Places
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Memories
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Living In Chilton
My family moved to Chilton Foliat and took over the "Old Post Office". I was still young then and went to the old school run by Mr & Mrs Hassall who lived next door to the school. Two classrooms and very fond memories. At ...Read more
A memory of Chilton Foliat in 1964 by
Born And Bred
Born in Ablington just after the war we moved to Avon Banks, where I lived until married in 1970. My mother's father, mother and brothers (Fenners) all lived in Figheldean. Having read other peoples memories it brought back probably the most enjoyable part of my youth.
A memory of Figheldean in 1951 by
Military Parachuting At Watchfield
I was in the RAF at Abingdon on two different postings during 1963/4 and 1967/69 and very often did detachments to the Parachute training school drop zone at Weston on the Green as the aircraft controller. In ...Read more
A memory of Watchfield by
46 Bridge Road, Cove
46 Bridge Road at Cove is very significant to me because I was born in Bridge Road, no 46, on 29th June 1943, in the photo of Bridge Road it is the second house on the left, opposite Cove Supply Stores, so I'm sure my mother would ...Read more
A memory of Cove in 1943 by
Binbrook, The Holiday And Life.
Onwards and upwards through the years, I had an aunty and grandmother who lived there. Ending up at No2 Mount pleasant after living in Low Lane. Lilly and Bill Stone, parents of my mother Jaqueline Stone (now Stevens). ...Read more
A memory of Binbrook in 1956 by
The Raf Estate
We lived on the RAF estate in Ickenham during the late 1950s, in a semi-detached house at 14 Nettleton Road. Every RAF home mirrored the next; their furnishings were also identical. You could move from Scotland to England (which we had ...Read more
A memory of Ickenham in 1957 by
School Holidays At Abington Park
I was born in 1951 in Lutterworth Road, Northampton just a 5 minutes' walk from one of the most beautiful parks in the country - Abington Park. Originally part of the Wantage family estate, it boasted a museum ...Read more
A memory of Little Billing in 1959 by
Edmund Not Alban
This photograph is of St Edmund Hall, affectionately known as 'Teddy Hall', which by common consent is the oldest seat of learning in the University of Oxford. Founded in the early 13th century by St Edmund of Abingdon, who lectured in ...Read more
A memory of Oxford in 1973 by
The River
The River Avon dominated most of the kids' lives in the village! I remember swimming 'down the mill' and at Gunville where my Great Grandmother (Sarah Marks) lived. We used to scrounge used inner tyre tubes from Mr Stansfield (who ...Read more
A memory of Figheldean in 1957 by
2nd Airborne Company Raoc
Hi I was at Arnhem camp in 1958/59. This was where the heavy drop platforms were rigged with Landrover+trailer, before being transported to Abingdon airfield. There they would be loaded into a Beverly aircraft (with the ...Read more
A memory of Watchfield in 1958 by
Captions
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Little Abington village faces Great Abington across the River Granta and the water meadows.
On the corner of East Street two women talk to each other outside the bespoke tailors E Abington & Sons Ltd.
The tram lines and the traffic have long disappeared, and now Abington Street is pedestrianised.
The school is now a private one, Abington School, and much expanded.
Churches were built to serve the suburbs north of Abington Park.
Abington Street, now partly pedestrianised, saw considerable changes after this view was taken.
Downstream, you reach the market town of Abingdon, once noted for its important medieval abbey, dissolved in 1538.
Two hundred yards upstream from photograph 26987 is Abingdon Lock.
The bridge on the right is known as Burford Bridge and that on the left is Abingdon Bridge.
The original church dates back to about 1480; it is thought to have been built by the monks of Abingdon Abbey.
The Malthouse is medieval; in its Abingdon Abbey days it was the dyehouse, becoming a malthouse after about 1700.
The older houses are mostly along the High Street, Church Lane and Abingdon Road.
It was built by Abingdon Abbey to cater for their lay servants, their tenants and passing pilgrims.
Abingdon's Market Place is an ancient space, probably established at the gates of Abingdon Abbey by the year 1000, some years after AD954 when the Anglo-Saxon abbey had been re-founded by St Ethelwold
From the Market Place our town tour heads south along perhaps the best street in Abingdon for the survival of older buildings: East St Helen Street.
The Lock from Downstream 1890 Downstream, you reach the market town of Abingdon, once noted for its important medieval abbey, dissolved in 1538.
Frith's Victorian photographer was in the lane leading to the abbey gateway, and looking across the Market Place to what is now undoubtedly the finest building in Abingdon: the Town Hall.
A steam launch - the 'Thistle' - is moored outside the Crown and Thistle pub's landing stage just above Abingdon town bridge.
The village is situated on a loop of the Thames between Oxford and Abingdon.
The village is situated on a loop of the Thames between Oxford and Abingdon.
The imposing Jubilee statue of Queen Victoria dominates Abingdon's Market Place.
The 14th-century Abbey was built on land which once belonged to Abingdon Abbey, and was used as a summer retreat by the monks there.
This church in Kensington High Street was foundd in the 12th century by the Abbot of Abingdon.
This view was taken looking along the backwater from Abingdon Bridge with the gardens of houses in East St Helen Street on the right and a then well-treed Nag's Head Island on the left.
