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1940's Wortley

The photograph shows the entry to Hell Mill Lane (sometimes called Riley Road) which runs along the valley of the Little Avon towards Ozleworth; to the right behind the trees is Wortley Farm, occupied in the 1940's by ...Read more

A memory of Wortley by rontavender

Life In Rock Street Aberkenfig

I was born in 1943 and lived at Ely Cottage, Rock Street. The house was built by my Grandfather around 1920, I have a page from a 1926 telephone directory stating that the house was a business address of the Adams ...Read more

A memory of Aberkenfig by wiclad

Memories

i was born in 1953 in manor park my family moved to Dagenham road 1954 to a new house recently built close to the chase and a short walk to the Farmhouse Pub I can remember the steps leading up to the entrance when only 9-10yrs ...Read more

A memory of Rush Green by ldoman

Tithe Farm Days

I grew up in Houghton Regis in the 1960s, we were a big family, and seemed to go to all the schools, including Houghton Regis Upper, Northfields, Queensbury, Manshead. My dad moved there for work from London before I was born so ...Read more

A memory of Houghton Regis by lucyhowson

Family Home

This house has been my families home for over sixty years ... Love this house

A memory of Biggin Hill by Heather Hall

Balfour House Milton Of Balgonie

I was born and bred in the Milton and remember playing in this house in its ruined state in the 70's. This was the first house in Fife to get electricity iam led to believe. My grandparents lived a stones throw away ...Read more

A memory of Markinch by garyt33

War Time Victoria Avenue, Prestatyn.

In 1941, my father who was a soldier in the Royal Signals, was stationed at what is now the holiday camp. To escape from London, my mother brought my brother and I to lodge in Victoria Avenue. At that time the ...Read more

A memory of Prestatyn by tony

Arnolds Of Rode

My great aunts Amy And Bet Arnold lived in Ivy house (22 High st) from 1921 to 1965 when they had a bungalow called Mayfair built on the road to St Laurence's church and the main road, . Sadly they died not long after moving there. Ivy ...Read more

A memory of Rode by mary.barnes

Third Issue Of My " Barking Ramblings".

Living in the prefabs in Ilford Lane I could walk into town up Fanshawe Avenue, or go via Tanner Street and then Glenny Road or, and my memory may be playing tricks on me but I think it was Harpur Road and then up ...Read more

A memory of Barking by geoff.purdy

Sweet Shop

I can remember a sweet shop up at great Sutton, it was opposite the bull pub it would of been in the 1980s, think it may of been called the unicorn, think it's a house now.

A memory of Great Sutton by julielawrence73

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Captions

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Caption For Rushton, C1955

The church, the walls and the houses are built with local golden-brown ironstone.

Caption For Reeth, The Green 1960

Cars and buses are parked haphazardly on the green, which is surrounded by public houses such as the Black Bull (centre) and the King's Arms (right).

Caption For Eastbourne, Queen's Hotel From The Pier 1910

Beyond the Queens Hotel with its tiers of balconies, which opened in June 1880, are one or two of the surviving buildings of the original Sea Houses, one of the four hamlets of pre-Victorian Eastbourne

Caption For Bath, Upper Weston High Street 1907

The early 19th-century houses on the left are, however, quite urban in feel and reflect the proximity of Bath.

Caption For Brimscombe, Walls Quarry 1901

With the exception of the nearer dwellings, all the houses we see here are of Cotswold stone.

Caption For Worcester, Friar Street 1891

Friar Street was an odd assortment of buildings, including a number of 15th- and 16th-century half-timbered houses and shops.

Caption For Worsley, Bridgewater Canal, The Packet House 1889

The Packet House was a scheduled stop for passenger boats plying the Bridgewater Canal.

Caption For Castletown, Promenade 1897

If coal was burned in these houses, it had to be imported from the mainland.

Caption For Troutbeck, The Village C1880

At the south end of the village is Townend, a typical Lakeland statesman's house, now in the care of the National Trust.

Caption For Gosport, Thorngate Hall 1898

Built in the 1880s as a memorial to William Thorngate, a philanthropic grocer and tea merchant who donated money for local housing, the Thorngate Hall was regularly used for public meetings until it was

Caption For Alnmouth, Northumberland Street C1950

The Marine House Hotel was built as a granary and later converted into a vicarage. Hindmarsh Hall is an 18th-century granary, gothicized in the 19th century.

Caption For Alnwick, Bondgate Hill C1955

Beyond Lloyds is Barclays, which incorporates an 18th-century house.

Caption For Goudhurst, West House 1901

Here we see an attractive tiled house with Stevens' the newsagents attached to it. This shop also acted as an agent for the local dye works.

Caption For Fulking, The Shepherd And Dog C1950

This well-known public house stands at the foot of the Downs. The area was noted for grazing sheep. There is a spring-fed well by the roadside next to the pub.

Caption For Stone, Walton Bridge 1900

The large house beyond has become a residential home for the elderly.

Caption For Bristol, The Bridge And The Church Of St Nicholas 1901

Thomas Williams and George Barrat appear to have kept bawdy houses.

Caption For Eccles, Broadway Cinema C1955

The Associated British Cinema's picture house is photographed at a time when such places had fewer things to compete with for people's time and money; private car ownership was still beyond most people

Caption For Macclesfield, The Sunday School 1897

By 1812 the schools run by John Whittaker had over 2,000 children enrolled, and ideally Whittaker needed one large building to house them all.

Caption For Maidenhead, High Street 1911

The turreted and lead domed building of 1903, now Dorothy Perkins, survives, but the left hand one was replaced by a nine-storey monster office block, Berkshire House, and others were swept away in the

Caption For London, Westminster Bridge, Queen Victoria Jubilee Day 1897

This remarkable and historic view from high on the Houses of Parliament shows Queen Victoria's open landau leading the procession across Westminster Bridge.

Caption For Lymington, The High Street From The Church 1958

This photograph of the town was taken from the tower of St Thomas's church at the top of the High Street, depicting an elegant mix of Georgian houses, bow-fronted cottages and covered shop fronts.

Caption For Mapledurham, Lock 1917

Mapledurham House - behind the trees - has been used as a film set in Inspector Morse mysteries, and also in the film 'The Eagle Has Landed'.

Caption For Braunston, The Canal C1965

At this point it met the Oxford Canal; there used to be a small lock outside the house. This building is now British Waterways offices.

Caption For Dolgellau, Market Square 1930

The town's arcaded Market House of 1870 stands in the Square. The local dark building stone has given Dolgellau much of its character.