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AN UNAPPRECIATED HISTORY
When you grow up in an ancient city such as Hereford and have really no other frame of reference you don't fully grasp the enormity of the depth of history that buildings such as Hereford Cathedral embodied. The Romans built this city !!! The Romans !! To European kids this 2000 year old history is everyday to them. I think you have to get away from it to be able to take it all in and my 40+ years in Canada and the USA gave me that perspective.
I wept in awe and wonder at my country's rich history when I took my two late teen kis with me to Westminster Abbey in 2001.
Back then, when ...read more here
A memory of Hereford contributed by DYLAN RIVIS
THE FUN FAIR
I don't know if they still do it but in the mid 1950's filled the entire Broad Street/High Street and surrounding streets were transformed into one gigantic bright, noisy, whirling, smelly and absolutely thrilling funfair!!
Merry-go-rounds and all manner of great carny rides, loaded with screaming kids and flashing hundreds of blinking lights,wind up horse racing, coconut shies and ring tosses, roll the penny, try to get the pingpong ball into the goldfish bowl, candy floss stalls...you name it..to us kids it was awesome !!
'Ere y'ar luv...Roll up..roll up...roll up...rollarollaroll a penny a pitch ! I can hear them calling now !
A memory of Hereford contributed by DYLAN RIVIS
A MODERN INTRUSION
When I first returned to Hereford from Canada in 1979, after a 20 year absence, I was shocked to see the new modern designed Greyfriars Bridge crossing the river not far from the almost 2000 year old Roman Bridge.
On the left bank and back behind the photographer's position was the boat house where I used to, briefly, cox my Hereford High School house's rowing 'eight' . I didn't last that long because I almost scuttled us by nearly steering us into the railway bridge's abutments, further back up the river next to the High School sports fields where I also , much to my disgust, had to endure the ignominities of rugby !!
We used to spend a ...read more here
A memory of Hereford contributed by DYLAN RIVIS
I WITNESS THE AFTERMATH OF A TRAGEDY
Around 1957 I was walking around High Street, enjoying a meander from my route home to Bradbury Lines when I saw the wife of an officer from the Army Camp in great distress with some policemen outside the grocery shop...I believe it was a Sainsbury's on the near left hand side.
She had left her small baby in the pram outside the shop while she went inside to shop ..in those days this would not have involved the kinds of risks that it would today..at least it shouldn't have !
Something about the scene told me that something had happened to her baby and I went home and told my step parents what my thought was. Since they considered ...read more here
A memory of Hereford contributed by DYLAN RIVIS
Extracts From Grafton & Herefordshire books
Compare this
charming rural scene
with the photograph
taken in 1924 on
An extract from from"Worcester - A History and Celebration".
Within the vestry of the abbey at the south-west end are stained glass windows dating from 1928. They commemorate St Peter
and St Paul and four historical characters linked with Malmesbury`s past: Maildulph, St Aldhelm, William of Malmesbury, and
the monk Eilmer, whose at flight in the 11th century is recorded by the historian William of Malmesbury.
An extract from from"Worcester - A History and Celebration".
The war memorial
is built on the site of
the old weighbridge,
and was dedicated in
a ceremony held in
1921. The van parked
by the Gothic-style
Methodist church
(left) belongs to
W Redman & Sons,
the butchers, whose
premises are next
door to G H Handy, a
tobacconist`s, which
was once Westport
Post Office. The sign
over the shop front
by the window is
advertising cigarettes.
The premises returned
to being a sub-post
office in 1996.
An extract from from"Worcester - A History and Celebration".
An extract from from"Worcester - A History and Celebration".
This fine photograph of
Malmesbury Abbey was taken
from the north, with the abbey
mill buildings below. Just
below the abbey we can see the
extensive orchard which has now
become the Cloister Gardens.
Flowing under the charming
bridge in the foreground is the
River Avon; this tributary is
called the Tetbury Avon (it is also
known as the Newnton River
or the River Ingleburne). The
Malmesbury Branch Railway line
is situated to the east of the river
- the GWR eventually opened
this line, which was linked to the
Dauntsey Railway, in December
1877. Dauntsey station was
opened c1868.
An extract from from"Worcester - A History and Celebration".