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The Hole In The Wall
Way back in the 50's I had not been long in Bury where I had arrived to join the staff in the Borough Offices on Angel Hill. It was Armistice Day, and the Councillors and senior staff paraded to the Cathedral for a ...Read more
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Properties & People
I, Ray Murphy, came across your site, re Shaw Mills, Yorkshire, U.K., as I was looking into events of my past life, for the benefit of my son’s Australian family, at the time of my 84th birthday, 19/9/35. I am the Patriarch of ...Read more
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Gypsy Beauty
Our Barge King Edward V11, was moored at The Lock Waltham Abbey C 1954 I was 14 years old. I loved the mooring and used to go often to the Cinema's in Waltham x. I became a member of the Drama Group in the Abbey. One Sunday I saw a ...Read more
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Abeygate Street
In the 50's there was two way traffic in Abbeygate Street with T.H.Nice's Garage half way down with petrol pumps which swung over the road.I bought my first car, a prewar Ford 8 from him for £100,- which was the new price in 1938 !
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Abbey Hotel
I think that is the name of the pub/hotel on the right hand side not far from the entrance gate to the Abbey. I used to stay there as a child with my mum & dad. My dad met the licencee Harry (Allman?) in the second world war. It ...Read more
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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 ...Read more
A memory of Whalley in 1920 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 ...Read more
A memory of Kirkham in 1930
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 ...Read more
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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
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This fine church at the top end of the Market Place was situated by the south gate of the Abbey.
In about 1720 St Olave's was almost entirely rebuilt with stone from St Mary's Abbey.
In about 1720 St Olave's was almost entirely rebuilt with stone from St Mary's Abbey.
This area of Malmesbury was once called the Sheep Fair; it is in the parish of Westport, which by the late 19th century became a civil parish of westport St Mary Within.
In about 1720 St Olave's was almost entirely rebuilt with stone from St Mary's Abbey.
This photograph shows the magnificent hammer-beam roof of c1445, the Star of David St Edmund window of 1844 copied from the Abbey Gate, and the rood screen, which was erected as a Boer War Memorial in
At the far end is Abbeygate Street, with the three-storey Barclays Bank of 1881, which incorporated the Post and Sorting Office until 1895, the Midland Bank of 1914, and Whipps the fishmonger.
The medieval town was at its gates, but moved westwards to its present location.
Thomas Berry, a yeoman farmer, built this house on the site of an abbey in 1745.
Carrington renamed Loakes Manor the much more romantic Wycombe Abbey, and set about Gothicising and extending the house.
Beaumont Street is named after the family of Viscount Allendale; here stands the great Abbey Church of St Andrew that makes Hexham important.
Bindon Abbey was the location of an important Cistercian monastery and dates back to 1172.
The Abbey Church of St Editha dates from Norman times, but Polesworth Abbey is said to have been founded by King Egbert in 827.
All the stone used in the building came from the ruins of the abbey, a hundred yards away.
Just visible on the right, peeping through the trees, is Torre Abbey, home of the Cary family for 300 years.
Malmesbury Abbey`s unique south porch, dating from the mid 12th century and built in the Romanesque style, is decorated with thirty-eight fine sculptures depicting detailed and elaborate images, some
Although fragments of the Norman abbey remain, the present abbey church dates from 1499, and was a prodigiously long time a-building: the nave was still roofless into the 17th century.
The abbey church of St Peter and St Paul is all that remains of an Augustinian abbey built on the site in 1170.
One of the country's largest parish churches, the abbey was founded in the 8th century, and refounded in 1091.
It was owned by the Benedictine monks at nearby Ramsey Abbey, whom the local farmers tended to regard as crooks.
This church may have the oldest foundations of any in Lancashire, dating from Saxon times.
Facing us is Abbey Mill, whose origins date back eight centuries to the time when monks from the Benedictine monastery diverted the River Avon to power the mill to grind the corn that made their daily
This former Cistercian abbey was founded in 1131 by Walter de la Clare.
In the grounds there is a sundial dating from the 1700s.The biggest problem for visitors to Whalley today is finding a space to park.Whalley Abbey and its grounds have passed through many hands since
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