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Buckhurst Hill Primary School

I was at Buckhurst Hill primary school between 1970 to 1975. Mr Carr was the headmaster in the beginning and later Mr Willy took over. The first teacher I had was a MrsPayne, than a Mrs Nelson-Ward, then a Mrs ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill in 1974 by Kevin Roberts

My Childhood Garden Part Iv

If I remember correctly, a white climbing rose grew up one side of the arch and a red on the other. The path continued straight through the archway, and led up the garden to the two wooden sheds at the top of the ...Read more

A memory of Shamley Green in 1954 by Patricia Clarke

North Road And The Treacle Hole.

I was at the local junior school, the headmaster of which was Mr Ronald Pearson,when this photo was taken.He lived just beyond and to the right of the area of the photo,in Hallas Road.My uncle Jim Wroe was at ...Read more

A memory of Kirkburton in 1950 by James Wroe

My Confirmation

Must have been 1962 when I was confirmed at St Giles. We have an old super 8 film of us coming out of church, boys smartly dressed, girls veiled, some wore uniforms. We had had confirmation classes before with a young padre - wish ...Read more

A memory of Ickenham in 1962 by Patricia Reeve De Becker

When I Was A Little Younger

I lived in Goldsithney and used to go fishing with the Allans, Jeff and David and the son of Mr Murray a French teacher at Humphrie Davy. My cousins lived just 50 yards from the Allans and were called Tamblyn. We ...Read more

A memory of Prussia Cove in 1961 by Keith Prole

The Convent.........Fondest Memories

I went to the convent from around 1963 t0 1971 and I was very happy there as a little "German girl". We went on the mini bus from Swindon with a few pupils we picked up on the way and already had a jolly time ...Read more

A memory of Lechlade on Thames by Sabina Wörner

Memories Of Parsons/ Blackdown/Deepcut/ And Chilwell Barracks

I was stationed at Parsons barracks for two weeks before we moved to Blackdown camp for basic training. I did a course on office work and did touch typing which lasted for ten weeks. ...Read more

A memory of Deepcut in 1952 by Les May

Evacuation

I was evacuated to Kibworth three times; in 1939 I came probably from my school, Newington Green in North London. i stayed with Mr. and Mrs. Dinkley. After a few months, a bomb fell in Kibworth, probably on the way to ...Read more

A memory of Kibworth Beauchamp in 1930 by Dorothy Beth

“Play Up, Play Up, And Play The Game!”

My memory bank has been activated by the contributed items about Hugh Bell Central School, though my recollections of Hugh Bell are older than those published on this website. My years at Hugh Bell were 1938 ...Read more

A memory of Middlesbrough in 1940 by Harry Killick

Drayton St Leonards 1936

1936 - my father Ernest Eldridge and mother Violet and myself Barbara moved from Dorchester on Thames to Drayton St Leonards. My mother's friend May Rusher (wife of Frank Rusher) arranged for the cottage next ...Read more

A memory of Drayton St Leonard in 1930 by Barbara Gibson

Captions

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Caption For Wallasey, Capitol Roundabout C1960

The road directly ahead is now pedestrianised with attractive brick and stone flag walkways, benches, trees and ornate lanterns draped with flower baskets.

Caption For Odiham, The Stocks 1903

A four-hour period in the stocks was the usual reward for misdemeanours such as blasphemy, drunkenness, vagrancy or breaking the Sabbath.

Caption For Preston, The Harris Institute C1955

At this point it is the Art College, and the rock-pop era is about to break in on our rather sedate photograph.

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 Ascot, Church 1901

This modest building of red brick is attributed to T H Rushworth and was built in about 1864. The windows are 13th-century and show a variety of designs in two-bay arcades.

Caption For Cosby, The Brook C1965

To the right of the photograph is a row of uninteresting 19th/20th-century houses; to the left, and of an earlier era, is a three-story, three-bay brick farmhouse, so common in Leicestershire villages.

Caption For East Clandon, The Village 1904

Fifteen children have been neatly assembled by the photographer in front of the brick and half-timbered cottages that comprised this small village – it was originally called Clandon Abbots.

Caption For Woodford Halse, The Post Office C1965

Church Street and the roads off to the left are part of a grid of Victorian brick, terraced, straight streets.

Caption For Tattershall, Buttercross C1955

The railings have gone, as have the brick wall and the trees behind it. The shop under the white blind is now named Something Fishy.

Caption For Kettering, Montague Street C1955

Further down, past a wool shop, is the large brick-built Kettering Conservative Club, built on a site donated by the Duke of Buccleuch in 1876.

Caption For Huttoft, The Church C1960

The church is a curious mix of greenstone and limestone giving a patchwork quilt effect, while the chancel is in brick.

Caption For Wainfleet, Woolpack Hotel C1955

Just off Market Place is the Wainfleet School of 1484, now the public library, another of Lincolnshire's medieval brick buildings, a long first floor hall with giant polygonal towers flanking the west

Caption For Ollerton, Thoresby Hall, The Queen Victoria Room C1965

To the north of the house Warner's have built a brick and stone-dressed bedroom block and a spa and health club.

Caption For Chilham, Old Wives' Lees 1908

His brick Jacobean mansion, Chilham Castle, allegedly designed by Inigo Jones, stands on the west side of the Square at Chilham itself.

Caption For Elham, High Street C1960

Some are of brick, and others are half-timbered, with their upper storeys jutting out on carved brackets.

Caption For Pinner, High Street C1955

The remainder of the buildings have changed little, including an excellent early 18th-century brick-fronted house halfway up the hill.

Caption For Leicester, The Town Hall C1950

After the piped water and the sewers came the benevolent face of bureaucracy in the new brick-faced Town Hall, designed by local architect F J Hames in 1876 in a friendly yet impressive Queen Anne

Caption For Sudbury, King Street C1955

The two brick buildings on the left are now Huffer's and Mill House Fabrics. The scene is not so tranquil today, thanks to the traffic.

Caption For Northampton, Park Avenue Methodist Church C1960

These architects had a prolific practice building non-conform- ist churches in a late Gothic style, usually in hard red brick with stone dressings, as here.

Caption For Boston, Hussey Tower 1893

This mid 15th-century brick tower, here seen in rural tranquillity with cattle grazing, now sits amid football pitches near Boston College's Rochford Campus.

Caption For Thetford, The Grammar School 1921

The school is a beautiful knapped flint and brick structure, and so is its surrounding wall; it was built in 1876.

Caption For Shackleford, Village 1906

mixture of houses in different styles, as evidenced here by the creeper-clad building on the right, the tall-chimneyed cottages with their neatly trimmed hedges at the crossroads, and the weatherboard and brick

Caption For Boxford, View From Church Tower C1965

The red brick Ashley House, with the large white gable (centre), was built for Joseph Simpson in 1875; due to its cost, it was known as Simpson's Folly.

Caption For Carlton In Lindrick, High Road C1965

Two miles south of Langold, Carlton in Lindrick is a village of two parts, the original village to the south and a large former colliery village with hard red brick semi-detached houses.