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Memories

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Childhood In Marlow

I grew up in Marlow during the 60s. I have wonderful memories of a really free childhood of bike rides, exploring the woods, rowing a very old boat on the river, even swimming which my mum never found out about , and just general ...Read more

A memory of Marlow in 1960 by Miss M

My Time At Studwell Lodge And In The Village Of Droxford

My family first came to live in Studwell Lodge, which they bought from the Bruce family,  when my father retired from farming in Berkshire at the age of fifty five. It was then 1959 and I, as a ...Read more

A memory of Droxford in 1960 by Charles Skipwith

Childhood

After leaving Wield, Hampshire, my mother was the headmistress of St. Andrew's primary school. She raised 4 children alone. My brother Peter G.W. Keen is a highly respected businessman (look him up on the internet). He went to school ...Read more

A memory of Chaddleworth by Jennie Biggar

Horror Uniform

One memory of my time spent at St Peter's as a border (my house been The Rise )were the God awful brown blazers purchased from Moss Bros (of York). It wasn't that they were uncomfortable that was the problem, it was the rule that they had ...Read more

A memory of York in 1985 by Steven Paley

St Peter's School / Old Orphanage

Hi, I am from Darlington and I would love to hear memories of the old orphanage/St Peter's School. Whenever I pass the building I am so curious, it is such a shame it is going to waste as it is a lovely building. I ...Read more

A memory of Gainford by Ruth Smith

Historic St Peter's Hospital

St Peter's Hospital was one of Bristol's finest and most historic buildings, which had been home to pirates and an alchemist as well as a mint and a workhouse among many other uses. It was destroyed in the blitz ...Read more

A memory of Bristol by Paul Townsend

Bristol, High Street And The Blitz 1940

Bristol's High Street scene of many strirring events in Bristol's history the heart of the city was destroyed and lost forever in 1940. As a city with docks and industry at its heart, Bristol was a natural ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1940 by Paul Townsend

Bank House Yoxford

When I was a child, my great-aunt, Mrs Judith Pheby, lived in Bank House, Yoxford, and was its caretaker. The bank only visited the village once a week, I think, and the rest of the time the bank was closed. The house is on the ...Read more

A memory of Yoxford in 1959

The Howard Family At Hammersmith And Barnes

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 ...Read more

A memory of Hammersmith in 1860 by John Howard Norfolk

Marriage

St. Peters church is where my ggg grandfather John Peck married my ggg grandmother Martha Robbins in 1813.

A memory of Burnham by Monica Peck

Captions

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Caption For Ardingly, The Village C1950

Ardingly is a village overlooking the Ouse valley, north of Haywards Heath. The 14th-century church of St Peter has an impressive tower. Ardingly College, situated nearby, is a notable Public School.

Caption For Manchester, St Peter's Church C1885

The church's foundation stone was laid on 11 December 1788, and the church was consecrated on 6 September 1795.

Caption For Winchcombe, Gloucester Street And The Church C1955

St Peter's is a splendid 15th- century church built in the Perpendicular style, although the interior was substantially renovated in 1872.

Caption For Basildon, All Saints' Church, Vange 2005

St Peter's Church, Nevendon is an ancient church built in the 13th century by a member of the Fitz-Lewis family.

Caption For Northleach, The Green C1960

The Ford Thames van bears a DD Gloucestershire registration; behind it we can just see the back of the latest Thames van which superseded it.

Caption For Earley, St Peter's Church 1910

St Peter's is Early English in style and is appropriately in Church Road, Earley, now part of Reading.

Caption For Cromer, From The Sea 1902

With its imposing 160ft-high tower, Cromer church was erected in the reign of Henry IV and dedicated to St Peter and St Paul.

Caption For Petersfield, High Street C1955

The view is closed at the far end of the street by Norman Burton's, built in the early 1800s, and just to the right the café sign invites you to Frances Hill's tea rooms.

Caption For Swaffham, Market Place 1891

They take place around the Palladian-style market cross which is in the centre of five main roads.

Caption For Petersfield, From Tilmore 1906

A view across the town taken from above the Tilmore railway bridge.

Caption For Norwich, Market Place And St Peter Mancroft Church 1891

This broad open space is a kaleidoscope of noise and colour on market day.

Caption For Bolton By Bowland, Church Gates 1921

This is a charming photograph of the area outside the churchyard entrance. Many refer to this village as the most perfect in Lancashire, with its village green next to the church, and old inn.

Caption For Newton Le Willows, High Street C1965

These opposing views of the High Street are photographed at five year intervals.

Caption For Manchester, St Peter's Square C1965

The Central Library was opened by King George V in 1934, and it was then the largest public library in the country.

Caption For Northleach, The Green C1960

The Ford Thames van bears a DD Gloucestershire registration; behind it we can just see the back of the latest Thames van which superseded it.

Caption For Berkhamsted, High Street C1955

A beautifully proportioned view of the High Street, looking southwards towards St. Peter's

Caption For Lingfield, Church Road 1895

The shingled spire of the 14th-century church of St Peter and St Paul rises above this picturesque collection of old houses and shops at the southern end of the churchyard.

Caption For Dunstable, Priory Church C1955

King Henry I founded an Augustinian priory here in 1131, built a palace and established a new market town that rapidly became a place of considerable importance.

Caption For Titchfield, St Peter's Church 2005

A thousand years ago, Fareham was a patchwork of ancient woodland, heathland, some cultivated fields, a harbour and a river.

Caption For Berkhamsted, Monk's Garden, Ashridge College C1960

Edward I granted Berkhamsted to his second queen, Margaret of France. On her death, Isabella, queen of Edward II, succeeded to the Manor.

Caption For East Blatchington, The Village 1891

The church of St Peter has a fine Norman font. Admiral Walker, who fought with Nelson, is buried here.

Caption For Gloucester, The Cathedral 1892

The Cathedral was once the Benedictine Abbey of St Peter. Construction began in 1089 on a site where there had been ecclesiastical houses of one sort or another since 681.

Caption For Petersfield, Market Square 1898

What a gem this photograph is. Prior to this, the Old Town Hall (1780), the offices of The Hampshire Post and Pince's School obscured the view of St Peter's from the Square.

Caption For Heswall, Telegraph Road C1955

The centre of Heswall was originally much closer to the shoreline, probably in the area around Village Road and St Peter's Church, but the advent of Telegraph Road - the A540 - has moved the commercial