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Hawthorn Box Fields

Pat - it's lovely to read about Hawthorn as my grandmother Mrs Berrett and my Uncle Peter and Aunt Hilda Evans also lived there. School holidays were spent picking blackberries at the old D.P camp and playing in the ...Read more

A memory of Hawthorn in 1955 by Jennifer Mclarney

Kennards

Theses photos have certainly brought back so many memories, how great to see it all as remembered, but to bring it all back correctly - the mind changes things! I loved Kennards - the smell and the sounds of that arcade will always live ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1955 by Diane Clarke

Bankil's Ironmonger

Bankil's of Woodford Bridge was my uncle's shop. The two men in brown coats were 'Hock' and Dick Chinnery. My uncle was John Banks. My father Brian and brother Peter also worked there for short periods of time on ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Bridge in 1960 by Maggie Jenkins

The High Street Sayer's Store 'nim' And Phyl Alen

My name is Barbara Tester and I live in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. My beloved (late) husband, Brian Tester, was born on 26th July, 1930 at No. 1 Station Cottages, 1 Station Road, Ardingly. His ...Read more

A memory of Ardingly in 1958 by Barbara Tester

Kings Builders

I started school in Smallfield in 1934. In those days there were bucket lavatories. The sewer was laid in 1938 and then most of Smallfield was able to do away with the buckets. There were 3 teachers, Miss Kempshall who came from ...Read more

A memory of Smallfield in 1945 by Dennis Stenning

Ww2

I was evacuated to some wooden bungalows in Goring Road and lived with Percy and Renee Bonner. Renee's relations were Romany gypsies who lived in Woodcote. The photo shows The White Lion and the village shop which I believe was "Pointers ...Read more

A memory of Woodcote in 1940 by Ken Cramer

Memories Of My Family

I was not born when my family lived in Kirkby Green but I have heard my mother tell a few stories of life there. She had a pet trout who lived in the Beck which ran past the back garden. She called him Peter and would go ...Read more

A memory of Kirkby Green by Gillian Emerton

The Waltham Abbey Choir And Other Memories

My family lived in Waltham Abbey from 1955 to 1961 and living there left a lasting impression on me. I attended Waltham Holy Cross County Primary School during this time and at the ripe old age of 8 ...Read more

A memory of Waltham Abbey in 1960 by Bill Waring

Cloch Lighthouse

My father Peter Gordon, was born in the Cloch lighthouse as his father was principle lighthouse keeper at the time. He used to tell me he jumped out of his bedroom window and go for  swim. I was born in London and only once managed ...Read more

A memory of Gourock by Helena Pigott

Summer Of 67

I won the Cornish longboard championships at Constantine Bay in 1967. I was the profesional lifeguard at Treyarnon Bay in 1967 and 1968. Friendships established then and still true include Anhtony Richards, Robert Ede, David ...Read more

A memory of Constantine Bay in 1967 by Stuart Charles

Captions

469 captions found. Showing results 289 to 312.

Caption For Bridge, From The Mill 1903

The dominant feature is the Norman St Peter's Church presiding over this view.

Caption For Marlborough, London Road C1950

On the right, a car is parked in front of listed railings belonging to St Peter's and St Mary's junior school.

Caption For Congleton, St Peter's Church 1898

They depict St Paul and St Peter.

Caption For Aylesbury, Westmorland Avenue C1965

Our tour of Aylesbury peters out amid the post-war expansion to accommodate London's overspill.

Caption For Barnstaple, From Anchor Woods 1919

It lasted long after the passenger service was withdrawn, carrying coal to Yelland Power Station and ball clay from Peters Marland.

Caption For Kettering, Parish Church C1955

The avenue leads to the superb west tower of Saints Peter and Paul church.

Caption For Clacton On Sea, The Bandstand 1907

Clacton was the brainchild of one man—Peter Bruff, an engineer with the Tendring Hundred railway company—who bought 50 acres of farmland here in 1865 with a view to its development as a holiday resort

Caption For Colaton Raleigh, Village 1906

The first links with the Raleigh family, from which the village now takes the second part of its name, came in 1346 when Peter de Raleghe owned certain manorial rights.

Caption For Hawkley, The Village C1960

This village lies around a green, and here the church of St Peter and St Paul can be found.

Caption For Navenby, The Church C1965

The tower of the church of St Peter was rebuilt in the 18th century after the previous one fell down.

Caption For Wadhurst, High Street 1903

The church of St Peter and St Paul has many cast iron graveslabs in the floor.

Caption For Barnstaple, The Crooked Spire, Parish Church 1936

Theirs may be more famous, but St Peter's has quite a pronounced twist.

Caption For Blaenavon, C1955

On the right is St Peter's, the parish church of Blaenavon, built by the ironmasters Hopkins and Hill in 1805.

Caption For Prestbury, High Street 1896

The tower of St Peter's church can just be seen above the roofs on the right-hand side of the picture.

Caption For Huddersfield, The George Hotel, St George's Square 1957

The George Hotel replaced the earlier George Inn, which was re-erected in St Peter's Street in 1852.

Caption For Bedford, The School Sports Field 1921

The grammar school moved out of its old buildings (now the Town Hall) to a new twenty-acre site set in fields north of St Peter's church in 1891.

Caption For Henfield, Golden Square C1955

St Peter's 13th-century church was rebuilt in 1870.

Caption For Eckington, The Memorial C1965

The Church and War Memorial c1955 Dedicated to St Peter & St Paul, the church here is first mentioned in 1310, though there was almost certainly a place of worship on the site in late Saxon times

Caption For Leigh, The Cross C1955

The village shop (right) was run by Pamela and Peter Mills, and his green Standard van is parked outside.

Caption For Dinas Powys, Mill Road C1960

Our vantage point for this view is near to St Peter's Church, whose construction in the late 1920s made use of stone recycled from the defunct Cyfarthfa iron works.

Caption For Leeds, Parish Church 1891

St Peter's in Kirkgate was noted for its 15th-century brasses, whilst 18th-century Holy Trinity in Boar Lane had perhaps the most attractive-looking spire in the area.

Caption For Inskip, Baptist Chapel C1950

Inskip Church, St Peter's, was built in 1848.

Caption For Sheffield, Parish Church 1893

The original parish church of St Peter & St Paul was built in the 12th century and rebuilt two or three hundred years later.

Caption For Wisborough Green, The Church, Village And Windmill 1896

The church of St Peter ad Vincula has a shingled broach spire.