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Greystone Cottages

My earliest memories are living in no 6 Greystone Cottages. We had no inside loo and had to go to the end of the terrace for the loo. We moved to Hillary Close, Salterbeck for a while to allow modernisation to take ...Read more

A memory of High Harrington in 1953

Memories Of My Gran

I was born in Tean and in about 1957, when I was 8 yrs old, I was allowed to travel to Cheadle alone on the PMT service buses. I was 8yrs old. My gran would meet me at the cinema stop on Butlers Hill. She would ...Read more

A memory of Cheadle in 1957 by Janita Plant

A Grandchild Remembers Chapel Le Dale Church

My grandparents lived at Salt Lake Cottages, Ribblehead and as a youngster I visited them and later had a spell living with them. During this time I went to Chapel le Dale church every Sunday, and ...Read more

A memory of Chapel-le-Dale in 1969 by Kath Horner

Whickham Cottage Hospital

I was about 6 years old when I was a patient in the Cottage Hospital when a bomb was dropped nearby. I can only remember being carried to the safety of the air raid shelter by a nurse and that next morning we found that ...Read more

A memory of Blaydon in 1940 by Dorothy Mitra

War Years Changed Everthing

I was one year old when WW2 began - in 1938. Most of my visual memories stem from that time. I remember, without any facts to support them, the large white house that stood in the grounds of Waitrose Car Park and was in ...Read more

A memory of Barnet in 1949 by Roland Wood

Living At No 4 1947 1965

We moved to No 4 Barrington Court Cottages (the first cottage right of centre) in 1947. My father arrived as head gardener in April and mum arrived in July when I was three weeks old. Mum was disappointed to find she was a ...Read more

A memory of Barrington in 1947 by Richard Burton

Great Days

I think it was about 1967, we moved down from Wallasey, Merseyside to number 7 Williams Row, miners cottages at the top of Guest Street. I remember my first day at Fochriw Infants, it was like a whole new beginning, made some new friends. ...Read more

A memory of Fochriw in 1967 by Phil Chesterman

My Childhood

I was born at West View, Stanley in August 1939. My father bought 2 cottages and knocked them into a very large house. I had 5 older siblings and my mother's father lived with us. Our family name was House. I loved every ...Read more

A memory of Stanley in 1940 by rene.herriman

One Day At A Time

A precised extract from the chapters in my biography relating to wartime evacuation, and particularly to Garnant. I stared morosely out of the window and watched the landscape slip by as the steam train chugged its way through ...Read more

A memory of Garnant in 1940 by James Tait

Thomas Palmer Coachman At Crofton Hall

My wife's great great grandfather, was a Coachman at Crofton Hall. Thomas was born in 1826 in Wigton Parish. By 1841 he was in service at Dockray Hall. In 1850 Thomas married a Mary Robinson from ...Read more

A memory of Crofton in 1860 by Robert Dixon

Captions

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Caption For Corfe Castle, From The West 1890

Vineyard Cottage, with a haystack beside it, is in the foreground.

Caption For Hamble, The Village C1955

With its steep, winding streets and pretty cottages, there is a definite hint of Devon or Cornwall about it.

Caption For Cheam, High Street 1925

The house on the right was Vine Cottage, where Mr Dealy, the butler at Cheam School, lived with his family.

Caption For Elvington, The Post Office C1960

Opposite is the Grey Horse Inn, and on Church Lane is Glencoe Cottage of 1874, with a passage from the Psalms on a corner tablet.

Caption For Upper Dicker, Coldharbour Road C1955

The late Victorian estate cottages in the distance are in a more picturesque Sussex tile-hung style with ornate bargeboards to their gables.

Caption For Windmill Hill, Posey Green C1955

The village hall on the right has given way to houses, but the cottages on the left remain.

Caption For Teddington, 14 & 16 Park Road 2005

(Vicky Higgin) Clarence Cottage to the right is 18th-century, but Adelaide Cottage to the left is early 19th-century; at one time the two were adjoined as a common house.

Caption For Bodinnick, The Ferry Inn 1888

The cottages above the Ferry Inn are a joyous sight in summer, their gardens packed tight with bright flowers.

Caption For Wadhurst, High Street 1903

On the left are Victorian cottages of the 1880s in Sussex style with a tile-hung upper floor, now demolished. Francis Frith's Sussex A Century Ago

Caption For Waterford, The Old Windmill Tea Rooms C1960

The row of four whitewashed cottages in the foreground leads up to the Vicarage Lane turning on the right; the lane crosses the river about 200 yards north of the Overflow, a weir at Waterford Marsh.

Caption For Empingham, Crocket Lane C1960

Although the photograph captures a cosy enclave of stone and thatched cottages, the village has expanded, and now contains a whole range of architectural styles.

Caption For Kibworth Harcourt, Main Street C1960

This is red brick village Leicestershire at its best: nothing ostentatious in either the well- designed row of cottages (right) terminated by the Three Horseshoes pub, small and welcoming,

Caption For Hemingford Abbots, The Church From The River 1899

In its place stands a row of brick terraced cottages. In the distance, the thatched building with the brick chimney forms part of the original village school and the School House.

Caption For East Hoathly, High Street C1955

The second view looks along Waldron Road into the High Street, with the London road turning beyond the houses on the right; the nearest of these, Warnham Cottage, is no longer a shop but a

Caption For Compton, The Village C1955

This view, looking downhill, is now barely recognisable: the cottages by the telegraph pole were cleared for 1960s road widening.

Caption For Thames Ditton, High Street C1955

Leonard North's garage has gone, to be replaced by a pair of Surrey vernacular-style cottages. The parade to the left survives.

Caption For Wrea Green, The Grapes Hotel C1965

In the early 20th century there were still many thatched cruck-built cottages, but now this is a village beloved by rich commuters. Its windmill has been restored by Dr J Ward.

Caption For Milton Lilbourne, The Village C1955

This peaceful village to the south of Marlborough is one long street retaining many old cottages.

Caption For Worcester Park, Central Road C1955

Until the railway arrived in 1859 the area was predominantly agricultural, with only a few farmhouses and cottages. This is a view of Central Road, originally called Cheam Common Hill.

Caption For Inskip, Main Road C1950

The tall chimney above the thatched cottage belonged to Tom Rowe's cheese factory. Run from Preston, it started business in 1930. Part of its sign can be seen just behind the vintage car.

Caption For Bolsterstone, Village Square C1965

Here on the left is Sundial Cottage (1830), once the post office. The village pump has been taken away, but the old smithy (centre), later a hearse house, remains.

Caption For North Ferriby, Station Road C1965

Here looking towards the village we see two cottages built in 1787 (left). On the right is the schoolhouse of 1855, later the National School from 1868 to 1877.

Caption For Whitchurch, High Street C1955

A little further south, the photographer looks past The Old Cottage, on the west or left side of the High Street, towards the rendered and jettied mid 16th-century Tudor House with the carved bargeboards

Caption For Woburn Sands, High Street C1955

Woburn Sands, right on the Bedfordshire border and bleeding across it, grew up when the railway arrived in 1846; its delightful station in Tudor cottage style is on the Bedford to Bletchley junction