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Who Ran The Victoria

My family are Hopkins' from Wye. John and then his sister Sarah ran this pub during the 1850's to 1890's. Year/Publican or other Resident/Relationship to Head and or Occupation/Age/Where Born/Source. 1855/J Hopkins -Post ...Read more

A memory of Wye in 1860

Whittlebury Lodge College

Hello, I have just found this site, and has brought back many memories. I was at the school from 1961 to 1965, I remember that I was in Clare House, eventually being its house captain in 1965. Reading the entries ...Read more

A memory of Whittlebury in 1964 by Robin Thomas

Whitehill In The 60s And 70s

My husband Vic moved into the brand new council estate in 1968 with his parents and sister - Champney Close. His house backed onto the common and MOD training land. He’d stand up on the embankment watching the trains ...Read more

A memory of Whitehill by D Toovey

Whitchurch Butchers

I knew Len and Mary as a child. They were both good people. My Dad was Frank Wigmore and he was also a butcher in Whitchurch. Mary's maiden name was Ashfield and she originally ran a sweet shop on the corner next to ...Read more

A memory of Whitchurch by lizpetewig

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

Where I Was Born

My Beginning, at Sole Street near Cobham Kent. (9th March 1946 - 2nd January 1951) I was born on Saturday March 9th 1946 at 3.29pm at Temperley, The Street, Sole Street, Kent. I was delivered at home by the ...Read more

A memory of Sole Street in 1946

Where I Grew Up

I lived most of my life in Sible Hedingham, as a family we moved there from London in 1962.  I was just 2 years old at the time. My father Robert Farren, "Bob" as he was best known and my mother Ivy, took over the licence of ...Read more

A memory of Sible Hedingham in 1962 by Anne Elder

Where I Consisder Home

My name when I lived on Harold Hill was Susan Bryan (and then Shepherd when I married for the first time). My parents moved to Newbury Road, Harold Hill in 1950 when I was just two years old. There were no shops in ...Read more

A memory of Harold Hill by Susan Parker

When I Was A Kid

I lived in St Richards road and was evacuated to Allerton Yorkshire during the war. When we returned I was 12 1/2 yrs old but soon made friends at Southwick girls school and had a boyfriend Peter Morris, is he still around? I am ...Read more

A memory of Fishersgate by maviscurley

When I Was A Boy

My name is Peter Labdon and I lived with my father Wilf, my mother Ruby and my brother David in Halberton from 1933 to 1943, between the ages of two and twelve. We lived first in Norway House, at the top of the road to Lower ...Read more

A memory of Halberton in 1930 by Peter Labdon

Captions

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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.