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My Childhood Days
My memories of Great Bedwyn are spending my holidays with my gran and grandad William and Beatrice Alderman in Castle Rd and my uncle Dennis. My uncle and grandad were both signalmen at Great Bedwyn and I used to go down to take ...Read more
A memory of Great Bedwyn in 1955 by
The Boomtown Gang
Hi to children of Dunstaffnage, do you remember the funeral of the Captain of Dunstaffnage and the procession of the horse drawn carriage to the chapel at the castle where he was buried. I have many fond memories as a young boy to share ...Read more
A memory of Oban by
The Churchyard At Ludgvan
My father, Joseph Martin and Ruth, my mother, are buried at Ludgvan, together with his parents (Joseph and Sarah). The latter died in 1949/1950 and had lived at Castle Gate (Badgers Cross). My father attended school in Ludgvan ...Read more
A memory of Ludgvan in 1950 by
My Family
My family were the Davises who lived in the Bear House, Trecastle. Most of the people in the area were related to us. We were originally of Gypsy desent and can be traced back many hundreds of years. We were also related to the Pike ...Read more
A memory of Trecastle by
Artists
Groups of artists would visit in summer and stay at The Feathers Hotel. After breakfast they would choose their locations, some at the church, some at the castle, others would be in the middle of Broad Street. They would set up their stools ...Read more
A memory of Ludlow in 1955 by
My Family Church
This was the church I attended with my family as a child from 1950-1966 when I moved away to college. My father is buried at the end of the path up to the entry to the church. The rector for some time was Rev. Cottrell with three ...Read more
A memory of Edgware in 1950 by
Elmsleigh School St Polycarp School
Born in Aldershot in 1939 my father worked for a builder in Farnborough, Chuter, and eventually moved to a rented house on Folly Hill. I initially went to St Polycarp but moved to Elmsleigh where both myself and my ...Read more
A memory of Farnham in 1945 by
Ash By Sandwich 1789 1848
Ash is three miles west from Sandwich, a village lying 2 and a half miles south-westfrom Richborough Castle. The Church of St Nicholas has an interesting interior with monuments and effigies. Zachariah Pettman ...Read more
A memory of Ash
Barbaraville My Childhood Home
I was born and brought up in Barbaraville, spending the first 27 years of my life there before moving to Inverness. I will always remember it as an idyllic place to grow up in.. Many a happy hour was spent ...Read more
A memory of Barbaraville in 1970
From 1944
Memories from that long ago tend to stick in the back of the mind until an association brings them out. Being a small child, the village green at Bearsted seemed gigantic and the village pond was just a pond. We used to paddle in the pond ...Read more
A memory of Bearsted by
Captions
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19th-century visitors wishing to get a good view of the town and castle were advised to climb the tower, known as Corrin's Folly, standing on Corrin's Hill (485ft).
19th-century visitors wishing to get a good view of the town and castle were advised to climb the tower, known as Corrin's folly, on Corrin's Hill (485 ft).
In March 1283 Edward I ordered Conwy Castle to be built and a burgh established.
This photograph shows the spire of St Andrew's church at Clewer, which is situated on the Thames, looking up towards Windsor Castle.
This photograph shows the spire of St Andrew`s church at Clewer, which is situated on the Thames, looking up towards Windsor Castle.
At the far end, from the left are Lawson's the electricians, who brought television to Bury; Peatling and Cawdron's, wine merchants; the Castle pub; and Moyse's Hall.
On 19 October 1216, King John died at Newark Castle, having been poisoned several days earlier by the Cistercian monk, Simon of Swineshead.
We are looking over Lancaster and the outer parts of the castle from the higher inner ramparts.
Wordsworth's father, an agent for the Lowther Estate at nearby Lowther Castle, is buried in the churchyard.
This 15th-century cross lies at a crossroads on the Bristol to Weston-super-Mare road; the adjacent Ship and Castle was a coaching inn.
At the end of the Parade, behind the trees on the right, stands the Castle, the home of the Royal Yacht Squadron.
In the 15th and 16th centuries, the Herbert family prospered in their family home at Raglan Castle.
In March 1283 Longshanks ordered Conwy Castle to be built and a burgh established.
A yacht in full sail races past a well-known landmark on the lower Bure, pulling its dinghy behind.
Another famous resident of Knaresborough, Jack Metcalfe, was born within sight of the castle in 1717.
Disillusioned with their former masters in Parliament, Poyer and Laugharne, two former Parliamentarian commanders, switched sides during the Civil Wars and held Pembroke Castle for the Royalist cause
This is the Joymount corner of the town; the gardens, no longer there, mark where a governor of the castle, Sir Arthur Chichester, began to build a fine mansion in 1610.
The picture was taken from Castle Hill, the site of an old manor house lookout, probably also used in Roman times during the construction of Wade's Causeway over the moors past Goathland.
They were buried in a field nearby, which became known as Hospital Field.
'With the assistance of a telescope Windsor Castle, Frant Church, St Paul's Cathedral, Dunstable Downs, Ditchling Beacon and the spires and towers of forty-one churches can be seen.'
