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Life In The Village Shop 1944 To 1955

I moved in with my parents (Mr and Mrs Saffin), towards the end of the war. The Canadians were stationed in the huge houses dotted around the village - I was only 10 at the time but I remember the Canadian ...Read more

A memory of Woldingham in 1944

Park Road North

We moved to 192 Park Road north in 1967, next door to the shop. We used to visit our nan and aunties at No.160 and always called in to the shop for sweets, the old couple who ran the shop were really nice, they sold great ice ...Read more

A memory of Birkenhead in 1967 by Tony Davenport

Ice Skating

I was stationed at Kenley in the RAF and used to go ice skating nearly every day, walking down from Kenley. I still ice skate, I have been to all the London ice rinks and Hampton Court and my regular one at Guildford. I am 84 next week.

A memory of Croydon in 1947 by Derek Earl

Collard & Collard Grand Piano At Arlington Court

Today I had a wonderful experience at the National Trust property, Arlington Court. The stewards on duty allowed me to play their grand piano in the main hall and it was a wonderful instrument made ...Read more

A memory of Arlington in 2012 by John Howard Norfolk

Exciting And Interesting Times

Not sure if anyone reads their comments later in life, but in response to one, it was Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers. Cliff lived in Long Lane, next door to where I lived when I was 3 or 4. We lived in the ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge in 1968 by Nick Brown

Raf Herscha Hill

I, along with two others at any one time, was posted to the RAF fixer station on Herscha Hill. We stayed with Miss Bella Scott at a house called Noranside, halfway up Kintore Street. I was there from 2 Feb 1954 to mid-November ...Read more

A memory of Auchenblae in 1954 by Michael Pollitt

Phil & John's Amazing Journey Part 2 Football, Pubs, Old Friends

Stopping briefly outside the Working Men’s Club, the meeting place on Saturday lunchtimes for us Groby footballers before away games, we pass the chippy, the old blacksmiths where the old ...Read more

A memory of Groby in 1970

Gods Little Corner

I first went to Streatley in 1965 where I started to court my wife whose name was Susan Adams then. We used to go for walks over Sharpenhoe Clappers and come back to the Chequers Pub and see Hilda and ...Read more

A memory of Streatley in 1966 by John Allen

Wonderful Memories

We moved Middleton Stoney in 1954 from Weston on the Green (the lay-by transport cafe and garage). We lived in Ardley Road, in the brick house next to PA Turneys and opposite the Jersey Arms. The Varneys lived next ...Read more

A memory of Middleton Stoney in 1954 by Robert Ingram

Happy Days

I have lived in Australia for 42 years now, But I started my married life in Mitcham, Our first home was in Glebe Court and my inlaws lived a floor above us. I loved the area around the Fair Green, I worked part time in Huttons Fish ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1954 by Daphne Sheppard

Captions

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Caption For Saundersfoot, St Bride's Hotel, Composite C1955

At this time the hotel offered numerous facilities, including 50 bedrooms, bedside lights in all rooms, electric fires in first-floor rooms, a tennis court, a putting green, television, a

Caption For Southport, Cambridge Hall 1902

Further along is the Town Hall, which was built in 1854; it also housed the police court and post office.

Caption For Cambridge, The Bridge Of Sighs 1890

Joining the two courts of St John's College on either side of the River Cam is the Bridge of Sighs. It borrows the idea of the covered bridge from the one of the same name in Venice.

Caption For Hastings, The Castle 1925

William Rufus held court here, at the head of his army, awaiting a chance to slip across to Normandy.

Caption For Crickhowell, High Street C1965

The columns on the left are on the front of the Market Hall below the old court house. Next door to the Bear Hotel is Kirkland's the chemist's.

Caption For Lancaster, The Castle C1950

It would be up this walk that the Assize Judge and his entourage would walk on Assize Court days; the judge's man would carry the black cap used for passing the sentence of death.

Caption For Brasted, C1955

Adam in local stone for the court physician of George III, John Turton, for services rendered.

Caption For Saundersfoot, From St Bride's 1933

On the right is the Barbecue restaurant, originally Bonville's Court Colliery Office. Following a fire in 1913, the building was reconstructed.

Caption For Saundersfoot, Cambrian Terrace 1949

On the right is the Barbecue restaurant, originally Bonville's Court Colliery Office. Following a fire in 1913, the building was reconstructed.

Caption For Beer, The Village C1955

In the foreground is the Beach House Hotel, now Beach Court (left), with the Marine Snack Bar on the opposite side of the road.

Caption For Bolton, Smithill's Hall 1894

Smithill's Hall occupies a site where, according to tradition, a chapel dedicated to the Blessed Virgin was consecrated in AD793 and the wandering court of King Egbert, father of Alfred the Great, was

Caption For Wimborne, Dean's Court Lane C1955

The gateposts mark the entrance to the Dean's Court Estate - the griffins' heads represent the Hanham family crest.

Caption For Cambridge, St John's College 1890

Joining the two courts of St John's College on either side of the River Cam is the Bridge of Sighs. It borrows the idea of the covered bridge from one of the same name in Venice.

Caption For Ilkley, Royal Hotel 1914

Demolition came in 1962 and the site was used for Wells Court and Wells Mews.

Caption For Marlborough, The College, The Bradleian Building 1901

This steep-roofed brick building with rather a Gothic flavour, designed by G E Street, replaced a block of fives courts.

Caption For Bolney, Bolney Court C1955

The building was then used as a home for blind people, and renamed Bolney Court.

Caption For Blanchland, Bay Bridge Road C1935

The village square appears to be sited on the L-shaped outer court of the Abbey, where the barns, storehouses and workshops would once have stood.

Caption For York, Law Courts 1893

This is now the Magistrates' Court, and it stands on the corner of Friargate and Clifford Street. It is a rather dark, forbidding-looking structure, perhaps built that way to intimidate wrong-doers!

Caption For Bispham, Palm Court From The North C1955

Here we have a good view of the tram track near Palm Court at the Cavendish Road stop on the high cliffs (a lift was available to convey visitors to the shore and the Promenade).

Caption For Penrith, The Town Hall C1950

Its monumentalising face-lift in 1905-6 to provide municipal headquarters and premises for the town's first public library and museum courted controversy.

Caption For Wimborne, The Minster, St Luke And St Cuthberga's Window 1908

Healing the sick is the theme of this window in the minster's north-west corner, formerly the Consistory Court.

Caption For Saundersfoot, The Pier 1925

When Bonville's Court Colliery opened, the harbour was used for exporting coal; between 1912 and 1926 the colliery produced more than 35,000 tonnes of anthracite annually.

Caption For West Bridgford, The Park C1960

This view shows the south front; behind the house, in the northern half of the park, are tennis courts, sports fields and a car park.

Caption For Ewyas Harold, The Village From The Castle Tump C1955

At Edward the Confessor's court, the influence of the Normans was so strong that the first so-called 'Norman' castles were actually built in the 1050s.