Maps

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Langstone Memories

I grew up in Langstone, living at 'Longleat' on Catsash Road from 1961-1973. I attended Langstone Primary School from 1964-1969 and then Caerleon Comprehensive from 1969-1973. 'Longleat' was one of the four ...Read more

A memory of Langstone in 1961 by Michael Davies

Childwickbury Pub

I remember regularly walking from St.Albans via Batchwood and through Childwickbury on Sundays and stopping with my parents for a drink of lemonade and a packet of biscuits at this public house. This would have been during ...Read more

A memory of Childwick Bury in 1940 by Rosemary Jones

The Old Days

Hi, I am Linda Atkinson, nee Halford, I was brought up on the Gypsy Lane estate, attending Woodhouse Junior school and remember the carnivals/parades held on the village green. My best friends were Nancy and Maria Churms, and ...Read more

A memory of Normanton by Linda Atkinson

Brentford Memories From Grandparents Stories..

I was born and bred in Brentford and can remember it well from the 1970's onwards. Both of my grandparents and their families were also old Brentonians all of their lives. I have many stories from my ...Read more

A memory of Brentford in 1950

School And War

I was born in Jan 1936 in Witham, where my father's family had settled in the 1790's. When I was two my parents moved into one of the new council houses at the north end of Church Street, so I went to Chipping Hill Infants School. I ...Read more

A memory of Witham in 1940 by David Woodwards

Crambe In The Early 50,S

My fathers side of the family (Wood) lived at Low Moor Crambe according to the Census, which is where I presume I spent a couple of holidays in the early 50' probably 52 or 53 just after my Grandfather died and before my ...Read more

A memory of Crambe in 1952 by Keith Wood

Childhood Memories.

I was born at 50 Nancy Road, Grimethorpe on the 12 December 1944. At this time this address was the White City police house and had the West Riding police crest attached to the front of the house. My dad, Robert Cox, had come ...Read more

A memory of Cudworth in 1944 by David Cox

Tiffield Village School

I have many memories of the village school which I visited regularly during my childhood. I was named after Lynda Brown, a very close friend of my parents, who ran the school. She had been headteacher of the school for ...Read more

A memory of Tiffield in 1956 by Lynda Brooks Townsend

Osborne Road

My grandparents lived at 52 Osborne Road,( opposite the Griffin Press) I remember spending many a happy weekend there after school finished on Friday when I would travel from Cwmbran by bus which in those days stopped right outside ...Read more

A memory of Pontypool by Ellen Howells

Childhood Memories.

My family and I, 5 sisters and a brother, lived in Nigel road just up from the Washwood Heath Road. I was born in the house in Nigel Road in 1948 so were my siblings. My memory is very vivid of my times there until I left ...Read more

A memory of Washwood Heath in 1963 by Joe Brennan

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Captions

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Caption For Dorking, West Street 1903

Across the narrow street is the mid 18th-century weather-boarded West Street House with its two-storey bow frontage.

Caption For Bramley, Lane End C1955

A hundred years before this picture was taken it would have been less desirable, with the nearest passable road a mile away and the best route from one country house to another across the fields.

Caption For Lockerley, The Green C1955

This picture depicts the spacious village green overlooked by pretty houses and cottages.

Caption For Marton In Cleveland, The Shopping Centre C1965

Many more housing estates have now been built in Marton, and the car park is much busier today.

Caption For Norton, High Street C1965

Some of the local shops look out onto the large pond at the top end of Norton High Street, with the Unicorn public house on the corner just to the right of centre.

Caption For Boscastle, The Wellington Hotel 1906

The Wellington Hotel, still in business today, was one of the last posting houses in the country, with stage coaches running into the 1920s.

Caption For Durham, The Cathedral, North Side C1883

This great space was created by Bishop Flambard at the beginning of the 12th century: he decided to demolish the clutter of wooden houses and the market place because of the potential fire hazard

Caption For Hadleigh, The Guildhall 1922

The central section was the Market House, and dates from c1450. The wing to the left was added as the Guildhall. It was later partly under-built in brick, hence the loss of the jetty.

Caption For Saxmundham, 1929

The house on the left is The Firs, occupied by Miss Cooper. The garage (centre left) belongs to Smith and Wesby, agents for Morris with cars for hire, who are still there today.

Caption For Laxfield, Low Road C1955

The 'Low House' was East Anglian Pub of the Year in 2000.

Caption For Waldringfield, The Club House And Beach C1960

In 1921 the Sailing Club was founded, and the Club House was built in 1932. It was extended several times and rebuilt in 1981. The steps lead up to the Maybush.

Caption For Lyme Regis, From The Sands 1907

The view is north-eastwards along Marine Parade, to Madeira Cottages, Pyne House and the Assembly Rooms, with the cliffs of Cain's Folly in the distance (far right).

Caption For Newbury, The Broadway And Clock Tower C1965

The Flower House on the corner became a bank in more recent years, while Wheelers car showroom on the right was demolished in the early 1970s and replaced by offices.

Caption For Tenbury Wells, St Michael's College C1955

It used to have a famous library of 8,000 books, including the copy of the Messiah used by Handel himself at the first performance; these treasures are now housed in the Bodleian Library in Oxford.

Caption For Warwick, St Mary's Church, Northgate Street 1892

In the chapter house is the tomb of Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke.

Caption For Delabole, Medrose C1949

Just about everything in this view is made of slate: the houses, walls, roofs, steps and gutters beside the lane. The Post Office was moved to the High Street in 1949.

Caption For Epsom, The Post Office 1898

Ormond House, on the corner of the new road, now had its garden view dominated by a huge engine shed, and the price of the house fell accordingly.

Caption For Rudston, Water Lane C1950

This beautiful Elizabethan house is four hundred years old, and is still owned by the descendants of Sir Henry Griffith, who designed and built it.

Caption For Greenhead, Greenhead Hotel C1955

About one mile to the north-west is the bastle house of Low Old Shield, one of many fortified farmhouses built during the days of the Border raids.

Caption For Doncaster, Station Road 1903

Had our man from Frith turned his camera to the left he would have photographed Theobald & Son the basket makers, and what would become to be known as the Red House; outside here, meetings were often held

Caption For Poole, Church Street, Almshouses 1904

The house, first mentioned in 1429, was originally built for the four priests serving the four altars in nearby St James's church.

Caption For Bere Alston, Street 1898

A notable Victorian inhabitant of Bere Alston was Percival Johnson, who lived at Ward House from 1846-55.

Caption For Southend On Sea, Westcliff C1955

Many of the houses along this stretch of the cliff top have decorative balconies overlooking the sea.

Caption For Abergavenny, Monmouth Road 1914

Today this road has far more traffic than a solitary horse and cart. The buildings on the right stand at the junction with Belmont Road, and are now the Belmont Inn.