Maps

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Memories

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Childhood Memories

My granny used to live in Hole House, Lane Little Leigh, her name was Ellen Frances Hough, and I remember she used to live next door to Mr and Mrs Astbury. My dad used to take me there on a Friday night and pick me up on a ...Read more

A memory of Little Leigh in 1961 by Jacqueline Murphy

Shops

Penny son amd parker, coop butchers and grocery, barbers, horlocks funeral, Wardona picture house, news agents, st botolphs school, and church. Springhead Road where my mother worked for Mrs Keen who had a drapers shop in Northfleet.The ...Read more

A memory of Northfleet in 1942

Then & Now

I remember during my teens to early twenties there always seemed to be gigs on. From The Green Man (where it must be said, I really shouldn't have been, not then being 18), where it was very bluesy music, plus of course the mighty ...Read more

A memory of Kidderminster in 1973 by Dylan Mears

Home

I was born in Mid Calder; my sister in Pumpherston; and my brother in Uphall Station. We lived at 17 Nettlehill Road until we emigrated to Canada in October 1957. We all went to the school in Uphall Station and my favourite teacher ...Read more

A memory of Uphall Station in 1957 by Betty Lappage Irvine

The Saughs

My Mother (know as Betty Scott in those days) who is now 91 lived at The Saughs (Saughs Cottage now) from 1923 to 1936 (ish)  - probably aged 3 to 17. Mum was a foster child and went there to live with "Auntie" (Christine Hunter Mc ...Read more

A memory of Ochtertyre in 1920 by Joyce Rawlings

Bowes Rd

I lived in Bowes Road from 1980 until 1985, when circumstances meant I had to move away, but I always have good memories of the area, as some of my best times were spent there. I had reason to return recently and I could not take in ...Read more

A memory of Palmers Green by Michael Downey

Wc Sa Great Place To Be

My name is Linda Ashton and I was at WCS 1960-61. This was my 4th boarding school and was far and away the happiest! It felt like family with Mr and Mrs Savage as surrogate mum and dad! I was there because ...Read more

A memory of Warnham Court School in 1960 by Linda Ashton

Evacuted To Borth Y Gest 1940 1

Hi there, my mum was evacuated early in the Second World War to Borth y Gest from New Ferry on The Wirral, with her sister, they stayed for 2 years or so at Wendon, a large modern flat roofed house, it was ...Read more

A memory of Borth-y-Gest by William Marshall

St Nicholas School, Mickleham

I remember Miss L Garrard, the Head Mistress, Miss T Garrard her sister, and their adopted son Malcom Daverney (?). He had an open top MG sports car, and one day I had to go to the Dentist in Dorking for emergency ...Read more

A memory of Mickleham in 1953 by Angela Sayadian

Memories Of Leadgate And Iveston 1938 1943

I came to live at Leadgate when I was 12 years old and attended Leadgate Council School which was a large red brick building for infants and juniors, boys and girls. I was at the school for only 2 years, ...Read more

A memory of Leadgate in 1930 by Wilf Wallace

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Captions

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Caption For Peterborough, Town Bridge 1904

The Customs House is far right.

Caption For Aylesbury, High Street C1955

The bank on the right, 1920s extensions to two houses, went in 1975. Its drab replacement Nat West Bank is now (in 2000) Methvens booksellers.

Caption For Oving, Church And Black Boy Inn C1955

The Black Boy is on the left, with the Victorian school, now a house, beyond the car. The ugly lean-to on the cottage has been replaced by a conservatory, and the railings by a rubble stone wall.

Caption For Hawthornden, Ben Jonson's Tree 1897

It is said that Drummond was sitting under the great sycamore tree in front of the house when Jonson trudged up the path. Drummond met him with 'Welcome, welcome, royal Ben!'

Caption For Darwen, The Circus C1951

It has the usual mixture of banks and public houses on its corners. A National Savings Centre is tucked away on the left of our picture, and the Millstone Hotel is at the far side.

Caption For York, Micklegate Bar C1885

In the 10th century, when permission was granted for a house to be built on the bar, the yearly rent charged was sixpence.

Caption For York, Bootham Bar C1950

The public house on the right is the White Horse; the statue of a horse can be seen rearing above the Tower Ales sign. Towards the bar old stonework still remains, with a sign for Pullman's Coaches.

Caption For Ightham, The Village And Memorial Cross C1960

Here we see the village square, surrounded with black and white houses and clogged with randomly-parked cars.

Caption For Bawdsey, The Manor 1899

This accounts for the impression that two different houses have been joined together. On the terrace is the newly built teahouse, with a copper dome.

Caption For Kessingland, Church Road C1955

The road was developed in the Victorian period, and most of the houses and shops, like those on the right, are of that date.

Caption For Sproughton, The Mill C1955

Beyond this group is the road to Cat House Hard on the Orwell.

Caption For Woolverstone, The Village C1955

Beyond this group is the road to Cat House Hard on the Orwell.

Caption For Broadstairs, The Harbour 1887

described them, still form the focal point of this 'old-fashioned watering place' where 'Nicholas Nickleby', 'David Copperfield', 'The Old Curiosity Shop', and 'Barnaby Rudge' were all written by him in houses

Caption For Cirencester, The Church And Town Hall C1955

Dating from the late 15th century, the three-storey porch originally housed the administrative offices for the abbey.

Caption For Mickleton, Main Street C1960

The Morris 1000 is heading west past the post office towards Tudor House - with its steeply pitched roof of stone tiles, it is one of Mickleton's notable buildings.

Caption For Wem, High Street C1965

The building just beyond, Grove End House is a listed building, but it is currently in a state of severe dilapidation and desperately needs rescuing.

Caption For Petersfield, Lavant Street 2004

A line of genteel houses is now an indifferent row of shops.

Caption For Alton, Normandy Street C1955

Some of the houses on the left are boarded up and empty in this photograph, but when they were for sale in August 1920 they were described as 'a Block of Four Capital Cottages'.

Caption For Kiveton Park, Methodist Church C1965

Kiveton Park was once an estate belonging to Sir Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby and later First Duke of Leeds; the house, designed by William Talman, has long since been demolished.

Caption For Ossett, Wesley Street C1955

Today the building houses the town's comprehensive public library. Ossett's GNR railway station was open until 1964.

Caption For Abergavenny, From Near The Station 1893

Mr Foster, the builder, showed his pride in his work by occupying the largest of the new houses.

Caption For Accrington, Broadway 2004

The Arndale House building is much the same, but the cinema has made way for the Cornhill shops, and beyond the canopy of the Town Hall extension are the new shops which have

Caption For Newquay, The Gannel Regatta 1928

This view looks from the Crantock side; most of the open fields on the Newquay side have since been covered with houses.

Caption For Great Dunmow, High Street C1955

The three-storey White House next door was home to Dunmow Rural District Council from 1934 until 1974, when it was swallowed by Uttlesford District Council.