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Potts Ancestry Kibblesworth

My father Edward Potts was born in Kibblesworth in 1900 his brothers were William Potts, Noble Potts and his sister was Hilda Potts. All the brothers were miners in Kibblesworth. When dad married we moved to ...Read more

A memory of Kibblesworth in 1900 by Catherine Cowing

A Boscastle Family

Relating to the two little girls standing in the street, the one on the right is Nellie Davy, my aunt. She was the eldest child of Harry and Mary Ann Davy (nee Ferrett). Nellie and three other siblings were born at Butts but ...Read more

A memory of Boscastle in 1900 by Kay Davy

Happy Days 1950s And 60s

I was born and brought up in Weaverham until I left to move to Altrincham with my new wife (and job). Over that 20 year period I have so many happy memories; too many to record in 1000 words. Lived in Lime Avenue all ...Read more

A memory of Weaverham by George Ellis

Perivale Maternity Hospital

I too was born at the Perivale maternity hospital in 1949, and at the time we lived in a prefab at Gurnell Grove somewhere near Cuckoo Hill I think, if anyone has photos of these prefabs perhaps you could email me one ...Read more

A memory of Perivale in 1949 by John Nicholls

Muchalls

My sister and I lived at the other side of the Muchalls crossroads on the road to Cookney, a little way from the village. There we had an idylic childhood of sorts (though we were far from well-off). We had the freedom of the ...Read more

A memory of Muchalls in 1971

Spondon During War

I occasionally came to live with my sister in Spondon during the war years. I lived in Ockbrook Road, the house was named Tarbet House. At the rear across two fields was an anti-aircraft battery of four guns, which when they ...Read more

A memory of Spondon in 1942 by Roy Allen

Billys Greengrocer

Billy's Greengorcer - a small shop on the corner of Hebron Street where you could buy fruit and veg, and almost anything else. In those years there was not an awful lot of choice.. two lots of potatoes, carrots, cauliflower, and ...Read more

A memory of Heyside in 1951 by Barbara Watts

When I Lived In Strichen

We came to Strichen from the Auchnagatt area in 1949 and I went to Strichen primary and secondary schools. It was real sad when the old school was knocked down. I stayed out at Newmill which was also Michies brewery and ...Read more

A memory of Strichen in 1967 by Sheila Allan

The War Years

I was born in Ryde in 1938 and when war broke out, my mother and myself moved in with my grandparents, Laurence and Lucy Stroud (nee Meecham) into what is now Wellwood Grange but in those days was just Wellwood. It was the home of ...Read more

A memory of Binstead by John Stroud

St Philips School

At this time (1950) I became a pupil at the above school. The playground was truly superb and it has very recently become a permanent green space for the use of the village. This ground has in it a ha-ha and we ...Read more

A memory of Burley in Wharfedale in 1950

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Captions

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Caption For Bridport, South Street 1897

This is looking northwards up South Street, to Stag House at the top end of West Street and the Town Hall (centre).

Caption For Rickmansworth, The Canal 1897

Batchworth Lock House beside it survives, but all else is changed: the island now sports a 1990s office block, Trinity Court, the far right has a riverside Tesco's.

Caption For Kilby, Main Street C1965

From opposite the Dog and Gun Pub, the camera looks along the straight village street with its assortment of restrained houses, hedges and walls.

Caption For Syston, High Street C1955

The house which forms the angle with Chapel Street on the left is pre-17th-century, lately repainted and rethatched.

Caption For Whitchurch, High Street C1955

A little further south, the photographer looks past The Old Cottage, on the west or left side of the High Street, towards the rendered and jettied mid 16th-century Tudor House with the carved bargeboards

Caption For Wray, A River Scene C1950

Situated on the main street, many dated stone cottages housed the mill workers. The mill is now a private house. Captain Cuthbert Bradkirk came from Wray, near Carnforth.

Caption For Cardington, Raf Base C1955

These gigantic sheds, originally painted black, were built to house airships: one was built in 1917 and extended to house R100, the other was built in 1927 for R101.

Caption For Braunston, High Street C1955

The pub on the right, a fine ironstone and thatch building, is now a house. The white-painted building was rebuilt in the 1960s as the village store and post office.

Caption For Lyme Regis, The Promenade C1960

This was thought to have been the house in which Jane Austen stayed, but modern research shows that it must have been Pyne House, in Cornhill, above the Square.

Caption For Alton, Ashdell 1897

In November 1869, William T Gunner of Will Hall wrote in his diary: 'walked with Fred Crowley to see the site of his new house [Ashdell House, seen in this photograph]; he will be married shortly.'

Caption For East Hoathly, High Street C1955

The second view looks along Waldron Road into the High Street, with the London road turning beyond the houses on the right; the nearest of these, Warnham Cottage, is no longer a shop but a house

Caption For Abingdon, St Helen's Church C1955

Just beyond the west tip of Nag's Head Island is the Malthouse (creeper-clad) and Fairlawn Wharf to the right, now housing and formerly warehouses and barns.

Caption For Hemingford Abbots, The Church From The River 1899

This beautiful house would seem to be such an important asset to the village, but like so many others, all trace of it has now gone.

Caption For Tadcaster, Grimston Hall 1906

The old house here was restored and rebuilt in 1840 by Lord Howden to the designs of Decimus Burton, a London architect, who was also responsible for Hyde Park Corner.

Caption For Carshalton, Pond From The Bridge 1896

Further lakes and streams flow through the grounds of The Grove, which was once a private house, but is now a delightful public park.

Caption For Gilling West, Village 1913

The White Swan Inn on the left is 300 years old; the third house from the right is the old Gilling Club for working men. Twenty years ago it was used by the scouts, but is now a private house.

Caption For Sheffield, Gleadless Valley 2005

While the tide of council house building swept ever outwards, mainly to the north and east of the city centre, the 'scarlet fever' of private red-brick detached and semi-detached houses and

Caption For Newnham, Romer Arms C1955

This Edwardian building replaces an earlier private house.

Caption For West Bay, The Harbour C1955

The view is south-eastwards to the Bay House Cafe and East Cliff (centre).

Caption For Slaidburn, Church Street 1921

The Black Bull public house on the left was later to become a Youth Hostel. This is where Church Street meets Chapel Street.

Caption For Great Easton, The Village C1960

In an area of architectural gems (Rockingham Castle, Lyddington Bede House and Stoke Dry parish church), the village has a number of good ironstone houses of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries

Caption For Huntingdon, Hinchingbrooke House 1907

The house was built around the remains of a former Benedictine nunnery.

Caption For Penrice, Castle C1955

The house dominating the picture was built by Thomas Mansel-Talbot in the 1770s.

Caption For Uppingham, Sanatorium C1955

This halted boarding-house developments for many years as it used up all the available money. As the photograph shows, it was a splendid building but it proved to be a white elephant.