Places

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Maps

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Books

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Memories

4,612 memories found. Showing results 131 to 140.

Life At The Schoolhouse 1951 To 1958

My mother, Betty Cronin, was the head teacher at Dunsfold School from around 1951 to 1958 and I lived in the schoolhouse with her and my sister Susan during this period. Both my sister and I went to school in ...Read more

A memory of Dunsfold by Patrick Cronin

Kiddington 1938 To 1955

My very large family moved into The Chequers in March 1938. It had been a pub many years before and it was very much more suitable for us than our previous three bed roomed council house at Steeple Aston. We were not unknown ...Read more

A memory of Kiddington by kjwearing

Lasgarn View

I was fascinated when I saw the new development of Garndiffaith photo. This photo is of Lasgarn View, Varteg, which is just above the Garn. I was born in Primrose Cottage in 1951 with my brother as we were twins. My name was ...Read more

A memory of Garndiffaith by mum1804

Millennium Stone

The large stone in the photograph was used as part of the millennium seat, which is now situated on the village green. The building to the left of the picture is 'The Forge' - the Swann family have lived here for over 80 years.

A memory of Great Ouseburn by Cavan Beggs Reid

Oakhanger, Hampshire

Grew up in Oakhanger and enjoyed the freedom of exploring the common in the centre of the village. Some good times were had sledging down a hill on the common in the snow. Also, finding and catching tadpoles in the pond ...Read more

A memory of Oakhanger

School Holidays

I remember long hot summers back then 1960’s playing in Crago’s barn just outside of village and picking primroses down the hill at Treburgy Water with my sister .. we had to fill a basket and then when we got home we had ...Read more

A memory of Dobwalls by Janice Webb

Shop Names And Trades.

The buildings from left to right are an antique shop, then a sweet shop that was full of the most delightful assortment of sweets all in glass jars and weighed out on brass scales into white paper bags. Then Dudeney and Johnston ...Read more

A memory of Woburn by Claire Allen

An Old Mans Memories

I was born in 1922 in the village of Mundford.  My Father was the village policeman. The village was then a self-contained society and provided all the necessities of life, including a doctor, blacksmith, carpenter and general ...Read more

A memory of Mundford in 1920 by Ralph Woodgate

Memories From My Father Rod Dean

This is what Dad had to say when I emailed him this site and the photos from 1955. Dad lived in Oakley from childhood until 1987, when as a family we moved to Adelaide Australia. I myself lived in the village from ...Read more

A memory of Oakley in 1955 by Gary Dean

Growing Up In Burnham

In this year I was 5 years old, and just starting school in the church hall in Gore Road, which is the road in which I also grew up. I remember Burnham as a small, close-knit community, we went to church every Sunday, it was ...Read more

A memory of Burnham in 1962 by Lucinda Tabram

Captions

5,016 captions found. Showing results 313 to 336.

Caption For Mellor, From Cobden Edge C1955

Straddling an unclassified road between Hayfield and Marple, the village of Mellor is noted for its church, which is dedicated to St Thomas.

Caption For Singleton, The Fire Station C1960

Pargetting is a feature of this delightful building, which used to house the village fire engine (which was not famed for speed—it was often a case of 'first find your horse').

Caption For Longhope, The Village C1955

The main road (A4136) skirts Longhope, and consequently the village remains a peaceful backwater.

Caption For Plaxtol, Village 1901

A lone carriage is parked on the other side of the street from the newly-built Red Lion Inn. Just beyond, down the road, is J J Bacon's Stores.

Caption For Otford, High Street C1950

Otford is on the main Sevenoaks to Dartford road, alongside the River?Darent; it has become something of a commuter village today.

Caption For Cheddar, The Thomas Family Outside Their Cottage 1908

The Village 1908 Of the houses and cottages in this view, only the slate- roofed row with the chimney smoke survives.

Caption For Empingham, Crocket Lane C1960

The large very attractive Saxon village on the road from Oakham to Stamford now overlooks the modern dam on the north-east angle of Rutland Water formed in the valley of the River Gwash,

Caption For Clayton, Village C1960

We are at the foot of the Downs by the route of the London to Brighton main line railway.

Caption For Whitwell, Horn Hill C1955

The Plaiting School in the village employed village ladies and children who supplemented the low agricultural wages by weaving strips of straw, called plait, to the hat-making trade in Luton.

Caption For Nunburnholme, Village C1955

Lying east of Pocklington, this village was bought in the 18th century by the 5th Duke of Devonshire. He sold it in 1845 to the railway entrepreneur George Hudson.

Caption For Goring, Village 1899

Goring is a riverside village lying between the beech-clad hills of the Chilterns and the windswept slopes of the Berkshire Downs.

Caption For Whitekirk, Village C1955

A view of the village of Whitekirk.

Caption For Smeeton Westerby, Christ Church, Saddington Road C1955

The village, which in parochial terms was originally bracketed together with Kibworth Beauchamp and Kibworth Harcourt, which share the mother church of St Wilfred, lies some eight miles to the south

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Caption For Hose, C1955

On the north-east side of the county, Hose is situated close to the Nottinghamshire border in the Vale of Belvoir.

Caption For Stanford On Avon, C1965

Very close to Junction 19 on the M1 motorway, the village is unremarkable.

Caption For Ludford, The Village C1955

The school with its warning sign is over to the left. The pub in the distance is still the White Hart, but the petrol station has gone. The village church is hidden behind the trees on the right.

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Caption For Hose, C1955

On the north-east side of the county, Hose is situated close to the Nottinghamshire border in the Vale of Belvoir.

Caption For Graffham, The Village C1955

Located in a remote region north of Petworth, the village was originally formed in a clearing in the woods. The local wealden clay district is remarkable for large oak trees.

Caption For East Hoathly, The Church C1960

It has a medieval parish church in the western part of the village, but all is not as it seems in this view from the east.

Caption For Ludford, The Village C1955

The school with its warning sign is over to the left. The pub in the distance is still the White Hart, but the petrol station has gone. The village church is hidden behind the trees on the right.

Caption For Littlebourne, 1903

A view of the King William IV public house, one of the four that existed in the village at this time.

Caption For Ripley, The Cross 1923

The village was extensively remodelled in the 1820s, though parts of the parish church date from the 14th century. This picture shows the cobbled square, complete with stocks and the village cross.

Caption For Ripley, The Cross 1923

The village was extensively remodelled in the 1820s, though parts of the parish church date from the 14th century. This picture shows the cobbled square, complete with stocks and the village cross.

Caption For Fairwarp, The Village C1955

The inn's name, the Foresters' Arms, hints that the village stands on the southern hilly fringe of Ashdown Forest. The inn was originally a private house - it was first a licensed premises in 1898.