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Maps

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1920, Buckton Ref. POP654886
1924, Buckton Ref. POP654887
1899, Buckton Ref. RNE654886
1909, Buckton Ref. HOSM39394
1902, Buckton Ref. HOSM39396
1903, Buckton Vale Ref. RNC654896
1924, Buckton Vale Ref. POP654896
1901-1903, Buckton Ref. RNC654886
1903-1904, Buckton Ref. RNC654887
1947, Buckton Vale Ref. NPO654896
1896, Buckton Vale Ref. RNE654896
1947, Buckton Ref. NPO654886
1947, Buckton Ref. NPO654887
1897, Buckton Ref. RNE654887

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Memories

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Holy Trinity Church 1891 Margate

The Margate cliffs were chalk. An extremely tall church named The Holy Trinity Church sat in the middle of Trinity Square about 800m from the sea. During the war, the roof had collapsed leaving the outer walls, ...Read more

A memory of Margate by Dave Harris

Oh To Be Young Again

I remember when I first moved to Aveley, I was 7 years old. My nan lived in the prefabs and my mother, brother and myself moved in with her until they were demolished when I was eight years old. Then we moved into Hall Avenue, ...Read more

A memory of Aveley in 1960 by Marina Lewis

Ravenscroft School From 1951 1958

I attended this school from 1951 -1958 and Mr Henry Francis Bailey ( with his wife Mary ) was always the head. At least till the time I left in 1958. They had one son Christopher who I believe wanted to become a ...Read more

A memory of Beckington by patwalker37srpen

Re Betty Harris Memory

I was in Mrs Waddington's class at Wath Park Road from 1946 - 1950 and I have many happy memories of her. She was a great english teacher, always a happy smiling face, and she spoke of her daughter Betty many ...Read more

A memory of Wath Upon Dearne in 1948 by Jack Thirlwell

'when We Were Young'

‘I remember when’ - yes, I remember market day in Dorchester very well – when your picture was taken I was 10 years old, and could well have been one of the children in your picture. On Wednesdays, during school holidays Mum ...Read more

A memory of Dorchester in 1955

100 Melody Road. Wandsworth S.W.18

In 1943/4 My mother, brother and myself were bombed out of our home in Summerly Street. In that house we had a Morrison shelter and the night the bomb hit, a few houses away from our house, it affected our shelter ...Read more

A memory of Wandsworth by jcunife

17th Century Murder Replayed At Church Norton.

The more I think back on this incident, the more bizzare and terryfying it seems. In 2001, around Oct/Nov, myself and a friend drove to the car park at Church Norton church at about 11:00pm. We were ...Read more

A memory of Sidlesham in 2001 by Jon Clatworthy

1907 1965 Family Sussex Street Caroline St St Peters

Four Generations of Bowrings! Hazel Bowring - In 1958 I was born in Salford, sister of Michael Bowring. I was born at 146 Sussex Street in 1958, my parents were Kenneth Thomas & Rita ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1950 by Hazel Donnelly

1946 1951 Age 2 Years To 7 Years

I was in St Claire's Orphanage with my two sisters after my father died in 1945. The Rev Mother Sister Phillomina had been a childhood friend of my mother's. This fact did not give us any added privileges. I ...Read more

A memory of Pantasaph in 1948 by Dora Murphy

1950s And 60s In St Giles, Camberwell

Wayne’s comment made me re-read my piece and I was driven to expand. This is St Gile’s Church. My parents were baptised and married here in 1937 and I was baptised and then confirmed by Mervyn Stockwood here. To ...Read more

A memory of Camberwell by Richard Norman

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Captions

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Caption For Saxtead, The Mill C1955

There are two pairs of stones in the buck and two pairs and a centrifugal dressing machine in the round house.

Caption For Aylesbury, Market Square C1955

Between the lions is a statue of Major-General Charles Compton, third Baron Chesham, the commander of the Bucks Militia, who fought in South Africa during the Boer War.

Caption For Wadhurst, Castle 1903

This is not a real castle, of course, but rather a battlemented house of about 1818; it was greatly enlarged by Edward Buckton Lamb, that eccentric Victorian architect, and others by 1870.

Caption For Chipping Norton, The Rollright Stones, The King's Men C1960

Just north of Chipping Norton, in the parish of Great Rollright, lie the Rollright Stones, set in a circle about 100 feet in diameter.

Caption For Chipping Norton, The Rollright Stones, The King's Men C1960

Just north of Chipping Norton, in the parish of Great Rollright, lie the Rollright Stones, set in a circle about 100 feet in diameter.

Caption For Kingston Upon Thames, The Coronation Stone C1955

The Coronation Stone was placed upon a stone plinth set within decorative railings right in the heart of Kingston outside the Kingston municipal offices in 1850, but as traffic increased in the 20th

Caption For Shaw, Chamber Road C1950

The stone-fronted houses match the shops with their sturdiness and `built to last` qualities.

Caption For Wainfleet, Market Place C1955

Back in the Market Place, the clock tower is an architecturally undistinguished brick structure with a stone plaque telling us that its foundation stone was laid on 26 January 1899.

Caption For Muker, Village 1896

The village of Muker, set toward the western end of the dale, dates back to 1274.

Caption For Dodington, The Hall 1929

Partly bare stone and partly whitewashed, and with numerous stone-mullioned windows, its cross passage is behind the two-storey porch.

Caption For Muker, Village 1896

The village of Muker, set toward the western end of the dale, dates back to 1274.

Caption For Waddington, Church 1899

Stone from Waddington Fell was used to rebuild the church of St Helen in 1901.

Caption For Billesdon, Back Street C1955

At the southern end of Back Street, mud walls survive opposite the 17th-century Old School building, and the turn-of-the-century Stone House displays the builder's artful use of a cheaper brick shell adorned

Caption For Stonehenge, 1887

Stonehenge is the most well- known stone circle in the world.

Caption For Lincoln, Guildhall 1890

Through Stone Bow we look back across the setts to its rear, with the High Street stretching away into the distance through the archway.

Caption For Horsforth, Mechanics Institute 1901

This building is still standing in Town Street, and was built in the early 1880s in local stone quarried at Golden Bank.

Caption For Horsforth, Mechanics Institute 1901

This building is still standing in Town Street, and was built in the early 1880s in local stone quarried at Golden Bank.

Caption For Lower Swell, The Village C1955

The stone flaming urn of the war memorial, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, holds centre stage at the crossroads in this attractive village built exclusively in the native Cotswold stone.

Caption For East Grinstead, College Lane 1907

Founded in 1609 by Robert Sackville, Earl of Dorset, as almshouses for twenty-one poor men and ten poor women, it was completed in 1619 in the local sandstone and is set back from the High Street.

Caption For Mansfield, Toothill Lane C1950

Going back under the railway viaduct, we ascend Toothill Lane to its junction with Leeming Street, which crosses the foreground.

Caption For Hungerford, The Church And Canal C1955

Records show that St Lawrence stands on the site of a Christian church dating back to at least 1108.

Caption For Caldecott, The Green C1955

Caldecott is situated in the rural Welland Valley; its origins go back to Roman times.

Caption For Walsingham, The Old Pump 1922

This old dome-shaped weather-beaten pump dates back to medieval times, and is situated at an important junction in the middle of this historic town.

Caption For Garstang, High Street C1960

The weekly market which dates back centuries is held every Thursday.