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Playtime

I can remember my nan coming over to the school and passing me and my sister sweets through the fence at playtime. She lived in a cottage opposite the school. I also remember the great Guy Fawkes Night over by the pond and the hot ...Read more

A memory of Burgh Heath in 1956 by Eunice Warne

The Boat Club, Acton Bridge

Laurie, I remember vividly those days as if they were yesterday, strange to see the Jan mentioned which dad bought from the Faircloughs which was moored at Widnes Docks.Do you remember our trip down the ship canal ...Read more

A memory of Acton Bridge by Philip Guy

James Cook

Hi to all, for the past twenty-two years my wife Sheila and myself have brought our family to Staithes on holiday twice a year, around February and October time. We stayed in many of the wonderful cottages on offer - FORDSIDE, ...Read more

A memory of Staithes by Jimmy Perryman

Withycombe Village

In the Second World War my brother and I were evacuated to my grandmother's in Withycombe village, she lived in a cottage opposite the Country Inn. We went to the village school down near the Hollybush Inn. I have fond memories ...Read more

A memory of Exmouth in 1940

Walnut Cottage

My Grandparents ran the post-office at Moorland when I was young, we used to visit every Sunday. I loved the atmosphere and the peacefulness of the village. My grandad was Charles Kitch, also named 'Fido', but I can't find out why. ...Read more

A memory of Moorland in 1962 by Linda Kitch

Binbrook, The Holiday And Life.

Onwards and upwards through the years, I had an aunty and grandmother who lived there. Ending up at No2 Mount pleasant after living in Low Lane. Lilly and Bill Stone, parents of my mother Jaqueline Stone (now ...Read more

A memory of Binbrook in 1956 by Ian Stevens

Fullers Arms

I used to visit the Fullers Arms in Brightling on my motor cycle, starting at the Banks Cottages and making the circle around the reservoir to Brightling, then to Dallington, and then Netherfield and finally to Johns Cross. It made a nice evening's ride and I had a few beers, happy days.

A memory of Brightling in 1951 by Eric Saunders

Broadlads Estate

My grandfather farmed Bushey Leazes farm on the Broadlands estate until his retirement. I loved that farm, playing in hay lofts, milking the cows, they had guard geese that would come down the long lane from the farm and not let ...Read more

A memory of Romsey in 1949 by Jackie Brown

Childhood Memories Of Penrhyn Bay

My grandmother and grandfather lived at "Oaklands", in Maesgwyn Road, opposite a corrugated iron church. The road was unmade and beyond the church to the sea was a large meadow where cattle and sheep grazed. On ...Read more

A memory of Penrhyn in 1930

Hopton Hill

My family were from this area and my grandfather Edward Gough Jones and grandmother Rosa Jones brought up 7 children Joan, Nora, twins Eileen and Beryl, Ron (who still lived in a bungalow at the Crescent Nesscliffe until this year ...Read more

A memory of Nesscliffe in 1910 by Yvonne Dixon

Captions

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Caption For Worthing, 1921

Bognor's is a delight, with stucco cottages of varying heights and designs, many with balconied bow and bay windows, fronting an elongated square.

Caption For Tiverton, Old Cottages, Little Silver 1920

These cottages were at the lower end of St Andrew Street. They remained until the middle of the 20th century, when they made way for council housing.

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Caption For Tiverton, Old Cottages, Little Silver 1920

These cottages were at the lower end of St Andrew Street. They remained until the middle of the 29th century when they made way for council housing.

Caption For Dullingham, Cross Green C1955

The main part of Dullingham village lies along the southern edge of the grounds of the early 18th-century Dullingham House, hence the picturesque thatched estate cottages.

Caption For Ramsbottom, View Of Town C1955

In the last quarter of the 18th century Ramsbottom was a hamlet of perhaps no more than six or seven cottages.

Caption For Hilton, The Village C1955

The thatched cottages, fascinating church and wonderful landscapes make Hilton a delightful place to linger.

Caption For Romsey, The Hundred 1911

The Hundred, which runs down to the Market Place, is lined with striking houses and cottages. The Sawyers Arms, now a private house, can be spotted on the right.

Caption For Calne, The Church Of St Mary C1955

The Georgian style was dominant in the architecture of many of Calne's buildings, from town houses and hotels to smaller cottages.

Caption For Newport, Church Street Cottages C1960

These unusual cottages are half thatched and half tiled. At one time striped sunblinds of the type protecting the third door were very popular.

Caption For Barham, Bridge And River 1903

The flint and stone cottage, with its neatly clipped box hedge and the workshop of C Knight, the local builder and contractor, attached to its side, stands beside the footbridge and ford across the upper

Caption For Bidford On Avon, Marlcliff 1901

There are a few 17th-century cottages here, whose residents are usually outnumbered by the anglers who throng the riverbank.

Caption For Woodbury, The Village C1960

On the left are the Church Rooms, and just beyond is the then village shop, an adjunct to a residential cottage.

Caption For Blisworth, The Elm Tree C1955

Only two of these cottages survived recent road improvements. They include the one on the left and the middle thatched dwelling on the right.

Caption For Barham, Bridge And River 1903

The flint and stone cottage, with its neatly clipped box hedge and the workshop of C Knight, the local builder and contractor, attached to its side, stands beside the footbridge and ford across the upper

Caption For Maiden Newton, 1906

The working lives of the Dorset labourers who lived in cottages like these was hard, with poor wages and long hours.

Caption For Wicken, The Pond C1955

Reed-thatched cottages abound in the pretty village of Wicken. Nearby Wicken Fen is virtually the only remaining piece of natural undrained Fenland left.

Caption For Saltwood, Village 1902

Like so many little Kent villages, with its cottages and houses clustered around a small green, Saltwood epitomises the rural atmosphere of the county at the turn of the last century.

Caption For Devizes, Canal And Lock 1898

Taken from Lock 43 looking towards Devizes, this photograph shows Lock 44 and a cottage, and also one of the pounds — a pound is an area for the storage of water.

Caption For Wingham, Preston Hill C1955

the old cottage on the left at the bottom of the hill is now listed as a historic building, and is equally well preserved today.

Caption For Wheaton Aston, The Lock 1952

The lock keepers cottage (left) is now a private house, and the large building behind has gone.

Caption For Hutton, The Village C1947

The white cottage on the left used to be the Post Office, before it was moved to the other side of the road in the 1930s.

Caption For Chesham, Waterside, From Lord's Mill 1906

Looking south from Lords Mill in Chesham Moor on Waterside little is recognisable now: indeed the mill itself finally went in 1988, although the miller's seventeenth century cottage remains.

Caption For Burbage, The Village 1907

A classic village scene with heavy thatched roofs and brick and timber cot- tages.

Caption For Burton Bradstock, The Village 1899

Burton Bradstock has many attractive buildings, such as the thatched cottages seen in this photograph.