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The Old School House
The Old School House was the village school, which opened in 1868 and closed in 1960. The school was built by the landowner using the local blue lias stone. The windows were reclaimed from the Abbey, as were corbals and other ...Read more
A memory of Muchelney in 2008 by
The Slate Islands Easdale
THE SLATE ISLANDS By Walter Deas Some 24k (15 miles) south and west of Oban lies an area with interesting old ...Read more
A memory of Easdale in 2005 by
My Town
I call it my town because it is, it is everybody’s town that lives here. My wife Patsy and I moved here very recently, in October 1999, this was after visiting the town in previous months, we found the people warm and welcoming, where ...Read more
A memory of Waltham Abbey in 1998 by
My Childhood
I was born in this year, but do not have much to remember from then. About 1974 and I remember playing with a few children in the village. The Lister children really I rember. The Twiggs lived in the Abbey. I spent endless happy days ...Read more
A memory of Hampole in 1976 by
St.Augustines Abbey School/College,Grange Road
My elder brother and I, attended the school between 1961-1969 as day-boys. I cannot find out why the school left Ramsgate to take premises in Westgate-on-Sea, and why the buildings in Ramsgate were ...Read more
A memory of Ramsgate in 1973 by
Childhood In Minster
My two brothers, my sister and I were all born in Minster in what is now called Turner Cottage but was then "The Swifts". My granddad was a village postman and my best friend's granddad was also a postman and we ...Read more
A memory of Minster in 1968
The Best Days Of My Life
I attended this camp about 6 times when I was at St John Fisher School, Gateshead in the early 60's. A school from Middlesboro would also have been at the camp. I have only fond memories of this place; £1 for 2 weeks all ...Read more
A memory of Hexham in 1964
Staying
My nan and grandfather lived at Lindsay Cottage, Milton Combe. My grandfather was head gardener at Drakes Abbey, a short walk. I stayed with them every year for ten years from 1960. My nan used to send me up for milk at the dairy ...Read more
A memory of Milton Combe in 1960 by
My Playground White Horse Close
At the age of 11 we moved here & a group of us could always be found (gambling our pocket money at cards) on the steps in the photo. It always amazed us the number of tourists who would enter the close asking ...Read more
A memory of Edinburgh in 1957 by
Fosters Field Finds
As a child in the late 50's I used live in Fairfield Street opposite the Monks Abbey. Every day after the school day was finished at Monks Road school, I used play around the Abbey ruins and Fosters field as well as the ...Read more
A memory of Lincoln in 1957 by
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The Abbey Gate Restaurant to the right is not 14th-century as it claims, but the adjacent Abbey Gate is.
The property on the right calls itself The Abbey Gate and claims to be a '14th-century restaurant' while offering home-made cakes and pastries.
Abingdon's Market Place is an ancient space, probably established at the gates of Abingdon Abbey by the year 1000, some years after AD954 when the Anglo-Saxon abbey had been re-founded by St Ethelwold
The beautiful white gates pictured here are not the ones that give this village its name - the name probably arose from much older gates at the nearby Vale Royal Abbey, once the largest Cistercian abbey
The Norman Gate was built by Abbot Anselm in the first half of the 12th century, providing an entrance gate to the impressive abbey church.
William the Conqueror, having beaten and killed the Anglo-Danish King Harold on Senlac Hill in 1066, vowed to found an abbey on the site of the great battle, known as the Battle of Hastings.
Note theThe Norman Gate was built by Abbot Anselm in the first half of the 12th century, providing an entrance gate to the impressive abbey church.
The town grew up at the gates of the abbey on a low island amid the surrounding marshes, receiving its charter in 1142.
Of Eudo Dapifer's great abbey foundation in 1096, only the 15th-century gate- house and some of the precinct walls survive, the rest having been bombarded during the 1648 siege.
This was the main entrance to the secular part of the Abbey of St Edmunds.
The abbey gate replaced a Norman gate destroyed by the townspeople in 1327, who then had to pay for this castle-like defensive structure.
Here we see a busy day in the Market Place with charabancs and cars parked outside the magnificent Abbey Gateway, which was built in 1338.
Abingdon Abbey was founded in 675 AD, and the town grew up at its gates.
The small village of Burnt Yates in Nidderdale is graced by this neat little Victorian sandstone church.
Near the entrance to Worksop College, on Sparrow Hill (the old road into Worksop), are the lion gates and one of the many lodges and gateways into the vast 3,000 acre grounds of Welbeck Abbey, built
Whitegate is named for an old white gate which would once have marked the entrance to the former Vale Royal Abbey.
The town grew up at the gates of the abbey on a low island amid the surrounding marshes, receiving its charter in 1142.
He was born at Upper Bockhampton 2 June 1840 and died at Max Gate Dorchester 11 January 1928.
St Nicholas's Church was built at the abbey gates for lay abbey staff, tenants and workers, and for travellers to pray for safe onward journeys or who were about to cross the River Thames.
Chertsey was once the town at the gates of one of the most powerful abbeys in England.
These arches can be seen when approaching Sawley (or 'Sally') Abbey.
We are looking up river towards the lock gates, with the site of the former abbey and its grounds on the right.
The photograph shows Abbey Row; we are looking down towards the Triangle and the parish of Westport.
Beyond is the church schoolroom and the lych gate - from where Monks Path runs to Cleeve Abbey.
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