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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
The Red Lion And The Square
My parents ran the Red Lion between 1953-83. I was brought up here and went to Blendworth School, Mrs Byrne was the headmistress. The pub was situated on a tight bend on the old A3 and was regularly hit by vehicles unable ...Read more
A memory of Horndean in 1960 by
Missing Home
I was born in Wales and lived at 3 Bailey Street until moving to Canada at age 10. All of my memories of Cwm are wonderful ones, sliding down the mountain on cardboard, wading in the river behind our house, climbing the hill to play at the ...Read more
A memory of Cwm in 1966 by
Pavenham 1945 1970
This is the village where I grew up, my parents moving into their very old, somewhat dilapidated cottage at the end of the war. This was 'The Folly' at the eastern end of the village opposite one of Tandy's farms. Why it had that name ...Read more
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Postwar Childhood In Knypersley
Born in 1940 at Tunstall Rd, I spent hours of my childhood at the edge of Cowlishaw Walker's pool, reached through our neighbour, Mrs Sargent's garden, which sloped steeply up to the railings round the pool. I only ...Read more
A memory of Knypersley in 1940 by
Visiting Needham Market In The 1970s
My sister and I used to visit my three uncles each Sunday. They all were unmarried and lived in the family house in The Causeway. Not having children of their own, they doted on us girls and spoilt us ...Read more
A memory of Needham Market by
Highgate Village In The 1960s
What I am most interested in writing about is how Highgate Village has changed so much since my school days, growing up there in the 1960s. Today most of the shops are coffee shops, estate ...Read more
A memory of Highgate in 1965 by
Born On The Graig
"It's only wind or powder on the stomach"my Mam had said as she walked home from the ammunition factory on a cold Autumn evening. The "wind" or "powder" was born on the 2nd December 1942. I, Colin Gronow, had ...Read more
A memory of Graig in 1940 by
"Digger" Hunwick Growing Up At No 7, Hall Road.
Born under a table in the front room of No.7 Hall Road on 16/7/1944 while an air raid warning sounded to herald the German V1s presence above. I attended Aveley Infants and Primary schools between 1949 and 1955 ...Read more
A memory of Aveley by
Post War Memories
I was raised in Mountsorrel in the Soar valley near Leicester. It was a Norman village that lay alongside the river Soar under Castle Hill. The hill got its name from the mote and bailey type 12c castle built by the Beaumonts – ...Read more
A memory of Mountsorrel by
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In the centre, we can see Bailey Lane climbing steeply up towards Crown Hill, with the railway crossing keeper's house to its right at the bottom.
Masonry rises on the skyline from the Butavant Tower (left) and the walls of the west bailey to the 80ft-high keep and the south-west gatehouse.
St Mary's, standing on Bury Hill, can be seen from most parts of the town.
Castle Street is named for a Norman motte-and-bailey earthwork on the wooded hill above the village.
This wooded hill in the town centre is topped by the ruins of a Norman castle, whose builders might not be entirely surprised to find that the outer bailey now houses a zoo: after all, exotic animals were
The castle was on a hill north of the church, comprising a motte and bailey with earth and timber fortifications.
A few miles from Dunstable, through the Downs, and nowadays part of the commuter belt, Castle Hill road links the three ends of Totternhoe, Church, Middle and Lower.
There was a castle here, which was besieged by King Stephen in 1138, but its keep has long gone; only its outline is marked on the grass of its hill at the end of Bailey Street.
The others are Bailey, Bull Hill, Portmore, Sandy Down, Walhampton, and Boldre itself.
The castle was on a hill north of the church, comprising a motte and bailey with earth and timber fortifications.
By 1100 he had added a stone keep to his castle, which was built on a natural hill overlooking the Adur.
