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Milnathort A Genteel Place

My sister and I were invited to spend holidays at the home of a very kind lady in Milnathort. Church of Scotland ministers were asking members of their congregations to look after children from 'homes' during the ...Read more

A memory of Milnathort in 1965 by Janette Dewar

Detling Village

My brothers and I attended Detling Primary School in the 1970s. Mr. Chidgy was headmaster and lived in the schoolhouse joined onto the main school hall, then later Mr. Cuthbert. We sat on the wooden highly polished floorboards of ...Read more

A memory of Detling in 1970 by Ruth Smith

Mrs Jemmison

How we must have given this lady a headache. She lived at the bottom of the lane and we children used to go to the side of her house and play ball. Many times she came out, not to complain, just to ask us to move further up the wall ...Read more

A memory of Harpurhey in 1956

Living In East Butterwick

January 2010 I came back from spending Xmas and New Year in Portsmouth. It was still snowing. I had to stay indoors most of the time because I couldn't cope well with walking in the snow. When I had to go to the ...Read more

A memory of East Butterwick in 2010

Tooting Forever

What a delight to find this site. It reminded me of so much. My grandparents did a moonlight flit from Bethnel Green, walking to Tooting with four boys, one girl and a pram carrying Gran's pride and joy, a mangle. Three weeks ...Read more

A memory of Tooting by Frances Shaw Sartori

Me Granda

I am writing this because I have been back to Clara visiting after I was contacted by Brian and Helen who now live in me Granda's house, they had read my memories of Newburn which mentioned Clara and sent me a message. Me Grandad ...Read more

A memory of Clara Vale in 1947 by Jimmy Burrows

Dunstaffnage The War Years 1942 45

In 1942 aged 5 due to my father being a shipwright in the Portsmouth Dockyard he was transferred to a satellite dockyard at Dunstaffnage where we stayed as a family until the war finished and we then moved back to ...Read more

A memory of Oban in 1942 by Brian Woodward

Growing Up In No 3 Eardiston View

My name is Derek Hall, the brother to Martin Hall & Pamela Hall, we used to live at No 3 Eardiston View in Menith Wood in the 1960s with our mom Velta Hall. I am now 58 years old living in London with four ...Read more

A memory of Menithwood in 1965 by derekhall2006

The Whitgift Spirals

I can remember that every time we went to meet my Granddad (he would wait outside Allders in George Street on Tuesday mornings after catching the 403 bus from Chelsham), we would have fish and chips in the BHS cafe and he ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1977 by Jo T

Wesco Not Tesco The First Ever Supermarket On The Uk

I have so many wonderful memories of growing up in Quarry Bank - from moving into the brand new 'fashion houses' when I was 3; four of us on a motorbike, with me wedged between mum and dad ...Read more

A memory of Quarry Bank in 1966 by Clive Archer

Captions

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Caption For Bush Hill, Elmscott Gardens C1955

Look at the timber windows with their coloured glass, the original front doors, the solid, yet attractive, garage doors, the original gates and boundary walls, and realise that all this has for the greater

Caption For Belaugh, The Church 1921

The church is in a commanding position 75 yards from the water's edge, which at one time covered all the land at its base, even where the cottages in the picture have been built.

Caption For Brundall, On The Yare C1960

This is a popular spot on the Yare to start and finish a Broads holiday, or merely to top up with fuel for both body and boat; Note the signs for Lyons cakes and Walls ice cream (left), which in their

Caption For Basildon, All Saints' Church, Vange 2005

The Norman church of All Saints in Vange is believed to be the oldest in Basildon.

Caption For Skegness, The Clock Tower C1955

For safety reasons there is now a wall around the path to keep the people away from the traffic. There is a road crossing nearby.

Caption For Hartford, The Village 1907

One wonders what Henry Stevens, the landlord in 1907, would have thought of the modern Barley Mow - and we might ask why he decided to sport a White Ensign endorsed `The People` on the front wall of

Caption For Carisbrooke, The Castle And The Old Mill C1955

Following the threat from Spain in 1588, the Italian fortifications engineer Federigo Gianibelli was commissioned to improve Carisbrooke's defences; his curtain walls and bastions are still in very good

Caption For Lyme Regis, Harbour 1890

The North Wall of the harbour (left centre) was still detached from the beach.

Caption For Ewell, The Pond 1903

The wall, with a flint and shell archway with Doric columns, allows the waters to emerge from the grounds of Bourne Hall into the pond, before they flow on to the Hogsmill River.

Caption For Saltfleet, Manor House C1955

The big tree has gone, and the outbuilding, whose steps can be seen at the left is now a single ruined wall.

Caption For Brampton, The Village 1907

One wonders what Henry Stevens, the landlord in 1907, would have thought of the modern Barley Mow - and we might ask why he decided to sport a White Ensign endorsed `The People` on the front wall of

Caption For Standon, High Street And Church C1965

Unique in Hertfordshire, Standon parish church has a detached bell tower and a porch at the west end rather than on the south wall.

Caption For York, Micklegate Bar C1885

Eventually Micklegate commanded the highest rent of the four bars: just over 13s.The walls of the passage are built with Roman stone, including used coffins.

Caption For Castle Acre, The Priory, The West Front 1891

The priory occupied over 40 acres - there are remains of its flint boundary walls.

Caption For Rochester, Castle Grounds 1908

Though a whole section of the tower collapsed, the siege was not over: the defenders simply withdrew behind a great cross-wall, and it was only starvation that eventually forced them out.

Caption For Berkhamsted, The Castle C1960

Here are the remains of a circular keep, the southern barbican, and two wing walls on the south side of the motte.

Caption For Bangor, The Bay 1897

The handsome ornament at the corner of the wall of Kensington Villa is still there, somewhat damaged, but not yet ten years old at this time.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Silver Street 1906

Opposite, however, the scene is intact, including the front wall of the White House (right), the gable-end of the Lodge, and at a dental surgery behind.

Caption For Bashall Eaves, The Village C1955

Dry stone walls were built to last 100 years. Sett-paved yards (right) withstood iron-shod cart wheels.

Caption For Alfriston, Market Square C1955

The Clergy House, a 14th-century timber-framed and thatched hall house, is in the care of the National Trust and is open to visitors.

Caption For Southgate, High Street And The Bourne C1965

Behind the high brick wall to the extreme right of the photograph is Southgate House of the late 18th century, built in the form of a neo-classical villa by Samuel Pole; a short distance along the Bourne

Caption For Portchester, The Castle 1898

The tower keep, which when built was only one storey high, has walls twelve feet thick, and when two further floors were added it was similar to those at Falaise, Norwich and Corfe.

Caption For Cosby, Croft Road From The Nook C1965

As so often happens in the county, the quality of the village has gone unsung, with the brook, its major natural asset, now being forced between crazy-paved walls instead of gently enhanced - a pity

Caption For Minehead, The Parade 1892

The buildings to the left of photograph 31223 had just been built, replacing houses with walled gar- dens.