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Hard Times And Making Ends Meet

When I was a child, my parents got divorced before I reached the age of four, and I didn't meet my Father until several years later. Together with my Mother and my younger brother, we lived with my maternal ...Read more

A memory of Bolton Upon Dearne by Dennis Ford

Memories Of West Hendon

I was born in 1946. I lived in Stuart Avenue opposite the large floral clock of Edmunds Walker co. The clock was adorned with flowers all through the year. There was a field at the end of our road adjacent to the Edgeware ...Read more

A memory of West Hendon by Derek Holder

The Great Children's Summer Garden Party

During the1950's, long before the introduction of Green Shield and other reward stamps, members of the Co-operative Society in the days before the Co-op as we know it today, earned tin coin cash money to ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath by Bernard Schofield

Glenageary House

My father asked me about Glenageary house, and where it would have been! Im thinking it was where Glenageary heights is now, i do remember playing around there before the houses were built. Id love to know if anyone could help me, and would they have any pictures.?

A memory of Glenageary by Margaret Keenan

Holidays In Polzeath

In the 50‘s we (my family and my mum’s sister’s family) spent two holidays in rented holiday houses in Polzeath. The first house was “The Hermitage” and was situated on the cliff overlooking the sea with no buildings in front. ...Read more

A memory of Polzeath by Janet Völcker

Memories

I go and see an old lady each week and she has just written her life story, Veronika Davis she was Veronika Lengyel, in her life story she went to the Chew Magna, Manor House, Sacred Heart High School, she was there from 1949 until 1951, ...Read more

A memory of Chew Magna by Rebecca Forrest

The Salford Girl 2

In 1950, St Ann’s R.C. mixed infant school was just off Silk Street. Salford 3, I think. I remember, aged 3, lying down on the fold-up bed with all the other kids on their beds in the large nursery room in the afternoons for our ...Read more

A memory of Salford

Wonderful Times Growing Up In South Ockendon

It’s been a real pleasure to read all the various memories of South Ockendon back in the 50s and 60s. I was born in Brixton and moved to West Norwood. My Mum & Dad both wanted to move out of ...Read more

A memory of South Ockendon by Stephen Wood

The Old Forge Mells

We lived in this house also from 1965-67 ( I think ?). I was 5 years old in 1965 and my brothers and I started school at Locks Hill in Frome. The house came with a lovely naughty goat called Billy . My parents told us Little Jack ...Read more

A memory of Mells by Louise Callander

Early Memories Of Southwick

I was born in Steyning in 1954. My father was a police constable and at only 2/3 months old we moved to the 'police station' in Whiterock Place in Southwick. The station consisted of 2 large semidetached houses with large ...Read more

A memory of Southwick by Liz Burchell

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Captions

6,914 captions found. Showing results 697 to 720.

Caption For Odiham, From Church Tower 1906

In the foreground we see the roof of Bury House and its stables at the western end of The Bury.

Caption For Southgate, High Street And The Bourne C1965

Behind the high brick wall to the extreme right of the photograph is Southgate House of the late 18th century, built in the form of a neo-classical villa by Samuel Pole; a short distance along the Bourne

Caption For Chilham, Old Houses 1903

These steep-roofed houses on the way up into the village square are typical of the beautiful houses built in the local vernacular style to be found in this locality.

Caption For Prestbury, The Village 1896

On the right is the half-timbered Priest's House, which is thought to date from the 14th century.

Caption For Prestbury, The Village 1896

On the right is the half-timbered Priest's House, which is thought to date from the 14th century.

Caption For Holbeach, High Street C1955

The tall cluster of stacks to its right belongs to No 45, The Mansion House, a Georgian house set back from the street front, in which Sir Norman Angell was born, the winner of the 1933 Nobel Peace Prize

Caption For Southwold, St James Green And Lighthouse C1955

Blyth House next door has been reduced to two storeys, and now looks like an eight-bay Georgian house.

Caption For Lincoln, Green Dragon Hotel C1955

The blank site behind is now occupied by Thorngate House, a nasty 1960s office block: not a very attractive backdrop to this old merchant's house.

Caption For Gilwern, The Canal C1955

The bank to the right, where the car is parked, now houses a boat hire firm, Castle Narrowboats.

Caption For Haverfordwest, The Castle C1960

The Prison Governor's House, now the home of the excellent Town Museum, built in 1779 at the same time as the first prison, was built within the Castle precinct.

Caption For Walsingham, The Pump And Old Houses 1929

Walsingham is built around the ruins of a monastic house, celebrated for its shrine to Our Lady of Walsingham. It is an important place of pilgrimage, second only to Becket's tomb at Canterbury.

Caption For Addlestone, 'holly Tree' 1904

Addlestone grew up in the mid 19th century with the arrival of the railway, when a few villas and many more terraces and pairs of artisan houses were built.

Caption For East Grinstead, High Street 1921

The Rose and Crown brewers Nalder & Collyer have had their sign re-lettered, but the Greenstede Café is still at No 82 and the shop between Cromwell House and Sackville House is still a butcher's,

Caption For Rothwell, Market Place C1950

Rothwell's most famous landmark, the old Market House, is partly visible on the right of this photograph. Around its cornice are Latin inscriptions and 90 coats-of-arms of landed families.

Caption For Sandilands, Sea Lane C1955

The biggest change is that the shop is now twice as big: it includes the post office, and takes up the whole of the downstairs of the semi-detached house.

Caption For Harborne, High Street C1965

It had already been popular with wealthy city merchants for a century or so, and much housing development had taken place along the High Street.

Caption For Ilkley, The White Wells 1923

The well spring and the house date from the early 1700s.

Caption For Gilwern, The Canal C1955

The bank to the right, where the car is parked, now houses a boat hire firm, Castle Narrowboats.

Caption For Polkerris, C1950

Polkerris has hardly changed, with virtually no new houses in 70 years.

Caption For Wordsley, High Street C1965

This picture gives a tantalising glimpse of the wonderful Red House Cone, which belongs to Stuart & Sons, makers of crystal glass.

Caption For Melton Constable, The Village 1922

Children from the rather plain terraced houses have been given the job of taking the baby out for a pram ride.

Caption For Ipswich, Ancient House 1899

This is the most spectacular house in Ipswich, redesigned c1670 by the Sparrow family. The first floor has oriel windows, in the centre of which are the arms of Charles II.

Caption For Billericay, High Street And Crossroads C1965

Bleak House (with the pedimented doorway, right) has been demolished, and rebuilt to an almost identical design.

Caption For Offord Cluny, The Village 1906

The building on the right is the Manor House.