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Doon The Den

I stayed in Denhead and used to play down the den almost every day. We used to go to school via the gap either next to Ciff Bells house or the gap next to smiths shop. We used to go along the cliffs behind the scrappiest then straight ...Read more

A memory of Kennoway by John Walker

Bramcote Children's Hospital

I was placed in Bramcote 1983 at the age of 9 for a year. I liked it a bit but only as I was getting physically abused by my step mum at home daily,it was a break from the beatings for a week,we would all go ...Read more

A memory of Bramcote by Georgina Brack

Stiperstones Poem

THE STIPERSTONES T’was long ago the Ludlow people vexed the Devil very sore He vowed to stone their homes and steeples until they were no more On Cranberries Hill he then collected his apron full of rocks and stones With ...Read more

A memory of Stiperstones by Angela Bolton

Bull Ring And Market

I have just been back to Wakefield for a short break. I knew what to expect before I set off. But still don't know whose idea it was to do away with the old Bull Ring which I thought made it look more like a city. Why take ...Read more

A memory of Wakefield in 1959 by Kevin Wilshire

Childhood In The 1950s

It breaks my heart to see how the years, short-sighted councillors and rapacious businessmen have ruined this once noble and beautiful seaside resort. How could anybody have countenanced destroying this view for the ...Read more

A memory of Bridlington by Geoffrey Harrison

Caerphilly

I used to live in Bartlett Street next to the bus station. My first job in Caerphilly was as a delivery driver for Harris & Ash DIY merchants, they were situated in a double fronted shop opposite the castle, although I came ...Read more

A memory of Caerphilly in 1966 by Mike Ashcroft

Training To Be A Bricklayer

During my chidhood I was to perform lots of different tasks that would make life for my mother a little easier. I did not know it at the time but she was actually training me for my working life. Not ...Read more

A memory of Intake in 1951 by Frank Mowforth

Service On Hms Impregnable 1877 1879

My grandfather, Uriah Hazlehurst, served on this ship from 2nd April 1877 until 2nd March 1879 with a short break between 6th to 19th August 1878 when he was with 'R. Adelaide'. He went on to serve in the RN until 4th October 1895 when he was discharged to Plymouth Hospital.

A memory of Devonport

Greyhound, Fox & Central Garage

This photo has the 3 places that were a big part of my early working life. I worked in the garage from 63 through 69, the owner was Charles Holland who lived next door, we used the fox pub most evenings & weekends ...Read more

A memory of Keston in 1963 by Dave Harding

Wartime Evacuee 1939 1940

In August 1939 I was evacuated frm Salford to Caton. I had my gas mask, a small parcel of food and a label on my clothing. We arrived at the then beautiful station, adorned with flowers. Then we walked to the Village ...Read more

A memory of Caton in 1930 by James Maurice Blackford

Captions

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Caption For Holton, The Mill C1960

The tarred brick roundhouse and fantail are Victorian; the roundhouse has two storeys, one of which is below ground level.

Caption For Doddington, Church 1906

Immediately north-east of the Hall is St Peter's Church, almost entirely rebuilt in the 1770s by Thomas Lumby in partly scholarly Gothic, although a cheery Strawberry Hill Gothick breaks out here

Caption For Eastbourne, Holywell Retreat 1910

It is here that the sea can be reached, albeit by a steep path, in a break in the cliffs enlarged by quarrying.

Caption For Torcross, The Sands 1896

During a storm in the winter of 1978-9, waves were breaking over the tops of the houses.

Caption For Bildeston, Duke Street C1955

At the end is Red House, a Tudor farmhouse with a brick front of c1715.

Caption For Banbury, High Street C1955

Plaster, timber, brick and stone have all been employed to provide an interesting variety.

Caption For Cropredy, Station Road C1955

We can almost feel the peace and tranquillity typified by a road deserted apart from a solitary horse-drawn delivery cart, standing near an attractive row of brick-built thatched cottages.

Caption For Bildeston, Market Square C1965

The clock tower was built of red and white brick in 1864.

Caption For Swanbridge, The Slipway C1950

The slipway was privately owned, but with perhaps too little investment the reinforced concrete sections had begun to deteriorate and break up, with the metal rods exposed and rusting.

Caption For Horley, Constitutional Club 1905

The building on the left was the Constitutional Club; it was built in a Bedford Park Domestic Revival style around 1890 with steep tiled roofs and much use of brick banding.

Caption For Willingham, The Mill C1955

Cattell's Mill is a black-tarred weatherboarded smock windmill on an octagonal single-storey brick base.

Caption For Towcester, The Pickwick Restaurant C1960

Watling Street has a good range of buildings, mostly dated 18th and 19th century, built in a mix of materials - stone, brick and render.

Caption For Ilfracombe, From Capstone Hill C1875

The imposing yellow brick Gothic Revival building, with 210 rooms and a 1,000ft terrace, put Ilfracombe in the first rank of resorts when it was opened on 15 May 1867.

Caption For Odiham, High Street C1955

Further on, the three-storey brick building has been a draper's shop for some 170 years; its name Commerce House records that this was where Odiham's first bank opened in 1806.

Caption For Billericay, Chapel Street C1965

The substantial building behind the trees is Billericay church, which was rebuilt in 1780, though retaining its fine 15th-century brick tower.

Caption For Tiptree, Messing Maypole Mill C1955

In 1775 a brick tower-mill was built near the crossroads by John Matchett, a Colchester millwright.

Caption For Rye, The Windmill 1912

The brick and white weatherboarded smock mill still stands in Mill Lane on the banks of the River Tillingham, though it is now converted for use as a guest house.

Caption For Marton In Cleveland, Stokesley Road C1965

On the left is the end of a long and attractive terrace of Victorian brick houses, which still survives.

Caption For Melton, The Street C1965

The doors and windows have been altered on the next pair of cottages, whilst the white Rosemary Cottage and the brick gable end beyond remain unchanged.

Caption For Stoneleigh, Birmingham Road C1960

The houses in this scene are typical of Stoneleigh, which retains a pleasant mixture of brick, timber and local red sandstone.

Caption For Reading, Prospect Park 1912

The house, originally a brick one of 1759, was extended and given the Regency stucco villa treatment in the early 19th century.

Caption For Reading, Broad Street 1913

Beyond the bank with its pyramid-roofed tower are the elegant terra cotta and brick buildings flanking the entrance to Queen Victoria Street.

Caption For Liverpool, Ss Adriatic 1890

Laid up at Birkenhead in 1890, she was taken to Preston for breaking up in 1899.

Caption For Beccles, Market Place 1894

The tall brick building was Thomas Self, greengrocer and market gardener; to the left was Clement Poll, butcher.