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From 1940 But Historically Long Before

Along with my mother Ruby, I was evacuated to Alconbury on my birthday, 23 September 1940. Unknown to me, my paternal grandparents had already moved there and were in residence in Chapel Street. My Mum and ...Read more

A memory of Alconbury in 1940 by Barry W J Chandler

Scottie Road

I lived in Chapel Gardens next to St Anthony's church, there were only 3 houses in our street, the Greggs, Mcartheys and us Hawkins. I went to St Anthony's School and left in 1957 when we moved to Kirkby. I worked in Scotts Bakery ...Read more

A memory of Liverpool in 1957 by Cathy Thomson

Upper Bourne End

My brothers and I returned to Bourne End at the end of the war. We had been evacuated to Nottingham. We lived in a small house called "The Nest". It was the last house on the road. Lunnon's Farm backed on to all the houses ...Read more

A memory of Bourne End in 1945 by Eileen Savedra

Some Historical Facts Of The Plumbs In Barroby

The newspaper published at Grantham in England, the original home of the ancestors of the well known Plumb and Parker families of Mills, Pottawattamie, Cass and Shelby Counties, recently carried a ...Read more

A memory of Barrowby by Alan Plumb

Heather And Gorse Clog Morris Entertain At The Teign House Inn Christow

It was the weekend of the Royal Wedding and on Sunday, the day before the May Bank Holiday, everyone was in a party mood. We took a party of dancers and musicians to the ...Read more

A memory of Christow in 2011 by John Howard Norfolk

Weston Road

This photo brings back memories for me. This picture must have been taken from opposite my home. I was born on Weston Road and my father still lives in the old family house.

A memory of Runcorn

Sawtry 1901 And 1968

Somehow fate seems to draw me to places where some of my ancestors have been living, yet I was born in London. In 1968 I bought a house in Sawtry, off St. Judith's Lane, and where I lived until returning to Sweden in 1974. Now, ...Read more

A memory of Sawtry by Barry W J Chandler

Redbricks 50s

I was born and bred in Tunnel Road, Galley Common in the Pit houses (belonging to Haunchwood Colliery). One of my early memories of which there are many was of the tip which was waste slag from the mine and was always on fire ...Read more

A memory of Galley Common

Four Years Old Or So

My parents worked for Mr & Mrs Agar, Beechwood, Lavington Park, Petworth, Sussex. Mrs. Agar's name was Barbara. They had a town house near Berkeley Square, London W.1. I remember living there more than in Sussex. ...Read more

A memory of Lavington Park in 1949 by Eithe Vinton

Memory For Ewell 1945 55

Down Beggers Hill and round the bend, just a short distance from the Jolly Wagoners and next to the Eight Bells, there was a blacksmiths who used a furnace to shape the iron shoes that were used to shoe horses. The horses ...Read more

A memory of Ewell by Patricia Dickson

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Captions

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Caption For Bildeston, Chapel Street C1965

On the left is the front wall and schoolmaster's house of the Elementary School of 1853 and 1896. The grassy banks remain, but they have been straightened and tamed.

Caption For Hartest, The Green C1955

The thatched house (left) is still Basham's, butchers since 1926.

Caption For Sproughton, Lower Street C1955

Beyond is the village lock-up and Cage House.

Caption For Waldringfield, Mill Road C1965

Mill Cottage and the converted barn called Granary House are all that remain of the mill complex.

Caption For Retford, Chesterfield Canal C1955

This has now gone, to be replaced by the caretaker's house for the Elizabethan High School, whose grounds are behind the fence on the left.

Caption For Daventry, Dryden Avenue C1965

Looking down New Street to the Moot Hall, we can see on the right a brick Georgian house where many BBC trainees lodged in the 1960s.

Caption For Uppingham, High Street C1950

It was built in 1859 by Rev R Hodgkinson as a school boarding house and named after Rev 'Spot' Constable, one of its most illustrious housemasters.

Caption For Uppingham, West End, High Street C1955

The buildings are a mixture of 18th- century cottages and 19th-century grander houses which were built on the site of former farmyards.

Caption For Rothley, The Temple C1955

The triple gables of the early 17th-century house form the centrepiece, with flanking wings. John Ely, a Manchester architect, added the Tudoresque bay window to the right in 1894.

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Caption For Basildon, C1955

In the distance, right of centre, is the long, pale form of the recently-completed Keay House.

Caption For Waterlooville, London Road C1965

Here a few Victorian houses survive, mostly rendered, some with verandahs. Further north is a small oak forest. To the north-west is the church of St George, rebuilt in 1970 with a concrete tower.

Caption For Woodhall Spa, Golf Hotel C1965

The building was formerly the Clevedon House Preparatory School and a boarding school for boys. Almost next door to this attractive hotel is the English National Golf Centre.

Caption For Gilling West, Village 1913

The village shop and post office in the distance beyond the children still functions, but the shop-like Gilling Club (to the left of the woman in the middle of the road) has become a house

Caption For Westerham, The Green C1955

by the copper statue of General James Wolfe, the conqueror of Quebec in 1759, who was born at the local vicarage and spent his childhood here at the 17th-century building subsequently renamed Quebec House

Caption For Burton Bradstock, The Village C1955

The Three Horseshoes public house is behind the parked cars (centre).

Caption For Grange Over Sands, From Allithwaite Road 1921

A housing development has grown up in the field from which the picture was taken.

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 Chigwell, Bald Hind Hotel C1955

This is an Edwardian building, but there has been a house of this name here since at least the 18th century.

Caption For Odiham, The Stocks 1903

A four-hour period in the stocks was the usual reward for misdemeanours such as blasphemy, drunkenness, vagrancy or breaking the Sabbath.

Caption For Somerton, Long Sutton And Langport Roads 1904

The thatched house in Langport Road was rebuilt in about 1910. Everything somehow looks less characterful, and more sanitised.

Caption For Sewerby, The Hall C1885

The house and grounds were bought by Bridlington Council in 1934 and opened to the public by Amy Johnson.

Caption For Ditchling, High Street C1965

A range of 16th-century houses and cottages descends the hill towards a central crossroads, notably Old Forge, Bowries and Ricksteddle.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Harbour 1890

Further along Marine Parade is the coastguard station (right) opposite the Custom House, the latte replacing an earlier building in the middle of the town which burned down in 1844.

Caption For Chideock, 1927

The row of council houses is at Broadmead (left foreground).