Maps

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Memories

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Cranborne

I was a pupil at Cranborne First School at the time of Ms Rogers and lived across the carpark at 9 Water Street. I remember ending up with prizes for cooking and mini garden and doing the show at the old village hall singing '1, 2, 3,4,5, ...Read more

A memory of Cranborne in 1974 by Adam Cooper

Sandycombe Road

I was born in Kings Farm Avenue, just off Manor Road in Richmond in 1964. When I was a baby we swapped council houses with my Uncle and moved into 28 Sandycombe Road - this was to be my home until 1987. My grandparents lived at number ...Read more

A memory of Kew in 1969 by Garry Smith

Growing Up In Southall

I grew up in Southall in the 1940s and 50s. We lived in Gordon Road in a terraced house that backed onto The Tube. We had an outside toilet, no bathroom and, until I was about 6, no electricity. At the age of 5 I could change ...Read more

A memory of Southall in 1945 by John Lennon

Blakesley Manor

I have a picture somewhere of Blakesley Manor, which was demolished in about 1967 and replaced with a housing estate!!! My dad thought that he should have inherited it, but he found out that it was left to his grandparents (who were ...Read more

A memory of Blakesley in 1965 by Chris Rogers

Working For The Ministry

I started working for the ministry (ancient monuments) in 1969 at South Wingfield Manor. At the time it was owned by two brothers, Sam and Bill Critchlow, who ran a dairy farm situated at the side of the manor, in ...Read more

A memory of South Wingfield in 1969 by Stuart Chambers

Mr Lennon Drayton Manor Grammar Reunion 2010

45 out of 90 students meeting up....see southall knowhere site on google 2010

A memory of Southall by Yvonne Butler

Childhood In Sutton

My memories of Manor Park were that on a Saturday morning we used to go to the Granada cinema for Saturday morning pictures. The cinema was right next to the park and we used to go in the park on our way home. I lived in Carshalton ...Read more

A memory of Sutton in 1950 by Ann Jaramillo

Swinford Manor

If I own the title 'Lord of the Manor of Swinford', how can I relate myself to the Swinford Manor? I would be pleased to get a reply or acknowledgement from you. Regards Nelson Brunton

A memory of Great Chart by Nelson Brunton

Chingford Hatch

Does anyone remember the Manor pub at the bottom of Friday Hill? It was replaced by the Wheelwrights some years later, there used to be a van selling teas and coffees to the bus drivers and conducters in their breaks at the bus ...Read more

A memory of Chingford in 1957 by Christine Jeffrey

Charlbury Railway Station

I well remember been driven to the station to meet a train that was carrying at least two hundred head of cattle destined for Ditchley Mansion. As a young man in those days, with five other men we drove the animals to the ...Read more

A memory of Charlbury in 1954 by Roy Beasley

Captions

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Caption For Rickmansworth, Bury House 1897

West of the church and across a stream is The Bury, the manor house until 1741.

Caption For Kibworth Harcourt, Main Street C1955

The Manor House on the right developed through a number of centuries from a small timber-framed structure, which remains in part.

Caption For Alfriston, Cuckmere Valley From High And Over C1960

This is a relic of the past, when the Lord of the Manor was entitled to keep a pigeon house, and the birds could feed off his tenants' crops.

Caption For Aylesbury, Market Square 1901

They were hauled here by steam wagons from Waddesdon Manor.

Caption For Offord Cluny, The Church 1906

The manor of Offord Cluny was held by the monks of Cluny from 1086.

Caption For Martock, Church 1900

To the left are the arched and mullioned windows of the 1661 Almshouses; partly hidden is Ashlar House, which is mid 18th- century and set at the corner of Pound Lane, which leads to the moated Manor

Caption For Clifton Hampden, The Bridge Over The River Thames 1890

George Gilbert Scott certainly transformed the village, 'restoring' the church, rebuilding the manor house and building the school.

Caption For Studland, New Inn 1890

The cottage on the east side of Manor Road (left) is the one to which Sergeant William Lawrence retired.

Caption For Warboys, The Church C1955

Here we see Warboys church, with the 17th-century Dutch-influenced manor house next door.

Caption For Tonbridge, Barden Park, The Avenue 1890

The manor of Barden lay to the south-west of Tonbridge.

Caption For Bradford On Avon, View From The Quarry C1955

This view from Grip Wood shows the rear of the Tithe Barn, which defines the southern edge of Barton Manor Farm.

Caption For Ashtead, St George's Church 1908

In 1882, the wealthy lord of the manor and the father of the incumbent Rector of Ashtead, Sir Thomas Lucas, donated a small iron church for the expanding population in this part of the parish.

Caption For Bishop Auckland, The Castle Chapel, The Reredos 1892

Auckland Castle, also known as Auckland Palace, began as a manor house built in about 1183 by Bishop Pudsey, but it was later converted into a castle by Bishop Anthony Bek in the 14th century

Caption For Lyme Regis, The Cobb 1922

This view looks southwards across Lyme Bay from the main path through Langmoor Gardens, which were given to the town by James Moly of Langmoor Manor, Charmouth.

Caption For Fernhurst, Vann Road 1908

Blackdown is a great sandstone hill 918 feet high, and Blackdown House is a Tudor-style manor house of 1640.

Caption For Kibworth, The Square C1955

The name Beauchamp derives from Walter de Beauchamp, lord of the manor in c1130.

Caption For Monks Eleigh, The Village C1955

The monks referred to in the village's name are the monks of Canterbury, who were lords of the manor and patrons of the living.

Caption For Harlaxton, 1890

Harlaxton Manor is now owned by the American University of Evansville.

Caption For Sutton, Gander Green Lane 1898

At its southern extremity and the junction with Cheam Road was the site of East Cheam Manor and a dozen or so houses.

Caption For Cheam, Baptist Church C1955

Diagonally opposite is Cheam Baptist Church, constructed on land which was formerly the angle of the garden of West Cheam Manor House.

Caption For Moreton In Marsh, High Street C1965

In the 17th century the building that is now The White Hart Royal was a manor house, and Charles I stayed there in July 1644 after the Battle of Marston Moor.

Caption For Fernhurst, Vann Road 1908

Blackdown is a great sandstone hill 918 feet high, and Blackdown House is a Tudor-style manor house of 1640.

Caption For Martock, Cross And Town Hall 1900

Manor Place, to the right, still has its magnolia tree, and the West Somerset Stores behind the Market Hall is now an estate agents.

Caption For Brent Knoll, 1903

Brent Knoll village straggles along the western side of the Knoll, with St Michael's Church, a dedication often associated with hill-tops and hills, to the centre and the Manor House of the 1860s to