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Bury Church And Ferry

On this picture you can see the steps used by the ferry man from the 1920s to the 1940s.  He used a pole to steer the punt from the Bury bank to the Amberley bank.  The punt was attached to a chain which stretched across ...Read more

A memory of Bury in 1940 by Wendy Carey

Choir Boys

Hello - I was a chorister at the church, I think between 1958/60 as I was born in 1947,o ur family the Schofields lived at no 10 Carville Avenue, Southborough, we were a Christian family. I have only found out by doing family ...Read more

A memory of Southborough in 1958 by Nigel Schofield

Early Days In Filton

Although originally from Manchester my parents were living in Filton when I was born in Cheltenham in December 1941. My father, like the majority of men in that area worked at what was then the BAC. He worked at the Rodney Works ...Read more

A memory of Filton in 1940 by Frieda Curnow

Geoff Schofield

I am posting this on behalf of Geoff Schofield: We lived on 9 Tintern Rd. Ann Mason also lived on Tintern Rd. I also ate at the same fish shop Barry Baker mentioned - apparently Thompson used to cook in coconut oil ... I went ...Read more

A memory of Middleton

Hinxman's Of Stockbrige

Does anyone have any historical information about the Hinxman's of Stockbridge. Have been doing some research into my father's maternal side and have discoverd that at one time they lived in Stockbridge (as well as West ...Read more

A memory of Stockbridge

Waterfoot Is Still My Home After 54 Years.

I was born in 298 Burnley Road East on August 18th 1945. The Nurse who delivered me was Nurse Bowe, who was a good friend of my Gran's (Teresa Whittaker, nee O'Brien). All my Aunties and Uncles were born ...Read more

A memory of Waterfoot by Judith Mc Creath

That Morris Minor Traveller Has To Be Our Dad's Car!

My family lived at No 3 (the top flat), Corner House, at the top end of Broad Street, first on the left looking at the photo (but just out of the picture) for many years from 1947 or so. I ...Read more

A memory of New Alresford in 1947 by John Dear

Southminster Then Burnham

We moved to Southminster, Whitby Road and lived there till 1980 when we came to Burnham, where I live now. On 12th March 2008, I lost Glad so since then and now, live alone. I worked at St Peters School for ...Read more

A memory of Burnham-On-Crouch in 1860 by Henry Perrin

My Long Walk To School

I lived with my parents in Southborough until I was 17 years old. My Gran also lived quite near to us. My dad and all his brothers and sisters went to St. Peters School on the common. So did my older brother and two ...Read more

A memory of Southborough in 1946 by Ann Morgan

Where I Was Originally Born

My mother was born at 8 Queens Grove Road in 1921 and lived there for a further 58 years before she moved to Highams Park. I was born in Chingford in 1947 and lived at that address until I got married at 20. One of ...Read more

A memory of North Acton by Geraldine Todd

Captions

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Caption For Woolhampton, The Church And School C1955

St Peter's Church was completely Gothicised in the mid 19th century. The roof and main walls of the old church were retained and the walls encased in flint.

Caption For Oughtrington, The Church C1955

He commissioned Slater and Carpenter of London to design St Peter's in the fashionable Gothic style at a cost of £10,000.

Caption For Stockbridge, High Street C1955

At this waterway, 30 or 40 brown trout often swim under the ducks.

Caption For Wallingford, The Diving Stage C1955

Judge William Blackstone, who wrote Commentaries on the Laws of England, paid for the spire of St Peter's Church, which we can see here in the background.

Caption For Goodworth Clatford, The Village C1965

It is not difficult to hear birds happily chirping here, unlike in our busy towns. The church of St Peter can be found on one side of the river.

Caption For Field Broughton, St Peter's Church 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 Wilmington, The Old Yew Tree C1960

This very pretty village with its flint and brick houses and cottages runs south from the main road to its parish church of St Mary and St Peter, which is set high above the lane with the ruins of Wilmington

Caption For Marlow, The Fisherman's Retreat 1890

We end this chapter in St Peter Street, which originally led to the old wooden bridge replaced by the present one further west.

Caption For Peterborough, River Nene C1955

We are looking north across the river toward Bishop's Road, conspicuous by its buses.

Caption For Harborne, The Bell Inn C1955

The Bell occupies a pleasant site, almost semi-rural in character, tucked away on Old Church Road, with the sandstone tower of St Peter's as a backdrop, and Victorian houses nearby.

Caption For Sudbury, Market Hill And Church 1907

The familiar statue of Thomas Gainsborough in front of St Peter's was not erected until 1913. Note the double step from the pavement to the left.

Caption For Saxby, The Church C1955

St Peters was designed by architect George Richardson in 1789 (for Robert Sherrard, 4th Earl of Harborough) in the Classical manner that Pevsner describes as 'an attempt at combining the tradition of

Caption For Loughborough, Church Gate C1955

A handsome stone church was built, originally dedicated to St Peter and St Paul but later to All Saints. There was a guildhall and a manor house, a weekly market and twice- yearly fairs.

Caption For Dumpton Gap, 1894

Dumpton lies within the urban boundaries of St Peter's and Broadstairs; its earlier name, 'Dodemayton', has long been forgotten, as has the hermit Pettit, who lived in a cave at Dumpton.

Caption For Carmarthen, St Peter's Church 1925

At the east end of Spilman Street is St Peter's Church, an old building on the highest ground in the older portion of the town. Little is known about this church, including the date of its erection.

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.

Caption For Saxby, The Church C1955

St Peters was designed by architect George Richardson in 1789 (for Robert Sherrard, 4th Earl of Harborough) in the Classical manner that Pevsner describes as 'an attempt at combining the tradition of

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.

Caption For Syston, The Green C1960

The 15th-century local granite and limestone church tower of St Peter and St Paul, heavily restored in 1872 by P W Ordish, shows above the houses of quality which bound The Green.

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 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 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 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.