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St Marys

Can anyone elaborate please, on the so called bloodstain on the roof near the spike? When I was young and living in Horden (late 1960s) I was told it had something to do with a young boy who climbed onto the roof to retrieve his lost ...Read more

A memory of Horden by Jennifer Ward

The Buss Family

My dad was born in Burham in the 1920s. His mum was born there as well. My dad's name was Raymond Jesse Buss and his mum and dad were George and Audrey. I believe they lived at 3 the High Street. My nan lived at Marlborough Place ...Read more

A memory of Burham by Sandra Church

Trefriw My Home In The 40's And 50's.

This picture was taken a year after I left Trefriw for Canada. I was married at St. Mary's Church and lived at Tan Dderwen near Crafnant Lake, later at Glanrafon in the village. My parents were the ...Read more

A memory of Trefriw in 1951 by Nancy Young

The Good Old Days Continued

I also recall the days when the old tramp used to go around the bins in the old market hall looking for food, and old Les the deaf mute who used to hang around the taxi rank on Market Hill, he used to go to Warwicks fish ...Read more

A memory of Luton by Michael Bream

St Saviours Road Croydon

I was born in Croydon (St Mary's Hospital I think) in 1948. We lived in St Saviours Road until I was aged approximately 5 or 6 when we moved to the West Midlands. We would always go back though and spend some of our summer ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by Jan Thompson

Wartime Memories Of Hay Part Two

Memories of Hay during the Second World War: Part Two. (Continued from Part One) Thoughts of 'Dad's Army' remind me that the local Home Guard occasionally used Forest Road for some kind of exercise. I've dim ...Read more

A memory of Hay-on-Wye in 1940 by John S. Batts

Wartime Memories Of Hay Part Three Final

Wartime Memories of Hay: Part Three. (Continued) Apart from Ration Books and the coupon implications for restricted purchase of food and clothing, my own recollections of life in Hay during World War ...Read more

A memory of Hay-on-Wye in 1940 by John S. Batts

Growing Up In Holbeach St Marks (The Marsh)

Although I was actually born in Holbeach Bank, and spent the first 3 1/2 years of my life in Holbeach St Matthews, I spent my childhood in Holbeach St Marks. My mother and father Ray and Greta ...Read more

A memory of Holbeach St Marks in 1955 by Alan Gray

Growing Up At Newton Poppleford

I was born in London, moved to Oak Tree Villas at Newton Poppleford in Devon at 9 months. Jean Bastin lived on one side and Brian Pring on the other, with Mrs Harrison the church organist in the fourth ...Read more

A memory of Newton Poppleford in 1930 by David Page

Bristol's Loveliest Church, St Mary Redcliffe.

St Mary Redcliffe Church. Bristol's loveliest church, St Mary Redcliffe, was described as 'the fairest, the goodliest and most famous parish church in England' by Queen Elizabeth I in 1574. Thanks to ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1880 by Paul Townsend

Captions

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Caption For Launceston, Fore Street 1893

Women, their daughters and a delivery boy stand for the camera where the street climbs to St Mary Magdalene Church.

Caption For Hemsby, St Mary's Church C1955

Away from the tourist area of Beach Road the little village of Hemsby remained unspoilt for many years.

Caption For Cardiff, High Street 2004

Newcomers to the city often blur the distinction between St Mary Street and High Street pictured here.

Caption For Moseley, The Green C1965

The road past St Mary's church originally took an indirect course to avoid a marshy area, but in 1801 the marsh was drained and a more direct road was built.

Caption For Cropredy, Red Lion Street And Church C1955

The very narrow Red Lion Street in Cropredy (pronounced Cropreedy) is named after the Red Lion Inn, seen half way along the row of houses on the right.

Caption For Burton Lazars, St James's Church C1955

Here was the Hospital of St Mary and St Lazarus of Jerusalem, founded by Robert de Mowbray in the mid-l2th century.

Caption For Burton Lazars, St James's Church C1955

Here was the Hospital of St Mary and St Lazarus of Jerusalem, founded by Robert de Mowbray in the mid-l2th century.

Caption For Newark, Market Place C1965

This view was taken from the spire of St Mary's, and what a quiet day it is.

Caption For Astbury, Church C1955

One of the finest churches in Cheshire, St Mary's has a lovely setting overlooking the village green.

Caption For Liss, St Peter's Church 1901

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.

Caption For Chigwell, The Meadow C1965

The spire in the background is that of St Mary's, and this view has not changed.

Caption For Nether Alderley, St Mary's Church And The Rectory 1896

This view across the fields towards St Mary's and its rectory can still be seen today from the public footpaths that go from the church to Gatley Farm and Sand Lane.

Caption For Hertford, Drinking Fountain 1922

In 1888, when the site for the new library at Old Cross was being dug, a jumble of stones from the 13th-century St Mary the Less were uncovered.

Caption For Blackburn, The Boulevard 1902

Next to St Mary's is the Boulevard, once church land, but now the site of the city's bus and rail stations.

Caption For Hadleigh, The Row Chapel 1922

Under the will of Archdeacon Pykenham, twelve almshouses were built in 1490 on either side of the earlier wayside chapel of St. Mary

Caption For Leicester, The Tudor Gatehouse, Castle Street C1955

This attractive close-studded timbered house of the mid 15th century provides a fine, almost secret entrance to Castle Yard.

Caption For Warrington, St Mary's Catholic Church Interior 1895

St Mary's Church was built between 1875-77 on the site of a former cotton factory in Buttermarket Street, close to the working-class districts which provided its congregation.

Caption For Lincoln, High Street C1950

Much further south along the High Street is St Mary's Guildhall at the junction with Sibthorp Street.

Caption For Stafford, St Mary's Church C1965

The foundations of the 10th-century church of St Bertelin are laid out adjoining St Mary's behind the middle bench.

Caption For Haverfordwest, St Mary's Church, The Chancel 1899

Founded in the late 1100s, St Mary's was re-roofed in oak at the beginning of the 16th century.

Caption For Hull, Holy Trinity Church 1903

Two ancient churches occupy sites in the Old Town: St Mary's in nearby Lowgate, and the Church of the Holy Trinity, shown here with its attendant market stalls.

Caption For Chiddingstone, The Church 1891

The fine 14th-century church of St Mary, built of local sandstone, has a Perpendicular tower with dumpy crocketed pinnacles and full-length aisles of the same width as the nave and chancel.

Caption For Barnstaple, St Mary's Church Walk 1919

Strange though it may seem in this fin de siecle moral climate, St Mary Magdalene's was built because, in the early 19th century, the parish church could not handle the number of worshippers.

Caption For Stafford, Gaolgate Street C1955

The Church of St Mary has an unusual octagonal tower: it was here that Isaac Walton was baptized in 1593.