Maps

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Books

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Memories

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The Council Houses

i moved with my mother two sisters and brother to esh winning in 1956 I think. We had a terraced house in Evenwood Road where my step grandmother Ethel Galley also lived. My mother managed to get a three bedroom council ...Read more

A memory of Esh Winning in 1956 by Jean Berry

Baildon Bank

Late 50's. As a kid I used to run wild with my dog Spot on Baildon Bank, Baildon Green and through the Knoll Wood, mainly during the long light summer evenings (but really just when ever I could) I used to trail up through Milner ...Read more

A memory of Baildon in 1956 by John Shooter

Old Days

I met my wife who lived in huberton a little village about a mile up the lane from sowerby, back in 1970 . We married and lived at Dean lane paying 10/6d a week for a back to back one up and one down where my son came into the world . I ...Read more

A memory of Sowerby by Frank Thomas

Happy Times At Holcombe Devon

My Gran and Grandpa  had a cottage in Holcombe Village "shrimp Cottage" at the top of the hill. This cottage was later left to me, but I sold it in the 60s during the slump!!! I have some wonderful ...Read more

A memory of Holcombe in 1958 by Jill Butcher

Return To Aveley With Glenda

Hello Glenda, my dear. I remember that name - Lighten. Where is Eastern Ave? Is it the road where Trevor Johnson and David Warren lived? Michael Cox there too. Remember him? Now I remember our dads - good mates - ...Read more

A memory of Aveley in 1940 by Colin Newberry

The Place Where I Was Born

I was Born in Lon Gefn Bodedern and started school in the Village when I was 4 yrs old ,I have memories of the Head Master Mr Jones and his two daughters the youngest being Guinivere ? I have many happy memeories of ...Read more

A memory of Bodedern in 1949

Great Times Playing In The Fields.

I was born in Greenford on 1st Oct 1943 (25 Greenway Gardens) We were bombed out & were evacuated to various places. It must have been after the war we moved to 7 Laughton Rd in Northolt. We didn't live there ...Read more

A memory of Northolt in 1946 by Pauline Daly

Down The Slide And Off The Diving Boards

I was a grateful and keen swimmer as a child at the village. It was a delight to go and spend long summer days at Martins pool. I taught myself to swim dive and nearly drown. Many of my friends ...Read more

A memory of Waltham St Lawrence in 1957 by Janet King

Walking To School

I used to walk past hilltop on the way to the old school and still can remember that old musty spell of the old shop still to this day, with the old petrol pump out side....My name then was Linda Zalesny and used to live at no ...Read more

A memory of Loxwood by Lyn Hammond

Born And Bred In Hockham.

I was born in hockham 1953. my mum and brother still live there. lovely memories playing on the hill which it was called then. going too the lion pub and getting a bottle of coke and a bag of crisps going back on the ...Read more

A memory of Great Hockham by Linda Green

Captions

5,033 captions found. Showing results 2,761 to 2,784.

Caption For Clovelly, Post Office And Postman 1936

Several still live in the fields above the village, in happy retirement; donkeys, that is, not the postmen!

Caption For Sandiway, Toll Bar C1960

Sandiway is now permanently linked with Cuddington: the two villages were officially joined together in 1935.

Caption For Clydach, Lower Fall 1893

Clydach is a small village on the road from Brecon to Swansea. The area has been mined for coal for at least 300 years.

Caption For Fawley, Ashlett Creek C1955

Ancient heathland surrounds the landward side of the village, but much of its coastal strip has been sacrificed to the expansion of the oil industry during the 20th century.

Caption For Silsden, Tannery Corner C1955

Tannery Corner, in the Airedale village of Silsden, takes it name from the tannery of William Laycock and Son, seen in the right background of this picture.

Caption For Mundesley, General View C1955

Despite an attempt to develop the town as a seaside resort, Mundesley remains essentially a village. One of the attractions of this coast was the health-giving quality of the sea air.

Caption For Studland, The Bay 1899

Studland has the reputation of being one of the prettiest villages in England, with unspoiled cliffs to the west and the wilderness of Studland Heath, now an important nature reserve, to the east.

Caption For East Lulworth, The Lindens 1904

By the beginning of the 20th century, Lulworth was already a popular residential area for the better-off, who may have originally fallen in love with the village on a holiday visit.

Caption For Beaminster, St Marys Church C1965

Until the commercial growth of towns such as Yeovil and Bridport, Beaminster was an important town for neighbouring villages.

Caption For Rottingdean, Tudor Close House C1955

The Village Pond c1955 A tranquil view of Rottingdean pond, replete with model sailing boats hardly stirring above their reflections on a warm summer's day.

Caption For Worth, Crawley Lane 1906

None of the villagers seen here could have imagined what changes lay ahead for their community and the surrounding area when they posed for this charming Edwardian photograph.

Caption For South Luffenham, The Village C1955

This part of the village is separated from the rest by the stream.

Caption For Broad Hinton, The School And Thatched Corner C1955

The Church of England Primary School, founded by Thomas Benet of Salthrop in 1743, has been part of village life for over 250 years.

Caption For Broadway, The Village C1965

Some were used for the cottage industry of glove making, but most were farmhouses, and the village is still an agricultural settlement with a working farm at its centre.

Caption For Hudswell, 1913

In the village is a 19th-century church, and these peaceful woods are now the property of the National Trust.

Caption For West Humble, The Village 1906

This is perhaps the most delightfully named village in the county. Here the River Mole cuts into the steep slope of Box Hill near the Burford Bridge Hotel.

Caption For Bisley, Church 1911

Although the village now has a number of modern housing developments, the church still stands in a rural location.

Caption For Chobham, High Street C1955

The attractive heath, with its colourful heathers and gorse, reach down to a village boasting several buildings constructed of exquisite brickwork.

Caption For Godmanchester, The Causeway C1960

In 1987 the local newspaper reported that the Causeway was reproduced in a model village outside Canberra in Australia!

Caption For Luxulyan, The Village 1907

The village is noted for its granite quarries, which furnished stone for the Duke of Wellington's sarcophagus in St Paul's Cathedral.

Caption For Crays Hill, London Road C1955

Pump Cottage (in the middle of our photo) was—as the name suggests—the source of the village's water-supply. It dates from about 1860. The well pre-dated the cottage by a decade.

Caption For Cosby, Main Street C1965

The openness of the village is readily apparent in this photograph: it ranges along a brook, criss-crossed by modest Urban District Council railed footbridges.

Caption For Port Isaac, 1895

This view shows the upper part of the village before it was altered by 20th-century developments. Behind we can see the wind-shorn north Cornish scenery with its treeless field hedges.

Caption For Hemswell, All Saints Church C1955

Behind a dry stone wall All Saints' Church sits in the centre of the winding main street of the village.