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Memories

132 memories found. Showing results 31 to 40.

1960's Memories

I was born in Perivale Maternity hospital in 1961 and lived at 194 Bilton Road until 1980, when I got married in St. Nicholas Church Wadsworth Road and moved to 97 Bilton Road. I remember getting my pocket money every Saturday and ...Read more

A memory of Perivale by Angie Carmichael

Perivale, 1964 1994

I was born at 194 Bilton Road in June 1964 and my name was Jackie Wall. I attended Perivale Nursery School, then the infant school and followed by the middle school. I was terrified of the headmistress Mrs Charlton, but ...Read more

A memory of Perivale by Jackie Gindrat

Chute School

i went to st nicholas school in the mid 70s i lived in chute forrest at 6 orchard cottages.have fond memories of mrs KINGS "bonfire day soup" and mr and mrs MAJORS were the teacchers. was good pals with david cherrington,rowan ...Read more

A memory of Upper Wield by Howard Rees

Chute School And Village

I lived in Chute from 1952 until 1970. Chute School from 1955 until 1962. I went to Chute of E School at the age of 4. I remember it well. A good school with strict teachers. Miss Haggar was Headmistress and Mrs Cane ...Read more

A memory of Upper Wield in 1955 by Laurel Humphreys

Memories Of My Gran

I was born in Tean and in about 1957, when I was 8 yrs old, I was allowed to travel to Cheadle alone on the PMT service buses. I was 8yrs old. My gran would meet me at the cinema stop on Butlers Hill. She would ...Read more

A memory of Cheadle in 1957 by Janita Plant

Ghost Bride

There is a story about a ghost that haunts St Nicholas, Laindon. The story goes that centuries ago, a young woman on leaving the church on the arm of her new husband, tripped and fell down the steps outside the church. She broke her ...Read more

A memory of Laindon by Ann Martin

Treasured Memories

My family moved to West Horndon from Millwall during the war, my nan and grandad already lived at 13 cadogan and we lived at 9, later to be changed to 29. I lived in the village for twenty four years, got married at St ...Read more

A memory of West Horndon in 1940 by Beryl Lloyd

My Birthplace

My mother, Lily Mathtews and I, were both born in the same miner's cottage at 109 Station Rd, just cross from the Welcome Church. She was born in 1903 and I in 1932. My granny, Ada, was an artist and moved to 8 Sunnyside, and ...Read more

A memory of Cramlington in 1940 by Charles Mc Gregor

Beck Road South Now Waterside Road

I lived with my family, the Widdowsons, at 6 Beck Road South from 1938 to the late 50s. Dad, Douglas, was the Branch Manager at the Co-op at Register Square in town. I remember playing cricket on Crane Hill ...Read more

A memory of Beverley in 1940 by Joan Roseveare

Kay Key Moss Farm Witherslack

My great-great-great-grandfather JOSEPH FLETCHER Esq lived at Kay Moss Farm (as it was called then), now known as Key Moss. He is buried along with 3 of his children who died young and 1 daughter Ellen at St ...Read more

A memory of Witherslack in 1870

Captions

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Caption For Barfrestone, The Church Of St Nicholas C1960

The amazing stone carvings at the church of St Nicholas makes this church one of the most perfect specimens of pure Saxon in the country.

Caption For Salthouse, The Village And The Church C1955

On a declivity towards the sea, the highest ground is occupied by the church of St Nicholas, rebuilt in the late 16th century by Sir Henry Heydon.

Caption For Great Yarmouth, The Market 1922

The market has always done brisk trade, but it is most renowned for seafood and chips.

Caption For Bramber, The Village Street C1950

The Norman church of St Nicholas is perched on a small hill near the castle ruins.

Caption For Guisborough, Westgate C1955

Here we have a clearer view of the tall Town Hall building to the right, and beyond it lies the premises of the National Provincial Bank.

Caption For Barry, All Saints Church C1945

The church was built on the site of the former coastguards' cottages; it was built in two stages - the first was consecrated in 1908 and the second in 1915 - a great deal of stone used for its construction

Caption For Kings Norton, The Village Green C1960

It remains one of the leafier suburbs, though in 1936 the city council destroyed much of its appeal by demolishing the lovely old cottages which clustered round the green.

Caption For Ilfracombe, Lantern Hill 1899

Lantern Hill and the Chapel of St Nicholas are not just a focal point for visitors; for centuries the light on the chapel was a vital navigational aid for mariners.

Caption For Bramber, The Church 1890

The sturdy church of St Nicholas was originally the castle chapel, and probably dates back to the 11th century.

Caption For Abbotsbury, Market Street C1955

The mostly 15th-century church of St Nicholas rises above the narrow street of stone cottages.

Caption For Great Yarmouth, The Market 1891

On market days it echoes Yarmouth's seafaring traditions, the colourful awnings stretching out like waves to the horizon.

Caption For Bath, View From The Abbey 1929

The other dome to its right belongs to the covered market.

Caption For East Dereham, Bishop Bonner's Cottage 1898

This thatched cottage with its distinctive pargetting (moulded plaster decoration) was home to one of East Dereham's more infamous sons, Bishop Bonner, the Rector of nearby St Nicholas's Church in the

Caption For Salthouse, The Village And The Church C1955

The church of St Nicholas overlooks the village and the sea; it was built in c1500, but its tower formed part of an earlier church.

Caption For Kings Norton, Old Saracen's Head 1949

The village church, dedicated to St Nicholas, is Norman in origin and was partially rebuilt during the 13th century.Within a few decades the church was extended; the west tower with its octagonal spire

Caption For Scarborough, St Nicholas Cliff C1955

It provides a detailed study of both clothing and baby carriages of the period.

Caption For Burton, The Village C1955

Very little has changed, except that the unsightly telegraph poles have now gone, along with the shutters on St Nicholas House to the right.

Caption For Abingdon, The Market Place C1955

The origins of St Nicholas' Church date back to the 12th century.

Caption For Exeter, The Cathedral, The Nave Looking East 1896

It was completed by Bishop Grandison and rests on blue-grey columns of Purbeck marble.

Caption For Worcester, The Cross 1923

The Cross lies between Foregate Street and High Street, and derives its name from a cross that once stood there.

Caption For New Romney, Composite C1955

St Nicholas' Church, New Romney, dates from the 12th century.

Caption For Broadwoodwidger, The Church C1950

Standing above the valley of the River Wolf, the Church of St Nicholas is first recorded in 1288 when a Parochial Quota of £13 was paid to the Deanery of Tavistock.

Caption For Worth, St Nicholas's Church And The Lychgate C1960

The fine Anglo-Saxon church of St Nicholas was a principal church in pre-Conquest times.The 18th-century Worth Abbey is on the site of a town house called Paddockhurst.

Caption For Addlethorpe, Church C1955

St Nicholas' Church and the village are now bypassed from the busy A52 that thunders along towards Mablethorpe.