Places

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Maps

15 maps found.

1894, Halfway Houses Ref. RNE725026
1921, Halfway House Ref. POP725018
1924, Halfway Houses Ref. POP725022
1947, Halfway Houses Ref. NPO725022
1946, Halfway Houses Ref. NPO725026
1899, Halfway House Ref. RNE725018
1902, Halfway House Ref. RNC725018
1921, Halfway Houses Ref. POP725026
1903, Halfway Houses Ref. RNC725022
1947, Halfway House Ref. NPO725018
1896, Halfway Houses Ref. RNE725022
1897-1898, Halfway Houses Ref. RNC725026
1906, Halfway Houses Ref. HOSM53856
1881 - 1901, Halfway House Ref. HOSM47389
1878 - 1906, Edgcumbe Ref. HOSM47391

Books

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Memories

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Happy Childhood

I lived with my grandma Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bignell at No 10 Ten Cottages from 1943 to around 1948. The houses were Estate owned (and still are) and my grandad Robert Bignell worked at the manor house first as a shepherd and ...Read more

A memory of Wormleighton in 1946 by Geoff Taylor

Station Road Meopham

My parents moved into Station Rd in 1963, as a newly married couple. There was a terrace of new houses built in Station Rd in 1962/63 & theirs was the furthest house down the road, the end of the terrace, I think No.28? I ...Read more

A memory of Meopham in 1963 by Tracey Acton

The Two Bob Gun

At the top of Queens Road in Buckhurst Hill is a small newsagents shop. It was owned by the Mr & Mrs. Silk.  The shop sold papers magazines cigarettes, sweets and a few toys. Situated right across the road from where ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill by Denman Lalonde

Busk Crescent

Late in 1945 my parents moved to 25 Busk Crescent, in Cove. The house was on top of a hill and overlooked the Farnborough airfield. From the front bedroom you could see aircraft landing on the runway. The house was one of a string of ...Read more

A memory of Cove in 1945 by Alan Hickman

Holidays With Grandad

Thank you for showing the photo of Bank Houses, the house on the right was where my grandad lived and I spent a lot of very happy holidays there. His garden was aways full of lovely things to eat and as I lived in an ...Read more

A memory of Somersham in 1954 by Pamela Binns

A Day At Alum Chine In The 1960s

It's a few minutes before 8.30am, and I've just returned with the newspaper for Dad bought from the Riviera Hotel next door. I have to rush downstairs again in time to ring the gong for breakfast - Mr ...Read more

A memory of Westbourne in 1966 by Michael Bond

Talke A Forgotten Village

As you proceed north along the A34 towards the Cheshire border you will approach Talke traffic lights and on the left and right side of the road there are two areas of grassed land. This grassed area was once the village of ...Read more

A memory of Talke in 1959

Ashby Broadway

I lived in Ashby as a child, and when I started attending Ashby Girls' School on Ashby Turn, I had to walk from the bottom of Ashby to the top every day, rain or shine. When I was 11 in 1948, Broadway was nothing more than an ...Read more

A memory of Ashby in 1958 by Vivienne Johnson

The Lindens Rosgill

I was born in the large house halfway down the hill of the little hamlet of Rosgill, the house is called the Lindens. My childhood was wonderful. I rate my self a very lucky person indeed to have started my life in the lovely ...Read more

A memory of Rosgill in 1941 by David Hines

Growing Up In Woodford

Growing up during war years and having to spend many nights in the Anderson shelter at bottom of garden. School was only half days for a while and when my brother started he had to go to neighbouring houses where ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Green in 1940 by Patricia Lloyd

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Captions

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Caption For Birkenhead, Storeton Road And Halfway House Hotel 1954

A pub of the old school where the landlord caters for everyone from 18 to 80, the Halfway House (right) has been in continuous operation since 1893.

Caption For Forest Green, The Parrot Inn 1924

The area is rather romantically referred to as smugglers' country; it is said to have been a kind of halfway house between the Sussex coast and London, where contraband could be safely hidden

Caption For Little Baddow, Paper Mill Lock, River Chelmer C1960

Of the 11 locks on the Chelmer & Blackwater Navigation, this is something of a halfway house. It stands just upstream of the road to Hatfield Peverel, in an area sometimes known as World's End.

Caption For Great Chart, The Village 1908

Three small children play on the long village street leading up the hill to the church, lined with well-kept red-brick and timbered cottages and neat gardens, and with the Swan public house halfway along

Caption For Littleham, The Cranford Hotel C1965

The Cranford Hotel on the outskirts of the town began its existence as the Half Way House; it was transformed from a humbler inn to cater for the increase in visitors to the resort and the

Caption For Loose, Village 1898

The shingle spire of All Saints Church rises above the surrounding houses, while halfway up the hill is the Tudor timbered Old Wool House, in which the fleeces of sheep were washed.

Caption For Great Chart, The Village 1908

Three small children play on the long village street leading up the hill to the church, lined with well-kept red-brick and timbered cottages and neat gardens, and with the Swan public house halfway along

Caption For Loose, Village 1898

The shingle spire of All Saints Church rises above the surrounding houses, while halfway up the hill is the Tudor timbered Old Wool House, in which the fleeces of sheep were washed.

Caption For Abingdon, East St Helen Street 1890

Note the house halfway down the street on the left with six windows and a central pedimented doorcase. This is Unicorn House, No 28, which had its moment in history.

Caption For Albrighton, The Village 1899

Notice particularly the pot plants on the porch of the nearby house, and also the horse droppings in the roadway.

Caption For Woodbridge, Cross Corner C1955

Half way up on the right is the 18th-century red brick Arnot House.

Caption For Cropredy, Red Lion Street And Church C1955

The very narrow Red Lion Street in Cropredy (pronounced Cropreedy) is named after the Red Lion Inn, seen half way along the row of houses on the right.

Caption For Abergavenny, From Near The Station 1893

Mr Foster, the builder, showed his pride in his work by occupying the largest of the new houses.

Caption For Petersfield, Lavant Street 2004

A line of genteel houses is now an indifferent row of shops.

Caption For Birkenhead, Storeton Road And Halfway House Hotel 1954

The Half Way House Hotel is on the corner of Storeton Road and Woodchurch Road out towards Prenton.

Caption For Abergavenny, From Near The Station 1893

Mr Foster, the builder, showed his pride in his work by occupying the largest of the new houses.

Caption For Coxwold, The Village C1955

He gave the title of the book to his house, Shandy Hall, on the western edge of the village. Halfway down the village street on the left we can see the white-painted Fauconberg Arms.

Caption For Rusper, The Village 1909

The last remnants of the convent were demolished in 1781, and a house called 'The Nunnery' was built on the site. Avery's is a c1550 half-timbered house.

Caption For Pinner, High Street C1955

The remainder of the buildings have changed little, including an excellent early 18th-century brick-fronted house halfway up the hill.

Caption For Weybridge, Portmore Gateway 1903

These pillars are situated about halfway between the Thames and the town. They were originally part of the Portmore Park estate, which belonged to the Duke of Norfolk in the 17th century.

Caption For Stafford, Church Lane 2005

Until perhaps halfway through the last century the majority of people living in the town (Nick Thomas) A view of St Mary's Grove, opposite the Church.

Caption For Liverpool, Ranelagh Street C1950

The station concourse now houses a small shopping centre, and the entrance has been relocated to halfway between the sign shown in the picture and Lime Street.

Caption For Chailey Green, Village Green C1965

About five miles east of Haywards Heath (and halfway to Lewes) is Chailey, a scattered village whose centre is shown in the photographs.

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.