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Barton On Sea New Milton Hants Dorset

My parents moved from Bournemouth to Barton-on-Sea around 1947, and purchased a business at 18 Whitefield Road, New Milton, and a home at 24 Barton Court Avenue which was our childhood home for ten years ...Read more

A memory of Barton on Sea in 1947 by Edward Williams

2 Solent Drive Walkford

My parents Evelyn and Tom Williams leased this home from the owners (Clarks) from 1959-1961 - it was a big house surrounded by high laurel hedges with a walnut tree in the back garden.

A memory of Walkford by Edward Williams

Recollections Of A Fishmonger

My first sight of South Harrow was when my dad ran a fish stall in the railway market in South Harrow, he worked there for about 10 to 12 years after which he bought a shop of his own in Alexandra Avenue. Coming ...Read more

A memory of South Harrow in 1950

The Roundway I Remember

In 1954 Roundway was the site of the Royal Army Pay Corps Training Centre. Nothing now remains of this except a plaque erected by the local council to commemorate the fact that thousands of young men conscripted for ...Read more

A memory of Roundway in 1954 by John Pettitt

My Time Here

I know my memory wasn't long ago but I love the fact that this school is still standing. I went there in 1998 and left in 2002. I was in the Angles House and we won every music interhouse competition going. I miss my time there soooo ...Read more

A memory of Redditch in 1998 by Nick Opie

Old Hatfield

I was employed as an electrician, by a company known as J.Hodge and spent 18 months in Hatfield House re-wiring the East Wing. I knew Old Hatfield intimately as I lived in Hatfield for 20 years. When I went back there in 1995 I was ...Read more

A memory of Hatfield in 1947 by Cyril Askew

Growing Up In The 1980s

I was raised on a lovely estate called Thomas Moore estate, it was all new and I always went wandering all around Finchley from Avenue House to Victoria Park in Finchley central to going to school in Friern Barnet. I ...Read more

A memory of East Finchley in 1983 by Karl Paine

The New Family

My family moved to no 2 Erme Park in 1967 when I was 3. These were of course the new houses. I remember Mr Burrows (father of Cedric/Zedrick) asking me in about 1973 if I was from the new houses. I of course said no as we'd been ...Read more

A memory of Ermington in 1967 by Ian Chadwick

The Horse Racing Years

My father purchased Waygateshaw House, the Gatehouse, and 27 acres from Mr Campbell in 1989 for an equestrian pursuit, namely training racehorses. We were called Silverbell Racing. We had many visitors from the racing ...Read more

A memory of Crossford in 1989 by Catherine Ratter Scott

An Evacuee In 1940

I remember my first home in Westbury Leigh was with a family called Rowe, they seemed fairly old people to me (then a ten year old boy) but now I am eighty I don't suppose they were. One of the brothers, a Charles Rowe, ...Read more

A memory of Westbury Leigh by Robin Porter

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Captions

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Caption For Avebury, The Stones C1955

The massive circle of stones virtually encompasses the village; here, we can see the Red Lion pub (the white gabled building), the chapel on the right, and domestic thatched housing all inside a stone

Caption For London, Mansion House And Cheapside 1890

Mansion House, the lavish building on the left, has been the official residence of the Lord Mayor for two centuries. It was built by George Dance on the site of the old stocks market.

Caption For Skegness, The Park 1904

The intervening space up to Roman Bank was taken up by horse pastures and allotments.

Caption For Skegness, Grand Parade And Clock Tower 1910

The Osbert House Hotel is on the left of the tower, and on the right is the Callow Park Hotel, afterwards called the Jolly Fisherman.

Caption For Glasgow, George Square 1897

It contained the magnificent municipal buildings completed in 1888 at a cost of £540,000—the Post Office, the Bank of Scotland, the Merchant's House and several hotels.

Caption For Overstone, The Swimming Pool C1955

Along the Sywell Road, from the 1950s on, closes of expensive houses were built within the park boundary, retaining many of the specimen trees.

Caption For Raglan, Castle Street 1914

Note the refreshment rooms (now a house) on the right, and the boy in shorts in the centre of the photograph.

Caption For Weymouth, Beach Show 1899

The esplanade extends for about a mile, and is lined with elegant houses and defended by a substantial sea-wall.

Caption For Petersfield, The Spain C1965

The manner in which animals were slaughtered, and housed whilst at market, brought forward demands from the government for cleaner market surfaces and the limewashing of all carts coming into and

Caption For Pentewan, The Harbour 1912

Accommodation housing and cargo hatches vie with moorings and furled sails to provide a largely uncluttered area for safe working.

Caption For Wendover, From The North East 1901

The foreground field is now housing, Honey Banks and Hampden Road, with Bank Farm in the dip below. Beyond is the clocktower at the centre of the town.

Caption For Dunstable, Queensway Hall C1965

More civic architecture here in the shape of Queensway Hall in Court Drive; in line for this era of betterment, the Hall is housing an improvement grant exhibition.

Caption For Bradpole, The Village 1902

It was dissolved as an alien house in 1411, and none of the original premises survived.

Caption For Freshwater, Village 1923

Years later, when she was monarch herself, she bought Osborne House not far away.

Caption For Walmer, Strand And Promenade 1924

Peace reigns along the seafront, where E Atkins, a house decorator, has his premises on the left with Mercer & Son, boot makers and repairers, next door.

Caption For Salthouse, The Creek C1955

The ducks on this creek are well fed by motorists who stop to feed them from the coast road which runs in front of Bob Cooke's house (left), where he sold fresh bait and samphire, known as 'the poor man's

Caption For Redhill, Market Hall 1899

With the east and west wings added in 1891 and 1903, the building housed a post office, the county court and the headquarters of various societies, with the market in fields behind.

Caption For Wherwell, Village 1901

For some reason the line became known as 'The Nile;' it was particularly appreciated by Queen Victoria, who requested that royal trains use this route when she travelled to Osborne House on the Isle of

Caption For Alresford, West Street And Avenue 1951

As a result, very few houses seen in the town today were built before the 17th century.

Caption For Dinas Cross, Cwm Yr Eglwys C1960

It has been very popular as a holiday retreat, and indeed nowadays most of these houses are holiday homes. All who have come gaze at the remaining gable of the small ruined church of St Brynach.

Caption For Cheam, Burdon Lane 1925

These splendid trees had already overseen the widespread development of substantial suburban houses south of the village and the station which had begun in the years following the First World War.

Caption For Cheam, Nonsuch Park Lodge 1925

This eastern entrance eventually came to be known as Bellgate, since the Bell public house stands further up the hill to the right.

Caption For Cheam, Nonsuch Park, Bellgate Entrance 1925

He and his large family had occupied Cheam Park House in the Victorian era.

Caption For Brent Eleigh, The Street C1960

Beyond Cundys Lane is High Bank, a medieval hall-house; then comes the thatched 17th-century Tudor Cottage and the former post office.