Places

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Maps

47 maps found.

1902, Bloomfield Ref. RNC644360
1899, Bloomfield Ref. RNC644361
1899, Bloomfield Ref. RNE644360
1919, Bloomfield Ref. POP644361
1946, Bloomfield Ref. NPO644362
1898, Bloomfield Ref. RNE644362
1946, Bloomfield Ref. NPO644360
1946, Bloomfield Ref. NPO644361
1921, Bloomfield Ref. POP644360
1919, Bloomfield Ref. POP644362
1898, Bloomfield Ref. RNE644361
1898-1899, Bloomfield Ref. RNC644362
1885 - 1902, Bloomfield Ref. HOSM38127
1902, Broomfields Ref. RNC652397
1946, Broomfield Ref. NPO652379
1919, Broomfield Ref. POP652379
1898, Broomfield Ref. RNE652379
1919, Broomfield Ref. POP652380
1921, Broomfield Ref. POP652382
1945, Broomfield Ref. NPO652381

Books

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Memories

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Bexleyheath Circa 1950's

I lived in Faygate Crescent, Bexleyheath.  Schools I remember attending are Upton Rd, Gravel Hill and Bexleyheath Secondary Modern. I have fond memories of chatting to the girls school across the playing fields from ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath in 1950 by Alan Ford

Mandrake Road

My siblings and I were all born at Weir maternity hospital in Balham, we lived on Mandrake road and we all went to Fircroft primary school opposite our house. I was at Fircroft from 1976-1982. Mr. Chaimings was the headmaster then, Mr ...Read more

A memory of Tooting by Sylvia Amoah

Hart Hill School 1954

I was born in 1949 and entered Hart Hill School in 1954. Those were the times when 5 year olds were taken to school by their Mums for about one week into the new term! There were so many kiddies in the surrounding area of Abbotswood ...Read more

A memory of Luton by Kay Blythe

Phil Munton

Hi, I've recently discovered this while doing research on a book I am writing and was interested to hear how many people from Selsdon remember their childhood and, in most cases, enjoyed the village as I knew it as a good place to grow up. I ...Read more

A memory of Selsdon by philmunton48

Left And Forgotten

I am now 66 and my memory of beautiful Mile Oak is as clear today as it was 55 years ago. Sadly I was one of them naughty boys (as you villagers branded us). My crime was taking 2/6p off a windowsill back here in Folke stone, one ...Read more

A memory of Mile Oak in 1955 by Danny Featherbe

Abernethie & Son Ltd

I was very interested in your web site. William Abernethie, owner of Abernethie & Son Ltd 140-144 Uxbridge Road, was my Great great grandfather. He also had a branch at 25 Broadway, Ealing. It was a very successful drapery ...Read more

A memory of Ealing by Kay Pack

A Happy, Friendly Place For A Boy To Grow Up ...

Born in Woking in 1945 I lived in New Haw from 1947 to 1964, firstly at Warren Road and then from 1949 in Braeside. I remember Mrs Crab at West Byfleet Primary who taught me to read; I remember Mr Bean at ...Read more

A memory of New Haw in 1947 by David Imisson

Chelmsford, Infirmary, 1895.

This may well have been called the Infirmary, so its use didn't change a great deal for many people lots of decades later. It then became the London Road Hospital, and the A. & E. section were accessed down the ...Read more

A memory of Chelmsford by John Crouch

Mile Oak Portslade 1938 To 1950

Hello, I was one of the few children who lived in Mile Oak Road and and also played on Broomfields Farm, we lived at no 222 which was the second to last house before the road dropped down the hill to Mile Oak. The old ...Read more

A memory of Mile Oak in 1947 by Frank Piner

Broomfield Park Childrens' Boating Pond C1985

In 1985 my son, daughter, niece & nephew were in the 7 to 10 age bracket. Included in their favourite places were the Broomfield Park kids' playground, the kids' assault course and the ...Read more

A memory of Southgate in 1985 by Peter Neal

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Captions

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Caption For Debenham, Cross Green C1955

Ahead, below the church, is Bloomfield's engineering works – Bloomfield's were agents for Massey Harris machinery.

