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Children's Convalescent Home Charnwood Forest 1949
I was three years old when I went to Charnwood Forest for four weeks to convalesce in late spring 1949. I was recovering from pleurisy and pneumonia. My parents didn't have a car so I was ...Read more
A memory of Woodhouse Eaves
We Called It 'charnwood Forest'.
My memories of the home are all very positive. I would have been 6 yrs old, and recovering from pneumonia. Coming from the Children's Hospital in Derby, the drive over was memorable. A big black car, very special. ...Read more
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Hyders Bungalow Charlwood Road
Trying to find information about Hyders bungalow, Dorothy & Charles lived there in the early 1940's. Any information would be extremely grateful. Yvonne Green
A memory of Lowfield Heath in 1940 by
Charlwood Brickyard
The James family moved to Charlwood for London in 1964 into the house next door to the brickyard. This was supposed to have been built by Mr Dearn from bricks made in the actual brickyard. The ponds were called the Raft pond, ...Read more
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The Brickyard Charlwood
I lived at Lowfield Park Lodge on the Charlwood Road (from the long-disappeared Lowfield Heath) from about 1950 to 1962, and I believe the house was demolished around 1965(???) to make way for the expansion of Gatwick ...Read more
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The Creasey Family At Worth, West Sussex
My great-grandmother's family were farmers in Worth, and nearby Copthorne and Charlwood in the mid-nineteenth century. Great-grandma was Eliza Creasey and she married great-grandad George Allen in the chapel at ...Read more
A memory of Worth in 1860 by
Little Foxes Hotel Charlwood Road Ifield Wood
I have been working at the above bed and breakfast for a number of years and am often asked by guests what was here originally. Is there any one out there that remembers the original building? I ...Read more
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Charlwood Garage The Old Forge
We lived in a 400 year old cottage at the back of The Old Forge, later Charlwood Garage. My brother was born in the cottage in October 1965. I am trying to locate any photographs of the old house behind the forge or ...Read more
A memory of Charlwood in 1965
Roecliffe Manor Or Charnwood?
I think this was the convalescent home I was sent to in 1947 when I was 5 years old. My family referred to it as "Charnwood" which is confusing me. The picture is vaguely familiar.though. I was very unhappy there ...Read more
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Charnwood Forest Children's Convalescent Home, Summer 1950
It was July/August of 1950 when I was sent here from my home town of Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent at the age of eight, to convalesce after a serious post-operative infection. My first ...Read more
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Captions
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Place Farm 1904 Further east, the photographer looks eastward along Charlwood Lane, with the lane towards Ifield on the right.
Charlwood House was the home of Nicholas Sander, a scholar and talker, who was a Roman Catholic conspirator against Queen Elizabeth I.
The photograph shows Charlwood Stores, whose sign reads 'T Watts, Grocer, Draper, Baker and Confectioner'.
Charlwood was in Surrey until the 1970s administrative boundary changes.
The historic core of Charlwood is to the west of the view seen in photograph No 54172, by the medieval parish church of St Nicholas which was restored by William Burgess in 1858.
The house to the left is an 1850s villa named Charlwood House, not to be confused with the 15th-century timber-framed one south of Gatwick Airport's perimeter fence.
The whole of Charlwood parish, formerly in Surrey, was annexed to Sussex for some years prior to 1974, and the southern part of the parish remains in Sussex.
Charnwood Forest, the Children's Convalescent Home
Barrow-upon-Soar lies next to Charnwood Forest amongst fine water meadows.
Whitwick is a mining village, and is set amid some of the best scenery of Charnwood Forest.
Set in the heart of Charnwood Forest, this pretty village was a favourite destination for Edwardian trippers, and features on many postcards.
In this view, almost unchanged today, we can see the essence of a typical Charnwood village.
The reservoir was created in 1896; it is one of four 19th-century artificial lakes in Charnwood Forest - the others are Thornton (1854), Cropston (1870) and Blackbrook (1906), all man-made
The reservoir was created in 1896; it is one of four 19th-century artificial lakes in Charnwood Forest - the others are Thornton (1854), Cropston (1870) and Blackbrook (1906), all man-made
The view shows the centre of Anstey, as the road drops down from the heights of Bradgate Park, enclosed out of Charnwood Forest c1200 as a hunting park.
Bradgate, a park of 820 acres, was enclosed out of Charnwood Forest in c1200 as a hunting park, and it did indeed produce very fine venison.
Situated in the forest of Charnwood, which was probably uninhabited prior to 1086, Woodhouse Eaves, with its close neighbour Swithland, is associated with the vast output of slate during the 18th
If one has time to glance westward, the castle is just visible from the M1 motorway as it heads northward into the Charnwood Forest.
