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Memories

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Back In Time

I went to bollin cross styal from 1977 to 1981 i was in oak house (but was a day boy) and was picked up and took home by gordens coaches (mini bus) it was a great school and i remember a lot of stuff even though it was over 40 years ago i ...Read more

A memory of Styal by Brian Clayton

Late 60s

I was a student nurse,residing in Lindsey Smith House until 1969. Happy days

A memory of Virginia Water by Rae Hodkinson

A Childhood In Selsdon.

My parents had a chicken farm in Selsdon Vale, where I was born in 1948. I lived there until I left home to go travelling and then to university, at the age of 18, in about 1966. This was about the same time that Selsdon Vale ...Read more

A memory of Selsdon by Helen Krasner

Sweet Shop Tartar Road

I remember in the late 1970's / early 1980's walking to a sweet shop in Tartar Road from Freelands Road, where my Nan lived. The shop was converted back into a house shortly afterwards. The memory is so vague that I am starting ...Read more

A memory of Cobham by Sarah Wright

Shops And Places The High Road And Ealing Road.

I was born and lived in Wembley until 1960. The Railway Hotel was the pub on the corner of Ealing Road and my mother was head housekeeper there for a long time. On the day of the Coronation the pub ...Read more

A memory of Wembley in 1953 by Barbara Fisher

More Building Use

As can be seen (also in 252002 & 252006), the 1930's "Psuedo Tudor" block on the corner then contained "Dewhursts" the multiple butchers, 2 (later 3) frontages for "Edward Hodges" an independent tailor and outfitter, then ...Read more

A memory of Haywards Heath

The Present Day Hospital.

St John's Hospital is home to 35 elderly people. 24 live in the older part. There are 6 houses each holding 4 flats. House six can be seen in the photo, it stands alongside the hospital chapel. The chapel is used twice ...Read more

A memory of Canterbury in 2004 by Claire Allen

The Volunteer Inn

Volunteer was built in 1703 and as far as we can find out, it possibly became a pub in 1840s.  It ceased trading in 1973 when it was sold by the brewery to the Gray family.  The Grays converted it back into a house.  We ...Read more

A memory of Twyford by Penny Smith

Notes From The Frith Files.

This photograph shows the Red Lion pub set back from the junction of Malvern Road with Upton Road which is on the right.  The traffic island was soon to disappear as this main road section became a one way system by the ...Read more

A memory of Powick

Bassett House

The large oblong building on the left was Bassett House of which the ground floor was Waitrose. The Bassett Family lived at Hunters Lodge, Banstead and the three children grew up to represent England. Sheena in running and swimming ...Read more

A memory of Banstead in 1967 by Heather Lee

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Captions

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Caption For Wimborne, Merley House 1904

This fine Georgian mansion was once even grander, for it originally had two substantial wings as well as the main house.

Caption For Tenby, Pier And Hotel 1890

In the foreground we can see the roof of Laston House, a purpose-built bath-house which operated between 1810 and the early 1830s.

Caption For Staverton, The Old Crown C1955

The house in the picture is now a private house, but it was the Crown Inn until it closed in 1951 or 1952.

Caption For Launceston, Madford Lane C1960

Madford House (left, behind the trees) stood on the site now occupied by the tax office.

Caption For Brockworth, Coopers Hill And Stroud Road C1955

The roundabout now houses a large public house and a Shell garage. The old Roman road, Ermin Street, is a right turn off this roundabout.

Caption For Great Bowden, The Village 1922

This photograph shows this Domesday village, now much consumed by the tentacles of Market Harborough's suburbs, with its large irregular green and attractive houses, some dating back to 1567 and 1664,

Caption For Holt, High Street 1896

Holt, between Fakenham and Cromer, boasts a wealth of fine Georgian houses, which huddle haphazardly around its broad market place.

Caption For Oakham, School House 1927

School House stands at the corner of Market Place and Market Street. The Hospital of Christ, built in 1398, stood on this site, which was once known as Baresplace. School House was erected in 1853.

Caption For West Hartlepool, Catcote Road C1960

Here we see modern post-war housing development in what was known as West Hartlepool until the two Hartlepools merged to form the County Borough of Hartlepool in 1967.

Caption For Petersfield, Market Place 2004

The 1922 post office has taken the place of Castle House which went in 1913 and if you look you will see that the post office building line exactly corresponds to the line of Castle House boundary

Caption For St Ives, The Harbour 1895

The St Ives lifeboat is on its carriage outside the lifeboat house on West Pier near the church. The present lifeboat house is on the near side of the pier.

Caption For London, Westminster Abbey From Victoria Tower C1955

The camera is on top of the Victoria Tower above the House of Lords. Immediately below is the abbey's chapter house, where parliament once met.

Caption For Berkhamsted, High Street C1965

Sir Edward never lived in his new house in Berkhamsted, preferring to live in Aldenham, so the house was let to his brother Sir Adolphus Carey and later to his son.

Caption For Edgware, George V Memorial Gardens, Canon's Park C1955

Here he created one of London's great houses. After the Duke's death the estate was sold and the house demolished; various features were salvaged and dispersed, mainly over southern England.

Caption For Barrowford, The White Bear Inn C1950

This famous coaching inn is situated in that part of Barrowford which stretches along Gisburn Road, where many interesting old properties stand; it was built originally as the great house of the Hargreaves

Caption For Whitby, West Cliff 1891

Since this photograph was taken in the summer time, there is not as much smoke coming from the dwelling houses along the Crag (which lies behind the houses on the river front), but there

Caption For Bosham, The Quay C1900

The houses on the left survive, eighteenth-century but with the windows changed to typical mid-Victorian margin glazing barred sashes.

Caption For Harlaxton, Schools 1890

In the village itself, Gregory Gregory's hand is everywhere, as befits an estate village nestling at the gates of a great country house in its park.

Caption For Fleckney, Saddington Road C1955

The red- brick solidity of the houses presents an almost urban face, apart from the small front gardens.

Caption For Gilfach Goch, Danybryn C1955

The rest of the picture consists of a newly built housing estate of rendered semi-detached houses. The rough scrub just needs landscaping and it would be a fine place to live.

Caption For Fleckney, Saddington Road C1955

The red- brick solidity of the houses presents an almost urban face, apart from the small front gardens.

Caption For Aylesbury, Market Square C1955

This view looks along the north side of Market Square past the war memorial into Cambridge Street on the left of the Round House and the High Street to its right.

Caption For Odiham, Chalk Pit 1903

They were built c1800, reputedly to house French prisoners of the Napoleonic wars, who were on parole in Odiham.

Caption For Chesham, Town Bridge 1897

He is looking along Germain Street towards the town centre and Market Place, but the houses beyond the bridge gave long been demolished.