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Tilshead In The Last Century!
Tilshead was the place where I was born and have lived in for a long time. It is a quiet village of around 400 or so people. There was and still is a post office. There was a pub called The Bell but is now a private ...Read more
A memory of Tilshead in 1966 by
Grosvenor Road And Urmston, Always A Place In My Heart.
I lived on Grosvenor Road, Urmston - the allotment end - from 1965 to late 1969 age 3 to nearly 8 years of age with my 2 brothers and parents (we then moved to Blackburn). My daughter has recently ...Read more
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Living In Teddington 1950s To 1980s
We moved from 76 Princes Road in 1957 to the other end of Teddington, to 143 High Street, opposite Kingston Lane. My parents bought the house for about £1400 (yes fourteen hundred) as a refurb project. It still had ...Read more
A memory of Teddington
Whitethorn Morris Dance At The Coach And Horses On Croxley Green
For many years in the 1980s and 1990s morris dancers performed outside the two lovely pubs on Croxley Green - the Coach and Horses and the Artichoke. Whitethorn Morris frequently ...Read more
A memory of Croxley Green in 1980 by
Andrew Duncan Home For Boys
At the age of 13 I suffered a nervous breakdown due to problems at home. It was decided by my doctor to send me away from home to give me a break. My mother took me to a mainline station in London where I was handed over ...Read more
A memory of Shiplake by
When The Reverend Nichols Was The Rector
Sadly, I believe St Michael's Church is little more now than a ruin of it's former self, nothing like it was in the 1940's when it seemed to stand proudly on the hill watching over and protecting the small ...Read more
A memory of Pitsea in 1940 by
The Old Thatch
Ah, The Old Thatch. I remember it well, for this is where I grew up from the early 1940s until 1956. By today's standards it was grim: no heating, no running water, no flush loo - nothing. Yet it was a wonderful place in which to ...Read more
A memory of Nether Wallop in 1940 by
Life As A Young Boy In Saltdean
THE LIFE & TIMES OF DONALD CHARLES WILLIAMS Personal recollections from Don Williams from Hailsham who lived in Saltdean from 1937 to 1952 - Many thanks for these wonderful stories & photo's of Saltdean in the ...Read more
A memory of Saltdean in 1940 by
Bank Street
We lived in an old Victorian house on the Bank, I was eight years old. I remember a shop on the corner of School Street owned by a man named Ted Weihton and on the other corner Tates fish shop, the owner was a friend of my Great Aunt ...Read more
A memory of Gateshead in 1954
Mustow's Cafe.
I lived with my family in St Athan village from the time of my first birthday in 1946 to my marriage in 1970. My wife and I were married at the church shown in the photograph. The church is dedicated to an Irish saint by the name of ...Read more
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Inside the church there are some very fine carvings attributed to the Rev F E Robinson, a dedicated campanologist, who was reputed to have rung the bells in every belfry in England.
The church tower houses a peal of twelve bells. In
It was unusual in a number of respects, including the inclusion of ten tubular bells in the tower and for having galleries on three sides (hence the height of the nave), which gave it 730 sittings
The view shows the north side of the church, which dates from the late 12th century, and the fine Norman doorway.
Of the three bells in 1552, only one survives today.
Many parishes on the Lizard are rich in ore but St Keverne folk have a superstition that 'no metal will run within the sound of St Keverne's bells'. It
The church of St Peter occupies an island site where the main street divides.
A vestry was added in 1878, the tower, spire and three bells in 1891, and the clock two years later.
Lady Eleanor Cecily Clifton sponsored the building and gave a peal of 8 bells in 1890; John, Joseph and William Melling, fishermen brothers, carted the bricks.
ST ANDREW'S Parish Church is situated in Church Street, opposite the site of the original School House.
The Company of Change Ringers still ring out a traditional peal on the fine bells. In
The ten bells in the tower are often tolled.
Its peal of eight bells is well-known to campanologists.
Bosham was occupied by the Romans and invaded by the Danes, who stole the church bells. King
Opposite, Bell Cottage and Wall Cottage are virtually unchanged.
The two boys are posing at the south end of Highbridge Road near the junction with Belle Vue Road.
To the north-east of Allenheads beyond Nookton Fell lies the village of Blanchland.
Roses twine around the doorway of the cottage on the right in this 50s photograph of Tideswell's Market Square, with the Belle Vue Hotel (now gone) in the centre background.
To stand in the nave is like being inside a lantern as light floods in through the large Perpendicular windows.
Here the elegant 'Belle' steamers drew alongside, discharging and collecting visitors in what was the glorious era of Edwardian tourism.
In 1695 many had a narrow escape when the bell tower collapsed during an energetic ringing session serenading a visit by William III.
Looking more like two churches than one, Ormskirk's parish church is unique in the north for having both a tower and spire.
Their design has Doric columns on either side of the entrance as the earlier town hall did, but the neo-classical style is modified by some Art Deco touches.
One hundred years earlier, the church was described as 'little better than a hovel, with a belfry like a pigeon-house', though its 12th-century bells were among the oldest in Hampshire.
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