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W & C French Contractors

This is a Memory Without Evidence. In 1984 I visited my childhood home, "Ivy Cottage" no 58 Epping New Road, Buckhurst Hill, Essex. The cottage, in poor condition, was still being lived in. The contractors yard was ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill in 1984 by Denman Lalonde

Wallsend 1954 68

Born in the Green Maternity Hosp 1954, lived in Windsor Drive, Howden, Sandown Gardens, Howden and Prospect Ave. I remember being taken to the Masons Arms at Bigges Main in a pushchair, parked outside the corrugated iron lean to ...Read more

A memory of Wallsend by Barry Hislop

Happy Memories

I worked in the Hotel Continental in the very hot summer of 1976 with 3 friends. It was a glorious summer season and the sun shone endlessly, so we spent many lazy days (between work shifts!) on the beach. We danced into the early ...Read more

A memory of Mundesley in 1976 by Jennifer Morgan

Of Beaches, Giant Snow Balls, Sniggery Woods And Little Crosby

I spent my infant years in Crossender Rd. In the winter we had hills nearby adjacent to the Southport to L'pool line. We used to roll little snow balls until they achieved a massive girth ...Read more

A memory of Crosby in 1955

Memories Of Hulme

My name is Lynda (Howarth) and I lived in Hulme from 1943 until 1953. My Mum was Edith Woods, and she married Stanley Howarth. My mum used to live in Mary Street and then we moved to Junction Street, after the war. I ...Read more

A memory of Hulme in 1943 by Lynda Drew

Cantray Square

Our family lived at Cantray Home Farm on Cantray Square, where my father George Hay was farm manager to Charlie Monroe. We were 4 sister; Moira, Alice, Catherine and Lilian Hay who all went to Croy School. We walked there past ...Read more

A memory of Croy in 1952 by Alice Wikel

Phil & John's Amazing Journey Part 2 Football, Pubs, Old Friends

Stopping briefly outside the Working Men’s Club, the meeting place on Saturday lunchtimes for us Groby footballers before away games, we pass the chippy, the old blacksmiths where the old ...Read more

A memory of Groby in 1970

Highgate Village In The 1960s

What I am most interested in writing about is how Highgate Village has changed so much since my school days, growing up there in the 1960s. Today most of the shops are coffee shops, ...Read more

A memory of Highgate in 1965 by Robert Molesworth

The Gardens Remembered

I am puzzled as to which year this photo was taken. It must have been very late fifties because my earliest memory of The Rest Garden, as we called it, was when it was still recognizeable as a graveyard. The gravestones ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge by Philip Cousins

Waterhouses Bleak Winters

l remember the pit tubs running under the houses to the colliery where my dad worked down the mines, and when we used to chuck his snap over to him when the tub ran past. Also remember the bleak cold winters ...Read more

A memory of Waterhouses in 1860 by Brenda Cumberbatch

Captions

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Caption For Purfleet, London Road C1955

The row of cottages on the left is known as Station Terrace, with the post office close to the camera with a post box and stamp machine set into the wall.

Caption For Winchcombe, High Street C1960

Behind the wall on the left stood Winchcombe Abbey, which the people of Winchcombe were given the opportunity to buy when Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries.

Caption For Tenby, The Harbour 1950

The large boat moored along side the pier wall is the RAF boat.

Caption For Kings Norton, Old Saracen's Head Inn C1960

A painted inscription on the wall claims that The Saracen's Head was built in the 11th century. However, the present building dates mainly from the 15th century.

Caption For Oxford, New College, The Entrance Gateway 1902

The college, founded in 1379 by William of Wykeham, lies in the shadow of the old city wall.

Caption For Corby, Odeon Cinema C1955

The Odeon Cinema is built in a contrasting architectural style - a sort of Art Deco with rendered walls and rusticated ground floor as befits a venue to escape from the everyday.

Caption For Great Eccleston, Raikes Road C1965

Raikes Road had many thatched dwellings; as late as 1961, when alterations were afoot, one cottage proved to be a Fylde cruck-built cottage with clay and straw walls from the 16th century.

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 York, The Castle C1885

This wonderful view from the walls was taken before the onslaught of the motor car, and when gas lamps were still in place.

Caption For York, Barges On The Foss Navigation 1885

Two more were built after one another; the second was washed away by floods.This photograph, showing the castle walls and the dome of the Debtors' Prison, was taken from the fourth recorded bridge, which

Caption For St Ives, The Harbour 1895

Many of the buildings can be recognised today, but they are now separated from the water in the harbour by walls supporting a road and a walkway.

Caption For London, Westminster Abbey From Victoria Tower C1955

If Edward VI had not offered St Stephen's chapel with its facing walls for the Commons, then the lower chamber might have evolved into a round building, as elsewhere in Europe.

Caption For Richmond, The Castle And The Bridge 1893

Although the castle has never experienced a siege, it has remained a military base, with barracks built inside the walls during the First World War to house conscientious objectors.

Caption For Burnham On Sea, The Promenade And Beach 1913

The sea wall, recently here completed in reinforced concrete, has since been robustly and massively replaced to repel rising sea levels.

Caption For Billingshurst, Church Causeway 1912

St Mary's church, built on a mound with access to the churchyard via a causeway, is shown in the photograph, and has Roman bricks in the walls.

Caption For Glynde, The Square C1955

On the right-hand side of the street stand flint-walled houses with brick dressings.

Caption For Maltby, Roche Abbey 1893

Michael Sherbrook, rector of Wickersley, wrote: 'All things of price either spoiled, carted away, or defaced to the uttermost.....nothing was spared but the oxhouses and swinecoates and other such houses

Caption For Haverfordwest, The Castle From The River 1890

The watch-tower in the roof of the new prison was built so the guards could observe all activity in the exercise yards.

Caption For Saltfleet, New Inn C1965

The fruit tree climbing up the wall is still there, and so is what looks like a mounting block.

Caption For Ludlow, St Lawrence's Parish Church 1949

He died in 1936, and his ashes are buried in the church wall just to the right of this tree.

Caption For Durham, The Cathedral From Observatory Hill 1918

Bishop Hugh le Puiset had attempted to build a Lady Chapel at the east end of the cathedral, but construction was plagued with problems, including walls cracking.

Caption For Woodhouse Eaves, Maplewell Road C1955

Local dry stone walling, brick and Swithland slate are all here in abundance, as the road drops down from Maplewell Hall to the village centre.

Caption For Maltby, Roche Abbey 1893

Michael Sherbrook, rector of Wickersley, wrote:'All things of price either spoiled, carted away, or defaced to the uttermost … nothing was spared but the oxhouses and swinecoates and other such houses

Caption For Conwy, The Castle 1890

Also, the curtain wall was too high for the scaling ladders of the day.