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Fascinating...
The chimney and roof of the lodge that can just be seen in this photo is my current house. Fascinating to see how much the surroundings have grown over with scrub and trees in the last 50-odd years.
A memory of Marlborough
Feltham Avenue Near Hampton Court Bridge
I cannot be certain but I have vague recollections that there was an iron arch with gates in this road. It could be from my imagination but I often have flashbacks about cycling with friends to Feltham ...Read more
A memory of East Molesey in 1960 by
Figheldean In The 50s
I was born in Figheldean, at 7 Avon Banks. Lived there with my family until the end of 1960, when we moved to Southampton. I remember freedom to roam in the area; climbing trees, messing about by the river, so very different ...Read more
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Find My Family The Flemings
Hello anyone who can help me! My dad was born in the Renton. I am trying to find any of my aunts/uncles or cousins. My dad's name was Alexander (Alec) Fleming. He was one of five brothers, Bill, Dan, Jim and Tommy. ...Read more
A memory of Renton in 1960 by
First Day Of School
First Day of School Arriving at Egham Hythe Infants School, aged 5, and being placed in the care of Mrs. Spenser. There I remained for one entire term. Most of the faces in the classroom were new. Some of the names heard for the ...Read more
A memory of Egham in 1954 by
First Impresstion Of Long Sutton
I first came to Long Sutton after my husband was given the job of being the local'bobby'We came to live in the local police station, which was an office room in the house. My first impresstion of Long Sutton was ...Read more
A memory of Long Sutton in 1970 by
First Job
It was 1958 and I had just left school at Walbottle Secondary. Me and my best pal Wes Coulthard (who I'm sad to say has since passed away) went on our first holiday together before starting down the Pit. We went with his parents Jimmy ...Read more
A memory of Newburn in 1958 by
First Love
Not so much Prestwich, but Heaton Park, the year was approx 1982, and while out with friends in the Park I met my first love, it may be a soppy thing to write, but I don't really care about things like that! Her name was Sandra ...Read more
A memory of Prestwich
Fishing
Favorite spot for fishing as a young boy was under the arches. We paddled out, risking cutting our feet on broken glass, which happened the odd time. Caught my biggest roach ever...but it got away! True story.
A memory of Chippenham in 1950 by
Fishing In The Stort Neil Riley
I was 6 years old when I first went fishing at Sawbridgeworth. We lived in Sayesbury Road from 1948 to 1960 and at the back of our house was Chalk Farm, where I spent a lot of time playing football with the ...Read more
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There is a large entrance arch on the right, before the weather-boarded wall, leading to a charming walled garden; it has recently been planted with the plants that would have been there in Tudor times
The lady on the bridge would very likely be going to the shops - she is just about to pass over the second arch of the railway bridge which accommodated the branch line forking off to Midhurst
As we look southwards from the Hele stone, through the middle arch, we can see the tallest stone of the inner horseshoes of trilithons.
Eamont Bridge, just south of Penrith on the A6, takes its name from a splendid three-arched bridge across the River Eamont.
The interior of St George's Chapel is wide rather than high, an effect partly due to the consistent use of four-centred arches. The stalls were provided in 1478-85, carved by William Berkely.
Its style is classed as early Perpendicular; the chancel was taken down in 1706 and the arch filled in with brickwork.
The arched windows on Tollgate Cottage (centre right) look out on what was a turnpike toll road. Beyond are Havering Cottage and Solways (top right).
bedding schemes, typical of the late Victorian and Edwardian period, a gravelled path led to the Monks' Walk and the old chestnut tree (in the clump of trees to the right of the priory arch,
A Watney's Red Barrel illuminated sign (a much-advertised keg beer of the time) hangs below the main sign.
The Bear Hotel was a much-visited restaurant in the 1960s and 70s, but it became rather run-down and lost most of its clientele. It has re-opened following renovation and cleaning.
For such a small village, St Mary's is quite a large church.
There is also a Victorian east window and niches to left and right of the low panelled chancel arch. The tall west tower has diagonal buttresses, with buttress shafts and pinnacles in relief.
Much of the rest of the church, the present nave and aisles to the left, are later medieval with heavy Victorian restoration.
The brick-faced building with arched windows was the Angel Inn, which had an orchard and yard where the customers played quoits.
Designed by Christopher Wren in 1672 as a triumphal arch, Temple Bar originally stood at the top of Fleet Street in London.
At this date Queen Victoria's statue can still be seen (just visible, centre left); and between the bank and the Queen's Hotel the narrow gabled building with the big arched window is the
The slipway for the launching of rowing lifeboats was blocked up and moved to the land-facing side; the small arched window marks where the old exit emerged.
It now has a much larger traffic island around it, and during the holiday season it is a very busy place indeed. Butlin House (left) has been replaced by a functional modern building.
This photograph was taken in the days when Uttoxeter had a much larger market.
The corbels on the arches of the nave are worth a close examination.
Two bridges crossed the Usk at Llanfoist: the medieval stone-arched road bridge is dwarfed by the railway bridge, which was demolished shortly after the Abergavenny to Merthyr line closed in the
It now has a much larger traffic island around it, and during the holiday season it is a very busy place indeed. Butlin House (left) has been replaced by a functional modern building.
Two bridges crossed the Usk at Llanfoist: the medieval stone-arched road bridge is dwarfed by the railway bridge, which was demolished shortly after the Abergavenny to Merthyr line closed in the early
The name is said to originate from the mustering of troops during the English Civil War in the 17th century, but it could equally originate from a much earlier 13th-century charter allowing animals
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