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Wartime

I have wartime photos that match the distinctive window patterns and with the back marked 'Aveley' must almost certainly be Belhus House. Does anyone have any information as to what the house was used for by the army in 1940 when my father would have been stationed there?

A memory of Aveley in 1940 by Graham Hutt

The Village Policeman 1979 To 1989

I remember well pushing my police bicycle around Kempston, covering Spring Road across to St Johns Avenue and over to the chantry factory estate. I was the last of the resident beat officers living and working ...Read more

A memory of Kempston in 1979 by Donald Underwood

Shelly And Sarah Stanway

I only have sad thoughts of Prees, my sisters Shelly and Sarah stanway were killed in a house fire in 1992 and I have no memories of them. Sadly I was only 13 months old at the time, wondered if anyone knew what happened as it's too painful for my parents to talk about.

A memory of Prees in 1992 by Susan Stanway

My Time In Peterlee Starting In 1955

My family and I moved to Peterlee in the Autumn of 1955. We lived in Thorntree Gill. Petelee was quite new then. We could see the North Sea from my parent's bedroom window. At that time there were no ...Read more

A memory of Peterlee in 1955 by Margaret Sewell

Great Times

We used to live in Yeadon in a council house, and when my Dad came out of the Army as an Officer he bought a plot in Hawksworth Lane (number 54). He had a house built by Prior who built all the Tranmere Park Estate ...Read more

A memory of Hawksworth in 1953 by blackwellken

Childhood In War Time Silsden

I grew up in Silsden and also worked in Silsden, as a weaver at Stocks Mill. I lived at 52 New Rd or shed side, as it was known. We lived almost opposite Fletchers mill gates, in a back-to-back two bedroomed terraced ...Read more

A memory of Silsden in 1943 by Gordon Cooper

32 Maxwell Place Uddingston Bothwell

My Great Great Grandmother Mary Ann Bell (Nee Law), an American by birth, was living at 32 Maxwell Place, Uddingston, Bothwell in 1901 with her daughter Catherine Law Bell. Mary Ann was listed as a House Missionary in the census.

A memory of Uddingston in 1900 by Janet Fry

Where I Was Born

I was born here in 1953, my oldest daughter was born 1972 & my youngest daughter 1977. Such a lovely hospital, great staff who looked after you well. I saw the photos of the building rotting away - it looked so sad, they left ...Read more

A memory of Taplow in 1953 by Teresa Keywood

Happy Days

I have great memories of growing up on Frizington. It was such a close knit community where everyone knew everyone else. I can remember Stewarts delivering milk with a horse and cart. ''Jinkies'' coming round with fruit and veg, in ...Read more

A memory of Frizington by Kath Brown(Tyson)

St Michael's Road, Brereton

We lived at no 1 Police House, just off to the right of this photo and then in no 3, the wall of which can be seen on the right - this was the police station - a house with a small office attached. I went to the Church ...Read more

A memory of Rugeley in 1962 by Sharon Hall

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Captions

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Caption For Sutton On Trent, The Mill And Mill House 1909

It is now converted to a private house.

Caption For Winchester, Cathedral 1922

She died at a house in College Street in 1817.

Caption For Abergavenny, From The Canal 1893

Between the new cemetery in the centre and the allotments and houses to the right, the Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny railway line, opened in 1862, begins its climb of 1000ft to Brynmawr, a mere eight

Caption For Prestbury, Priest's House 1896

This handsome 17th-century half-timbered house opposite the church was once the rectory for the enormous Prestbury parish.

Caption For Petersfield, Sheep Street C1965

If you need it, here is the evidence of unchanged houses over sixty years, although fish and chips are now on the national menu.

Caption For Charing, High Street 1901

At the junction of the road leading to Lenham is the grander Pierce House, set back from the road.

Caption For Colesbourne, Lower Hilcot C1960

Houses at the hardly-a- hamlet Lower Hilcot still reflect the general style of Colesbourne.

Caption For Smeeton Westerby, Westerby Corner C1955

A semi-detached house of little architectural merit dominates the view here, but beyond is a glimpse of the Gumley Hills as the road swings right towards Saddington.

Caption For Theale, Englefield House, The Terrace C1955

About eight miles west of Reading, beyond the M4, Englefield House sits in extensive parkland grazed by fallow deer and beside a fine church by George Gilbert Scott of 1857.

Caption For Grange Over Sands, From Sands 1906

In the centre, we can see Bailey Lane climbing steeply up towards Crown Hill, with the railway crossing keeper's house to its right at the bottom.

Caption For Cark In Cartmel, Mill Close C1968

Former mill workers' houses, now modernised, line the beck. Low Row is to the left, the lowest of three similar rows; Middle Row had been demolished by the time of the picture.

Caption For Woodbury, The Village C1955

On the left here is the Maltsters' Arms, still a thriving public house.

Caption For Calne, London Road C1955

The 19th century houses are generally rendered.

Caption For Holt, The Hall 1896

Located between the Cley and Kelling roads, this fine house is built in the neo-Gothic style and set in beautiful grounds.

Caption For Ulverston, Hoad Hill From Mowings Lane 1925

In the foreground are allotments, now buried under housing. On the hill is the monument to Sir John Barrow, which is a replica of the Eddystone lighthouse.

Caption For Nottingham, Clumber Street C1950

In the background is the Milton's Head Hotel, a Victorian public house which seemed to be a fixture until the construction of the Victoria Shopping Centre.

Caption For Shrewsbury, The Old Mint 1891

So called because a moneyer is reputed to have stayed here for a time in the 14th century, this is really part of a medieval merchant's house.

Caption For Goxhill, Thornton Abbey C1960

In the far distance beyond the road sign is now a housing estate.

Caption For Burford, High Street C1955

The High Street runs down between pollarded lime trees and mellow stone houses to the River Windrush.

Caption For Kimbolton, The Village C1955

The George Hotel is now a private house. The garage beyond it, with a fake timber-framed frontage, has long gone.

Caption For Tunbridge Wells, 1875

The turreted building in the centre of this photograph is Vale Tower, built in the 1830s as Romanoff House, a school run by Thomas Allfree - he had been tutor to the Russian royal family

Caption For Basildon, Town Square, The 'mother And Child' Statue C1960

The growth is self-evident here, with Brooke House's massive V-shaped struts in the background (left) and the post office under construction.

Caption For Bridgend, Dunraven Place 1910

It was originally four separate premises - a house, a pub, an off-licence and a bookmaker.

Caption For Porteynon, 1910

In the 15th century the cave was put to use as a smugglers' den before it was later converted into a pigeon house.