Maps

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Books

26 books found. Showing results 889 to 912.

Memories

4,713 memories found. Showing results 371 to 380.

Atkins Charity Football Match At Sidlesham Fc

Driving through Sidlesham , I noticed the village football club had floodlights. My son Steven was looking for a ground for a Charity Football Match, as we were staying at our chalet at Church Farm ...Read more

A memory of Sidlesham by Ray Baker

Wilton Memories

Like Gloria Friend, I spent a happy childhood in Hornchurch, attending Suttons Primary School where my mother (Mrs Wilton) was deputy head and Mr Occomore our headmaster. We were carefully drilled in our tables, phonics and ...Read more

A memory of Hornchurch in 1948 by Elizabeth Housego

Childhood

In the 1960s I lived in Ogilvie Terrace and spent lots of days wandering happy and safe in Deri. I remember the nut wood, picking whinberries, Doreen's shop, the gas pipes where we balanced and luckily did not come to harm, the horse-shoe ...Read more

A memory of Deri in 1960 by Lesley Kavanagh

Netherthong In The First World War Part 3

Private John Henry Hoyle was born in Wilson Square in 1879 and he joined the Royal Welsh Fusiliers (Teacher Battalion) in January 1916. He was reported as missing and his body was found on March ...Read more

A memory of Netherthong by Michael Meitiner

My Memories Of Kirkheaton

Kirkheaton was such a great place to live, I went to infant school at the bottom of Fields Way (I lived on Fields Way till I was 19 years old), I also went to Kirkheaton C of E School and can remember most of the ...Read more

A memory of Kirkheaton in 1956 by Christine Walker

Left And Forgotten

I am now 66 and my memory of beautiful Mile Oak is as clear today as it was 55 years ago. Sadly I was one of them naughty boys (as you villagers branded us). My crime was taking 2/6p off a windowsill back here in Folke stone, ...Read more

A memory of Mile Oak in 1955 by Danny Featherbe

All Saints Church, Little Bookham

This church is called All Saints' Church. It is next to the Manor House School to which I attended in the early 1990s. I was christened at this church and this weekend I will be getting married here. The ...Read more

A memory of Little Bookham by Rebecca Stoneham

Little Wakering

I lived in a cottage close to Little Wakering church until the late 1970s and then several properties in and around the village. I have so many happy memories of a close family, good neighbours and brilliant ...Read more

A memory of Great Wakering by Sue Potter/ Deeks

The Old Post Office

My grandparents, Harold and Phyllis Fenton, ran the village post office in the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and 1960s from their home in the stone house opposite the Horse and Jockey Inn. My three sisters and I, ...Read more

A memory of Waddington in 1960

The Churchyard

I happened upon Salcombe Regis by chance late April and what a magic sight the churchyard was. The huge low-hanging white blossom tree was magnificent and yellow and white daffodils scattered among the old lichen encrusted ...Read more

A memory of Salcombe Regis in 2010 by Jacqueline Deacon

Captions

5,033 captions found. Showing results 889 to 912.

Caption For Saddington, Main Street C1955

This is a small hilltop village about a mile to the south east of expanding Fleckney.

Caption For Rusper, The Village 1909

A small village on minor roads near to the Surrey border.The church of St Mary Magdalene has two historic 14th-century brasses.

Caption For Bilsington, The Village 1909

The Village 1903 Just off the road between Lyminge and Hythe, this jettied timber-frame cottage stands at the approach to the 13th-century church.

Caption For South Cave, West End C1955

Named after the original landowner, Justin de Cave, South Cave is a village of two halves, separated by the castle, built in 1787.

Caption For Pluckley, Church 1901

The 13th-century church of St Nicholas is one of several of its kind presiding over the villages of east Kent.

Caption For Lenham, Faversham Road C1960

Evidence that this village existed in Roman times was unearthed just after the Second World War.

Caption For Hambleton, The Shop, Carr Lane C1955

W J Seddon was a grocer, a newsagent and other things besides, a very useful shop in a rural area, especially as every time a villager went into Poulton, the Shard Bridge toll had to be paid.

Caption For Dinder, High Street C1965

The village stands on the north bank of Doulting Water, also known as the River Sheppey. Thus the name of the village may also derive from the words 'dun', meaning 'a hill', and 'dwr', 'water'.

Caption For Wherwell, Village 1901

It is a highly picturesque village, just a mile or two from the busy A303.

Caption For Moulton, Implement Gate C1955

These gates, with agricultural implements incorporated, are situated at the Holly Lodge on the Boughton Road west of the village.

Caption For Ramsbury, High Street 1906

The old elm tree stands in the village square. It was felled in the 1980s after it became dangerous and replaced with an oak tree in 1986. The Bell Inn is behind the tree.

Caption For Chieveley, The Manor And Church C1965

In a sense, the photograph captures the essence of village England as it was in the 1960s and as it is today.

Caption For Alderley Edge, Ryleys Lane C1955

At the junction of Rileys Lane and the A34 are St Philip`s Parish Church and the Alderley Edge village war memorial.

Caption For Llanasa, The Village C1955

The village was once the seat of the diocesan church of St Asaph (Llanasaph), which dated back to the 13th century.

Caption For Cosby, Croft Road From The Nook C1965

Cosby presents a most unusual configuration for a Leicestershire village, which with care and attention over the years could have been described as picturesque.

Caption For Wateringbury, Manor Farm, Oast Houses C1960

By Victorian times there were orchards, hop gardens and two sizeable breweries in the village.

Caption For Broadwindsor, The Village 1902

This sizeable village nestles in a valley close to two notable landmarks: Lewesdon Hill (894 feet) and Pilsdon Pen, at 909 feet, the highest hill in Dorset.

Caption For Langton, The Post Office C1965

The village's tranquillity even belies its distance of only four miles from Malton. Langton is a centre for the training of racehorses, and has produced many notable winners through the years.

Caption For Sandsend, The Village 1901

This is a village of two halves, each bisected by fast-running streams rushing towards the sea. Sandsend was once a centre for alum mining, and remains can still be observed along the coast.

Caption For Slaidburn, Town End C1955

Slaidburn nestles in a hollow with higher ground around it.As well as the River Hodder at the east of the village, it has Crossdale Brook running through it.

Caption For Chobham, High Street C1955

As we head north-west, we should find Chobham village to be a relief after the rather drear urban townscape of Woking; but the traffic levels in Chobham prevent a true village atmosphere prevailing

Caption For Walberswick, The Green 1933

Walberswick stands at the mouth of the River Blyth just across from the moorings of Southwold, and was once, like so many of these quiet Suffolk coast villages, a thriving port.

Caption For North Wootton, The Post Office 1908

The slot through which villagers poked their letters is at the left hand corner. The village was, of course, much smaller then, with just four sizeable families and a dozen cottages.

Caption For Churchill, The Village And The Church C1960

Just south of Chipping Norton is the handsome church tower of the appropriately-named village of Churchill; the tower is a copy of the tower at Magdalen College, Oxford.