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Valence Park

During the 1940's my Mother worked as a part time Park Keeper at Valence Park, I and my older sister spent many hours in the park, it was the safest place to be during an air raid, I remember the doodle bug hitting the houses in ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham in 1944 by Terry Mayo

Growing Up In The War Years In Prees & Whitchurch

Although I was born in Whitchurch [Bark Hill], we moved to Prees soon after. However, I was sent to stay with my grandmother most weekends and for a period I was sent to the Wesleyan school. My ...Read more

A memory of Whitchurch in 1940 by Jean Mary Copnall

Bombing Of Morland Avenue

Written by my mother when she was 70. She lived in Swaisland Road I think one of the things you would have noticed was the number of barrage balloons all around, high in the sky. The first sound of guns which we heard ...Read more

A memory of Dartford in 1945

My Grandparent's Home

I received  information from my cousin Leslie about this photo. Now that I have found it I am delighted. My grandparents were Thomas Benjamin Fairminer (1881-1954) who married Louisa Florence Smith (1880 - 1944). They ...Read more

A memory of Frimley Green by Joyce Hunt

St Mark's School In The 1960s

I too have wonderful memories of going to St Mark's, the teachers I remember are Mr Freemantle, Mrs Carmichael, Miss Holmes, Miss Catherine and Mr Legg.  The headmistress at the time was Miss Bowley, who everyone was ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham by Yvonne Harris

Abridge In The 1950's

I moved to Abridge in 1950 when I was ten years old. My parents bought the white cottage on the London Road, which had a wooden building next to it. This very soon became The Poplar Cafe, my mother’s dream of riches! I ...Read more

A memory of Abridge in 1955 by Helena Rogers

Dr Barnardos

I was one of the children at the home from 1950 to 1952 and remember Mrs Gunn the matron. It was a beautiful house with lovely gardens. We had quilts on our beds and every night I would go round the room and pick up all the teddies ...Read more

A memory of Westerham in 1950 by Margaret Cadger

Mulben Station 1901 1909

My grandfather, Robert Urquhart, was a Signalman/ Porter, employed by the Highland Railway. He had served at Forres and Elgin before transferring to Mulben, about 1901. Robert (Bob) and wife Margaret (Maggie) already had ...Read more

A memory of Mulben in 1900 by R Urquhart

The Southam Family

My great-grandfather William Southam was born in 1829 in Catesby in Northamptonshire. He married Eliza Green, born Wormleighton, Warks. They lived in Ladbroke, Warks, in a cottage next to the School House that still exists but ...Read more

A memory of Ladbroke in 1870 by Patricia Butler

Pit Village In My Youth

My name is Ken Orton and I lived in Thornley from 1947 until 1974, the year I married. I was born in Shadforth but my parents moved from there to Thornley when I was about one month old. We lived at 72, Thornlaw North until ...Read more

A memory of Thornley by Kenneth Orton

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Caption For Hixon, Green Man Inn C1955

In the 19th century the Bank House brewed its own beer: the wall and steps of the malt kiln and the cellar can be seen on the right.

Caption For Gerrans, The Village C1955

The houses and telephone box are the same today, but a public toilet has replaced the hedge on the left.

Caption For Hermitage, Slanting Hill C1955

Several substantial new houses have been built on the left of the road in recent years.

Caption For Hope Under Dinmore, The Church C1955

Stagecoaches would have been forced to stop here to pay their toll at the toll house overlooking the junction. Notice the AA phone box, a common sight around the countryside in the 1950s.

Caption For Coventry, St Michael's Church, Interior C1884

St Michael’s housed six chapels belonging to the town’s dyers, cappers, mercers, smiths, girdlers, and

Caption For Egremont, Promenade 1902

At first he built himself a house which he named Egremont, after his home town in Cumbria, and the name spread from there.

Caption For Astbury, The Village And Church 1902

The ivy-clad cottages facing the village green were built in the 19th century for agricultural workers, and are an example of the general improvement in housing for estate workers.

Caption For Weston Super Mare, Pier 1904

The pavilion at the end of the pier housed a 2,000-seat theatre where all the top music hall stars of the day appeared.

Caption For Wickford, High Street C1950

The shrubs conceal Ladybrow, a former doctor's house and surgery. It was demolished in the late 1960s, and the site is now occupied by the Ladygate Shopping Centre.

Caption For Falmouth, Jacobs Ladder 1924

It was built in the 1830s by the builder and tallow-chandler Jacob Hamblen to create a direct, if somewhat exhausting, route between his shop and house.

Caption For Colchester, The Sign Of The Old Rose And Crown C1955

A range of 15th- and 16th-century timber- framed houses, some jettied, the Rose and Crown follows the curve of a lane linking Ipswich Road and East Street.

Caption For North Walsham, Market Place 1921

The fine timber-framed Market Cross of 1602 replaced the 1549 one, which was destroyed along with more than 100 houses in a disastrous fire in 1600.

Caption For Lowestoft, The Yacht Basin C1960

Yachts and motor launches idle in the Yacht Basin under the gaze of the Royal Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club, housed in the startling white building at the end of the harbour.

Caption For Oundle, West Street C1950

The Victoria Inn on the left of the picture is now a private house. Oundle School occupies many buildings in and around the town.

Caption For Newnham, The Cottage C1955

Here we look up School Hill, past New Cottage (new in 1716 when built) to Stone House.

Caption For Fulbourn, High Street C1950

Down by the crossroads is the Six Bells public house, while to the left, the church is one of only two in England dedicated to Saint Vigor.

Caption For Ambleside, Bridge House 1912

Easily the most famous and most photographed building in Ambleside is Bridge House, a tiny one-up, one-down building constructed on a bridge over the Stock Beck.

Caption For Hitchin, Park Street 1901

The lane to the right leads to Gosmore, and at the top of the hill in front of us, hidden by the bushes, is the Moorhens public house. The footpath follows the original level of the road.

Caption For Bradford, Post Office, Forster Square C1950

The fine open square also housed the nearby Midland Station and warehouses.

Caption For Maldon, Market Hill 1909

, with onlookers watching the Frith photographer, who has set up his camera where Market Hill turns sharply to descend to Fullbridge Flow Mill and a bridge over the River Chelmer.The tall house

Caption For Holloway, Lea Hurst 1892

This 17th-century gabled house with mullioned windows was greatly enlarged by her father in 1825, and she returned home here after the war in 1856.

Caption For Kingsteignton, The Village 1906

It is now a private house, and is reputed to be haunted.

Caption For Plymouth, View From The Hoe C1876

The large block of houses on the point at centre left still stands and is now mostly hotels.

Caption For Eastbourne, Marine Parade 1925

Most of the Victorian terrace houses beyond survive; this section of the promenade ends at The Redoubt, another Napoleonic fort.