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Life In The Village Shop 1944 To 1955

I moved in with my parents (Mr and Mrs Saffin), towards the end of the war. The Canadians were stationed in the huge houses dotted around the village - I was only 10 at the time but I remember the Canadian ...Read more

A memory of Woldingham in 1944

Ten Happy Years

I moved to Watchfield in 1940 and left in 1950. My dad, Mr Woolman, worked for the army and had his office in Homelees Farm in the camp. What a change has taken place at Watchfield. Gone are the places we could play in safety. ...Read more

A memory of Watchfield in 1940 by Jennifer Morris Nee Woolman

My Childhood.

I was born in 1954 and my parents June and Fred Arnold moved into railway cottages shortly after. They renamed the cottage Kadivi Cottage after myself, sister and brother were born (Diane, Karen and Vincent). It still has the name ...Read more

A memory of Dutton in 1954 by Diane Lloyd

Bishop Family Emigrated To New Zealand In 1800s

My husband's Gt Gt Grandmother, Thirzah Bishop was born in Loders in 1839. Her father was John Tidsby Bishop (1806-1861), and her mother was Charlotte Green (1805-1884). The family emigrated to NZ in ...Read more

A memory of Loders by Jane Chapman (Nee Ayres)

Up The Overs

Walking free through the wet grass leaving dark trails. Ahead the meadow rises to the mill bank where we stand in silence. Silent and smooth the deep mill race slides towards the wheel. Turning away we follow the bank upstream to ...Read more

A memory of Kempston in 1950 by Brian Walker

Ashford Cottage Hospital

RE Photo 60335 - Sorry, but this photo is of the building that replaced the original Hospital built (circa 1890) in Station Road (formerly Marsh Street) a few doors from the Baptist Church and next to the town's Gas ...Read more

A memory of Ashford in 1940 by Peter Oliver

Training

I trained racehorses on this beach from 1967 t0 1970. My stable was behind Beadnell House Hotel and I and my family lived just off Swinhoe Road in a cottage which was just behind the Dunes. Happy days. I also spent many a family holiday ...Read more

A memory of Beadnell in 1967 by Bill Mather

Easebourne St. Easebourne, W Sussex

We lived in Wisteria Cottage - my married name was Bowers then - which adjoined The White Horse Inn, which you can just see on the left towards the end of the picture. There seems to be another building in ...Read more

A memory of Easebourne in 1997 by Lynn Ede

Bareham Family

My Great grandfather Thomas Bareham lived at the Veldt Cottage which was next door to the Red Lion pub.He was also church warden at Great Holland Parish Church where he was well liked and respected. Although I live in Ipswich, I visit Great Holland and Clacton quite often.

A memory of Great Holland in 1930 by Michelle Parkins

Number 5 The Green

My mother Ruth Hadlow lived at number 5 (even though it was the first cottage - should be number 1) memories of visiting my grandad there until he moved in the late eighties. The house next door used to be the old police ...Read more

A memory of Littlebourne in 1968 by Nigel Woodcock

Captions

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Caption For Hemingford Grey, High Street C1955

Between the Victorian brick buildings is a small thatched cottage with a mansard roof.

Caption For Bloxham, High Street C1955

The cottages on the right are still there, but the White Lion Inn, further up the road, has closed. The tower in the background is part of Bloxham School.

Caption For Bluntisham, High Street C1955

Behind the trees on the right is the gardener's cottage, with the tradesmen's entrance to the rectory around the side.

Caption For Brockenhurst, The Village 1949

The village of Brockenhurst lies in one of the most attractive parts of the New Forest, and many of its cottages are of considerable antiquity.

Caption For Swanage, John Wesley's Cottage 1892

John Wesley stayed in this cottage during his missionary travels spreading the ideals of Methodism around Dorset.

Caption For Bottisham, High Street C1955

Then, in February 1846, fire destroyed the produce of two large farms, as well as fifteen cottages. Twenty-four families lost their homes.

Caption For Althorne, The Corner 1957

The Dutch-style weatherboarded cottages next to the Black Lion pub provide an interesting contrast with some of the newer developments.

Caption For Bishops Hull, The Church Of St Peter And St Paul 1906

Since 1906, the cottage on the left has gone, and the church porch has been rebuilt.

Caption For Abinger, Abinger Bottom 1924

Deep within The Hurtwood at Abinger Bottom are several stone-built cottages surrounded by pine trees. A stream, that eventually joins the Tillingbourne, runs through the hamlet.

Caption For Sidmouth, Esplanade 1904

Overlooking the sea are some fine old cottages, exuberant in design and with bulging thatch.

Caption For Colchester, North Bridge C1960

The tim- ber-framed cottages reflected in the water are 17th century.

Caption For Grasmere, Church Stile 1926

Notice the charming cottage draped with creeper opposite the churchyard with its unusual porch, and the village shop next to it.

Caption For Mayfield, High Street C1955

Middle House and Walnut Tree Cottage, just visible on the left of the parked car, are two timber-framed buildings which have survived from the period when Mayfield gained its prosperity from iron working

Caption For Ansdell, Fairhaven Hotel 1923

The Gordon Road and Commonside areas of Ansdell still had white­washed fishermen's cottages.

Caption For Bonsall, Via Gellia, Tufa Cottage 1886

Tufa Cottage, on the Via Gellia road from Cromford to Bonsall, was constructed entirely from blocks of tufa, the stone deposited by lime-rich water in this limestone country.

Caption For Wellow, High Street, Looking East C1955

This view looks in the opposite direction, east past the Manor House on the left with cottages and the former Ebenezer United Methodist Chapel of 1869 beside the raised and railinged pavement.

Caption For Bronygarth, The Post Office C1955

This is now a private house called Rose Cottage; the building has been painted white, and is almost completely unrecognisable, with just its roofline remaining the same.

Caption For Wanborough, High Street C1965

The building is now two private cottages. The road to the right leads to Callas Hill and Foxhill.

Caption For Feckenham, Alcester Road 1967

It is interesting to note that the brick cottages in the centre have a timber-framed gable end, revealing a much older origin than the brickwork suggests.

Caption For Warborough, The Post Office C1960

The post office in this pretty black and white cottage opened in 1840, the year the Penny Black stamp first appeared.

Caption For Lockerley, Butts Green C1955

This pleasant, peaceful and picturesque area has some cottages scattered about and little else. There is a stone church close to the nearby railway line.

Caption For Wimborne, West Borough 1908

With the towers of the Minster in the background, this street lined with red brick and white-rendered Georgian cottages has a pleasing elegance and symmetry.

Caption For Brynmawr, Llanelly Hill C1960

Near some cottages below the summit of Pen Cyrn mountain, it is just possible to make out the flat ridge on which the former Llangattock tramroad was built from the Nantyglo Ironworks to Llangattock.

Caption For Horning, The Village 1934

Horning is blessed with a wealth of reed-thatched cottages with eye- browed dormers, as well as other more unusual buildings—the house alongside where the car is parked has crow-stepped gables, revealing