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Growing Up At Tombuie Cottage

My name is Drew Ramsay and my father retired from Calcutta India back home to Dundee in 1963 when I was 13 years old. He leased Tombuie Cottage for 5 years as a holiday home which came complete with a little over ...Read more

A memory of Tombuie Cottage by Drew Ramsay

Life In Burghfield In The 1950s

The passageway led from Clayhill Road all the way through the village, and came out on the Reading Road, some 2 miles away, the passageway was used by us children daily as a short cut to school, and it went ...Read more

A memory of Burghfield Common in 1955 by Andrew Cooper

Growing Up

We moved to Cattedown in 1952 when I was 8 years old, to Tresillian Street. My first memory is of the Coronation celebrations and a resulting street party, when we received Coronation Mugs, had bicycle decoration contests and street ...Read more

A memory of Cattedown by Jeffrey Smith

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 ...Read more

A memory of Lancing by Rose Moloney

Beanz Dreamz...

Our family moved to Friars Road in the summer of 66, from a damp house in Boothen Green, which looked over toward the Michelin Factory. I was 5 years old. My father Graham was a former art student at Burslem College of Art under the ...Read more

A memory of Abbey Hulton by Marc Thorley

Church Path, Mitcham And The People That Lived There

I was born in Collierswood Maternity Home, a very short time before it was bombed during the Second World War. The year was 1944. My family being homeless were housed in requisitioned properties in ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1944 by James Bonser

My Childhood In Coldharbour

In July 1959, I was born at home, to Eric and Ann Shields in Coldharbour village.  My father was the village policeman; we lived in what was then the police house, which was situated next to the village shop opposite ...Read more

A memory of Coldharbour in 1959 by Rosemary Shields

100 Melody Road. Wandsworth S.W.18

In 1943/4 My mother, brother and myself were bombed out of our home in Summerly Street. In that house we had a Morrison shelter and the night the bomb hit, a few houses away from our house, it affected our shelter ...Read more

A memory of Wandsworth by jcunife

Phil Munton

Hi, I've recently discovered this while doing research on a book I am writing and was interested to hear how many people from Selsdon remember their childhood and, in most cases, enjoyed the village as I knew it as a good place to grow ...Read more

A memory of Selsdon by philmunton48

Mashcourt Train Crossing

Hi all, In the 60's me and my parents used to visit Stockbridge 2-3 times a year as my mother was born there. By the railway crossing at Marsh court next to the thatched white cottage my father would put a stone on the ...Read more

A memory of Stockbridge by Paul Sandbar

Captions

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Caption For Chatburn, Bridge Road C1955

Beyond Martin's Bank and the shops is the Black Bull Inn, which carries a date stone of 1855.

Caption For Ilminster, The Market Place C1955

As we look back up East Street, the focus of the view is the Market Hall.

Caption For Downham Market, The Town Hall C1955

It was a busy port, and its ancient market goes back to Edward the Confessor - it was celebrated for its Butter Market.

Caption For St Just, Church And Market Place 1908

Solidly built of heavy granite, it turns its back stolidly on the gales.

Caption For Asfordby, The Old Hall C1960

Sashed windows, within stone surrounds under triple gables, grace a quietly elegant facade.

Caption For Dorchester, High West Street C1950

This view is taken looking back up towards the Top o'Town.

Caption For Chipping Campden, High Street 1952

Thanks to restoration work by the Campden Trust, this honey-hued stone town has some of the finest buildings in the county.

Caption For Great Bowden, The Village 1922

This photograph shows this Domesday village, now much consumed by the tentacles of Market Harborough's suburbs, with its large irregular green and attractive houses, some dating back to 1567 and 1664,

Caption For Barnsley, The Town Centre C1950

The Town Hall dates from 1932-33, designed by Briggs & Thornley and built of Portland stone.

Caption For Wickhambreaux, The Forge 1903

From the Bridge 1899 A town when the Domesday Book was compiled, and a settled place as far back as the 7th century, Fordwich was a flourishing port on the River Stour for Canterbury when the river was

Caption For Cark In Cartmel, The Bridge 1897

In the 1780s the roads through Cark were minor tracks, and stepping stones were used to cross the beck.

Caption For Addingham, The Church C1955

This scene of the parish church of St Peter at Addingham, standing in its walled churchyard on the village green and reached by a stone bridge over the beck, has not changed substantially since this photograph

Caption For Bourton On The Water, The River C1955

Among its attractions are many fine country houses and cottages built from locally quarried stone that has mellowed to the colour of honey on butter.

Caption For Allington, Locks C1965

Locally-quarried stone was transported from here to London by barge as far back as Roman and Norman times.

Caption For Llandough, St Dochdwys Church C1955

Although the church is of relatively modern construction – it was built in the mid 1860s - the site has religious significance probably dating back to before the Norman Conquest.

Caption For Denbigh, Market Place 1888

This pleasant stone-built market town, on the western side of the lovely vale of Clwyd, climbs the hillside crowned by its ruinous castle.

Caption For Luton, St Mary's Church C1955

Built on the site of an early Saxon church, the present St Mary's has elements dating back to the 12th century.

Caption For New Quay, The Harbour C1935

This view from the end of the stone pier shows the four-storey Custom House surrounded by rowing boats, which were used by both local fishermen and holidaymakers.

Caption For Barrow In Furness, Town Hall 1893

Disaster struck even as the date stone was added.

Caption For High Wycombe, The Rupert Gates On Marlow Hill 1906

Going back to the beginning of the 19th century, Loakes Manor together with its park was sold in August 1798 to the Right Honourable Robert Smith, Lord Carrington, a prosperous banker and friend

Caption For Milborne Port, The Village 1953

Ven House c1955 Further downhill along London Road, Ven House is set back from the road beyond a forecourt.

Caption For Goodmanham, Church C1965

Goodmanham lies around 2 miles north-east of Market Weighton, and its history dates back to the Stone Age.

Caption For Worle, The Village 1896

This is the oldest part of the village, with some properties dating back to medieval times.

Caption For West Bridgford, Central Avenue C1965

Further back in Tudor Square, Frith's photographer was looking into Central Avenue with Albert Road to the right and Rectory Road to the left.