Books

Sorry, no books were found that related to your search.

Memories

1,304 memories found. Showing results 131 to 140.

Friends In Swindon West Midlands

I used to ride my horse through Swindon when the steel works RTB was there. The offices looked over the little bridge and my friend Derek Williams used to work there and wave through the window to me and my mates on our ...Read more

A memory of Swindon in 1965 by Christine Turner

Memories Of Wooburn From America

My mother, Vera Brown, was born in Wooburn Green and lived at 135 Boundary Road until she came to America to marry my father after WWII. (My father was based in High Wycombe during the war.) As my gran and ...Read more

A memory of Wooburn Green in 1965 by Valerie Killigrew

Living In Frimley

I was born in Frimley in 1957. We lived in a bungalow along the Frimley Green Road. I loved Frimley as a child, it was mainly farmland even then. I particularly remember the Manor House opposite St Peter's Church. I remember ...Read more

A memory of Frimley in 1965

An Idilic Childhood

My grandmother, Lillian Kemp, lived at 9 Howard Close. We visited regularly and had the best days running all over the village. Fishing sticklebacks out of the pond, looking for rats at the rubbish dump (!), trying ...Read more

A memory of Walton on the Hill in 1965 by Sue Hibberd

My Life At Aldershot

We moved to Aldershot in 1964, me and my 2 sisters went to school at East End infants then juniors school which is now all boarded up. I had a good mate who lived up the road from me, Stephen Watts, went to school at ...Read more

A memory of Farnborough in 1965 by Ian Nicoll

School

I went to the St James School next to this church, but left in 1965 when we emigrated to Australia. Surname was Wheeler-Smith. Brothers Michael and Peter. Father Arthur, mother Barbara. Anyone remember? Dad was a fireman and also worked at Roys as a french polisher.

A memory of Ludgershall in 1965 by Linda Eyles

Nursery Lane Bridge

I think that the photograph was taken in 1965 as the photo shows me and my brother David Jones fishing from the bottom of the garden of 4 Nursery Lane.  I was born in 1955 in Tamworth and we moved to Hopwas in April of 1961 when ...Read more

A memory of Hopwas in 1965 by Ann Meade

Antique Shop

When I was 5 years old my Mum and Dad sold everything and we sailed by cargo ship back to England from Montreal Quebec. We settled in Robin Hoods Bay as my grandma Phylis Timbrell owned and operated the Antique Shop along ...Read more

A memory of Robin Hood's Bay in 1965 by Liz Caven

The Sun Inn

Does anybody remember John and Sheila Peters who ran this pub. They had a 3 legged dog called Sonny who used to look out of the upstairs window and has even jumped from there. The football team used to meet there after their games on ...Read more

A memory of Northaw in 1965 by Julie Garrod

Walsh Manor School

I was a teacher at Walsh Manor Home Office School in the early days of the school. Mr Laycock was Headmaster, Mr West was the deputy and Mr Arrow was the other teacher. The Housemaster was Mr Stewart. Lord Longford was one ...Read more

A memory of Crowborough in 1965 by Colin Newman

Captions

474 captions found. Showing results 313 to 336.

Caption For Inskip, Baptist Chapel C1950

Inskip Church, St Peter's, was built in 1848.

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 Wisborough Green, The Church, Village And Windmill 1896

The church of St Peter ad Vincula has a shingled broach spire.

Caption For Wenvoe, The Castle 1899

Designed by Robert Adam, Wenvoe was built in 1775 by the wealthy Yorkshireman Peter Birt. 11 years after this photograph was taken, it was destroyed by a fire so devastating that the owners could not afford

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 West Wittering, The Village Green 1953

The 11th-century church of St Peter and St Paul is heavily restored.

Caption For Hertford, Panshanger House 1933

Panshanger was built in 1806 by Peter, fifth Earl Cowper on high ground close to the valley of the River Mimram.

Caption For Newdigate, The Church 1906

The church of St Peter, with its 14th-century tower made entirely of wood and supported inside by a framework of huge oak timbers, also has a 13th-century chancel and a south aisle added a hundred years

Caption For Hayling Island, Creek Road C1960

Board sailing was invented here: this was confirmed by a High Court ruling in 1982 stating that Peter Chilvers invented the sail board at Hayling in 1958 when, as a boy of ten, he used a sheet of plywood

Caption For Ruthin, Clwyd Street C1955

The cars appearing here in St Peter's Square, where a roundabout now guides traffic, were to be followed by many more as car ownership increased from the 1950s.

Caption For South Petherton, St James' Street C1960

Its graceful parish church, dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul, is dominated, as is the town, by its octagonal crossing tower.

Caption For Burnley, St Peter's Church 1895

This photograph shows how the church was extended in the 1850s — at this time there was great demand for pews in St Peter's.

Caption For Yoxford, Village 1909

Outside St Peter's church, an ornate cast iron signpost erected in 1830 has hands pointing to London, Yarmouth and Framlingham.

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 Uplyme, Church 1900

The parish church of St Peter and St Paul, a favourite dedication of King Ine in Anglo-Saxon times, stands on a knoll overlooking Uplyme village.

Caption For Lancaster, The Castle Gateway 1896

The tower of St Peter's Roman Catholic Cathedral can be seen in the background.

Caption For Chester, Bridge Street 1895

It is remarkable to think that St Peter's Church, at the top of the street, sits right on the site once occupied by the headquarters building (or principia) for an ancient Roman legion.

Caption For Belaugh, The Church From The River C1930

This view from the river shows almost the whole village, including the church of St Peter, whose tiny churchyard is a designated conservation area with particularly interesting ferns, lichens and flowers

Caption For Gloucester, Northgate Street Looking Towards London Road 1949

The church spire in the distance is that of St Peter's; it was built between 1860 and 1868, during the pastorate of Canon Calderbank.

Caption For East Blatchington, The Village 1891

We are on the Downs, just north of Seaford.The church of St Peter has a fine Norman fonty.

Caption For Horbury, Queen Street C1960

After a working life based in York, he returned to Horbury to build, at his own expense, the new church of St Peter and St Leonard in 1794.

Caption For Fleetwood, Rossall School 1904

Rossall Hall, Peter Hesketh's ancestral home, became Rossall School on 22 August 1844.

Caption For Bedford, St Peter's Square C1955

The later image shows that the aspect of St Peter's Square is more open, with a lifted tree canopy over Bunyan's head and the removal of the railings around the gardens behind the statue.

Caption For Bedford, De Parys Avenue 1897

Taken from the west edge of St Peter's Green, this view looks north up the long avenue towards Bedford Park.