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Places

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Memories

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Sacred Heart Church

This is Sacred Heart RC Church, in Accrington.  It has now been demolished.  I have many great memories and some not so great from this sacred place.  I felt like I had to share this info, with you when I saw this picture. ...Read more

A memory of Accrington by whitewitchwendy

Holidays

My brother and I had holidays in the chalets on the top of the cliffs along with my parents and maternal grandmother.  It always seemed hot and sunny and the whole two weeks was spent climbing along the cliffs, digging in the sand and ...Read more

A memory of Scratby in 1960 by Patricia Lillyman

Station Road Meopham

My parents moved into Station Rd in 1963, as a newly married couple. There was a terrace of new houses built in Station Rd in 1962/63 & theirs was the furthest house down the road, the end of the terrace, I think No.28? I ...Read more

A memory of Meopham in 1963 by Tracey Acton

Pattern Weaving At Reuben Gaunts Mill

My dad got me a job as a trainee pattern weaver at Gaunts mill in the main street of Farsley. I was 16/17 at the time. I learned a lot in that 18 months or so and I also met a beautiful girl called Doreen ...Read more

A memory of Farsley in 1960 by Keith Carter

Pridgeons Ltd Our Family Shop In Breakspeare Road

Pridgeons Ltd, in Garden Road, Abbots Langley was our family business from the 1940s until it was sold in 1972.  My grandfather Cyril Pridgeon and my grandmother Dorothy Pridgeon started the ...Read more

A memory of Abbots Langley in 1970 by Denise Pridgeon

Saturday Morning Pictures Etc

I lived on the border of Belvedere and Erith, just off Parsonage Manor Way and used to travel to Erith by bus.  I remember as a child of about 8-10 taking the 122a into Erith to go to the Odeon, Saturday Morning ...Read more

A memory of Erith by Alan Roberton

Unchanged Lerryn

Lerryn is a place that one almost wants to keep secret so that it does not become a popular destination. It has barely changed in a hundred years. A beautiful and unspoilt village in a steep sided valley, Lerryn lies at the tidal ...Read more

A memory of Lerryn in 2004 by Peter Marks

Where I Grew Up Born 1944

My Mum and Dad moved into the village in the 1930's into a new house in Rogers Lane and lived there for 66 years.  My father was the village tailor working from a workshop in the back garden.  My mother was very ...Read more

A memory of Stoke Poges in 1950 by Vivien Halse

Stories Of North Creake

My grandfather, John Arnett, was the teacher at the North Creake school for many years.  Four of his sons came to Canada.  When I was a little girl growing up in distant Saskatchewan the uncles would gather and tell ...Read more

A memory of North Creake in 1890 by Frances Arnett Sbrocchi

Salford In The War

As a child I lived in Earl St Hanky Park then moved to Cottrill St off Ellor St.   I attended John St school in the Ellor St area. I never really knew my dad.  He went in the army when I was 4 years old in 1939 and returned in ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1930 by Albert Morris

Captions

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Caption For Andover, Winchester Street 1904

The insubstantial building next door lasted well into the 1980s, where the best fish suppers in town came from the Fresh Fry.

Caption For Worstead, The Weaver's Cottage C1955

The skill of Flemish weavers who came to Norfolk was responsible for the enormous expansion of the trade.

Caption For Honiton, Lace Maker (Mrs Freeman) 1907

Then came machines, and the trade disintegrated.

Caption For Blaxhall, The Youth Hostel C1960

George Ewart Evans came to live in Blaxhall in 1948, when his wife became headmistress.

Caption For Rothwell, Market Place C1950

Rothwell's history dates back to long before the Danish invasion of the Dark Ages. 4,000 years ago Bronze Age settlers came to this area, followed by the Romans.

Caption For Beaminster, Hogshill Street 1902

In its heyday, Beaminster could boast at least seventeen inns, built to cater for the many farmers who came to town for the weekly market, as well as passengers on the Crewkerne to Bridport coach.

Caption For Lostwithiel, On The Road To Restormel House 1906

The castle came into the hands of the Duchy of Cornwall at the time of the Black Prince.

Caption For Churt, Pride Of The Valley 1928

The scene is one mile east of the village - the sign shows Lloyd George, who came to live in Churt in 1921 and left in 1944, the year before his death. His house, Bron y de, formerly stood nearby.

Caption For Haslemere, High Street 1931

The Dolmetsch family came to Haslemere in the 1920s, and the Dolmetsch music festival was established by Arnold Dolmetsch in 1925 to perform early music.

Caption For Margate, Harbour 1908

They came originally in the famous Margate 'hoys', and later by steam packet.

Caption For Nuneaton, Riversley Park C1955

Edward Melly was born in Liverpool in 1857, but came to Nuneaton after being educated at Rugby School.

Caption For Crewe, Market Hall, Earle Street 1951

It was to the wrought iron railings outside the front entrance of the municipal buildings that relatives of patients in the isolation hospital came for news of their loved ones.

Caption For Reigate, Vanderbilts Coach, Venture C1908

After the opening of the railway from London to Brighton in 1841, the coaching era came quickly to a close.

Caption For Odiham, All Saints Church 1903

This would have come from the local chalk downs, and the stone for the windows, tracery and doorways perhaps came from Bentley, some five miles to the south.

Caption For Ingatestone, High Street 1925

on the edge of Hainault forest, has been much developed over the years, but the village still presents a deceptively leafy appearance.The bakery and tea-rooms are reminders that many Londoners came

Caption For Basildon, Town Centre C1965

Old-fashioned, coach-built prams were still very much in evidence in 1965, though they were gradually rendered redundant as car ownership increased and foldaway buggies came into their own.

Caption For Thorney, The Village Green C1955

The quoins are of re-used abbey stone, and the stone slate roofs came from Colleyweston in Northamptonshire. It was possibly at this house that the plans were made for constructing the Bedford Level.

Caption For California, The California Inn C1960

The 'Cali' has satisfied the thirst of generations of holidaymakers, but before the tourists came it served the community of beachmen who lived here from 1850 onwards.

Caption For Botley, High Street C1960

Here we are looking back towards the way we came. In the centre the church stands above the distant houses.

Caption For Sandy, The Mill C1960

When the railway came in 1850, it opened up the voracious wholesale markets of London and the Midlands and brought a measure of solid prosperity to the community.

Caption For Ombersley, Village 1910

In the early 17th century it came into the possession of the Sandys family.

Caption For Combe Martin, Sterridge Valley 1911

Copp`s coaching trips then became Copp`s Silver Cars, and competition came from W H Gubb`s Lucky Violet charabancs.

Caption For Rugeley, Market Square C1955

Industry came early to Rugeley. There was a forge in the area by 1273, and glassmaking was well established by the early 14th century.

Caption For Winchester, Cathedral 1886

Pilgrims came from all over the world to pay homage at the Shrine of St Swithun, a former Winchester Bishop.