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Evacuation At The Time Of The V1 And V2 Attacks On The South East And London
I am adding to my brother's memory written today about our evacuation to North Wales in 1944. A fuller description has been written by myself on BBC North East Wales web ...Read more
A memory of Coedpoeth in 1944 by
Happy Times At My Grandparents
My Grandparents were Charlie and Mary Solomon, they lived in Timaru House on the main road. They had five children Bert, Les, Evelyn, Geoff and my mother Gwen. My Aunt Evelyn married Edward Williams who was manager at ...Read more
A memory of Saltash by
My Early Years In Salford
I was born in Salford, at 15 School Street in 1951. My first school was Stowells Memorial, I think the headmistress was a Miss Dent. There was a butchers shop one the corner with the same name as our family, but I don't think ...Read more
A memory of Salford in 1951 by
Harry Street
My gran lived on Harry Street in the 1960's and early 70's. I remember playing near the Trafford swing bridge and the excitement when it was opened. Old terraced houses slums by then. Corner shops and the horrible smell from the canal. ...Read more
A memory of Salford by
Chisholm Cottage
My great-great-great grandparents lived opposite Wesley Chapel in the late 1800s, behind the trees on the right-hand-side of the 1901 Wesley Chapel photo. During the 1830s, Richard JACK (b1813) and some of his brothers moved to ...Read more
A memory of Hartlepool in 1880 by
My Early Childhood
Most of the photos here are from 1955. I was a five year old boy living in Greatham in 1955 with my dad, who was the local 'Bobby', my mam and my younger brother. We lived at 3 Egerton Terrace which was a terraced house with an ...Read more
A memory of Greatham in 1955 by
Mabel Annie Jones
My grandmother was born in Yackla, Wenvoe (the cottages near the Whitehall Quarry) in 19th January 1888 and was the daughter of Mary Morgan and George Jones and baptised on the 19th September 1888 at St. Mary's Church Wenvoe. ...Read more
A memory of Wenvoe
Childhood On Osborne Terrace
In 1949 the houses on Osborne Terrace were just being built, as soon as they were coming available the council were moving people in, our family moved into no 21. I was 4 years old. It was a lovely place then, nice and ...Read more
A memory of Stacksteads in 1950 by
Where I Grew Up
I was 4 years old when we as a family moved to no: 6, School Lane, Chase Terrace. We had moved from Wales because my father couldn't find a job there, so he had a job lecturing in the Mining College in Cannock and he also taught ...Read more
A memory of Chase Terrace in 1965 by
School
I lived and went to school in Ogbourne St Andrew, I think the headmistress was a Miss Platt and very authoritarian. I always remember school dinners because we were not allowed to leave anything it all had to be eaten. Fried tomato ...Read more
A memory of Ogbourne St Andrew in 1966 by
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Built in the 1930s in yellow brick, it also has areas of weatherboarding, and the terrace is still in use. Beyond we can see some of the 1950s houses fronting Main Street.
Litton has long been an agricultural settlement, with surrounding hillsides terraced by lynchets from medieval ploughing.
The ivy-clad Western Terrace at Bolsover, built by Charles Cavendish's son, William, commands fine views over the valleys of the River Rother and Doe Lea.
The terrace of cottages in Allotment Lane has ragstone walls and a brick main façade; there is a low pediment at the centre with an arched window.
The new village was in fact one long terraced row featuring an arcaded ground floor; this was a reflection of Sir Charles Monck's taste for things Italian.
Pevsner described Netley as 'a Victorian period piece'; its streets of neat family villas and rows of renovated ter- raced cottages overlooking Southampton Water are certainly striking.
The more recent terraced buildings can be seen rising behind the few smaller cottages that remained when this photograph was taken. The beach vans indicate where the sands actually start!
The churchyard consists of six terraces, each one characterised by a retaining wall. The church dates back to 1096; opposite it lies the picturesque 500-year-old Priest House.
This street of small distinctive shops and fine 18th-century terraced buildings is the commercial hub of the town.
Queen Anne Terrace (right) remains intact, and is home to university offices.
All the villas on the skyline are now hotels or luxury apartments, while the elegant terrace on the left is now an ugly hotchpotch of chippies and nightclubs.
Some of the streets of terraced houses built for railway workers still survive, but no trains have run here since 1965.
The large, gracious, Victorian terraces serving as guesthouses and hotels dominate the skyline along the sea front. The building of the new town began in 1840, and by 1867 it was a bustling resort.
To people living in cramped terraced houses with small back yards, these parks offered a breath of fresh air and the prospect of relaxation with the family.
Houses with terraced gardens climb the steep sided Golden Valley and overlook some of the most lovely scenery in the region.
This view of Ivy Cottage, which is offering accommodation, luncheon, tea and morning coffee and paintings by Arnold Denby, also shows the 'scars' of the limestone terracing which punctuate the surrounding
They served cream teas and whortleberry tart on the terrace in summer.
Chutes descend from Quay Road in front of the terraced houses for loading china clay. On the extreme right is a disused limekiln with two arches.
The Parade is a spacious street bordered by elegant late-Georgian houses and stucco terraces.
The house overlooks the River Derwent and has a delightful garden and terrace. It is now in the care of the National Trust.
The terraced houses carry the information that they were built in the late 1880s. Only the sash windows seem to have changed.
Instow grew as a resort town at the mouth of the Torridge in the 1830s, and most of the terraces and villas on the shore in this picture date from then.
In 1899, G H Warnes converted York Terrace into Worthing's premier hotel, with a Palm Court sextet performing daily in the ballroom.
Behind the row of terraced houses in the middle distance lie the Millbay Docks which were busy during the 1920s with passengers being ferried from the railway out to liners such as the Queen Mary and
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