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Woodyats Green Grocer

Early memories of Aveley Village are going into Woodyats green grocer with my mum for fresh veg. Old Mr Woodyat always wore a brown shop coat and had his hearing aid unit in the top pocket. You had to speak at his pocket so ...Read more

A memory of Purfleet by Mark Sopher

Woodlea Drive

I used to come down and up this road from the bus stop every day to and from school. One of the boys who grew up in this street (a house on the right as I remember) started playing for a very influential rock band called the herd. ...Read more

A memory of Bromley in 1967 by Martin Jones

Wood End School

My parents had a ground floor flat in Wood End Lane, and my father worked in a reserved occupation at AEC in Southall. In late 1940, my mother was pregnant with me, and she went to stay with her brother in Durham, wher I was born. I ...Read more

A memory of Greenford by williamfairney

Wonderful Village

I am 83 years old, my Grandparents lived in this village most of their lives until my Grandmother death in the 1940's when I was child I spent most of my weekends here my Grandmother lived in a cottage named Davis Cottages ...Read more

A memory of St Albans in 1940 by Joan Matthews

Wonderful Wellingborough In My Early Informative Years!

I lived in Wellingborough from 1952 to 1971. My Father was J N Clark, and with my Mum owned and ran the General Store on Weavers Road until 1960. Mum and Dad took me to see my first ...Read more

A memory of Wellingborough in 1956 by Stanley Clark

Wonderful Childhood In Arlesey House 19401946

I was born in Arlesey in 1940 in the large house next to St Peter's church, it was a lovely old place. My mother took my brother Ted and sister Marion to Arlesey when things started to get bad in ...Read more

A memory of Arlesey in 1940 by Michael Smith

Wonderfl Memories Of My Childhood

I was born in March 1947. I believe it was snowing heavily! My mother and father ran their butchers business in the village and my Uncle Don had a commercial painting and decorating business. My Aunty ...Read more

A memory of North Somercotes in 1955 by Cheryl Clarkson

Wiveliscombe Earliest Memories

I remember being taken to Wiveliscombe as a young boy in my Uncle Jim's dark green Standard Vanguard, he ran the Rock Inn at Waterrow 1954- 1965. He would take me to the toy shop at Wiveliscombe Square called ...Read more

A memory of Wiveliscombe in 1960 by Julian Bishop

Witham Times

I believe that my Grandfather, Arthur Arnold, was the editor of the Witham Times before and during the second world war and lived in Silver End with his wife Molly, sons Frank and Peter and daughter Elizabeth (Betty). I would ...Read more

A memory of Witham in 1930 by Tim Arnold

Wisborough Green 1951 1976

I was just 9 years old when my family moved to Wisborough Green in December 1951, where my father - John Edward Penney MA, LTh - was vicar until his retirement in 1976.      I went to Wisborough Green Primary ...Read more

A memory of Wisborough Green in 1963 by Chris (Christopher) Penney

Captions

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Caption For Uppingham, Market Place And Church 1932

The grand church of St Peter and St Paul, which oversees the goings-on, is from the 14th century, but it was badly mauled in a restoration of 1842.

Caption For Rothwell, High Street C1955

The proudly pedimented Midland Bank is now Peter M Ayres clothes shop while R Walker on the left has become Alistair Mackay's antiques and clocks.

Caption For Swinton, The Church 1896

St Peter's is the only church in the Manchester area to have been commissioned from George Edmund Street.

Caption For Southend On Sea, The Pier 1898

The pier is now flanked by large areas of reclaimed land on which sit a brash funfair and amusement park, Peter Pan's Adventure Island.

Caption For Liss, St Peter's Church 1901

Over the years this new church has led to the gradual demise of St Peter's, West Liss.

Caption For Cartmel, From Hag Lane 1897

St Peter's was originally a chapel of ease to Cartmel Priory, and was consecrated by the Bishop of Chester on 30 June 1745.

Caption For Bournemouth, Southbourne Terrace C1875

The fine tower and spire of St Peter's Church dominated much of central Bournemouth, until unkind planners allowed the construction of too many large buildings nearby.

Caption For Redditch, St Peter's Church, Ipsley C1955

St Peter's was built in 1345, probably on the site of a Saxon church.

Caption For Bishop Auckland, The Castle 1892

The former banqueting hall was converted by Bishop Cosin into the chapel of St Peter during the 1660s after the original had been demolished to make way for a mansion.

Caption For Salcombe Regis, Church 1928

The tower was built by Bishop Lacy in 1450 with stone quarried from a hillside nearby, and only then did the church receive its present dedication to St Peter - previously it had been dedicated

Caption For Bovey Tracey, 1907

The Church of St Peter, St Paul and St Thomas of Canterbury was built in the 15th century; it was extended in 1858, when the north aisle was added.

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 Accrington, St John's Church C1945

The interior view of St John's Church shows the east window depicting Christ holding the orb, flanked by St Peter and St Mary.

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 Lincoln, The Cathedral And Stonebow 1890

The church tower belongs to the church of St Peter At Arches, demolished in 1933.

Caption For Addingham, The Church C1955

This scene of the parish church of St Peter at Addingham, standing in its walled churchyard on the village green and reached by a stone bridge over the beck, has not changed substantially since this photograph

Caption For Aldeburgh, Old Market Square 1929

His poem about the embittered fisherman Peter Grimes inspired an opera by a much later and better known resident, Benjamin Britten.

Caption For Wallingford, Church And Bridge 1899

Back on the river, this view looks north-east from the Crowmarsh Gifford bank to Bridge House, with the remarkable spire of St Peter's Church beyond.

Caption For Lincoln, High Street 1923

This view shows the ornate cast-iron balcony of the Saracen's Head Hotel, now shops, and the tower of St Peter at Arches beyond Stone Bow, built in 1720, demolished in 1933 and largely rebuilt in Lamb

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.

Caption For Colchester, North Hill 1891

The church on the right is St Peter's - the town church.The tower was completed in 1758.

Caption For Ormskirk, Church Street 1894

Ormskirk's parish church, dedicated to St Peter and St Paul, dates from about 1276.

Caption For Horbury, Cluntergate C1955

He is buried in the crypt of the parish church of St Peter and St Leonard, which he designed and built himself.

Caption For Hever, The Village 1906

Hever is intimately associated with Anne Boleyn, who spent her childhood here in the company of her father Sir Thomas Bullen, the Earl of Wiltshire, whose tomb is at the little church of St Peter.