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The Square

I remember Florrie's chip shop, the chips were 6d a bag and were great. The sweet shop next door was called Timmins, and like you said, Mrs Farnsworth's shop was across the road where the betting shop is now. I used to walk through there to go to church school which is now St Mary's church hall.

A memory of Sandbach in 1963 by Douglas Coppenhall

Ken Dodd

This date is approximate. My mother used to work in the Raven, as a school girl at St Mary's on Town Walls I used to wait for her to finish work. I can remember the place as being very beautiful. Once my mother came home with a ...Read more

A memory of Shrewsbury in 1959 by Janet Highfield

Bursledon, The Hospital

I do not think this ever was a hospital in the usual sense.  I am pretty sure it was a house called Brixedene (Brixedone?) in Blundell Lane, owned and lived in by a family called Thistlethwaite. During the war it was a ...Read more

A memory of Bursledon by Belinda Heathcote

Living In Godstone 54 74

I was born in Godstone in Ivy Mill Close, just the other side of the Green.  I walked to the primary school along the Bay Path.  My Gran lived in St Mary's Almhouses right opposite the school and I would go there for ...Read more

A memory of Godstone by Joy Hearn

Sons Christening At St Giles Church In 1991

My son was christened in this lovely church in 1991. I was married in a lovely old church, St. Marys, when I lived nearby in Northolt and was pleased to find another lovely old church in Ickenham, when ...Read more

A memory of Ickenham in 1991 by Sue Gornall

The Greyhound Pub

this is the Greyhound pub next to st Marys Church. Both my Grandfather's downed many a pint here, my Dad learned how to drink here too. My Mum lived at 53 Sunny Gardens road behind the church and had to go and collect ...Read more

A memory of Hendon by Pete Rogers

Our Pub!

Gidday to all! Having recently travelled  to Penmark to rediscover my family history, I am sure that this is a photo of 'Kenson Cottage',which used to be the 'Rose and Crown' pub .My family(Gabriel) used to own the pub and smithy until ...Read more

A memory of Penmark in 1860 by Chris Gabriel

Childhood

i was born in guildford in 1986 and my parents had just taken over abinger post office and stores this is the house in the middle of the photo with all the ivy (that wasnt there in my time) the window above the shop was my parents ...Read more

A memory of Abinger Hammer in 1986 by Paul Jeacock

The Howard Family At Hammersmith And Barnes

My Great-Great-Grandad, Henry Howard, lived in the early 1800’s - a time of great rural depression - and so he left his Devon home to look for work in London with the result that several generations ...Read more

A memory of Hammersmith in 1860 by John Howard Norfolk

Wading In The Bristol Channel

It is quite possible that the the little boy to the right in this picture is me at age six. My family used to stay at a friend's caravan in the park above the cliffs. During the summers of 1954 through 1958 we ...Read more

A memory of Lavernock in 1955 by Phillip Armour

Captions

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Caption For Chesham, The Broadway 1903

Looking towards Blucher Street the old and admittedly somewhat run down cottages survived until Brandon's store replaced them in the 1930s, a three-storey white painted block at odds with everything

Caption For Stamford, St Mary's Hill From George Hotel C1955

In the era of the stage coach, the George Hotel was classed as the best hotel on the Great North Road, and it is still one of the best in the area.

Caption For Clitheroe, Church 1903

There was a church on this site in 1122.

Caption For Harlow, Old Harlow, Churchgate Street 1903

Before the New Town was even a dream in a developer's eye, a group of children pose for the camera in the quaint little old-world town, with the spire of St Mary the Virgin's church on the left.

Caption For Saffron Walden, War Memorial C1950

It is from the War Memorial that the procession begins to St Mary's Church on Remembrance Sunday.

Caption For Launceston, From St Stephen's Hill 1893

This picture is one of the great views of Cornwall, looking down St Stephen's Hill towards the valley of the River Kensey, with the jumble of houses clinging to the hillside beyond, capped by the castle

Caption For Launceston, From St Stephen's Hill 1893

This picture is one of the great views of Cornwall, looking down St Stephen's Hill towards the valley of the River Kensey, with the jumble of houses clinging to the hillside beyond, capped by the castle

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Caption For Rye, 1894

Like Winchelsea on the other side of the River Brede valley, Rye is a hill town at the end of a ridge between the Tillingham and Rother rivers.

Caption For Cardiff, St Mary Street C1960

The city was and is the capital centre of Wales, and this importance has increased - it is now a modern commercial and administrative centre for the nation.

Caption For Hadleigh, St Mary's Church 1922

St Mary's, one of the largest in Suffolk, is not a typical Suffolk wool church, and has an elegant lead spire.

Caption For Amport, Village 1898

The gardens and cottages of this rural set piece of thatch and village green today are neat and tidy.

Caption For East Farleigh, River Medway 1898

The village sits high above the flood plain of the Medway.

Caption For Kidderminster, The Church And Canal 1931

It was a vital part of the Grand Cross network that linked the rivers Trent, Severn, Thames and Mersey.

Caption For Compton, The Coach And Horses C1950

A secluded village in the middle of the Downs near the Hampshire border, south of Harting.There is a fine Neolithic long barrow on Telegraph Hill, which is 534 feet high.The Norman church of St Mary

Caption For Stamford, St Mary's Hill From George Hotel C1955

In the era of the stage coach, the George Hotel was classed as the best hotel on the Great North Road, and it is still one of the best in the area.

Caption For Woolhampton, Thatched Cottages C1965

These cottages have hardly changed at all in the last four decades.

Caption For Newchurch In Pendle, C1960

This village is at the very heart of so called 'witch country'.

Caption For Cardigan, The Bridge C1965

After several attempts, the Welsh took it in 1165, rebuilt it in stone and held the first Eisteddfod within its walls in 1176.

Caption For Aylesbury, St Mary's Church, The Chancel 1897

This interior view of St Mary's Church looks east into the chancel past the central crossing under the tower.

Caption For Neston, High Street 1939

We are looking south-east along Neston's main shopping street, with the wall of St Mary and St Helen's church on the immediate right.

Caption For Hadleigh, St Mary's Church 1922

St Mary's, one of the largest in Suffolk, is not a typical Suffolk wool church, and has an elegant lead spire.

Caption For Glastonbury, The Abbey, St Joseph's Chapel 1927

The Lady Chapel is also known as St Mary's Chapel, and just to confuse matters further it is popularly known as St Joseph's Chapel - 'Joseph' being Joseph of Arimathea who was said in legend to

Caption For Bridport, St Mary's Rectory 1906

The Rectory in South Street, on the south side of St Mary's Parish Church, was the home of the Rural Dean, Rev Henry Richard William Farrer, who was an honorary canon of Salisbury Cathedral.