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Ted Turner Was Landlord Here

Ted Turner was landlord here, and his father before him, then Ted went to the Holly & Laurel at Holmwood where my family lived, they had a cottage behind the pub, I think the cottage is still there, there were ...Read more

A memory of Beare Green by John Francis

Tracing My Family

I have no memories of Hawkchurch. But I am trying to trace my family history, and so far have got nowhere. And I am hoping that someone might remember hearing about them. According to the 1911 census they lived at Berry ...Read more

A memory of Hawkchurch in 1910 by Christine Elliot

Plough Inn

The Plough Inn, in High Bentham was bought by great grandfather Harold Slinger in the early 1900s. He then refurbished it in to two cottages. Harold Slinger was also the registrar for birth deaths and marriages as I recall. After ...Read more

A memory of High Bentham in 1970 by Nick Louth

A Happy Childhood

I lived in Jubilee Cottages in Nethercote with mum and dad. My dad, Charlie Wilson, collected milk from the farms in the area, his lorry being based at Swepstone Dairy. Mum, Florence, worked in the dairy making Stilton ...Read more

A memory of Newton Burgoland in 1955 by Christine Mattinson Ne Wilson

Boyhood Days

My aunts and uncles lived in East Howle and I was a regular visitor around and before 1950. The two families lived opposite one another in what I think may have been "railway cottages" and my cousins totalled 9. In those days you ...Read more

A memory of East Howle

Poetry

This poem was sent to mac by Mrs S. Holmes: Death of Chelmsley Wood The sheer delight of summer afternoons, As through the fields in cotton frocks we walked, The long grass licking at our gangly legs, While we in deep contentment ...Read more

A memory of Chelmsley Wood in 1995

James Joseph Irvine (Autobiography) 1911 1990

Stretching over about a mile on the A68 road to Edinburgh from Darlington, lies the small mining town of Tow Law. Approaching it from Elm Park Road Ends, on a clear day, as you pass the various openings ...Read more

A memory of Tow Law in 1930 by James Irvine

Great Haseley

I was five when I moved to Great Haseley from Newington, near Stadhampton, with my mother, father and brother. The year was 1957 and Horse Close Cottages was a new housing estate - we were thrilled to have a bathroom and an ...Read more

A memory of Great Haseley by Linda Twibill (Nee Ring)

Eastwood Nottinghamshire

I lived with my grandmother (Elizabeth Jones), mother and sister at 72 Church Street Eastwood until I was about 7 years old (1956). My grandmother owned 4 (possibly 5) cottages in a row (ours being number 72) in Church ...Read more

A memory of Eastwood in 1954 by Diane Elizabeth Hobson

Halton Gorse Cottages And Castle Road

I too spent my school holidays in Halton village, my grandparents were Lillian and Benjamin Atkinson, they lived in Gorse Cottages, you had to go up the steps from the underpass to get to it, or down the steps ...Read more

A memory of Halton in 1955 by Beryl Gordon

Captions

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Caption For Moreton, The School C1955

Lawrence of Arabia rests in the little cemetery at Moreton, for his cottage of Clouds Hill is within the parish. He died in 1935 in a motorcycle accident on the road leading north from Bovington Camp.

Caption For Limpley Stoke, Middle Village C1955

The right hand cottages are dated 1885, and the village hall beyond was built in 1845.

Caption For Hitchin, Lavender Field, Mount Pleasant 1901

The cottage visible in the woods was used by the firm as a trademark, and appeared on many of their advertisements.

Caption For Edenbridge, The Main Road C1960

Here we see another view of the long, straggling street with its delightful half-timbered cottages and the brick Baptist Chapel on the opposite side of the road.

Caption For Liss, Cottage 1901

I have no clue as to where this cottage is nor can I find out anything about it. Can a kind reader help on this photograph? It looks like a washday Monday.

Caption For Rayne, The Village 1901

All the buildings shown still exist, though the Post Office Stores is now the Tandoori Cottage Restaurant.

Caption For St Ives, Bethesda Hill 1890

Here we see a narrow cobbled way with granite and slate-hung fishermen's cottages in the Downalong part of town.

Caption For Tillingham, The Square C1955

Weatherboarded cottages stand to the left. The large building on the same side is the Fox and Hounds. W Kemp's shop, on the right, is now a private house.

Caption For Alston, Front Street C1955

Cobbled Front Street slopes steeply down towards the South Tyne Valley, past 17th-century cottages, like that on the extreme right which is dated 1681, and ancient pubs like the Angel and the King's

Caption For Alfington, Village 1906

The narrow lane winds between thatched cot- tages, the fine example in the foreground featuring a tall chimney to carry the hot smoke safely away.

Caption For Shute, The Beagles C1955

Its cottages consist of a wide variety of architectural styles. Just to one side of the telephone kiosk is the original water pump for these buildings.

Caption For Angmering On Sea, Willowayne Avenue C1955

Of old East Preston, a few flinty cottages remain.

Caption For Market Drayton, Shropshire Street 1898

Notice the rusticated window boxes on the cottage here.

Caption For Baslow, Thatch End C1955

Thatched cottages are comparatively rare in this part of Derbyshire; to see Baslow's examples, you have to follow the signposted path for Chatsworth, which starts at the car park.

Caption For Ludham, The Village 1958

Old cottages, some with roofs thatched with Norfolk reed, line the main road opposite Ludham churchyard: the Celtic-style cross on the left is the War Memorial.

Caption For Plaxtol, Dunks Green 1901

This tiny, attractive hamlet close to the great manor house of Ightham Mote has one small shop, the Plough Inn selling beers brewed at Westerham near the county border, and several ivy-clad cottages

Caption For Ampthill, Woburn Street C1955

Dating back to the 18th century, the deed to each of these cottages restircts the householder to replacing the roof only with thatch, and further prescribes the method and colour of redecoration that may

Caption For Chawton, Village 1897

The house, which was then called Chawton Cottage, was bought by her brother Edward.

Caption For Torquay, Fleet Street 1906

Running above the course of the Flete brook, this broad street, now one of Torquay's premiere shopping malls, was constructed in 1865 to replace the narrow lane of slums and fishermen's cottages that originally

Caption For Witchampton, Village 1904

Beyond the ornamental lych gate framed by these cottages is the church of St Mary and St Cuthberga, whose brown and grey stone west tower is Perpendicular.

Caption For Chawton, Village 1897

The house, which was then called Chawton Cottage, was bought by her brother Edward.

Caption For Bakewell, 1923

However, the cottage nearest the camera has had some of its foliage removed.

Caption For Cockington Village, Court Cottage 1889

Despite the throng of tourists on summer afternoons, Cockington retains its old-world charm with its picturesque thatched cottages, bee-haunted gardens, lovely old church and modest stately home.

Caption For South Littleton, Main Street C1955

These immaculately thatched cottages still exist, although they are rather run-down nowadays. Today the three villages of South, Middle and North Littleton all virtually run into each other.