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Living In Hiscott Circa 1970s

My name is Jeremy Silwood and I stayed in Hiscott farm in the early 1970s with the family of Mr and Mrs Adair. I met Dianne Adair at a club one evening with my then friend Alistair Symons of Crawley in West Sussex and ...Read more

A memory of Hiscott in 1972 by Jeremy Silwood

Growing Up In Trent Park

I remember the day we moved to Rookery Cottages, Trent Park. A fine warm spring day. I had just turned 7 years old and the date was 7th May 1959. At least I'm sure it was the seventh. Dad opened the door and the smell ...Read more

A memory of Cockfosters in 1959 by Kevin Williams

Born And Bred

I was born in Great Bridge when it was a thriving centre. One could get absolutely anything there, from wet fish, tailored suits to model aeroplanes! I attended Tipton Grammar School, from 1962 to 67- which I hated. I remember a ...Read more

A memory of Tipton in 1966

Stockton Road

I was born in Flixton before moving with my parents to Stockton Road Chorlton-Cum-Hardy. At the time my dad was working at Metrovicks in Trafford Park before getting a job working for the MOD at The Royal Ordinance Factory ...Read more

A memory of Chorlton-cum-Hardy in 1941

Royal Merchant Navy School Bearwood

The Royal Merchant Navy School As far back as 1827 the Royal Merchant Navy School was established under the name of the Merchant Seaman's Orphan Asylum to provide a home for the destitute offspring of ...Read more

A memory of Winnersh by Sylvia Lambert

Old Stowey

My parents bought Old Stowey from Major Enderby, sadly after my father's death in 1970 the place was sold for 50.000 complete with farm workers cottages & 600 acres. I now see it's on the market with 40 acres for 1.5 ...Read more

A memory of Timberscombe in 1970 by Fiona Blyth

Recollections Of Pitsea From 1941 Onwards

Born in Northlands Drive, Pitsea in 1938, my first recollection was aged 3 years when I remember being put to bed in a cot under the kitchen table during an air raid. We had an Andersen shelter in the ...Read more

A memory of Pitsea in 1940 by Mike Perry

Noneley 2010

My name is Stephen Geary and my partner, Jodie Flynn, an Australian, and I live at Noneley Hall with our 4 four children, Charles (16), Abigail (14), Teddy (22m) and Madeleine (4m). The house was the farmhouse for Noneley Hall Farm, ...Read more

A memory of Noneley in 2010 by Stephen Geary

The Horse Racing Years

My father purchased Waygateshaw House, the Gatehouse, and 27 acres from Mr Campbell in 1989 for an equestrian pursuit, namely training racehorses. We were called Silverbell Racing. We had many visitors from the racing ...Read more

A memory of Crossford in 1989 by Catherine Ratter Scott

Childhood Home

I lived at Gastard House from 1953-1967. By that time it had been converted into flats, and we had the ground floor. There were other children there as well, and we had acres of space to play, in spite of part of the gardens being ...Read more

A memory of Gastard by Kay Millard

Captions

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Caption For Cadair Idris, From Cross Foxes C1960

Near Cross Foxes, a tract of land on the slopes of Cadair Idris known as the Tir Stent carries an unusually nutritious vegetation, which supports more sheep per acre than the poor acid soils elsewhere

Caption For Havering Atte Bower, Pyrgo Park 1910

Parts of the estate, some 571 acres, were being offered as building plots by 1920, and were sold to developers by 1935.

Caption For Brimfield, C1955

Cars and buses are no longer allowed to park among the weird and wonderful gritstone formations of Brimham Rocks, near Pateley Bridge in Nidderdale, as they were when this photograph was taken.

Caption For Windsor, Castle Hill 1914

Windsor Castle is the largest inhabited castle in the world – it covers 13 acres.

Caption For New Brighton, Pier And Parade 1892

In 1830 a retired builder from Everton, James Atherton, bought 170 acres of sandhills on the northern tip of the Wirral, with the aim of creating a new seaside resort to rival Brighton.

Caption For Coldharbour, Main Street 1957

Behind the pub and the house rears the wooded slopes of Anstiebury Camp, one of Surrey's finest Iron Age hillforts, dating from the second century BC; its ramparts enclose over 11 acres.

Caption For Birmingham, Corporation Street 1896

Described in 1890 as a 'handsome modern thoroughfare', Corporation Street was the result of a massive redevelopment of 93 acres of slums.

Caption For Hill Head, C1955

The road leads all the way round the shore here, and today there is a car park behind the third building.

Caption For Glasgow, The Botanic Gardens 1897

The Botanic Gardens occupy 43 acres off Great Western Road, and many orchids, tropical plants and trees are grown in its conservatories.

Caption For Ringwood, Avon Castle 1891

With its 13-acre grounds and Avon river frontage, the castle became a popular weekend retreat for Turner Turner's many friends.

Caption For Eastchurch, High Street C1955

In 1895 it comprised over 7,000 acres of land and 950 of tidal water and foreshore.

Caption For Cockington Village, The Village 1896

This view of Cockington is almost exactly the same today, thanks to the Mallocks of nearby Cockington Court: this is a 17th-century mansion that stands in 450 acres of parkland, and is now owned, along

Caption For Shaftesbury, Town Hall And St Peter's Church C1902

The hilltop town of Shaftesbury has wide views over Blackmoor Vale and thousands of acres of rolling Dorset countryside.

Caption For Runcorn, Cemetery 1894

It covers an area of 13 acres.

Caption For Wimborne, From The River C1960

The camp covered about 40 acres, and was occupied for 20 years.

Caption For Wyre Forest, Hawkbatch Visitor Centre 2003

All offer acres of beautiful woodland.

Caption For Fawley, The Falcon Inn C1955

Fawley is home to the Esso oil refinery, which lies to the south of the parish; it started operating in 1951, and covers 3,000 acres.

Caption For Belton, Belton House 1904

North of Grantham, set in its seven hundred acre landscaped deer park, Belton House was begun in 1685; it is architecturally conservative for that date with its cupola and balustraded flat roof.

Caption For Thorpeness, Festival Singing On The Meare C1955

The 65-acre Meare (the correct spelling at fantasy Thorpeness) was dug out of marshland to provide a boating lake for children.

Caption For Liverpool, Sefton Park Bridge 1887

A Frenchman, M Andre, a gardener, and Liverpool's Mr Lewis Hornblower, architect, won that competition, and set about transforming the 233 acres bought from the Earl of Sefton.

Caption For Garstang, Nicky Nook C1955

It is situated in the parish of Nether Wyresdale, one of the most extensive in the Rural District, an area of 4,244 acres of fertile agricultural land.

Caption For Bretby, The Hall C1955

Bretby Hall, or Bretby Park, which stands in its own 600-acre park near Burton on Trent, is a mock-Gothic, castellated pile built in 1813 by Sir Jeffrey Wyatville; it is now used as a hospital.

Caption For Orford, Yachting At The Quay C1960

In 1993 the National Trust purchased the 1500-acre site, which was opened to the public in 1995.

Caption For Gidea Park, The Golf Course C1955

The Romford Golf Club, when it was founded, leased 90 acres of land from the Gidea Hall Estate.