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Memories

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Barrow Hill

My father bought the land on Barrow Hill, and built a house called Carrick Lodge (1961). I am not sure that everyone at the bottom of the hill were totally impressed with the house although it did not effect the view. We did have ...Read more

A memory of Worcester Park in 1946 by Marian Hogan

St Joseph’ Junior School Pontefract

Born in December 1957 my maiden name was Kemp I must have started in Mrs Padgets class St Joseph's circa 1962. i remember the alphabet in pictures around the wall A is for apple B is for ball, C is for cat & ...Read more

A memory of Pontefract by Margaret Lewis

Yesterday's Birch

I REMEMBER BIRCH IN 1960'S. THE VILLAGE SHOP WAS RUN BY A JEWISH MAN CALLED MR WOLFE. WHEN YOU CROSSED THE ROAD ON TO WHITTLE LANE THERE WAS A ROW OF HOUSES THAT WERE ATTACHED TO THE WHITE HART PUB . AS YOU WALKED UP THE ...Read more

A memory of Birch by franciscaine7

Went To Chartham Secondary School In 1968 69

Hi I'm David Taylor , I was having problems at school in Orpington in 1968, when I was transferred to chartham hatch to help me back into my schooling think I was about 13 at the time. I was ...Read more

A memory of Chartham Hatch by dtaylor5400

Shiphay Preparatory School

Does anyone remember Shiphay Preparatory School (also referred to as The Lilacs). I was a pupil there from 1958 to 1960. Have been trying to locate the school room, which was in an outbuilding in the grounds of a house ...Read more

A memory of Shiphay by Suzanne Clark

Gamekeepers Cottage

I do not know Compton but lived as a child next door to a lady who was daughter of the local gamekeeper.  Her maiden name was Churchill, Hilda Churchill, with two sisters Mabel and Alice.  I have a watercolour ...Read more

A memory of Compton in 1910 by Mike Cowham

Annie Laurie

It was the year of the Coronation and we, the Allans, had a T.V. We were all sitting watching this event when Mother got up and said, "right, one of you go down and tell Annie Laurie that Bill, her son, is on the telly". I said ...Read more

A memory of Kilbirnie in 1952 by John Allan

Summers Holidays Were Invented For Fishing

I remember as a small kid growing up in England I couldn't wait for the summer holidays to arrive.  As the days drew closer I could hardly sleep at night knowing that any day now we would be packing our ...Read more

A memory of Pickmere in 1972 by Darren Crumbleholme

Wilsons Bakery Griffith Wilson

My parents are Angela (nee Goulden) and Bryan Wilson (now sadly deceased), both from Bramhall. My paternal Grandfather owned the bakery in the village "Wilsons" which was taken over after my grandfather's retirement by ...Read more

A memory of Bramhall in 1955 by Helen Young

Childhood In Welshpool

I was born & spent my childhood in Welshpool. St Mary's was our Parish Church, it has beautiful stained glass windows which always fascinated me as a child. I was christened and confirmed in this Church and later in May ...Read more

A memory of Welshpool in 1965 by Patricia Owen

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Captions

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Caption For Fulbourn, The Manor C1968

A neatly manicured gravel driveway in front of the manor house in Fulbourn.

Caption For Tollesbury, The Square C1955

Opposite is Roebuck House, which dates from the late 14th century. The shop is now a private house.

Caption For Steeple Aston, C1955

The Dun Cow public house, on the opposite side of the road, has closed, and now houses financial offices. The village has grown quite considerably since the mid 1950s.

Caption For Castle Cary, The Roundhouse C1965

Also known as the Blind House from its lack of windows, the Roundhouse was the village lock-up. Built in 1779, it sometimes held children playing truant from school.

Caption For Ditchling, Anne Of Cleeve's House C1960

Ann of Cleves House is possibly the most impressive of Ditchling's 16th- and 17th-century buildings.

Caption For Pitchford, 1891

In the grounds of the house there is also a timber-framed tree-house that Queen Victoria played in as a child.

Caption For Hope, Moorgate And Lose Hill 1920

It overlooks the village of Hope and the gabled house known as Moorgate (centre right), which now serves as a Countrywide (formerly Co-operative) Holidays Association guest house.

Caption For Basildon, Kingswood County Primary School C1960

Keay House - centre left - was named after the first Chairman of Basildon Development Corporation.

Caption For Cowbridge, Town Hall 1955

The House of Correction stood on this site until 1829. The county jail was then relocated and the new Town Hall was built incorporating some of the cells.

Caption For Cowbridge, Town Hall 1955

The House of Correction stood on this site until 1829. The county jail was then relocated and the new Town Hall was built incorporating some of the cells.

Caption For Bury, Church From The River 1898

In 1898 the house immediately to the right of the church was Bury Farm, with its farmyard of thatched buildings and a great tile-roofed barn.

Caption For Portreath, Harbour C1955

There is now a housing estate all over this site in the foreground. The old harbour master's house and dock cottages are on the far side, with more recent housing above.

Caption For Odiham, High Street C1950

Removal of the ivy enables us to admire the late 18th-century house (with a painter in action, left) and next door, a Georgian façade conceals a timber-framed house dated to 1454-55.

Caption For Fenstanton, Chequer Street C1955

The Chequers pub (centre right) is now a private house; the next building has been demolished, but Chequers House, in the foreground, has been restored, and today sports fine wrought iron railings

Caption For Hunsdon, High Street C1965

We can just see the second Hunsdon public house, the Fox and Hounds, in the distance on the left, with houses in Tanner's Way (on the opposite side of the road) behind.

Caption For Crickhowell, High Street 1898

Today the post office is gone, but a modern, larger lamp of similar style is attached to the wall of Carlton House, No 25.

Caption For Chigwell Row, The Maypole And Gravel Lane C1965

This is not the original house or even the location of the original house, which until the 1970s was situated behind the present building.

Caption For Burnley, Ormerod Hall 1895

This photograph shows the house with its two towers. The stable block is linked to the house by an archway (right).

Caption For Chelmsford, Duke Street C1950

The building nearest the camera, Rainsford House, was built around the turn of the century. From1924 it housed the town's municipal offices, but was eventually replaced by a new Civic Centre.

Caption For Norwich, Brundall Gardens 1922

Here Cooper's house can be seen across the lily-covered lake. The house has now gone, but the gardens, which fell into decay, are now being restored.

Caption For Stratford Upon Avon, Shakespeare's Birthplace, Interior 1892

The house was really two houses: one for the family, the other where John Shakespeare worked as a glover and wool merchant.

Caption For Salisbury, Ye Halle Of John Halle 1913

The Diocesan offices are housed in this 15th-century wool merchant’s house with its magnificent original oak doors.

Caption For Cambridge, King's Parade 1890

The elegant classically-designed Senate House is on the right, with King's College Chapel to the left.

Caption For Andover, Almshouses And Church 1904

The block of six houses inscribed 'Erected by John Pollen Esq 1686' are all now privately owned.