Maps

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Memories

637 memories found. Showing results 391 to 400.

The Fairground And Tower

I remember well the fairground with all the rides that did their best to make you sick after the hotdogs and the candyfloss. Who got a kiss in the ghost train or at least a cuddle from their girlfriend? Everywhere the ...Read more

A memory of New Brighton in 1960

Wenover C Of E School

I used to go to Wendover Primary School when it was situated beside the clock tower. The head master was then H. J. Figg Edgington. I began in Mrs Tott's class, then Mrs Connolly's, then Mr Spencer's, then Gertrude Agatha ...Read more

A memory of Wendover in 1958 by Glenys Houghton

Chorley Hall Farm

I used to be a frequent visitor to Chorley Hall as a young boy accompanying my mother and grandmother. The Hall and farm were tenanted by Joe Davis and he married Annie Bower who was my grandmother's sister-in-law and hence ...Read more

A memory of Alderley Edge in 1953 by Nigel Wylde

In Bonnie Scotland

In Bonnie Scotland The road back to Campsie Glen Is a forty-year long tunnel of mist! Dug deep into the cut bedrock of memory, And neatly knitted in the multi-storey labyrinth Of pouring passions, in pounding poems!! ...Read more

A memory of Campsie Glen in 1965 by Dr. Feisal Esmael

My Next Door Neighbours Memories Of Epping In Ww1

I grew up in Epping, living next door to an old lady, Ann Young (nee Shakespeare), who lived in a bungalow her husband built on Bower Hill crica the 1920/30s. She had lived in Epping all her life. ...Read more

A memory of Epping in 1910

Living In Stubbington From 1953

I moved to Stubbington as a 6 year old to the Red Lion Estate. My father like so many  on that estate was in the Royal Navy based at Portsmouth. I remember Foster's school and especially the daffodils by the ...Read more

A memory of Stubbington by Lorraine Emery

The Dizzy Heights!

I lived next door to the Church for 17 years and during that time, I climbed to the top of the spire just once. In 1962 when I was 10, some neighbours were having their house decorated. Being an outgoing (some would say nosey) ...Read more

A memory of Davenham in 1962 by Lynn Quigley

Summer Holiday 1972

Hi, I remember falling in love for the very first time while holidaying at Tower caravan park at Jaywick in 1972. I thought the girl looked like Brigit Bardot at the time. Her name was Elaine from Battersea. It was the first ...Read more

A memory of Jaywick in 1972 by Karl Turner

Grays Was A Lovely Place To Live

I was born in Exmouth Road in 1945., Growing up in Grays was lovely, we had everything, no need to go far for anything, even shellfish was delivered on a barrow on Saturdays by Mr Going who also had a stall in the ...Read more

A memory of Grays by Patricia Gaywood

Slinfold In The War Years

I visited this site and was intrigued to find pictures of Slinfold. One of them, the village hall, recalled the time when I belonged to a village group called The Stane Street Players run by Mrs Knibbs. We performed ...Read more

A memory of Slinfold in 1940 by William Cooper

Captions

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Caption For Cucklington, St Lawrence's Church C1965

Its tower has a cupola and plaque dating from the restoration after a storm in 1703. Inside is a chapel to St Barbara with a 15th-century picture of her in stained glass.

Caption For Richmond, Market Place C1965

This view shows its sloping, circular, cobbled Market Place, with the tower of Holy Trinity Church, now a museum for the Green Howards Regiment from nearby Catterick Garrison, on the right.

Caption For Widecombe In The Moor, The Church C1871

St Pancras Church, with its lofty pinnacled tower, was built in granite in the 14th century. It was to come to Widecombe Fair that Uncle Tom Cobley borrowed Tom Pearce's grey mare.

Caption For Ely, The Cathedral From The River 1891

The 14th century octagonal central tower is a piece of architectural genius - four hundred tons of masonry appear from the inside to be suspended without any apparent means of support.

Caption For Reigate, Wray Common, Windmill 1893

The mill stands on Wray Common, a brick tower mill with four patent sails winded by a fantail; it was built in 1824 and ceased work in about 1895.

Caption For Burgh Le Marsh, The Windmill C1965

This typical Lincolnshire brick tower mill is powered by five patent shuttered sails and winded by a fantail. It was built in 1813, and worked by wind until 1964.

Caption For New Brighton, The Pier 1900

It opened in 1867, and included a handsome saloon, refreshment rooms, shelters, a pier orchestra and a tower from where one could watch the ships go by.

Caption For Ludlow, Broad Street C1960

In all these photographs the tower of St Lawrence's church dominates the town.

Caption For Oban, Dunstaffnage Castle 1901

Dunstaffnage belongs to the period when a determined effort was being made to extend royal power.

Caption For Thatcham, The Church C1955

Between 1969 and 1970 the tower of this church was renovated, involving the removal of the pinnacles. Two new bells were hung and dedicated to former bell-ringers.

Caption For Hemingford Abbots, Abbot's Church 1898

The tower has a fine spire divided by two decorative bands above the spire lights. The chancel was rebuilt in c1800 in yellow brick. Children walk across the green.

Caption For Norwich, Old Cow Tower And The River Wensum 1891

The tower was rebuilt in flint faced with brick in about 1390, at the time when the city took it over from the Cathedral Priory.

Caption For South Harrow, Northolt Road C1965

Archetypal 1930s development swishes around the foot of Harrow on the Hill, with its gasworks tower always visible from the village and on the approach to Northolt Aerodrome.

Caption For Raglan, The Village 1906

The church tower continues to dominate this scene, but the village has grown a lot in the last century, with new schools, new housing and a new surgery.

Caption For Crosby, The Windmill C1960

Great Crosby Mill, Liverpool is a tall brick tower mill with a domed cap. It had four common cloth sails and a fantail.

Caption For Stratton, Sanctuary 1906

Over the thatched roofs rises the dark green tower of St Andrew's Church.

Caption For Launceston, The Square 1906

The Butter Market was demolished in 1919, and the clock with its quarterjacks was transferred to the Guildhall tower.

Caption For Launceston, The Square 1906

The Butter Market was demolished in 1919, and the clock with its quarterjacks was transferred to the Guildhall tower.

Caption For Launceston, The Square 1906

The Butter Market was demolished in 1919, and the clock with its quarterjacks was transferred to the Guildhall tower.

Caption For Overton, St Mary's Church C1955

Seventy-five years ago, Overton's church tower was flat; nowadays its spire looks out over the River Test which rises close by.

Caption For Helston, The Parish Church C1950

The fine 103ft tower has a peal of eight bells.

Caption For Wendover, Coldharbour Cottages, Tring Road 1899

This wonderful range of 17th-century thatched timber-framed cottages sweeps down the Tring Road towards the clock tower.

Caption For Northampton, Abington Park Bandstand 1922

10th-century Anglo-Saxon church tower at Earls Barton.

Caption For London, Albert Bridge C1900

In 1879 this beautiful bridge of three airy spans, topped with decorative towers, was made free for public access.