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Coronation Day 1953

My brothers and I watched the Queen Elizabeth's Coronation with a neighbour; the screen was so small they added a special magnifying glass. Even in black and white I thought it was wonderful. It was a cold day so felt chilly as ...Read more

A memory of Ashtead by Pam Piper

Grand Living At Moresdale Hall, Lambrigg

We came to a deserted Moresdale Hall in the 1980s and spent several years refurbishing it. Because it had 2 front doors and 2 staircases we were able to divide it and share it with my brother's family. ...Read more

A memory of Moresdale Hall

Memories

I was born in 54 Mill Street, Trecynon. As was my sister, our mother and her brothers and sitsters. A little 2 down 2 up, stone cottage. It was on the top of the hill, and we could run down "the trip" as we called it, and play there, ...Read more

A memory of Trecynon in 1947 by Heather Forey

Coronation Day

My mother took short term housekeeping positions and in 1953 we lived in Westbrook House in Westbrook village, looking after Sir Edgar and Lady Ludlow Hewitt. He was a gentleman farmer and I sometimes drove around his land with him ...Read more

A memory of Bromham in 1953 by Sonia James

Addlestone In "The Good Old Days !"

i was born in Addlestone at Garfield Cottages, Garfield Lane (off Station Road) long gone now and replaced by the tower block of Surrey Towers. We moved to Courland Road in 1957 and I lived there until I married in ...Read more

A memory of Addlestone by Marilyn Petrie

Coney Hall Resident 1966 1988

I've great memories of jumping through those bushes in the central reservation, before the zebra crossing, and subsequent Pelican crossing, was installed connecting the Post Office to the Co-Op on the corner facing ...Read more

A memory of West Wickham

Brampton Road Primary School

I began my school days during the 1950's at Brampton Road Primary School, Bexleyheath. My over-riding memory is a time of innocence, wonder and happiness, where we were given freedom to learn and be creative in a ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath by Bernard Schofield

Memories Of Bedford Lane.

This cottage is in Bedford Lane. I lived in the house called Connemara which is still in Bedford Lane. My father Samuel Frederick Richardson and his brother George were both bricklayers. Both were demolishing the ...Read more

A memory of Frimley Green by Claire Allen

The Great North Road

How great was the Great North Road when it squeezed through these ancient gates until the early 1970s? Traffic built up on both sides waiting to get through. For a child this was the spot that marked where our holidays began, ...Read more

A memory of Alnwick in 1968 by Jonathan Vernon

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A memory of Spalford in 1940

Captions

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Caption For Market Drayton, Shropshire Street 1898

Notice the rusticated window boxes on the cottage here.

Caption For Baslow, Thatch End C1955

Thatched cottages are comparatively rare in this part of Derbyshire; to see Baslow's examples, you have to follow the signposted path for Chatsworth, which starts at the car park.

Caption For Tillingham, The Square C1955

Weatherboarded cottages stand to the left. The large building on the same side is the Fox and Hounds. W Kemp's shop, on the right, is now a private house.

Caption For St Ives, Bethesda Hill 1890

Here we see a narrow cobbled way with granite and slate-hung fishermen's cottages in the Downalong part of town.

Caption For Trumpington, Village 1914

Thatched cottages abound in this view of Trumpington. At this time, the village was separate from Cambridge.

Caption For Pembridge, C1955

The building on the left is the appropriately named Westend Cottage which was built in the 17th century.

Caption For Littlebredy, Old Thatched Houses And Church C1940

The pretty cottages of Little Bredy stand in a peaceful setting along the valley of the River Bride, despite having been in the front line of Britain's defence during the dark days of the 1940s.

Caption For Witherley, The Church C1960

From this placid view, only the middle cottage survives today. The village also houses the Atherstone Hunt stables and kennels.

Caption For Malmesbury, The Hospital C1955

The Cottage Hospital moved here in 1925 from its original premises situated by the market cross.

Caption For Coalbrookdale, Dale Road 1896

The timber building here, Rose Cottage, is a rare survival.

Caption For Hitchin, Lavender Field, Mount Pleasant 1901

The cottage visible in the woods was used by the firm as a trademark, and appeared on many of their advertisements.

Caption For Burton Bradstock, The Village 1899

Burton Bradstock has many attractive buildings, such as the thatched cottages seen in this photograph.

Caption For Moreton, The School C1955

Lawrence of Arabia rests in the little cemetery at Moreton, for his cottage of Clouds Hill is within the parish. He died in 1935 in a motorcycle accident on the road leading north from Bovington Camp.

Caption For Limpley Stoke, Middle Village C1955

The right hand cottages are dated 1885, and the village hall beyond was built in 1845.

Caption For Romsey, The Hundred 1911

The Hundred, which runs down to the Market Place, is lined with striking houses and cottages. The Sawyers Arms, now a private house, can be spotted on the right.

Caption For Beckenham, Cottage Hospital 1899

The original 1877 Cottage Hospital building survives in Croydon Road as part of Beckenham Hospital.

Caption For Bagshot, The Jolly Farmer Inn 1906

The road is now called the London Road, and most of the cottages in this picture are still there today.

Caption For Hartfield, High Street 1906

This view looks along pretty Hartfield High Street with its tile-hung and half-timbered cottages.

Caption For Broom, The Village 1901

There are a number of 16th- and 17th-century half-timbered cottages in this photograph, but judging by the state of some of them the village was living up to the 'Beggarly Broom' image given to it by

Caption For St Ives, Albany Terrace 1901

These houses, built from cut granite and with substantial bay windows, reflect a more suburban building style compared with the cottages of old St Ives.

Caption For Durham, Prebend's Cottage 1914

This quaint little cottage still nestles on the roadside leading from Prebends Bridge.

Caption For Bishop's Stortford, North Street 1899

Windhill 1903 With the tombs and churchyard of St Michael's on the right, the 16th-century Boar's Head Inn and its neighbouring cottages lean over the pavement at the top of Windhill as it drops

Caption For Gulval, The Village And Church C1900

Thatched cottage roofs are unusual in Cornwall, particularly this far west, and this one has seen several repairs. The 16th-century granite church tower is behind.

Caption For Saltburn By The Sea, Looking West 1927

interesting view showing the sharp contrast between the original or 'old' Saltburn and the 'new' or Victorian Saltburn which was built upon the west cliff opposite the original cluster of cottages