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Memories

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The Ship Inn At Axmouth.

The Ship Inn can be seen to the left of the photograph; just beyond the wall. My great-great-grandparents, John and Mary Real (born in Axmouth in 1821 and 1824 respectively) were licensees of The Ship Inn, Axmouth, at the time ...Read more

A memory of Axmouth in 1960 by Pauline Morgan

The War Years

During the war my brother, my three cousins and myself stayed on a farm, I think it was in Roadwater or Watchett, it was called Stamborough or something like that. My Great Aunt and Uncle Tom and Cassie Carpenter lived in a cottage ...Read more

A memory of Roadwater in 1940 by Ruth Newman

Mendleson Wrote His Spring Song In The House.

With Denmark Hill and about level with the Old Henly's garage behind you was a house within the ruins with a metal sign. It stated that during his stay here, Mendleson wrote his 'Spring Song' here. ...Read more

A memory of Camberwell by Terry Chappell Seal

Ratfyn Power Station

In the 1950s I was in the Royal Engineers and came over from Germany to our school of military engineering at Chatham where we did a course in electrical power stations. We were then posted to Bulford barracks, and did our ...Read more

A memory of Bulford in 1954 by Norman Webb

Remembering Byfleet

I was born in Byfleet in 1950. We lived in Binfield Road. Later I moved to the hotel that was built where the village green is now. My mother Beatrice Stenning was the housekeeper, cook, maid and everything in between. My dad ...Read more

A memory of Byfleet by Paulene Morgan

West Street Shops

Shops on West Street in the 1960s were left to right: Merritts the butcher next door to Blackiston the butcher, famous for the specialty sausages, also had its own slaughterhouse and in the back garden an Anderson shelter used by ...Read more

A memory of Midhurst in 1960 by Doug Murphy

Boyhood Memories

As a child I lived in a lovely house called Glanafon next to the old County Stores bakery in St Clears with my mother Anglea and step-dad Malcolm, and my 2 sisters, Rosemarie and Teresa. Unfortunately Teresa passed away over 20 ...Read more

A memory of St Clears in 1976 by Christopher Scargill

Pride Of The Valley

I used to camp as a child and teenager at Crosswater down the road [my father knew the then owner] and one of my memories is of driving past the hotel en-route from Farnham. I stayed here as a birthday treat in 2003 and went on ...Read more

A memory of Churt in 2005 by Richard Clark

Monkery Bottom

One of the land owners living in Hothfield and well known for her generosity was Mrs Tufton. Although she lived a half mile up a dark lane, she would make it worth the walk to go sing her a few Christmas carols. In the spring she ...Read more

A memory of Hothfield in 1950 by John Roders

I Meet A Vagrant I Know

September 1958 I meet a vagrant I knew. In 1957, I was appointed to be Village Constable, at Lower Penn, Wolverhampton, an upper class district of wolverhampton. My station, was in Springhill Park. The beat was divided ...Read more

A memory of Stramshall in 1958 by John Mellor

Captions

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Caption For East Blatchington, The Village 1906

The field in the foreground, with its flint wall, lies to the south of East Blatchington Farm; the view looks south down Blatchington Hill, the village main street, with Belgrave Road passing in front

Caption For Tintagel, 1895

Here we are looking from the 'island' back to the outer ward of the castle, with the access lane down the valley on the left. The building is now a café.

Caption For Barnstaple, The Strand, Horse Fair 1923

The Angel Hotel (offering Good Stabling and Garage) was knocked down and replaced by a cinema. This in turn has become a nightclub. A pub built next door - The Bell - is now derelict.

Caption For Ilkley, Cow And Calf Rocks 1886

Nearly 5 inches fell; water cascaded down the ghylls dragging huge boulders in its wake, causing over £100,000 worth of damage to Ilkley.

Caption For Ilkley, Brook Street 1911

The first stage of the Otley to Skipton Railway reached Ilkley on 1 August 1865 - the town was decorated with bunting, and merrymaking continued day and night.

Caption For Wendover, High Street 1901

This view looks down the High Street towards the clock tower. This was built as a market hall and lock up, or temporary prison, in 1842, but in 1870 the clocktower, belfry and spire were added.

Caption For Forest Row, The Village 1909

The main road leads down past Holy Trinity church, which was built in 1836. The scene is similar today but the road is very busy with motor traffic.

Caption For Westdean, 1921

Here we see a rural scene in a fold of the Downs - now much more wooded and obscured by trees. A stack yard is in the foreground, with round and rectangular corn ricks.

Caption For Ambleside, Bridge House 1912

The reality is more down to earth.

Caption For Chilham, The Square 1903

Here we see the heart of what many claim is Kent's prettiest village: the tower of its 15th-century flintstone church of St Mary's looks down on this spacious square lined with half-timbered Tudor and

Caption For Wilmington, The Long Man C1965

A familiar sight for those heading to or from Eastbourne along the A27 as it passes north of the South Downs escarpment is the Long Man of Wilmington, a gigantic chalk figure of a man holding 250ft-long

Caption For St Neots, River Terrace C1955

By 1955, everything appears to have settled down, and pleasure craft and punts are using the boat yards, landing stages, riverside cafes and the garden to the Old Falcon Inn (left).

Caption For Hitchin, The River Hiz 1931

Further down, towards Bancroft and Nightingale Road, the tannery and other industrial works poured their waste into the river. Only the lavender works may have offset the obnoxious smell of the Hiz!

Caption For Portland, Chesil Beach 1890

Terraces extend down Mallams, and houses have reached Modbury Mead (centre).

Caption For Sutton, High Street 1902

Although the railway station opened in 1847 some 200 yards south of the Cock Hotel crossroads, development did not really get under way here until the Epsom Downs line opened in 1865, and new station

Caption For Sprotbrough, The Village C1955

Here, looking down Main Street towards St Mary's Church with its horse mounting steps, we see the white Imperial Cottage (left). The chestnut tree has been removed, giving a view of Jubb's Farm.

Caption For Hamble, The Village C1955

The Victory Inn can be seen down the street, and round the corner, not visible in this picture, is The Bugle, Hamble's famous riverside inn, which probably dates from the 12th century.

Caption For Grassington, The Square 1926

Church House (down to the left) dates from 1694, but Grassington's boom time was in the 18th century, when a Klondike rush of workers from Derbyshire and Cornwall came to work the lead mines - and the

Caption For Goodwick, The Village 1899

It was on the sands here that the French invasion army laid down its arms — with the exception of 25 who could not attend due to temporary incapacity (they were ill or probably drunk on looted

Caption For Daventry, High Street C1965

The Working Men's Club is now at The Lodge, Welton Road, just out of sight to the left down Abbey Street.

Caption For Fyfield, The Devil's Den 1901

It sits snugly in the Downs near to the Ridgeway and Avebury stone circle.

Caption For East Dereham, Church Street 1893

The town enjoys a prosperity founded on more than its market and agricultural traditions, for engineering works were established here in Victorian times; Dereham grew into one of the busiest centres of

Caption For Camborne, Market Street 1922

Down Commercial Street is the Market House, with a clock tower built by John Francis Basset in 1866. The Bassets of Tehidy were important mineral lords in this once-great copper and tin mining centre.

Caption For Gunnislake, Fore Street 2003

This long straggling village, in the centre of the old tin mining district, sits on a steep hill running down to the Tamar. We are at the bottom of Fore Street looking towards Newbridge Hill.