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St Mary's Church
Re: St Mary's wednesday morning church service at Dewhurst Secondary as it was known in those days, I remember Stan Mathews falling asleep on his knees as in prayer. My mother now lives in the alms house next to the church, so ...Read more
A memory of Cheshunt in 1963 by
Pub Crown And Thistle Just Out Of View
I moved into the Crownd and Thistle about 1941 aged 4 and I left village in 1960. Arthur Benstead was landlord for many years. He and Muriel his wife retired just across the road to a house left by Mr ...Read more
A memory of Fulbourn in 1940 by
Me Granda
I am writing this because I have been back to Clara visiting after I was contacted by Brian and Helen who now live in me Granda's house, they had read my memories of Newburn which mentioned Clara and sent me a message. Me Grandad ...Read more
A memory of Clara Vale in 1947 by
Second World War Memories
I was only a nipper in 1942 but recall clearly the German bombing raids Weston had to survive. Bristol was their main target, but to get a smart getaway they would fly over Weston shedding any spare bombs as they ...Read more
A memory of Congresbury in 1942 by
Evacuation To West Hendred From 1941 To 1946
I was evacuated at the age of 4 yrs with my mother, Catherine and younger brother Alfred. We had been buried alive in a shelter, in Upton Park, East London and only saved when someone heard my ...Read more
A memory of West Hendred by
Church And Cottages In Duke Street
I have a print of this view in my study. My grandparents lived in the second cottage up from the church and my father was born there in 1902. My grandmother died in 1939 and my grandfather, who served in the ...Read more
A memory of St Blazey in 1944 by
Pearson Cottage Stanhope
I am doing my Family History and have got as far as Stanhope. Is there still a Pearson(s) Cottage in Stanhope? The surnames I have are: Pearson and Liddle, they came over from Northumberland.
A memory of Stanhope in 1860 by
Pearson Cottage Stanhope
Robert Pearson lived in Pearson(s) Cottage in 1891, with his wife, Margaret Gowland, and their children: Annie (born: 1882) - Joseph (born: 1883) - Edith (born: 1885) - Robert (born: 1887) and Margaret (born: 1890). If ...Read more
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Skinner Stonemasons
I was born in Barnet, but lived in Hatfield, 9 miles away. My grandfather was a stonemason and his father Walter Skinner had a Stonemasony business in East Barnet Road. Walter's father came from Wakerley, Northants, where ...Read more
A memory of High Barnet in 1900 by
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Viewed from the old railway bridge, here is Vine Cottage by the River Anton where it joins the Test at Fullerton Junction.
An isolated village of flint and brick cottages, to the west of Chichester. In the village are Adsdean, a gabled Tudor style house of around 1850, and the church of St Mary, built in 1859.
The clump of trees just in front of it marks the position of Barstable Cottage, one of the thousands of small tenements swept away by the New Town.
This is a scene of contrasts, featuring Manor Cottage, an 18th-century thatched stone-built house, and the dull 1960s house to the left. The bus shelter remains, but re-roofed in sheet metal.
The shop has closed and been converted to a chalet bungalow while the thatched cottage in the distance has lost its thatch.
Further up Church Street, these late Victorian terraces of cottages, numbers 12 to 20, adopted the Sussex vernacular style with tile-hung upper floors, bay windows, dormers and tiled roofs.
It is interesting that the terrace of old Welsh cottages appears to have been re-roofed with modern tiles and not stone slates - this is an indicator of the lack of planning regulations at this time
The left-hand side of Winchester Road remains constant, with the pub and the timber-framed cot- tage still to be seen.
In 1921 a catering business was started at Bracebridge Cottages and in 1983 it became Bobby Brown's.
In the centre stand good examples of cottages thatched with Norfolk reed, and beyond are roof pantiles brought over by the Dutch. The village store has a good range of gardening tools on display.
Beyond the scattered farms and cottages, the limestone hills sweep up towards the large exposed cutting, just visible above the trees to the right, which has been made for the imminent coming of the Midland
On the right, beyond the thatched cottage, is Goymer's pork butcher's shop, which closed c1950.
Beyond the barns are two 17th-century groups of houses: Street Cottages and the flint and brick White Gates.
Many of the stone cottages date from the 17th century, and at number 22 lived a cloth merchant, John Brabyn, who founded a Bluecoat school and almshouses in Chipping.
The left-hand side of Winchester Road remains constant, with the pub and the timber-framed cottage still to be seen.
Bridge Cottage Tea Parlour (centre) doubled as a newsagent's under the ownership of Edgar Allen, and also advertised a wide range of entertainments, from 'Viva Zapata' at the Lyric Cinema, Bridport, to
White House cottage to its right, at the end of Bunker's Row, has now been demolished.
The group of cottages to the right was demolished in the 1960s to make way for an extension to the hotel.
The cob, stone and thatch cottages on the corner (right) date from the 18th century, and the tower of the parish church (left) from the early 16th century.
Between 1867 and 1904, finding themselves short of workers accomodation, the Guest family built more than 110 cottages accross their far-flung estate, paying special attension to Canford Magna itself
Little has changed in more than a century, though the cottages just past Northcott's shop (left) are no longer thatched.
The Malsters Arms (left), originally a beer-house, is still very much the same, although it has expanded into the cottages to the left.
The 17th-century cottages used to house lead miners, and there is evidence of an old smelt mill. The village has a Quaker burial ground and a former Methodist chapel.
This is a street mainly of 16th- or 17th- century timber-framed cottages.
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