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Memories

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Frederick Corder,

These are my memories of Ipswich in Early 1960 I had been working in Ilford on C & A Modes new shop. when the job there was finished i was sent to Frederick Corders shop in Tavern Street, Ipswich, to help out with the ...Read more

A memory of Ipswich by Anthony Williams

Walker, Newcastle Upon Tyne

I was born in Moorland Crescent in the 1950’s. This council housing estate was built a few decades earlier and has a variety of different style good quality houses. Most people had nice gardens with flowers etc ...Read more

A memory of Newcastle upon Tyne by James Cooper

Wandsworth Common

Lived at 26 WestSide from late 40s until the underpass was built, then to Morville House in later 1960s. Loved being able to cross Trinity Road to the common where I spent many hours with different friends, often playing football ...Read more

A memory of Wandsworth by Hugh Betterton

Hatch End 50/60/70s Memories

As I’ve only just stumbled on this web page so offer excuses if it’s past its sell by date. I lived in Sylvia Ave Hatch End from 1951 (as a babe in arms) until I married and moved away in 1976. My recollections may now ...Read more

A memory of Hatch End by Martin Harris

My Father's Home

My father, Arthur Edgar Urry bought Barnicott in 1923. His wife ran it as a boarding house and my father raised poultry there. My step-brother moved into the house after the war and lived there until sometime about 2010.

A memory of Newton Ferrers by Richard Bonnie

History Of Peacock Cottage, Cleeve Prior

In 'Spring Onions' the autobiography of farmer and market gardener Duncan McGuffie, published by Faber & Faber in 1942, the author rents Peacock Cottage. This is the quote from p 49: "Peacock Cottage ...Read more

A memory of Cleeve Prior by Robert Carter

The Way We Were

In 1946 my family Mum, Dad,brother Alex and sisters Jenny and Kay moved into a requisitioned house in Hollybush Hill. The house was called Surinam and it was a beautiful old house with a sweeping staircase and cellars ...Read more

A memory of Wanstead by Lillian Bradley

Bartletts Lane

WE LIVED IN BARTLETTS LANE FOR ABOUT 30 YEARS. OUR SON WAS THREE WHEN WE MOVED THERE, AND OUR DAUGHTER WAS BORN A FEW MONTHS LATER, AT CANADIAN RED CROSS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, CLIVEDEN. WE LOVED HOLYPORT BUT SOLD THAT HOUSE AS WE HAD ...Read more

A memory of Holyport by Jacqueline Wilks

My Family Worked In Ozalid

We moved to Foxley Close in July 1968 from Manford Way, Chigwell, where we'd been living in a prefab for 4yrs. Moving to what was known then as a "double prefab" was definitely a move up for our family of 5. My parents, my ...Read more

A memory of Loughton by Lubna Ul Hasan

Rye Mill Cottages

My maternal great grandmother (or possibly Great Aunt), Mrs Curtis, was of Romani (Gypsy) descent and lived in one of the row of cottages that fronted the Rye (Pann) Mill on London Road, High Wycombe, opposite the Trinity ...Read more

A memory of High Wycombe by Barbara Hughes

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Captions

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Caption For Islip, House, Country Club C1960

A fine Georgian house, it boasts a Colleyweston slate roof and sash windows. The creeper has gone and the render has now been colourwashed.

Caption For Studley, The Manor House C1960

It is now called Mountbatten House after Lord Louis Mountbatten, who was president of the Royal Life Saving Society, which moved its headquarters here in 1980.

Caption For Minster, The High Street C1954

Minster on the Isle of Sheppey has two public houses in its High Street, as we can see here: The King's Arms is on the left, and The Highlander in the centre.

Caption For Minster In Thanet, The Corner House Cafe C1960

The aptly-named Corner House Café was a confectioner's in 1948. Later, in 1960, a café was added to the business.

Caption For London, The House Of Commons C1920

This view shows the original House of Commons chamber, which was destroyed during the Second World War.

Caption For Berry Pomeroy, Castle 1890

It was the house to which William of Orange (later King William III) repaired soon after landing at Brixham in 1688 to end the Stuart dynasty and start the line of Protestant monarchs who have reigned

Caption For Holker Hall, 1894

The original house was built in the 16th century.

Caption For Alton, High Street 1898

The buildig on the right is part of the White Horse public house, with the cottages of Clementina Carpenter, a tobacconist, and John Fosbury, a boot and shoe maker.

Caption For Holybourne, The London Road C1960

The house on the corner, known as The Beeches, was advertised for auction in 1920.

Caption For Bolton Le Sands, C1960

Taken from outside St Mary of the Angels, the village's Catholic church, this view looks along The Nook past 17th- and early 18th-century houses.

Caption For Barnt Green, The Village C1965

For example, in this photograph the private houses on the far right have now been converted into shops, and the hedges have been removed to give easy access.

Caption For Tetbury, Market Place C1960

The Market House was built in 1655; it is a substantial building supported on fat stone columns. Originally it would have been more striking, but the third storey was removed in 1817.

Caption For Banstead, High Street C1955

On the opposite side of the road a parade of shops has replaced the undertaker`s and surrounding houses. The village school beyond has given way to Waitrose.

Caption For Bramley, High Street 1904

There is, of course, another Wheatsheaf further along the road; it had once been a pair of cottages, but they were converted to a beer house in the 1880s.

Caption For Ross On Wye, Market Place C1955

Today the upper floor is used as a Heritage Centre and houses a museum that tells the history of the town.

Caption For Blackpool, Bailey's Hotel 1890

Bailey's Hotel was the first to accommodate visitors to Blackpool, along with Bennett's and Yorkshire House. The scene is Central Beach. J Wolfe and R Penswick were the bathing machine proprietors.

Caption For Kings Lynn, Tuesday Market Place 1898

It is surrounded by many important houses, some owned by the most wealthy merchants and families.

Caption For Bexhill On Sea, Old Town, Walnut Tree 1897

The well-known Bell Hotel is on the left, and in the centre is the partly-weatherboarded Wealden hall-house.

Caption For Steyning, View From White Horse Lane 1914

The centre of Steyning includes rows of picturesque gabled houses and period buildings.

Caption For Lancing, The Beach C1960

The nearby road has houses either side, which limits public access in places.

Caption For Oakham, The Castle C1955

Beyond that are the houses along Burley Road.

Caption For Westdean, 1921

To the left of the church tower is the Old Parsonage, a 13th-century house of great interest.

Caption For Broughton, Woodplumpton Lane 1966

The fine modern houses are a world away from the ancient stocks outside Broughton churchyard, 18th-century Toll Bar Cottage, Pinfold Cottage or the smithy where the Mercer family used to shoe horses.

Caption For Godmanchester, The Causeway C1950

The Royal Oak is the sole surviving public house on the Causeway.