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Combe Florey Primary School
The village school in Combe Florey closed in about 1958 I believe, it exists as a private house now, but I can still remember the mile long walk to and from it, through the lanes every morning and afternoon. Mum ...Read more
A memory of Combe Florey in 1958 by
Memories Of Stone Hills.
This picture was taken from the corner of the Co-operative shop and features the Cherry Tree public house before it was turned into Waitrose. In about 1965, my friend’s mother remarried and my family was invited ...Read more
A memory of Welwyn Garden City in 1965 by
Farm At White Hill
My father Jenkin Evans and mother Valerie Evans lived at Potters Cross Farm, White Hill, Kinver from just before the Second World War. This is the farmhouse which you can see which still exists to this day. They raised four ...Read more
A memory of Kinver by
My Fading Memories
I was but a lad of 8 when my folks bundled us all off to a wide land downunder. Since 1968, Australia has been my home. I often speak of my fading memories of Queensbury, my walks through the village, living on 'The ...Read more
A memory of Queensbury in 1968 by
Happy Days
I was born at number 4 john Newton court in 1954. Although it was a small flat which I shared with brother Terry we were lucky to have wonderful parents ( Joan & Binty ) spent every moment playing football on the green and up Danson ...Read more
A memory of Welling by
Brimscombe Corner & Burleigh 1910 62690
This photo is taken 100 yards up Brimscombe lane, looking back across the Golden Valley. The lane itself leads back up to Thrupp Lane & Dark lane, which is on its way to Quarhouse and the Lypiatt Manor, ...Read more
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Surveying At Newry
In the early 1950s Mining undergraduates at the University of Birmingham practised land surveying at Llanfairfechan. They lodged for most of June at Newry Cottages, now Plas Heulog. The task was to traverse the area south of ...Read more
A memory of Llanfairfechan by
The Way We Were
In 1946 my family Mum, Dad,brother Alex and sisters Jenny and Kay moved into a requisitioned house in Hollybush Hill. The house was called Surinam and it was a beautiful old house with a sweeping staircase and cellars ...Read more
A memory of Wanstead by
Stiperstones Poem
THE STIPERSTONES T’was long ago the Ludlow people vexed the Devil very sore He vowed to stone their homes and steeples until they were no more On Cranberries Hill he then collected his apron full of rocks and stones With ...Read more
A memory of Stiperstones by
My First School Alby Hill 1944
My mother and her mother were born in my great-grandparents' cottage at Hanworth Common. Richard and Blanche Craske they were. Well dear old Richard was really my step great grandad. The true one was ...Read more
A memory of Aldborough in 1944 by
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Behind are spectacularly steep pine-clad hills.
It is now restored and car free; the central areas are surfaced with Denner Hill setts, a hard stone from the Chilterns above High Wycombe which is used all over the south of the county for kerbs and
The name Downham means 'dwelling by the hill' - the hill is obviously Pendle, which can be seen in the background.
This photograph was taken from Windmill Hill, the only point in the town that is higher than the castle. The road curving up to the left of the castle is Roydon Road, known at this time as Zulu Road.
By 1100 he had added a stone keep to his castle, which was built on a natural hill overlooking the Adur.
This photograph was taken from Windmill Hill, the only point in the town that is higher than the castle. The road curving up to the left of the castle is Roydon Road, known at this time as Zulu Road.
By the 1900s the best stone had been worked out from the area so in the 1920s it was laid out as parkland.
There is plenty of history here: Bow Hill was a great Stone Age centre on the Downs and there is the site of a Roman villa nearby. A local mansion, Watergate House, is now demolished.
The grand frontage of Sir James Thornhill's 18th-century mansion, built in Portland stone and with its gigantic Corinthian portico, situated on a hill overlooking spacious parkland.
This photograph was taken from Windmill Hill, the only point in the town that is higher than the castle. The road curving up to the left of the castle is Roydon Road, known at this time as Zulu Road.
This sizeable hamlet on the Downs south of Harting has no church, but boasts some attractive flint cottages and fine scenery.There is plenty of history here: Bow Hill was a great Stone Age centre
The walls have been constructed of flints (which are copious in the chalk hills of the South Downs) and edged with stone at the windows and doors.
The fine, wide street has 19th-century houses on the left; on the right are commercial buildings, filling the ground floors of older timber-framed houses.
The town-village grew up where the Roman Stane Street crossed the River Arun.
This route heads for the beautiful Mendip Hills, the carboniferous limestone ridge that separates the Avon valley and Bath and Bristol from the rest of Somerset.
Symondsbury is an intimate little village positioned between two rounded hills, and probably on the route of a medieval road linking Bridport and Axminster.
A row of houses, beginning with the headland church tower, lies almost subdued below the tree-covered hills overlooking this bustling sea port.
This peaceful village lies below the slopes of the Greensand Hills.
Perched on the greensand ridge high above its village, the delightful All Saints' parish church is built in the dark brown stone extracted from the hills around it.
The River Wey rises below the great escarpment of Ridgeway Hill.
The 100-foot high slender stone tower of the church of St Peter and St Paul domi- nates this village built on a hairpin bend.
Tuesday and Friday, animals were transported all over Lancashire.The origin of the name Clitheroe is surrounded by doubt and mystery.The 'oe' at the end comes from the Old English 'hoh', mean- ing a hill
They were either left intact or re-set when Captain George Fanshawe of the Royal Engineers rebuilt all the other walls of the Cobb with smooth Portland stone in 1825-26.
This picturesque Cotswold town in Oxfordshire lies on the slope of a steep hill above the Windrush valley about 20 miles east of Cheltenham.
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