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A Holiday Of Note

I can't pinpoint the year exactly, but it was definitely a year or two before 1953 which was the year I left the UK. I and three friends, student nurses at a hospital in Essex, decided on a holiday in Scotland. We chose Dollarbeg ...Read more

A memory of Dollar in 1951 by Thelma Hurly

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

Kingsley Pond By The Church

In the long hot summer, and drought, of 1976 I remember being able to walk across the pond floor. It was just a mass of dried, cracked earth. That summer was so, so hot

A memory of Kingsley by D Toovey

Rothamsted

Much of the Farm Management Course I studied in Devon in the early 1970s was based on work done at Rothamsted. I felt very lucky to land a job here in 1975 and gradually to meet and even work with the authors of text books I had studied. ...Read more

A memory of Harpenden by Huw Jones

Those Were The Days.

i am the Tony Williams that used to live in Hatherop road, Infant, Junior, Senior Schools Hampton. i moved to Bristol in 1953, i now live in Frome Somerset. I had lots of good happy memories of Hampton especially going fishing ...Read more

A memory of Hampton by Anthony Williams

Happy Days

I, Allen Rix, was born and grew up in Jersey Marine from 1933 to 1951 when I left to join the RAF. Living through World War 2 was hard for a lot of people but for us it was a gat time, even though we had to endure the bombing of ...Read more

A memory of Jersey Marine by Allen Rix

From The Pews Of The Church In Kilinian To Pioneers In Colonial Australia. The Patterson Clan.

The Church at Kilinian during the 18th and 19th century, if not earlier, was a Celtic Presbyterian Church where my ancestors, the Patterson and McClean ...Read more

A memory of Kilninian by Ian Patterson

Sugar Bowl Carefree Time Of My Life.

I learnt to swim in the pool at the Sugar Bowl. My dad worked here as a part time gardener/odd job man.There was a Spanish chef working here in the late 50s who showed me how to pick up a Lobster properly he was ...Read more

A memory of Burgh Heath by Janice Chapple

America Woods

I lived in the house called Abbotsford in about 1934 which to this day, stands by the side of the America Woods. Once a year, the scouts would camp in the field at the back of the house. I spent many happy times playing in those ...Read more

A memory of Shanklin by Claire Spencer

A Claim To Fame!

My paternal grandparents, by the name of Goodliffe, lived in a house called The Robins, on Old House Road, Balsham. (Both of which are still there, although the house has been extended somewhat and modernised. Mind you, it ...Read more

A memory of Balsham in 1962 by Brian Goodliffe

Captions

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Caption For Dublin, Leinster House 1897

Leinster House, flanked by the National Library and National Museum. Home of the Irish Parliament since 1922, the building was designed by Richard Cassels in 1745 for the Duke of Leinster.

Caption For Haverfordwest, St Mary's Church 1950

By the time this photograph was taken, the building to the left of the picture had been painted and deprived of its bay window.

Caption For Launceston, Square And War Memorial C1922

The premises of W V Dunn's East Cornwall Grocery Stores (left) are now occupied by the Paxman Pharmacy, but the spot is still known as Dunn's Corner.

Caption For Cheltenham, The Centre C1960

By the 1960s, chain stores had become established, even in fashionable Cheltenham. Happily, many individual shops of fine character selling a wide variety of goods have survived.

Caption For Dublin, Viceregal Lodge 1897

The Phoenix Park Murders, the murder by the 'Invincibles' of the Chief Secretary, Lord Frederick Cavendish, and the Under-Secretary, Thomas Burke, took place near here in broad daylight in May 1882.

Caption For Killarney, Macgillycuddy's Reeks 1897

A rowing boat is drawn up in the foreground, and a group of people linger by the edge of the lake.

Caption For Southport, Lord Street 1913

They could be hired by the hour from the likes of John White in Shakespeare Street, or from the hydropathic establishments.

Caption For Hitchin, St Mary's Church 1949

By the mid 1950s, Halsey's had taken over all the premises in the row, with the exception of a jewellers, James Walker. The billboard that was above the shop has been removed.

Caption For Thebes, The Court Of Shishak C1857

‘They [the fairs] were frequented by the younger members of the town. Early in the afternoon of Easter Monday, the road was thronged with groups making their way to the Punchbowl Fair’.

Caption For St Ives, Old River 1914

Although the railways were well established by the start of the First World War, barges such as these still did plenty of trade carrying grain and other goods along the Fenland waterways.

Caption For Bracknell, High Street 1901

Some time during the second half of the 19th century, Bracknell became a town, helped by the coming of the railway in 1856 and the development of market gardening and brick-making.

Caption For Plympton, The Town Hall 1890

This view remains almost unchanged, save that the horse and cart have been replaced by the motor car. The arched walk under the Town Hall is known as the Butterwalk.

Caption For Lakeside, From Fell Foot 1914

Here the 'camp' title is well justified by the neatly erected tents, with two people folding ground sheets (left).

Caption For Hitchin, The Waterfall 1901

There are at least three children peering from the bushes by the water.

Caption For Bristol, Park Street 1900

This is Park Street in the days before the top end was dominated by the Gothic tower of the university, designed by Sir George Oatley.

Caption For Old Sarum, The Castle Ruins C1965

Old Sarum was one of a number of ancient sites refortified by the Normans; others included Thetford (Norfolk), Rochester (Kent) and Carisbrooke (Isle of Wight).

Caption For Rothesay, Ardbeg 1904

On the western shore stands the regency style house built in 1827 by the actor Edmund Kean.

Caption For Leeds, Roundhay Park And Mansion 1897

Roundhay Park was purchased by the council in 1872. It comprised 775 acres, including woodlands, lakes and a manor house, part of which was turned into refreshment rooms.

Caption For Porthgwarra, The Cove And Caves 1908

There is just room to draw up a few boats at this remote fishing cove down by the granite cliffs of Gwennap Head at the south-west corner of the Land's End peninsula.

Caption For Rothley, Milking Time C1955

Plodding cows head for the milking parlour, guided by the farmer on his wobbly upright bicycle.

Caption For Reading, Caversham Lock 1912

The merging of the village into the borough of Reading was strongly resisted by the residents of Caversham.

Caption For Hemel Hempstead, The Canal, Boxmoor 2005

In 1797 a committee of seven was appointed by the trustees to negotiate with the proprietors of the newly formed Grand Junction Canal Company who required land for the extension of their canal.

Caption For Fleetwood, Lower Promenade 1898

The lower promenade, with the North Euston Hotel, owned by the London & North Western Railway, in the background. Also featured is the landing-stage for the ferry to Knott End-on-Sea.

Caption For Sutton, The Village And Church C1955

Sutton's church was started in 1366 by Bishop Barnett of Ely, and the octagon - in fact, two octagons, one on top of the other - was doubtless inspired by the octagon adorning Ely Cathedral.