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Great Dane

I remember the Great Dane in the picture. My Grandma had a Yorkshire/Manchester Terrier cross, and the two animals looked so incongruous when they met. My aunt Doris Greenslade lived in a tiny cottage owned by Walter Little Senior situated 100 yards to the left of the post office in the picture.

A memory of Medstead by Vernon Maldoom

Evacuee During World War 2

I was privately evacuated to Croxton Kerrial with my sister in 1940, we were billeted in a cottage named Woodbine Cottage, this was next to the Bakery. We attended the village school, I still remember some of the ...Read more

A memory of Croxton Kerrial in 1940 by Keneth Harris

Delamere By Sid Grant

The Jewish Fresh Air Home and School was founded in 1921 by Miss Margaret Langdon, MBE, MA (1890-1980) and located at Blakemere Lane, Delamere near Norley, in the beautiful Cheshire countryside.  My time spent there was from ...Read more

A memory of Delamere in 1930 by Sid Grant

The High Street Sayer's Store 'nim' And Phyl Alen

My name is Barbara Tester and I live in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. My beloved (late) husband, Brian Tester, was born on 26th July, 1930 at No. 1 Station Cottages, 1 Station Road, Ardingly. His ...Read more

A memory of Ardingly in 1958 by Barbara Tester

Found Memories Of Early Days At Yealmpton

Now living in Australia and having revisited Yealmpton in recent times, the changes are amazing. Where there used to be fields in which I played with mates, sadly houses now stand. The old bridge, church, ...Read more

A memory of Yealmpton in 1950 by Anthony Thorne

Miner's Hall,Glyncorrwg

My memories are from the 1950s to the 1970s. My grandparents lived opposite the Miner's Hall for many years. (28 Cymmer Road). My grandfather was a bricklayer in the pit and also the Treasurer for the Miner's Hall. I ...Read more

A memory of Glyncorrwg in 1960

Summer Of 1965

I have happy memories of a summer spent with my Nannie and Grandad Gibbs. I remember walking down this street, passing 'Auntie Martha's' to the post office every day with Grandad. He used to buy me chocolate cigarettes every day. I ...Read more

A memory of Moorsholm in 1965 by Sheryl Jordan

Growing Up In Earl Shilton

I have fond memories of Earl Shilton around the 1950s. My first school was in Wood Street where I lived in a little old cottage, now knocked down. I remember celebrating Queen Elizabeth II's coronation at the school, ...Read more

A memory of Earl Shilton in 1950 by Maureen Burdett

Quarriers Were The Happiest Days Of My Life

My name is Elizabeth Bonner, but then it was Elizabeth Esnol. I lived in Cottage 3 with Agnes, the Mcdonalds and Anne, Margaret, and Josephine Murray, and Aunty Irene Munzy, Aunty Anne (House ...Read more

A memory of Quarriers Village in 1870 by Elizabeth Esnol

The Great North Road

How great was the Great North Road when it squeezed through these ancient gates until the early 1970s? Traffic built up on both sides waiting to get through. For a child this was the spot that marked where our holidays began, ...Read more

A memory of Alnwick in 1968 by Jonathan Vernon

Captions

2,010 captions found. Showing results 193 to 216.

Caption For Bowdon, South Down Road, Old Cottage 1897

This cottage was well over three hundred years old when the Frith cameraman took this picture.

Caption For Groombridge, C1955

This beautiful village of brick and tile-hung cottages clusters about its small green. On the extreme left we see cottage walls constructed in the popular Flemish bond.

Caption For Thornton Dale, Beck Isle Cottage C1965

This much-photographed cottage stands alongside the beck, in which trout can still be seen. In the village are Lady Lumley's Almshouses.

Caption For Walberswick, The Street C1955

The first of this row of Victorian cottages has the original name, Fern Cottage, painted on the glass fanlight. An ice-cream tricycle stands outside Row End (centre).

Caption For Daventry, Market Sqaure C1965

The cottages down Abbey Street to the left of the memorial have gone, and the United Counties Bus Company now have a garage there.

Caption For Hawkhurst, The Village And Moor Hill 1902

Weatherboarded cottages surround the tree-lined green. There is also an elegant Regency parade of shops, the Colonnade, situated at the crossroads.

Caption For Sandringham, The Gardener's Cottage 1927

This imposing cottage was for the important Head Gardener, who had over 80 gardeners under his control.

Caption For Nether Stowey, Lime Street C1960

We are looking up Lime Street from its junction with Castle Street; Coleridge's Cottage can be seen at the end on the left.

Caption For Old Cleeve, C1955

St Andrew's Church overlooks a row of 17th-century cottages that now have thatched porches. Each has two downstairs rooms divided by a cross passage.

Caption For Melton, The Street C1965

The doors and windows have been altered on the next pair of cottages, whilst the white Rosemary Cottage and the brick gable end beyond remain unchanged.

Caption For Witley, The Village 1906

A number of her sought-after country cottage pictures are of buildings in the Witley area.

Caption For Chipstead, The Pond C1960

Elmore Cottages still command the High Road opposite the village pond and crossroads but have been extended on the south side where the fence on the flint wall has been removed.

Caption For Sonning, The Lock 1917

Back to the river and downstream of Reading, Sonning Lock itself has been entirely renewed but the cottages remain.

Caption For Milborne Port, The Village 1953

The cottages on the right remain, but the right-hand one, Vine Cottage, has had its render removed and badly- proportioned stained-glass windows inserted.

Caption For Grasmere, Dove Cottage 1936

William Wordsworth lived with his sister, Dorothy, at Dove Cottage, just outside the village, from 1799 to 1813.

Caption For Grasmere, Dove Cottage 1936

William Wordsworth lived with his sister, Dorothy, at Dove Cottage, just outside the village, from 1799 to 1813. He wrote some of his best known poetry here.

Caption For Oving, The Village C1955

Here we see Magpie Cottage, a fine 17th-century timber- framed thatched cottage with whitewashed infill panels, hence the name, presumably.

Caption For Sleaford, West Banks C1955

This view looks east along West Banks, with its numerous small bridges, to the mainly late Victorian artisan cottages (some are dated 1901).

Caption For Cheddar, The Thomas Family Outside Their Cottage 1908

The Village 1908 Of the houses and cottages in this view, only the slate- roofed row with the chimney smoke survives.

Caption For Yardley Hastings, Little Lane C1952

The 18th-century thatched cottage on the left is joined now by more thatched roofs on the cottages beyond the topiary.

Caption For Worbarrow, Bay C1930

The fishing hamlet of Worbarrow (upper left), is seen here with Hill Cottage below Gold Down and Sea Cottage boathouses facing Worbarrow Bay.

Caption For Earith, High Street C1955

The old house with the parapet gable (right) has been divided into three cottages - one is a shop.

Caption For Southport, Thatched Cottages 1914

In an area that once relied on agriculture and fishing, thatched cottages were once a common sight.

Caption For Horsmonden, The Green 1903

Horsmonden's cottages and houses surround a spacious green. The village boasts a wealth of old buildings and timbered cottages.