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Post Office

Post Office and shop on the left. Mrs. Cornwall was the Postmistress. On the right is a lovely tree next to the Blacksmith's cottage, which was cut down for a new house later on. Lovely empty street here. Wonder who the child is?

A memory of Wilburton by Sandra Shaw

Memories From My Father Rod Dean

This is what Dad had to say when I emailed him this site and the photos from 1955. Dad lived in Oakley from childhood until 1987, when as a family we moved to Adelaide Australia. I myself lived in the village from ...Read more

A memory of Oakley in 1955 by Gary Dean

My Memories Teresa Shackell/ Torrington.

I'm Teresa Shackell/Torrington I remember very well my nana used to work washing the dishes and I used to go regularly over to the three salmons hotel and help her she was in her 90s then she never gave up her little ...Read more

A memory of Usk by teresashackell

Coronation Day In Shillingstone Plus Other Memories

I can remember Coronation Day in Shillingstone, the weather was not settled and there were showers, I can remember watching the crowning of the Queen on a TV which was in Mrs Fudge's house at ...Read more

A memory of Shillingstone in 1953 by Brian Newman

Annual Visit

My parents, Fred & Marjorie La Touche, always took us to visit our great aunt & uncle Curtis,who lived at Cottage of Content in Harris Barton.At one time this was a pub, (perhaps someone has a photo of it ) but then it ...Read more

A memory of Frampton Cotterell in 1945 by Rose Perry

Top End Of High Street

The shop at the top left (now the Kebab Shop) was, I think, Wards the Greengrocers, the second shop down was Graingers a card and toy shop, later a pet shop (now Pendley Estate Agents).  (Thanks to Rodney Grainger for the ...Read more

A memory of Bovingdon by Anne Broomhead

Former Gardener Of Checkendon Court.

I started working for Sir Nigel Broackes at Checkendon Court, in June of 1999, and was a Gardener through the turn of the Century. I was working for the Court for thirteen years, until the owner decided that ...Read more

A memory of Checkendon Court by Peter Eccleston

Grouse Beating

As a student I spent 3 seasons working as a beater on Lord Sopwiths estate. I first worked a few days during a holiday with family friends called Rita and Albert Sparks who had holidayed in Arkengarthdale for many years. The ...Read more

A memory of Arkengarthdale in 1960 by Roy Loudon

Home Memories.

I moved into these cottages with my family in 1935 and my parents were there until 1959. Originally it was a barn hence the name 'Barn Row' and was converted into cottages in 1836 as marked in the brickwork on the other side ...Read more

A memory of Paglesham Churchend in 1930 by Claire Allen

Holidays At The Lock Keeper's Cottage

My family and I, Ernest Aspey, regularly holidayed here in the early 1950s as my grandfather, Henry Slaughter, was the Assistant Lock-keeper at the time. This photo is significant to me as I was led to believe ...Read more

A memory of Old Windsor in 1952 by Kate Hill

Captions

2,020 captions found. Showing results 217 to 240.

Caption For Linton, High Street C1955

Chaundlers, with multiple gables (left), now divided into cottages, is the oldest timber-framed building in Linton.

Caption For Warrington, Church Street 1894

However, popular history associates these Tudor cottages on the corner of Eldon Street with Cromwell's visit to Warrington in 1648 whilst pursuing the Scottish army.

Caption For Oving, The Village C1955

Here we see Magpie Cottage, a fine 17th-century timber- framed thatched cottage with whitewashed infill panels, hence the name, presumably.

Caption For Sleaford, West Banks C1955

This view looks east along West Banks, with its numerous small bridges, to the mainly late Victorian artisan cottages (some are dated 1901).

Caption For Cheddar, The Thomas Family Outside Their Cottage 1908

The Village 1908 Of the houses and cottages in this view, only the slate- roofed row with the chimney smoke survives.

Caption For Middleton One Row, Devonport Hotel C1955

Before the arrival of the railway, Middleton One Row was aptly named; it consisted of just one row of Georgian cottages.

Caption For Althorne, Main Road C1955

The weatherboarded cottages nearby are known as Black Lion Cottages.

Caption For East Grinstead, London Road 1890

On the left is the Literary and Scientific Institute (1888- 1937), next to which are three old cottages called Rock Gardens.

Caption For Foxton, The Grand Union Canal C1960

The lock-keepers' cottages served the flight on the section known as the Leicester Line.

Caption For Beddgelert, The Village 1933

On the left is Bwthyn Llewelyn (Llewelyn Cottage); its signboard says that it caters for the Cyclists' Touring Club, the National Union and the Clarion Clubs.

Caption For Pentre Halkyn, The Square 1936

Only the central rump of this row of cottages survives today in the village, and is barely recognizable from the photograph.

Caption For Crantock, The Church 1904

Churchgate Cottage is the neat white building in the centre, but behind it near the lychgate we can see a roofless cottage, now at the end of the Old Albion Inn.

Caption For Great Bardfield, Brook Street C1965

The thatched roof at the left-hand road junction belongs to Serjeant Bendlowes`s Cottage.

Caption For Newnham, The Cottage C1955

The Cottage, as it is known, was built on the site of three cottages by the owner of the adjacent house.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Parade From East 1907

The buildings (right) include the Alcove Hotel, semi-detached Sunnybank, Library Cottage and Sundial Cottage (centre).

Caption For Milborne Port, The Village 1953

The cottages on the right remain, but the right-hand one, Vine Cottage, has had its render removed and badly- proportioned stained-glass windows inserted.

Caption For Yetminster, View From Tarks Hill C1960

The gable-end (left) is thatched St Francis Cottage, and the brick, stone and tile cottages are Brookdale and No 5 (right).

Caption For Great Eccleston, Raikes Road C1965

Raikes Road had many thatched dwellings; as late as 1961, when alterations were afoot, one cottage proved to be a Fylde cruck-built cottage with clay and straw walls from the 16th century.

Caption For Osmington, The Bay, Chalet Centre C1960

Increasingly wooded these days, the valley also hides the old coastguard cottages and the replacement coastguard cottages.

Caption For Parham, Village 1929

A group of children stand by a 19th-century cottage now called White Gates.

Caption For Puncknowle, The Watercart 1939

Looking east from the western end of the village, we can see the road junction beside what has become a single Burwell Cottage (centre).

Caption For West Hanney, Eddins Pond C1955

The pond has been filled in, but Rose Cottage, the 17th-century timber- framed thatched cottage remains.

Caption For Richmond, The Hospital 1913

Rose Cottage (left), a handsome Gothick Revival villa on the corner of Queens Road and Quaker Lane, was extended and converted into the Victoria Cottage Hospital in 1899.

Caption For Hemingford Abbots, Village C1955

Around the green are the older thatched cottages and (right) one partly thatched and slated farmhouse that has been extended on either side into two cottage rows.