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Former Gardener Of Checkendon Court.

I started working for Sir Nigel Broackes at Checkendon Court, in June of 1999, and was a Gardener through the turn of the Century. I was working for the Court for thirteen years, until the owner decided ...Read more

A memory of Checkendon Court by Peter Eccleston

Grouse Beating

As a student I spent 3 seasons working as a beater on Lord Sopwiths estate. I first worked a few days during a holiday with family friends called Rita and Albert Sparks who had holidayed in Arkengarthdale for many years. The ...Read more

A memory of Arkengarthdale in 1960 by Roy Loudon

Home Memories.

I moved into these cottages with my family in 1935 and my parents were there until 1959. Originally it was a barn hence the name 'Barn Row' and was converted into cottages in 1836 as marked in the brickwork on the other ...Read more

A memory of Paglesham Churchend in 1930 by Claire Allen

Holidays At The Lock Keeper's Cottage

My family and I, Ernest Aspey, regularly holidayed here in the early 1950s as my grandfather, Henry Slaughter, was the Assistant Lock-keeper at the time. This photo is significant to me as I was led to ...Read more

A memory of Old Windsor in 1952 by Kate Hill

My Old School

This is a view which I know very well as it is taken from Hardgate School playground - the school that I attended from 1939 to 1946.   The little cottage on the left was occupied by Peter McAlister & his family and the next ...Read more

A memory of Haugh of Urr by Jim Cook

Tree Cottage

This building is still known as Tree Cottage, Old Lane, but the postal address has been changed to Barnston Road which causes a lot of confusion. I have lived here since 2002 and traced the previous owners back to 1851, but apparently the cottage is much older.

A memory of Barnston in 2006 by Jane Hetherington

Tiny Post Office.

Mr and Mrs Raines ran an efficient postal service from this humble shed at the bottom of their garden in 1908. There was surely hardly room to swing a mail sack. The slot through which villagers poked their letters is at the ...Read more

A memory of North Wootton

Family Connections.

The lady standing on the bridge is my great grandmother Hannah Elton nee Churchill and the small boy her grandson, Cecil Henry Stickland, my uncle.  He became the verger at Christchurch Priory.  Hannah lived with her ...Read more

A memory of Wimborne Minster by Claire Allen

Growing Up In Finchingfield

My family Ken and Joan Blake owned the Church Hill Stores (opposite the Church) from 1945 to the early 50's then we lived in the village until 1957. I have many memories of my time in Finchingfield and many faces ...Read more

A memory of Finchingfield in 1940 by Lesley Alexander

Margaret Beavan

My late wife Sandra stayed at the home, with her sister Carol, for 6 weeks in the summer of 1957. Sandra was just turned 11 and Carol 9 and a half. About 20 years ago Sandra and I went back to Heswall and, as others have commented, ...Read more

A memory of Heswall by Bill Watson

Captions

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Caption For Hinxton, High Street C1960

The farmhouses and cottages all have steps down to the street because the old unmetalled road to Cambridge had been gradually lowered by use.

Caption For Easton, The Village C1950

In the distance are Pump Cottage and Lavender Cottage, both built in mock-Tudor style.

Caption For Uttoxeter, Market Place C1955

The cottages to the right were at this time home and shop to H Woolley, a saddler, as they had been since around 1900.

Caption For Skeeby, Village 1913

Lime Cottage, jutting out near the end of the street, is dated 1904. On the near right is Tenby Cottage, next to the old post

Caption For St Austell, Pondhu Road 1912

This thatched cottage with its little garden stood in Pondhu Road, in the valley bottom to the south west of the town centre.

Caption For Bramley, The Village C1955

Today modern houses are interspersed with the cottages. Nearby, close to the church, older cottages with thatched roofs and latticed windows can be found.

Caption For Porlock Weir, The Harbour 1929

retreated from Porlock village to the present seashore: it is now a mile and a half drive to its outlet to the sea at Porlock Weir, a charming small harbour with three hotels as well as whitewashed cottages

Caption For Little Missenden, The White Cottage C1955

On the lane south from the crossroads the last two houses on the left are timber-framed, the White Cottage on the left with original framing in the side elevation and fake to the front.

Caption For Eling, The Quay C1955

Magazine Lane c1965 These redbrick cottages have defied the march of time and today look much as they did in the mid 1960s. Even the street lamp is still there.

Caption For Alford, West Street C1950

In the foreground are cottages, some thatched, while in the distance are some more urban later houses of two and three full storeys.

Caption For Waldringfield, Mill Road C1965

The post mill, which stood to the north of the cottage, was built in 1829 and demolished in 1912. Mill Cottage and the converted barn called Granary House are all that remain of the mill complex.

Caption For Berwick, Drusilla's Park, The Cottage C1955

Fronting the road, beyond the outbuildings in the two previous views, is the 17th-century cottage where the zoo park started some seventy years ago; its outbuildings became the gift shop

Caption For Cheddar, Village And Gorge C1873

The cottages on the left remain beyond the millpond; the row behind were built in 1667 and are now the Cheddar Toy and Model Museum.

Caption For Rickmansworth, Canal And Batchworth Lock 1897

The central cottage has now gone, but there is a cafe instead.

Caption For Penn, Old Cottages C1955

Nos 1, 2 and 3 Church Cottages on the right were once a single 17th century timber-framed house whose original brick stack with three chimney shafts can be seen on the gable.

Caption For Oundle, St Osyths Lane C1950

Of the long terrace of 17th-century cottages on the right, only the former Anchor Inn remains, dated 1637 and now a private house.

Caption For Daventry, Market Square C1950

The cottages on the left were demolished sometime in the 1960s. In the one that was double-fronted lived Mr and Mrs Terry.

Caption For Wrea Green, The Duck Pond C1965

Cottages, the Grapes Inn, the church and the school are facing or clustered round the green. An old resident, Mrs Lancaster, had a fund of memories. She was a Rose Queen one Club Day.

Caption For Lyme Regis, The Lynch 1892

The view is northwards to the Angel Inn (centre), still with its thatched roof, and Weaver's Cottage (centre right).

Caption For Old Warden, Church And Thatched Cottage C1955

The 'cottage orne' thatched cottages are earlier 19th-century. The whole village is similarly picturesque, although the church is medieval.

Caption For Elstow, Bunyan's Cottage And The Village 1921

The wooden plaque above the door of the cottage on the right proclaims it as John Bunyan's home.

Caption For Newent, Culvert Street C1955

The town is fortunate to have retained so many old and attractive buildings, such as this range of half-timbered cottages that greets those who arrive from the direction of Gloucester to this

Caption For Weaverham, Northwich Road C1965

The timber cottage on the left is Poplar Cottage, dating from the 1600s. It had a room on the ground floor that was traditionally a 'birth chamber'.

Caption For Lowestoft, The Lighthouse And Cottages 1887

This row of fishermen's cottages took their name from the High Light, the lighthouse we can see in the background. The dioptric light was lit by oil until 1938, when it was electrified.