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Growing Up In The War Years In Prees & Whitchurch

Although I was born in Whitchurch [Bark Hill], we moved to Prees soon after. However, I was sent to stay with my grandmother most weekends and for a period I was sent to the Wesleyan school. My ...Read more

A memory of Whitchurch in 1940 by Jean Mary Copnall

My Dads Shop

I always remember my dad's tuck shop in Idle, we were the end cottage on Albion Road next to the school. I was only 5 years old when we moved away but it's funny how memories, even at such a young age, stay with you. I remember walking ...Read more

A memory of Idle in 1963 by Christine Collins Nee Furby

Growing Up In Lower Belvedere

My first real memory of Belvedere was that of starting school at St Augustines Primary around 1954. I can recall a wind up gramaphone which the teacher would frantically wind up to keep the music playing, even a ...Read more

A memory of Belvedere in 1950 by Ken Mulley

1951 1979 Life In Aldbrough St John

Reading Carol's memories brings to mind a lot of happy times in the village, especially the bus shelter and phone box. We managed to make up a lot of our own entertainment, especially the 'village youth ...Read more

A memory of Aldbrough St John in 1972 by Jeff Auton

Park Street , Bristol Bs1

My, how Bristol's once prestigious Park Street has changed. The picture from a hundred years ago shows just what a graceful place it was to shop in those Edwardian days of long ago. Strolling up, on the left, one could ...Read more

A memory of Bristol by Paul Townsend

Betchworth Village Shop

A school friend at Reigate Grammar was Joe Cheffings; his parents ran the village shop and bakery about midway to the church, on the left of the picture. An elder brother, Tony, helped at home when on holiday from St. ...Read more

A memory of Betchworth in 1947 by Keith Fuller

Happy Childhood

I lived with my grandma Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bignell at No 10 Ten Cottages from 1943 to around 1948. The houses were Estate owned (and still are) and my grandad Robert Bignell worked at the manor house first as a shepherd and ...Read more

A memory of Wormleighton in 1946 by Geoff Taylor

My Town

I call it my town because it is, it is everybody’s town that lives here. My wife Patsy and I moved here very recently, in October 1999, this was after visiting the town in previous months, we found the people warm and welcoming, where ...Read more

A memory of Waltham Abbey in 1998 by John Collier

Childhood In The Village!!

I was devastated in 1964 when my mother told me we were to leave the village so that my mother could pursue her dream of owning her own small business elsewhere. It was a dreadful culture shock, one that has remained ...Read more

A memory of Mollington in 1961 by Vanda Godwin Marriott

Early Memories

My birth on 30 Nov 1946 at 34 Oldberry Road, Burnt Oak, is where it all started for me, but my mother & her parents moved into the house when it was built for the LCC. She's 89 now, but recalls that she, as a 9-yr-old in 1928, ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak in 1946 by Anthony Kerrison

Captions

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Caption For Chesham, General View 1897

Looking west from the chalk hills east of the town, undeveloped to this day, Chesham nestles in the deep-cut valley of the River Chess.

Caption For Luton, Vauxhall Motors C1955

The fact that is was possible to park on the side of the hill without a problem makes this photograph one to be treasured. The building on the left is K Block, with F Block on the right.

Caption For Uckfield, 1902

The signal cabin at the bottom of the hill survives with the modern station to the right of it. The station was originally on the left-hand side of the road beyond the level crossing.

Caption For Windmill Hill, The Windmill C1955

Windmill Hill is near Herstmonceux.

Caption For Windmill Hill, The Windmill C1955

Windmill Hill is near Herstmonceux. It is a post-type windmill where the body is turned to the wind by means of a long tailpole.

Caption For Sudbury, Market Hill And St Peter's C1960

Traffic is parked solidly in the centre of the Market Hill; the sides are reserved for buses, and we can make out two single-deckers and a double-decker.

Caption For Dudley, Panoramic View From Castle Keep C1955

Standing on a limestone hill, Dudley Castle dominates the town.

Caption For Bridport, East Street 1897

This view shows the western end of East Street, with a closer look at the Town Hall clock-tower and cupola, and Colmer`s Hill forming the conical eminence in the distance (centre).

Caption For Bridport, East Street 1897

This view shows the western end of East Street, with a closer look at the Town Hall clock-tower and cupola, and Colmer`s Hill forming the conical eminence in the distance (centre).

Caption For Godalming, Wesleyan Church And School 1903

They felt a need to fill 'The Surrey wilderness', an area of under-representation for Methodism, and significant funding came from a fund set up by Hugh Price Hughes: unfortunately, he died before

Caption For Ferring, The Village C1960

Highdown Hill, 269 feet high, was a Roman dwelling place and Saxon burial ground. Here, too, is the Miller's Tomb.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Summer Hill 1909

Summer Hill House, on the west side of Charmouth Road, was the Victorian home of the borough magistrate Walter Banfield Wallis.

Caption For Billesdon, Market Place C1955

The A47 Leicester-Uppingham road forms one side of the roughly triangular market place; although the photograph shows, in the main, modest cottages of 17th- and 18th-century date, more impressive houses

Caption For Belfast, Antrim Road 1897

Castleton Terrace, near the camera, is still there; it is typical of the handsome rows lining the road to enjoy views of the Cave Hill and the Lough.

Caption For Standon, High Street And Church C1965

It is built on the side of a hill, and a flight of steps leads up from the nave to the altar. Although the building dates from the 14th century, the foundations are Saxon.

Caption For Stourbridge, King Edward Vi School C1950

It was constructed on the opposite side of the canal to the New Level Furnaces and adjacent to the tracks of the recently opened Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton Railway.

Caption For Clitheroe, From The Castle 1927

The large railway sidings that we can see here denote how important Clitheroe was as a distribution centre for this part of the Ribble Valley.

Caption For Dudley, Castle Hill, The Junction With Tipton Road C1960

We are looking from just inside Birmingham Road up Castle Hill, with Tipton Road off to the right. On the extreme left is the Station Garage, then an Austin dealership.

Caption For Stourbridge, King Edward Vi School C1950

It was constructed on the opposite side of the canal to the New Level Furnaces and adjacent to the tracks of the recently opened Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton Railway.

Caption For Henley On Thames, Riverside C1955

The 1870 view of the bridge is particularly interesting, for it shows the Berkshire bank before the spread of late Victorian developments that brought large houses and villas to the Berkshire hillside

Caption For Dorking, The Cemetery, Reigate Road 1906

Lying side-by-side are Miss Edith Mary Corderoy and Mr Thomas E Powell, who together started the Dorking British School (now the Powell Corderoy School) in the late 1890s.

Caption For Old Sarum, The Castle Ruins C1965

Old Sarum was one of a number of ancient sites refortified by the Normans; others included Thetford (Norfolk), Rochester (Kent) and Carisbrooke (Isle of Wight).

Caption For Accrington, The Haworth Art Gallery C1945

Hollins Hill was built in 1909 by William Haworth, as a home for himself and his sister Anne.

Caption For Margate, St John's Church 1890

HIGH on the hill at the top of Margate High Street is the parish church of St John the Baptist, which has served generations of Margatonians for nearly 1000 years (see 27445).