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Heysham Towers Holiday Camp

I remember arriving in Morecambe in 1967, with a mate of mine, to work the Summer at Pontin's in Middleton but, due to a clerical error, our job's were no longer open. So, on the way back to Morecambe, (on the bus), we ...Read more

A memory of Heysham in 1967 by Pat Hocking

Clock Tower Round About

My granny used to sit here for hours. Thats the post office and market so it must have been Friday.

A memory of Coalville in 1955 by George Fairbrother

Fond Lifechanging Memories

I remember the Convent of Mercy as one of my fondest memories. I boarded there from the young age of five until I was eleven. Some of my best memories were of the summers when we made long daisy chains with all the ...Read more

A memory of Monks Kirby in 1962 by Joni Balmer

Christmas Is Coming

Still on my travels on Memory Lane I browsed past St Helens. This was always a place of seasonal visits: Christmas, Easter and Harvest Festival. I must admit that Easter visits do not live long in my memory, and ...Read more

A memory of Ashby-de-la-Zouch by Bill Davey

St John's Angel Town Church

My dad Chic Upstone and relative Dick Rush climbed up the tower to correct the clock for the vicar in the 1950s

A memory of Brixton

Pilgrims Way Childrens Home And St Patrick Open Air School

I was in pilgrims way childrens home in bower mount road Maidstone from age 12-15.it was a very strict regime but I liked it there. however we were made to go to choir practice every ...Read more

A memory of Hayling Island by Gladys Foley

When I Was A Wolf Cub In Grays

In the early 1950's we lived in "Little Thurrock" as my Mum called it! Actually in Blackshotts Lane at a time before the road was adopted by the council and full of pot holes! What I want to find is exactly where the ...Read more

A memory of Grays by peelerscottage

Scottish Dancing Summer School

I went to the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society summer school several times in the 1970's having been encouraged by my wife, Elizabeth, who was one of their teachers. The first school we attended together was ...Read more

A memory of St Andrews in 1970 by John Howard Norfolk

4th Bexleyheath Cub Pack Outing To Reculver

I joined the 4th Bexleyheath Cubs in 1953 and remember a Summer Camp to Birchington in 1953 when the highlight was a coach outing to Reculver Towers. We travelled to Birchington in the back of an old ...Read more

A memory of Reculver in 1953 by John Howard Norfolk

Hatchford Church

My father, Capt. F.C. Dyer used to play the organ at Hatchford Church until his death in 1950. It was a pump organ and Bubbles was the name of the hunchback who pumped the organ. We lived in the Semaphore Tower up on Chatley Heath ...Read more

A memory of Cobham in 1940 by Ron Clibborn Dyer

Captions

3,036 captions found. Showing results 673 to 696.

Caption For Windsor, Town Bridge And Sir Christopher Wren's House C1900

Overlooked by Windsor Castle's famous Round Tower, Windsor Bridge was erected in 1822.

Caption For High Halden, The Church C1955

The tower, also timbered, is unique in the county.

Caption For Harleston, The Thoroughfare C1955

The clock tower was built in 1873 to replace a church on the site, which had itself been replaced by a new church in nearby Broad Street.

Caption For Godalming, View From Frith Hill 1898

In its early years the main entrance to Charterhouse was along Peperharow Road, seen here from the water tower on Frith Hill. Development with houses for staff was rapid.

Caption For Exmouth, From The Beacon 1922

This fine view looks across the clock tower and Morton Crescent to the estuary of the River Exe, with Starcross and the Haldon Hills in the distance.

Caption For Exmouth, The Esplanade And The Pier C1955

This fine view looks across the clock tower and Morton Crescent to the estuary of the River Exe, with Starcross and the Haldon Hills in the distance.

Caption For Norwich, From South East 1896

This view, looking across Lower Close, has changed remarkably little since 1896; it shows how the cathedral dominates its surroundings, towering over the houses of Lower Close.

Caption For Hinton St George, The Post Office And Cross C1955

Looking west from the top of St Bartholomew's tower, the view across the country- side has changed little over the years, and might still be recognised by Thomas Hardy, who served as a captain under

Caption For Ilminster, Silver Street C1950

St Mary's Church, which rises behind the Dolphin Hotel, is renowned for its lavishly-decorated tower and impressive tie beam roof, both of which date from its rebuilding in the 15th century.

Caption For Leeds, The Headrow And Town Hall C1955

The magnificent many-pillared clock tower of Leeds Town Hall, opened by Queen Victoria in 1858, dominates this view of The Headrow, one of the city's most important thoroughfares.

Caption For Gerrans, Gerrans Church 1895

The lofty granite spire crowning the battlemented tower of St Gerant's Church was a vital day-mark for Cornish mariners.

Caption For Sennen, The Village 1908

The low granite tower of St Senana looks down on the first and last hotels in England.

Caption For Launcells, Church 1906

Local geology provided the brick-sized stones for building the unbuttressed tower. More costly granite, however, was used for pinnacles, windows and the arcades of the interior.

Caption For Slapton, Church And Chantry Tower 1890

In the background is the ruined tower of the chantry church founded in 1327 by Sir Guy de Bryan, one of the first Knights of the Garter.

Caption For Dartmouth, New Quay 1890

Before that, ships tied up at the churchyard wall of St Saviour's, the tower of which, built in 1631, can be seen in the centre.

Caption For Newton Abbot, Globe Hotel And St Leonard's Tower 1906

St Leonard's Tower, smothered in ivy, is all that remains of a fourteenth century church, demolished in 1836.

Caption For The Broads, Hunsett Mill On River Ant At Stalham C1925

This quiet scene shows a drainage tower mill starting to fall into disrepair: two blades of the fantail are missing. The patent sails appear to be empty of shutters.

Caption For The Broads, Hunsett Mill On River Ant At Stalham C1925

This quiet scene shows a drainage tower mill starting to fall into disrepair: two blades of the fantail are missing. The patent sails appear to be empty of shutters.

Caption For Lynmouth, The Harbour 1899

The pier was 18th-century, and the Rhenish tower added early in the 1800s by a General Rawdon.

Caption For Steyning, View From White Horse Lane 1914

The church is of note, with a late-Norman font and a 16th-century tower.

Caption For Oakham, The Castle C1955

This view of the castle grounds looks east from the church tower. Friesian cows are grazing; perhaps they belong to Mr E Ball, who owned property to the right in the Market Place.

Caption For Southport, From Water Chute 1908

The tower in the picture was at the end of an aerial ride that carried passengers over the lake; the ride was closed and dismantled at the end of the 1911 season.

Caption For Westdean, 1921

To the left of the church tower is the Old Parsonage, a 13th-century house of great interest.

Caption For Porthleven, The Harbour 1924

A good example of the ferocity of winter storms was in 1990, when waves were breaking over the 70-foot tower of the Bickford Smith Institute in the background.