caption For Cottesmore, The Village C1955

This view of Cottesmore is typical of Rutland's visual feast of limestone and ironstone villages, set in a rolling, spired landscape of hedges and walls which the hunt can, in the main, take in its stride

Caption For West Hoathly, The Village C1950

supplies of wood fuel to smelt it; the iron-making families brought much wealth to the parish.The church of St Margaret, with a shingled broach spire, stands above the houses.The neat topiary hedge-work

Caption For Epsom, High Street 1928

The western section of the High Street (viewed here from the forecourt of The Spread Eagle) is dominated by the clock tower built by Butler and Hedge in 1847-48.

Caption For Navenby, The Church C1965

The path between the hedge and the stone wall is named the Cat Walk.

Caption For Leicester, Town Hall Gardens C1965

Dominated by the Town Hall on its west side, and sheltered by trees and hedges, sandwiches could be consumed and pigeons fed on the crusty remnants.

Caption For Bunbury, The Village C1960

The hedge behind has now grown so that it is the same height as the signpost, making the garden much more secluded!

Caption For Crowland, Broadway C1965

The fence is more substantial now, as it is a tall green hedge. The signpost with all its information (centre) has also gone.

Caption For Bicester, Old Houses, Market Hill C1950

The buildings housing the premises of Hedges & Son (right), however, have been demolished and replaced by a road and open space leading to a pedestrian shopping precinct.

Caption For Coulsdon, View From Farthing Down C1960

A narrow hedge-lined Marlpit Lane linking Coulsdon to Old Coulsdon survived until its widening in 1928.

Caption For Inskip, Main Road C1950

Winding, hedge-bound lanes and low-built cottages thatched with wheat straw were typical of Inskip, Treales, Wharles and other Fylde villages.

Caption For Sully, Station Road C1955

Station Road looks a tidy place: the hedges are well trimmed and the roadway is clean. Each of the houses shows a differing style, with dormers, gables and bow windows.

Caption For Ludham, Village From Lower Ludham 1929

An overview of Ludham from the tower of St Catherine's Church shows the well-wooded, rich agricultural land surrounding the village before many of the hedges had been removed.

Caption For Royston, Barkway Road 1929

Fortunately the chalk from the quarry, hidden behind the hedge on the right, provided material for a solid surface.

Caption For Tidenham, Church 1906

The circular gun-ports at the base of the gatehouse walls are obscured by hedging.

Caption For Great Cornard, Church 1895

The apparent terracing between the river and the church is actually hedges on either side of the Marks Tey to Sudbury railway line and of the road from Bures to Sudbury running south to north across

Caption For Netherbury, Village 1902

Draped on the garden hedge of the adjoining two-storey brick house is an item of laundry laid out to dry amid the surrounding hollyhocks.

Caption For Shackleford, Village 1906

village of Shackleford, west of Godalming, has a mixture of houses in different styles, as evidenced here by the creeper-clad building on the right, the tall-chimneyed cottages with their neatly trimmed hedges

Caption For Calne, Church Street C1960

Tall yew hedges grow along the north and west paths, creating its distinctive look.

Caption For Aylesbury, The Vale C1955

It is remarkably little changed, apart from the line of tall Lombardy poplars which went in the 1990s and the removal of the hedges. Even the flower beds are still planted and maintained.

Caption For South Wigston, Grand Union Canal C1960

The shelter of the great hawthorn hedges, the silent rippling movement of the water and the stillness of the reeds and trees produces that so-elusive sound of silence, often longed for but rarely experienced

Caption For Burton Joyce, The Poplar Walk C1965

The hedge on the right has been replaced by a fence, but the poplars remain intact.

Caption For Crewe, Queen's Park C1965

But foreign sports are taking over: just beyond the hedge today a strip of land has been prepared with sand so that people can play boules.