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Memories

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Skewen 1983 4

I lived in Skewen from September 1983 to May 1984 - only a short time in my life but it made a big impression on me. My wife Fiona, new baby Siobhan and I rented a house at Caenant Terrace facing the railway and the mountain.  We had ...Read more

A memory of Skewen by John Mc Millan

Where I Grew Up With My Sister Christine & Dog Judy

This picture is the view from the main road of Harlow lock, Old Mill Resturant and weir and the towpath where the rowing boats and canoes were moored when I lived there. They were moored both sides of ...Read more

A memory of Harlow in 1950 by Eddie Tait

Where I Was Born

I was born at 24 Freehold Street in September 1939. My mother told me that a man who lived at the top of the street came down on his bike blowing a whistle to warn people of an air raid the same day. I can still remember most ...Read more

A memory of Lower Heyford in 1930 by Marion June Messenger

Two Special Places.

Your picture of the Novi Sad Bridge in Norwich provoked many memories. Firstly it is an extremely good replica of the bridge. I've been over it many times and remember seeing it on tv the day it was bombed. Everyone over there ...Read more

A memory of Norwich by stripeyrainbow1

Watching A New Town Grow.

We moved to Harlow from Leyton shortly after Queen Elizabeth’s coronation. We were all given a commemorative book. Our house was in a row which was completed; the rest was a huge building site - magic for exploring kids! I ...Read more

A memory of Harlow by Hilda Seaton

Early Memories

I was born in a house at Fidge in September 1948. My Dad was stationed in Orkney during the war.He was a leading Aircraftsman and worked on spitfires and hurricanes. After the war he stayed on a Croft near the aerodrome. My Dad rented ...Read more

A memory of Fidge by Patricia Mac Cormick

Walker/Fox/Pacey Family History Of Winston, Co. Durham Uk

My Grandmother, Hilda Young nee Parkinson, was born in Barnard Castle. Her Mother, Libbey Parkinson nee Walker, was born in Winston. Libbey's Mum, was Sarah Fox, from Ulverston. Sarah ...Read more

A memory of Winston by Pauline Barker

Grandma's Shop

I was born Nov 5, 1939 at 81 Star Lane, the home of my maternal grandparents, James and Anne Maria Bullock. My mother, Annie Grace Bullock, was the youngest of six children. She married my father, Henry George Hooper, in 1935 at ...Read more

A memory of Canning Town by Derek Hooper

Mrs Marzetties Farm

In 1956/7 I lived with my parents on a farm opposite West End pond. The farmer was a strange lady (in a little boy’s mind) called Mrs Marzetty. I remember she dressed like a man. Her daughter was called Nancy. Mother ...Read more

A memory of West End by delavarde

1 Station Road

I lived at the address which was the house on the corner of hogmoor Road and Station Road. The house was wood not tin as stated and was painted cream. Corrals coal were the owners and a coal yard was at the rear of the house,. . adjacent ...Read more

A memory of Bordon by John Watts

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Caption For Accrington, The Haworth Art Gallery C1945

The house was designed by the eminent architect, Walter Brierley of York (who also designed Dyke Nook, the home of the Blake family on Whalley Road).

Caption For Launceston, Newport 1935

Just visible inside the Round House is the broken granite stump of the old Newport Cross, which from 1529 to 1831 was the spot at which Newport's two MPs were declared.

Caption For Bakewell, Bath Gardens C1955

The Bath House is behind, with its chalybeate spring producing water at a constant temperature.

Caption For Little Sandhurst, 1939

This part of east Berkshire consists almost entirely of 19th-century development; here and there are a few large Victorian houses with huge plate-glass windows and free Renaissance decorations.

Caption For Dullingham, Cross Green C1955

The main part of Dullingham village lies along the southern edge of the grounds of the early 18th-century Dullingham House, hence the picturesque thatched estate cottages.

Caption For Tiverton, Old Cottages, Little Silver 1920

They remained until the middle of the 20th century, when they made way for council housing.

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Caption For Tiverton, Old Cottages, Little Silver 1920

They remained until the middle of the 29th century when they made way for council housing.

Caption For Kibworth, The Grammar School C1955

The photograph shows the rear of the red brick master's house of c1725, which was originally of two stories until a third was added around 1835, backed by a neat garden and tennis courts.

Caption For Kirby Muxloe, The Castle C1965

In fact, the castle is a fortified manor house, carefully set out within a rectangular moat, and the beauty of the remains, which are in the guardianship of English Heritage, resides not so much

Caption For Henley On Thames, Reading Road And Duke Street C1955

The houses on the left-hand side had been rebuilt further back for road widening in 1870.

Caption For Wareside, The Village C1955

On the opposite side of the road is the Chequers public house.

Caption For Greenock, Custom House Quay 1897

Greenock Custom House was built in 1818.

Caption For Edinburgh, Waterloo Place 1897

On the left is the Register House containing the Scottish archives.

Caption For Leeds, Roundhay Park And Mansion 1897

It comprised 775 acres, including woodlands, lakes and a manor house, part of which was turned into refreshment rooms.

Caption For Ipswich, Ancient House 1893

When this photograph was taken, the richly pargetted Ancient House, which dates back to medieval times, was occupied by Fred Pawsey, selling books and stationery.

Caption For Macclesfield, Parkside Asylum 1898

The site, however, now houses the town's general hospital on Victoria Road.

Caption For Aberdeen, The Hinge Of The City And Tenement 2005

This shows the bank designed by Archibald Simpson (1839), topped with a statue of Demeter, and a large block of houses by John Smith (c1810), showing Smith's characteristic recessed, curved corner.

Caption For Dublin, Leinster House 1897

Leinster House, flanked by the National Library and National Museum.

Caption For Goudhurst, Twissenden Manor 1904

This half- timbered Wealden Hall House has a late 16th- century sandstone facade at the back.

Caption For Roydon, The Old House C1955

The road outside this attractive timber-framed and weatherboarded house has changed little over the years.

Caption For St Ives, Bunkers Hill 1892

This street is now bedecked with flower baskets, but the splendidly cut granite blocks and steps of the houses still survive, as do the cobbles, or 'setts', of the street's surface.

Caption For Godmanchester, The Causeway C1950

This view shows a picturesque mix of house styles, the timber-framed examples probably dating from the early 17th century, fronting onto a pool, essentially an inlet of the River Ouse.

Caption For Chenies, Old Manor House 1897

This graceful manor house, built of brick and with a moat, was originally constructed around 1430 near Moor Farm.

Caption For Cambridge, Pembroke College C1955

The chapel houses a memorial to one of its more famous alumni, John Addenbrooke, whose bequest founded the county hospital.