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Memories

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The Whale

When I was about 10 / 11 years old our entire class, along with many other classes left Garelochhead Primary School, wound our way through Bendarroch Park, all crossed the road as uniformly as Mr Richmond (teacher) was able to ...Read more

A memory of Garelochhead in 1976 by doogz66

Good Times In Willington Quay

I lived at 19 Church St, Willington Quay, just beside the ballast hills. My dad George worked at Cooksons, so we lived in company house - very big and quite grand. We had no electricity in those days but it ...Read more

A memory of Willington Quay in 1955 by Vivienne Duden

My First Home

My parents owned Unlawater House from 1963 until the 1970s. It was their first house when they were in their twenties and they ran it as a private children's home. I spent the first eight years of my life there and have great memories ...Read more

A memory of Newnham in 1966 by Elizabeth Prankerd

As A Child I Lived In The Estate Office

As a child I lived in the estate office in the square, my father was estate bailiff for W J Brymer for all of the war years. I remember many of the troops were billeted with us in the house, at one time we ...Read more

A memory of Puddletown in 1940 by Richard Gaunt

1st Day At School

I remember walking up that drive in short grey trousers, new blazer, Kerry House tie and a school cap. The Calnebgs website has moved to www.calnebgs.com Cheers Martin

A memory of Calne in 1965 by Martin Summers

Summer Days

It was a happy childhood, I was born in Etwall in 1954 and our council house in Windmill Road is still our family home. Some of my fondest memories are the simple pleasures of life as a young lad in the 1950/60s. Always keen to get home ...Read more

A memory of Etwall in 1963 by Vince Cooper

Growing Up In Dovercourt

I have been trying to remember the exact dates when we lived in Dovercourt but I think it was something like 1953-57, while my father worked for the railway at Parkeston Quay. We first rented a place in Shaftesbury ...Read more

A memory of Dovercourt in 1955 by Robert Dingwall

First Love

Having lived at Downton from 1958, I grew up opposite Downton Holiday Camp. My father owned the builders next to the pub and I bought my first car at the garage 2 doors to the right. Somewhen in the mid 1960s  I met the new ...Read more

A memory of Downton in 1960 by Jeremy Jez Caesar

My Family Used To Own This!

A photo very similar to this hangs in my bedroom, I am a West and spent many a happy summers here. My family used to own the tearooms, my mother and her brother were caught in the fire in 1966 which resulted in the ...Read more

A memory of Marlborough by Natalie West

Family Home

The greenhouses you see in this photo were my father's, he also built a house on the ground behind the trees after this photo was taken, we lived there for many happy years. My mother used to rent out the house in the summer months and ...Read more

A memory of Mynytho by Dewi Griffiths

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Captions

6,914 captions found. Showing results 6,265 to 6,288.

Caption For Cottesmore, The Sun Inn C1955

This wonderfully atmospheric pub, now an Everards house, is photographed before the universal advent of lager and 'Kids Welcome'.

Caption For Penrith, Aerial View C1953

On the same side, behind the Musgrave Monument are the white ashlar premises erected for the National Provincial Bank, now housing the National Westminster Bank.

Caption For Hailsham, Wesleyan Church 1902

To the left, the bell turret belongs to the Old Court House and former police station, built a little earlier in 1861.

Caption For Hailsham, High Street 1902

To the right the ivy-clad house is now a shop, Tendring Garden, and of course now without the railings.

Caption For Haslemere, High Street C1955

On the right is the Georgian House Hotel in buildings dating from around 1740.

Caption For Milford, The Cross Roads C1960

Lloyds bank has gone, and its premises are now called Bargate House, and the tall lime tree in the garden of Vine Court (left of centre) is no more.

Caption For Abingdon, Bath Street C1965

There is a good range of Tudor and 17th-century timber- framed houses on the right, all with rendered fronts.

Caption For Corfe Castle, The Cross 1899

Beyond is the 18th-century Town House, with the Mayor's robing room upstairs, and teas offered downstairs at 8d each.

Caption For Lower Slaughter, The Mill And Pond C1950

The long, low 17th-century house, right, has fine stone-mullioned and drip- headed windows.

Caption For Twickenham, Church 1899

The Queen's Head public house on the left can be dated back to the 17th century.

Caption For Bolney, Main Street 1957

The tower of the church of St Mary Magdalene can be seen behind the houses on the left.

Caption For Haywards Heath, Perrymont Road And Commercial Square C1950

Beyond the bus stop on the left-hand side is the Perrymount cinema, which also housed a dance hall and a café.

Caption For Cromer, East Beach From The Pier 1954

The Bath Hotel (centre) is situated on the site of Bath House, which was smashed into pieces by a very high tide in 1836.

Caption For Grange Over Sands, Main Street 1912

The third one up the road proclaims 'breakfast, dinner and tea services, toilet and glassware', and the second one 'houses furnished for cash or on the hire purchase system'.

Caption For Chilham, The Square 1903

many claim is Kent's prettiest village: the tower of its 15th- century flint-stone church of St Mary looks down on this spacious square lined with half- timbered Tudor and Jacobean cottages, houses

Caption For Calne, Central Gardens C1960

The Lloyds Bank building (right), originally a pair of attached houses, was built about 1870 before the decorative façade was added in two stages.

Caption For Charlwood, The Old Mill 1906

It looks in this view more like a dovecote, and was converted to a house in 1934. The miller's wagon poses proudly in front of the mill.

Caption For Puddletown, The Square C1965

This view is eastwards from Tudor Cottage and Mill Street; the trees are in Ilsington House grounds and beside the parish church (right- hand background).

Caption For Kings Lynn, Nelson Street 1908

To the left of the photograph we can see the gable of the Valiant Sailor public house, which abutted with Priory Lane.

Caption For Broughton Astley, The Stream C1967

The photograph looks south-east along the culverted stream bordering Station Road, with housing of the 1920s and 30s on the extreme right.

Caption For Liverpool, Custom House 1887

Liverpool's fifth Customs House was built on the site of the Old Dock and opened in 1839.

Caption For Newhaven, Fishermen's Cottages 1897

On the west coat of England, the old fishing communities tended to be housed in cottages with thatched roofs.

Caption For Calne, The Old Alms Houses (1682) C1955

Originally built as eight houses in 'limewashed limestone rubble with ashlar ridge stone mullioned windows', in what Pevsner refers to as 'the local vernacular style', they were later