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Queen Square School 1857 1969.
Of course l did'nt realise how picturesque the building was when l was a pupil there 1955-1958. Fortunately, Edward Callum did and his painting is "normally" displayed in Wardown Museum. (Hopefully in its entirety cos little ...Read more
A memory of Luton
Lived Worked And Played Here
My mother was born in keepers cottage in Battle Wood, who grew up and later got married in Battle church. My grandfather, Leonard Glyde was a fireman during the second world war stationed at Battle fire station. I was ...Read more
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The Real Family Of Axmouth Devon Uk
My Grandmother ELLEN REAL was born in Axmouth 1875. Her grandmother was a Lace Maker and one of a few lace makers who contributed to making Queen Victoria's Wedding Veil. My father (William Tom Sparkes) told me ...Read more
A memory of Axmouth in 1947 by
Bracebridge
I was born at number 2 Bracebridge in 1941. From childhood memories I think it was a canal side cottage. My mother was evacuated there from Coventry to avoid the bombing for a short stay. I think I must have arrived early as I don't ...Read more
A memory of Worksop by
Home Sweet Home
Porthywaen born and bred, lived at the Gate House for nearly 30 years with Mum Dad and 2 Brothers, Dad lived there most of his life he was born next door at Yew Tree Cottage in 1940 his father worked in the quarries and some very ...Read more
A memory of Porth-y-waen by
Ike Smith''s Hardware And Bicycle Store
My grandfather, Isaac Smith, had a hardware and bicycle shop on these premises, known universally as the 'Tudor Cottages', from some time towards the close of WW1 to the late 1930s. The premises were owned ...Read more
A memory of Warrington in 1920 by
The Forge Faygate
My grandfather, John Mitchell, owned the village blacksmiths, it had been in the Mitchell family for three generations. Granddad ran the forge with his sons Frank and John jnr, later John jnr left to do other things. Uncle ...Read more
A memory of Faygate in 1950 by
The Mills
It is interesting to hear from some one who lived so close to me when I was little. We lived up from the high mill in hope cottage. My father Robert Stroud worked at the really awful mill most of his life for almost nothing. Mr ...Read more
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Good Times, Good Money, Good Friends.
I was sent frtom Leeds to Lower Bynamman in 1970 to work building up a huge 2400 Marion excavator for Sir Lindsey Parkinson at the GCG (Tyor Gwaith?) opencast coal site. I lodged at the Bryannam Hotel with Dez and ...Read more
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Growing Up In Milford
My mother was in the WAAFs during WWII. She met my father (an American G.I.) at a dance in Henley. They married in 1944 and after the war, my mother traveled to the United States as a war bride. I was born in Nebraska in ...Read more
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Its buildings range from Bay Cottage (near left), the Royal Standard, Sunnyholme, the Bonded Store, and the Coastguard Station to the old Cobb Arms (right).
The Old Bonded Store and Bay Cottage (centre) can be clearly seen. Bay Cottage is better known as Jane's Café, for its link with 'Persuasion'.
This magnificent view shows a typical Achill scene, clouds hanging over Croaghaun, whilst the limewashed cottages huddle together in this remote Irish-speaking village.
The homes in the stone-built terrace (right) were once fitted with hand-looms, but the end cottage with the sign sold tyres at the time of the photograph.
This long row of jettied timber-framed buildings (now known as Castlebridge Cottages) is unusual in a rural setting. The central bay was destroyed at some time and has been rebuilt.
On the right are the early 18th-century plain brick frontages of the Star Inn cottages, while on the extreme left is a 15th-century hall-house, Pollard Cottage, with a 16th-century projecting gable over
This scene is almost timeless, for the small courts behind the fishermen's cottages are still the only places to hang out the washing to dry.
From this view of the crossroads, one can see The Redes on the left, and on the right, Japonica Cottage, which housed Netherbury Post Office.
Holiday cottages line the bank, and in the background is a typical Broadland windpump, used for keeping the surrounding fields drained.
The High Street has attractive tile-hung and weatherboarded cottages tumbling down the hill.
The old thatched cottage in the centre of the earlier picture was replaced by a modern house in the late 1970s, and the neighbouring house has been extended.
Even olde thatched cottages were displaying aerials by the 1950s. This half-timbered building with its thatched porch and gateway is one of the oldest in Little Comberton.
The closest building to the water was the thatched Fishermen's Hut (left of centre) with the tiled Anchor Inn and thatched Anchor Cottages next (centre) and the Coastguard Station behind.
Its broad, spacious street is fringed with brick and weatherboarded cottages in the Wealden style.
It is not a cottage, it is in fact an Elizabethan farmhouse, and Anne Hathaway never owned it.
A fine view over the River Avon, with a horse cooling itself by the ancient ford and a thatcher practising his age-old craft on one of Ringwood's most picturesque cottages.
Wool workers' cottages of this kind traditionally had stable-style front doors. The top half was left open so that merchants could look in and inspect the quality of the work.
Built in the 1840s, this row of coastguard cottages still stands, although Pegwell itself has been engulfed by Ramsgate.
In 1899 it was a declining community, with a few cottages and this isolated church.
Today's grey stone or white-washed cottages were built in the 18th and 19th centuries for handloom weavers. Where the brook runs through the village, each cottage had a stone slab to cross.
From this view of the crossroads, one can see The Redes on the left, and on the right, Japonica Cottage, which housed Netherbury Post Office.
This thatched cottage sits at the northern end of the village and was once a pub whose custom came from those travelling to and from Shropshire.
There are many charming cottages in the vicinity of Lyndhurst, some of them probably dating back to the 13th century when the harsh forest laws were relaxed somewhat during the reign of Henry III.
Note the neat, gritstone cottages with their slabbed, gritstone roofs.
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