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Names Of People And Buildings.
Here we are looking down West Street with the village school visible at the end. On the left is Tetts Farm with the milk churns, while next is Manor Farm, farmed by Reg Newick. The thatched building before the ...Read more
A memory of Hinton St George
Upper Heyford School
My father was stationed at RAF Upper Heyford 1949 to 1953. My brothers, Peter, Michael and myself, Mary, went to the village school. My older brother Richard went to school in Steeple Aston. I remember the two ...Read more
A memory of Upper Heyford in 1949 by
Life In Cannich And Fasnakyle
My family and I moved from Elm Park in Essex to Scotland in the last weeks of 1948. My father, Leon A. Lalonde, had accepted a position as Chief Mechanical Engineer with John Cochrane and Sons, a construction company. ...Read more
A memory of Glen Affric in 1949 by
Dads First Cattle
My dad had a yard here before the houses were built back in the 40s. He bought his first cows and used to milk them in a barn there. I can remember as a small child being in the barn with mum and dad when an aeroplane crashed ...Read more
A memory of Lower Heyford in 1940 by
Newarthill 1950/60s Tosh And I
Every now and then I reminisce and take a trip down memory lane, of my childhood days growing up in Newarthill on Burnside Rd. I remember Tosh McGarry and I going to Father Gillan's jumble sale and buying an old fox fur ...Read more
A memory of Newarthill by
The Tithe Barn And Harrow Museum
Moat Farm Park? I find this surprising as its claim to fame is surely the preserved buildings of the Tithe Barn and surroundings. The Barn itself is the site of Harrow Museum and hosts various fund raising fairs, ...Read more
A memory of North Harrow in 1985 by
Featured Buildings.
The large building on the left edge of the photograph is Ruswarp Mill. A mill has been here since Saxon times and the first written record of this mill appears in the Domesday book. The name Ruswarp may have originated from the mill. ...Read more
A memory of Ruswarp by
An Old Mans Memories
I was born in 1922 in the village of Mundford. My Father was the village policeman. The village was then a self-contained society and provided all the necessities of life, including a doctor, blacksmith, carpenter and general ...Read more
A memory of Mundford in 1920 by
Mid Eighties
From early 1984 to March 1987 I had the pleasure of being the Landlady of this public house. Many good times (some bad), many lovely customers, some of whom became friends and not forgetting all the people who came to ...Read more
A memory of West End in 1986 by
Ashhurst Way Memories
I was brought up from the age of two living in 63 Ashhurst Way and what lovely memories I have got. I was brought up in a large family. A lot of people I can remember are no longer with us and the friends I had Tony ...Read more
A memory of Rose Hill by
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The Burnhams take their name from the river Burn, which runs through this picture.
The area on the left burned down in 1883, and the buildings post-date that; they include the former Free Library built in 1895, the building with the tall oriel bay windows.
What remains of the Castle buildings is now overshadowed by a glass, steel and concrete edifice to its rear.
Looking like a refugee from Disney World, or something dreamed up by mad King Ludwig of Bavaria, the Shakespeare Memorial Building was erected in 1879.
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.
This was built in 1921 on the site of Huggins & Chambers, an ironmonger's.
Scotland's most celebrated poet Robert Burns was born in this simple cottage on 25 January 1759.
The Old Mill 1906 This is the brick lower storey of a windmill built around 1800 by a Crawley millwright, Morley, and situated east of the Recreation Ground.
This is the brick lower storey of a windmill built around 1800 by a Crawley millwright, Morley, and situated east of the recreation ground.
This splendid town hall was burned down in 1947; it was built in the Market Place on the site of the old town hall, which was demolished in 1862.
Barnes Square Methodist Chruch was built in 1863, replacing an earlier building which had become too small.
Beside the ruins of the great abbey church, various monastery buildings survive, including the famous 14th-century Abbot's Kitchen and the Abbey Barn.
The Great Barn of Abbotsbury Abbey was built in about 1400.
The mill is just south of the village on the Birkey Burn.
Nearby is the Grand Hotel (rooms 4s 6d, dinner 5s), the parish council building, the school board offices and a statue of Robert Burns.
A good smaller furniture factory survives (it is now a listed building): the Cane and Rush Works of about 1880 in Desborough Street.
These model estate cottages were built by the Berners family for their agricultural labourers and artisans.
These model estate cottages were built by the Berners family for their agricultural labourers and artisans.
Most of the cottages were built in stone from the Greenmoor Quarry.
The Great Barn, or Tithe Barn, is part of Barton Manor Farm, which comprises 8 or 9 buildings grouped around a large open courtyard.
This lighthouse, which is on the highest point of the island (180 ft above sea level), was built in 1829 as a gas-burning light and has been automated since 1927.
Built round an internal courtyard, Raby's defences included inner and outer curtain walls surrounded by a broad ditch.
Most of the stone was used for building, and as a convenient source of limestone for burning and spreading on the fields of Castle Farm as fertiliser.
Here the Memorial Building is viewed from the river.
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