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Bargoed

My memories of Bargoed are going to the farm now known as the rafa club and shooing the cows across the road from the barns which are where the new police houses are opposite bargoed institute and getting a pint of milk from the farm ...Read more

A memory of Bargoed in 1950 by Gareth Sloggett

York Minster

Some time in York I'd spend an hour or so within the Minster itself, and for me it was not fascination that brought me into the place; it was because its past history which was revealed. Take the Jews, many of which had came from Israel ...Read more

A memory of York by Roland Mitchell

Years Gone By

I was born at 22 Victoria Street, Harthill and went to Harthill Primary School. I lived with my mum, Mary Carson, and grannie and grandad Margaret and Jimmy Carson until we left for England about 1954-55. I ...Read more

A memory of Harthill in 1947 by Catherine Foster

Year 1941 1965. In Battersea

I was born in HARLETON STREET off Battersea Bridge Road around the corner to Battersea Police Station. My grandparents llived there as young newly weds and grandma gave birth to 11 children in the same house. My father ...Read more

A memory of Battersea by sylviawitham5

Would You Swim In This Today?

This the exact spot where I learned to swim, it was muddy, cold, and wonderful, it was also where I learned to use a canoe with the school, we actually had to turn it over...Yuk... My Mum would send us to ...Read more

A memory of St Martins in 1960 by Thelma Ellis

World War One Visitor

In January 1917, my grandfather, Percy Smith, a young soldier from Australia, was on leave from the Front in France. He visited a family in Camelford, and this is the letter he wrote home to his sister. I would love to know ...Read more

A memory of Camelford in 1910 by Sally Edsall

Working On Blackburn Market In The 1950s

I was born in 1935 and raised in Blackburn, attending the Grammar School until my widowed mother could not afford to keep me there. I left school in February 1952 and got a job as a Junior Clerk in the ...Read more

A memory of Blackburn

Working Days Then Retirement

After attending Newton village school from the age of 5 to 14, I found employment at a place called Tholthorpe where a new airfield was being built. Being 12 miles from my home I had to use a bicycle to get ...Read more

A memory of Newton-on-Ouse in 1989 by Guy Jefferson

Wookey School

I went to teach in Wookey School in September 1957. My name was Ann Lawrence, "Miss Lawrence!". I came to Wookey after teaching at Dagenham Docks, and Wookey was heaven! The headmaster was Mr. Watts, a lovely man. He lived in the ...Read more

A memory of Wookey in 1958 by Ann Evans

Wonderful Days

Do you remember the organ that came up from the pit under the stage and had all the different coloured spotlights shone on it? I thought it was sheer magic! The front seats were chaeaper than the back ones - I think ...Read more

A memory of Kilburn in 1949 by Valerie Clemens

Captions

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Caption For Chatburn, Bridge Road C1955

Beyond Martin's Bank and the shops is the Black Bull Inn, which carries a date stone of 1855.

Caption For Ilminster, The Market Place C1955

As we look back up East Street, the focus of the view is the Market Hall.

Caption For Downham Market, The Town Hall C1955

It was a busy port, and its ancient market goes back to Edward the Confessor - it was celebrated for its Butter Market.

Caption For St Just, Church And Market Place 1908

Solidly built of heavy granite, it turns its back stolidly on the gales.

Caption For Asfordby, The Old Hall C1960

Sashed windows, within stone surrounds under triple gables, grace a quietly elegant facade.

Caption For Dorchester, High West Street C1950

This view is taken looking back up towards the Top o'Town.

Caption For Chipping Campden, High Street 1952

Thanks to restoration work by the Campden Trust, this honey-hued stone town has some of the finest buildings in the county.

Caption For Great Bowden, The Village 1922

This photograph shows this Domesday village, now much consumed by the tentacles of Market Harborough's suburbs, with its large irregular green and attractive houses, some dating back to 1567 and 1664,

Caption For Barnsley, The Town Centre C1950

The Town Hall dates from 1932-33, designed by Briggs & Thornley and built of Portland stone.

Caption For Wickhambreaux, The Forge 1903

From the Bridge 1899 A town when the Domesday Book was compiled, and a settled place as far back as the 7th century, Fordwich was a flourishing port on the River Stour for Canterbury when the river was

Caption For Cark In Cartmel, The Bridge 1897

In the 1780s the roads through Cark were minor tracks, and stepping stones were used to cross the beck.

Caption For Addingham, The Church C1955

This scene of the parish church of St Peter at Addingham, standing in its walled churchyard on the village green and reached by a stone bridge over the beck, has not changed substantially since this photograph

Caption For Bourton On The Water, The River C1955

Among its attractions are many fine country houses and cottages built from locally quarried stone that has mellowed to the colour of honey on butter.

Caption For Allington, Locks C1965

Locally-quarried stone was transported from here to London by barge as far back as Roman and Norman times.

Caption For Llandough, St Dochdwys Church C1955

Although the church is of relatively modern construction – it was built in the mid 1860s - the site has religious significance probably dating back to before the Norman Conquest.

Caption For Denbigh, Market Place 1888

This pleasant stone-built market town, on the western side of the lovely vale of Clwyd, climbs the hillside crowned by its ruinous castle.

Caption For Luton, St Mary's Church C1955

Built on the site of an early Saxon church, the present St Mary's has elements dating back to the 12th century.

Caption For New Quay, The Harbour C1935

This view from the end of the stone pier shows the four-storey Custom House surrounded by rowing boats, which were used by both local fishermen and holidaymakers.

Caption For Barrow In Furness, Town Hall 1893

Disaster struck even as the date stone was added.

Caption For High Wycombe, The Rupert Gates On Marlow Hill 1906

Going back to the beginning of the 19th century, Loakes Manor together with its park was sold in August 1798 to the Right Honourable Robert Smith, Lord Carrington, a prosperous banker and friend

Caption For Milborne Port, The Village 1953

Ven House c1955 Further downhill along London Road, Ven House is set back from the road beyond a forecourt.

Caption For Goodmanham, Church C1965

Goodmanham lies around 2 miles north-east of Market Weighton, and its history dates back to the Stone Age.

Caption For Worle, The Village 1896

This is the oldest part of the village, with some properties dating back to medieval times.

Caption For West Bridgford, Central Avenue C1965

Further back in Tudor Square, Frith's photographer was looking into Central Avenue with Albert Road to the right and Rectory Road to the left.