Maps

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Memories

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Willow Cafe Etc

Returning to Wickford after being in the USA for a few years I remember the Willow Cafe, Egans, Adrian's in a hut in Market Road, the livestock market where the Willowdale Centre is now. Dr. Rentons Georgian house in the High Street, ...Read more

A memory of Wickford in 1967 by Sue Burn

Growing Up

I moved to Combpyne when I was 4 years old with my mum, dad, brother and sister. We lived in the house in the centre of the village called Clock House. Its garden backed on to the churchyard. I spent many happy hours on the Webbers' farm ...Read more

A memory of Combpyne in 1958 by Anne Symons

Weekends At Chapel Row

I didn't live in Bucklebury but was born in Cold Ash where I lived prior to moving to Thatcham. Unfortunately my father died as the result of a motor cycle accident when I was eight years old, and social care being what it was ...Read more

A memory of Bucklebury by grahamfsmith

Childhood Memories

I remember well the amazing west road this was a group of houses owned by watney brewery. The road was enclosed by a brick wall at one end and iron gates at the other. No cars allowed. The families mostly only rented two rooms, so ...Read more

A memory of Mortlake in 1950 by Kathleen Slark

Secret Factory At Box Tunnel Corsham

This 1904 photo shows both the main line through Box but also the entry to a huge underground military store and factory. When I worked at the MoD in the 1960's I recall that there were 2 lines at one end of the ...Read more

A memory of Corsham by Chris Scott

Born In Saford 5

Lived in Gurner street from 1944 until about 1960. Down one side of the street was Ordsal Hall and on the other, a street with a wonderful sewing shop, owner was a Mrs Cob, it was full of little drawers with embroidery thread, Same ...Read more

A memory of Salford by matad

School Days

I started Finchampstead school in 1953.There were 3 class rooms each with a cloak room,a girls toilet block ,be it only 3 toilet cubicles for us children and one for the teachers and boys block but I never entered that and so know ...Read more

A memory of Finchampstead by Jane Roskell

Cholderton House Employee

My grandmother was in service at Cholderton House for several years from about 1929 to 1931, but left when she was 20 to get married. Her name was Ida Gladys Lever and she was from the village of Chilmark . According to my ...Read more

A memory of Cholderton by sesme

Chope Road

I am looking for some historical images from my house on Chope Road. It is currently called Sundene and was built in 1920 as one large house, now separated into two. My understanding is that the house owned a lot of land, which is now Tudor ...Read more

A memory of Northam

Family Of Ewj Moloney, Lancing Solicitor D 1978

I was part of the St James the Less Players, the Parish church drama group, which started my career on the boards. The Downs,The Manor, The Park, The Clump, The Chalkpit..The Woods The Beach..were all ...Read more

A memory of Lancing by Rose Moloney

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Captions

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Caption For Skegness, The Clock Tower C1955

Butlin House (left) has been replaced by a functional modern building. Most of the rest of those buildings are in the main still there, but they do not look as impressive as they did in 1955.

Caption For Cockfosters, The College, Trent Park C1965

The present red-brick house supersedes the much smaller original one designed for Jebb by Sir William Chambers; although it is large, with re-used features salvaged from other demolished London buildings

Caption For Lingfield, Church Road 1895

The shingled spire of the 14th-century church of St Peter and St Paul rises above this picturesque collection of old houses and shops at the southern end of the churchyard.

Caption For Rousdon, House 1900

Built on a massive plinth, with balustrades above and cellars below, the high-Gothic lines of Rousdon House rise above lawns which slope away towards the Undercliff.

Caption For Saffron Walden, High Street 1919

The house on the left had belonged to Dr Atkinson, who died in 1917. The Post Office bought it for their use and moved from King Street in 1919. A lamp-post sign stands outside.

Caption For St Ives, Crown Street 1925

It takes its name from the Crown public house (right) opposite the turning to Bridge Street, now occupied by Woolworth`s.

Caption For Long Melford, Hall 1895

This early Elizabethan mansion was built on the site of the former house of the abbot of Bury St Edmunds by Sir William Cordell, Master of the Rolls, who founded the hospital on the Green.

Caption For Ware, High Street 1925

In the 1970s, it housed H Donaghue, the fish, game and poultry merchants.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Summer Hill 1909

Summer Hill House, on the west side of Charmouth Road, was the Victorian home of the borough magistrate Walter Banfield Wallis.

Caption For Simpson, Main Road C1958

About two miles north of Bletchley, with the Grand Union Canal passing to its west and the River Ouzel to its right, Simpson has a number of old cottages and many new city houses and estates.

Caption For Worsley, Court House 1889

The impressive-looking Court House appears to be 16th-century, but it was in fact erected in 1849.

Caption For Edinburgh, The Canongate Tolbooth 1897

In the great days of the Old Town, Canongate Street was where members of the Scottish aristocracy had their town houses.

Caption For Leicester, Charles Street And Belgrave Gate C1965

Here it is at the northern end of Charles Street, the architects' and planners' vision of utopia a la 1950s and 60s; dominat- ing the photograph to the left, in a Midlands-Miesian style, is Epic House

Caption For Hillsborough, The Castle, Gatehouse 1890

This 18th-century house links the family with the first Hill arrivals. It stands on the foundations of a fort built about 1639 by Sir Arthur Hill after he left a post at Carrickfergus Castle.

Caption For Belsay, Old Castle C1955

Built of honey-coloured sandstone, the old castle is in fact a 14th-century L-plan tower house built by the de Middleton family.

Caption For Broadstairs, Promenade 1902

A turn of the century view of the promenade, showing Holy Trinity Church, Bleak House and the harbour.

Caption For Basildon, Development Corporation C1960

Gifford House, used as its offices by the BDC, was built in 1924 for the rector of Bowers Gifford, who used it as a college for coaching students for the universities.

Caption For Whitby, East Cliff 1932

The donkeys have a long walk every day from their field just below the Abbey House, down the donkey path, along Church Street, over the bridge and down Pier Road to the sands.

Caption For Burnley, Hurstwood (Poet Spenser's House) 1895

This picture shows the rear of the property, a very fine example of an East Lancashire house of the later 16th century.

Caption For Port Isaac, Temple Bar 1906

Closely-packed village houses built almost entirely of slate enclose a small cobbled courtyard. The youngest to oldest inhabitants are represented here.

Caption For Belfast, Queen's Square 1897

Some of its very old houses survived until recently. Air raids in 1941 destroyed the fine Georgian buildings opposite the Customs House.

Caption For Cottingham, King Street C1955

Seven miles from the Humber and to the west of Hull, Cottingham was another desirable place to live for prosperous merchants; in the 18th century there were five magnificent houses here, which were all

Caption For Stamford, Barn Hill 1922

The gates on the right lead to Barn Hill House, which was fitted out at a cost of more than £3,000 as lodgings for Sir Robert Peel and other ministers during Queen Victoria's visit to Burghley House in