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The War Years And A Life Of Bliss
During the Second World War my parents, my sister and I moved from Birmingham to stay with my paternal grandparents at New Mill Bridge wher my grandmother Harriet Cook owned and ran the local store "Cooks ...Read more
A memory of Shelsley Walsh in 1941 by
Evacuees
I have just learnt that my aunt, Rhona Mortimer (her maiden name) and her sister Grace Mortimer were evacated to Darley Abbey during the Secopnd World War years. I think was only for 3 months. My dad Len Mortimer was evacuated nearby. ...Read more
A memory of Darley Abbey in 1940 by
Cirencester Abbey Woodchopping Competitions
My Father, Ken Mclennan, was in a Forestry Regiment of the Royal Australian Engineers posted to Scotland at the outbreak of WWII, prior to being deployed to New Guinea to fight the Japanese. Whilst in ...Read more
A memory of Cirencester in 1940 by
Dorstone In The Golden Valley
In many parts of the world the countryside is largely unclaimed, untamed, even uninhabited; consider, say, the large swathes of Australia’s Kimberley region, Indonesia’s Kalimantan, or the interior of Baffin Island. ...Read more
A memory of Dorstone in 1940 by
Grandparents In Service At Kirkham Hall
Both my grandparents were in service at Kirkham Hall in the 1920s and 30s. My Grandma, Annie Morris, originally from Newcastle, joined her Aunt Annie (who was cook) there when she was in her teens and started ...Read more
A memory of Kirkham in 1930
The Place Where I Was Born
I was born in Whalley, in the second cottage opposite the Catholic Church in the Sands, in December 1924. Next door to us was Mr Sutton who was well known around Whalley for his ice cream. He used to stand outside the abbey ...Read more
A memory of Whalley in 1920 by
Ledsham Court, St Leonards, Sussex ...Great Memories! By John Franks, (Ex Rascal Boarder).
Well, I would like to bring a little history of our wonderful school in St Leonards back to life with the real colour and warmth of the time when I was there in the early ...Read more
A memory of Great Parndon by
The Great Children's Summer Garden Party
During the1950's, long before the introduction of Green Shield and other reward stamps, members of the Co-operative Society in the days before the Co-op as we know it today, earned tin coin cash money to the ...Read more
A memory of Bexleyheath by
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
Buses
I had forgotten that the buses used to use the area in front of the abbey as a terminus. I lived in Selby from my birth in 1954 until 1972. I frequently caught a bus from the corner of Buller Street & Flaxley Road to school on Abbotts Road. ...Read more
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St Peter's Church is all that remains of the older Winchcombe Abbey, and dates from the 15th century.
The church of St Peter, with its unusual saddleback-roofed tower, dates from Norman times.
Some of the stone came from Waverley Abbey, a victim of the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
The priory was founded by William Marshall, the Earl of Pembroke, and it was never to be promoted to the status of abbey.
The original church dates back to about 1480; it is thought to have been built by the monks of Abingdon Abbey.
In medieval times it was a market town owned by Combermere Abbey, a Cistercian abbey on the Cheshire border.
Rievaulx Abbey also farmed some 43 acres of land near the village.
Part of the church was built from stone taken from Jervaulx Abbey after the Dissolution.
Founded in poverty in 1132 by a group of monks from St Mary's Abbey, York, Fountains eventually became very wealthy.
In Saxon times, Winchcombe was the capital of the Mercian kingdom; the famous King Offa founded an abbey here.
The parade of shops on the left are currently occupied by Thomas Cook, Abbey, a hairstylist and a photographic shop, whilst Boots is in the adjacent block.
Built of red sandstone, Chester cathedral was founded in 1092 as a Benedictine abbey.
Rievaulx Abbey also farmed some 43 acres of land near the village.
This building is dated 1790, and is a little distance from the church.
The Priory (centre middle), a cell of Lire abbey in Normandy, dates from the early 12th century, with present buildings from the early 16th century.
The 19th-century Abbey Mill contrasts with the 15th-century church tower, which possibly replaced a smaller Norman one.
The castle stands opposite Netley Abbey; most of the surrounding area has now been filled with housing.
Built of red sandstone, Chester Cathedral was founded in 1092 as a Benedictine abbey.
The origins of St Nicholas' Church date back to the 12th century.
The ancient abbey church of St Hilda stands proudly in the Headland area.
Close to the Abbey is the National Motor Museum, a splendid collection of cars founded by Lord Montagu of Beaulieu.
Ripon Cathedral stands on the site of the Saxon abbey church of St Wilfrid, of which this crypt still remains.
It was a Roman town and the seat of an Anglo-Saxon bishopric, and is now dominated by its great late 11th-century Abbey church.
Within the vestry of the abbey at the south-west end are stained glass windows dating from 1928.
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