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Bristol's Leaning Tower Of Temple

Pisa has its famous leaning tower - and so does Bristol, with its drunkenly off-vertical tower of Temple Church in Temple Street. The tower isn't on the stupendous scale of its Italian counterpart, it's true. But its ...Read more

A memory of Bristol by Paul Townsend

The Fire And Before

I was a child at Avondale College at the top of Wilbury Road in 1955 and was 'made' to perform The Teddy Bear's Picnic as a teddy bear (I can still smell the costume!) on the stage of the old Town Hall. In around 1959, I attended a ...Read more

A memory of Hove by Tony Hagon

Bampton Open Day

Each August Bank Holiday Monday Bampton, near Exmoor, is the venue for a huge village open day. This year's event featured a duck race, teddy bear parachuting form the top of St Michael's Church Tower, tombola, white elephant sales ...Read more

A memory of Bampton in 2010 by John Howard Norfolk

Food Outlets

I can remember the suppliers of food and the taxi rank on the island at the Clock Tower - their pies were particularly nice and the taxi drivers very friendly. At the same place the freshly loaded coal wagons used to park whilst ...Read more

A memory of Thornton Heath in 1940 by Peter Lake

A Schoolboy's View Of Bexleyheath In The Early 1950s

I went to school in Bexleyheath between 1950 and 1954. I believe the school was in Pelham Road but I can't be sure. Maybe there was a separate infants department in North Street? My first (very ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath in 1950 by John Howard Norfolk

I Moved To Canada But Still Remember.

I was in Mill Chase school and I remember students' names like Dennis Osmond, Bill Phillips, Bill Pike, Christopher Bowers, Sam Moory and Susan Moory, Sandra Dent, Sandra Johns and Elizabeth Coyte. How I would love ...Read more

A memory of Bordon in 1963 by Stephen Guay

Wyleboro Farm, Havering Atte Bower

Does anyone remember Wyleboro Farm in Havering atte Bower, owned by my grandmother Mrs Maggie Saward? She also owned the riding school near the Green with her sons John, Tom and my mother Nancy,and I ...Read more

A memory of Havering-atte-Bower in 1950 by Wendy Tait

Cainey Family

My grandparents, lived in Lower South Wraxall all their married life. They were married in St James Church and are buried in the churchyard, along with their son Harald. Their daughter Emily (Sis) as she was known, sang in the ...Read more

A memory of South Wraxall in 1959 by Rosamond Farley

Queens And Kingsland Dance Halls

What happy memories I recall of my early dancing days, learning to jive at the Queens Kingsland and New Brighton Tower. I went a lot with my older brother Cliffy Keogh, there were live bands then and only stayed ...Read more

A memory of Birkenhead in 1957 by Frances Keogh

Not A Care In The World

If anyone were to ask me when I was most happy, I would have to go back some considerable time to those years spent in Wheatley Hill, more especially the late 1940s all of the 1950s and early 1960s. Truly magical times, ...Read more

A memory of Wheatley Hill in 1954 by Frank Dinsdale

Captions

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Caption For Cresswell, Pele Tower C1955

Looking out over Druridge Bay, the rectangular three-storey tower of the late 14th to early 15th centuries takes its name from the Cresswell family.

Caption For Braintree, Bocking End C1955

The Co-operative's elegant range of buildings with a clock tower was another victim of 1960s development in the town. The Society was formed by a group of silk workers in 1864.

Caption For Loch Leven, The Castle C1890

Though there was a castle here that withstood a siege in 1335, the five-storey tower-house dates from the late 14th to early 15th century.

Caption For Brixton, Angell Town From The South C1965

Angell Town was an estate of 1850s Italianate villas, mostly semi-detached, built on curving roads centred on St John's church, whose 1853 tower is crowned by four pinnacles.

Caption For Great Yarmouth, The Beach 1899

It was known for its pleasure beach, and before the days of the scenic railway visitors could get a bird's eye view of the town from the Revolving Tower (left).

Caption For Durham, The Cathedral 1892

The nave, transepts and the four west choir bays were built between 1093 and 1133; Bishop Hugh Pudsey added the Galilee Chapel at the western end in 1175; the two west towers were built between

Caption For Devizes, St James's Church 1898

The tall west tower has diagonal buttresses, with buttress shafts and pinnacles in relief. Nave and tower are Perpendicular.

Caption For Piddinghoe, The Village C1955

It has a Norman flint-built round tower, and a shingled octagonal spire. It is one of the three Norman round towers of Sussex.

Caption For Farnham, Castle Keep 1935

Farnham had been an ecclesiastical estate since the 7th century, but it was Henry of Blois, Bishop of Winchester from 1129-1171, who began building a castle when he ordered the raising of a motte and tower

Caption For Wymondham, The Abbey 1891

When they see it from the road or the nearby railway, travellers are puzzled by this church with towers at both ends.

Caption For Newbury, Clock Tower C1955

This is another view of one of Newbury's best-loved local landmarks – the Clock Tower.

Caption For Nether Alderley, Welsh Row 1896

The south porch is 15th-century, but there is evidence of it being moved to its present position when the tower was built in the early 16th century.

Caption For Braintree, Bocking End C1955

The Co-operative's elegant range of buildings with a clock tower was another victim of 1960s development in the town. The Society was formed by a group of silk workers in 1864.

Caption For Worthing, The Bowling Green In The Park 1906

General View 1890 New Shoreham was a prosperous medieval port with a superb parish church, St Mary de Haura, whose great central tower can be seen in this view.

Caption For Seend, Church Of The Holy Cross 1899

This splendid Perpendicular church at Seend, near Devizes, is ashlar-faced; there are gargoyles, battlements and pinnacles, and a squat west tower.

Caption For Moreton In Marsh, Curfew Tower C1960

Between 1633 and 1860 a bell was tolled daily in the town's 15th-century Curfew Tower owing to an unusual bequest.

Caption For Crosby, The Windmill C1960

Crosby Mill is a good example of a tower mill, a design that appeared after the post mill was established.

Caption For North Berwick, Quality Street 1897

The corner shop is long gone, but the clock tower remains.

Caption For Bitteswell, White Cottage And St Mary's Church C1960

St Mary's with its late 13th-century tower dominates the east side of the village green. On the south side of the tower is a recess which may once have held a monument.

Caption For Pennard, The Castle 1893

There is a twin-towered gatehouse to the landward side, and square towers at each corner of the curtain wall. There is little information as to who owned Pennard, or who even lived in it.

Caption For Bitteswell, White Cottage And St Mary's Church C1960

St Mary's with its late 13th-century tower dominates the east side of the village green. On the south side of the tower is a recess which may once have held a monument.

Caption For Reculver, Beach And Towers 1892

The famous twin towers of the Norman church, built on the site of an earlier Saxon abbey and the centre of the Roman fortress of Regulbium, built around AD 280 by Carausius, were for many centuries a landmark

Caption For Liverpool, The Floating Road 1895

We can also see the distinctive square Tower Building to the right. The floating road was supported on pontoons that rose and fell with the tide, which is high in our photo.

Caption For Beaumaris, Castle And Recreation Ground 1911

The walls were 15ft thick, and like the gatehouses they were flanked by six towers. Beaumaris was, in fact, never completed.