Maps

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Books

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Memories

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Old Teacher At Martock C Of E Primary Scool

Hullo, Martock and Bower Hintoners of 1962! My name is Richard James. Currently I am 86 and still ‘ with it’ , I like to think. The happiest teaching year of my whole life was at Martock, and I was the ...Read more

A memory of Bower Hinton by Richard James

My Local.

I remember the fire that destroyed this lovely hotel. Prior to that I was working at the Hunters Inn Hotel and Blackmoor Gate was my local. They had 4 great Danes which towered above the bar. Two were lost in the fire, also a young lady who ...Read more

A memory of Exmoor by Carol Ash

Tower Street

There was a fruit wholesaler in Tower Street. Think it may have been Southalls. I remember being taken as a child to see the huge cart horses dressed up for May Day. They looked spectacular with their gleaming coats, plaited manes, ...Read more

A memory of Dudley by Susanne Taylor

Living In A Train

My mother lived for a time in an old railway carriage close to the post office store - it later became used by a tailor for his business. MY grandad Charles Webster in the 60's helped to forge and erect the old swings and seesaw ...Read more

A memory of Holton by Yvonne Rautenbach

My Teenage Years

Living in Bearwood (posh end of Smethwick) I pushed my bike then Lambreta Scooter up and down the Hagley Road between 1956-62 as I served out my engineering apprenticeship at Bellis & Morcom, Ledsam Street, Edgbaston.  Good ...Read more

A memory of Edgbaston in 1956 by Terry King

Cippenham, The Children's Recreational Park

The Park was taken over once a year by a large travelling fun fair (Traylens) with traditional rides and amusements (a helter-skelter tower) and mechanical rides (Dive Bomber, The Whip and Dodgems) and ...Read more

A memory of Cippenham in 1957 by Patrick Butterly

The Lynch And St Gildas Convent

The year I was born and lived at 1 Lymn Villas the Lynch until 1958. My father was Town Clerk since the mid 1930s and I was amazed to hear that Langmore Gardens slid into the sea but the Marine Theatre is still ...Read more

A memory of Lyme Regis in 1947 by Patience Gent

Romford And Havering Atte Bower,Very Fond Memories

We moved to Romford in 1951 from Havering where we lived with Nan and Grandad in Pinewood Road. It was an exciting time for me but also an unhappy time leaving Nan and Grandad's house. We moved in ...Read more

A memory of Romford in 1951 by Helen Scott

Wilkins Of Priors Hardwick

If anyone has knowledge of the Wilkins family of Priors Hardwick who lived at Church End in the 1800s, I'd love to hear from you. My husband's ancestor Mary Wilkins was born there in 1820 and bore a daughter ...Read more

A memory of Priors Hardwick by R K

Olympic Games & After

My father, who worked for Philips Electrical (Mullard Amplifier Division) was the Sound Engineer at both the Wembley Stadium and Pool during the entire Olympic Games of 1948. He had to work very long hours not only during the ...Read more

A memory of Wembley in 1948 by Clive Warneford

Captions

3,036 captions found. Showing results 913 to 936.

Caption For Rusper, The Village 1909

Just visible in this photograph is the church of St Mary Magdalene, which has a large and striking tower. Inside are various old brasses, together with the royal arms of George I.

Caption For Coggeshall, Stoneham Street C1965

Little has changed since this picture was taken, save that the clock tower of 1887 is now painted blue and white.

Caption For Trusthorpe, Trustville C1955

The tower in the background is of the church of St Peter in Trusthorpe village.

Caption For Great Shelford, The Village 1914

The parish church with its octagonal tower and spire rises over the roofs.

Caption For Hartlepool, The Harbour C1960

The Dock Master's Office stands on the left, with its clock tower. An impressive marina is now established nearby.

Caption For Eastbourne, Western Lawns 1910

The town climbs increasingly steeply away from the sea to the west of the Wish Tower, with an expansive green- sward, known as the Western Lawns, between the much lower promenade and the buildings fronting

Caption For Horndean, The Windmill C1965

Chalton Down Mill was a brick tower windmill located on a remote hill top overlooking the main London to Portsmouth road. It was powered by four patent shuttered sails and winded by a fantail.

Caption For Truro, Calenick Village 1912

The clock tower on the far side of the bridge belonged to an important tin smelting works which operated throughout most of the 18th and 19th centuries before closing in 1891.

Caption For Bodmin, Mount Folly Square 1906

Over the roofs rises the four-pinnacled tower of the parish church, the largest in Cornwall. This broad, pleasing square was later converted into a car park.

Caption For Penrice, The Castle, Tower Lodge 1910

The earliest castle was an earthwork and timber fortification at Mounty Brough, built soon after the Normans had taken the Gower.

Caption For Cambridge, King's Parade 1933

To the left is the Senate House, while the tower with four distinctive turrets belongs to the Church of Great St Mary.

Caption For Springfield, Church 1892

All Saints' church, admired for its brick tower, has a nave dating back to the 12th century.

Caption For Hoddesdon, Burford Street And Clock Tower C1950

After the First World War, the former Market Place was congregated here around the 1835 brick clock tower, built on the site of a mediaeval chapel.

Caption For Newton Abbot, Clock Tower 1898

The lone tower of St Leonard's is all that remains of what was once a 14th-century church that was demolished in 1836.

Caption For Bexhill On Sea, Clock Tower And Bandstand 1904

The children are standing in front of Bexhill's clock tower, which was erected on the Parade in 1902 to commemorate the Coronation of King Edward VII.

Caption For Ilkeston, Parish Church And War Memorial C1955

The originally 14th-century pinnacled tower of St Mark's parish church watches over Ilkeston's wide Market Place, with the town's war memorial in the foreground.

Caption For Norwich, Royal Hotel And Post Office 1901

Opposite is the Royal Hotel, with its red brick facade, steep roofs and decorative towers, promising Victorian travellers a sophisticated welcome.

Caption For Musbury, Post Office C1965

He had it rebuilt with this pagoda-like tower in 1872.

Caption For Yarcombe, Yarcombe Inn C1955

Uplyme's church tower is 47 feet high and a prominent landmark, once used a triangulation station by mapmakers.

Caption For Cucklington, St Lawrence's Church C1965

Its tower has a cupola and plaque dating from the restoration after a storm in 1703. Inside is a chapel to St Barbara with a 15th-century picture of her in stained glass.

Caption For Richmond, Market Place C1965

This view shows its sloping, circular, cobbled Market Place, with the tower of Holy Trinity Church, now a museum for the Green Howards Regiment from nearby Catterick Garrison, on the right.

Caption For Widecombe In The Moor, The Church C1871

St Pancras Church, with its lofty pinnacled tower, was built in granite in the 14th century. It was to come to Widecombe Fair that Uncle Tom Cobley borrowed Tom Pearce's grey mare.

Caption For Ely, The Cathedral From The River 1891

The 14th century octagonal central tower is a piece of architectural genius - four hundred tons of masonry appear from the inside to be suspended without any apparent means of support.