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Memories

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Henrietta Hope Porter

Growing up I had a good friend and neighbour, who I knew as 'Miss Porter'. She inherited her house from her Uncle who (according to her comments to a young boy) used to be a footman to Queen Victoria and was the first owner ...Read more

A memory of Guffogland by Ewan Sinclair

Barbers

I had many a dodgy haircut, and a few good ones, at De Sallas (?) In Darkes Lane. And my father and mother used to love the Embassy Club. My father used to take me wrestling at the Ritz. I saw Mick McManus, Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks, ...Read more

A memory of Potters Bar by Stephen Walker

A School Trip.

I was going to Green Lanes Primary school for about a year before we left England, and a trip to Hatfield house was just one of the many excursions that great school took us on. I remember the little crocheted gloves worn by Elizabeth ...Read more

A memory of Hatfield by Maureen Mobbs

The Family Pub

The King's Head also known as The Low House was in the Felgate family for a number of years. My great grandma and grandad ran this pub along with the blacksmiths. They also brought up 14 children there goodness knows how. My grandma ...Read more

A memory of Laxfield

Hall House

My family and I lived at 1 Hall House from 1976-1989. The house had been derelict for several years before we moved in and my father restored it over 6 months before we were able to move in. I have many great memories of living there, ...Read more

A memory of Loxwood by Sharon Lloyd

The Falls

I spent many happy hours here, and our house was just up the road from here so I didn't have far to go and have great fun.

A memory of Allenheads in 1960 by Brenda Lowery

Ludgershall Road

I can remember running along this road from Tidworth Down Boys School to the Ram pub and back to the school with the PE teacher a Mr Williams shouting at us from his car. This would have been in the late 1960s. I lived in ...Read more

A memory of North Tidworth by Peter Kay

Hubert Terrace

I often wondered who Hubert was. Other road names around were obvious. Bank Street was on a bank; School street had a school at the end of it. But Hubert Terrace? One side of my street was brick and the other was stone; something ...Read more

A memory of Bensham in 1964 by Susan Green

Happy Days At Victoria Garesfield

I remember playing "houses" in the wood with the twins Jean and Betty.  Also great friends with Anne French, Jean Gardener and also Eileen Wolfington who sadly passed away many years ago.  We lived in ...Read more

A memory of Victoria Garesfield by Jessie Taylor

The Stanwell I Remember In The Early 1970s

I moved to Stanwell with my parents in 1959 aged 4. When I was 11 I learnt to ride at Stanwell's pony club run by a lady called Geraldine Richardson who used to keep her ponies at the stables at the ...Read more

A memory of Stanwell in 1970

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Captions

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Caption For Welton, High Street C1955

Beyond is the White Horse, still in business, though the Northampton Brewery, with its NBC Star trademark, has long since passed into history.

Caption For East Runton, High Street 1921

Most of the houses on the left-hand side cater for holidaymakers, and new businesses have opened up to capture their trade. The pub on the left is the White Horse Inn dating from 1851.

Caption For Broughton In Furness, Eccle Riggs Hotel Composite C1955

It remained in use as a private house until about 1959, from when it served as an hotel for about forty years.

Caption For Rhuddlan, The Parliament Building C1940

A plaque tells us that a fragment remains of the house in which Edward I held his parliament and in which the Statute of Rhuddlan was passed in 1284, and in the gable end medieval windows

Caption For Botley, Church Lane C1955

Take a stroll down Church Lane and you can see that the scene on the right of this photograph has not changed at all.The little cottage on the left has been replaced by a redbrick house, and there

Caption For Uttoxeter, Cattle Market C1965

From the 12th century, the rearing of sheep for their wool became a major source of revenue for the monastic houses in the north of England.

Caption For Margate, The Fort 1887

The houses of Fort Crescent, which run across this picture, were built in the 1820s—it was the most fashionable part of Margate at that time.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Broad Street 1930

There is a glimpse of the Great House - visited by the earl of Chatham with 15-year-old William Pitt the Younger - before Star Supply Stores and the Royal Lion Hotel (centre).

Caption For Cardiff, St Mary Street 2004

The 1970s concrete- fronted Golate House opposite the Sandringham Hotel perhaps the only exception.

Caption For Astley Burf, Astley Mill C1955

Today, Worcestershire County Museum is housed in the north wing.

Caption For Coxwold, The Village C1955

He gave the title of the book to his house, Shandy Hall, on the western edge of the village. Halfway down the village street on the left we can see the white-painted Fauconberg Arms.

Caption For Neath, The Abbey 1893

It was originally intended for Sauvignac monks, but by 1147 it had become a Cistercian house.

Caption For Astwood Bank, Evesham Road C1965

The house with the timbered gable stands just north of an ancient junction where Evesham Road (the prehistoric Ridgeway) meets Feckenham Road and Sambourne Lane.

Caption For Gilling West, Village 1913

The village shop and post office in the distance beyond the children still functions, but the shop-like Gilling Club (to the left of the woman in the middle of the road) has become a house

Caption For Richmond, Market Place C1965

The roofs behind, parallel to the High Row of the Market Place, are houses in Waterloo Street, demolished in 1963.

Caption For Richmond, Market Place C1965

The hotel bedrooms extend over Woolworth's next door, Richmond's first chain store; it arrived c1935 and moved in 1980 to Bailey House, visible at the bottom of the Market Place.

Caption For Rochester, High Street C1955

Among the many old buildings in this stretch of the High Street is the Tudor brick Eastgate House, seen on the right, and now the Charles Dickens Centre.

Caption For Haverhill, High Street C1965

Stanwoods (centre right) is the former Chantry House of the Gurteen family, great employers and benefactors in the town. The 1950s Boots (left) is on the site of the Anchor Temperance Coffee Tavern.

Caption For Bishop Auckland, Castle Gateway 1898

The town of Bishop Auckland grew around the castle and the extensive bishops' deer park with its 18th-century deer house.

Caption For Cambridge, River Cam C1965

The quayside on the right was developed in 1985 for residential housing with shops and a wine bar.

Caption For Rothley, The Temple C1955

The triple gables of the early 17th-century house form the centrepiece, with flanking wings. John Ely, a Manchester architect, added the Tudoresque bay window to the right in 1894.

Caption For Wisbech, The Canal C1955

The houses were swept away during the series of 'slum' clearances that began in the 1930s.

Caption For Wisbech, Cornhill And Town Hall C1955

The upper front storey of the Corn Exchange houses the Town Council's chamber and offices.

Caption For Kettering, The Roman Catholic Church C1965

The houses on the right, examples of the late Victorian baronial style, are an interesting contrast. It is thought that their stone came from buildings in Gold Street which were demolished in 1887.