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Flimby
I cannot remember a time where Flimby did not feature in my life. My father was born on Ryehill Road, and my grandfather was born and bred in Flimby. It once was a pit village and my grandfather John Watters was an engineer, his father was ...Read more
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Grandfathers Grave
As a child my father frequently told me that his father was buried next to John Peel in Caldbeck graveyard. I now live in Australia, but in 1997 I visited Caldbeck hoping to see my grandfather's grave. Unfortunately it was not ...Read more
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Memories Of School At Gt Budworht Pickmere
My first teacher was Mrs Dishman [infants]. Miss Cawley [juniors]. Mr Brown ? the Headmaster. I recall a Richard Cox whose mother was a sort of janitor cum secretery, also Joyce Dean who lived near ...Read more
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My Gt Grandparents Lived At Hangmans Cottage
My great-grandparents lived at Hangmans Cottage sometime during the late 1800s or early 1900s. My dad Robert Mitchell was born at Friary Cottage in 1904 which is a short walk from Hangmans Cottage. He ...Read more
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Barmaid Marylin
We used to rent the bottom cottage down from the Co-op and the top house pub. My younger brother had a massive crush on the barmaid of the middle house. She was called Marylin (he is called Ben). Is she still there? I ...Read more
A memory of St John's Chapel in 1985 by
My Grandmother
My grandmother Emma Fielding was born at the Fisherman's Inn in 1893. Her mother lived at Antioch Cottages further along the road so I can only presume that her mother Martha Ann Wild was related to the landlord at that time, ...Read more
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Mathers Of Kniveton
My grandad was Thomas Richard Mather (b 1890) he married Emma Ann Twigg (b 1890 Parwich). His mother kept the Post Office at Kniveton and was a dressmaker, Esther Mather. His brothers were blacksmiths and wheelwrights. His ...Read more
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First Trip To Fathers Hometown
My father Leslie Edgar Simpson Smith was born in Askam-In-Furness at Greenscoe Cottages in 1902 and he passed away in Canada in 2003. My grandfather William Smith was also born in Askam in the Vulcan Hotel ...Read more
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Childhood Memories
My grandfather lived in the tied cottage on the Plas farm in Lower Machen. His name was Albert Thomas, known as Bert. I have many fond memories of him and his cottage and playing around the farmyard and watching him complete ...Read more
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My Evacuee Days.
My family was evacuated to Eaton Socon after being bombed out in London. My father was serving in The Royal Navy. I was only a baby so my memories only go back to about 1943. I came to Eaton Socon with my mother, her parents ...Read more
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Not surprisingly this little cottage has since been demolished. It was in Farnworth that the Farnworth and Appleton Football Club was formed in 1873.
The surrounding cottages were built for the tannery workers by the 19th-century owner, James Hayman.
This property was built for Princess Alexandra; it is a similar design to the Swiss Cottage at Osborne House.
Built a hundred years prior to this photograph, this quaint Gothic cottage is named after the white cat painted in the window which overlooks the Orwell.
Thatched cottages line the main street, and the village stores on the right has signs in the window for Brooke Bond Tea, as well as Kodak and Ilford photographic stock.
Walking along the street and noting the names of some of the cottages (Shoemakers and Tanners, for example), one is reminded of another important local industry – leather and the production
The carriage road from Liskeard terminated at this tranquil village of brown stone cottages set by a creek swept by the tides.
East Looe's cramped main street, edged with a jumble of jettied shops and cottages, tapers down to the quay. Looe's twin towns are joined by a picturesque seven-arched bridge.
The picturesque cottages of the east side surround the 199 church stairs. This was probably a Monday, as the washing is laid to dry on the sands.
Narrow streets, pretty cottages (some of them thatched), fishing boats on the beach, and all in a beautiful setting on the Lizard peninsula, put Cadgwith on the list of places to visit once road transport
The cottages between the two buildings, further down the street, are now whitewashed. Note the familiar makes of car in this 1960s picture. The road here is much busier today.
The white house in the distance has had several names - Rose Cottage, Rose Bank and now (2004) The Old House. It was occupied by the family of Jane Austen's brogher, Frank, between 1808 and 1811.
Here the cottages at Turkey (the Quay) are seen from the former fish market. The current lock gates, erected in 1913, held back water for unloading ships at low tide.
The view is greatly changed today, with the cottages on the left barely recognisable. On the right-hand side of the road a solitary petrol pump is just visible outside the white-painted garage.
This is a classic example of a weaver's cottage. The village is famous for being the centre of the worsted cloth trade.
The cottages and houses are mainly 18th- and 19th-century, and the view we see here is more or less as we would see it today.
On the right is Waterloo Cottage, which until the mid 1970s was the post office and village shop.
These cottages are at Goosehill, on the lane which leads up to the entrance of Peak Cavern, whose entrance gapes under the limestone crags visible to the left of this photograph.
The fishermen's cottages on the left have been replaced since, but the cobbles and granite gutter on the right can still be identified. The lane leads down to Fore Street.
Lace-making has always been an important tradition in East Devon, though it would be a rare sight today to see it carried out in the street by a local cottager.
The cottages in the background face onto Biggin Lane; they have all been demolished. The site became the market in 1973.
Looking westwards into the idyllic cul-de-sac, hydrangeas are in bloom beside Vine Cottage (right).
A close-up of the cottages nestling by the side of the River Medway, with St Peter's Church in the background.
The cottage behind the house was separated from it in the 1940s or 1950s. It had previously been all one house. Note the round chimney stack on the right.
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