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Cream Teas At Landslip Cottage

My Greatgrandmother & Greatgrandfather lived at the Landslip Cottage for many years providing cream teas to visiting locals and tourists alike. My own mother married a Gapper born at the bungalow higher up the ...Read more

A memory of Rousdon in 1959 by Gwyn Gapper

Evacuated To Croyde Bay In 1940 At 3 Months Old.

During 1940 I was evacuated to Croyde Bay with my family the Fletchers. At that time I had 3 older siblings. While there, another brother was born. We lived in the Carpenters Arms Cottage for about 6 ...Read more

A memory of Croyde by Maureen Tassie

Happy Days

I came to live in Northwood Hills in 1946, aged 16 months. I attended Pinner Road Primary School and then on to Potter Street where I was a prefect in my final year. I had my tonsils out, aged 6 in the lovely old Cottage Hospital, ...Read more

A memory of Northwood Hills by Barbara Rayment

Wells House

I was born in Hampstead in 1949 and lived with my parents in Wells House, Well Walk. It was a very happy period in my life. I attended New End Primary school and my Mum worked in New End Hospital My Dad use to take me to Whitestone Pond ...Read more

A memory of Hampstead by David James

Peartree Cottage

My late husband's family multi-generational of Clapham and during research discovered the death of Benjamin Blackaby in 1857 at his address: Peartree Cottage, White Square, Clapham, London. My late mother-in-law, his ...Read more

A memory of Clapham by V Tranfield

Walking From Cottage Homes

1965. I grew up in Merthyr Mawr road Cottage Homes for children. The walk to Merthyr Mawr village was always an adventure. We would tickle trout from the estate river and run like mad to avoid the water baillif. The old ...Read more

A memory of Merthyr Mawr by Stephen Lloyd Cook

Lasgarn View

I was fascinated when I saw the new development of Garndiffaith photo. This photo is of Lasgarn View, Varteg, which is just above the Garn. I was born in Primrose Cottage in 1951 with my brother as we were twins. My name was ...Read more

A memory of Garndiffaith by mum1804

Long Hot Summers

MANY HAPPY SUMMERS WERE SPENT AT LEPE. i WAS LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE A GRANDPARENT THAT LIVED IN TH ECOAST GUARD COTTAGES FROM THE 60'S TO THE 80'S. THERE WAS A RAFT NEAR THE BOAT HOUSE WHICH WAS GREAT FUN. NO CONCRETE, FREE PARKING ON ...Read more

A memory of Lepe in 1968 by Julie Payne

Island Cottage

My nanna and grandad Noden lived at Island Cottage. Grandad was a bridgekeeper along with Jack Powell and Syd Bebbington at Acton swing bridge from 1945-1960. There was an enormous flood in 1946 when my grandparents were the ...Read more

A memory of Acton Bridge in 1955 by Christine Ruskin

Granny's Home

The Micheldever cottage with the steps facing the camera is where my mother Evelyn Rogers (nee Chalk) grew up with her brothers Alfred and Charles, and sisters Maude, Ivy, Kate (Kit) and later Ruby Hansford. Henry Arthur Gale Chalk ...Read more

A memory of Micheldever by Mike Rogers

Captions

2,020 captions found. Showing results 193 to 216.

Caption For Witley, The Village 1906

A number of her sought-after country cottage pictures are of buildings in the Witley area.

Caption For Melton, The Street C1965

The doors and windows have been altered on the next pair of cottages, whilst the white Rosemary Cottage and the brick gable end beyond remain unchanged.

Caption For Sonning, The Lock 1917

Back to the river and downstream of Reading, Sonning Lock itself has been entirely renewed but the cottages remain.

Caption For Chipstead, The Pond C1960

Elmore Cottages still command the High Road opposite the village pond and crossroads but have been extended on the south side where the fence on the flint wall has been removed.

Caption For Grasmere, Dove Cottage 1936

William Wordsworth lived with his sister, Dorothy, at Dove Cottage, just outside the village, from 1799 to 1813.

Caption For Grasmere, Dove Cottage 1936

William Wordsworth lived with his sister, Dorothy, at Dove Cottage, just outside the village, from 1799 to 1813.

Caption For Groombridge, C1955

This beautiful village of brick and tile-hung cottages clusters about its small green.

Caption For Bowdon, South Down Road, Old Cottage 1897

This cottage was well over three hundred years old when the Frith cameraman took this picture.

Caption For Hawkhurst, The Village And Moor Hill 1902

Weatherboarded cottages surround the tree-lined green.

Caption For Walberswick, The Street C1955

The first of this row of Victorian cottages has the original name, Fern Cottage, painted on the glass fanlight.

Caption For Daventry, Market Sqaure C1965

The cottages down Abbey Street to the left of the memorial have gone, and the United Counties Bus Company now have a garage there.

Caption For Thornton Dale, Beck Isle Cottage C1965

This much-photographed cottage stands alongside the beck, in which trout can still be seen.

Caption For Yardley Hastings, Little Lane C1952

The 18th-century thatched cottage on the left is joined now by more thatched roofs on the cottages beyond the topiary.

Caption For Horsmonden, The Green 1903

Horsmonden's cottages and houses surround a spacious green.

Caption For Worbarrow, Bay C1930

The fishing hamlet of Worbarrow (upper left), is seen here with Hill Cottage below Gold Down and Sea Cottage boathouses facing Worbarrow Bay.

Caption For Southport, Thatched Cottages 1914

In an area that once relied on agriculture and fishing, thatched cottages were once a common sight.

Caption For Earith, High Street C1955

The old house with the parapet gable (right) has been divided into three cottages - one is a shop.

Caption For Flatford, Willy Lott's Cottage 1907

Beside the quiet mill-pond at Flatford Mill stands Willy Lott's Cottage, instantly recognisable as the setting for Constable's famous painting 'The Hay Wain'.

Caption For Bosham, The Harbour 1903

The waters rise at flood-tide, reaching the sills of the cottage doors, and over the years television news programmes and local newspapers have carried pictures of motor vehicles stranded in the water

Caption For Horner, The Village 1923

A girl leans idly against a wall beside a creeper-covered cottage, a scene that has not greatly changed in the seventy years that have passed since the photograph was taken.

Caption For Porlock, On The Road To Hawkcombe 1890

Hawkcombe and Whitehall Cottages are there today, but a bridge now replaces the ford where the child and dog are standing.

Caption For Selworthy, Almshouses 1900

The village is part of the Holnicote Estate, the gift of the Acland family to the National Trust, to which many of the village's thatched cottages now belong - their preservation is thus assured.

Caption For Hatfield Peverel, The Green C1960

The large house on the left is Brewery House, and behind the post box is Brewery Barn with Brewery Cottages close by.

Caption For Llanystumdwy, Lloyd George's Home In His Boyhood Days 1930

Highgate's cottage kitchen with its cast iron range and beamed ceiling was the centre of family life.