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Birth

I was born on 8 October 1939 in a house called Trewalder, at Treyarnon Bay. The house belonged to Nan and Sam Odhams and they persuaded my mother to leave London - everyone was rushing anywhere and every place once war was declared on 3 ...Read more

A memory of St Merryn in 1930 by Merrin Holroyd

Bitter Sweet Memories Of St Cathrines Boarding School

I arrived in 1955, I was there for three years. I was not happy there, it was like a jail to me. I do recall the names of Clive Wood and Peter Adams - I do not recall any of the others. ...Read more

A memory of Almondsbury in 1956 by John Simmons

Blissful Memories

Sat Mar 20th 2021, at 3:22 pm Peter Tuthill commented: Yes, thanks for the photo of Smuggler's Cottage. It was criminal,wanton destruction to demolish it and throw up those totally characterless boxes. How planning permission was ...Read more

A memory of Portreath by Peter Tuthill

Blue Anchor Caravan Site

My nan had a caravan on the Blue Anchor Site and my cousins and I were shipped off there every summer.The highlight of the week was always when the fish and chip van used to come and park near the pub. The lowlight of ...Read more

A memory of Seasalter in 1969 by Neil Bryan

Blue Anchor. Last Week In July, First Week Of August.

These were the two weeks that my family would look forward to every year throughout the 60's, for this was the time when we would hire a caravan on the Blue Anchor site. I went back there last week ...Read more

A memory of Seasalter by alistair.burford

Boarding At St Peter's Court

I was a boarder at St Peter's Court from the age of 6 to 10. My father worked on the oil fields in Iraq and because of my age we got special permission for me to board during the civil war there. My two eldest ...Read more

A memory of Bacton in 1957 by Kevin Heath

Boat On Canal At Mill Bridge

The boat was an old mine sweeper that the owner or manager of the corn mill had navigated from Liverpool on the canal. The owners name was a Mr. Bramall. My pals and I used to play on the boat and row its dingy. The ...Read more

A memory of Skipton by Malcolm Mounteer

Bombing Raids In 1940

Bristol's premier shopping centre was turned into a wasteland of burned out buildings after major bombing raids in 1940, during the Second World War. Bridge Street Summary Bridge Street ran from High Street, rising up a ...Read more

A memory of Bristol by Paul Townsend

Bonfires

I remember most fondly the bonfires og Guy Fawkes Night in November. These structures would take weeks to build and always had a three piece suite at the centre. This was where the gang would 'live', yes live for some time prior to the ...Read more

A memory of Frizington in 1969 by Peter Walker

Bonny Downs And Vicarage Lane Playing Fields

I was born on Vicarage lane in 1947, moved to a flat on Charlemonte Road then onto St Albans Ave. I remember Bonny Downs and all the friends we had as times were very tough so we went "pinching" fruit ...Read more

A memory of East Ham by fscfiresafety

Captions

474 captions found. Showing results 289 to 312.

Caption For Pickering, Smiddy Hill C1955

In the background we can see the tower and spire of the 12th- and 14th-century parish church of St Peter and St Paul, which has interior wall-paintings dating from the 15th century.

Caption For Peel, The Bay 1895

In the centre foreground of the picture stands St Peter's church, intact at this time, built out of locally quarried Triassic red sandstone and identified by its unusual helm-roof tower.

Caption For Bridge, From The Mill 1903

The dominant feature is the Norman St Peter's Church presiding over this view.

Caption For Marlborough, London Road C1950

On the right, a car is parked in front of listed railings belonging to St Peter's and St Mary's junior school.

Caption For Congleton, St Peter's Church 1898

They depict St Paul and St Peter.

Caption For Aylesbury, Westmorland Avenue C1965

Our tour of Aylesbury peters out amid the post-war expansion to accommodate London's overspill.

Caption For Barnstaple, From Anchor Woods 1919

It lasted long after the passenger service was withdrawn, carrying coal to Yelland Power Station and ball clay from Peters Marland.

Caption For Kettering, Parish Church C1955

The avenue leads to the superb west tower of Saints Peter and Paul church.

Caption For Clacton On Sea, The Bandstand 1907

Clacton was the brainchild of one man—Peter Bruff, an engineer with the Tendring Hundred railway company—who bought 50 acres of farmland here in 1865 with a view to its development as a holiday resort

Caption For Colaton Raleigh, Village 1906

The first links with the Raleigh family, from which the village now takes the second part of its name, came in 1346 when Peter de Raleghe owned certain manorial rights.

Caption For Hawkley, The Village C1960

This village lies around a green, and here the church of St Peter and St Paul can be found.

Caption For Navenby, The Church C1965

The tower of the church of St Peter was rebuilt in the 18th century after the previous one fell down.

Caption For Wadhurst, High Street 1903

The church of St Peter and St Paul has many cast iron graveslabs in the floor.

Caption For Barnstaple, The Crooked Spire, Parish Church 1936

Theirs may be more famous, but St Peter's has quite a pronounced twist.

Caption For Blaenavon, C1955

On the right is St Peter's, the parish church of Blaenavon, built by the ironmasters Hopkins and Hill in 1805.

Caption For Prestbury, High Street 1896

The tower of St Peter's church can just be seen above the roofs on the right-hand side of the picture.

Caption For Huddersfield, The George Hotel, St George's Square 1957

The George Hotel replaced the earlier George Inn, which was re-erected in St Peter's Street in 1852.

Caption For Bedford, The School Sports Field 1921

The grammar school moved out of its old buildings (now the Town Hall) to a new twenty-acre site set in fields north of St Peter's church in 1891.

Caption For Henfield, Golden Square C1955

St Peter's 13th-century church was rebuilt in 1870.

Caption For Eckington, The Memorial C1965

The Church and War Memorial c1955 Dedicated to St Peter & St Paul, the church here is first mentioned in 1310, though there was almost certainly a place of worship on the site in late Saxon times

Caption For Leigh, The Cross C1955

The village shop (right) was run by Pamela and Peter Mills, and his green Standard van is parked outside.

Caption For Dinas Powys, Mill Road C1960

Our vantage point for this view is near to St Peter's Church, whose construction in the late 1920s made use of stone recycled from the defunct Cyfarthfa iron works.

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.