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Grandparents

My grandfather, Peter Brown, was born in Coldstream in 1875. His parents, John and Mary Ann Wallace lived in a cottage on the Hirsel estate. Peter was a joiner, as was John. Peter emigrated to New Zealand and was the first person ...Read more

A memory of Coldstream by Beryl Crawford

Astwood Bank Co Op......Remember It?

It was so interesting to find a few photos of old Astwood Bank on here. I moved to the village when my mother married my step father, Jesse Bradley, in 1964. We lived at 21 High Street and I got a job at the ...Read more

A memory of Astwood Bank in 1969 by Sue Ford

Princess Alice Home And Orphanage 1941 1955

I too, was in Copley House with my sister Sheila. Our surname was Youngs (the sister in charge of the house was Sister Ada Fitzjohn). I was at first, in the nursery school on Chester Road until ...Read more

A memory of Sutton Coldfield in 1941 by Christine Paterson

Life In Silverdale 1946 T0 1949

I moved to Silverdale from Bradford in 1945/6 at the end of the war, with my father, Leslie Waddington, and my grandmother Mary Waddington. We bought Swiss Cottages down Townsfield from Tommy Taylor the joiner ...Read more

A memory of Silverdale by Peter Waddington

Cottage Grill

The whole Swiss Cottage area has changed beyond recognition. There seem to be few photos of how it was till the late 1960s, when the Cottage Grill, my father's restaurant, was demolished. This building gave it's name to the ...Read more

A memory of Swiss Cottage by Tony Papard

Coatbridge

Born in the slap up and moved to Kirkshaws when I was 4. Remember playing football in the cinder park. Getting free bag of chips from my mum who worked in the Goric, then going to pictures and getting in the side door. Raiding Lees's ...Read more

A memory of Coatbridge in 1970 by Alistair Gray

The People Of Kilfinan

The year my mum and dad got married in Kilfinan Church. My mum was born and brought up in Kilfinan Post Office where my granny, Mrs Maclachlan was the post mistress for many of my childhood years. I don't actually remember ...Read more

A memory of Kilfinan in 1951 by David Goodman

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

My Schooldays At Caerleon Endowed School

Our family moved to Brook Cottage, Llandegveth, in about 1945 when Dad went to work for Mr Joe Shepherd at Ty Capten Farm, and my three brothers, Arthur, David Noel and I would catch the canvas covered ...Read more

A memory of Caerleon in 1945 by Robert Bassett

My Grandmothers Cottage

My grandmother, Annie Maria Pearce lived in one of those thatched cottages. The third door from the left of the white building. It was number 444. My parents Arthur and Barbara Wheeler-Smith emigrated to Australia with us three kids in 1965. My brothers names are Peter and Michael.

A memory of South Tidworth in 1965 by Linda Eyles

Captions

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Caption For Brotton, High Street C1955

At the far end of the left-hand row of houses we can just see the gable end of the Cottage Hospital, built in 1874 by Bell Brothers for the casualties inevitably arising from the local ironstone mining

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Caption For Eriswell, C1960

The single-storey cottage has been converted to changing rooms for the sports field. At the corner of the metal fence is the village sign, unveiled by Bill Heffer.

Caption For Bridport, Old Cottages 1897

This seemingly idyllic rural summer scene on the banks of the River Brit, with its group of thatched cottages, lines of washing and vegetable garden, is brought acutely into focus by a closer

Caption For Somerton, Broad Street 1904

Linden House, a later 19th- century insertion on the right with gabled upper windows, dwarfs the late 18th-century cottages to its right.

Caption For Castle Combe, Village 1904

Here we see the By Brook flowing placidly past the rows of exquisite cottages, with their steep stone-slated roofs and dormers. A man sits on the bank with his granddaughter enjoying the tranquillity.

Caption For Plaxtol, Village 1901

There is a lovely group of cottages near the church, which date from the 17th century. The church has many riches, including a hammerbeam roof.

Caption For East Grinstead, Mount Noddy 1928

Mount Noddy Cottage, nestling in the trees, was demolished in the 1950s.

Caption For Burwash, The Village 1889

Seacox is a French chateau- style house built in 1871 for the Goschen family, who were great benefactors of the village; they built a number of cottages for estate staff.

Caption For West Marden, Village C1955

This sizeable hamlet on the Downs south of Harting has no church, but boasts some attractive flint cottages and fine scenery.There is plenty of history here: Bow Hill was a great Stone Age centre

Caption For Chorleywood, Canal Side Cottages On The Grand Union C1960

The well-kept towpath and the sympathetic cottage extension we see here blend into the countryside, and in 1960 were prepared for the resurrection of Hertfordshire's waterways.

Caption For Woodhouse Eaves, Maplewell Road C1955

Quarrymen and their families must have occupied a high proportion of the cottages, working to fulfil the 18th- and 19th-century demand for slate both as a roofing material, and for graveyard

Caption For Bishops Hull, The Church Of St Peter And St Paul 1906

Since 1906, the cottage on the left has gone, and the church porch has been rebuilt.

Caption For Waterrow, The Village C1955

Rock Cottage, on the left, has had its render removed to expose the thin-bedded ancient Devonian sandstone rubble used for building on Exmoor and the western hills of Somerset.

Caption For Chesham, Waterside, From Lord's Mill 1906

It fell into serious decay and was finally demolished in 1988, although its mill cottage survives as offices.

Caption For Chalfont St Giles, High Street C1955

Looking east back downhill from the junction with Bowstridge Lane, the gable on the right is the remnant of a cottage demolished to improve visibility from the lane.

Caption For Little Missenden, The River Misbourne C1955

Here we look east from the bridge over the Misbourne along the backs of Manor Farmyard, now houses, the Red Lion pub and cottages beyond, a view now somewhat obscured by stables to one of the converted

Caption For Botley, Church Lane C1955

The little cottage on the left has been replaced by a redbrick house, and there is a modern bungalow just to the right of it.

Caption For Amroth, The Beach C1960

A great storm in the 1930s washed away some of the cottages that stood on the seaward side of this road.

Caption For Oughtibridge, The Bridge And Cock Inn C1960

Cottages in the village date from 1845; just to the right was the old Forge Mill. The Cock Inn is still in business, but the old village hall behind is long gone.

Caption For Aylesbury, St Mary's Church C1955

On the left are Hickman Charity houses; the jettied timber-framed cottages were bought and refurbished in the 1980s, and the timber-framing exposed. On the right is the old Grammar School.

Caption For Storrington, The Monastery 1894

The cottages fronting the field now look out onto houses built on the field. Francis Frith's Sussex A Century Ago

Caption For Thurmaston, Melton Road C1965

Left alone, the buildings in Melton Road could have reverted to a village atmosphere, but the Council in its usual insensitive manner authorised the demolition of the cottages on the

Caption For Winlaton, The Village C1955

Crowley was ahead of his time; he built cottages for his workers and the community had the serv- ices of a doctor, schoolmaster and a parson.

Caption For Thurmaston, Melton Road C1965

Left alone, the buildings in Melton Road could have reverted to a village atmosphere, but the Council in its usual insensitive manner authorised the demolition of the cottages on the