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Home Away From Home

I was a young adult when I arrived in Rochford on a Sunday afternoon in June 1978, to take up my position as student nurse at Rochford Hospital. I was from Cape Town in South Africa and the feel of this village promised ...Read more

A memory of Rochford in 1978 by Clarissa Aitken Kiwara

Hollybush Lane

When I was a child in the early 1950s Hollybush Lane, from Woodhall Lane to Great Ley, was quite literally a lane. On one side the council had built houses, but on the other were the farm cottages that were built around ...Read more

A memory of Welwyn Garden City by Rod Sharp

Laleham Abbey

My sister Kathleen Taylor (former name) was cook in the kitchen for the retired old ladies. I was always staying with her during school holidays. Her husband then (now deceased) was Barry Taylor and they had two children, Sarah born ...Read more

A memory of Laleham in 1970 by Stuart Mitchell

Longleat

My grandfather Cecil Welch, who was the local estate agent and auctioneer based at the Old Town Hall in the High Street, bought several old cottages next to the blacksmiths in Church End for his son John and wife Peggy, at the vast ...Read more

A memory of Great Dunmow in 1948

School!

Memory of the hated Catholic school I was sent to, me being one of three Church of England girls, meant I was treated like an outcast! Beautiful house, and grounds, I learnt to ride there, it was my only way to get away ...Read more

A memory of Denford Park (Training Coll) in 1958 by Susi Allen

Boyhood Memories From 1952

It was around this time that the tram lines were taken up from Sunderland Road in Gateshead. The men stored the old lines in Somerset Street and Devonshire Street. As boys we would dig up the tar from around the ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead in 1952 by Dave Southern

Lightning Strikes

This is August 1953, I was 10. We were playing cricket on the clay field with some older lads, the stumps were iron and came from Spencers steel works which was nearby and stuff like this was easily got. Anyway I remember it was ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1953 by Jimmy Burrows

Hyde End House

I was at school (Lindfield) in this fine old Georgian building from 1947-1951 and spent many happy hours playing in the extensive grounds and old outbuildings and stables. One year our dormitory was above the stable block where the ...Read more

A memory of Brimpton in 1947 by Paul Alexander

Childhood Memories From 1949

I was born in Hubert Terrace which ran off Bank Street and along to Cuthbert Street. Further down was School Street and Marian Street which ran along to Derwentwater Road, and on Derwentwater Road was Lady Vernon ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead by Betty Harris

Childhood Memories Great Bardfield 1969

My late parents were the landlord and landlady of the Vine public house. I was just coming into teenage years. Friends came from the base who lived in the village. The pub itself was refurbished in ...Read more

A memory of Great Bardfield in 1969 by Dawn Willshere

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Caption For Aldeburgh, The Steps 1906

Here, grand houses enjoyed a superb view overlooking the town and coastline below.

Caption For Bletchley, Bletchley Park C1960

Architecturally something of a dog's dinner with bits added to the 1860 house piecemeal, Bletchley Park is famous for the cracking of the Nazi 'Enigma' code during the last war, admittedly in huts around

Caption For Acle, The Bridge Inn C1955

The now much enlarged thatched house on the right is the only Bridge Inn building standing today; the left-hand one has been demolished.

Caption For Wootton Bassett, Bath Road C1950

The shop is now a private house.

Caption For Camberley, Frimley Road 1906

On the right is Mr Turner's grocery shop, with the Standard public house in the distance.

Caption For Camberley, Recreation Ground Gardens 1931

The houses in the background are those in Southwell Park Road.

Caption For Gloucester, Southgate Street 1904

One of Gloucester's new electric street tramcars rattles along Southgate Street in hot pursuit of a local horse-drawn omnibus.

Caption For Chideock, Village 1897

Little remains of this medieval fortification, and a later manor house was 'slighted' in 1645 during the Civil War.

Caption For Ringwood, Somerley House 1891

To the north-west of Ringwood is Somerley House, sometime residence of Lord Normanton.

Caption For Newtown Linford, Bradgate Park C1965

In the heart of the park stand the ruins of Bradgate House, a Tudor mansion; it was the childhood home of Lady Jane Grey, the tragic nine-day Queen of England who was executed in 1553.

Caption For Corfe Castle, From The Church Tower 1890

A medieval manor house, Athelhampton was built in 1485 by Sir William Martyn, who became Lord Mayor of London in 1493.

Caption For Otterton, Village 1906

Originally granted to the monks of St Michel in Normandy, Otterton's priory remained an important religious house until Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries.

Caption For Gunnislake, Dimson 1906

Industrial housing is dominated by the tall chimney stack and circular kiln complex of the Plymouth Brickworks at North Dimson.

Caption For Hemingford Abbots, Common Lane 1914

Hemingford Abbots is an attractive collection of brick, timbered and thatched cottages and houses, which originally started as just a small hamlet gathered around the church, but which subsequently grew

Caption For Carperby, Village And Cross 1914

The square house, centre, dates from 1908.

Caption For Formby, The Village C1960

Many of the shops on both right and left had only recently been, or were yet to be, converted from private dwelling houses.

Caption For Guisborough, Westgate C1965

On the extreme right is Kemplah House, a private preparatory school run by Miss MacDonald and originally the residence of Mr Clarke.

Caption For Rugby, Caldecott Park 1932

Another recreation ground available to Rugbeians was the Whitehall Recreation Ground on Hillmorton Road, which housed a 28-ton, armoured First World War tank presented to the town in 1919,

Caption For Paignton, The Pier C1965

The pier is somewhat changed, and now houses pin-tables, ghost rides and go-karts.

Caption For Hatfield Heath, The Post Office C1965

Further along the row is an attractive thatched house.

Caption For Hawkhurst, Colonade 1904

The photographer moved back down the road and caught the colonnade of shops, one of Hawkhurst's best known features; this is an early 19th-century shopping arcade with weatherboarded houses and cast-iron

Caption For Staithes, The Harbour 1927

A view of Staithes harbour showing, in the background, the two rows of houses known as Cowbar.

Caption For Stratford Upon Avon, Shakespeare's Garden 1922

The restoration was directed at putting the house into a representation of what it might have looked like in 1564.

Caption For Crichel House, The Lake And House 1904

An older building burnt down in 1742; the house we see here was erected soon afterwards by the Napier family.