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Books

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Memories

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Memories

i was born in 1953 in manor park my family moved to Dagenham road 1954 to a new house recently built close to the chase and a short walk to the Farmhouse Pub I can remember the steps leading up to the entrance when only 9-10yrs ...Read more

A memory of Rush Green by ldoman

Growing Up In A Community

my parents moved to Sussex Crescent in 1954 with three young children, having been re homed from temporary housing - a prefab. The Northolt estate was a great place with a genuine community spirit, families all rallied ...Read more

A memory of Northolt by diannen

Raf Cottesmore Wwii

My father, Joseph Spielmann, served with the US Army Air Force attached to the Signal Corps during WWII. He often spoke fondly of his time in Cottesmore. His unit was housed in a manor house which belonged to the widow of an RAF ...Read more

A memory of Cottesmore by oberlejj

West Ealing

I lived in Perivale from 1946 to 1977 by the maternity hospital. Went to Drayton Secondary School in West Ealing from 1957 to 1962. John Walters was the head at that time. Travelled to school by train from South Greenford Halt to West ...Read more

A memory of Ealing by slatters444

The Bringing Of Buckland Lower Lodge Into The 20th Century.

I am Jeannette McNicol (nee Elliott). My brother John and I moved there with my parents ,when I was 13 years old and he was 12. I had found the house when we were having a ...Read more

A memory of Buckland in the Moor by jenner

My Family From Irby X 😊

My dad Ralph broster was born in irby 1927 at corner farm (which is now the library ) my grandfather (pop) William (Bill)Broster ran corner farm caves farm & manor farm . Dad always used to tell me all intresting stories of ...Read more

A memory of Irby by clarebroster

Mascot

I remember the Manor House in Child Okeford, my mother worked for the Glassbrooks the then owner s of the manor, this was about 1943/44 and a battalion of the Newfoundland Army were billeted in the grounds. I as a 6 year old boy became ...Read more

A memory of Child Okeford by jonjacley

Sir Walter Sinjuns Etc

Hi All - born during the war in Oxford 1944 at Chippinghurst Manor - requisioned as a maternity home - raised in the 50s 60s & 70s at 50 Bolingbroke Grove SW11 and went to Belleville JBs school and Sir Walter St Johns ...Read more

A memory of Battersea by johnnybelton

Coalville Grammar School

I went to the grammar school in 1960 I think. It was the last year that it occupied the old building in Coalville, a beautiful building unfortunately already too small to accomodate all pupils. The first year were sent to an ...Read more

A memory of Ledbury by cajenner60

Aldershot Manor Park School And Girl Guides 1960's

Christine Williams We were best friends at Manor Park County Secondary School for girls, Aldershot 1962 – 1968. We were also in the Girl Guides together at 2nd Aldershot Girl Guides. Photos to ...Read more

A memory of Aldershot by teenmorris

Captions

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Caption For Aldborough, The Village 1895

Here on the left is the estate office of the Manor House, further up the lane.

Caption For Bamford, The Village C1955

The manor of Bamford was owned by the de Bamford family from the 13th century until 1816, when it was sold to Joseph Fenton of Crimble.

Caption For Lavenham, The Guildhall C1955

In 1887 the Guildhall and the adjoining properties were purchased and restored by Sir Cuthbert Quilter of Bawdsey Manor, who was also MP for the Sudbury Division.

Caption For West Stafford, St Andrew's Church C1955

The Manor House is behind the tree and the tile-topped wall.

Caption For Herstmonceux, Castle, West Front 1890

suggested that the remains of Herstmonceux Castle form part of the oldest brick mansion in Britain; it was built in 1441, following a grant from the king to Roger de Fiennes to 'embattle' his manor-house

Caption For Caldy, The Village C1955

The estate of Caldy Manor was purchased by Mr R W Barton in 1832 for the then princely sum of £18,900. He was one of a number of wealthy Manchester merchants who settled in the Wirral.

Caption For Ellington, All Saints Church 1906

This beautiful parish church of All Saints was built by the abbot of Ramsey for his manor estate in the late 14th and 15th centuries. The cobble stone walls were all originally plastered.

Caption For Wellow, Manor House And High Street C1955

This view looks west along the High Street past the Manor House on the right, a good 17th-century house with a tall gabled three-storey chamber wing.

Caption For Littlebourne, The Green 1903

The manor belonged to the abbey of St Augustine and to an?Italian monastery.

Caption For Skelton, Castle 1891

There was a castle here in the 12th century, and the family of Bruce were once lords of the manor.

Caption For Bellerby, The Village 1896

From the 13th century, the village was part of the huge 3000-acre manor estate of the de Bellerbys. Rievaulx Abbey also farmed some 43 acres of land near the village.

Caption For Bishops Hull, The Church Of St Peter And St Paul 1906

Now in effect a suburb of Taunton, the village has a 1586 Elizabethan manor house. The church of St Peter and St Paul is unusual in having one of Somerset's octagonal towers.

Caption For Wales, Manor Road C1955

By 1066 Spott's former lands around Wales had been divided into several manors with scattered blocks of land.

Caption For York, Bishopthorpe Palace Gate C1885

The palace was built by the 33rd Archbishop of York, Walter de Gray, in about 1250, using stone from a previous manor house that he had had demolished.

Caption For Clayton Le Moors, Dunkenhalgh 1897

This grand manor house, now a hotel, was built during the Elizabethan period, but was considerably extended by its Victorian occupants.

Caption For Broughton, The Gardens And Gatehouse C1955

Broughton is probably best known for its moated manor house, Broughton Castle, built in 1300 for Sir John de Broughton.

Caption For Bexhill On Sea, Manor House Tennis Court 1892

Bexhill's ancient manor house was a retreat for the Bishops of Chichester in the Middle Ages, before passing into the ownership of several notable English families such as the Dorsets and Brooks

Caption For Canford Magna, The Manor C1886

Canford Manor, not far from Wimborne, dates from the early years of the 19th century, though it stands on the site of an ancient house which once belonged to the Earls of Salisbury.

Caption For Amble, Queen Street C1965

On Queen Street are the scant remains of the medieval manor house that once belonged to Tynemouth Priory: a fragment of wall and a 15th-century window.

Caption For Ticehurst, From Myskyns 1903

Nearby, Pashley is a 17th-century manor house with beautiful gardens.

Caption For Great Parndon, The Church Of St Mary The Virgin C1960

He presented the manor of Netteswell to Waltham, and the people of the parish had to supply the abbey with the equivalent of seven weeks' and two days' food every year.

Caption For Aldershot, Wellington Street 1892

Before assuming the role of the first military town in Britain, Aldershot was no more than a pretty village comprising a church, a manor house and several farms. Nearby was an area of open heathland.

Caption For Oxford, Mesopotamia, The Ferry 1912

During the Civil War, the old manor house was the headquarters of the Parliamentarian army.

Caption For Osmington, Post Office Stores C1955

Osmington was an ancient manor founded at the time of King Athelstan, though the church we see today is mostly Norman.