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Schooldays

I was born in Hayfield Cottages, Auldgirth in April 1931. My first year at school Mrs Garthwaite was my teacher. She lived in the house just north of the school. In the mid 30s my brother Bob and I saw an airship fly over Barbra Mill. ...Read more

A memory of Auldgirth in 1930 by Samuel Jardine

Croxley Station 1940 1945

Hi, my name is Brian Nicoll. My mother, father and I lived in 10 Frankland Rd from 25/9/35 when I was born until 1956 when I got married. As a small boy I used to have a friend called Roger Gosney who lived over the ...Read more

A memory of Croxley Green in 1940 by Brian Nicoll

Little Sutton Shops

The church was the Presbyterian and the fruit and veg shop also sold fish (Tommy Jones, fish).  There was a  furniture shop (Flackets)  On the corner of Ledsham was Miss (although a Mrs.) Locket’s.  Over Ledsham past the ...Read more

A memory of Little Sutton in 1967

So Many Happy Hours

I spent so many happy summer holidays in Great Barton, and in particular Conyers Green where my Aunt Norah Lovelace lived in a cottage next to the old chapel building.  I cycled often to the village store/post office, and ...Read more

A memory of Conyer's Green by Shirley Waters

Holiday In Carbost June 2008

My friend and I spent a very enjoyable holiday in Carbost this year - pity there are no old photos of the place. We stayed in the Old Inn, and later on in the Langal guesthouse, as the Old Inn was ...Read more

A memory of Carbost in 2008 by Diana Dioszeghy

Post Office

I was born in Hereford in 1952 to Roland S G Hodges and Doreen his wife. I have fond memories of Kings Caple and Fawley. My grandmother ran the village post office for nearly 40 years right up to decimalization. She ran her Post ...Read more

A memory of King's Caple in 1960 by Andrew Hodges

Cholderton Post Office

I spoke to my Dad last night to share what I found on Cholderton. He grew up in the Cholderton Post Office building in the 20's. He also lived in the cottages in the laneway that leads to St. Nicholas Church. He described ...Read more

A memory of Cholderton by Deb Mac Kenzie

Personal Reflections

I was born in Sandleaze, Worton in 1957. I was brought up at 1 Mill Road near the Marston boundary. I remember many things about the village especially the Rose and Crown Pub and the Mill. I remember with pride the ...Read more

A memory of Worton by Teresa Lewis

The Black And White Cottages

My great grandparents, my nanna (and all of her siblings)and my mother all lived in this house. I'm not sure of the timeframe but it was for a number of years. My mom had many fond memories and stories of the crinkly ...Read more

A memory of Easton by Kim Hogg

Dutch Cottage

I live 4 doors down from the cotttage and it is still going strong.

A memory of Rayleigh in 2008 by Phil Hind

Captions

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Caption For Caldey Island, The Lighthouse C1960

The lighthouse remains the property of Trinity House, but the keepers' cottages are now in the ownership of the religious community.

Caption For Crakehall, The Green C1960

Cottages cluster around the green, with the gable end of the chapel in the centre background.

Caption For Eype, Jessamine Cottage 1897

The tea room at Jessamine Cottage at Eype, run by Mrs Edith Warren, had a rustic look, accentuated by moss on the thatched roof and the windows open for air in a hot summer.

Caption For Stevenage, High Street And Green 1899

A picturesque collection of cottages and shops line the spacious main street of this Georgian coaching town, as we look towards the triangular Bowling Green, while the photographer's activities attract

Caption For Cregneash, The Village 1897

A number of properties, including a weaver's cottage and a farmstead, now comprise the National Folk Museum, and are fitted out to portray village life as it was around 1900.

Caption For Marlow, The Fisherman's Retreat 1890

The tumbledown cottages, now long gone, were occupied by bargees, wharfingers, brewery labourers and others, while the Fisherman's Retreat, the house with the blinds, was popular with anglers and pleasure

Caption For Sonning, Lock 1890

The lock has since been entirely reconstructed, and the lock-keeper's cottage, seen peeping from the trees, was rebuilt in 1916. Note the tall ladder leaning in the apple tree.

Caption For Askrigg, Little Askrigg 1911

The confectionery shop and the chemist's (right) are now private cottages. Askrigg was the village where the James Herriot's TV series 'All Creatures Great and Small' was set.

Caption For Ilkley, The White Wells 1923

This cottage high up on the moors contained two stone plunge baths, one of which is still on display today. The well spring and the house date from the early 1700s.

Caption For Penally, Looking Towards Tenby 1890

The white building in the middle ground is Crossing Cottage; beyond are the gentle slopes of the burrows and Tenby golf course, the oldest links course in Wales, established in 1888.

Caption For St Alban's Head, Bottom Valley 1899

Cottages in the deep gully in Hill Bottom housed a Victorian Coastguard Station, where Thomas Austin was the chief boatman in 1889, with six men as his crew.

Caption For Hawkshead, Pillar House C1955

These cottages are typical of this lovely Lakeland village, which clusters around its 16th-century church.

Caption For Wheaton Aston, The Lock C1952

From here the canal maintains a level for over twenty miles until it reaches Tyrley, where a flight of five locks alter the level by 33 ft.At Tyrley the lock keeper's single storey cottage is situated

Caption For Great Dunmow, High Street C1965

The four pointed gables were built in 1899 on the site of two small cottages and a plastered building that seemed to be the remainder of an ancient chapel.

Caption For Great Sampford, Church Corner C1955

This row of cottages started life as one 15th-century house of the hall-and-wings type. It is now all one house again. St Michael`s Church is mainly early 14th- century.

Caption For Hessenford, C1955

Outside the near cottage, note the two milk churns awaiting collection by a dairy lorry.

Caption For Stony Stratford, The Memorial, Horsefair Green C1965

Nowadays the green is edged with lime trees; attractive Georgian and later cottages surround it, and the Baptist Chapel of 1823 faces its north side.

Caption For Chideock, Gathering The Hay 1922

The main road to Bridport snakes up the hill above Park Farm and Clammers Field, towards Turnpike Cottage and Miles Cross (left).

Caption For Feckenham, High Street C1967

Today, Feckenham is only a village, but a large, prosperous one with fine houses and charming cottages, many of them formerly inhabited by needle makers who worked at home.

Caption For Houghton, The Village C1960

This later photograph shows Manor Farm after the plaster had been removed from the timber frame, and also those 18th-century mansard-roofed cottages more closely.

Caption For Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham Road C1965

The bishop also set up schemes for the unemployed, paved the streets, built 50 cottages, endowed a boys' grammar school and financed extensions to the church.

Caption For Yealand Conyers, The Village 1898

The original cottage was 'gentrified' during the early 19th century and later, the local doctor added extensions, which he used as his waiting room and surgery.

Caption For Churchtown, The Village C1955

The village derives its name from the fact that it was the location of Garstang's parish church, St Helen's, which lies beyond the cottages at the far end of the street.

Caption For Heysham, Main Street 1947

Heysham old village is an attractive place, with an assortment of stone cottages lining the streets.