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Living In Chilton
My family moved to Chilton Foliat and took over the "Old Post Office". I was still young then and went to the old school run by Mr & Mrs Hassall who lived next door to the school. Two classrooms and very fond memories. At ...Read more
A memory of Chilton Foliat in 1964 by
Wonderful Times
My father moved to Cold Meece in 1960 to take up his job as a prison officer at the nearby Drake Hall open prison, and we stayed there for a couple of years before we moved to live at the prison itself. At the time I was between 9 ...Read more
A memory of Coldmeece in 1962 by
Longleat
My grandfather Cecil Welch, who was the local estate agent and auctioneer based at the Old Town Hall in the High Street, bought several old cottages next to the blacksmiths in Church End for his son John and wife Peggy, at the vast cost ...Read more
A memory of Great Dunmow in 1948
Childhood Memories From 1949
I was born in Hubert Terrace which ran off Bank Street and along to Cuthbert Street. Further down was School Street and Marian Street which ran along to Derwentwater Road, and on Derwentwater Road was Lady Vernon School ...Read more
A memory of Gateshead by
Looking Back To The Early Days
I was born in rented 'rooms' at Wordsworth Road in 1936 and came to move with my parents to five different addresses at Easington before I moved away from the area, when I married in 1963. But although my ...Read more
A memory of Easington Colliery in 1900 by
Hammer Of The Year Dance
At the end of the 1972/1973 football season, and at the age of 17, I went for the first (and only) time to the annual Hammer of the Year dance at East Ham town Hall organised by West Ham United. I went with my friend Diane ...Read more
A memory of East Ham in 1973 by
Abc Lyric Cinema
I was the Chief Projectionist at the Lyric from approx 1957 until 1963 when I was appointed as Co Chief/Lighting Engineer at the new ABC Blackpool. The Manager at the Lyric was Mr Ron Crabb and when he moved to another ABC ...Read more
A memory of Wellingborough in 1957 by
Bettws Memories
I was born and lived in Betws until I was nine. I remember attending the Chapel behind the Oddfellows pub and enjoying the Christmas parties we had held in the hall next door. Mrs Perry's shop was always a ritual every day ...Read more
A memory of Bettws in 1976 by
Lymington In The 1940s
My maternal grandmother and mother were both born in Lymington, my mother attending the grammar school in Brockenhurst (I remember as a small boy her pointing it out to me from the train) In 1944, when the V1 'doodlebugs' ...Read more
A memory of Lymington in 1944 by
A Glance Backwards
I came to live in Stadhampton in 1954 from Henley on Thames. My father was the village Policeman. I found that even for 1954 life in Stadhampton was comparatively primitive compared with what I was used to! But it was a very ...Read more
A memory of Stadhampton in 1954 by
Captions
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On the left, the weatherboarded bank has been demolished and replaced by a car business, but the store beyond remains as a general store and post office.
Lloyds bank has gone, and its premises are now called Bargate House, and the tall lime tree in the garden of Vine Court (left of centre) is no more.
The far, tall building marks Bridge Street, the spot where the first bridge upstream was located.
Considered to be the best medieval hall in the country after Westminster Hall, the Great Hall dates back to the early 13th century and includes fine arcade piers of Purbeck marble.
Although originally captioned 'Holker Hall', this photograph actually shows one of the houses on the Holker Hall estate, which has been in the hands of the Cavendish family for over 200 years and is
Townley Hall was first opened to the people of Burnley on 20 May 1903.
Just beyond the Market Hall behind the war memorial is the Town Hall, which dates back to the 14th century.
Hertford College dates back to 1284 when it was founded as Hart Hall.
Towards the end of the 19th century it was decided that the town needed a town hall commensurate with its new affluent status.
Kinmel Hall stands on a site said to date back to 1311, but this present country house emerged from the ashes of a former mansion destroyed by fire in 1848.
The building on the left is the Tudor Town Hall, also known as the Town House or Geld Hall.
Land behind the Town Hall was used for industry for many years: the Spring Mill buildings and the cupola of Pleck Brass Works are visible to the right.
This view of Welton, looking back up the main street, has changed dramatically in recent years.
In front is the Great Hall, completed only 3 years before the photograph was taken.
It was planned that around St George's Hall there would be unbuilt areas so as to show off the Hall, the grandest of the civic buildings.
Standing by the gatehouse to the 'Big House'—Holker Hall—these four schoolchildren from Holker pose for the camera on a wet day.
This view of Welton, looking back up the main street, has changed dramatically in recent years.
Abberley Hall is part of an estate dating back to the Norman Conquest, when King William gave it to his supporter Todeni.
The solidly constructed tower to the right is part of the Market Hall of 1863.
Further up the village is High Hall, built by the Craven family.
The castellated entrance to Townley Hall, on the A671 Todmorden Road at Burnley Wood, was photographed when it was still a private estate.
Here we see the Market Hall (or House) from the rear, and the back of the Town Hall; its 20ft-high wall guards a courtyard.
Here we see a close-up view of the Market Hall with its imposing front and large statues mounted over the entrance.
This half- timbered Wealden Hall House has a late 16th- century sandstone facade at the back.
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