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Ledsham Court, St Leonards, Sussex ...Great Memories! By John Franks, (Ex Rascal Boarder).

Well, I would like to bring a little history of our wonderful school in St Leonards back to life with the real colour and warmth of the time when I was there in the early ...Read more

A memory of Great Parndon by John Franks

Architectural Notes

As a former resident of Bath I recall that this building was not particularly liked. In 1959 the hotel was demolished and a block of 33 flats at 1st, 2nd and 3rd floor level with shops at the ground floor was built. The quality of ...Read more

A memory of Bath by Claire Allen

Joan The Wad

I have bought Joan the Wad Cornish pickles at the Abbey and caught a trout in the river that runs in front of it. I was evacuated to the village in the war to Church Town Farm with Mr and Mrs Greenway and there was a large monkey puzzle ...Read more

A memory of Lanivet in 1950 by John Angus

Happy Days

I remember happy childhood holidays at Talacre. We would stay in a wooden chalet belonging to a friend of my Dad's. He would pick us up in his Ford Anglia, my dad would sit in the front. Then Mum, my sister Annette and myself would sit in the ...Read more

A memory of Talacre by a.penty

The Great Children's Summer Garden Party

During the1950's, long before the introduction of Green Shield and other reward stamps, members of the Co-operative Society in the days before the Co-op as we know it today, earned tin coin cash money to the ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath by Bernard Schofield

Plamaston House

I was at palmaston house 1977 6mnths it was not the best place remember Mr Hall went to abbey wells summer of 1977 than in 1984 mr Hall become oiffce in charge

A memory of Romsey by Adrian Miles

Beanz Dreamz...

Our family moved to Friars Road in the summer of 66, from a damp house in Boothen Green, which looked over toward the Michelin Factory. I was 5 years old. My father Graham was a former art student at Burslem College of Art under the ...Read more

A memory of Abbey Hulton by Marc Thorley

Laleham Abbey

My sister Kathleen Taylor (former name) was cook in the kitchen for the retired old ladies. I was always staying with her during school holidays. Her husband then (now deceased) was Barry Taylor and they had two children, Sarah born ...Read more

A memory of Laleham in 1970 by Stuart Mitchell

St Albans Summer Holidays In The 1950s

A child from Thanet taking annual last week of August holidays with an adored great aunt at Chiswell Green, travelling by train to Victoria Station, London, taking the Greenline to ...Read more

A memory of Frogmore in 1953 by Sandra Dudley

The Pre Fab Years

I was born in Recreation Close - a tiny 1 bedroom maisonette at the bottom of Wide Way. My Grandparents lived in Greenwood Road just around the corner. In June 1944, during the Second World War, a doodle bug exploded on the shelter ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1940 by Patricia Sullivan

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Captions

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Caption For Malmesbury, The Abbey C1955

This pastoral scene includes the impressive Malmesbury Abbey on the skyline and abbey House, partly hidden behind the trees.

Caption For Whitby, Abbey 1901

The Abbey, the Parish Church, Abbey House and Church Stairs

Caption For Tavistock, Bedford Hotel 1893

The hotel was originally the Abbey House, but was converted to a hotel in 1822.

Caption For Bury St Edmunds, Angel Hill C1955

To the left are Abbey House, the 18th-century town house of the Davers family of Rushbrook, the Cathedral and St Mary's.

Caption For Bury St Edmunds, Angel Hill C1955

To the left are Abbey House, the Cathedral, the Norman tower and St Mary's.

Caption For Abingdon, Market Place 1890

The statue was presented to the town by Edwin James Trendell, who lived in Abbey House, and whose gardens occupied the site of the abbey church and monastic buildings.

Caption For Whitby, The Upper Harbour C1955

Directly above St Michael's Church (right) one can see Abbey House and the ruined shell of the classical banqueting hall built by Sir Hugh Cholmley in 1672, roofless since the 1790s; at the

Caption For Abingdon, Abbey Gardens, Trendell's Ruins C1945

Edwin James Trendell, who had presented the Queen Victoria statue to the town to commemorate her 1887 Golden Jubilee, lived in Abbey House, and laid out its grounds, Abbey Gardens, in the 1880s.

Caption For Whitby, East Cliff 1932

The donkeys have a long walk every day from their field just below the Abbey House, down the donkey path, along Church Street, over the bridge and down Pier Road to the sands.

Caption For Rosedale Abbey, The Green C1960

The small Cistercian abbey housing 10 nuns was formed in 1158.

Caption For Bisham, The Abbey 1893

Today, many know Bisham Abbey as the training ground of the England football team.

Caption For Kirkstall Abbey, The Ruins 1891

The abbey played a part in the industrial development of Leeds, for it was here that iron forging first began in the district.

Caption For Abingdon, The Cosener's House From The River 1893

Situated on the island between the river and the mill stream is the Cosenor's House, now mainly 18th- and 19th-century, but replacing a medieval building.

Caption For Reading, The Abbey, The Chapter House 1904

Reading's great Benedictine abbey, founded in 1121 and completed in 1164, was one of the grandest and richest abbeys in all England.

Caption For High Wycombe, The Abbey 1906

Originally Loakes Manor, a 17th-century manor house in grounds laid out by Capability Brown, the house was remodelled by James Wyatt in 1803 for the then Lord Carrington, acquiring the romantic

Caption For Pershore, From Avonbank 1931

A religious house was founded in Pershore in about 689.

Caption For Leicester, Cavendish House, Abbey Park C1955

This house of 1600 was built by Henry Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon, using stone robbed from the remains of Leicester Abbey; but it was to be reduced to a skeletal ruin by fire 45 years later.

Caption For Malmesbury, The Old Bell C1960

One was Castle House, whose owner, Joseph Moore, was licensee of The Old Bell and mayor of Malmesbury in 1894 and in 1909.

Caption For Uttoxeter, Cattle Market C1965

From the 12th century, the rearing of sheep for their wool became a major source of revenue for the monastic houses in the north of England.

Caption For Abingdon, Abbey Mill 1890

Abingdon Abbey was founded in 675 AD, and the town grew up at its gates.

Caption For Kirkstall Abbey, The Ruins 1891

Kirkstall Abbey was founded by Cistercian monks from Fountains Abbey and was financed by the landowner Sir Henry Lacy.

Caption For Bisham, The Abbey 1893

This splendid photograph shows Bisham Abbey overlooking a scenic stretch of the Thames.

Caption For Kirkstall Abbey, The Ruins 1891

The abbey played a part in the industrial development of Leeds, for it was here that iron forging first began in the district.

Caption For Kirkstall Abbey, 1891

The abbey played a part in the industrial development of Leeds, for it was here that iron forging first began in the district.