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Memories

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Happy Days

This photo shows what was known as the black shed just above the first bridge on the river Gele, to the left of the photo was the school field at the bottom of Berth Glyd where I was born. If you go up Gypsy Lane you will come to an ...Read more

A memory of Abergele in 1950 by Peter Davies

Evacuated To Great West Farm

My mother Eileen and her brother Ian Carter were evacuated to Great West Farm, Quethiock in 1940. Here are her memories of that time:- On June 16th 1940 we were evacuated from Marvels Lane School, Grove Park, London ...Read more

A memory of Quethiock by Mark Lambert

Dunstaffnage War Years

Like your other contributors I also spent my very early years in Dunstaffnage. Dad had spent the early part of the war from day one as a young Engineer Officer on North Atlantic convoys in the Merchant Navy. When you were lucky to ...Read more

A memory of Oban by john

Growing Up In Buckhurst Hill 60's 70's

I used to live in The Meadway, and went to St Johns infants School-a few memories of playing on 'the boxes' at play/lunchtime. These were actually old beer crates, and long before health and safety spoiled ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill by Richard Morgan

My Memories Of Melworking At Leybourne Grange Hospital

Hi yes I remember my time at the hospital well,I worked in the play therapy from 1971 to 1976. I loved working at the hospital and have many happy memories. I worked as a night nurse for two ...Read more

A memory of West Malling by wendycatt22

School Days And Beyond

Having just stumbled on this website I felt compelled to add my recollections of living in Fenham in Cheeseburn Gardens from circa 1961 to 1980. I lived 2 streets down the hill from the first contributor who lived in Ovington ...Read more

A memory of Fenham by keith.hindson

Breaking In A Yearling

A further photo of my father Charlie King breaking in a yearling.

A memory of Newmarket by buttercup696

Beachbank Caravan Site, Ulrome, East Yorkshire.

My Grandparents Sydney and Ellen Simpson built Beachbank between the world wars. Sydney had served in the Royal Flying Corps in WW1 and left seriously injured but that never prevented them from buying this ...Read more

A memory of Ulrome by Nick Simpson

When We Were Young!

Way back in the early 1950's my friends and I went everywhere on our cycles. On one occasion three of us set out from Grays and went across the ferry at Tilbury to Gravesend then down the old A road to Canterbury where we had ...Read more

A memory of Corringham by Albert Wm Gosnall

Downshall Secondary School

I have very fond memories of Downshall Secondary where I was between 1958 and 1962. I used to live in Downshall Avenue, and we used to walk everywhere, to school, to Seven Kings Park and the park up Meads Lane. We ...Read more

A memory of Seven Kings in 1960 by Pauline Garlick

Captions

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Caption For Great Chart, High Street 1908

Here we see some fine brick houses, some with decorative bargeboards and Flemish-style gables.

Caption For Three Bridges, Hazelwick Mill 1906

A brick arch to the right of the picture carries the London to Brighton main line railway. The mill site is now lost to Crawley New Town development.

Caption For Funtington, Hallidays 1965

An isolated village of flint and brick cottages, to the west of Chichester. In the village are Adsdean, a gabled Tudor style house of around 1850, and the church of St Mary, built in 1859.

Caption For Godalming, Boarden Bridge 1906

Behind is the brick Borough Bridge of 1870, nicknamed 'Lunatic Bridge' because of its unnecessarily high arches.

Caption For Monks Eleigh, The Village C1955

There is a white brick Gothic battlemented arch between the first and second group. The pump was the gift of William Makin, farmer at the Hall, in 1854; it was made by Ransomes & Sims of Ipswich.

Caption For Tredegar, Largest Block Of Coal Plaque C1955

Aneurin Bevin, Tredegar's most famous son, wrote of the coalminer's lot: 'In other trades, there are a thousand diversions to break the monotony of the work - the passing traffic, the morning newspaper

Caption For Yetminster, View From Tarks Hill C1960

The gable-end (left) is thatched St Francis Cottage, and the brick, stone and tile cottages are Brookdale and No 5 (right).

Caption For Sherfield On Loddon, The White Hart C1965

Straight ahead is the White Hart, an 18th-century colour-washed brick building. Still trading, it has toothed eaves and an old tiled roof.

Caption For Wickham, Bridge Street C1950

A variety of architecture is to be enjoyed here, from red brick houses to timber-framed cottages.

Caption For Wootton Bassett, High Street C1965

On the left stands the Angel Hotel of chequered brick, which dates from the 18th century. The hotel was later completely modernized in 1989.

Caption For Caister On Sea, The Holiday Camp C1955

Holiday camps like Caister's offered inexpensive breaks for the whole family, with everything included in the cost.

Caption For Eastbourne, All Souls Church 1890

Romanesque Italy arrived in Susans Road, Eastbourne, with this remarkable church in yellow and red brick and terracotta funded by a great-niece of the Duke of Wellington, Lady Victoria Wellesley, and

Caption For Holt, High Street 1896

On the left is a fine Victorian shop- front imposed on a plain brick house. The town is renowned for its public school, Gresham's, founded in 1555 by John Gresham, Lord Mayor of London.

Caption For Coxhoe, The Cross Roads 1951

The local limestone has been used in the past as building material, most notably to cement together the bricks of Durham Cathedral.

Caption For Rayleigh, High Road C1955

The Post Office building is solidly built of brick.

Caption For Kibworth Harcourt, Main Street C1955

It is a double-pile brick building with five bays of cross casement windows and stone dressings. The Parker coat of arms ornaments the broken scrolled pediment.

Caption For St Annes, Fairhaven Road 1901

The buildings were all good quality brick with stone cappings and gate posts.

Caption For East Ham, High Street C1965

On the left the taller Victorian brick buildings were demolished in the 1970s and replaced by bland flat roofed ones.

Caption For Walsingham, High Street 1933

There are early 17th-century buildings here, which have been considerably altered over the centuries; these have had brick façades built over their front walls.

Caption For Tattershall, The Green C1955

To the south, across the Sleaford to Skegness Road, an alley leads to Lord Cromwell's College just beyond the road frontage buildings; it is another 15th-century brick building, known as the Old College

Caption For Calstock, Viaduct 1908

The chimney of a fire brick works stands out in Calstock, and there is evidence of market gardening in the foreground.

Caption For Needham Market, St John's Church 1922

Beyond is Pillar House, a timber-framed building with a Victorian brick façade. On the next corner is the 16th-century Bull (John Esling was the landlord), now closed.

Caption For Debenham, High Street 1950

The brick building (centre) was Carter's cycle shop, and beyond it was Wells' the electrician.

Caption For Daventry, Dryden Avenue C1965

Looking down New Street to the Moot Hall, we can see on the right a brick Georgian house where many BBC trainees lodged in the 1960s.