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Childhood

I was born in London, and my family moved to Culberry Cottage in East Pennard when I was about 8yrs or 9yrs old.  That was a short but happy stay in the area amongst the farm lands, animals and walks in the fields picking wild ...Read more

A memory of East Pennard in 1951 by Brenda Carter

Going To The Post Office, Atterburries And Salvation Army On Sunday

My memories are of going to Mr Atturberries (the spelling of name may be wrong) to buy sweets and also just next door I think was the Salvation Army Hall, which a lot of the village ...Read more

A memory of Sompting in 1961 by Linda Milburn

Holiday In Rolleston

My mother was taken from Tamworth to Rolleston by her Grannie (nee Maria Pegg) for a holiday in a cottage. My mother remembers that the man in the cottage was a brewery worker. He used to bring black stuff like sweets ...Read more

A memory of Rolleston on Dove in 1930 by Ann Ball

Police Constable Curran

My great great grandfather Joseph Curran was a police officer and it appears as though he was the local police officer for Witton Gilbert. He certainly lived in Witton Gilbert in the 1881 and 1891 census but I have an ...Read more

A memory of Witton Gilbert in 1890 by Paul Curran

Bridge Cottage

Hi, Does anyone have any photos or memories of the Bridge House/Cottage in Bedwas that was an Indian restaurant for some time. We now own it and want to try and bring it back to the very early years. Many thanks if you do.

A memory of Bedwas by Tina Morgan

Helmshore 1950 1964

We lived at No 23 Broadway, Ronald my dad, Ruth my mum, Colin, me, Glenda and Kenneth. Next door was a working farm as the houses had only just been built. On Thursdays they used to run cows from the railway station to the ...Read more

A memory of Helmshore in 1950 by Harry Maden

Gamekeepers Cottage

I do not know Compton but lived as a child next door to a lady who was daughter of the local gamekeeper.  Her maiden name was Churchill, Hilda Churchill, with two sisters Mabel and Alice.  I have a watercolour ...Read more

A memory of Compton in 1910 by Mike Cowham

The Second Mckays

We have just read Anthony McKays memories of Barningham Hall. After they left my husbands family, also McKays, how about that for coincidence, moved in also as driver to Sir Charles. My husband Terry was nine at the time ...Read more

A memory of Barningham Hall by Pauline Mc Kay

More Childhood Memories

I was born in the cottage in the courtyard, the youngest of three. My brother, Tony, sister Sheila, who now lives not too far away from Matlask, and have some wonderful memories of the Hall. Summer days seemed ...Read more

A memory of Barningham Hall in 1950 by Peter Mackay

Where Is This Cottage

Does anyone know whereabouts in West Overton this cottage was and whether it is still standing.

A memory of West Overton

Captions

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Caption For Sedlescombe, The Village Pump C1955

Manor House is a 17th-century half-timbered house that has been converted into cottages.

Caption For Henley On Thames, Temple Island 1899

Next along were a range of old cottages, which were replaced around 1900 by the Little White Hart Hotel.

Caption For East Dereham, 1893

Washing dries in the breeze in the gardens of plain, mellow cottages.

Caption For Rugby, Caldecott Park 1932

Dunchurch, 4 miles to the south- west of Rugby, is a small village of thatched cottages and popular public houses and restaurants.

Caption For Guisborough, Westgate C1965

On the left, by the Hillman Imp, we see the opening created by the demolition of cottages in the early 1960s to make way for the town's Register Office and Library.

Caption For Market Harborough, The Grand Union Canal C1965

The cottage to the left and the elegant brick bridge would appear to be contemporary with the date of the canal.

Caption For Churchtown, The Parish Church C1955

Traditional thatched cottages lined the cobbled streets leading to the church. Outside it stands an ancient slim pillar; some villagers call it the cross and others the sundial.

Caption For Rosedale Abbey, The Green C1960

Much of the abbey stone was used to build the cottages - so from then the village could rightly be called Rosedale Abbey.

Caption For Inskip, The Church C1950

William Bramwell, born in a thatched cottage, heard the preaching of Christopher Hopper (who was known as 'son of thunder') and determined to establish Methodism in rural Fylde.

Caption For Shallowford, Izaak Walton's Cottage 2005

Howard was beatified as the Blessed William Howard by a decree of (Nick Thomas) Izaak Walton's cottage at Shallowford is one of Stafford's three heritage sites.

Caption For Thornton Hough, Village C1950

He also built a village school, the parish church, the vicarage and the row of terraced cottages in Church Street.

Caption For Flitton, The Barn, Brook Lane C1955

Typical of many older cottages in central Bedfordshire, the mixture of timber cladding, wattle and daub, tile and thatch gives The Barn a picture postcard look to be envied.

Caption For Gisburn, The Ribblesdale Arms C1950

The busy A59 road now divides Gisburn, but it still has its cobbled forecourts and white cottages in the main street. Here we will find the Ribblesdale Arms.

Caption For Coulsdon, The Recreation Ground C1960

Very few houses were in existence excepting the old thatched cottages facing the Chipstead Valley Road.

Caption For Enfield, The Rose And Crown, Clay Hill C1955

There were cottages in Bulls Cross Lane (now Bulls Cross), and there were two small settlements in Whitewebbs Lane-Romey Street (at the Bulls Cross End) and Whitewebbs proper (near the King and

Caption For Enfield, Hilly Fields C1955

There were cottages in Bulls Cross Lane (now Bulls Cross), and there were two small settlements in Whitewebbs Lane-Romey Street (at the Bulls Cross End) and Whitewebbs proper (near the King and

Caption For Ruislip, Bury Street C1955

The cottages are now shops, but the timber-framed gabled range adjacent remains in residential use.

Caption For Billesdon, Market Place C1955

The A47 Leicester-Uppingham road forms one side of the roughly triangular market place; although the photograph shows, in the main, modest cottages of 17th- and 18th-century date, more impressive houses

Caption For Hutton, The Village 1891

The author's grandmother was a Sunday School teacher at the mission house in the 1930s, 40s and 50s; she lived in one of the cottages in the village, and here the author's mother was born and brought

Caption For Hemel Hempstead, View From Adeyfield Road C1960

Marlowes itself was gradually developed with several fine villas and shops appearing amongst speculative building and shabby cottages.

Caption For Hemel Hempstead, Nash Mills 2005

Frogmore Mill, together with The Cottage, extended in 1927 to become the new boardroom for Apsley Mill, has survived to be transformed into a new venture, the Apsley Paper Trail.

Caption For Sheet, The Old Cooper Built Door 2004

before its demolition in the 1930s, but in 2005 its hemispherical two-part door can still be seen in good condition, not a mile away from its original position, gracing the front of an old cottage

Caption For Epsom, Horton Manor 1890

Their old, moated manor house became a farm; a few cottages and a blacksmith's shop remained around the junction of Horton Lane and Long Grove Road with a more substantial building at West Park farmhouse

Caption For Littleham, Cottages 1890

Littleham retains its village feel, though only a few ancient cottages have survived to cluster around the even older church.