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Lancing Children's Convalescent Home.

In 1952 or 1953 I was a sickly 5 year old. I had 2 brothers, they were twins and one, unbeknown to me was dying of leukaemia. I was sent on a train with a lady and some other children, for a holiday in Lancing. I ...Read more

A memory of Lancing

The Children’s Home In Long Hanborough, Oxfordshire 30 Years Of Childcare 1950 1980

Many questions are often posed about the history of the Children’s Home known as Long House in Long Hanborough, Oxfordshire in a local history group which has a ...Read more

A memory of Long Hanborough

Gone For Ever

IN THE 1940s TILL THE 1960s, NUNHEAD WAS FULL OF STREETS OF HOUSES THAT HAD MANAGED TO SURVIVE THE WAR YEARS, EVERYONE KNEW EVERYONE, MOTHERS WOULD CHAT AT THE FRONT GATES OF THEIR HOUSES, THE CHILDREN PLAYED IN THE STREETS WITH NO FEAR ...Read more

A memory of Nunhead by Peter Mills

Memories

I was born in 54 Mill Street, Trecynon. As was my sister, our mother and her brothers and sitsters. A little 2 down 2 up, stone cottage. It was on the top of the hill, and we could run down "the trip" as we called it, and play there, ...Read more

A memory of Trecynon in 1947 by Heather Forey

Coronation Day

My mother took short term housekeeping positions and in 1953 we lived in Westbrook House in Westbrook village, looking after Sir Edgar and Lady Ludlow Hewitt. He was a gentleman farmer and I sometimes drove around his land with him ...Read more

A memory of Bromham in 1953 by Sonia James

Park House Farm

My wife and I spent one year ( circa 1953 ) living in an apartment at Park House Farm where Tony Warner raised sugar beets and pigs. The Manor House was built on a Roman foundation which then formed the basement of the ...Read more

A memory of Snettisham by Herbert Kulik

Qeggs

I attended Queen Elizabeth’s Girls Grammar School from 1954 to 1959, and in 1957 the Queen came to visit. We all had to practise our lessons for ages beforehand (mine was French), and when she came to our classroom she spoke to us in French. We ...Read more

A memory of Barnet by Linda Smith

When We Had A Shop

I was born in Little Marlow in 1947 and lived three doors away from the village shop, run by Miss Littlewood. I would go there and weigh the sultanas, currants etc., and put them into little blue bags. My Mum (Phyllis ...Read more

A memory of Little Marlow in 1950 by Liz Hughes

The Artichoke On The Green

I used to walk or ride my bike past the Artichoke public house almost daily while running errands from the small group of shops opposite the church. There used to be a small cycle shop, news agent, grocers shop, and ...Read more

A memory of Croxley Green in 1950 by Leon Moore

Durham Buildings

The pub over the road did a singalong every Saturday night ending in a very long finale of "Hit the Road Jack - Don't you come back no more, no more ,no more, no more", and so on. I don't know about the pub but I doubt if anybody ...Read more

A memory of Battersea

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Captions

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Caption For Fulbourn, High Street 1952

Peering just around the corner of the house on the right is a petrol pump.

Caption For Bakewell, St Anselms School C1955

The only real change has been the construction of the headmaster's house to the right hand side of this view.

Caption For Westbury, Meadow Lane Estate C1965

This view looks west towards Frogmore Road, and shows a new private housing development.

Caption For Cambridge, St Catharine's College 1890

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

Caption For Tenby, The Harbour 1925

The remains of the 13th-century castle are on the hill beyond the houses.

Caption For Gloucester, Raikes's House 1923

Note that on the left-hand side at the top of the house the window is missing.

Caption For Accrington, Market Hall 1897

It has always housed many stalls selling a wide assortment of goods.

Caption For Rhyd Y Foel, Village C1965

Set below Pen y Corddyn Mawr, a Romano-British hill fort, these houses and cottages are a more recent addition to the ancient landscape of the North Wales coast.

Caption For Tilehurst, School Road C1960

Bustling School Road has long been lined with shops and houses.

Caption For Fulbourn, High Street 1952

Peering just around the corner of the house on the right is a petrol pump.

Caption For Pontymister, View From Ochwyth C1955

This photograph gives us some idea of the rural setting for this village, something of a constrast to the dense housing of the village itself.

Caption For Netherbury, The Village 1912

From this view of the crossroads, one can see The Redes on the left, and on the right, Japonica Cottage, which housed Netherbury Post Office.

Caption For Teddington, The King's Head, High Street 2005

The village population had grown to just short of 700, and there were now over 100 houses.

Caption For Gloucester, The Cathedral From The Air C1965

Surrounding this splendid structure are the houses and local businesses of the city centre that lead to Westgate Street, Eastgate Street, Southgate Street and Northgate Street.

Caption For High Salvington, 1919

In 1919 Worthing had not yet sprawled up the valley below Salvington Hill, and you could look across to Cissbury Ring without the neat, but characterless, housing of Findon Valley in between.

Caption For Norwich, St Helen's Square, Great Hospital 1921

Originally intended for housing poor clergy, and other poor people, the hospital was founded by Bishop Walter de Suffield in 1249.

Caption For Swyre, Bull Inn C1965

All the more reason to be grateful for this convenient public house.

Caption For St Dogmaels, High Street C1955

Note the interesting brickwork on the house on the right.

Caption For St Neots, Brook Street C1955

Next to the Bushel & Strike public house (left), in what was the Bell Yard, stands Ibbett`s blacksmith and engineering workshop`s outside store.

Caption For Stamford, St Paul's Street C1960

The window cleaner is outside a house which has a plaque inscribed 'Joseph and Jane Caldecott 1714', but the house is much older than that.

Caption For Clapham, Upper Falls 1900

Nearby is Gaping Gill, which has an underground chamber large enough to house a cathedral.

Caption For Newbury, Northbrook Street C1960

One of Newbury's loveliest streets, Northbrook Street is famous for its mid to late Georgian buildings, and distinctive pink and blue brick houses above lines of modern shop fronts.

Caption For Tolpuddle, Pixies Cottage C1955

This is typical of the style of a Dorset village house, with low thatched roof and thatched porches.

Caption For Hadleigh, Old Houses In High Street 1922

The Coffee Tavern came into being around thirty years previously - it was an attempt to provide people with an alternative to nearby public houses.