Books

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Memories

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Tin Tan Tommy

I moved to the hill as a child with my brother and sisters in the early 1950as to Dagnam Park Square. We had a lovely wood there to play in. Tin Tan Tommy was our best game, standing on the sand bin spying out the other kids and ...Read more

A memory of Harold Hill in 1956 by Alby West

Manor Road Sidcup

I was born in Farnborough hospital in June 1956. My mother is Austrailian and my father grew up in and around Bridgwater in Somerset. From the period of 1956 -1960 we lived in the top flat at 12 Manor Road (now sadly gone), the ...Read more

A memory of Sidcup in 1956 by Julian Bishop

Chingford Hatch

I remember the Manor pub, it used to have an air raid warning siren on the building. I remember hearing it once, testing it I think as the year was about 1956. I too remember the tea van which had an awning on it in the rain. As ...Read more

A memory of Chingford in 1956 by Lynne Bacon

The Good Old Days

I lived in Streethouse but when I was 4 we moved to the newish estate at the top of the 'Knob' (North Featherstone). We lived at 49 Manor Drive, next door to the Simkins. My dad was a miner at Sharlston and Snydale ...Read more

A memory of Featherstone by Cyril Woodhead

August 25th, 1892

I have photos of Walreddon Manor from my ancestors who lived there in the 1890s. One is similar to the photo here, but was taken in August of 1892, and the back inscription, written about the same time, said the children were ...Read more

A memory of Tavistock in 1890 by Cristy Watson

Two Properties In The 1930s

Before the Second World War my grandfather, Donald MacVitie, was a builder who renovated properties in the Cheltenham, Tewkesbury area, often living in them during or after doing the work. The Old Forge at ...Read more

A memory of Aston on Carrant

Memories Of Mile Oak And Fazeley

I remember those golden years as a youngster bathing in the mill at Fazeley and Bourne brook at Mile Oak. The weather always seem so warm. We had our own circle of friends, and as youngsters we did get into ...Read more

A memory of Fazeley by Roy Allsopp

Boston Manor Zebras

Opposite Boston Manor station is an office block. Before this was built it was waste land called by us kids BOSTON BUMPS. We had bikes with cow horn handle bars and painted the frames black and white and called ourselves the ...Read more

A memory of Brentford by Nick Beard

Hackbridge And Its Schools 1950`s

I attended Hackbridge Kindergarten then Primary and later Elmwood High schools Left school at 14 , worked at Croydon Airport as a apprentice engineer for Mortons . I cant say I have good memories of Hackbridge ...Read more

A memory of Hackbridge by scoti49

Harold Hill In The 50s

I went to the infant school then dycorts then harrowfields, , I remember going to school in the smog, we always had fog, snow, the milk cart was horse and cart, rag and bone the same, names like the tattems, ginger hinde, ...Read more

A memory of Harold Hill by Roger Slate

Captions

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Caption For West Bromwich, The Memorial Gardens C1965

West Bromwich boasts a remarkable survivor, Oak House, a magnificent 16th-century manor house.

Caption For Yardley, Blakesley Hall C1965

Until incorporated into Birmingham in 1911, Yardley had been a rural Worcestershire manor for nearly 1,000 years, but only the church and a couple of timber-framed buildings survive from those days.

Caption For Bibury, Arlington Manor C1960

The manor is mentioned in the Domesday book, the detailed survey of property which was conceived by William the Conqueror at Christmas 1085 in Gloucester.

Caption For Fenstanton, Church Lane C1955

He was presented with the manors of Fenstanton and Hilton by the Earl of Northampton in payment for work at Castle Ashby.

Caption For Orford, Market Square And Church C1955

On the left is the corner of the brick-fronted manor house.

Caption For Wooburn Town, The Village 1910

Although the medieval manor house of the D'Eyncourt family was demolished in the 1920s for road widening, the fine parish church remains.

Caption For Yardley, Blakesley Hall C1965

Until incorporated into Birmingham in 1911, Yardley had been a rural Worcestershire manor for nearly 1,000 years, but only the church and a couple of timber-framed buildings survive from those days

Caption For Maltby, Manor Road C1955

Manor Road would not win any architectural awards; in fact, the picture could have been taken in any one of a hundred or so towns where similar houses were built.

Caption For Wargrave, From Near Ferry 1890

The central trees hide Wargrave Manor with its parkland; further along the bank there are now a number of larger Edwardian and later houses.

Caption For Levens, Hall, The Gardens 1891

This beautiful Elizabethan manor house is now the home of the Bagot family.

Caption For Medstead, Village From The Green C1955

Next to them is the drive to Medstead Manor House.

Caption For Slaugham, The Village C1960

The Lord of the Manor here paid for Slaugham's telephone wires to be concealed underground so as not to spoil the appearance of the village.

Caption For Northfield, Bristol Road South 1949

It was in February 1909 that proposals were made under the Greater Birmingham Plan to annex Aston Manor, Erdington, Handworth, King's Norton, Northfield and Yardley.

Caption For Porlock, High Street C1960

At the end of the street, with the tall chimney, is the 15th-century Doverhay Manor, now Porlock's museum.

Caption For Old Swinford, Hagley Road C1955

Old Swinford is a suburb of Stourbridge today, which represents a reversal of fortune: the Domesday Book (1086) recorded Stourbridge as part of the manor of 'Suineford'.

Caption For Poole, Longfleet Church And Schools 1887

St Mary's was built in 1833 by lord of the manor William Ponsonby.

Caption For Torquay, Compton Castle 1890

Despite its name, this is actually a fortified manor house, one of the best in the country, built in the 14th-16th centuries by the Gilbert family.

Caption For Shrivenham, The Royal Military College Of Science C1960

The college is built on land that once formed part of the ancient manor of Beckett.

Caption For Abbotts Ann, The Village 1898

In the early 18th century the manor passed to Thomas Pitt, an enterprising businessman who made a lot of money by selling a valuable diamond to the Regent of France.

Caption For Moseley, St Mary's Church C1955

Rather like King's Norton, Moseley appears in Domesday Book as a berewick of the Royal Manor of Bromsgrove.

Caption For Mollington, The Mollington Banastre Hotel C1965

The old manor house on the site was replaced by the present building in 1853.

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.There is a large amount of wonderful medieval

Caption For Enfield, Hilly Fields C1955

The manor house (known by locals as 'The Palace') was an E-shaped building facing north.

Caption For Mells, The Church 1907

Buried in the graveyard now is Monsignor Ronald Knox, who lived for a time at the Manor.