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My Childhood Garden Part I

My mother has often said to me "You don't appreciate what you've got until you lose it". She is wrong, for I will never forget the wonderful garden of my childhood and write below the memories that I will hold for ...Read more

A memory of Shamley Green in 1954 by Patricia Clarke

My Childhood Garden Part Ii

Some months later, how long I cannot remember for the passing of time means little to a child, except that it always seemed so long for things to happen; but I found myself again seated in the back seat of another ...Read more

A memory of Shamley Green in 1954 by Patricia Clarke

My Childhood Garden Part V

Beside the strawberry bed grew a large cooking apple tree that produced enormous green apples. We had a variety of both eating and cooking apple trees in the garden, the fruit from which was harvested and then ...Read more

A memory of Shamley Green in 1954 by Patricia Clarke

18 Happy Years

We moved into Avon Carrow in November 1991, just after the M40 motorway had been extended to Warwick, and started the most rewarding living experience of our mature lives. The Carrow has an interesting history for such a ...Read more

A memory of Avon Dassett in 2009 by Ian Hiley

Growing Up

I was born in the former Mechanics Institute in Derwent Street, Blackhill in 1946 where my grandfather was the caretaker. My name was Ann Wall and my grandparents' name was Redshaw. My mother lived with my grandparents in the ...Read more

A memory of Blackhill in 1946 by Ann Westgarth

My Grandparents

My grandparents lived at Fern Cottage. They moved there before the war and had two children, Dick and Jean. Dick was based at Wick and died in the war. Jean, my mum, married and had me and my sister. I have wonderful ...Read more

A memory of Cropwell Bishop in 1960 by Richard Booth

How I Chose Somerton To Live

Whilst serving in the Fleet Air Arm at RNAS Yeovilton the squadron I was serving on had an organised function in the Red Lion and I well remember standing outside and saying to my brother, who was also on the same ...Read more

A memory of Somerton in 1975 by John Waller

Nether Wallop 1930 1940

My uncle, Sir Howard Button. bought 2 cottages, Mallows and Yew Tree Cottage and a house, Straw Hall, in 1915. I have an album of photographs of the cottages from 1915 - 1926. My uncle let us (my parents, my brother ...Read more

A memory of Nether Wallop in 1930 by John Donne

Old Bull Morris Men Dance At The Old Guinea Pub

The Old Bull Morris Men were based at the Old Bull Arts Centre in nearby Barnet and would regularly turn out to perform at pubs in south west Hertfordshire around 1979 - 1981. ...Read more

A memory of Ridge in 1980 by John Howard Norfolk

Totney House

The is a picture of Totney House on lower Kingsdown Road. I was captivated by this house as a small child walking past it, with its white-washed walls and thatched roof. I eventually got to go inside when a school ...Read more

A memory of Kingsdown by Paula Cope

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Captions

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Caption For Burnsall, On The River 1900

The church houses an 11th-century font and some fragments of Anglo-Saxon sculpture. At the oar of the boat is a woman - quite adventurous for 1900.

Caption For Dartmoor, The Warren House Inn 1931

Many a stranded traveller has had cause to thank The Warren House Inn at Postbridge.

Caption For Romsey, Broadlands 1898

Situated to the south of the town, overlooking the Test, Broadlands is an imposing porticoed house remodelled in classical style by 'Capability' Brown and John Holland in the mid 18th century.

Caption For Farncombe, The River C1955

The Godalming Navigation, the extension of the Wey Navigation added in 1760-2, can be explored from Farncombe Boat House either by boat or by walking along the agreeable towpath.

Caption For Chideock, Horse And Cart 1922

This is the junction with Mill Lane (left of centre) beside Roadstead House (right). Seahill Lane bends to the right, towards Seatown.

Caption For Kings Lynn, Tower Gardens C1965

Previously, this part of Greyfriars had been used to house cattle and other farm animals awaiting market.

Caption For Cremyll, Mount Edgcumbe House 1890

The building of Mount Edgecumbe House was started by Piers Edgecumbe in 1539 and remodelled in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Caption For Askrigg, The Market Cross C1955

Three-storied 18th-century town houses, including the bow-windowed front of the Sykes Temperance Hotel, line the Market Place of Askrigg, a pleasant village in Upper Wensleydale.

Caption For Southborough, Holden Corner 1896

On the extreme left, in Holden Road, is the substantial two-and-a-half storied Holder House, built of red brick around 1800 with a Doric-columned porch.

Caption For Dartmoor, The Warren House Inn 1931

The Warren House Inn, at over 1400 feet above sea level, has the distinction of being the highest pub in Devon and one of the highest in the country.

Caption For Norwich, Elm Hill 1929

This winding cobbled street, edged with handsome medi- eval timber-framed houses with flint-faced ground floors, was anciently known as Houndgate.

Caption For Brynmawr, Clydach From The Hafod Road C1955

Alongside it was the house belonging to the manager of the ironworks.

Caption For Merthyr Tydfil, Pontsarn C1955

The houses on the left are extremely old. The Monkey Puzzle tree is a symbol of good luck and a sign of wealth.

Caption For Alfriston, Market Square 1921

On the left is Market Cross House, now the Smugglers Inn. This was once the home of Stanton Collins, leader of the Alfriston gang of smugglers.

Caption For Polegate, High Street C1965

Today it stands amid a housing estate.

Caption For Calne, Harris's Factory C1960

To the left is the 1955 boiler house, with the top of the 100ft chimney built in 1918 just visible.

Caption For Norwich, Earlham Hall 1938

Earlham Hall is a complex 16th- and 17th-century house in brick and flint, with early 18th-century shaped gables. It is now the School of Law of the University of East Anglia.

Caption For Cleeve Hill, Golf Club House C1955

The club house we see here opened in 1938.

Caption For Batheaston, High Street C1960

Trams, originally horse-drawn, once ran along the same route.

Caption For Wellington, High Street C1955

It was redeveloped in 1885, when the old Market House Inn to its left became the post office, and again in 1937.

Caption For Basildon, Blenheim House And The Bus Terminus 1961

Blenheim House contained the Locarno (later Tiffany's Ballroom), where the resident group in the early 1960s were the pre-fame Dave Clark Five.

Caption For St Ives, The Harbour C1955

The days when boats were pulled up on the foreshore almost as far as the front doors of the houses are long gone.

Caption For Scawby, The Village C1960

More accurately, this is the rear of Church Street; modern detached houses have been developed in the allotment-style gardens.

Caption For Ingatestone, The Hall, The Gateway C1955

The Chantry Café probably occupies the site of the priest's house.