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Pinehurst Childrens Home Park Rd Camberley

Memories of Camberley come from my childhood days as an orphan residing at 'Pinehurst', a Surrey County Child Welfare Home 1949-1953. I was put there as a 9-year-old and recall spending a very happy ...Read more

A memory of Pinehurst in 1949 by David Share

Happy Times

I lived not very far from Beaumont park and as a child I used to go there along with friends, my sister or my brother, I remember the huge slide that was there and the long metal rocking horse that was on the field. The park was ...Read more

A memory of Huddersfield in 1973 by Jayne Harris

Orange Hill Girls Grammar School

After passing the 11+ at St Johns School, Milton Road, West Hendon, I attended Orange Hill from 1947. I had quite a journey, having to take the trolleybus along the Edgware Road then a walk down the Watling ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak by Ann Midson

Boyhood Memories

I was born in 89 Abbot Street, just off Sunderland Road, in 1932, then we moved to the Gateshead end of Redheugh Bridge. When the Second World War started we moved to 20 Brussel Street. The Davidson family lived in the flat ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead in 1940 by Allen Flynn

Things I Remember

Greenford market, that's where the buses terminated. If you were quick you could jump off the back of a bus at the corner when it turned into Windmill Lane, that way if the bus was going further than the market it saved you ...Read more

A memory of Greenford in 1975 by Terry Tomlinson

Bramley In The Years 1935 To 1941

Now 80 years of age I used to live with my Mum and Dad and brother Michael in Lincroft Crescent just above the Sandford estate. The houses were new and rather small though we were so happy ...Read more

A memory of Bramley in 1930 by Lynden Flint

My Youger Days

Hello, I lived on Hadleigh Road & I went to Boxford school from age 7 until 11 plus, Mr Sore was Headmaster who lived in the village in Riverside house. The village hall opposite the school was where I would go to have my lunch ...Read more

A memory of Boxford in 1956 by Audrey Pamplin

My Childhood Garden Part I

My mother has often said to me "You don't appreciate what you've got until you lose it". She is wrong, for I will never forget the wonderful garden of my childhood and write below the memories that I will hold for ...Read more

A memory of Shamley Green in 1954 by Patricia Clarke

Childhood In Benham Valence

It was in April 1950 that I was born in the Victorian wing of Benham Valence - actually in the flat above the garages - a very primitive dwelling with no bathroom or indoor toilet. Unfortunately the whole wing was ...Read more

A memory of Benham Park in 1950 by Nicolette Craggs

Mendleson Wrote His Spring Song In The House.

With Denmark Hill and about level with the Old Henly's garage behind you was a house within the ruins with a metal sign. It stated that during his stay here, Mendleson wrote his 'Spring Song' here. ...Read more

A memory of Camberwell by Terry Chappell Seal

Captions

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Caption For Manorbier, The Castle C1960

Looking from the southern headland back towards the castle, one can imagine the mill pond that existed in Giraldus Cambrensis' time located in the flat area to the right of the castle; in

Caption For Sudbury, Market Hill And St Peter's C1955

The market is now filled with parked cars, vans, lorries and buses, with at least seven traffic signs in sight.

Caption For Wimborne, High Street C1955

The car park indicated at the corner of Mill Lane (left) was on the site now occupied by Safeways.

Caption For Holton, The Village C1960

The post mill is dated 1752.

Caption For Congleton, The Cloud And Timbersbrook C1950

The houses shown here are part of the tiny village of Timbersbrook.

Caption For Botley, The Square C1955

There is a car park to the right, and traffic lights with a pedestrian crossing where the buses are in this photograph.

Caption For Leigh, The Cross C1955

The village shop (right) was run by Pamela and Peter Mills, and his green Standard van is parked outside.

Caption For Piddlehinton, The Village C1955

The village shop (right) was run by Pamela and Peter Mills, and his green Standard van is parked outside.

Caption For Maidenhead, Ray Park Avenue 1911

Ray Park Avenue was one of the first roads laid out and has some houses of the 1870s.

Caption For Hadleigh, The River Bret 1922

Suddenly it flared up again, and despite the efforts of the brigade, all was in vain and the mill was destroyed.

Caption For Rickmansworth, Mill End Church 1897

The hamlet of Mill End, about a mile west of the centre of Rickmansworth, grew up along the main road to Uxbridge to serve a watermill and factories.

Caption For Shipley, The Glen 1921

A former drovers' track took trade over the hills to Ilkley and Otley.

Caption For Shipley, The Glen 1921

A former drovers' track took trade over the hills to Ilkley and Otley.

Caption For Sutton Courtenay, Church Street C1955

There is a good range of timber-framed houses on both sides, and in the distance are the walled grounds, more of a small park, of Mill House on the Appleford Road.

Caption For Westbury, Composite C1965

More recently light engineering and commercial enterprises have become part of the business park developments.

Caption For Whitworth, St Anslem Roman Catholic Church C1950

We are looking south-west from the Memorial Park; John Street and St Anselm`s Church and school are behind Market Street.

Caption For Rochdale, Hollingworth Lake 1892

The 104 acres of the lake are only 3 miles from Rochdale cen- tre and were a popular rendezvous by the mid 1860s.

Caption For Thorp Arch, Church 1893

The pretty village of Thorp Arch with its green, Manor House and old mill leads down to the banks of the Wharfe, with the bridge (1772) carrying the road to Boston Spa.

Caption For Wilmslow, St Bartholomew's Church, South West 1896

inherited the land and, in the 15th century, the two Venables heiresses each took their half of the estates to their husband's family, the Booths of Dunham Massey and the Traffords of Trafford Park

Caption For Nether Alderley, Church 1896

It still has an ancient church, a working mill and a collection of farmhouses along roads and lanes that have changed very little in the last 200 years.

Caption For Accrington, The Haworth Art Gallery C1945

Hollins Hill was built in 1909 by William Haworth, as a home for himself and his sister Anne.

Caption For St Neots, Poppyfields 2005

Another important aspect of this development is a new park, and this forms part of a wider vision to improve access to, and the environment of, the whole of the green wedge that runs through the

Caption For Preston, Miller Park 1893

Alderman T Miller presented the land for the park (11 acres) in 1864.

Caption For Sheffield, Sheffield Midland Station And Park Hill C1965

The Park Hill estate towers above Sheffield Midland station.