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Chisholm Cottage

My great-great-great grandparents lived opposite Wesley Chapel in the late 1800s, behind the trees on the right-hand-side of the 1901 Wesley Chapel photo. During the 1830s, Richard JACK (b1813) and some of his brothers moved to ...Read more

A memory of Hartlepool in 1880 by Vivienne Hooper

Happy Childhood Holidays

I say 1950 for the year my memory relates to but in fact my memories cover from around 1946 to 196 I've only just found this web site for "Memories" although have looked at the site before and what nostalgia it has ...Read more

A memory of Llwyngwril in 1950 by Margaret Garrod

Molly Gray's Memories Of Weston Green, Thames Ditton, Surrey.

When we were children during WWII, my brothers Rob and Wilf and myself often visited Weston Green. At Weston Green there were two churches and two ponds called Marneys and Milburns. My ...Read more

A memory of Weston Green by Janet Moore

Living In Teddington 1950s To 1980s

We moved from 76 Princes Road in 1957 to the other end of Teddington, to 143 High Street, opposite Kingston Lane. My parents bought the house for about £1400 (yes fourteen hundred) as a refurb project. It still had ...Read more

A memory of Teddington

Hawley, My Earlier Memories

I lived at Briar cottage just up from Mrs Stencil's pig farm and went to Hawley county primary school during 1959 1960 I think. We then moved up Fernhill road to Manor lodge which at that time I believe belonged to the RAF ...Read more

A memory of Hawley by Adrian Bentley

Young Parkinson Family Of Crook, Howden Le Wear, And Barnard Castle Co. Durham

My Mum, Edna Young, was born at 6, Cemetery Cottages, Crook, on the 26th of December, 1922. Dad was Walter Lawrence Young, who was born: (35) Bridge Street, in Howden le Wear, and Mum, was ...Read more

A memory of Crook by Pauline Barker

Childhood 1980’s

I was born and bred in Gorton we lived on Hemsworth Road facing the allotments around the corner from the old Loco as we called it and a hidden Gem called the horses field which was full of bluebell’s. We used to find old animal bones ...Read more

A memory of Gorton

Old Friends

I lived in Smallfield during the war years, firstly in Broadbridge Cottages surrounded by barrage balloons and then New Road. My best friend was Sandra Steel, remember all the children in the road had chickenpox at the same time. We ...Read more

A memory of Smallfield by Marion Bannister

Precious Memories!

Some of my most precious memories of life belong to Menith Wood. My parents bought a caravan where we had many happy times on the “Bird in Hand” public house caravan site, opposite the woods. I remember feeding “Thomas” the boar, ...Read more

A memory of Menithwood by Elizabeth Flint

Childhood Memories

My parents married in 1966 at St Marys Church Ulverston, after getting married they rented a property from friends of my Grandparents , the property was called Rose Cottage , I was born in 1967 and lived at Rose Cottage until ...Read more

A memory of Old Scales by Karen Woodburn

Captions

2,020 captions found. Showing results 73 to 96.

Caption For Washford, The Village 1919

Pictured from the junction with the main road, the lane leads down past the cottages towards the village school.

Caption For Ashford, East Hill, Old Cottages 1903

A study of some attractive old cottages at East Mill. A little girl is staring suspiciously at the camera. Note the unmetalled surface of the road.

Caption For Frome, Bath Street 1961

The house at the end of the 17th-century cottages gives onto Rook Lane. It is now almost hidden from view behind tall hedging and trees with a very secret garden.

Caption For Loders, The Village 1903

Opposite is the Old Cottage (now called the Pound Cottage).

Caption For Chideock, The Village 1897

The girls are playing outside the Farmery (centre), Japonica Cottage, and Lilac Cottage (right).

Caption For Crays Hill, London Road C1955

Pump Cottage (in the middle of our photo) was—as the name suggests—the source of the village's water-supply. It dates from about 1860. The well pre-dated the cottage by a decade.

Caption For Sissinghurst, The Village 1902

Here we see the type of tile-hung and weatherboarded cottages which abound in this area. The white fencing around the cottage gardens is very typical of villages in the Weald of Kent.

Caption For Amersham, Church And Market Square 1958

Until 1939 the buildings on the right faced Church Alley and the backs of ranges of cottages a few feet away, demolished in that year.

Caption For Bibury, Arlington Row C1960

One of the most picturesque - and most photographed - rows of cottages in the Cotswolds, Arlington Row's first function was a barn.

Caption For Horningsea, The Village C1955

The small post office occupies a late 19th-century cottage. Next door is a small thatched cottage similar to a number of others in the village.

Caption For Little Shelford, The Village C1955

The small cottage has a longstraw thatched roof with a swept ridge. It is unaltered, and has no dormer windows.

Caption For Stebbing, High Street C1960

Many of the houses have attractive pargeting, including Butlers Cottage on the right of the picture. The leaning timber-framed house on the left is known as Tudor Cottage.

Caption For Welford On Avon, Old Cottages, Chapel Street C1955

A fair number of old cottages still line the earliest village streets around the church, but elsewhere any surviving cottage tends to be islanded in a sea of modernity.

Caption For Steep, Old Cottage 1898

Described by Edward Thomas the poet, as 'hunching soft' in Lutcombe Bottom, this idyllic scene below Stoner was lost to us in the late forties with the demolition of the cottage.

Caption For Wool, Thatched Cottage C1965

Seaforth Cottage, a neat and symmetrical Georgian Cottage ornée with rustic porch, would not look out of place on Marine Parade in Lyme Regis.

Caption For Swainby, The River C1970

Some of the sandstone cottages in the village of Swainby are still known as the Miners' Cottages, remembering the village's brief spell as an iron mining centre during the 19th century.

Caption For Chesham, Church Street C1965

40 years later and further back on the Wey Lane junction, we see the far cottage, No 23, on the right, has been largely rebuilt.

Caption For Newnham, The Village C1955

The first building past the row of cottages on the left was the post office and a beer house many years ago. In the 1960s it was a village shop, but that now has closed.

Caption For Abingdon, Old Mill 1925

The bakehouse/ granary is seen here as it was after its conversion to cottages in 1812, and before the serving of the 1944 dereliction order.

Caption For Baslow, Thatch End C1955

These cottages at Thatch End, Baslow, standing near the bridge in photograph No 5217 above, are a Peak District rarity.

Caption For Crays Hill, London Road C1955

Pump Cottage (in the middle of our photo) was—as the name suggests—the source of the village's water-supply. It dates from about 1860. The well pre-dated the cottage by a decade.

Caption For Selworthy, Budleigh Hill 1883

The thatched cottages were erected in 1828 by Sir Thomas Dyke Acland for his retired estate workers. Many of the cottages have survived, retaining their original charm.

Caption For Flatford, Willy Lott's Cottage 1907

Beside the quiet mill-pond at Flatford Mill stands Willy Lott's Cottage, instantly recognisable as the setting for Constable's famous painting 'The Hay Wain'.

Caption For Seatown, Anchor Inn 1930

Behind the Anchor Inn (left) are Seatown Farm and the black-painted coastguard cottages (centre), with veranda- fronted Seatown Cottage to the north (right).