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Village Days

I was born in Upper Clatford in 1945. I have fond memories the good and bad times. I went to the local school where we would draw on slates with chalks. I used to live in cottages now pulled down. There was a well at the bottom ...Read more

A memory of Upper Clatford by Maurice Owen

Crathorne Arms

I lived in Hutton Rudby but we had family friends in Crathorne, the Gibsons. They lived in Rose Cottage opposite the post office and village shop. I use to work on weekends for Redvest Bolton, a local farmer and landlord of the ...Read more

A memory of Crathorne in 1959 by Bill Eden

Lock Keeper

My grandfather, Edward Ernest Light, was the lock keeper at Sonning when this photo would have been taken. He was married to Lily and they had 3 sons, Edgar, Harold and Len, and a daugher Evie. Harold was my father and was born in the ...Read more

A memory of Sonning in 1910 by Deborah Boyce

Evacuation

I was evacuated to Kibworth three times; in 1939 I came probably from my school, Newington Green in North London. i stayed with Mr. and Mrs. Dinkley. After a few months, a bomb fell in Kibworth, probably on the way to ...Read more

A memory of Kibworth Beauchamp in 1930 by Dorothy Beth

Drayton St Leonards 1936

1936 - my father Ernest Eldridge and mother Violet and myself Barbara moved from Dorchester on Thames to Drayton St Leonards. My mother's friend May Rusher (wife of Frank Rusher) arranged for the cottage next ...Read more

A memory of Drayton St Leonard in 1930 by Barbara Gibson

Grandparents

The Blackburn family. Hi, my grandparents lived in Forcett all of their married life and brought up four children there. Milly was the oldest, she was my gran's daughter from her first marriage, the surname was Swann. Then she met and ...Read more

A memory of Forcett in 1960 by Lorna Meadows

The Rose And Crown

Ivy Myers. I wonder how many people from Chalfont remember the "Rose and Crown", a Benskins pub. My father owned it from 1946 until 1950. There was also the “Kings Head” which was on the corner of Joiners Lane. Of ...Read more

A memory of Chalfont St Peter in 1949 by Ivy Jones

Living On The Farm

I lived at 2 Plass Cottages until we were evicted in 1951 or 1952, my step dad worked on the farm, his name was George Squire.

A memory of Lower Machen in 1951 by Kenneth Squire

Tinker Tailor Solder Sailor 1916

Lynette Carter nee Evans My grandfather was Romany Gypsy, Stephen Evans, who better known as (Stinny)? During 1916 he lived in Gorseion, while his wife; my grandmother Mary Ellen Boswell lived in Gowerton. ...Read more

A memory of Gorseinon in 1900 by Lynette Carter

The Bellas Sisters

Before emigrating to Australia in 1927, my uncle Michael Samuelson (1898-1975) lived for about a year in Rosgill and made a living taking farmers' eggs to market. On leaving England, he was given a photo of the Bellas sisters ...Read more

A memory of Rosgill in 1920 by Maurice Samuelson

Captions

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Caption For Netherbury, And Lewesdon 1902

The cottages and trees in New Inn Street are overlooked by the parish church (right). Lewesdon Hill, topped by beech trees, was given to the National Trust in 1943.

Caption For Minehead, Quay Street 1903

By 1903, the Red Lion, seen on the far left, has replaced a row of fishermen's cottages, but those beyond mostly survive, one being now The Old Harbour House Tea Rooms.

Caption For Kibworth, Station Street C1955

The pretty eclectic range of 1880s cottages on the left remain virtually unaltered, as do the buildings on the right.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Sherborne Lane C1955

The walls of Garston, Waverley and Monks Way (left) face Chapel Cottage, which dates from 1780 and has a fashionable frontage of Ionic pilasters and a pediment.

Caption For Caldecott, The Green C1955

Next to the thatched cottage in the centre, the houses show a good example of limestone banding in ironstone.

Caption For Buntingford, The River Rib 1922

The Cottage, on the corner, faces onto River Green and looks towards the right of the photograph and Pig's Nose, originally a c1500 farm shed but now a residence.

Caption For Dorchester On Thames, High Street 1924

The cottage on the left has been demolished but the others remain, including the rather fine White Hart Hotel, dated 1691 but in fact earlier, a former coaching inn.

Caption For Hartfield, 1906

The Lychgate, c1520, is a half-timbered cottage by the churchyard with an upper floor extending above.

Caption For Angmering, The Village Green C1955

The great house was New Place; it has now been converted into cottages. It was the home of the Palmer family in the time of Henry VIII. Ecclesden Manor is a long, low Tudor-style house built in 1634.

Caption For Fishguard, 1899

Lower Town comprises a huddle of picturesque cottages around a harbour.

Caption For Aylesbury, St Mary's Square C1965

In this view, the photographer looks back past the Bucks Evangelistic Mission Hall to the Georgian-fronted cottages on the right of photograph number A84022.

Caption For Hurstbourne Tarrant, Village C1955

A long main street, groups of thatched cottages and a picturesque 17th-century coaching inn at the foot of a steep hill create an atmosphere of charm and quiet dignity.

Caption For Sutton On Trent, Church Street C1955

Badgers Lair, the cottage on the left, has had its brickwork roughcast and colour-washed and the windows replaced by leaded lights since the 1950s, while the former shop beyond has also been drastically

Caption For Stanhill, The Post Office C1955

The inscribed plaque on the cottage told the story of how Hargreaves was compelled to leave Stanhill because of persecution by local handloom weavers who feared for their livelihoods.

Caption For Denton, The Village C1960

Here we see several more of the local ironstone cottages with their well kept and productive gardens. There is a fine crop of runner beans in one garden as well as the usual flowers.

Caption For West Boldon, St Nicholas Terrace C1955

Some of the cottages in St Nicholas Terrace, which is located to the north of the church, are 18th-century, and one of them is dated 1771.

Caption For Rockingham, Post Office C1965

It is a delightful village with mostly 18th-century houses, with a sprinkling of 19th-century estate cottages, such as those with the slate-roofed dormers on the left, dated 1858.

Caption For Bourne, Edenham Village C1955

The cottage on the right has been replaced by a stone bungalow further back from the roadside.

Caption For Pulborough, Swans Corner 1921

Despite being at the junction through which traffic to Bognor pours, this timber-framed cottage survives.

Caption For Congleton, Colley Bridge Mill C1965

The traffic lights are still there, as are the attractive cottages, one of which was originally a corn mill.

Caption For Minehead, The Beach 1906

Beyond the bathing machines, the newer town is on the left, the white cottages of Quay Town are on the right, and the old town climbs the hill towards the medieval church with its tall 15th-century

Caption For Winlaton, The Village C1955

Crowley was ahead of his time; he built cottages for his workers and the community had the serv- ices of a doctor, schoolmaster and a parson.

Caption For Aylesbury, St Mary's Church C1955

On the left are Hickman Charity houses; the jettied timber-framed cottages were bought and refurbished in the 1980s, and the timber-framing exposed. On the right is the old Grammar School.

Caption For Thurmaston, Melton Road C1965

Left alone, the buildings in Melton Road could have reverted to a village atmosphere, but the Council in its usual insensitive manner authorised the demolition of the cottages on the