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Dunstaffnage War Years

Like your other contributors I also spent my very early years in Dunstaffnage. Dad had spent the early part of the war from day one as a young Engineer Officer on North Atlantic convoys in the Merchant Navy. When you were lucky to ...Read more

A memory of Oban by john

6 To 20

I lived in Woodgrange Avenue Kenton from 1953 till 1967 when i got married and moved to Bletchley where we bought our first house. I remember at the bottom of our road and just around the corner was an Ironmonger shop run by Mr and Mrs ...Read more

A memory of Kenton by dianefash

6 To 20

I lived in Woodgrange Avenue Kenton from 1953 till 1967 when i got married and moved to Bletchley where we bought our first house. I remember at the bottom of our road and just around the corner was an Ironmonger shop run by Mr and Mrs ...Read more

A memory of Kenton by dianefash

St Alkmund's Churchyard, Whitchurch, Shropshire

In 1973 a new vicarage was built on part of St Alkmund's churchyard burial ground in Whitchurch, Shropshire which entailed the exhumation of a number of coffins from vaults and the removal of their ...Read more

A memory of Whitchurch by Michael Beach

Tunnel Behind Rookwood Close

My parents lived in Rookwood Close from 1966 to 1972. I remember playing in the woods behind the houses and discovering what looked like a railway tunnel going under the hill. I was able to venture in 20 feet or so but the ...Read more

A memory of Grays by perce.thrower

Wimbledon By The Sea

Every July, the houses with tennis courts in the garden hosted a tournament (don't know who organised it). I remember turning up one year full of enthusiasm, only to be thoroughly beaten by a chap who had been playing in a ...Read more

A memory of Sandilands by philip.oldershaw

'old Trunk', Cove.

My Grandfather and Grandmother, Mary and Charles Warner lived at a house called 'Old Trunk' in Cove, until 1925. I am not sure if this was 'Old Trunk Farm' as it was just a house, with no outbuildings as far as I can see from the one ...Read more

A memory of Cove by Chris Williams

Childhood In Kensington

I LIVED IN CAMPDEN HOUSES, PEEL STREET, THOUGH THE FIFTIES AND WENT TO THE CONVENT OF THE SACRED HEART IN BARNES. I LOVED SEEING THE PEOPLE ON THE TV AND RADIO WHO LIVED CLOSE BY BECAUSE THE STUDIOS WERE EASY TO ...Read more

A memory of Kensington by cindyandjohn

Rainham Essex 1939 1948

Hi my name is Ken Craze we moved to Dunroamin' Villa Upminster Rd from Hornchurch in 1935 when I was 4yo, Mum, Dad, my brother George and sister Lily. My first memory being outside Mrs Lindsay's shop with my mother a few days ...Read more

A memory of Edmonton by craze_ken

Kew Bridge Road

My name is Ian Powell and lived at 48 Kew Bridge Road opposite the Plough and Waggon & Horses P/H. We arrived in 1947 when I was 6 mths old. I also had a younger sister Lynne who sadly passed earlier this year. Our house was ...Read more

A memory of Brentford by powlee

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Caption For Laugharne, The Boat House C1965

This attractive boat house is set at the foot of a steep cliff alongside the River Taf with its 'heron-priested' shore.

Caption For Alton, Normandy Street 1898

The houses on the right must have been newly built, as they do not appear on the OS map of 1896.

Caption For Selborne, High Street 1928

The houses are divided from the hill by a vein of stiff clay (good wheat land), yet stand on a rock of white stone.'

Caption For Alton, Market Street C1955

The sad looking building on the left was the Plough public house. In 1928 it was said to have a saloon, a lounge and a dining room, and it sold Bass, Youngers, Hammerton Stout and Fremlin Pale Ale.

Caption For Alton, The Butts C1965

The houses behind are late Victorian.

Caption For York, Bootham Bar C1950

The public house on the right is The White Horse; the statue of a horse can be seen rearing above the Tower Ales sign.Towards the bar old stonework still remains, with a sign for Pullman's

Caption For West Hanney, Lamb Inn C1955

Beyond it, the pair of gables belong to one of a crescent of 1950s council houses.

Caption For Thaxted, Town Street From Mill End C1950

The white house across the road was, until 1908, The Sun - a rival for The Star (opposite).

Caption For Odiham, Old Houses Cemetery Hill 1906

The 18th- and early 19th-century cottages on the left face the timber-framed house, which was built as a single dwelling in 1540; it is continuously jettied with a hearth-passage entrance

Caption For Odiham, The Bury 2004

The lower sash windows of the houses on the left have been replaced by casement windows, and their number increased. On the right, a doorway has been replaced by a window.

Caption For Twickenham, The Slipway Facing Eel Pie Island 1890

This view, from the footbridge onto the Island, is a photograph of what has passed - for all to the left of the sash-windowed and pedimented house on the right was cleared away in the 1950s.

Caption For Sutton Courtenay, Village 1890

This remarkable village has three medieval stone houses, as well as the Norman church whose tower we see in this view.

Caption For Wallingford, The Bridge Boat House 1899

Here the old town landing-stage is north of the bridge; the quay is much altered, with the boathouse now the Mill House pub.

Caption For Sonning, Village 1904

The best house in this view is the one with the diagonal chimneystacks, The Grove: it is Tudor, with an 18th-century pink-washed facade and a superb Queen Anne door hood.

Caption For Beadnell, Craster Arms And Church C1955

The pub has an 18th-century frontage, but is based on an earlier tower house. It features the coat of arms of the Craster family.

Caption For Andover, High Street 1908

Poore's Victorian brewery office became Handel House around 1920, with a wide altered shop-front sellling pianos, followed soon after by A B Scott's shoe shop.

Caption For Hanley, Town Centre C1965

It is also here that Stoke-on-Trent's world-famous collection of Staffordshire figures, pottery, porcelain and ceramics are housed in a superb museum.

Caption For Taunton, North Street 1925

Looking back up North Street towards the Parade and Market House, with the Post Office on the left, as it still is today.

Caption For Middleham, Manor House 1914

Monks from nearby Jervaulx Abbey began the tradition of horse breeding in this dale.

Caption For Taunton, Fore Street 1902

the Celtic cross memorial to the Somerset Light Infantry's Burma Campaign in the 1880s is now a traffic island further up in North Street, while the open market arcades attached to the 1770s Market House

Caption For Lincoln, Castle Hill 1906

The buildings on the right are a splendid mix: the jettied timber-framed Tudor building of about 1543, with its three gables, contrasts with the early Georgian warm red brick houses beyond,

Caption For Little Haywood, Meadow Lane C1955

The house on the right has been demolished.

Caption For Worthing, Esplanade, East End 1890

During the summer of 1894, Oscar Wilde and his family occupied this house overlooking the sea at the eastern end of the extended Esplanade.

Caption For Cuckfield, Cuckfield Park C1960

The house is not open to the public. The avenue of trees was damaged during the 1987 storm, and specimens were duly replaced.