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Tina Nee Hickey 1959 1963
I remember Mile Oak High School like it was yesterday. The fun we had and the mischief we got up to - in one instance we played hookey from school and went up and sat on the chalk hill, only to find out later that day that ...Read more
A memory of Mile Oak in 1960 by
Broomfield Lane
I wasn't around in 1913, but went to Broussa School on Broomfield Lane from 1961-1963. It was there I first heard of the Beatles! A girl in the middle school brought in the 'Please please me' album and played it to us 10 year olds at ...Read more
A memory of Hale in 1962 by
Village Policeman
In the late 1950's I was the village policeman at Great Waltham. The police house was the last two-storied house at the Barrack Land end of Cherry Garden Road with my 'office'being in the kitchen and the tsble there was my ...Read more
A memory of Great Waltham in 1959 by
The Good Old Days Late 50’s & 60’s
Oh the good old days. There was Barclays Bank in the corner and I remember my dad making an appointment to see the actual Bank Manager himself who had his office to the left at the back. I remember the Bakers next to ...Read more
A memory of Welling
The Six Bells
Virtually unchanged since this view was taken, apart from the loss of the central chimney stacks, the Six Bells is in the old village of Horley near the parish church of St Bartholomew, whose churchyard wall can be seen on the left. The ...Read more
A memory of Horley
St Andrew's Hospital
I was born in St Andrew's Hospital which was once a workhouse, I wasn't sure of the year it became St Andrew's Hospital. I was born there in May 1967 and my sister was born July 1968. I am not sure of year the hospital became ...Read more
A memory of Billericay in 1967 by
Relatives In Billericay
1929-1939 I didnt live there mydad's family lived there .they came down from tottenham. they were in the building trade. an address for my uncle is st helens slicers gate mill road. I wonder if any one remembers the ...Read more
A memory of Billericay in 1930 by
Queen's Cinema
Today is the 7th July. Exactly fifty years ago today, I went to my local cinema in Palmers Green to see A Hard Days Night. I couldn't remember the name of the cinema, but it was on Green Lanes, near The Triangle on the east side. Was ...Read more
A memory of Palmers Green by
Phil Munton
Hi, I've recently discovered this while doing research on a book I am writing and was interested to hear how many people from Selsdon remember their childhood and, in most cases, enjoyed the village as I knew it as a good place to grow up. I ...Read more
A memory of Selsdon by
Palmers Green High Street Circa 1955 1960
Special treat of afternoon tea at Pritchards, next door to Evans and Davies. Served by waitresses in smart black dresses with white aprons and little frilly hats. Lovely tiered plates of sandwiches and ...Read more
A memory of Palmers Green by
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Ahead, below the church, is Bloomfield's engineering works – Bloomfield's were agents for Massey Harris machinery.
The school was designed by Sir Arthur Bloomfield in 1883; it contained the Headmaster's residence, boarding accommodation and classrooms, including the 'Big School', later the library, on the ground floor
Canon Sir James Philipps, rector from 1859 to 1897, paid Blomfield to renew the church of St Denys in 1887- 89.
Broomfield Road corner was already a problem, with its 'No Right Turn' signs and people wary of crossing the road.
The design was by Sir Arthur Blomfield, and it was carved by Thomas Nicholls of Kennington.
To the right of the picture, the present-day clock tower, designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield in 1926, is yet to be added.
Standing high above the town centre and attractively sited on the crown of the hill, the church with its elegant broach spire was designed by Sir Arthur Blomfield in c1861, but not completed until 1881
Look up the hill at the turn of the century, and see this posed but superbly evocative photograph of an attractive mixture of domestic building styles, culminating in the spire of Blomfield's Christ Church
Selwyn College was designed in the Tudor Gothic style by Sir Arthur Blomfield.
At the far end of the street, dominating the picture, is Jesus Church, built in 1879 by Arthur Blomfield.
The church beyond is St Michael's, rebuilt in 1901 to the design of Sir Arthur Blomfield, who was also the architect of the Bank of England in London.
The nave is by Blomfield, and would have been brand new when this photograph was taken.
The church peering over the rooftops was largely restored by Blomfield in 1910.
Selwyn College was designed in the Tudor Gothic style by Sir Arthur Blomfield.
Sir Arthur Blomfield's hard brick 1872 church replaced a brick one of 1713-14, which itself had replaced the medieval building destroyed in the 1648 siege.
Within the last 25 years it had undergone remodelling under the supervision of Sir Arthur Blomfield.
The Broomfield Road premises - pictured in the year of their completion - were the school's third proper home.
Included in this view (taken from the top of what is known as the Broomfields) is the old Willesborough Hospital.
Although it had decamped to Broomfield Road by the time this picture was taken, the Grammar School had formerly stood here - the entrance to the old buildings being just to the left of
The Sir Arthur Blomfield church, dedicated to St Mary Magdalen, was built a generation before, almost at the same time as the school nestling behind the trees on the left.
The nave and chancel were rebuilt again in flint in the 1880s by Sir Arthur Blomfield with rainwater heads dated 1884.
A new village was born around the railway station and with it a new church, St Mary's, built in 1892 by Sir Arthur Blomfield.
The building has echoes of the Commissioners' preaching boxes so familiar around London, but in 1898 this austere quality was partly ameliorated by additions to the designs of Sir Arthur Blomfield.
Broomfield House has a complicated history.
