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Memories
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Little Waltham
I was born in Little Waltham and lived there until 1967. I only left because I got married and the cost of housing in the village, even then, was way out of our reach, so we had to move 20 miles north to Sible Hedingham. I had a ...Read more
A memory of Little Waltham by
Joan The Wad
I have bought Joan the Wad Cornish pickles at the Abbey and caught a trout in the river that runs in front of it. I was evacuated to the village in the war to Church Town Farm with Mr and Mrs Greenway and there was a large monkey puzzle ...Read more
A memory of Lanivet in 1950 by
Born And Raised There
I was born in Shere in 1942 to the youngest child of George and Margaret Bryant. The Bryants were a well-known Shere family, my father being the eldest of nine children born and raised in the village. I had a very happy childhood ...Read more
A memory of Shere by
When I Was A Child
My father was born in Great Bedwyn, his name Arthur Maurice Hatter. When I was young in 1952 we were invited to stay with a member of his family in 47 High Street, I remember they had a wonderful garden, layered with full ...Read more
A memory of Great Bedwyn in 1952 by
Childhood
Having just stumbled across this website and viewed the photographs, I immediately went into nostalgia mode. I was born in Alrewas in 1938 in one of the small cottages in Main Street just down from Mansell's bridge, and then moved to The ...Read more
A memory of Alrewas in 1940 by
The Good Times
I used to go to Innellan when I was young to stay with my grandparents and what great memories I have, I used to get the bus from the pier and get off at West Church Lane where they lived. On Sundays we walked up to the church and my ...Read more
A memory of Innellan in 1946 by
Bickers The Newsagent
THis was the village newsagent. We lived to the right as you look at the photo, and traded as Premier Garage.
A memory of Eastry in 1960 by
Home
I have lived in the pretty village of Cartmel all my life and I love the quiet, calming atmosphere we have here. Once a friend and myself used to walk through the village with a nanny goat called Nancy and her 2 kids, we'd arrive in the square ...Read more
A memory of Cartmel in 1983 by
Back In 1963
I was moved to Wickford with my family in December 1963, a hard winter, removal van had trouble getting up the unmade road. Coming from London, it was a bit of a sleepy village for me and especially for my teenage siblings. Had to wait ...Read more
A memory of Wickford in 1963 by
Best Four Years Of My Life As A Kid
We moved here in 1978/9 when I was 4 to 8 - St John’s Crescent, and was heartbroken when my parents split 5 years later and we had to move with my mother back to Knaresborough. Lots of lovely memories. The ...Read more
A memory of Bishop Monkton by
Captions
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Once upon a quieter time, the broad street through the village was perfect for a fair.
The village is famous for a charming myth which suggests that if the mist in the beechwoods on the nearby Downs rolled westwards towards Cocking, then rain was on the way.
The village of Hutton-le-Hole lies about one mile west of Lastingham.
Children at play in the village of Chilworth, outside Southampton.
Children at play in the village of Chilworth, outside Southampton.
The centre of the village dates from the restoration and repairs begun in 1752 by Lord Crewe's trustees.
Mr and Mrs Potts kept the village shop opposite the mill and on the corner of the A34 and Church Lane. In the 1930s, they also sold day licences for fishing in Radnor Mere in Alderley Park.
The village lies along the old turnpike road about halfway between Hatfield and Hitchin. On the right, a road branches off to Wheathampstead. Codicote had a number of interesting charities.
It is easy to understand why this quarter of South Cerney, with its squat stone cottages ranged along the banks of the River Churn, are often photographed by day trippers.
The wide streets, stone buildings and the war memorial in the centre of Langley Park look much the same today.
The road running through the village is the A59 from Clitheroe to Skipton. Note the New Inn on the left of the picture, and how large the name-board of the publican was.
Waddington is now noted more for its large Royal Air Force station to the east of the village, but it grew up on a diversion of Ermine Street to the western scarp of the limestone ridge.
From the 13th century, the village was part of the huge 3000-acre manor estate of the de Bellerbys. Rievaulx Abbey also farmed some 43 acres of land near the village.
On the River Bure, Coltishall is a picturesque place.
This photograph of the village of Byfield, on the old turnpike road midway between Daventry and Banbury, shows plenty of pedestrians, but no traffic.
The road is still the A52, with a few bends in the village centre. Skegness is to the right.
This building is dated 1790, and is a little distance from the church. The church is near the intersection of Well Street and Church Street, and the vicarage lies beyond.
The village's name comes from 'weargebuman', a Saxon word meaning 'white water' or 'felon stream'.
A flock of white-nosed Swaledale sheep are driven down the road from the village green by a shepherd and his dog in the Upper Wharfedale village of Buckden in the Yorkshire Dales.
The thatched, timber-framed cottages we see on the right date from the 17th century.
The church is certainly worth a visit, as is the village itself.
Looking uphill with the castle hidden in the trees ahead. The post office with shop is the former school house (1858). The village school was on the right through the little gate.
The village of Kettleness succumbed to disaster on 17 December 1829 when the cliff broke away and the houses and alum works fell into the sea.
The cottages of Langton, near Malton, still cluster around the village green, as they did when this photograph was taken.
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