Maps

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1946, Chapel Green Ref. NPO666467
1898, Chapel Green Ref. RNE666467
1919, Chapel Green Ref. POP666467
1904-1905, Chapelhall Ref. RNC666598

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Memories

173 memories found. Showing results 11 to 20.

Tales Of College Green

This shows College Green and its grand posh upmarket shops, at a time in the past when parking wasn't a problem. Many famous people lived round the Green over the years including Mary Robinson; actress and mistress of the ...Read more

A memory of Bristol by Paul Townsend

Memories Of Covenham As A Child

I was born in Covenham in Zeplin Row in 1950. I remember going to bed with candles as that was the only form of lighting we had. If it was cold in the winter I can remember my mum wraping up the warm oven ...Read more

A memory of Covenham St Mary in 1950 by Yvonne Lilley

Methodist Chapels

I was born in Braunston in 1941 but was taken to Hellidon as a baby to live with my mother's parents, the Burbidges. In Hellidon, the Methodist church was closed during the war period, so I was taken to the Methodist chapel ...Read more

A memory of Priors Marston in 1941 by Terence Wilcox

Early Years In Park Road

Born in 1947 to Ted & Cred Fowles, I lived in 3 Park Road until 1955 when I moved down the hill to Southsea. I started Tanyfron primary school in 1951 and went on to Penygelli Secondary school, Coedpoeth, in 1958. When ...Read more

A memory of Tanyfron by Ann Evans

Earith Was In Huntingdonshire And Still Is

I was born in St Ives in 1939 but lived in Earith at what is now number 43. Next door was my Grandad's grocer's shop - Bert Russell. I moved to Peterborough in 1958 where I still live in Werrington Village. ...Read more

A memory of Earith in 1940 by Lawrence Wright

Dunsmore People And Happenings Remembered

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION In 1995, when the first edition of this history was published, it seemed incredibly optimistic to have had three hundred copies printed for a market which was ...Read more

A memory of Dunsmore by Peter Jewell

Memories Of Benson

My memories of Benson started in 1946/7 when we moved to Sunnyside, which in those days did not have the recreation field. Nor did the village have street lighting apart from a couple in the High Street, one of which was on the wall ...Read more

A memory of Benson in 1947 by John Webb

Ex Garw Man

I was born in 193 Oxford Street, Pontycymer in 1935. I left to go into the army for National Service at the age of 18 in 1954. I returned for just 1 year in 1956 when I returned to the Midlands, to Birmingham. The house I lived in was ...Read more

A memory of Pontycymer in 1945 by Eric Morris

Visiting Abercynon As 8 Yr Old

I remember visiting Abercynon as a small child. Taken there by my mother to the house of Uncle Benjamin Jones. Having just turned 70 and lived in New Zealand for some 57 years my memories of the location of their ...Read more

A memory of Abercynon in 1950 by Taffy Davies

The Chapels

In the 1940s and 50s social life in Cwmtwrch was centred on the chapel and public house. There were eight active chapels, each with its own distinctive architecture, and representative of the major non-conformist denominations in ...Read more

A memory of Lower Cwm-twrch in 1940 by David Lougher

Captions

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Caption For Chapel St Leonards, The Beach C1955

This view looks north towards Chapel Point and the Coastguard Station. There was also a Second World War gun emplacement on the point. Again there are houses on the sand hills.

Caption For Ravensworth, The Village 1913

In this picture we see, left, the old school, in use until 1967, now the village hall. The Methodist chapel (1822), next, is still used.

Caption For Uppingham, School And Rectory C1965

The spacious rectory is situated across the road from the church on Scale Hill. The old rectory was higher up the hill on the same side and facing the Market Place.

Caption For Worplesdon, The Village 1904

For a few years around the turn of the 20th century, Worplesdon's cricket pitch was at the foot of Rickford Hill on the edge of the common.

Caption For Haverhill, High Street C1965

The former Corn Exchange of 1857 is on the left, obscuring the Market Hill Chapel of 1839.

Caption For Ilfracombe, Capstone Hill From The West C1875

This shows the northern slope of Capstone Hill and its junction with Ropery Meadow (centre, in front of the chapel) as it was before any development took place.

Caption For Great Harwood, Church 1897

The earliest mention of the chapel of Great Harwood is in a deed of 1335. The church nestles halfway up the hill, surrounded by trees, and facing outwards to the town.

Caption For Chapel St Leonards, The Beach C1955

This view looks north towards Chapel Point and the Coastguard Station. There was also a Second World War gun emplacement on the point. Again there are houses on the sand hills.

Caption For Margate, St John's Church 1890

HIGH on the hill at the top of Margate High Street is the parish church of St John the Baptist, which has served generations of Margatonians for nearly 1000 years (see 27445).

Caption For Chippenham, New Road From The Viaduct C1960

On the left we can see the pediment and roof of the Baptist Chapel, built in 1856 on the recently-constructed Station Hill.

Caption For Luton, St Mary's Church 1897

Henry also gave land to the monks to build a hospital and chapel on Farley Hill.

Caption For Talybont, General View C1955

This compact village is situated on the main coast road north of Aberystwyth; it grew up to serve the workers of the nearby lead mines and woollen mills.

Caption For Othery, Main Road C1955

From Bridgwater we head south-east into Sedgemoor to Othery, a village built on a low hill that rises 60 feet above the Moors.

Caption For Chideock, Village 1930

Down the hill are Alice Cottage, Chideock Court and Chapel Cottage. Trees partially obscure Bridge Cottage, By the Stream and Apple Tree Thatch (centre).

Caption For Eype, The Village 1899

A tiny coastal hamlet in the parish of Symondsbury, Eype was provided with its own 350-seat chapel of ease, dedicated to St Peter, in 1865 (right-hand skyline).

Caption For Eype, The Village 1899

A tiny coastal hamlet in the parish of Symondsbury, Eype was provided with its own 350-seat chapel of ease, dedicated to St Peter, in 1865 (right-hand skyline).

Caption For Sherington, Crofts End C1960

We are looking south-west down Crofts End, the lane which leads from Crofts End itself at the top of the hill behind the photographer to the main through road.

Caption For Barnet, Barnet Hill C1900

The church of St John the Baptist dominates this readily-recognisable street scene on the crown of the hill.

Caption For Ingleton, 1929

Ingleton is the gateway to the Three Peaks, and has been a popular destination for hill walkers and climbers for over a hundred years.

Caption For Crakehall, The Village 1900

Crakehall, 1 mile north of Bedale, is two villages in one - this is Little Crakehall, with its race (left) for three corn and flax mills.

Caption For Hawkshead, The Parish Church 1892

It was originally built as a chapel in the 12th century; the present commanding building on its hill overlooking the village mainly dates from the 15th century.

Caption For Stroud, Butter Row, The Old Pike House 1925

Further down the hill, part of Butter Row Methodist Chapel, now a private house, is visible.

Caption For Prestbury, The Church 1898

Its ancient parish, one of the largest in the country, stretched right up to Rainow and Kettleshulme in the hills, north as far as Poynton, and out in the south and west to Bosley and Chelford.

Caption For Harrow On The Hill, Harrow Schools 1906

To the right is the Gothic school chapel of 1854 designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, while further to the right, but out of shot, is the library of 1861, also by Scott, and recently sensitively re-ordered