Maps

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Memories

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Theres No Place Like Home

I used to walk up Railway St years ago on my way home to Pilgrim St. Looking at these street pictures makes me want visit and see my old home town. I went to Walverden School but can't remember the name of the street it ...Read more

A memory of Nelson in 1946 by Margaret Bettendorff

Pencoed Childhood Memories

The building on the left is the old Coop, next door was the chemist where I used to get my root sticks, then there was an alleyway right beside the car on the left in the picture. You cannot see it in the picture but ...Read more

A memory of Pencoed in 1970 by Dennis Hawkins

Glover's Row

This was where my father was born and lived until the houses were demolished in the late 1930s. Anyone got any information they could share, as I have a set of memories from my dad that I am trying to build upon.

A memory of Wallsend by Edward Young

Happy Days.

I was 16 yrs old when I moved to Deal with my parents; we moved into a lovely old house in Cowper Road. I soon made friends. I used to go into a coffee bar called The Good Intent, it was always busy, the duke box was always playing Buddy ...Read more

A memory of Deal in 1958

My Oldham

I was born in Oldham in 1946. Lived in Norfolk Street, Chadderton until 1953 then moved to the Isle of Wight. My mother, Marjorie Bolton, lived in Hollinwood and represented Oldham as Cotton Queen in the 1930's. Have always loved the ...Read more

A memory of Oldham in 1946 by Margaret Lorraine Toms Nee Mangnall

Strawberries For Tea

Every year on my birthday my mother and father made June 21st. (or the closest Saturday) a very special day for me. Since I was old enough to remember I had strawberries on my birthday. However, that was not all. The ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill by Denman Lalonde

My Mother Sarah Jane White

My mum was born in Brandon in 1910, one of 14 children. She sailed to Australia on the Vedic in 1926 and sadly never returned to Brandon. My son and I visited Brandon in 2010 and were disappointed to find that the street ...Read more

A memory of Durham in 2010 by Helen Fry

Coleton Fishacre Near Kingswear

Just a five minute drive along Mt Ridley Road to the east of Kingswear will lead you to a glorious National Trust house and garden called Coleton Fishacre. I have two memories of my visit - the wonderful ...Read more

A memory of Kingswear in 2012 by John Howard Norfolk

G Grandmother

My mother used to speak of Tarryblake as her grandmother, Helen Riddoch was born there. I think Mum used to visit an aunt at Tarryblake when she was little. I'd love to have a photo of the house. The Riddoch family were involved in the timber trade way back then too.

A memory of Tarryblake Ho by Katrine M Lean

Spitfire

I well recall the day I set off for school, it was sunny as I left the house by Black`s garage. As I approached the school, I noticed a large crowd opposite the school gates. A spitfire had come down between two houses without touching ...Read more

A memory of Callander in 1940 by Christopher Fentiman

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Captions

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Caption For Chieveley, The Manor And Church C1965

Chieveley boasts many fine period houses and cottages; here and there are new estates too.

Caption For Salisbury, St Ann's Gate 1911

Viewed from the Close and looking East, the room with the large window over the Gate was a chapel belonging to Malmesbury House, the front of which can be seen to the left of the picture.

Caption For Salisbury, Kings House Training College 1928

Formerly a teacher training college for school mistresses, since 1980 Kings House has been the Salisbury and Wiltshire museum.

Caption For Kegworth, Ashby Road C1965

Beyond the crossroads is the old village, with its three- storey, flat-fronted late 18th-century houses, while towards the camera the quality of the secondary layer of houses, including those of the

Caption For Tattershall, Buttercross C1955

Tattershall has lost its railway, but it still has its castle, and Tom Thumb's house is still on top of a house on the left of the market place.

Caption For Ewell, Bourne Hall C1960

Formerly Garbrand Hall, this two-storied, five-bayed stuccoed house stands at the centre of the village, and was built on a Tudor site around 1775.

Caption For Uppingham, Lorne House C1955

Between West Deyne and School House on High Street West, this was once an academy for young ladies run by Miss Jemima Adams.

Caption For Turvey, The Three Cranes Hotel C1950

Beyond is the stables and coach-house, stone fronted to the road with medieval-style buttresses and with brick side elevations.

Caption For Bognor Regis, The Steyne 1895

Named after the Steyne in Brighton, this delightful and relatively unchanged long narrow square was laid out in the 1820s and is lined by modest seaside houses, many with verandahs and balconies which

Caption For Long Melford, Hall Street C1955

On the left is the 16th-century Old House Country Club, now Chimney's Restaurant; in the 1830s John Churchyard lived here - he started the horse-hair weaving industry in Melford.

Caption For Long Melford, Little St Mary's C1955

The building on the right is a substantial medieval house with later additions. Gardiner's Garage next door, now a dress shop, was originally a maltings.

Caption For Walsingham, Sheep Going To Market 1929

Walsingham is built around the ruins of a monastic house, celebrated for its shrine to Our Lady of Walsingham. It is an important place of pilgrimage, second only to Becket's tomb at Canterbury.

Caption For Odiham, High Street 1908

The listed Grade II* late 17th-century three-storey house on the left, with a magnificent carved shell hood over the doorcase, is Odiham's most splendid house.

Caption For Worth, St Nicholas's Church And The Lychgate C1960

The 18th-century Worth Abbey is on the site of a town house called Paddockhurst. It is now run by the Benedictine Order as a monastery and public school.

Caption For Alderley Edge, High School 1896

With the rise in house prices and the sale of council houses in the late 20th century, working people and young couples looking for a place to start a family can find it very difficult to get

Caption For Alderley Edge, St Hilary's Park 2005

With the rise in house prices and the sale of council houses in the late 20th century, working people and young couples looking for a place to start a family can find it very difficult to get

Caption For Uttoxeter, High Street C1955

Thomas Hart established the first bank in Uttoxeter in the 18th century at the Bank House; the original safe can still be seen in situ today.

Caption For Worthing, East Parade 1919

During the first two decades of the 19th century, the more affluent of Worthing's Georgian visitors often took over entire houses on a long lease, so that they could cater for themselves and also entertain

Caption For Rothwell, Church Walk C1955

Built around its fine market place, it found new life in the 19th century when it joined Northamptonshire's boot and shoe industry with several factories and terraces of hard red Midland brick houses.

Caption For Woolsthorpe, The Village By Belvoir C1955

Many of the village houses are built of the local ironstone; this gives them a rusty red colour, the same as the houses in Denton.

Caption For Boxford, Swan Street C1955

The Victorian stepped gables, porch and Tudor-style windows of Old Castle House beyond mask a timber building of c1600. The adjoining Victoria Cottage with round-topped windows is dated 1839.

Caption For Castle Bromwich, Chester Road C1965

The development of Castle Bromwich really got under way in the 1930s with the Hodgehill Common housing estate.After the second world war, in which Castle Bromwich played a major part with its Spitfire

Caption For Worth, St Nicholas's Church And The Lychgate C1960

The fine Anglo-Saxon church of St Nicholas was a principal church in pre-Conquest times.The 18th-century Worth Abbey is on the site of a town house called Paddockhurst.

Caption For Abingdon, The Boat House 1890

The house between the trees is Cosener's House, built on the site where the cosener or kitcheners lived – he was the medieval official who ran the Abingdon Abbey's kitchens.