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Family Connections.
The couple on the right pavement are my grandparents George Gray and his wife Elizabeth (nee Phippen) of Thornford. The photo would have been taken on a Thursday because after his retirement they always travelled to Sherborne on ...Read more
A memory of Sherborne by
Stepping Back In Time
It started when my mother was dying, when we asked her about the family history, and she gave us names and dates. Her family came from France in late 1500. They were Hugenots and they were Puritans, and were chased out of ...Read more
A memory of Cinderford in 1995 by
The Sompting General Supply Stores.
I have a photocopy of a photograph of the General Supply Stores, Sompting, dated around 1913, showing the owners, J and A White, proudly standing outside, one with a little dog at his feet, the other holding his ...Read more
A memory of Sompting in 1910 by
Now O'connell Street
The street was officially renamed O'Connell Street in 1924 after Daniel O'Connell as Ireland moved forward as a free state! Nelsons Pillar seen in the distance (middle) was destroyed in the early morning on the 8th of March 1966 ...Read more
A memory of Dublin by
Childhood Holidays
My gran bought 3 caravans in 1957 which were on the caravan site at Lower Largo. My parents, brother, me, my aunt, my uncle and their 2 children all spent all our holidays there - summer, easter, bank hols, etc. Us children ...Read more
A memory of Lower Largo in 1957 by
Cambridge Hospital.
I used to live in Denmark square and I was 11 years of age. My friend Donna Meek lived in the army quarters. We used to adventure out behind the Cambridge hospital, were there was clear signs of bunkers that had been bombed, the ...Read more
A memory of Aldershot by
The Shop On The Corner
What a big surprise stumbling across this photo of where I lived during the 1960's. The caption on the photo dates it as c.1965. I can perhaps be a bit more accurate on the date. The shop called Mould was sold in 1962 ...Read more
A memory of Great Bookham by
Chisholm Cottage
My great-great-great grandparents lived opposite Wesley Chapel in the late 1800s, behind the trees on the right-hand-side of the 1901 Wesley Chapel photo. During the 1830s, Richard JACK (b1813) and some of his brothers moved to ...Read more
A memory of Hartlepool in 1880 by
Mid To Late 50s Chanctonbury Burgess Hill
Born in Cuckfield hospital in 54 but have early recollections and very few photos of home in Chanctonbury Rd Burgess Hill from then until 59 when I relocated to Brighton. Went to boy's boarder later in ...Read more
A memory of Burgess Hill by
Driftbridge Stables
I was too young in the 1950’s to use the Hotel and pub but I learnt to ride at the Driftbridge Stables, that used the land, stables and coach houses from when the hotel had been a Coaching Inn. Having learnt to ride on Nutmeg, ...Read more
A memory of Drift Bridge by
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Bleasdale's furniture shop and Yates's Wine Lodge are on the left, and Mangnells and E R Booth are on the right.
Bleasdale's furniture shop and Yates's Wine Lodge are on the left, and Mangnells and E R Booth are on the right.
Yates's map of 1786 shows that there was a toll booth between the road junctions.
In 1929, Yates Wine Lodges bought the Talbot and it still remains a great attraction.
Here we see Robert Peart and his sister Jennie, who was six, on the rocks below their home on Tate Hill Pier.
The small village of Burnt Yates in Nidderdale is graced by this neat little Victorian sandstone church.
Michael Yates's wife Marion tells us that Amelia later married Tom Eglon, one of her relatives.
It is now a Yates Wine Lodge.
Bleasdale's furniture shop and Yates's Wine Lodge are on the left, and Mangnells and E R Booth are on the right.
On the left the new building is inscribed Rochdale Vintners Co Ltd 1911 and it extends through to Yorkshire Street as Yates` Wine Lodge.
This was described as an ancient common way in 1702, when it led to Lower Yates, New House and orchards or walks.
According to a bronze plaque, the fountain was given to the town in 1925 by Councillor Charles Yates, the then Chairman of the Urban District Council,.
At this time H E Bates - author of 'The Darling Buds of May' - lived in nearby Little Chart Forstal.
Recently Pluckley has become well-known and much-visited for another reason: the H E Bates story 'The Darling Buds of May' was filmed in the village.
Mr Cecil Cole, talking of his childhood in the early years of the 20th century, quoted in Arthur Bate Venning and Arthur Wills' book 'Yesterday's Town'.
Built of red sandstone, Chester cathedral was founded in 1092 as a Benedictine abbey on the site of an earlier Saxon church dedi- cated to St Werburgh.
Despite the prominent date of 1631 in the centre of this door, the glorious ironwork depicting lions and trees is thought to date from the 13th century; the later date is probably that of a repair.
The church of St Mary the Virgin at Upper Swainswick dates from Norman times.
It dates back to 1030, but the current building dates from a thorough restoration between 1871 and 1878.
Dating from the turn of the 17th century, the Key House is probably the best of Castle Donington's vernacular buildings.
On the left of this view is Trinity College, which dates from 1759 and is 300 ft in length.
From the left are the Wesleyan chapel (1890), the old school, now empty, and the Friends' Meeting House and burial ground, dating from 1864.
The red sandstone tower dates from the 15th century, and may itself have been a rebuild on the base of an earlier structure.
The present church of St Mary's dates back to the 14th and 15th centuries, with some earlier Norman features.
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