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Maps

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1899, Langridge Ref. RNC752657
1898-1899, Twerton Ref. RNC854735
1899, Tyning Ref. RNC855833
1899, Tadwick Ref. RNC844351
1899, Wicklane Ref. RNC869886
1899, Upper Swainswick Ref. RNC857839
1946, Cameley Ref. NPO660203
1946, Blackmoor Ref. NPO642754
1946, Bailbrook Ref. NPO630424
1899, Bathampton Ref. RNC634700
1898-1899, Beechen Cliff Ref. RNC636434
1899, Cameley Ref. RNC660203
1898-1899, Combe Hay Ref. RNC675969
1899, Compton Common Ref. RNC676359
1899, Compton Martin Ref. RNC676386
1899, Chew Stoke Ref. RNC667710
1946, Norton Malreward Ref. NPO794665
1946, New Town Ref. NPO790388
1946, North Wick Ref. NPO794081
1946, Plaster's Green Ref. NPO807418

Books

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Memories

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Laleham Abbey 1947 1952

My sister Catherine and I attended Laleham Abbey from 1947-1952. Sister Margaret Rose was the Head and Sister Catherine Mechtilde her Deputy. We were sent away to boarding school after various entrance exams to day schools. ...Read more

A memory of Laleham in 1950 by Clare Glover Wright

Family Holidays

My dad always ensured that we had a "fortnight's"  family holiday each year. A fortnight was 2 weeks - ie fourteen nights. These holidays started in 1949, when I was seven  and continued to up to 1958 when I was 16. In 1949 and ...Read more

A memory of Bournemouth in 1949 by Roy Beiley

The Mentone Hotel, The Parks, Minehead

I was born in Birmingham in 1943. My parents and my aunt and uncle (Les and Beat Bradshaw) purchased The Mentone in The Parks around 1949. A double decker bus ran over my leg directly outside Minehead ...Read more

A memory of Minehead in 1949 by Kevin Phillips

When I Was A Boy

I was born in Princes Risborough and fondly remember as a young boy going into the shop with the bay window (shown on the right of your picture) to buy sweets and giggle at the young girls. The shop was known locally as ...Read more

A memory of Princes Risborough in 1949 by Dudley Bailey

Tooting 1949 1970

Ahhh Good old Totting... I was born in Rookstone Road in 1949. I went to Sellincourt School about 1955-ish, my memory is not that good! When I was at school Mr. Roberts was the headmaster and he was great. School meals were ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1949 by John Bexley

My Years Growing Up In Clovelly

My name is Sam Burrow I was born in Hartland in 1936 - the family moved to Clovelly in 1939 and lived in Home Lodge. My father, J A Burrow, was the estate foreman. My mother, Florrie, was the school cook throughout ...Read more

A memory of Clovelly in 1949 by Sam Burrow

Looking For Jean Laverick Maiden Name

Does anyone know of Jean Laverick and her two sisters (Margaret and Anne) who lived in Holystone, Whitley Bay in the late 1940s? We were the NZ family who lived down the road and we played and went to ...Read more

A memory of Holystone in 1949 by Ngaire Atkinson

West Bay House

I was born here in 1949 but moved away when about 4-5 years old, so my memories are not too vivid! But I do remember playing on the Chesil beach and the smell and sounds of the sea are forever with me. I have been in Argentina ...Read more

A memory of Wyke Regis in 1949 by Tamara Colver Nutting

St Botolphs School

I went to St. Botolph's School on The Hill from 1945 to 1950 with my friend Molly Freeman who lived a few doors away from me in York Road. Molly was in the year ahead of me but her brother Georgie was in my class. Recently ...Read more

A memory of Northfleet in 1949 by Jean Hendy

Home Away From Home

We were one of the early families to have a caravan at Bovi. This was what the campers called it back then. Caravans were positioned randomly before terraces were excavated in the field over the fence from the green above ...Read more

A memory of Bovisand Bay in 1949 by Jeffrey Smith

Captions

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Caption For Lulworth, 1894

To the left, an artist sits at an easel and paints Lulworth Cove, while his wife shades herself with a parasol. By the end of the 19th century, the cove was already attracting a great many visitors.

