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Memories

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Rescue Of 5 Small Children From A Bombed Flat

I have traced a newspaper report telling of the rescue of myself and my four siblings when houses in Ryefield Avenue, Hillingdon were bombed in 1943. The report tells of one of the rescuers being a ...Read more

A memory of Hillingdon in 1943

My Great Great Grandparents

My great-great-grandfather George (or could be James) Jackson lived in Star Lane Cottages. Apparently the Jacksons had been Hooley people for many years. He kept sheep for a butcher on Farthing Down, Croydon - I can ...Read more

A memory of Hooley in 1890 by Jean St Clair Nee Jackson

Langstone Memories

I grew up in Langstone, living at 'Longleat' on Catsash Road from 1961-1973. I attended Langstone Primary School from 1964-1969 and then Caerleon Comprehensive from 1969-1973. 'Longleat' was one of the four ...Read more

A memory of Langstone in 1961 by Michael Davies

Childwickbury Pub

I remember regularly walking from St.Albans via Batchwood and through Childwickbury on Sundays and stopping with my parents for a drink of lemonade and a packet of biscuits at this public house. This would have been during ...Read more

A memory of Childwick Bury in 1940 by Rosemary Jones

The Old Days

Hi, I am Linda Atkinson, nee Halford, I was brought up on the Gypsy Lane estate, attending Woodhouse Junior school and remember the carnivals/parades held on the village green. My best friends were Nancy and Maria Churms, and ...Read more

A memory of Normanton by Linda Atkinson

Brentford Memories From Grandparents Stories..

I was born and bred in Brentford and can remember it well from the 1970's onwards. Both of my grandparents and their families were also old Brentonians all of their lives. I have many stories from my ...Read more

A memory of Brentford in 1950

School And War

I was born in Jan 1936 in Witham, where my father's family had settled in the 1790's. When I was two my parents moved into one of the new council houses at the north end of Church Street, so I went to Chipping Hill Infants School. I ...Read more

A memory of Witham in 1940 by David Woodwards

Crambe In The Early 50,S

My fathers side of the family (Wood) lived at Low Moor Crambe according to the Census, which is where I presume I spent a couple of holidays in the early 50' probably 52 or 53 just after my Grandfather died and before my ...Read more

A memory of Crambe in 1952 by Keith Wood

Childhood Memories.

I was born at 50 Nancy Road, Grimethorpe on the 12 December 1944. At this time this address was the White City police house and had the West Riding police crest attached to the front of the house. My dad, Robert Cox, had come ...Read more

A memory of Cudworth in 1944 by David Cox

Tiffield Village School

I have many memories of the village school which I visited regularly during my childhood. I was named after Lynda Brown, a very close friend of my parents, who ran the school. She had been headteacher of the school for ...Read more

A memory of Tiffield in 1956 by Lynda Brooks Townsend

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Captions

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Caption For Loose, Village 1898

The shingle spire of All Saints Church rises above the surrounding houses, while halfway up the hill is the Tudor timbered Old Wool House, in which the fleeces of sheep were washed.

Caption For Kings Lynn, The Custom House C1955

The Custom House is a memorial to the importance and value of sea trade to King's Lynn.

Caption For Great Bardfield, High Street 1903

Bardfield has a wealth of old buildings: the house on the left is 15th-century, as is Gobions - the distant white house.

Caption For Thaxted, Clarence House C1960

Clarence House is now one of Essex County Council`s community education centres: it runs such things as residential art courses.

Caption For Abridge, The Village C1960

The Malsters Arms (left), originally a beer-house, is still very much the same, although it has expanded into the cottages to the left.

Caption For Fenstanton, Chequer Street C1955

The Manor House, built in the late 17th century, was the home of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, the great landscape gardener. He was lord of the manor of Fenstanton, and his monument is in the church.

Caption For Wellow, Manor House And High Street C1955

This view looks west along the High Street past the Manor House on the right, a good 17th-century house with a tall gabled three-storey chamber wing.

Caption For Sandilands, Sea Lane C1955

The biggest change is that the shop is now twice as big: it includes the post office, and takes up the whole of the downstairs of the semi-detached house.

Caption For Crichel House, 1904

Crichel House 1904. Princess Charlotte, the only child of the loveless marriage between George IV and Caroline of Brunswick, made Crichel House her home for a time.

Caption For Taunton, Fore Street South C1950

The Market House, seen here on the left, was built in 1772 and has fulfilled a variety of roles since.

Caption For Tring, Pendley Manor C1955

The present Pendley Manor replaced a complex medieval and later house which burnt down in 1835.

Caption For Newton Ferrers, From Noss Mayo 1890

This photograph shows a vastly different prospect from that we can see today: the rows of fields on the opposite shore are gone, and the houses of Newton Ferrers extend two-thirds of the way up the hill

Caption For Castle Bromwich, Hurst Lane C1965

From the late 19th century the agricultural estates of Castle Bromwich were sold off for house building to accommodate overspill.

Caption For Willenhall, Ye Olde Toll House C1965

One of Willenhall's more eccentric buildings, this mock-Tudor, mock-Gothic, former toll house became a restaurant in 1929 and has also been known as the Round House, though it is not really round.

Caption For Alton, From Windmill Hill C1880

The house with its walled garden on the left is Culverton House. Built in about 1827 by Henry Blanckley Rogers, it was described as a 'most delightful residence' when he sold it in 1841.

Caption For Camberley, High Street 1919

The house at the top of this view was that of the Sergeant Major from the Staff College.

Caption For Woodmansterne, Chipstead Valley C1955

Left of centre is the sprawling old house called Stagbury, a late 18th-century house demolished in the 1970s.

Caption For Finchingfield, Sunnyside House C1960

When the photograph was taken, this attractive 17th-century house was the headquarters of Wiffen`s Coaches Ltd: note the cavernous garages at the rear, and the petrol pump (left).

Caption For Hertford, St Andrew's Street 1929

One of the survivors was the Old Verger's House (right), which was restored around 1893; today it holds the showrooms of Beckwith's Antiques.

Caption For Saxtead, The Mill C1955

The brick round house and wooden mill date from 1796, with Victorian alterations. The mill ceased working in 1947, but the machinery is complete and in working order.

Caption For Greatham, The Grove C1955

An example of immediately post-war council housing, this street is now leafy and well-established, and largely in private ownership.

Caption For Ilkley, The White Wells 1923

The well spring and the house date from the early 1700s.

Caption For Whitby, Church Street 1925

On the opposite side we may identify the corner building and the Friends Meeting House; between them is one of the oldest houses in Whitby, certainly Tudor, possibly much older.

Caption For Brympton, The House And Lake 1900

The south façade of the house is built in the 17th-century English Renaissance style, with pedimented bays overlooking a terrace and lawn to a lake below.