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Stone In The 1950s
I am now 57 years of age, and live in Australia. I was born in Stone, Stafforshire in 1949 and would love to go back and visit. As a child I remember walking along the canal and standing watching as a blacksmith mended a horse's ...Read more
A memory of Stone in 1956 by
Savage Memories Of Pilsley Pit
I have two professionally taken pictures of an official visit to PILSLEY COLLIERY, the pit as grandad called it, by what looks to be the colliers wives. The last pit closed in 1957 & I suspect the ...Read more
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Kiddington 1938 To 1955
My very large family moved into The Chequers in March 1938. It had been a pub many years before and it was very much more suitable for us than our previous three bed roomed council house at Steeple Aston. We were not unknown ...Read more
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Maltby Memories
I lived in Bubwith from August 1949 until January 1961 when my family moved to York following the sale of the family grocery business. The shop was located directly opposite the end of The Intake on the main village street and is now ...Read more
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Annual Visit
My parents, Fred & Marjorie La Touche, always took us to visit our great aunt & uncle Curtis,who lived at Cottage of Content in Harris Barton.At one time this was a pub, (perhaps someone has a photo of it ) but then it ...Read more
A memory of Frampton Cotterell in 1945 by
Ss Channel Queen
This vessel was built by Messrs Craggs of Middlesbrough - launched 13th July 1895. 185 ft long - Gross tonnage 386 tons with full electric lighting. She ran a regular service across the Channel calling at Guernsey, Jersey and St ...Read more
A memory of Salcombe in 1890 by
St Mary’s Graves End
My name is Gary Canham, my brother Richard and I were placed into care at St Mary’s School in Graves End on the 24/04/1961, aged 3 and 2, we remained there till being returned to our mother and stepfather on 22/06/1963. I have ...Read more
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White Bear Cottages, Fickleshole, Chelsham.
My Grandparents lived in one of the cottages attached to what is now the White Bear Inn. They appear on the Census of 1921 Walter Knight & Florence Knight. My Mother Sylvia Knight who was 3 at the time of ...Read more
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Diss A Very Pleasant Bolthole
I had many memorable times in Diss. When living in Cambridge, I often, unexpectedly for him, dropped in to see Mr Robert Stubbs who had been living by himself and his toy poodle since his wife's passing many years ...Read more
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Telephoning
The public telephone in this picture of Tredegar Street was outside my father's butcher shop. There were only two buttons to press: button A and button B, but people were terrified of pressing the wrong one. My father, Gomer Mumford, used ...Read more
A memory of Risca in 1955 by
Captions
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The grave of Charles Stewart Parnell (1846 - 91).
This Celtic-style monument in the Lake District marks the grave of John Ruskin, the artist and philosopher, who helped to bring about the Gothic revival in Victorian architecture and a resurgance of interest
Odiham churchyard contains the graves of several French prisoners.
As was his wish, Parnell was buried in a mass grave among the people of Ireland whom he loved.
The crypt was sealed off for years; when it was discovered by a sexton digging a grave and eventually reopened, it was found to contain thousands of bones and skulls collected from an old churchyard.
All Saints' Church now stands at the edge, soon to join the lost medieval town in a watery grave.
In the distance are Cartsdyke Mill and east yards, the Gravel graving dock and the entrance to the James Watt Dock.
The nearby churchyard contains the graves of the writer's sister and mother, both of whom were named Cassandra.
Odiham churchyard contains the graves of several French prisoners.
Although the stonework has been replaced since, the heroic Edith Cavell's grave is still a poignantly simple one.
In the churchyard is the grave of Mrs Reginald Hargreaves, born Alice Liddell and immortalised by Lewis Carroll in 'Alice in Wonderland'.
You can see the iron railings around his grave at the bottom left of our picture.
Since there is no evidence of Arthur ever existing, the claim that this is his grave is academic, though it would be foolish to ignore the power of handed-down legend.
The village is most revered for having the grave of the Welsh bard Taliesin.
Bosham, which lies on the eastern edge of Chichester Harbour, is renowned for its picturesque setting and sturdy Saxon church, which contains an unusual crypt and the grave of one of King Canute's daughters
The church- yard contains the graves of 330 Canadian soldiers; many of them died from an influenza epidemic which swept the area in 1917-18.
The grave of Field Marshal Montgomery, who died in 1976, is in the churchyard, and his banner hangs in the nave of the church.
Graves and ivy-clad ruins are shown beside the Monks' Cemetery of Bindon Abbey.
Graves and ivy-clad ruins are shown beside the Monks' Cemetery of Bindon Abbey.
In the churchyard is the grave of the great Victorian Liberal Shaw Lefevre, Lord Eversley, who worked closely with the long-serving Prime Minister Mr Gladstone.
In the churchyard lies the grave of the Victorian admiral Sir John Baird, who died in 1908.
Excavations were carried out on the Chapter House in 1902, when the graves of five Abbots, including that of Abbot Sampson, were discovered.
In the churchyard can be found the graves of Herbert Asquith, Liberal Prime Minister from 1908 to 1916, and Eric Arthur Blair, who may be better known as the novelist George Orwell, whose works include
Inside the house gates (left) are the graves of two pugs, inscribed 'always on guard'.
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