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Memories

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Grouse Beating

As a student I spent 3 seasons working as a beater on Lord Sopwiths estate. I first worked a few days during a holiday with family friends called Rita and Albert Sparks who had holidayed in Arkengarthdale for many years. The ...Read more

A memory of Arkengarthdale in 1960 by Roy Loudon

Burgh Heath

My grandparents always considered that Burgh Heath was the best village to live in. At one time, it had two swimming pools, two tea rooms and pubs for locals to meet. One pub had a projection room and offered children a free Saturday ...Read more

A memory of Burgh Heath

Burcot Grange

I went to Burcot Grange School in Mere Green. From 1961-1964 or there about. Mrs Keates was the Headmistress and her husband was the vicar. Mrs Shinner was deputy head. I got told off for dangling my legs out of the top floor ...Read more

A memory of Sutton Coldfield by Lorraine Gaunt

Life As A Young Boy In Saltdean

THE LIFE & TIMES OF DONALD CHARLES WILLIAMS Personal recollections from Don Williams from Hailsham who lived in Saltdean from 1937 to 1952 - Many thanks for these wonderful stories & photo's of Saltdean in ...Read more

A memory of Saltdean in 1940 by Don Williams

Cinemas In Croydon

I lived in Croydon until 1969 (the year I got married and moved away). My Dad - Len Marsh - was a Cinema Manager with the ABC chain, and we lived very near the Rex Cinema, Norbury, closed in 1962. Dad was based there for a time, ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by Colin Marsh

Fulham Memories

I was born in 1951 at Parsons Green maternity home. I have many memories of my mum's family. My nan lived in Bayonne Road, Escourt Road, Heckfield Place, Bramber Road, Cassidy Road, Fairholme Road and latterly Charleville Road, then ...Read more

A memory of Fulham by jenny_blakemore

Berwick Road C Of E School

I started at Berwick Road C of E School in 1957 together with some of the people referred to in the other memories ie: Heather Wallis, Christopher Bennior, Lorraine Staton.  There were others obviously such as Margot ...Read more

A memory of Little Sutton in 1957 by Kathleen Green

Life In Oxshott In 1940s And 50s Royal Kent School

I remember my first day at the Royal Kent School – 8th November 1948 – as recorded at entry no. 1450 in the school's original Admissions Register. It was a few weeks into the Autumn term, as in ...Read more

A memory of Oxshott by Rose Phillips

Before The By Pass

In the 1960s winter frost would make going up Greenhead and Glenwhelt Bank too slippery for cars and lorries - they would need to wait for it to thaw. A few wagons crashed into a tree on the right hand bend - it's now a house ...Read more

A memory of Greenhead by Michael Furmston

Perfect Place

My name was Sandra Goodfellow when I was born at home in Erbistock in 1954. I lived on Twining hill. I had a very happy childhood there with my three siblings, Mum and Dad. I started Erbistock school in 1957. It was a cosy, two ...Read more

A memory of Erbistock by Sandra Bayley

Captions

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Caption For Ardleigh Green, Southend Road C1955

Ardleigh Green Road reaches the Southend Arterial Road (A127) and beyond is Squirrel's Heath Road heading for Harold Wood.

Caption For Meonstoke, Bucks Head Hill C1955

The popular Bucks Head pub is on the right.

Caption For Portchester, Castle Street C1960

A mother and her two sons head home (right).

Caption For Newton Green, 1907

The Newton Green Sudbury Golf Course was established in 1907, and it had its headquarters at the Saracen's Head, visible in the distance.

Caption For Rottingdean, Village Pond C1955

With Kipling's 'blunt, bow-headed, whale-backed Downs' surrounding it, the village runs up a valley from the sea, climaxing beyond the High Street on the Green with its pond, where Kipling lived.

Caption For Beare Green, The Dukes Head Hotel C1955

Back on the A24 London to Worthing Road, and north of Capel, is Beare Green with the Duke's Head pub.

Caption For Lanchester, The Green And King's Head C1955

The village green, the King's Head and the parish church lie at the heart of present-day Lanchester.

Caption For Warrington, Town Hall And Fountain 1901

This ornate green and gold-painted cast iron fountain was presented to the town in May 1900 in honour of Peter Walker, founder of Walker's Brewery.

Caption For Hucknall, Parish Church C1965

From Newstead Abbey the route heads four miles south to Hucknall, which also has Byronic associations: in this church Byron was buried in the family vault after his body had been brought home from Greece

Caption For Ackworth, Buttercross And Lychgate C1955

This pastoral scene is on the Green in High Ackworth.

Caption For Syston, High Street C1955

The turn of the century Bull's Head pub is now in use as the Syston District Social Club; as is so common in the village, over half the buildings in the middle distance have gone to make way for unattractive

Caption For Hallow, The Green C1955

This attractive view is little changed today, except that the Green, predictably, is kept close-mown now, and woe betide any daisy that shows its head.

Caption For Broughton, High Street 1966

The cars parked on the pavement gives a hint of the traffic problems caused by people heading to the Lakes or southwards.

Caption For Balderstone, St Leonard's Church C1955

The cars parked on the pavement gives a hint of the traffic problems caused by people heading to the Lakes or southwards.

Caption For Allenheads, Ropehaugh C1965

Situated at the head of the valley of the East Allen, Allenheads was an important centre for the lead-mining industry from the late 18th to the mid 19th century; the mines here produced around 14 per

Caption For Ashwell, High Street 1951

Tommy Dennis's butcher's shop (centre right) was renowned for its ornate topiary and for the life-like bull's head mounted on the board across the building.

Caption For Haywards Heath, Muster Green C1950

Muster Green is another open space maintained by the local council, and it flanks the A272.

Caption For Sedlescombe, The Village Pump C1955

Sedlescombe is a hillside village near Battle, with a large green. A

Caption For Pembroke, The Castle C1955

Disillusioned with their former masters in Parliament, Poyer and Laugharne, two former Parliamentarian commanders, switched sides during the Civil Wars and held Pembroke Castle for the Royalist cause

Caption For Haywards Heath, Town Sign 2005

The design incorporates both a cavalier and a roundhead standing on green turf, reminding us of Sir Edward Ford's activities nearby, whilst above them is the imperial Roman eagle (a reminder of

Caption For Monks Eleigh, The Village C1955

The tapering village green leads up to St Peter's Church.

Caption For Glasgow, George Square 1897

Whereas Glasgow Green had been a part of the common grazing land of the burgh since the earliest times, the greening of Glasgow really began in 1852 when the city acquired the estates of Woodlands

Caption For Dalton In Furness, Tudor Square 1966

Bus shelters, one with a shopper waiting, occupy Tudor Square, once called Bally Green, at the end of Market Street, which is Dalton's main shopping street.

Caption For Leigh, The Cross C1955

The village shop (right) was run by Pamela and Peter Mills, and his green Standard van is parked outside.