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An Old Mans Memories

I was born in 1922 in the village of Mundford.  My Father was the village policeman. The village was then a self-contained society and provided all the necessities of life, including a doctor, blacksmith, carpenter and general ...Read more

A memory of Mundford in 1920 by Ralph Woodgate

Portsmouth Guildhall

Visiting the website I discovered a photograph of Portsmouth Guildhall which brought back sad memories. On 10th January 1941 the city was heavily bombed by the Luftwaffe including incendiaries on the Guildhall. On the ...Read more

A memory of Portsmouth in 1941 by Eddie Harding

Newmarket

I spent most of my childhood in Newmarket, playing in the wood and on Bunting Hill shown in the photo with the old Quarry. Every year the hill would be set fire, the fire being lit at the top to burn slowly down, this was to encourage new ...Read more

A memory of Nailsworth

Horrible Place

We were there from 69 - 72. I say we. Me & my four sisters, Denise, Pauline, Joan, Isable & me June HASTIE. Anderson & Dunlop were vile. Scrubbing the floors until they were gleeming. We used to do that when we got home ...Read more

A memory of Hampstead by June Langley

Lived Here In 1963 64

My dad was stationed here in the early 60's with the US Navy.  Although I was only 5 years old at the time the memories are still so vivid in my mind. So many thoughts and pictures are racing through my mind as I write this ...Read more

A memory of Innellan in 1963 by Theresa Wilson

Mid Eighties

From early 1984 to March 1987 I had the pleasure of being the Landlady of this public house. Many good times (some bad), many lovely customers, some of whom became friends and not forgetting all the people who came to ...Read more

A memory of West End in 1986 by Vee Williams

Reminders Of My Youth

I remember being taken to the village when I was very young - I believe one of my great uncles ran the Pub - One of the ubquitous Jermy Family - I am coming to Norfolk to try and research my roots at the end of July this ...Read more

A memory of Great Hockham by Paul Burroughes

Haytor, Moorland Hotel Fire 1970

I was the manager of the Moorland Hotel from July 1967 until March, 6th 1970 when it burned down. The manager from whom I took over was called Brown and he before him was called Maurice Trew. The writer before ...Read more

A memory of Haytor Vale by David Smith

Rothamsted

Much of the Farm Management Course I studied in Devon in the early 1970s was based on work done at Rothamsted. I felt very lucky to land a job here in 1975 and gradually to meet and even work with the authors of text books I had studied. ...Read more

A memory of Harpenden by Huw Jones

Captions

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Caption For Barry, Castle 1899

By the time that this photograph was taken, very little of Barry Castle remained.

Caption For Oxford, Balliol College And Martyrs' Memorial 1900

To the right of Balliol College is the famous Martyrs' Memorial, commemorating the 16th-century Protestant martyrs Latimer, Ridley and Cranmer, who were burned at the stake in nearby Broad Street.

Caption For Colyton, Queen Square 1907

The men standing at the door on the left are customers of the Lion Inn, which burned down on 8 November 1908 and was never rebuilt.

Caption For Haslemere, Lord Tennysons 'aldworth' 1899

Tennyson knew and loved Haslemere and the Surrey hills.

Caption For Woolsthorpe, The Village C1955

This is not Isaac Newton's Woolsthorpe, but the village west of Grantham in rolling countryside right on the Leicestershire border; it has fine views of Belvoir Castle a mile away on its hill on the other

Caption For Irvine, The Harbour 1904

A royal burgh and port, Irvine was, by the 1920s, a town of 7,000 inhabitants.

Caption For Epping, Charcoal Burning C1955

Epping Forest, which now covers some 6,000 acres, was ten times larger in the 17th century.

Caption For Burnt Yates, The Church And Village C1960

The small village of Burnt Yates in Nidderdale is graced by this neat little Victorian sandstone church.

Caption For Milford, Sherbrook Valley C1955

In 1698 the traveller Celia Fiennes noted that there was a considerable industry of cutting and burning the bracken on Cannock Chase.

Caption For East Grinstead, London Road C1965

Another well-known multi-national dominates this view; the branch has been here since about 1930, though the left-hand extension is a post-War development on the site of the Cinema de Luxe, which burned

Caption For Plymouth, St Andrew's Church 1889

St Andrew's is the mother church of Plymouth; there is evidence that a Christian community used the site as early as the 8th century.

Caption For Ambleside, Sweden Bridge 1912

High Sweden Bridge is a picturesque packhorse bridge over the Scandale Beck between High Pike and Snarker Pike (there is a Low Sweden Bridge lower down the valley).

Caption For Ambleside, Sweden Bridge 1912

High Sweden Bridge is a picturesque packhorse bridge over the Scandale Beck between High Pike and Snarker Pike (there is a Low Sweden Bridge lower down the valley).

Caption For Ringwood, Christchurch Street 1900

The notorious Judge Jeffries condemned her to be burned at the stake, but this sentence was commuted to beheading.

Caption For Oxford, Ship Street And Exeter College Chapel 1922

Exeter College was founded by one of Exeter's bishops in 1314, though most of the college buildings have been restored or rebuilt over the years.

Caption For Witham, Newland Street 1900

The Constitutional Club (far left) burned down in February 1910.

Caption For Hove, Church Road 1898

This bustling view of Church Road with its bicycles and horse-drawn vehicles is dominated by the sadly- lamented old Town Hall, which burned down in 1966.

Caption For Richmond, Newbiggin 1913

Perhaps Richmond's most handsome and unchanged cobbled street, Newbiggin means 'new settlement'; its level width suggests that it was planned as the town's original market place.

Caption For Southwell, The Minster, The West Towers 1895

This superb minster church was founded before 956; the present church was started in 1108 by the Archbishop of York, and the west towers were completed by about 1150.

Caption For Torquay, The Harbour 1890

Its west window was designed by the pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones.

Caption For Amport, Village 1898

During the 1830s this pretty village was the scene of a major uprising among farm labourers, with angry mobs burning hayricks and destroying machinery.

Caption For Castletown, Promenade 1897

If coal was burned in these houses, it had to be imported from the mainland.

Caption For Haslemere, Lord Tennysons 'aldworth' 1899

Tennyson knew and loved Haslemere and the Surrey Hills.

Caption For Horndon On The Hill, The Village C1960

Firstly, the Shaa family, who owned land here, produced two Mayors of London.