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Park Street , Bristol Bs1
My, how Bristol's once prestigious Park Street has changed. The picture from a hundred years ago shows just what a graceful place it was to shop in those Edwardian days of long ago. Strolling up, on the left, one could ...Read more
A memory of Bristol by
Jarrett Family Of Ermington
In 1907 my Great-uncle, Arthur Jarrett, married Elizabeth Daniels in Ermington church. Elizabeth was the daugher of Frederick Daniels, who was then the landlord of the 'First and Last' Inn in Ermington. Arthur Jarrett ...Read more
A memory of Ermington in 1900
Power Boats
The wooden clinker built boat, painted white in the lower right of the picture, was one of a pair of fast boats that the late Arthur Shippey and Tom Louis ran from coffee house end steps. They would call loudly ""half hour trips round ...Read more
A memory of Whitby in 1953 by
The Taylors Of Well Street
My father was Arthur Marsden Taylor born in Elton 1896, he had two brothers William (1900) and Benjamin Aaron (1890), their mother was Sarah Ann Taylor (no father named), and her mother I believe Elizabeth Taylor, daughter ...Read more
A memory of Elton in 1890 by
Post Office
I was born in Hereford in 1952 to Roland S G Hodges and Doreen his wife. I have fond memories of Kings Caple and Fawley. My grandmother ran the village post office for nearly 40 years right up to decimalization. She ran her Post ...Read more
A memory of King's Caple in 1960 by
Lost Times
My memories are of Okenden in the early days, my father was born there and was from a family of 11 children, he was called Arthur Oakley, he lived there when the local bobby walked the streets pushing his pushbike, and if he did ...Read more
A memory of South Ockendon in 1959 by
Wartime Years In Llanarmon Yn Ial
Shortly after the outbreak of war, my Father who had a pet shop in Wallasey, evacuated the family to Llanarmon. We consisted of Dad, Mum, my brother Ray and myself. We moved into Rose Cottage in the ...Read more
A memory of Llanarmon-yn-Ial in 1940 by
Swimming Pool Drinks
Wow! I had almost forgotten about this pool. I have already recorded memories of swimming in the rivers at Bishopstoke, but when there was an epidemic of Polio we were all stopped from going into the river and went to the ...Read more
A memory of Eastleigh in 1953 by
The Howard Family Of Barnes And Hammersmith
My Great-Great-Grandad, Henry Howard, lived in the early 1800’s - a time of great rural depression - and so he left his Devon home to look for work in London with the result that several generations of my ...Read more
A memory of Barnes in 1870 by
Hall Farm Eastham
I lived at Hall Farm during the war years and along with my sister attended the Village School where Bill Haining was headmaster. My father farmed 300 acres in and around Eastham and kept a dairy herd of about 50 cows. The farm ...Read more
A memory of Eastham in 1940
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The vicar in 1906 was the Rev Arthur Pannell. Inside is a monument to Robert and Frances Andrews of Auberies, who in 1749 were the subject of one of Gainsborough's most famous paintings.
Geoffrey of Monmouth wrote in the 12th century that King Arthur was taken here after his last battle. The monks of the abbey reputedly found his grave in Glastonbury.
Locals were most surprised when it was claimed by Lord Haw Haw to have been sunk during the war, when it was known as HMS Royal Arthur and was a Royal Navy training camp.
Next door is Sketchley's, the dry-cleaners, and Arthur Rickett. The imposing brick building beyond was, as many local children will remember, the dentist's surgery.
Locals were most surprised when it was claimed by Lord Haw Haw to have been sunk during the war, when it was known as HMS Royal Arthur and was a Royal Navy training camp.
The church suffered Victorian restoration and correction of ‘incorrect’ window tracery at the hands of Arthur Blomfield in 1881, but fortunately the 14th- century timber-framed and shingled tower and
Arthur Trevorrow is throwing a jug on the wheel; beside him are various examples of his work, beautifully hand-decorated with slip in waves, whorls and dots.
The extensions were designed by Sir Arthur Blomfield and completed in 1886, and by and large this is the church we see today.
In the churchyard of All Saints' Church are the graves of Herbert Asquith, Liberal Prime Minister from 1908 to 1916, and Eric Arthur Blair, who may be better known as the novelist George Orwell.
Further west and more in Aldwick than Bognor is Arthur's Home, a convalescent home built in the 1890s, one of many. It survives as Ashley House and is now a Shaftesbury Home.
A couple of decades later, according to Geoffrey of Monmouth writing in 1136, King Arthur fought his adversary Modred on this shore.
The school was designed by Sir Arthur Bloomfield in 1883; it contained the Headmaster's residence, boarding accommodation and classrooms, including the 'Big School', later the library, on the ground floor
A rare tin sign for Arthur Rozier, tin and zinc worker, is on the 16th-century jettied building to the left.
Among the more interesting graves in the churchyard are those of John Fineghan, who was an orderly to Florence Nightingale, and Sir Arthur Hammond, VC, KCB, DSO.
Standing high above the town centre and attractively sited on the crown of the hill, the church with its elegant broach spire was designed by Sir Arthur Blomfield in c1861, but not completed until 1881
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle set some of his Sherlock Holmes story 'The Valley of Fear' at nearby Groombridge Place, where there is now a museum dedicated to this great writer's most famous creation.
The Grand Hotel of 1898 by Cecil Ogden (1858-1944) dominates its southern end, while the rather exuberant Turkey Cafe of 1901 by Arthur Wakerley and the Victoria Coffee House of 1888 by Edward
run by George Rampling; next door is Boggis's the drapers in the 18th-century building with dormer windows; then comes William Alston's 'Second Hand Furniture Warehouse' and the Green Dragon run by Arthur
Next door is Arthur Routledge, an auctioneer; beside him, over half a century on from 1899, Walter Willson's service is still smiling on Guisborough.
Legend suggests that this may have been the site of King Arthur's battle at Mount Badon where he killed 960 people in a single day!
However, the body of the building is modest, with a faithful partial restoration in 1878 by Sir Arthur Blomfield (1829-99), whose major work was the rebuilding of the nave and south transept
The stones evoke mystery and abound with folklore that even the famous Sir Arthur Evans (who excavated Knossos, Crete) recounts in some detail; unfortunately, space does not permit it to be included here
St Joseph's Catholic Church, designed by Frederick Arthur Walters, was erected in 1895 in Falkland Grove, off Coldharbour Lane.
Arthur Bunting (left) dealt in woollens and linen; Curl Brothers owned the huge shop on the right of the picture, which was floodlit at night by the eight lamp posts erected on the pavement.
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