Caption For Bury St Edmunds, King Edward's Grammar School 1898

The school was designed by Sir Arthur Bloomfield in 1883; it contained the Headmaster's residence, boarding accommodation and classrooms, including the 'Big School', later the library, on the ground floor

Caption For Warminster, The Minster Church Of St Denys' C1940

Canon Sir James Philipps, rector from 1859 to 1897, paid Blomfield to renew the church of St Denys in 1887- 89.

Caption For Chelmsford, Civic Suite And War Memorial C1960

Broomfield Road corner was already a problem, with its 'No Right Turn' signs and people wary of crossing the road.

Caption For Alton, St Lawrence's Church, Reredos 1898

The design was by Sir Arthur Blomfield, and it was carved by Thomas Nicholls of Kennington.

Caption For Sherborne, Ladies College 1912

To the right of the picture, the present-day clock tower, designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield in 1926, is yet to be added.

Caption For Crouch End, Christ Church, Crouch End Hill C1965

Standing high above the town centre and attractively sited on the crown of the hill, the church with its elegant broach spire was designed by Sir Arthur Blomfield in c1861, but not completed until 1881

Caption For Crouch End, Crouch End Hill C1890

Look up the hill at the turn of the century, and see this posed but superbly evocative photograph of an attractive mixture of domestic building styles, culminating in the spire of Blomfield's Christ Church

Caption For Cambridge, Selwyn Entrance 1923

Selwyn College was designed in the Tudor Gothic style by Sir Arthur Blomfield.

Caption For Oundle, Benefield Road C1950

At the far end of the street, dominating the picture, is Jesus Church, built in 1879 by Arthur Blomfield.

Caption For Macclesfield, Churchwallgate C1955

The church beyond is St Michael's, rebuilt in 1901 to the design of Sir Arthur Blomfield, who was also the architect of the Bank of England in London.

Caption For Macclesfield, Parish Church Interior 1903

The nave is by Blomfield, and would have been brand new when this photograph was taken.

Caption For Chatteris, High Street C1955

The church peering over the rooftops was largely restored by Blomfield in 1910.

Caption For Cambridge, Selwyn Entrance 1923

Selwyn College was designed in the Tudor Gothic style by Sir Arthur Blomfield.

Caption For Colchester, St Mary's Church 1907

Sir Arthur Blomfield's hard brick 1872 church replaced a brick one of 1713-14, which itself had replaced the medieval building destroyed in the 1648 siege.

Caption For Petersfield, St Peter's Church 1898

Within the last 25 years it had undergone remodelling under the supervision of Sir Arthur Blomfield.

Caption For Chelmsford, Grammar School 1892

The Broomfield Road premises - pictured in the year of their completion - were the school's third proper home.

Caption For Willesborough, The Lees 1909

Included in this view (taken from the top of what is known as the Broomfields) is the old Willesborough Hospital.

Caption For Chelmsford, Duke Street 1906

Although it had decamped to Broomfield Road by the time this picture was taken, the Grammar School had formerly stood here - the entrance to the old buildings being just to the left of

Caption For Sheet, Village Green 1898

The Sir Arthur Blomfield church, dedicated to St Mary Magdalen, was built a generation before, almost at the same time as the school nestling behind the trees on the left.

Caption For Rickmansworth, St Mary's Church 1897

The nave and chancel were rebuilt again in flint in the 1880s by Sir Arthur Blomfield with rainwater heads dated 1884.

Caption For Liss, St Peter's Church 1901

A new village was born around the railway station and with it a new church, St Mary's, built in 1892 by Sir Arthur Blomfield.

Caption For Cockfosters, Christ Church, Chalk Lane C1965

The building has echoes of the Commissioners' preaching boxes so familiar around London, but in 1898 this austere quality was partly ameliorated by additions to the designs of Sir Arthur Blomfield.