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Saint Mellons And Trowbridge.

I moved to trowbridge when i was 5 and now am 55 and living in rumney. My childhood memories are of fields and lanes now gone forever. I remember standing outside the dairy that was on greenway road just past hendre ...Read more

A memory of St Mellons by wesgate

My Childhood In Hornchurch

My parents bought our house in Mansfield Gardens in 1934 for £500. It had no garage but nobody in the road had a car anyway. My name was Jenifer Shearring. I went to North Street Primary School, infants and juniors ...Read more

A memory of Hornchurch by jenny

Jack's Shop

My grandparents lived in the school house in New Micklefield. I can remember Jack's shop across the road (Great North Road), which was a wooden structure that you climbed up to by steep steps. This was just to the side of the ...Read more

A memory of Micklefield by jenf2000

Expat Memories From Australia

Billy Benson here. I now live in Victoria Australia, but I grew up in Aveley and lived at 5 Crescent Walk. Loved the pictures of the local shops and the old town. My family moved to Australia in 1963. I have been back since ...Read more

A memory of Aveley by billbenson1

Victoria Road

I lived in Victoria Road from 1945 to 1958. I remember the prefabs at the Ilford Lane end of the road. The odd numbered houses in Victoria Road started at number 7. I never understood why that was as I don't think there were houses there ...Read more

A memory of Barking by ronfer1945

House Disappeared

We have purchased Harbour Sails, Overgang. In the picture you can see that once upon a time there was rather large house sitting in front,which is no longer there, (where the boats are in corner of quay, there’s 2 masts that point to the old house). What happened to it?

A memory of Brixham by Sharon O’reilly

Great Nelmes

My great grandfather, Alfred Barber owned Great Nelmes House from about 1900-1935 until his death. My late mother loved the house and was extremely upset when she heard it had been illegally demolished in 1967. As a child I remember ...Read more

A memory of Emerson Park

Doon The Den

I stayed in Denhead and used to play down the den almost every day. We used to go to school via the gap either next to Ciff Bells house or the gap next to smiths shop. We used to go along the cliffs behind the scrappiest then straight ...Read more

A memory of Kennoway by John Walker

Florence Gibson Ward

Hi all, I was there about 1961, I think it was late summer, I'd just got out of Myrtle Street Hospital in Liverpool, and instead of going home to terrible accommodation in Liverpool 8, they (whoever "they" were) sent me to Heswall ...Read more

A memory of Heswall by Frederick Johnson

Barwick School

Hi this is Tubby Laird, I was at Barwick house from 13 -16 I ran away twice and started a riot then got expelled. I remember getting the cane on each hand on the arse put in the cooler and cells at 2-3 times a week. Looking back how ...Read more

A memory of Barwick by Tubby Laird

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Caption For Cartmel, The Gatehouse And Market Cross 1921

It also served as the manorial courthouse but, during the 17th and 18th centuries housed a grammar school and later served as a general store.

Caption For Wymondham, The Market Place And Cross C1965

The modern shop fronts in the town hide many old medieval houses.

Caption For Chipping Norton, Middle Row C1960

Among the shops on the left is the Phoenix Café and cake shop (nearest the camera) with E Bennett's grocery store next door; the tallest building housed the premises of a ladies' hairdresser.

Caption For Oxford, Carfax C1950

The church was declared redundant in 1971, and today it houses the library of Lincoln College.

Caption For Brimscombe, Walls Quarry 1901

With the exception of the nearer dwellings, all the houses we see here are of Cotswold stone.

Caption For Eastleigh, Market Street C1960

At ground floor level canopied, stylish shop fronts replace the premises of J Baker and Complete House Furnishings. Kingfisher China and Glass replaces Smith Bradbeer & Co on the left.

Caption For Goring, The Village 1896

Plenty of large Victorian houses and ornate villas can be seen in this photograph of Goring.

Caption For Houghton, The Clock Tower C1960

The white house called The Green was an inn. Part of the original medieval building survives, while the large chimney stack was added later.

Caption For Eastbourne, Queen's Hotel From The Pier 1910

Beyond the Queens Hotel with its tiers of balconies, which opened in June 1880, are one or two of the surviving buildings of the original Sea Houses, one of the four hamlets of pre-Victorian Eastbourne

Caption For Bath, Upper Weston High Street 1907

The early 19th-century houses on the left are, however, quite urban in feel and reflect the proximity of Bath.

Caption For Stoneleigh, Ewell Court Parade C1960

Most of the houses and business premises in this suburb were constructed in this mock-Tudor style in the years leading up to the Second World War.

Caption For Norton, Georgian Houses, The High Street C1965

Norton High Street is one of the surprise features in Teesside, with several elegant period houses nestling behind the trees which line the road verges.

Caption For Ormesby, Main Street C1965

It was sacrificed in a road-widening scheme, and replaced by the Fountain public house, which was set back in line with the ancient row of almshouses we see here on the left.

Caption For Warrington, Park Gates 1901

Originally designed by the Coalbrookdale Iron Company for Sandringham House, and shown at the International Exhibition of 1862, they were adapted by replacing the central Prince of Wales' feathers with

Caption For Warrington, Sankey Street C1955

Warston Pictures proudly presents 'My Six Convicts' at its Cameo Cinema on the corner of Springfield Street, opposite Bank House (right.)

Caption For Woolston, Long Barn Bridge C1965

Today the name Long Barn is associated with a modern housing development, but in 1965 the area was still open countryside and farmland.

Caption For Chipping, Wolfen House C1955

The photograph shows Wolfen House after its transformation, in a beautiful woodland setting.

Caption For Warton, Washington House (1612) C1955

Washington House, on the main street, was the home of the forebears of American President George Washington. The stars and stripes flag is flown from the church tower every 4 July.

Caption For Lincoln, Steep Hill C1955

On the left is a corner of the Norman House, built in stone around 1180.

Caption For Cowes, View From The Pier 1927

A little higher up on a hill, peeping over the top of the Royal Marine Restaurant (far right) is the Trinity Theatre, which today houses the Cowes Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society.

Caption For Longdon, Moat Bank C1960

There has been a great deal of modern building in the village, though many of Longdon's half- timbered houses have survived.

Caption For Romford, Laurie Square C1965

The flower beds and war memorial have now been replaced by the roundabout and pedestrian subway and the first houses in Park End Road have been replaced by the extension to the Town Hall.

Caption For Bocking, The Convent 1900

Fulling Mill House, to the right, was once home to the Nottages, who built Cane's Mill. Later, the artist and philanthropist Edith Arendrup lived there.

Caption For Black Notley, The Watermill 1903

Fulling Mill House, to the right, was once home to the Nottages, who built Cane's Mill. Later, the artist and philanthropist Edith Arendrup lived there.