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An Ashbourne Childhood
My family moved to Ashbourne in 1942 when I was 6. I went to school at what must have been the last of the old "Dame" schools run by an elderly lady called Ethel Hunter. The school was at the top of a big house in Church ...Read more
A memory of Ashbourne in 1943
3 Into 1 Will Go!
Before being converted into a single house, probably in the 1960' or 1970s, there were three families living there, Mr and Mrs Feltham, Mrs May, and the Shears family. Before this, Mr and Mrs Cards lived there, and ...Read more
A memory of Broughton in 1940 by
Chirbury Road Wood Relatives
Some time in the 1980s, my mother Dorothy visited her gt-aunt Rhoda Wood (b1901), who had lived in the same cottage, 15 Chirbury Road, Montgomery, all her life, one of 10 children of Charles (b1849) and Ellen Wood ...Read more
A memory of Chirbury in 1900 by
My Village As A Child
I was born at Grainthorpe in 1945 at Chapel Hill Cottages to Jim and Ivy Holdsworth Dad was a Geordie who came to the village in 1943 with the Royal Ulster Rifles. My mother was Ivy Loughton and was brought up by her ...Read more
A memory of Grainthorpe
Single Street Berrys Green
Back in the 1950's I can remember living in No 1 Bertrey Cottages, Single Street very near Berrys Green. I can remember the Berrys Green Post Office where we could buy sweets by spending as little as a farthing. A ...Read more
A memory of Berry's Maple in 1950 by
My Old School
I went to Meonstoke School in 1976, soon after moving back to Hampshire from Cornwall. We lived for a while with my Gran Tricia Howe at Govers Cottage, who still lives there today! The School always smelt of Germolene!
A memory of Meonstoke in 1976 by
New House
I was born in Fiddington in 1947, in a very old thatch cottage, so I was told. we moved to Northway in 1950 to a new house in Elm Road - number 6. It was a three bed and living room and kitchen, we felt very pleased ...Read more
A memory of Northway in 1950 by
Childhood To Marriage
MY first memory of"LLan"was driving down the hill from Swffryyd, to my new home at No.6 High Street. My father Thomas Hughes, with my mother Eileen, had purchased Barttlets Grocery Store,a long held wish of my fathers to ...Read more
A memory of Llanhilleth by
That Morris Minor Traveller Has To Be Our Dad's Car!
My family lived at No 3 (the top flat), Corner House, at the top end of Broad Street, first on the left looking at the photo (but just out of the picture) for many years from 1947 or so. I ...Read more
A memory of New Alresford in 1947 by
The Post Office
My Aunty Evelyn ran the post office in Oxwich for many years. There was a huge orchard attached to the post office. Upon retirement, she had the bungalow built next door and lived there until her death. As a young boy, I lived in ...Read more
A memory of Oxwich in 1948 by
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The river is immediately beyond the road in front of Brick Alley Almshouses, but until 1884 there were cottages, a pub, warehouses and wharves fronting the river.
The street becomes East Road and was gated with a level crossing (in front of the thatched cottage) for the West Bay extension of the Bridport Railway, in use from 1884 to 1962.
The lodgings range became five cottages.
The old village consists of a number of small, picturesque thatched and timber-framed cottages to the west of the church and along a lane running west from the river bridge.
The name of this cottage is a reminder of a very important medieval and late medieval building tradition in this area, possibly associated with the abundance of oak trees in the Bernwood Forest and
The name of this cottage is a reminder of a very important medieval and late medieval building tradition in this area, possibly associated with the abundance of oak trees in the Bernwood Forest and
Roman remains are extant at Caldecott, but it is the later thatched and slated farmhouses, and rows of cottages (some with date panels) fronting onto the High Street which present a unified entity
In the photograph, a butcher's shop front (left) with its rather flimsy canopy has been built into a rather good 17th- century cottage.
The View North-West This thoroughfare was originally lined with workers' cottages, but from about 1865 many of these dwellings were converted into shops.
The Foresters Cottages, in the right foreground, were to be demolished in a few years after the photograph was taken, but were saved and extensively restored in the 1960s through the Hertfordshire Building
In nearby Westbury Leigh, part of the parish of Westbury, cloth mills and weavers' cottages remind us of its past.
In the distance can be seen the jettied row of cottages, now offices, which identify the 1906 photograph.
On St Anne's Old Links, Granny Fisher of Cross Slack Cottages supplied golfers with refreshments. This lady had twins four times!
The thatched cottage was used by Spurgeon the butcher and then by Mace the cobbler; it is now a florist's.
The lane past Fountain Cottage leads to the quiet surroundings of All Saints' Church.
Built by Archbishop Warham in the early 16th century, this small manor house, consisting of a three-storey brick tower, a gallery (later turned into cottages), and the single-storey storehouse beyond
The battlemented tower of St Bartholomew's (left) just shows above the row of rather good brick and tile cottages, into which the post office has been thrust.
On the right, all the red brick cottages went about 1900 to be replaced by the buildings seen in view 49245.
The Rover 90 is parked outside a row of late 19th-century terraced cottages. These have been replaced by a row of similar, but modern, terraced houses.
This view is of Pirbright Lock, No 15; we are looking past the lock keeper's cottage (then a café, now a private house) to the girder bridge across the canal.
The cottage with the smoking chimney was rebuilt in about 1910, and houses the Clifton Hampden Post Office and General Stores.
The lock keeper's cottage is not of 1809: it was, like many others, rebuilt by the Thames Conservancy, in this case in 1958.
In the foreground, the cottages are roofed in attractive pantiles, a common material in this part of the county.
The battlemented tower of St Bartholomew's (left) just shows above the row of rather good brick and tile cottages, into which the post office has been thrust.
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