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Fond Memories Of Brecks Lane

I have fond memories of living down Brecks Lane for the first 7 years of my life. I remember walking down the lane past Brecks farm down to the Billy woods with my mother and our pet corgi..Bunty we called her. My dad ...Read more

A memory of Kippax by Nigel Schofield

Memories Of The Arched Window By Rennie

Now this takes me way back to my cycling days, myself and two friends who were Tony Robinson (Rusty) and Roy Peachey (Ladder) spent one night at Crickhowell Youth Hostel. It was 8th April 1971 to be ...Read more

A memory of Crickhowell in 1971 by Steve Reynolds

St Mary's Church

Re: St Mary's wednesday morning church service at Dewhurst Secondary as it was known in those days, I remember Stan Mathews falling asleep on his knees as in prayer. My mother now lives in the alms house next to the church, so ...Read more

A memory of Cheshunt in 1963 by Trevor Monk

Stacking Timber

In the war years my father drove a lorry or a tractor for May & Hassle timber importers. He would pick up men at various places around the town with his lorry which had a hut on the back. Timber was stacked around Lincolnshire ...Read more

A memory of Boston in 1940 by Bob Marriott

Starting @ Brymbo Church School (Primary)

I attended both primary & secondary schools in Brymbo. I remember well, aged 4 years, & my mum taking me to school for the very 1st time - no playgroups or nurseries to break you in then! ...Read more

A memory of Brymbo in 1956 by Cheryl Mills(Nee Matthias)

Paradise

1969 wasn't my first visit to Blackwaterfoot, that was two years earlier, but it was probably the year I fell in love with the place. We stayed at The Rock Hotel, and I was 12 at the time. It was a small establishment, probably ...Read more

A memory of Blackwaterfoot in 1969 by Keith Palmer

Great Grandfather's Naval Service

My great-grandfather John King served as an AB on HMS 'Royal Adelaide' from 11th August 1867 to 12th May 1868. His service record was marked 'Shore C S expired'. He joined the navy in 1856 aged 15 years and 9 ...Read more

A memory of Devonport in 1860 by James Sullivan

Visiting Auntie Freda Eggington At Rose Cottage In Summer

y nethier did Wendy she fell in love with this prettymyself and my wife wendy took mum,phyllis to visit aunty freda. it was a very long journey as we live in buckinghamshire. rose ...Read more

A memory of Penton Grafton in 1980 by Stephen Rowe

Kidderminster The Canal

Being born and raised in Kidderminster leaves me with a lot of good memories. I moved to the USA in 1958. My Dad worked on the canal before the war and indeed during the war. As a kid I spent a lot of my time ...Read more

A memory of Chaddesley Corbett in 1946 by Peter Conway

Dancing To Bob Potter's Band At The Atlanta

My name is Shirley Hamilton, maiden name Patten, I lived at Hammond Road, Horsell and as a teenager often danced at the Atlanta in Woking, it was the place to go, my friend Deirdre Jennings and I would ...Read more

A memory of Woking in 1860 by Shirley Hamilton

Captions

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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 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 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 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 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 Bothenhampton, From The South C1945

The red-brick of Montrose, at the top of Crock Lane, is the prominent building on the skyline (left).

Caption For Bothenhampton, The Village C1960

Montrose is the distinctive red-brick house with dormer windows at the top end of Crock Lane (centre). Holy Trinity Parish Church is visible below it (left of centre).

Caption For Rayleigh, High Road C1955

The Post Office building is solidly built of brick.

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 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 Godalming, Boarden Bridge 1906

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

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 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 Beckhampton, Beckhampton Stables C1955

To the left are round barrows breaking the now contracted sky line, the wandering bunches of sheep, the wheeling plovers, the friendly white-tailed wheatears, and the skylarks innumerable filling

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 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 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.