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Memories

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Summer Holidays At Tyn Y Morfa

In the early 60s we used to travel to Talacre for a fortnight holiday in a caravan. One year my parents didn't pre-book but we travelled from Liverpool on the off chance we would find a place. I remember my father ...Read more

A memory of Tyn-y-Morfa by Nancy Bell

18 Two Meadows

As a Londoner, when my new husband was offered a job in Great Yarmouth in 1964, I was excited, although a bit apprehensive about moving to the small village of Hemsby. We bought a brand new house in a new subdivision at Two Meadows. It ...Read more

A memory of Hemsby by Carol Watts

1970s To Present Memories

I have many happy childhood memories of this lovely place - we had a caravan around the corner in Lligwy Bay (nr Benllech) for over 10 years and this was one of the best beaches around.  I remember walking from ...Read more

A memory of Red Wharf Bay in 1975 by Gabrielle O Sullivan

Growing Up

My father came back from war in 1946 I was born in 1948 in Salisbury my father rented a flint cottage in the middle of the woods at Beach’s barn (they were demolished many years ago ) my father was born in Everleigh the family were ...Read more

A memory of Beach's Barn by Ronald Ayres

Happy Days

I remember happy childhood holidays at Talacre. We would stay in a wooden chalet belonging to a friend of my Dad's. He would pick us up in his Ford Anglia, my dad would sit in the front. Then Mum, my sister Annette and myself would sit in ...Read more

A memory of Talacre by a.penty

War Time Evacuees

in 1944 we were taken to St Agnes, me, my two sisters and my mum. I was only 5 years old. They put us in the hotel Driftwood Spars, St Agnes. I went to school there, I can't remember the name of it. My mum worked in the pub in ...Read more

A memory of St Agnes by Marie Sparkes

Happy Days

In 1959 I became a pupil at St Michaels School (The Old Vicarage Residential Home) where I stayed for 3 happy years, until I was told it closed after the head disappeared with the school funds. Whether or not this is true I don’t ...Read more

A memory of Stockland Bristol by Chris Sheridan

Tywyn Capel / Trearddur Bay

This is a view across Trearddur Bay, looking south - the beach is known in Welsh as Tywyn Capel. The house behind the beach is Glan-y-Môr built in 1889 and next to it is the Dune Mound which was the location of St.Ffraid’s ...Read more

A memory of Holyhead

Family Connections.

This is my grandfather standing in his whelk house looking at the boats as they unload. He died after a motor car accident on Beach Road in 1934.

A memory of Wells-Next-The-Sea by Claire Allen

Beacholme Camp

I remember vaguely seeing trolley buses and motor buses which were converted into living accomodation, even a tram car with the upstairs windows painted out,that would have been the sleeping quarters I would imagine, and at the ...Read more

A memory of Humberston in 1949 by Brian Nolan

Captions

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Caption For Netherbury, And Lewesdon 1902

We are looking north-westwards from above Lower Yondover Farm to the 1839-built Congregational chapel (centre left) at the crossroads near Laurel Farm.

Caption For Holybourne, The London Road C1960

Pictured here is the junction of London Road (the A31) and Church Lane.

Caption For Poole, High Street, Beech Hurst 1904

Beech Hurst was built in 1798 for ship's master Samuel Rolles, who was involved in Poole's trade with Newfoundland.

Caption For Goring, Village 1899

Goring is a riverside village lying between the beech-clad hills of the Chilterns and the windswept slopes of the Berkshire Downs.

Caption For Boston, Witham Bank And Boston Stump C1955

The bridge, built in 1848, carried the Great Northern Railway main line from Grimsby to London King's Cross (via Peterborough), but since the Beeching cuts it now only carries the Skegness to Nottingham

Caption For Edgehill, Walk In Beech Woods 1922

Today, Knowle End Wood, Edge Hill Wood, Castle Wood and Edgehill Covert grace the top of the escarpment, forming a continuous band of woodland nearly two miles long.

Caption For Edgehill, The Obelisk 1922

Today, Knowle End Wood, Edge Hill Wood, Castle Wood and Edgehill Covert grace the top of the escarpment, forming a continuous band of woodland nearly two miles long.

Caption For Water End, The Village C1955

Close to the village of Nettleden is one of the most beautiful places in the county.

Caption For Wembdon, Church 1906

The western suburbs of Bridgwater grew in the late 19th century to incorporate the village of Wembdon, whose church was at the far east end of the village.

Caption For Clydach, The Wells 1893

Clydach Gorge, once populated by forges, is well-known for its stands of beech trees which somehow survived the ravages of the charcoal-burners of the time.

Caption For Washington, The Post Office C1960

Washington is on the main London to Worthing Road at the foot of the Downs.There are fine views of Chanctonbury Ring, a ring of beech trees planted on the site of an Iron Age hill fort 800 feet up

Caption For Farley Green, The Village C1955

Farley Green is situated towards the south end of Albury parish, and its fields are carved out of the surrounding greensand woods.

Caption For Selborne, The Village Centre 1928

This picture was taken from the entrance to the church.

Caption For Little Missenden, The White Cottage C1955

On the lane south from the crossroads the last two houses on the left are timber-framed, the White Cottage on the left with original framing in the side elevation and fake to the front.

Caption For Guildford, Park Street 1911

Three young boys in the distinctive uniform of Christ's Hospital school at Horsham, accompanied by a lady, pass by the 16th- and 17th-century cottages which stood at the beginning of Farnham Road.

Caption For Willaston, The Green C1950

The Green has always been a focus for village life, and has several fine old buildings surrounding it.

Caption For Whitchurch, High Street C1955

At the south end of the High Street Frith's photographer looks northwards beside the turning on the right into Hawleys Lane.

Caption For Nannerch, Celtic Crafts C1965

As the motor car became the prime mode of transport after the war, every small village and town sought to capitalize on the additional, but highly seasonal, trade it brought.

Caption For Redbourn, The Memorial And Village C1955

The trees ... are very fine: oak, ashes and beeches; some of the finest of each sort.

Caption For Ruswarp, The Bridge C1881

Old documents relating to Whitby refer to the western part of the town as Ruswarp, though the village itself lies about a mile from the town.

Caption For Camberley, Staff College 1907

Standing further back from the College, we can see part of the grounds in front of the building.

Caption For Washington, The Post Office C1960

Washington is on the main London to Worthing Road at the foot of the Downs.

Caption For Louth, Eastgate C1955

This street scene has not changed very much except for the names of the occupants.

Caption For Edwinstowe, The Dukeries Hotel C1955

Downhill to the south and across the River Maun, the High Street continues uphill to pass The Dukeries Hotel, now for some reason called Ma Hubbard's Eating House and Hotel.