Turvey, All Saints Church c.1955
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T90015
Photo ref:
T90015
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Saxon remains incorporated into a medieval structure characterise All Saints'. Restorations carried out in the 19th century uncovered a 14th-century painting of the Crucifixion in the Lady Chapel. There are also many memorials to members of the Mordaunt family, which owned the lands until the late 1600s.
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A Selection of Memories from Turvey
For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Turvey
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Turvey Abbey was owned in those days by Rupert Allen who owned an engineering factory in Bedford. My father was employed on the estate as gardener/general factotum (and was paid a pittance for the privilege). The Abbey had a few cows, pigs, geese and chickens. It was often my job to go out at dusk to shut up the chickens to stop the foxes getting them. I remember it was quite spooky as it got dark (I ...see more
I remember fishing for endless hours just about the spot shown in the photograph. There were many perch there and on one occasion I caught a fair sized pike. Just upstream from this location was a sort of peninsular accessed by climbing down steps set in the wall of Turvey Bridge. This was called Sam's Island for some reason. Brings back many happy memories of over half a century ago!!
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