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Maps

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Memories

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Rose View

1970 - 1984: As you look at this photo the last building on the right, the barn like cottage with the small window, is Rose View. My mum and dad bought it for £1,000 in 1970, and set to work modernising it as I was due 1971 and my brother ...Read more

A memory of Polgooth in 1970 by Tami Cross Halls

Great Part Of The Village

1970's and 80's: We had a great childhood playing at this end of the village. It was quiet except for the cars of people that lived up here. Everyone knew each other. My old house is in the background, all you can see is ...Read more

A memory of Polgooth in 1980 by Tami Cross Halls

The Towpath Where The Boats Were Moored Later On

There used to be a very large weeping willow there that used hang over the river. We used to cast underneath it as fish used to congregate under it. This is the bank where I did most of my fishing ...Read more

A memory of Harlow in 1949 by Eddie Tait

Saving The Shipwrecked Sailors

Robert and Donald Mapleston and were excellent swimmers.  (Their sister, my Great Grandmother, Anne Mapleston Jackson, passed away in 1944.)  They lit bonfires to warn the ships, but when a ship wrecked they used a ...Read more

A memory of Land's End in 1870 by Susan Ramagli

My Short Life In Gillingham Kent

I was born in a naval nursing home called "Canada House" on the 18th November 1954. I was the first child and boy - I was spoilt. I went to school at Byron Road Infants school until I was 6 then we moved to ...Read more

A memory of Gillingham in 1960 by Frances Fagg

Penton Camp Club

The Penton Camp Club started in about 1903. Its members included the Manager of Martin's Bank, London, the manager of the Drury Lane Theatre and many other rich men. They would come by train to Staines, the old station at the ...Read more

A memory of Penton Hook in 1900 by Su Knight

Chisholm Cottage

My great-great-great grandparents lived opposite Wesley Chapel in the late 1800s, behind the trees on the right-hand-side of the 1901 Wesley Chapel photo. During the 1830s, Richard JACK (b1813) and some of his brothers moved to ...Read more

A memory of Hartlepool in 1880 by Vivienne Hooper

Happy Childhood Holidays

I say 1950 for the year my memory relates to but in fact my memories cover from around 1946 to 196 I've only just found this web site for "Memories" although have looked at the site before and what nostalgia it has ...Read more

A memory of Llwyngwril in 1950 by Margaret Garrod

Flood

I was sent off to buy some bread by my mother. But crossing the river Crouch by the bridge was impossible.  Wickford was under water. I don't recall the year. But the brand name of the bread was: Wheatchief. I used to buy sandpaper in Mays ...Read more

A memory of Wickford by Nicole Laine

Saturdays

I went to Ferndale nearly every Saturday with my Mum and brother to visit my grandparents and my Great Aunt and Uncle. My grandparents, the Gambles, lived in Brynhyfryd and we would get off the bus at the bottom of the hill on the Strand ...Read more

A memory of Ferndale by Deb Page

Captions

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Caption For West Huntspill, High Road C1960

West Huntspill, which we see here, grew from a conglomeration of agricultural hamlets straggling across the Levels.

Caption For Ipswich, Corn Exchange 1893

Built in 1882, the Corn Exchange continued in use as such right up until 1972.

Caption For Ranworth, Feeding Broadland Ducks C1930

On the right of the group, three young ducklings are hitching a ride on their mothers' backs. Reed beds can be clearly seen at the far edge of the broad, with trees on land behind.

Caption For Southport, The Sands 1921

Mums and children gather round to watch the antics of Punch and Judy, or buy an ice cream from Robinson and Eastwood's stall.

Caption For Salisbury, New Canal C1950

This view is looking back towards the High Street.The Southern Daily Echo (now the Southern Evening Echo) still exists, but not its Salisbury office.The famous clock above Electric House is still there.The

Caption For Ickham, The Church 1903

This fine Early English church, set back from the village and behind a narrow green, boasts a raised 13th-century chancel and a tapering, shingled broach spire.

Caption For Southport, The Sands 1921

Mums and children gather round to watch the antics of Punch and Judy, or buy an ice cream from Robinson and Eastwood's stall.

Caption For Newlyn, Old Fisherwoman 1906

The fisher women of Newlyn clustered at the fish-stalls with their 'cowels', baskets carried on their backs, which were supported by a band passed round their foreheads.

Caption For Daventry, Recreation Ground C1965

The Recreation Ground, known as 'the Rec', was purchased by public subscription started in 1887, the year of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee.

Caption For Horndean, The Village C1955

Horndean began as a result of the 18th-century turnpike road.

Caption For Gidea Park, Main Road C1960

By the 1930s the tiny hamlet of Hare Street had been swallowed up into Gidea Park.

Caption For Kirkby Lonsdale, Main Street 1908

This is the scene looking back down Kirkby's Main Street towards the Royal Hotel, which can just be seen in the distance.

Caption For Nunney, Frome Road From Church Tower C1960

Here we see Nunney at the north-east end. The house in the foreground, built in 1820, was the church school house until 1896, when it became known as the Church Rooms.

Caption For Carew, From North West 1893

The west range of the castle to the right dates back to the 13th century, whereas the heavily fenestrated north range to the left is Elizabethan, the work of Sir John Perrot, half-brother

Caption For Preston, The Post Office And War Memorial C1960

The Main General Post Office is on the left of the photograph. Gone are the days when it opened seven days a week from 7.30am to late in the evening.

Caption For Polegate, The Road To Jevington C1955

Back into Willingdon, continue north to turn towards Jevington, through Wannock, and onto the scenic Jevington Road.

Caption For Robin Hoods Bay, 1901

With a little imagination, it is almost possible to smell the uncovered weed drying in the sun, as a lonely figure tramps with bowed back along the lower part of the slipway towards the boat trolley,

Caption For Instow, From Appledore 1890

Instow grew as a resort town at the mouth of the Torridge in the 1830s, and most of the terraces and villas on the shore in this picture date from then.

Caption For Southwell, The Saracens Head C1955

Frith's photographer was looking back through the carriageway towards Church Street straight ahead.

Caption For Southwell, Market Place C1960

Frith's photographer was looking back through the carriageway towards Church Street straight ahead.

Caption For Ashton Keynes, High Road C1955

This Wiltshire village is known locally as the village of four crosses, all medieval.

Caption For Tilbury, Ferry C1960

A little further east along the Essex shore our photographer reaches Tilbury and continues his maritime theme; he firmly turned his back on the remarkable 1670s Tilbury Fort, built by a Dutch engineer

Caption For Combeinteignhead, The Church And The Village 1890

Combeinteignhead takes its name from the valley which runs down to the Teign estuary at Combe Cellars.

Caption For Oxford, Union Club 1890

The Oxford Union consists of various buildings in the style of the Gothic Revival which date back to the Victorian and Edwardian eras.