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Maps

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Memories

923 memories found. Showing results 61 to 70.

Lofthouse's Newsagents

So I see it now again after so many years the shop on the corner with that sign Lofthouse's Newsagents above the entrance I went under many times to collect my comics hot from the presses of D.C.Thomson of Dundee: Beano ...Read more

A memory of Worksop by Roger Taylor

Doseley

When my dad Derick John Jones was born in 1944 he lived in a row of houses called Dill Doll Row or Dill Da Row as some people called them, they were situated at Sandy Bank, Doseley, just behind the Cheshire Cheese pub at Doseley. My dad lived ...Read more

A memory of Doseley in 1944 by Angela Mathison

Ancestral Home

With my newly obtained lawyer´s degree and after joining a British bank based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, I was sent to London, to follow an international training course of one year, along with my wife Rosemarie and our one year ...Read more

A memory of Car Colston in 1972 by Enrique Martin

My Memories Of The Coronation 2nd June 1953

My memories of the Coronation-2nd June 1953 While I was studying at the Bridgend Preparatory and Commercial School two events happened which changed the course of history for Great Britain. In February ...Read more

A memory of Aberkenfig in 1953 by Catherine Delahay

The Happiest Days Of Your Life

Brambletye school, well set between the beautiful Ashdown Forest and thriving town of East Grinstead on the Sussex/Surrey border was a paradise on Earth for any schoolboy with an aesthetically romantic (!) ...Read more

A memory of Brambletye House in 1959 by Giles Daubney

St. Mary's High School

I'm wondering if anyone remembers St. Mary's High School in Western Road. I attended the school when I was very young in 1946-9, before my family emigrated first to Canada, then to the USA. My best friends were Zena O'Shea, ...Read more

A memory of Romford in 1949

Mr John White, Principal Lighthouse Keeper

My great-grandfather, John White, was Principal Lighthouse Keeper, from 1883 onwards. John, with his family, a wife, and three sons, travelled from Wales where he was a Lighthouse Keeper at South Bishop ...Read more

A memory of Cromer in 1880 by Jillian Carr

Our History In Brief

Although I had visited Hightown on many many occasions before this date to visit my Grandparents etc I particularly remember the days when myself and friends from Waterloo would visit Altcar Rifle Range to mark the ...Read more

A memory of Hightown in 1957 by Ron Baybut

Happy Days

I lived in Cobden Road behind the fire station and went to school first at Mayville Road and my first teacher's name was Mrs Frith? Then I was transfered to Davies Lane because I lived on the wrong side of the high street. Finally ...Read more

A memory of Leytonstone by Keith Matthews

Jtbells

This is the year I started on the building sites in 1963, I got a job on J. T. Bell's site in Whickam, the site hadn't been running long then as it was in the first stage. All the lads were mainly from Newburn, Lemington, and Throckley. If ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1963 by Jimmy Burrows

Captions

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Caption For Weymouth, The Parade 1898

This view of the northern end of the Parade gives some idea of just what a prominent landmark St John's Church is when seen from out to sea.

Caption For Wargrave, St Mary's Church C1960

A Perpendicular-style octagonal font with cusped quatrefoils, and mildly Expressionist stained glass in one south window by John Hayward, 1962, are among the finer interior fixtures of St Mary's.

Caption For Cheam, St Dunstan's Church 1932

The brick and ornamented stone interior of the church was augmented by the chancel screen, installed here in 1931, which was designed by Ryan Tenison and had formerly stood in the chapel of St John's College

Caption For Edinburgh, St Giles's Cathedral 1897

In 1559, John Knox was appointed minister of St Giles's. The building was in fact divided into four separate churches, and remained so until the 19th century.

Caption For Yarcombe, The Church And Vicarage C1960

Its parish church of St John the Baptist dates from the 15th century, but it has suffered a great deal of Victorian restoration.

Caption For Norwich, Ber Street 1891

One constant remains at the end of the street, sitting on its junction with Timberhill and Cattlemarket Street - St John Timberhill Church.

Caption For Billesdon, C1955

This view, taken from the fields beyond the village, shows the broach spire of the church of St John the Baptist, rebuilt in 1861, rising above the very attractive slate and stone roofscape of a village

Caption For Canterbury, St John's Hospital Gateway 1898

Here we see the half-timbered gatehouse of the Hospital of St John, founded by Archbishop Lanfranc in 1084 and the second oldest medieval almshouse in England, which stands in Northgate Street, outside

Caption For Marlborough, The Parade C1950

The present building is later; it perhaps dates from 1904, when the name was shortened. It closed in 1974, and is now known as Marsh House.

Caption For Canterbury, St John's Hospital Gateway 1898

Here we see the half-timbered gatehouse of the Hospital of St John, founded by Archbishop Lanfranc in 1084 and the second oldest medieval almshouse in England, which stands in Northgate Street, outside

Caption For Accrington, St John's Church 1899

The Church of St John the Evangelist was completed in 1870.

Caption For Bedford, De Parys Avenue 1897

Taken from the west edge of St Peter's Green, this view looks north up the long avenue towards Bedford Park. This is an early view, with the lime trees little over ten years old.

Caption For Crawley, Church 1907

This peaceful and idyllic rural scene, with the horse and cart behind a small girl pushing a pram outside the church of St John the Baptist, belies Crawley's mid 19th-century expansion into a railway town

Caption For Marske, The Church 1913

The ancient battlemented church of St Edmund King and Martyr has windows inscribed 'Iohn Hutton Sqvir 1683'.

Caption For Marske, The Church 1913

The ancient battlemented church of St Edmund King and Martyr has windows inscribed 'Iohn Hutton Sqvir 1683'.

Caption For Bisley, Church 1911

Bisley's church of St John the Baptist dates back to the 13th century, and it has a 15th-century porch believed to be made from a single oak.

Caption For Wilberfoss, Beckside C1960

Here past the beck is Bridge Cottage on the right, and hidden behind the left-hand tree is the 12th-century church of St John the Baptist.

Caption For Bromsgrove, High Street C1965

This lovely building is at the southern end of the High Street, in the former market place where the High Street meets Worcester Road and St John`s Street.

Caption For Ashwell, The Museum C1951

This early 16th-century timber-framed house, formerly owned by St John's College, Cambridge and earlier by Westminster Abbey, was used by the village as the Town House for the collection of rents and tithes

Caption For Bury, Church From The River 1898

The church of St John the Evangelist has a shingled broach spire; flint and stone are used for walling and buildings.

Caption For Cirencester, The Park, Drive C1950

From the avenue lined with lime trees the eye is drawn eastwards to the 162-foot high tower of St John the Baptist's, the tallest tower in Gloucestershire, containing a ring of twelve bells with the

Caption For St Johns Chapel, Market Place C1955

Even when this picture was taken, the hustle and bustle of St John's weekly market lingered on only in the memories of the village's more senior citizens; it had ceased in 1888.

Caption For Lavenham, The Church Porch C1955

Most of the nave and aisles and the porch were paid for by John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, of Castle Hedingham and Lavenham.

Caption For Stamford, St Peter's Callis C1955

St Peter's Church was 'pulled down' in 1560, and this building was built in 1863.