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Bits I Recall
Trolley buses ran along Green Lanes from Finsbury Square; turning right for Enfield at Mason's Corner. The 244 route went from Collegiate School, Winchmore Hill to Muswell Hill. Chalkleys the bakers was on the corner of The Green ...Read more
A memory of Winchmore Hill by
Whymarks Of Little Cornard
Over 70 years ago, when I was about three or four years old, my parents and I would travel from Luton to see my maternal grandmother, Kate Whymark, who was the widow of Ernest Whymark. I never met Ernest, as he fell ...Read more
A memory of Little Cornard by
Bay Horse Pub.
I remember sitting on this wall taking car numbers and having an ice cream from the booth situated in the area to the side of the pub. Also the fish and chip shop. The ice-cream booth blew away in a storm and was never seen ...Read more
A memory of Green Hammerton by
Memories Of Sutton Lodge, In Sutton Lane—Just South Of The Great West Road, Heston/Hounslow
Recorded by Nicholas Reid, Canberra, Australia. I was christened in the Anglican church at Heston in 1959, though for obvious reason I don’t have any memories ...Read more
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Growing Up In Temple Fortune
I grew up in Temple Fortune between 1959 and 1974. There was a school outfitters called Pullens in Temple Fortune, in Finchley Road near the junction with Temple Fortune Lane. We always bought our school uniforms ...Read more
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Growing Up In Hornsey
I was born in Hornsey in 1923, and spent the first 10 years of my life living with my parents in the top flat at 257 Wightman Road. The ground floor was occupied by Mr and Mrs Dan Costigan. Mr Costigan was a bus driver, and ...Read more
A memory of Hornsey in 1920 by
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
My Story
My name is Peter Mills. I was born in 1939 and I lived in Barest Road, Nunhead. I lived through the war years, evacuation, hiding in the Anderson shelter, having to use the bungalow bath, outside toilet, coal fire, ascot water heater, ...Read more
A memory of Peckham in 1950 by
The Rec
From Berwick Road School, several classes would be assembled in a long line two by two and walk the half mile or so along Heath Lane to the recreation ground, or the Rec as it was called, for school games. We would pass the houses of ...Read more
A memory of Little Sutton in 1960 by
The Croxley Elm Trees
The 1947 council house development that was built on the north side of Baldwins Lane, west of Manor Way became my home area after moving from Rochester Way in 1948. I loved the beautiful tall Elm trees that lined ...Read more
A memory of Croxley Green in 1947 by
Captions
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The gardens and cottages of this rural set piece of thatch and village green today are neat and tidy.
The Green has attractive Georgian houses - note the fine portico and parapet of High House on the left. Went House is in the centre.
The Green has attractive Georgian houses - note the fine portico and parapet of High House on the left. Went House is in the centre.
This is perhaps the largest village green in Lancashire, although the duck pond seems to be diminishing. Cottages, the Grapes Inn, the church and the school are facing or clustered round the green. An
At the east end of the village, the village green has the war memorial at its centre.
Many come to admire the broad village green, the leafy lanes and nearby woodland. There are places to explore, or you can just sit quietly and admire the scenery.
Moving down the lane away from the green there is a row of architecturally more mixed houses, some 1840s Estate houses, others older before the Estate went into picturesque Tudor mode.
This is the view down Smithy Lane, Bradwell, looking towards the green escarpment of Bradwell Edge in the background. Note the non-conformist chapel on the extreme right.
Oats Lane on the left, named after the Oats family who for many generations were the local millers, is still a narrow by-road, but the Green in the distance has been developed with a One Stop shop, a bus
The Green has attractive Georgian houses - note the fine portico and parapet of High House on the left. Went House is in the centre.
The Green has attractive Georgian houses - note the fine portico and parapet of High House on the left. Went House is in the centre.
The original road to Market Bosworth bypassed Nailstone, following an ancient green lane to the west of Nailstone Gorse.
We are looking from the start of the High Street towards the green. A
This picture, taken from the middle of South Green Road, shows the new Methodist Church in the High Street. It opened in 1880.
Adjacent to the former King's Mill, the lane leads via the Green to the ford of the River Whitewater. From there a footpath leads to Odiham Castle.
Woodmansterne Station, situated in Coulsdon, did not arrive until 1932 and, although some distance from the old village, it was an impor- tant factor in the development of new roads off Rectory Lane as
It is strange to think that until the 1830s Acock's Green was a rural village. In 1839 the estate was sold to developers, but it was 1911 before it became part of Birmingham.
It is strange to think that until the 1830s Acock's Green was a rural village. In 1839 the estate was sold to developers, but it was 1911 before it became part of Birmingham.
Kelvedon Hatch is a popular commuter village in the Green Belt north-west of Brentwood. It is now well-known for its formerly 'secret' government nuclear bunker.
This photograph shows Bilberry Hill, and was taken from Groveley Lane, which meets Lickey Road, Barnt Green Road and Rose Hill at the junction traditionally known as Four Ways.
This is one of the oldest parts of Shirley, where Stratford Road meets Olton Road and Haslucks Green Road.
This is one of the oldest parts of Shirley, where Stratford Road meets Olton Road and Haslucks Green Road.
Down the lane to the left, on the other side of the castle green, is Northgate and Doomsdale, the prison which included among its inmates the Catholic martyr St Cuthbert Mayne, the Quaker George Fox, and
Many of the thatched cottages on the winding lanes remained the same except for the replacement of their wheat straw roofs by corrugated metal sheets; an instance is the old Reading Room between Carr's
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