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Researching Ancestors

On Sunday 21st Feb 2010 my mother, family and I visited Hinton Charterhouse to look for information on the Wiltshire family who lived in the High Street. We found the bow window house that was a butchers shop and ...Read more

A memory of Hinton Charterhouse in 2010 by Nic Hall

My Village In Youth

I was born in Wellington in 1936 and grew up there for the first 10 years,living in No 3 Rumwell Cottages in the centre of the village. I remember just before D-Day all of the American troops passing our house on the way to ...Read more

A memory of Rumwell in 1944 by John Naylor

Parham House

Does anyone have any information about Parham House. I believe that it was a residential school in the 60's - 70's run by a Mrs Russell. I wonder if there are any records surviving from this period? Regards Hilary Player

A memory of Saxmundham in 1970

White City/Newburn Road.

We came to live at 12 Hewley Crescent in 1950. My gran, Mrs Knight, lived on Newburn Road, at that time she only had gas lighting and cooking. She had electricity installed in 1955 for the FA Cup on TV, she had a ...Read more

A memory of Throckley in 1950 by Richard Lowes

Short But Happy Memory

Our family lived in Walnut Tree Ground for just about a year in 1963. I went to the village school at Kimpton, having just passed my 11-plus in Manchester. From Kimpton I went to Andover Grammar. Always remember ...Read more

A memory of Fyfield in 1963 by Reginald Whitney

I Lived At Ferry Inn In 1952

I Lived At Rosneath, Ferry Inn. My father was in the Navy and we lived at Ferry Inn during 1952. There were three other families living there, the Thorntons and the Burtons. The Burtons were related to Shackleton, ...Read more

A memory of Rosneath

No Paths

I can remember moving into our house in Rivermill in 1958. The houses had only just been built. There were no paths leading up to the houses or pavements and roads. It was a wonderful feeling even for a child of three to be walking into a freshly built house that no one else had lived in.

A memory of Harlow in 1958 by Janet James

Rodwells

I was landlord of The New Inn public house in Bridge Street and dealt wih Rodwells over the years The lorry is delieveing to the A.B.C. Off licence shop. both Rodwells and A.B.C. have ceased to exist. Mike Hall

A memory of Buckingham in 1965 by Michael Hall

Cargo Fleet

When I look back, they were probably the best years of my life though I didn't think so at the time, my mam had parted from my dad, I was 12, had never heard of Cargo Fleet, had lost my dad and was taken to this place Id never ...Read more

A memory of Cargo Fleet in 1968 by Alison Jones

Lingfield

Jean Chambers mentioned the bomb dropping on the school in 1943 - my parents shop (John Banks Outfitters) was almost opposite the school and I was born at the end of 1943 being given my second name of "Heather" after Heather Lumsden ...Read more

A memory of Lingfield by Susan Banks

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Captions

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Caption For Dorking, Coldharbour Lane 1907

A meeting house was established in West Street in 1719, which survived until 1834.

Caption For Launceston, Newport 1935

Just visible inside the Round House is the broken granite stump of the old Newport Cross, which from 1529 to 1831 was the spot at which Newport's two MPs were declared.

Caption For Huddersfield, Beaumont Park C1960

public meeting to win support for the acquisition of the Greenhead estate, including Gledholt Glen (now known as T P Woods after former owner, T P Crosland), to prevent the encroachment of housing

Caption For Gunnislake, Dimson 1906

Industrial housing is dominated by the tall chimney stack and circular kiln complex of the Plymouth Brickworks at North Dimson. Fire bricks were produced here in the second half of the 19th century.

Caption For Otterton, Village 1906

Originally granted to the monks of St Michel in Normandy, Otterton's priory remained an important religious house until Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries.

Caption For Carperby, Village And Cross 1914

The square house, centre, dates from 1908.

Caption For Hemingford Abbots, Common Lane 1914

Hemingford Abbots is an attractive collection of brick, timbered and thatched cottages and houses, which originally started as just a small hamlet gathered around the church, but which subsequently grew

Caption For Hatfield Heath, The Post Office C1965

Further along the row is an attractive thatched house. Horses outside the post office give a rural air to this scene.

Caption For Paignton, The Pier C1965

The pier is somewhat changed, and now houses pin-tables, ghost rides and go-karts.

Caption For Grange Over Sands, Promenade 1936

Very little remains of Clare House Pier. The promenade is busy with people, a number of whom are partaking of refreshments at tables outside the tearooms.

Caption For Caldecott, The Green C1955

The Plough Inn and the surrounding houses are mostly built of local stone and tiled with Collyweston slate.

Caption For Bromyard, Church Street C1960

The timber building at the far end is known as the Bible House.

Caption For Plaxtol, Rats Castle 1901

This rambling 15th-century hall house has changed little over the years. It is inscribed with the initials of Stephen Chilman, who modernised it in the 17th century. Today it is a private home.

Caption For Stratford Upon Avon, Shakespeare's Garden 1922

The restoration was directed at putting the house into a representation of what it might have looked like in 1564. The garden was planted out with trees and flowers mentioned in the Bard's works.

Caption For Crichel House, The Lake And House 1904

An older building burnt down in 1742; the house we see here was erected soon afterwards by the Napier family.

Caption For Market Bosworth, Market Place C1955

Time stands still on a summer's afternoon, with houses going back four hundred years placed all around the square. The market is still held here, and buyers and sellers come in from miles around.

Caption For Hawkhurst, Colonade 1904

The photographer moved back down the road and caught the colonnade of shops, one of Hawkhurst's best known features; this is an early 19th-century shopping arcade with weatherboarded houses and cast-iron

Caption For Staithes, The Harbour 1927

A view of Staithes harbour showing, in the background, the two rows of houses known as Cowbar.

Caption For Sandhurst, Village 1939

Cars have replaced horses, and just out of shot, on the right, would be the Rose and Crown public house. Today, the Post Office, the first building on the right, is a bathroom showroom.

Caption For Pangbourne, The Bridge And The Old George 1899

A late 19th-century advertisement for the George Hotel reads: 'This house, being in the centre of the picturesque scenery of Pangbourne, affords every accommodation for tourists, boating parties or

Caption For Newbury, The Weavers' Cottages And The Canal C1955

A late 19th-century advertisement for the George Hotel reads: 'This house, being in the centre of the picturesque scenery of Pangbourne, affords every accommodation for tourists, boating parties

Caption For Rugby, Caldecott Park 1932

Another recreation ground available to Rugbeians was the Whitehall Recreation Ground on Hillmorton Road, which housed a 28-ton, armoured First World War tank presented to the town in 1919,

Caption For Formby, The Village C1960

Many of the shops on both right and left had only recently been, or were yet to be, converted from private dwelling houses.

Caption For Guisborough, Westgate C1965

On the extreme right is Kemplah House, a private preparatory school run by Miss MacDonald and originally the residence of Mr Clarke.