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My Birthplace? "Little Danewood Cottage", Church Rd, Dane Hill

I believe the cottage in the bottom right hand corner could be near my birthplace? If it is, it is one of two cottages on the hill leading up to the church from the village and just below the ...Read more

A memory of Danehill by jltamblyn

Kennards, Grants And Allders

I was born in 1950, and only left when I married in 1973. I remember the donkey rides in Kennard Arcade in the 50's - they had little bells on their harnesses and for sixpence you could have a ride which seemed like for ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1955 by Rosie Lee

Growing Up

I was born on the 24th of July 1929 above a shop next to a pub called the Rose of Denmark, in Hotwells, Bristol, very convenient for Father to wet his whistle and my head at the same time. Father was born in 1893, Mother in 1895. They ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1930 by Arthur Cottrell

Moulton & Davenham In The Past

At the time of my birth in the early 1940's, my mother was living at the top end of the village at 101 Main Road with my elder brother Tom - dad was in the army. We left Moulton when I was 7 ...Read more

A memory of Moulton by Peter Byrom

Fulham Girl

I lived in Burlington Road, at No.1 - it was called Jubilee Terrace, and was built to commemorate one of Queen Victoria's Jubilees. There was a pottery at the New Kings Rd end of Burlington Road which was built way back in the reign of ...Read more

A memory of Fulham in 1955 by Caroline Schurmer/Brewster

Gods Country

I was born in 1954 at 261, Uttoxeter Road, which was where the fire station is now. My memories are of a magical childhood in Normacot, until we were rehoused in Meir in 1970. Some of the places I remember with much fondness ...Read more

A memory of Normacot by Patrick Dono

Hythe Childrens Holiday Home

I too, stayed at this holiday home for children on the sea-front at Hythe in the late 1960's. The holiday was arranged by my primary school in the West Midlands, the home is no longer there. I believe it was owned and ...Read more

A memory of Hythe in 1969

Growing Up In Highbrook

My brother Tony and I lived with our grandparents Mr and Mrs Ford at 112 Watney Cottages. What a magical time we had, we knew all neighbours and doors were always open. We would collect the cows in for milking with ...Read more

A memory of Highbrook by Jeannette Mcallister

Phil & John's Amazing Journey Part 1 Infant School Memories

How many of us as fresh faced five year olds, on our very first day at school, look around the classroom and think ‘will any of these children be classed as ‘true’ friends fifty years from ...Read more

A memory of Groby in 1961

Mere Memories

My memory is not so much of the Wheatsheaf, although I did visit a few times during my youth, a nice place to take a new girlfriend for a drive. But nearby is the Mere, a huge lake in the middle of an agricultural area. When I was a ...Read more

A memory of Raby

Captions

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Caption For Oystermouth, The Castle 1893

These two structures were linked together by high curtain walls. Remodelling went on into the 16th century. The castle might have been provided with some sort of outer defence, such as a palisade.

Caption For Aylesbury, Cambridge Street C1955

Ye Olde Harrow Inn and the two- storey shops beyond went in the 1980s, but the tall three-storey brick building beyond of 1897 survives.

Caption For Castle Bolton, Bolton Castle And The Village 1911

The castle was then used by local families who lived in tenements built within the walls; the last of these left in 1898.

Caption For Castle Bolton, Bolton Castle And The Village 1911

The castle was then used by local families who lived in tenements built within the walls; the last of these left in 1898.

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Caption For Parkmill, The Village 1893

At Parkmill we can see the earth bank or pale, with its wall and inside ditch, which marks the boundary of the deer park known as Park le Breos. The medieval deer-park was divided into three farms.

Caption For Whitby, Abbey Arches 1913

Here and there a few monastic stones can be found in some Whitby walls and buildings.

Caption For Oundle, St Osyths Lane C1950

The rest have been replaced by the modern back wall of a stone clad Co-op supermarket. The cottages are clearly in a dilapidated condition in this 1950 view, but their loss is surely to be regretted.

Caption For Hailsham, The Comrades Club And War Memorial C1955

The war memorial is now in a low walled area as part of the precinct's hard landscaping.

Caption For Calne, The River Marden And New Road C1955

Gas lights are still evident on the centre wall. Storah's outfitters and drapers is in the centre on the corner of Church Street. The St Dunstan's factory wing (right) was built in 1919.

Caption For Bewdley, Load Street C1950

However, the writing was on the wall: 1955 saw a huge increase in the number of foreign car imports, up from 4600 in 1954 to over 11,100.

Caption For Cockermouth, Castle 1906

A barbican provided additional defences to the outer gatehouse on the east side, and the inner and outer wards were divided by a ditch, wall, and inner gatehouse equipped with a drawbridge.

Caption For Lanchester, The Green And King's Head C1955

Roman Lanchester, or Longovicium, lies half a mile to the south-west; it was one of the principal forts along the road between York and Hadrian's Wall, and was built about the year 122.

Caption For Framlingham, The Castle 1909

The castle, built between 1190 and 1210, is amongst the earliest castles in England to be constructed with a fortified curtain wall.

Caption For Robin Hoods Bay, The Bay Hotel 1927

For decades, just as in this picture, people have sunned themselves along the sea wall. The Bay Hotel is on the right.

Caption For Cottesmore, The Village C1955

Until 1928, when it was burnt down, the Hall stood at the east end of the village.

Caption For Borough Green, Quarry Hill C1955

The two old houses in the centre show how piecemeal were the alterations carried out by various owners down the centuries: below each has a wall of stone rubble, and above at least two courses of brick

Caption For Burgh Heath, Brighton Road C1955

The shopping parade with flats over is unchanged, but the fir tree and the walls to the left have gone for road improvements.

Caption For Wareham, St Martin's C1950

Wareham St Martin's (right), standing on King Alfred's Town Walls, is Dorset's earliest complete church. Anglo-Saxon arcading was replaced by Norman arches in the 12th century.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Grannys Teeth 1912

One of the most memorable images in the entire Frith archive, this intimate shot of the Cobb wall was inspired by Jane Austen and Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

Caption For Bothwell, 1897

It stood 82 ft high, was 65 ft in diameter, and the walls were 15 ft thick.

Caption For Leicester, Auto Magic Car Park, Lee Circle C1965

Multi-storey car parks are, like bungalows, notoriously difficult to design, but the tremendous horizontality of the protective concrete walls produces a dramatic, almost nautical response to a difficult

Caption For Compton Bishop, Village And Crook Peak 1907

Their character is very different from the Quantocks or Exmoor; here, sheep scratch an existence from the poor limestone soils, and the fields are divided by dry stone walls.

Caption For London, Covent Garden 1900

The cries of traders echo through the expansive square, planned by Inigo Jones.The scene has been described by a contemporary guidebook: ‘All night long the rumble of heavy wagons seldom ceases, and

Caption For Skegness, The Park 1904

The former Primitive Methodist Chapel can be seen left of centre, and the old white-walled Ship Hotel us to the extreme right. The houses on the left are in Scarbrough Avenue.