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Furzton Lake

I am greatly surprised that there are no photos of Furzton Lake in the Frith archive. Our son David lived in a modern terraced house in Winsford Hill, Furzton until 2005. I remember there was a gap in the hedge with a gate we ...Read more

A memory of Furzton in 2000 by John Howard Norfolk

Playing Football

I remember the person who broke his leg that day was Bernie Lowe as I was playing for the team Hound United against Netley FC on that pitch. I also remember your father as I played for them for a season with I think your brother ...Read more

A memory of Netley by David Hillman

Love That Place!

Born at Petersfield in 1940, my first home was Berry Cottage, down Sandy Lane, opposite Sibley's farm. Berry cottage had only 4 rooms (2 up and 2 down), no running water, only a well and later a tap down in the lane. I remember ...Read more

A memory of Rake Firs in 1940 by Monica Stewart

Not Strictly Ashby : )

Willesley Close was the centre of the universe for the first twelve years of my life from 1959. The garden enclosed twenty yards of the old railway embankment and featured a natural spring, the source of much ...Read more

A memory of Ashby-de-la-Zouch in 1971 by Bill Davey

A Wonderful Childhood At St Catherines

My late father, Rev H Roderick Carter, was the Vicar at St Catherines from the early 1950's to about 1968. Living at the Vicarage meant that we had people coming and going all day, everyday. Mum was very ...Read more

A memory of Norwich in 1955 by Richenda Carter

Childhood Memories In The 1970's

My maternal grandparents lived in Palmers Green - firstly in Elmdale Road close to what is now the North Circular and then moving to Wentworth Gardens off Hedge Lane. I have many childhood memories of ...Read more

A memory of Palmers Green by Paul Williams

Broughton Astley Pre 1950

This is my second entry about Broughton Astley and may contain some references to items in my first reminisces. As a person 'born and bred' in Broughton Astley, I have fond memories of the village as it was 'in ...Read more

A memory of Broughton Astley by Reuben Reynolds

Bretherton In The Late 1940s & Early 50s

When I was a child we used to take my Grandma to visit some of her relatives in Bretherton. My memory is that they lived in a little cottage at the end of a row of about six, along a country lane. I ...Read more

A memory of Bretherton

John Allen Venner, Jacobs Well Farm

John Allen Venner was a Hurst Green Veterinary Surgeon and his wife Emily Baxter raised 10 children at Jacobs Well Farm. The children were John, Emily, George, Jane, Annie, Maud, May, Grace, Harry and ...Read more

A memory of Hurst Green in 1900 by Gail Venner

To The Lady Wanting To Find People Remembering Josephines

I do remember this lovely lady, her brother, and her quaint little shop. She sold flowers, fruit, veg, sweets, tobacco etc, and wonderful lemon dip sugar. My dad used her shop nearly every ...Read more

A memory of Botley in 1955

Captions

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Caption For Crewe, Queen's Park C1965

But foreign sports are taking over: just beyond the hedge today a strip of land has been prepared with sand so that people can play boules.

Caption For Burton Joyce, The Poplar Walk C1965

The hedge on the right has been replaced by a fence, but the poplars remain intact.

Caption For Micheldever, The Village C1955

The sun is shining on another outstanding Hampshire village with some timeless timber-framed cottages and nicely cut hedges. The broadcaster Sir David Frost is rumoured to live here.

Caption For Uplyme, The Old Mill C1900

On reaching the Old Mill, the footpath across the fields from Lyme becomes a double-hedged dirt track through a carpet of wild garlic into Uplyme village. 17th-century buildings and the wooden paddles

Caption For Glentham, Main Street 1953

Actually, several more things have disappeared, including the signpost, which has been replaced by much smaller signs that are partially covered by the hedge.

Caption For Haywards Heath, Memorial Stone C1960

It is interesting to compare the height of the hedge with the one in photograph H252583.

Caption For East Clandon, The Village C1955

The parish church behind the holly hedge to the left at the corner of Ripley Road is partly Norman.

Caption For Flimwell, The Village 1903

Here the photographer looks west along High Street; the picket fence on the right has been replaced by conifer hedging.

Caption For Kilby, Main Street C1965

This small village is set in an enclosure landscape of straight hawthorn hedges, between Fleckney and Countesthorpe, to the south of the city.

Caption For Cheam, Ewell Road C1955

On the left, two uniformed schoolboys, probably from either Sutton Grammar or Sutton High School, are about to pass the hedge in front of Cheam Hall as they make their way towards the main junction.

Caption For Newstead Abbey, Byron Tea Rooms C1955

A previous Lord Byron, the fifth, an ex-Naval man, had a warship in the lake and built mock forts around its edges in the 1770s; this one is the only survivor, and is in fact a conversion of the stables

Caption For Glentham, Main Street 1953

Actually, several more things have disappeared, including the signpost, which has been replaced by much smaller signs that are partially covered by the hedge.

Caption For Redbourn, The Memorial And Village C1955

The hedges are full with shepherd's rose, honeysuckles and all sorts of flowers, with the most beautiful of all flower gardens and shrubberies on your one hand and corn on the other.

Caption For Kingsbury, Kingsbury Road C1960

It is difficult to believe, looking at Kingsbury Road, that the area retains many field hedges and trees; they were preserved quite carefully in the laying out of the 1930s estates, a definite plus for

Caption For Twycross, The Village C1955

The houses of the late 18th and early 19th centuries are almost picturesque behind hedges and walls, with a restrained petrol sign being all that is needed to alert drivers to the garage's presence - petrol

Caption For Cocking, Mill 1906

The stream flows in the foreground, and the Mill House is concealed behind hedges. The mill buildings on the right have been converted to a house, Mill Cottage. The wagon shed has gone.

Caption For Kilby, Main Street C1965

This small village is set in an enclosure landscape of straight hawthorn hedges, between Fleckney and Countesthorpe, to the south of the city.

Caption For Eype, Village 1930

The top of the same iron-railed gate as in the 1899 photograph (43872) can be seen in the hedge in the foreground.

Caption For Kilby, Main Street C1965

From opposite the Dog and Gun Pub, the camera looks along the straight village street with its assortment of restrained houses, hedges and walls.

Caption For Lytham, Parish Church 1890

Church is not far from the large cricket ground, where a socket of a stone cross (marking one of the resting places of St Cuthbert when he was being carried to his final tomb at Durham) was found in a hedge

Caption For Raglan, The Castle 1906

The circular gun-ports at the base of the gatehouse walls are obscured by hedging.

Caption For Bognor Regis, The Parade 1892

On the left edge is the Royal Norfolk Hotel, rebuilt here in 1826 after the earlier one burnt down.

Caption For Eype, Village 1930

The top of the same iron-railed gate as in the 1899 photograph (43872) can be seen in the hedge in the foreground.

Caption For Chepstow, Castle And River Wye 1931

In front of the building was a bay hedge from which people could pluck a few bay leaves with which to cook their salmon.