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Memories

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Rescue Of 5 Small Children From A Bombed Flat

I have traced a newspaper report telling of the rescue of myself and my four siblings when houses in Ryefield Avenue, Hillingdon were bombed in 1943. The report tells of one of the rescuers being a ...Read more

A memory of Hillingdon in 1943

My Great Great Grandparents

My great-great-grandfather George (or could be James) Jackson lived in Star Lane Cottages. Apparently the Jacksons had been Hooley people for many years. He kept sheep for a butcher on Farthing Down, Croydon - I can ...Read more

A memory of Hooley in 1890 by Jean St Clair Nee Jackson

Langstone Memories

I grew up in Langstone, living at 'Longleat' on Catsash Road from 1961-1973. I attended Langstone Primary School from 1964-1969 and then Caerleon Comprehensive from 1969-1973. 'Longleat' was one of the four ...Read more

A memory of Langstone in 1961 by Michael Davies

Childwickbury Pub

I remember regularly walking from St.Albans via Batchwood and through Childwickbury on Sundays and stopping with my parents for a drink of lemonade and a packet of biscuits at this public house. This would have been during ...Read more

A memory of Childwick Bury in 1940 by Rosemary Jones

The Old Days

Hi, I am Linda Atkinson, nee Halford, I was brought up on the Gypsy Lane estate, attending Woodhouse Junior school and remember the carnivals/parades held on the village green. My best friends were Nancy and Maria Churms, and ...Read more

A memory of Normanton by Linda Atkinson

Brentford Memories From Grandparents Stories..

I was born and bred in Brentford and can remember it well from the 1970's onwards. Both of my grandparents and their families were also old Brentonians all of their lives. I have many stories from my ...Read more

A memory of Brentford in 1950

School And War

I was born in Jan 1936 in Witham, where my father's family had settled in the 1790's. When I was two my parents moved into one of the new council houses at the north end of Church Street, so I went to Chipping Hill Infants School. I ...Read more

A memory of Witham in 1940 by David Woodwards

Crambe In The Early 50,S

My fathers side of the family (Wood) lived at Low Moor Crambe according to the Census, which is where I presume I spent a couple of holidays in the early 50' probably 52 or 53 just after my Grandfather died and before my ...Read more

A memory of Crambe in 1952 by Keith Wood

Childhood Memories.

I was born at 50 Nancy Road, Grimethorpe on the 12 December 1944. At this time this address was the White City police house and had the West Riding police crest attached to the front of the house. My dad, Robert Cox, had come ...Read more

A memory of Cudworth in 1944 by David Cox

Tiffield Village School

I have many memories of the village school which I visited regularly during my childhood. I was named after Lynda Brown, a very close friend of my parents, who ran the school. She had been headteacher of the school for ...Read more

A memory of Tiffield in 1956 by Lynda Brooks Townsend

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Captions

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Caption For Staverton, Oakham Lane C1955

The gap after the first house on the right hides the site where the Co-operative shop and the post office were. The shop has closed, and the post office is now run from a private house.

Caption For Great Bardfield, High Street C1965

Its 17th-century Town House, on the left, was once a sort of part-time guildhall.

Caption For Maidstone, The Museum 1892

Maidstone Museum occupies the former home of the Wyatts, Chillington Manor House, a splendid red brick Tudor house.

Caption For Stockton On Tees, High Street 1951

Other 18th-century buildings were the Town House (1735) and the Customs House (1730).

Caption For Devizes, The View From The Castle C1955

Slightly to the left is Brownston House, one of only two Grade I listed buildings in town. It was originally built in 1700, but was rebuilt later in 1720.

Caption For Higham Ferrers, College Street C1950

The jumble of gables and chimneys on the right of the street represents a 17th-century house; opposite it is the entrance to Chichele College, founded by Archbishop Chichele in 1422.

Caption For Sully, Station Road C1955

Each of the houses shows a differing style, with dormers, gables and bow windows. Beyond the third house is a sign bearing the word 'Teas' - an indication that this is a seaside spot.

Caption For Wisbech, Leach's Mill 1929

This is a tall brick tower mill with a large extension grafted onto it to house a steam-driven mill. It had eight sails, as we can see from the eight-armed cross on the windshaft.

Caption For Abergavenny, 1898

The house has now gone, and the bridge has been replaced by another. This photograph was taken in Lower Monk Street near the weir in Swan Meadows.

Caption For Taunton, St Mary Magdalene's Church 1888

Hammet Street, with its brick terrace houses, was laid out in 1788 off North Street, focusing on the magnificent late 15th-century tower of St Mary's church.

Caption For Tring, Pendley Manor C1955

The present Pendley Manor replaced a complex medieval and later house which burnt down in 1835.

Caption For Newton Ferrers, From Noss Mayo 1890

This photograph shows a vastly different prospect from that we can see today: the rows of fields on the opposite shore are gone, and the houses of Newton Ferrers extend two-thirds of the way up the hill

Caption For Castle Bromwich, Hurst Lane C1965

From the late 19th century the agricultural estates of Castle Bromwich were sold off for house building to accommodate overspill.

Caption For Willenhall, Ye Olde Toll House C1965

One of Willenhall's more eccentric buildings, this mock-Tudor, mock-Gothic, former toll house became a restaurant in 1929 and has also been known as the Round House, though it is not really round.

Caption For Alton, From Windmill Hill C1880

The house with its walled garden on the left is Culverton House. Built in about 1827 by Henry Blanckley Rogers, it was described as a 'most delightful residence' when he sold it in 1841.

Caption For Camberley, High Street 1919

The house at the top of this view was that of the Sergeant Major from the Staff College.

Caption For Woodmansterne, Chipstead Valley C1955

Left of centre is the sprawling old house called Stagbury, a late 18th-century house demolished in the 1970s.

Caption For Finchingfield, Sunnyside House C1960

When the photograph was taken, this attractive 17th-century house was the headquarters of Wiffen`s Coaches Ltd: note the cavernous garages at the rear, and the petrol pump (left).

Caption For Hertford, St Andrew's Street 1929

One of the survivors was the Old Verger's House (right), which was restored around 1893; today it holds the showrooms of Beckwith's Antiques.

Caption For Saxtead, The Mill C1955

The brick round house and wooden mill date from 1796, with Victorian alterations. The mill ceased working in 1947, but the machinery is complete and in working order.

Caption For Greatham, The Grove C1955

An example of immediately post-war council housing, this street is now leafy and well-established, and largely in private ownership.

Caption For Ilkley, The White Wells 1923

The well spring and the house date from the early 1700s.

Caption For Whitby, Church Street 1925

On the opposite side we may identify the corner building and the Friends Meeting House; between them is one of the oldest houses in Whitby, certainly Tudor, possibly much older.

Caption For Brympton, The House And Lake 1900

The south façade of the house is built in the 17th-century English Renaissance style, with pedimented bays overlooking a terrace and lawn to a lake below.