Caption For Lulworth, 1894

To the left, an artist sits at an easel and paints Lulworth Cove, while his wife shades herself with a parasol.

Caption For St Margarets At Cliffe, The Droveway 1908

These large houses stand in an idyllic situation on the cliffs above the Channel overlooking St Margaret's Bay.

Caption For Bridport, From Allington Hill C1960

A Panorama south-eastwards across Allington hamlet and West Allington street to the Rope Works, St Michael`s Works and Priors Mills (middle distance, left).

Caption For Swanage, The Bay And Highcliffe Steps C1960

Steps from the Highcliffe (right) descend to the beach at North Swanage, beyond the promenade (upper centre) where the cliffs are skirted by beach huts.

Caption For Preshute, St George's Church 1901

Inside, the late 12th-century arcade has four bays, circular piers, octagonal abaci, and capitals with decorated trumpet scallops.

Caption For Port Erin, Cliffs From Bradda Head 1895

This view looks towards Bay Fine, Aldrick and the Calf of Man.

Caption For Osmington, Lychgate Cottage C1955

The lychgate stands at the entrance to the churchyard. The church is dedicated to St Osmund and has a 15th-century tower, although most of the fabric is from about 1840.

Caption For Douglas, Rough Sea 1903

The Irish Sea can be as flat as a mill pond, but when an easterly, south-easterly or north-easterly gale blows up, this is what happens at Douglas.

Caption For Bray, Jesus Hospital 1890

A little further south, is Jesus Hospital, a fine quadrangle of 28 single- storey almshouses with a taller entrance bay. A

Caption For Saxilby, High Street C1965

The whole of the shop extension has been removed, the chimney has gone from the house behind the shop, and it has all been redeveloped.

Caption For Catterick, The Bay Horse Inn C1965

There are three village greens in Catterick, the village on the old A1 Great North Road which most people associate with the nearby army garrison.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Broad Street 1909

Further along the street, and almost a decade later, an early motor car is parked outside the entrance of the Royal Lion Hotel, which was rebuilt in blue lias ashlar after a devastating fire

Caption For Thrapston, Oundle Road C1960

The road curves towards the town centre, passing the end of De Vere Road. The shop in the distance is now a bigger 'One-Stop Shop'. At the far end are the two gabled bays of the Old Rectory.

Caption For Grange Over Sands, The Ornamental Grounds 1921

Coping stones now surround the edge of the lake, and the arch of roses that spanned Picklefoot Spring at the point where it emerges has been constructed.

Caption For Broadstairs, The Beach From The Cliffs 1897

Bathing tents dot the beach at Viking Bay, while two bathing machines stand at the water's edge.

Caption For West Bay, The Harbour 1930

West Bay only acquired its name in the 1880s when the railway was brought down to its picturesque harbour.

Caption For Little Missenden, Missenden House C1955

The partly Tudor Manor House is at the crossroads in the centre of the village, but at the east end is an equally fine house, Missenden House.

Caption For Windermere, Wray Castle And The Boathouse 1886

A lone elderly oarsman reflects on life on the still waters of the little bay below Wray Castle and its impressive ornate boathouse.

Caption For Llangrannog, The Beach C1955

Llangranog has a small, sheltered bay with a sandy beach on which about 20 ships were built during the 19th century. Like Tresaith, it became popular with holidaymakers from the 1930s.

Caption For Uppingham, C1950

The south door of the church is visible and the extent of the cemetery easier to see. There are allotments traversed by a path from South View to the fields and Lyddington in the south.

Caption For Newquay, The Huer's House 1907

The Huer's House is identical today, even down to the granite railing posts. Sited up on the headland near the harbour, this is where the huer waited to spot incoming pilchard shoals.

Caption For Staithes, C1885

Disturbed water at the cliff base indicates the power and force of the seas as they surge into the bay and crash against the beach.

Caption For Saxmundham, Market Place C1955

At the end of the street is Gardener's, the gents' outfitter's. On the right is the Oddfellows Office, here since 1933, and Barker's, fishmongers since 1946.