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A Lovely Village Where Time Has Stood Still
I recently visited Kirdford with my mother to try and trace family history. My mother is a Pullen and all her ancestors originated from Kirdford, we visited the graveyard and lo and behold found some ...Read more
A memory of Kirdford in 2006 by
Brimscombe Corner & Burleigh 1910 62690
This photo is taken 100 yards up Brimscombe lane, looking back across the Golden Valley. The lane itself leads back up to Thrupp Lane & Dark lane, which is on its way to Quarhouse and the Lypiatt Manor, ...Read more
A memory of Brimscombe by
Zeals House, Preparatory School 1948 1952
After the War, after the Royal Air Force had vacated the property, Zeals House became home to Stroud School. A history of the school written by the Headmaster can be found on the following website: ...Read more
A memory of Zeals by
Summer Holidays With Granny
I was brought up in Ireland, but we spent a month of the summer every year with our grandparents, who lived in Frindsbury and, later, Wainscott. Going by the Maidstone and District buses into Strood, Chatham, Rochester ...Read more
A memory of Strood in 1960 by
Old School Days
I remember in what must be 1952 I attended Chapter school for girls in Cliffe Road Frindsbury. Does anyone remember Joy Poynter, I believe she lived fairly close to the school. I think it must have been demolished because it seems ...Read more
A memory of Strood in 1952 by
What Stood Here Prior To Clifton House?
I don't have a memory. All I would like to know, is what stood here before? As the boulevard has some older houses and the Fox Hollies pub would have stood opposite, so would this have been waste ...Read more
A memory of Acock's Green by
Fulham Girl
I lived in Burlington Road, at No.1 - it was called Jubilee Terrace, and was built to commemorate one of Queen Victoria's Jubilees. There was a pottery at the New Kings Rd end of Burlington Road which was built way back in the reign of ...Read more
A memory of Fulham in 1955 by
Our Gang
I was born in Russel Place off Hankinson St. We had cockroaches all over the house and there was 8 kids & 2 adults in a 2up 2down. We had no money & my dad was a gambler & a violent man. In 1952 we were rehoused to Corby ...Read more
A memory of Salford in 1953 by
Assemblies Of God Pentecostal Church
In the 1932 The A O G was to rent a piece of land within Sheffield. It was intended to buy the land from the landowner should all go well. A marquee was put up and decked out with basic chairs. Prior to the ...Read more
A memory of Sheffield in 1900 by
Asylum Road Arlesey
Alma Allen was born at home in Asylum Road, Arlesey, now called Hospital Road. They later moved in with Herbert's dad, Big Jim, who lived in the Gothic Farm House that was at the bottom of the yet to be built Lynton ...Read more
A memory of Arlesey in 1930 by
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below: STROUD, Butter Row, Old Pyke
The statue had stood in the Old Market Square for 48 years until it was removed in 1953 and replaced by a traffic island.
as the site for Orleans Park Secondary School in the 1970s, and all that now remains of the once celebrated landscape is a small garden next to the Octagon Gallery where the original house stood
The places where the piers stood are still visible.
This group of Tudor houses was originally plastered, and before a road-widening scheme in 1931, three gables stood across the St Margaret's Plain end.
On the west bank of the Ant stood Ludham Mill, a tower mill nearly 50ft high to the iron curb, with a base diameter of 12ft 4in, including 18in thick walls.
The Iron Duke, depicted here in bronze, originally stood at Hyde Park Corner in London before being dismantled piece by piece and transported to Aldershot by horses.
This truncated church is all that remains of the great abbey that once stood on this site.
The place-name allegedly refers to 'a tree of extraordinary bigness' that once stood in Hatfield Forest. The tree is now called the Doodle Oak.
The Prince Albert (left), served in 1960 by Stroud Brewery, remains little changed. The Prince Albert first appears in the trade directory of 1914, when James Lawson was its landlord.
The stone reads: 'Here stood the oak tree on which an arrow shot by Sir Walter Tyrrell at a stag glanced and struck King William the Second surnamed Rufus on the breast of which he instantly died on the
This fountain stood at the top of Monument Hill. It was erected in 1896 in memory of Henry Yool, a local benefactor and Vice-Chairman of the newly-formed Surrey County Council from 1889-92.
The Iron Duke, depicted here in bronze, originally stood at Hyde Park Corner in London before being dismantled piece by piece and transported to Aldershot by horses.
A church has stood here from at least Norman times, though most of the present building is 15th-century, with a 20th-century family chapel added by Lord Portman.
By 1903, the population stood at around 16,800 and, by 1920, would grow by another 1,000 or so.
The town crier has long stood on this spot in order to communicate important news to the people of Winchester. The nearby pillar-box stands near the site of the old town pump.
West Gate, at the top of Winchester's High Street, has stood on the line of the city wall for over 600 years.
St Bride's Hotel was built on the site of an old white house where previously a farm had stood.
There were four entrances: the East Gate, which still stands between High Street and Fore Street; the West Gate, which stood in the Narrows; the South Gate, behind the square on South Street; and the
The George, a former coaching inn, has stood at the junction of the Grindleford Road and the Sheffield Road in Hathersage for about 300 years.
It stood here for centuries before the neighbouring resort had a single house. Despite some modern building, it remains as attractive as this photograph suggests.
The original Count's House was about 100 yards nearer to Prebend's Bridge and was the home of Count Boruwlaski, a Polish dwarf who stood just 39 inches high.
The building to the left is the rear of the China Bowl, which fronts onto the market place near the main entrance to the church, where once the stocks and whipping post stood.
The town crier has long stood on this spot in order to communicate important news to the people of Winchester. The nearby pillar-box stands near the site of the old town pump.
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