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Memories

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Phil Munton

Hi - I have just discovered this site and was interested by memories of Selsdon - particularly from Jaqueline Cook remembering Littleheath Woods! I spent the first eighteen years of my life living in Ingham Road -the other side of the ...Read more

A memory of Selsdon by philmunton48

Childhood In Elmsleigh Road

I lived at number 42 Elmsleigh Road from 1947 until about 1963.My pals and I played in the street in safety as there were few cars. We played "tin can tommy" and "cannon" otherwise we were on Wandsworth Common climbing ...Read more

A memory of Wandsworth by notreavenir

Another Place In Time

My family lived in Ellesmere Port since 1892 - or even earlier. I know this as when I was young my great great grandma was still alive. Don't know if anyone remembers author AVE. I used to live at no 28 - it was an old ...Read more

A memory of Ellesmere Port by mariacrouch777star

Margaret Beavan

My late wife Sandra stayed at the home, with her sister Carol, for 6 weeks in the summer of 1957. Sandra was just turned 11 and Carol 9 and a half. About 20 years ago Sandra and I went back to Heswall and, as others have commented, ...Read more

A memory of Heswall by Bill Watson

Rosewood Avenue

Hi all I moved to Elm Park in 1950 and moved into a newly constructed house at 75 rosewood avenue. My dad Bert worked at Ford Dagenham, my mum Doreen was a dinner lady at my school Ayloff. It has only recently become evident that my ...Read more

A memory of Elm Park by Eric Bausor

Mallinder Family

My father Frank Mallinder was born in the family home on the 1/02/1915 at 45 Queen street Eckington. His father was Willliam born 1876 Wath upon Dearne his mother was Harriet born 1881 Mossborough. There where 9 children and 2 ...Read more

A memory of Eckington by Stuart Mallinder

Life Without Love

I’m Don Spencer. I entered homeleigh orphanage in 1954 at the age of 7. After a period in reception, I was transferred to home 10, a house for boys, run by miss Shaw as our mother. A ginger haired bad tempered woman, who took ...Read more

A memory of Horncastle by Donald Spencer

Much Loved Memories.

I have such good memories of Much Hadham. My grandparents, Mr & Mrs Morris lived in a lordship cottages just outside of Much Hadham village - the house went with my grandfather's job which was a gardener for Doctor & ...Read more

A memory of Much Hadham by Rosemary Withers

The Old Thatch

Ah, The Old Thatch. I remember it well, for this is where I grew up from the early 1940s until 1956. By today's standards it was grim: no heating, no running water, no flush loo - nothing. Yet it was a wonderful place in which ...Read more

A memory of Nether Wallop in 1940 by Brian Rivas

Oakhanger , Hampshire Names Of Areas Of Land

The Roughs- behind Oak Farm on the Bordon to Oakhanger Road Cranes - land around Oak Farm - named, it’s believed, as a family called Cranes worked/owned the land Monkey Island - an area of land ...Read more

A memory of Oakhanger by D Toovey

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Captions

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Caption For Pontefract, Market Place C1965

Development along the market place grew in medieval times when wealthy merchants invested in some very grand houses.

Caption For Warminster, Vicarage Street C1955

At the top of the bend is the pedimented Wren House, described in the Department of the Environment's list as 'an extremely good example of an early Georgian 5-bay house circa 1720 or 1730'.

Caption For Salisbury, St Ann's Gate C1950

One of the houses on the left, known as Fielding House and now part of a school, is associated with the novelist Henry Fielding, whose wife Charlotte lived here in the 1730s.

Caption For Wicken, The Pond C1955

The old thatched house on the left was replaced in 1959 by a modern house. Nearby is Wicken Fen, a major wetland conservation area covering 330 acres owned by the National Trust.

Caption For Wadhurst, Lower High Street 1903

A horse and cart wait patiently opposite the neatly-fenced houses. Various styles of chimney stacks and a fine finial at the apex of the gabled house set off this peaceful scene.

Caption For Kersey, The Ford And Church C1955

On the left, Bridge House has a shop window from a former sweet shop. Across the bridge, Ye Olde River House is dated 1490.

Caption For Peasenhall, The View From The Church Tower C1960

The house to the left is a former 16th-century farmhouse, now divided into three dwellings.

Caption For Chipstead, The Pond C1960

The cottages originally formed part of an estate comprising the large house of Elmore and its lodge house. The original Elmore was demolished c1925 by Alexander Dods.

Caption For Chipstead, The Cottage C1960

A wealth of timbers, tiles, gables, chimney-stacks and a thatched gateway make another attractive High Road house north of Ruffetts Cottages. It is now obscured by trees and hedges.

Caption For Bush Hill, Elmscott Gardens C1955

Look at the everyday houses which not long ago were taken for granted, and even ridiculed as semi-detached suburbia.

Caption For Braintree, Courtauld Road 1923

Houses started to be built on the right-hand side of the road from the turn of the 20th century, and provided housing for the up-and-coming professional and business people.

Caption For South Luffenham, The Boot And Shoe C1955

The house, probably of the 18th century, with its mix of thatch and stone slates, fine gate piers, and a less substantial gate, masks the Boot and Shoe.

Caption For Great Haywood, Trent Lane C1955

They were built in 1806 to re-house workers from the Shugborough estate and thereby ensure privacy for the Hall's residents.

Caption For Plaxtol, Village 1901

The village has a wealth of old houses, including a row of Kentish weatherboard cottages flanking the side of the parish church.

Caption For Bildeston, Aerial View C1965

To the centre left is Squirrell's seed and corn merchants, now a housing development.

Caption For Camberley, Barossa, Old Dean Common 1931

It still looks the same today, although some of it has been used to build the extra houses which are needed to house the ever- increasing number of people who wish to reside in the area.

Caption For Rochdale, The Walk C1910

This was described as an ancient common way in 1702, when it led to Lower Yates, New House and orchards or walks.

Caption For St Austell, 1890

Housing has not yet developed out into the fields where tall elm trees break up the line of the hedgerow on the right.

Caption For Knutsford, The Coffee House C1955

The photograph shows the former King's Coffee House. Originally built by Richard Harding Watt in 1907 to house Knutsford's Urban District Council, it is now home to a restaurant.

Caption For Stroud, Town Hall 1925

The Town Hall, or the Market House as it was formerly known, is first recorded in 1594.

Caption For Old Harlow, Churchgate Street C1965

The beautiful timber-framed house, beside the lych-gate leading into the church of St Mary the Virgin, has an inscription over the door dated 1630.

Caption For Palmers Green, Broomfield House, Broomfield Lane C1960

The tulips bloom in beautiful profusion, and the house is reflected in the almost glassy stillness of the pond.

Caption For Burgh Heath, The Parade C1960

The old house at the end of the parade housing Holmes & Co butcher`s (established 1824) was demolished for road widening.

Caption For Cheddar, The Thomas Family Outside Their Cottage 1908

The Village 1908 Of the houses and cottages in this view, only the slate- roofed row with the chimney smoke survives.