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Porrits
I lived in Rodley but learnt to dance at Porritts.Remember walking home across the field at the back of dance hall ( now housing estate), coming out near the mill then down Bagley Lane. Near the bottom there is a ginnel up lots of steps which ...Read more
A memory of Farsley in 1956 by
Incredible Discovery At Rushton Spencer Church In 1956 !!!!!
In 1956 my late Grandfather, the Master Builder W Lloyd Bailey, and my late father, W Gary Bailey, were engaged in re-mortaring the church's exterior stonework. At the rear lies 3 ...Read more
A memory of Rushton Spencer in 1956 by
A Wonderful Time
My family and I lived at 157 Wilmslow Road, it had just been built so all of us who lived on the road moved in around the same time, and it was a wonderful. My parents George and Thelma Goddard, had the three of us then, Georgina, ...Read more
A memory of Handforth in 1955 by
Does Does Anyone Remember Me? I Lived On Alta Road
We used to live at number 20 (next to the junior school), there was myself, Geoff, Geraldine, Liz my siblings and my mum and dad, my dad was called Kenneth Douglas and was a WW2 warrant officer, my ...Read more
A memory of Deepcut in 1955 by
Would You Believe It
The young man on the outside of the pavement is me, the group standing in the distance are family members and the two on my right are demanding to know where I am going, as it happened I was going to see my Gran. Did not know ...Read more
A memory of Biddulph in 1955 by
So Long Ago, But Never Forgetten
I used to live in Eversham Road and to catch the trolley bus on the corner of Birchinton Avenue and Bolckow road was an every day event. I was just 10 years old when this picture was taken, the car probably belonged ...Read more
A memory of Grangetown in 1955 by
Happy Days
I have a lot of happy memories of living in Peterlee. My mam, dad and me moved there when I was 6 months old from Hartlepool. We lived in Bailey Rise, a new house then. I can still remember the smell from the Tudor crisp factory which was ...Read more
A memory of Peterlee in 1955 by
I Lived In Hillview Cresent In The Fifties...
We moved to Farrington Gurney when I was 4 or 5... Other families I remember were the Burtons, Longs, Maggs and Chivers... I remember spending Saturday afternoons at the church... When there was a ...Read more
A memory of Farrington Gurney in 1955 by
My Time At Rapleys Grazeley Green
I was born and spent my early childhood at Rapleys, Grazeley Green. My father's farm, James Farm, was at the far end of the Green in James Lane. We had a herd around 120 friesians for milking as well as arable ...Read more
A memory of Grazeley Green in 1955 by
Summer Holidays
I was born in Brewery Yard, Great Haywood. After the war my mum moved to Notting Hill, London, so in the summer holidays my sister and I would stay at Nan & Grandads in the village. Mum {Eileen Bailey} played the piano in the ...Read more
A memory of Great Haywood in 1954 by
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It also had a Norman motte and bailey castle whose earthworks survive quite well.
All that now remains of the huge structure, apart from the surrounding earthworks, are the broken ruins of the 12th-century flint and mortar curtain walls within the bailey, which encompass a bowling
A motte and bailey was built here in the early 1070s by Robert de Rhuddlan, but the ruins we see today date back to the fortress of Edward I.
Situated on the north bank of the Medway, the original motte and bailey castle was replaced with stone by the early 13th century, when the shell keep was built.
The present buildings are Victorian, and were worked by Frederick Bailey in the Great War.
Inside the bailey the keep appears much more complete than it actually is.
The site has seen two previous strongholds - one a motte and bailey built by the Normans in the course of their early campaigns in the area, and the second a more substantial construction built by the
The first castle at Manorbier was probably a motte and bailey erected by Odo de Barri.
The first castle to be built at Kenilworth is thought to have been a motte and bailey constructed between 1122 and 1127 by Geoffrey de Clinton.
Henry de Newburgh built a large wooden motte and bailey on the site of the present castle; before his death in 1123 he might well have begun to replace the wood with stone.
There had been an earlier marcher stronghold at Chirk; it was either on this site or nearer to the village, where traces of a motte and bailey survive, but wherever it was it had long fallen into disrepair
Midway between the ancient sites of two Norman motte and bailey castles at the extreme ends of the village, Holy Trinity Church is the topographical as well as the spiritual centre of Ascott; old
The original castle, raised around 1068, comprised a 70ft high motte and two baileys, built on the site of an Anglo-Saxon fortification.
They continued the rebuilding of the Priory church and the monastery, probably at about the same time Baldwin built the constable's hall, next to the Mill Stream at the northeast corner of the bailey
Like most Norman structures, the castle was the successor of a motte and bailey fortification.
Baileys Hotel, later the Metropole, had opened in 1776.
The Norman arrival led, as in other towns such as Norwich, to wholesale demolition to accommodate a castle with its baileys within the town walls.
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