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Mining My Archive

At the age of ten, my father moved me and the rest of the family from Low Fell to Esh Winning, without consulting any of us, including my mother. He had bought a tumble-down holiday cottage, situated between the pit-heap and the ...Read more

A memory of Esh Winning by David Woodhead

Bryn Ddol 1942

Hi folks. I'm posting this as I have a photo, ( Don't know how to up-load it on here), of Bryn Ddol farm/cottage, photo taken in the 1940's. This is where my late husband's nana lived. My late husband gave me the photo as a ...Read more

A memory of Bryn Ddol by Carol Williams

Halcyon Days In The 1950s

What fantastic days they were, despite the hardship. We were a family of 9 Seven children Allan Joy,twins Michael and David, myself Sam and a second set of twins Kathryn and Brian I too remember Mrs Greys shop, also ...Read more

A memory of Wrottesley Park in 1955 by Sam Woolley

Childhood

Having just stumbled across this website and viewed the photographs, I immediately went into nostalgia mode. I was born in Alrewas in 1938 in one of the small cottages in Main Street just down from Mansell's bridge, and then moved to The Old ...Read more

A memory of Alrewas in 1940 by Anthony Venables

Life In Full Circle

The little house next to Mary Newman`s Cottage is where I live now...but I first walked past it with my mother at about the time this photo was taken. We got off the steam train at the station just up the hill, to walk to the ...Read more

A memory of Saltash in 1955 by Steve Fuller

My Home

I lived in the cottage at the right hand end of this picture, from 1987 to 1999, it made us sad when we had to leave.

A memory of Buck's Mills in 1987 by Michael Cornell

Eastry Childrens Home

I had a wonderful upbringing ‘up the hill’ from Buttshole pond… 1958 - 1966 I was raised in one of the seven cottages- mine was Lime Cottage. My matron was Mrs. Aunty Betty Harris- who had a daughter, ...Read more

A memory of Eastry by John Boston

Beginnings

My parents moved from Pentire to Crantock when I was about 3 and Crantock is certainly ingrained in my memory as being my first home. My mother had taken a position as housekeeper to a Dr Nicholas and with it came Rose Cottage. My father ...Read more

A memory of Crantock by Dianne Christopher

Croglin 1958

When my husband and I married in March 1958, he bought the cottage nearest the camera on the left; no electricity, no bathroom......it cost the  princely sum of £300! The building at the end of the street is the pub, and behind the trees ...Read more

A memory of Croglin by Kate Walker

Fishing

This is the Fish Pond at Holden Corner, Southborough. This was one of the two accessible and popular places for boys to go fishing in Southborough - the other was the Great Bounds Lake, near Bidborough. As a boy in the 1940s and early 50s ...Read more

A memory of Southborough in 1940 by Michael Willcocks

Captions

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Caption For East Lulworth, The Village 1904

Ivy-covered Littlemore Cottage (left) stands beside the stream from Water Barrows; gritty heathstone- walled 17th-century Cockles Cottage is on the right.

Caption For Chiddingly, Muddles Green C1955

Half a mile south of the hamlet with the parish church and Chiddingly Place is another small hamlet, Muddles Green, where cottages fringe a small green.

Caption For East Clandon, The Village C1955

The village has many attractive timber- framed and brick houses and cottages, now kept in immaculate order; these include Bay Tree Cottage on the left and Church Cottage on the right, which

Caption For Seatown, Anchor Inn 1930

Behind the Anchor Inn (left) are Seatown Farm and the black-painted coastguard cottages (centre), with veranda- fronted Seatown Cottage to the north (right).

Caption For Ranworth, Approach To The Broad C1955

A brick-built cottage on the lane leading to the broad has an unusual herringbone pattern on the ridge of its thatched roof.

Caption For Alrewas, The Village C1965

Here we see the black and white cottages of 'Churchside' with their thatched roofs, and the tower of All Saints', dating from the 14th century.

Caption For Achill Island, A Cottage In Keel C1955

Another scene typical of western Ireland: thatched cottage, hens scratching for food and an island woman with her shawl.

Caption For Flatford, Bridge Cottage 1907

This thatched cottage is called, appropriately enough, Bridge Cottage.

Caption For Hanmer, Village C1955

A number of late medieval timber-framed thatched cottages remain, such as the one shown here; Magpie Cottage was, and is, a much photographed symbol of the village.

Caption For Somerleyton, The Green C1955

Sir Samuel Morton Peto, the developer of Lowestoft, built these model cottages for his estate workers.

Caption For Blackpool, South Shore 1901

Freshly boiled shrimps were sold in the cottages at South Shore—the visitors loved sea food—but supplies were dwindling by the 1920s.

Caption For Higher Bockhampton, Thomas Hardy's Birthplace C1955

Thomas Hardy, poet and novelist, was born in this cottage in 1840, writing his first few novels sitting on the window ledge of the upstairs right-hand room.

Caption For Broughton, Woodplumpton Lane 1966

The fine modern houses are a world away from the ancient stocks outside Broughton churchyard, 18th-century Toll Bar Cottage, Pinfold Cottage or the smithy where the Mercer family used to shoe horses.

Caption For Nantwich, Basin End, Shropshire Union Canal C1965

This building is now slightly shorter, and has been restored as a single cottage rather than the row of up to four dwellings pictured here.

Caption For Sonning, Village 1904

Sonning includes many Georgian houses and timber-framed cottages.

Caption For Broad Hinton, The Post Office C1945

This is Post Office Lane, and the village post office was located in the cottage on the left for many years up until 1966.

Caption For Bibury, Arlington Row C1960

One of the most picturesque - and most photographed - groups of cottages in the Cotswolds, Arlington Row's first function was as a barn.

Caption For Netherbury, The Village C1955

Star Cottages (right of centre) are now Gemini Cottages.

Caption For Langton, Post Office And Village C1960

The cottages of Langton, near Malton, still cluster around the village green, as they did when this photograph was taken.

Caption For Minehead, Quay Street 1906

Many of the cottages lining Quay Street, which leads below North Hill to the harbour, belonged to fishermen who once sailed after herring.

Caption For Little Baddow, The Thatched Cottage, Riffhams Chase 1903

It was barred from the outside world by a gate - seen here beside the Thatched Cottage.

Caption For Coltishall, On The Banks Of The Bure 1902

This photograph shows reeds growing at the edge of a broad, with the cut stalks stacked by the cottage.

Caption For Alton, The Butts C1965

Historically, these thatched cottages were in Chawton, but they became part of Alton in the early 1930s.

Caption For Accrington, Cottage Hospital 1899

In January 1894, Accrington Corporation passed a resolution to establish a cottage hospital for Accrington and district.