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2 Years In The Village

Sometime around 1956, for about two years, two of us shared a cottage in Iford village (one of the first two as you came off the main road from Lewes). We worked for Mr Robinson milking his Guernsey herd and doing ...Read more

A memory of Iford in 1956 by Kay Mullin

Childhood

Me and my sister used to go and stay in the school holidays with our great nanna, Mrs Hilda Pocklington, in her cottage at Walsbey Road, we used to love our time there. The tennis courts were out the back, and we often used to sit ...Read more

A memory of Market Rasen by Yvonne Haagensen

Ginger

We arrived in Wendens Ambo around this year, and took residence in a little cottage in the grounds of a big house. Opposite was a pond in which moorhens spent peaceful days. Next to the pond was a field - I think it is a play area and ...Read more

A memory of Wendens Ambo in 1953 by Pat Weedon

Little Waltham

I used to live in Little Waltham when I was eight until 19. We lived in a thatched cottage without electric, and no central heating, only an open fire and kitchen range. The windows used have patterns on them in the winter. In ...Read more

A memory of Little Waltham in 1954 by Pat Kings

Number 1 Kersemill Cottages

I started being accident prone at an early age it seems. My parents lived at the above cottages with me and my big sister. My dad was a meal miller and worked at the meal mill just up the the road to the right I think, ...Read more

A memory of Kersemill in 1956 by Val Litten

Grove Cottage Now

My husband Gerald and I moved into 1 Grove Cottage 6 years ago. We love living in a house so full of history and often try to imagine what it would have been like during the hundreds of years people have lived here. It's ...Read more

A memory of Great Bookham in 2009 by Anona Coates

My Holidays In Llandanwg

I was visiting Llandanwg from 1958 until 1965. We used to stay in Dorwyn, which then was a green shed bungalow owned by Mrs Pearce, she used to work with my father and we used to go down sometimes twice a year. We used to ...Read more

A memory of Llandanwg

This Is How The Lock Looked Like When My Family Lived In Lock Cottage 1950 1961

This is where I spent my life from 2 years old till I was 13 years old. Fishing, rowing boats, paddling canoes and riding Kitty the horse in the field behind our cottage ...Read more

A memory of Harlow in 1950 by Eddie Tait

Bookham Cottage

Correction to this original post - Jennifer Hudson's memory has corrected my original post about this photo. The road shown is actually Crabtree Lane. Just on the right is a footpath through to the Dorking Road at the far end ...Read more

A memory of Great Bookham by Paula Clements

Now

Do you see the thatch cottage by the bridge? My son and daughter-in-law and our grandchildren now live there, since 2002. It is such a lovely place to bring up children I would love to hear from anyone who could let us know any history to their house.

A memory of Nether Wallop in 2002 by Josephine Green

Captions

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Caption For Aylesbury, Walton Pond C1950

Opposite is a good Georgian brick house with smaller cottages to its left.

Caption For Northleach, Church Farm Cottages C1955

Before agriculture became mechanised, large numbers of people were employed on the land; in Gloucestershire many of them lived in tied farm cottages such as these.

Caption For Roxwell, The Street C1965

These weather-boarded cottages, opposite the church, are very 'Essex'.

Caption For Penn, The Village 1968

A number of attractive old cottages were demolished when the dual carriageway was created. Penn was formerly known as Upper Penn to distinguish it from nearby Lower Penn.

Caption For Grantchester, Village 1914

The cottages on the right were once a farmhouse - it was divided at the time of the enclosures. Many of the windows have early 19th-century leaded lights.

Caption For Monsal Dale, Cottage C1864

Surely everyone's dream of a Peak District cottage, this beautiful little building is situated between Monsal and Cressbrook Dales in the valley of the River Wye.

Caption For Blackburn, Almshouses 1895

This row of quite modern-looking cottages at Bank Top, lying behind a neatly cultivated garden plot was, in fact, built in 1833.

Caption For Bourn, High Street C1955

Charming thatched cottages on Bourn's High Street. These days, Bourn is probably best known for Bourn Hall clinic, renowned the world over for its pioneering work with test-tube babies.

Caption For Chartham, The Green 1903

village in the valley of the River Stour has, in fact, two greens: a large open space before the church, and behind it, a small triangular green forming the heart of this rural community round which the cottages

Caption For Buckden, Ivy Cottage C1965

This view of Ivy Cottage, which is offering accommodation, luncheon, tea and morning coffee and paintings by Arnold Denby, also shows the 'scars' of the limestone terracing which punctuate the surrounding

Caption For Mells, The Green C1965

The green lies on its western edge, with a school, farm and cottages that now support businesses such as internet working and orchid growing.

Caption For Lincoln, The Glory Hole 1910

All the cottages on the left were demolished by 1910. Both sides of the water were reached by stairs from the High Street.

Caption For Chartham, The Green 1903

village in the valley of the River Stour has, in fact, two greens: a large open space before the church, and behind it, a small triangular green forming the heart of this rural community round which the cottages

Caption For Odiham, Cemetry Hill 2004

It was restored to one dwelling with access through the original entrance in the mid 1960s, and renamed Tudor Cottages.

Caption For Horbury, County Secondary School C1955

Northfield Lane continues past John Carr's cottage, and just around the corner is this school established in 1913.

Caption For Eashing, Village 1898

In 1902, the bridge and the cottages on the right were bought by the National Trust for just £400.

Caption For Snodland, Mulberry Cottage C1965

In the 1920s, the cottage was stripped to its skeleton and rebuilt, using original materials wherever possible.

Caption For West Meon, Village And Church 2004

The thatch has been removed from one of the cottages and the little wicket gate next to the road has been removed for safety reasons. You can still see the line of the gate in the brickwork.

Caption For Shalden, Crossing Cottage 2004

When the Alton to Basingstoke railway line was made, the L & SWR Co built a crossing cottage at Shalden and another one at Lasham.

Caption For Takeley, The Clock House C1965

It was later split into two cottages, one of which was the local police house. The whole property was restored in the1960s.

Caption For Otterton, The Village Green 1914

The cottages beyond were demolished in 1939 and replaced by homes for workers on the Rolle estate.

Caption For Otterton, The Village C1955

Otterton has some of the best examples of cob and thatch cottages in Devon. Many of the homes we see in this photograph date from between the 15th and 18th centuries.

Caption For Milland, The Cottages 1901

In the picture an old farmhouse stands next to farm buildings; the two semi-detached stone cottages alongside probably housed farm workers.

Caption For Steep, Kettlebrook 1898

The First World War poet Edward Thomas lived at nearby Berryfield Cottage.