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Going To The Post Office, Atterburries And Salvation Army On Sunday

My memories are of going to Mr Atturberries (the spelling of name may be wrong) to buy sweets and also just next door I think was the Salvation Army Hall, which a lot of the village ...Read more

A memory of Sompting in 1961 by Linda Milburn

Hartfield In The Late 1920s

My friend Hannah Rooth (Nee Symonds) can remember living in Hartfield in the late 1920s and 1930s. She lived at Kilnwood, in Cotchford Lane, and was married in the church in 1937. She then lived in Paddock Cottage in the ...Read more

A memory of Hartfield in 1920 by Rosemary Bennett

Horton Kirby In The 1960's

I was born and brought up in Dartford but my aunt, Nora Hall, was housekeeper to Sir Edward Bligh and they had moved to Horton Kirby in 1961 from Swanley Village. Sir Edward took a ten-year lease upon the house that was ...Read more

A memory of Horton Kirby by Stuart Hall

Whymarks Of Little Cornard

Over 70 years ago, when I was about three or four years old, my parents and I would travel from Luton to see my maternal grandmother, Kate Whymark, who was the widow of Ernest Whymark. I never met Ernest, as he fell off ...Read more

A memory of Little Cornard by Maggie Reeves

The Anchor

I was born on the Anchor in 1941. The houses were set back from the road with rough patch of ground in front of them where Pat Collin's fair used to set up every year in the summer. From the canal bridge on the left was the pub, The Anchor ...Read more

A memory of Deepfields by Robert Leadbeater

Memories Remembered

Memories Remembered After reading Brian Keighley’s story of his memories in Lifton, my memories came flooding back and has prompted me to recall a few of my own. I was born in Lifton 18 months after my sister Jean in 1927 at Rock ...Read more

A memory of Lifton by geoffbailey29

Stowlangtoft Hall

Hi my name is Rita i don't remember much about my time at the hall as I was only 7months old in 1957 when we arrived Luckily my sister Maria Attard and brother Dominic Attard were a bit older, my sister was 3 years old and brother ...Read more

A memory of Stowlangtoft by Rita Croston

Water From The Graveyard.

As a family we stayed at a self catering cottage here just before 1962 one of our first holidays in the Standard Vanguard estate after many staying in Railway Camping coaches all over southern England. [Sadly none feature in ...Read more

A memory of Puncknowle by Chris Scott

Alma Friston Nee Oldfield

I was born in Smeeton on April 23rd 1935. I remember staying with a Mr and Mrs Webb. As you approached Smeeton there were cottages on the left hand side, we stayed in the last one next to a lane. The cows came up this ...Read more

A memory of Smeeton Westerby in 1945 by Alma Friston

Thame Cottage Portmellon

I was born in 1975 and spent nearly every birthday until I was 16 years old at Thame Cottage, Portmellon with my Mum, Dad, younger Brother, Uncle, Auntie and 3 cousins. One day, when I have my own children, I hope to take ...Read more

A memory of Portmellon by Elizabeth Collier

Captions

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Caption For Alton, Crown Close 1897

From left to right, they are the Mechanics' Institute and Museum, the Cottage Hospital and the Assembly Rooms.

Caption For Rodborough, Common, The Bear Hotel 1925

Just visible on the left is the roof of Beech Cottage, by 1927 owned by Sidney Howard Smith.

Caption For Chipping, Talbot Street C1955

In the 18th century, fast flowing streams powered a variety of mills around the village, and many of its cottages date from this period, built to house an expanding work force.

Caption For Scarborough, South Bay From Harbour 1897

There were once cottages on this site, and on 24 May 1849, Anne and Charlotte Bronte arrived to stay in one of the cottages for a holiday.

Caption For Rickinghall, The Street C1955

Opposite, Bell Cottage and Wall Cottage are virtually unchanged.

Caption For Netherbury, Village 1902

North-eastwards from Japonica Cottage, housing the Post Office (left), the photographer centres on the 1839-built Congregational Chapel.

Caption For Netherbury, Village 1902

North-eastwards from Japonica Cottage, housing the Post Office (left), the photographer centres on the 1839-built Congregational Chapel.

Caption For Nantwich, Welsh Row, Old Cottages 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 Blewbury, London Road C1955

Felixstowe Cottage, on the left, is now called Above Town Cottage, and the taller timber-framed house on the right is known as The Downs House.

Caption For Ducklington, The Village C1950

A solitary ladies' bicycle stands against the wall of an ivy-adorned cottage.

Caption For Norton St Philip, From The Church Tower C1960

The 17th-century gable-fronted cottage on the right is one of several Cotswold-style cottages in the village.

Caption For Metfield, The Village Street C1960

The group of cottages on the right, now called Honeymoon Row, have had many subsequent changes made to the roofline and dormer windows.

Caption For New Mill, The Village C1955

The mill was built as a corn mill, and mill workers' cottages grew up along the Tringford Road, complete with an 1870s elementary school.

Caption For Sawbridgeworth, Knight Street 1903

This view shows a varied mixture of buildings in the central part of this small village, with a tiled dormer-windowed cottage and a weather-boarded two storey house on the left, while on the right stands

Caption For Marchwood, Magazine Lane C1965

These redbrick cottages have defied the march of time and today look much as they did in the mid 1960s.

Caption For Axminster, Castle Hill 1902

The cottages on the right have survived, although they are much altered.

Caption For Billingshurst, The Village 1928

The middle property is Tithe Cottage.

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 Polperro, An Old Smugglers Cottage 1924

Polperro's cottages, many slate-hung and with outside stone staircases, seem to grow out of the very rock, and the town has been poetically described as 'a human bees' nest stowed away in a cranny of the

Caption For Accrington, Cottage Hospital 1899

The need for Cottage Hospitals was great a century ago, but with the advent of more advanced equipment and specialised nursing, these cottage hospitals, like the isolation hospitals, closed down.

Caption For Appleton Wiske, The Village, West Side C1955

Today modern houses have replaced a number of the terraced cottages, but the three on the right still stand.

Caption For Abingdon, Abbey Mill 1890

The unusual 13th-century gabled chimney of the Checker (or Exchequer) building can be seen behind the old stone cottages in Thames Street.

Caption For St Clement, Church And Cottages 1890

This is a most attractive hamlet of thatched cottages not far from Truro.

Caption For South Moreton, High Street C1965

The thatched, timber-framed cottages we see on the right date from the 17th century.