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Longleat

My grandfather Cecil Welch, who was the local estate agent and auctioneer based at the Old Town Hall in the High Street, bought several old cottages next to the blacksmiths in Church End for his son John and wife Peggy, at the vast ...Read more

A memory of Great Dunmow in 1948

School!

Memory of the hated Catholic school I was sent to, me being one of three Church of England girls, meant I was treated like an outcast! Beautiful house, and grounds, I learnt to ride there, it was my only way to get away ...Read more

A memory of Denford Park (Training Coll) in 1958 by Susi Allen

Boyhood Memories From 1952

It was around this time that the tram lines were taken up from Sunderland Road in Gateshead. The men stored the old lines in Somerset Street and Devonshire Street. As boys we would dig up the tar from around the ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead in 1952 by Dave Southern

Lightning Strikes

This is August 1953, I was 10. We were playing cricket on the clay field with some older lads, the stumps were iron and came from Spencers steel works which was nearby and stuff like this was easily got. Anyway I remember it was ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1953 by Jimmy Burrows

Hyde End House

I was at school (Lindfield) in this fine old Georgian building from 1947-1951 and spent many happy hours playing in the extensive grounds and old outbuildings and stables. One year our dormitory was above the stable block where the ...Read more

A memory of Brimpton in 1947 by Paul Alexander

Childhood Memories From 1949

I was born in Hubert Terrace which ran off Bank Street and along to Cuthbert Street. Further down was School Street and Marian Street which ran along to Derwentwater Road, and on Derwentwater Road was Lady Vernon ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead by Betty Harris

Childhood Memories Great Bardfield 1969

My late parents were the landlord and landlady of the Vine public house. I was just coming into teenage years. Friends came from the base who lived in the village. The pub itself was refurbished in ...Read more

A memory of Great Bardfield in 1969 by Dawn Willshere

A Quiet Haven Of Peace.

I lived next door to Davenham Church, and one summer's day, when I was about 7, I went for a walk around the churchyard. Hearing a rustling noise on the ground, I crouched down, parted some long grass, and found a baby ...Read more

A memory of Davenham in 1959 by Lynn Quigley

Looking Back To The Early Days

I was born in rented 'rooms' at Wordsworth Road in 1936 and came to move with my parents to five different addresses at Easington before I moved away from the area, when I married in 1963. But although my ...Read more

A memory of Easington Colliery in 1900 by Harold(Harry) Barnes

A Farm Workers Daughter In Dunsyre

Dunsyre was my first school, there were only 7 children in the whole school, myself and my two brothers all went there. I loved my teacher, she showed me great kindness, her name was Miss Low, I will never forget ...Read more

A memory of Dunsyre in 1954 by Jean Mcbride

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Captions

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Caption For Little Abington, C1960

Jeremiah's Tea House (centre) used to be one of the favourite places to drive out to from Cambridge in the 1960s.

Caption For Aspley Guise, Aspley House C1955

Built to an original design by Sir Christopher Wren, it is believed that Aspley House's chequered history includes a spell as an outpost of the work of the Special Operations Executive during World War

Caption For Leicester, Cavendish House, Abbey Park C1955

This house of 1600 was built by Henry Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon, using stone robbed from the remains of Leicester Abbey; but it was to be reduced to a skeletal ruin by fire 45 years later.

Caption For Rugby, The School Cloisters 1922

To the west of Old Quad (above, 72159) lies Old Big School, surmounted by School House dormitories.

Caption For Saffron Walden, Myddleton Place C1965

Hollyhocks grow against the building, and Myddylton House (left) has lost its Virginia creeper - instead, wisteria is in bloom.

Caption For Bletchley, St Mary's Church C1965

The Victorian railway houses of New Bradwell are in the background.

Caption For Chigwell, The Hall C1965

It was built in 1876 to designs by Norman Shaw, his only house in the area. It is now a Grade II listed building.

Caption For Portland, Chesil Beach From Fortuneswell 2003

Urban Fortuneswell has spread upwards from Portland Harbour to the houses beside New Road.

Caption For Swavesey, High Street C1965

Coming off the old A604, now the A14, the High Street meanders through Swavesey village for over a mile passing chapels, farm houses, cottages and 19th-century terraces - very little has changed here for

Caption For Sonning, Village 1904

Sonning includes many Georgian houses and timber-framed cottages.

Caption For Stratford Upon Avon, Shakespeare's Garden 1922

The restoration was directed at putting the house into a representation of what it might have looked like in 1564.

Caption For High Wycombe, Wycombe Abbey School Grounds C1965

Wycombe Abbey School's first architect, was commissioned by the school to build boarding houses, classroom blocks and dormitories, which were mostly built between 1898 and 1902, with the chapel following

Caption For Norwich, St Helen's Square, Great Hospital 1921

Originally intended for housing poor clergy, and other poor people, the hospital was founded by Bishop Walter de Suffield in 1249. Masses were to be said here for his soul in perpetuity.

Caption For Dublin, Albert Statue 1897

It stands on Leinster Lawn beside Leinster House, home of the Irish Parliament.

Caption For Blackburn, Public Hall & Sessions House 1923

Blackburn's Public Hall opened in 1923.The Sessions House is just beyond it on the right. Now called King George's Hall, it is still one of the centres of entertainment in Blackburn.

Caption For Farington, Stanifield Lane C1955

The pre-war houses stand neat and square on the lane. Farington is a parish in South Ribble Borough.

Caption For Devizes, On The Canal 1898

The cottage now houses a tea room.

Caption For Lechlade, High Street C1960

Situated near where Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Wiltshire meet is the pretty village of Lechlade, with its fine array of Georgian houses.

Caption For Kirkstall Abbey, From The Weir 1891

Even so the chapter house, cloisters and abbot's lodging are still impressive.

Caption For York, Bishopthorpe Palace From River 1893

This tranquil scene shows the many different styles of building that took place over more than six centuries to give this magnificent house its unique character.

Caption For Wheaton Aston, The Lock 1952

The lock keepers cottage (left) is now a private house, and the large building behind has gone.

Caption For Westgate On Sea, Hotels And Beach 1890

Two of Westgate's leading hotels were the Beach House Hotel on the left, and the large St Mildred's Hotel and Bathing Establishment (centre).

Caption For Horsforth, Hall Park 1901

Even so the chapter house, cloisters and abbot's lodging are still impressive.

Caption For Ironbridge, High Street And Church Street 1925

The town also has a Market House, which like many others, was originally open on the ground floor.