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Manor Court House

The building behind the Market Cross with the arched windows is the Manor Court House, a grade II listed building. It is owned by the Epworth Mechanics' Institute Library, which still operates from the upper floor. The Library was ...Read more

A memory of Epworth by Peter Frost

Memories Of A Great School

I was a day pupil as a 7 year old in the Spring and Summer terms of 1953. I remember the headmaster, Mr. Arch. Mr. Randle and Mr. Griffin. There was a forth teacher, was that Mr. Peacock? I recall the Sunder march to the church ...Read more

A memory of Boldre by Alan Locke

Facts Of Life

Just before our wedding at St Thomas's in April 1967, Ching my wife to be and I, were called to see the vicar. We sat in his lounge and he gave the essential instructions for making love (for making babies). He spoke very slowly and each ...Read more

A memory of Oakwood by Roger Crunden

Great Story But A Few Corrections

The fields along Hospital Lane were for St Michael’s School in Leeds, next to the boys Grammar School - the boys had to get the bus up and change in the old stables! Allan Bennetts family lived in the corner shop ...Read more

A memory of Cookridge

The Meadow, Chislehurst.

We lived in The Meadow, the road opposite Rush Pond, for 30years. Our house is not there anymore, it was demolished and a much bigger house on the site. We had a dear little cottage, St Anne's. I still belong to the ...Read more

A memory of Chislehurst by Evelyn Turner

Durham Buildings

The pub over the road did a singalong every Saturday night ending in a very long finale of "Hit the Road Jack - Don't you come back no more, no more ,no more, no more", and so on. I don't know about the pub but I doubt if anybody ...Read more

A memory of Battersea

Hunting Lollysticks In Danson Park

Danson Park was a much loved adventure playground throughout my Junior School years. There were so many fun diversions there for a young boy in the 1950's including one particular past-time which sadly I only have ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath by Bernard Schofield

Mr Laidlaw

I read a post from STEVEN LAIDLAW asking if I/we remember his grandfather who owned a building company. Yes, Steven, I remember it well and I believe the entrance to his yard is still there in St. Albans Road, but I'm not sure. Mr ...Read more

A memory of High Barnet by Roland Wood

Badger Hall, Thundersley, Essex Circa 1900

My Great Uncle and Aunt, Archibald “Arch” and Clara Meade, owned Badger Hall, Thundersley, around the turn of the 19th to 20th century. It was then described as having 22 acres of parkland and holding ...Read more

A memory of Thundersley by John Sharpe

St John's Gate Broad Street

St John's Gate in Broad Street in Bristol is the only surviving medieval city gateway, at one one time there were seven gates into the old city. Fortified gateways pierced the town wall at intervals. St John's Gateway, ...Read more

A memory of Bristol by Paul Townsend

Captions

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Caption For London, Hyde Park Corner, The Screen 1900

Decimus Burton’s impressive arch is topped by a decorative frieze depicting horsemen, the design imitated from the Elgin Marbles which were on display in the British Museum.

Caption For Bury St Edmunds, Abbots Bridge C1955

The arches once had portcullises into the water, and there is a walkway on the inside of the wall.

Caption For Brighton, The Beach 1902

From Palace Pier looking east, beyond the terminus of Magnus Volks' 1883 Electric Railway, we can see the late 1890s arches of Madeira Terrace, halfway up the sea wall in front of Marine Parade, with Kemp

Caption For Alton, The Round House C1955

Even before the Great War business had been transferred to a 'much more commodious police station'.

Caption For Great Haywood, Essex Bridge C1955

The original bridge consisted of 42 arches and stretched some way back from the river in order to clear wet ground.

Caption For Alton, The Round House C1955

Even before the Great War, business had been transferred to a 'much more commodious police station'.

Caption For Fareham, Union Street 2005

The bricks that were used to build many of the houses in the High Street were the same kind, the magnificent Fareham Reds, that built the spectacular railway viaduct, whose seventeen arches loom

Caption For Walberswick, Bridge 1919

Horsedrawn carriages and motorised vehicles had to take a much longer route, about nine miles, via Blythburgh.

Caption For Hadleigh, Toppesfield Bridge 1922

This is the three-arched red brick medieval bridge over the River Brett at Hadleigh.

Caption For Eastbourne, Belle Vue Hotel C1965

All the buildings in this view survive, including the smaller houses in Elms Avenue and the rather good 1850s stucco of the Belle Vue Hotel, with its arched ground floor windows and heavy moulded cornice

Caption For Huntingdon, The Old Bridge 1898

The medieval bridge over the River Ouse was started in 1332 to connect Huntingdon with Godmanchester, and the respective authorities paid for three arches - note the different styles - with the builders

Caption For Warminster, Market Place C1965

On the right is a heavily-rusticated arch leading through to the rear of the hotel, a reminder of the town's coaching days.

Caption For Northwich, Anderton Boat Lift C1960

One such can be seen sandwiched between two barges. The Anderton Lift created a much faster passage for boats and increased the tonnage of river traffic to 226,000 in 1913.

Caption For Lee, Old Maid's Cottage C1950

This was built as a much smaller cottage in 1653, and rebuilt in the 1870s by Robert Wilson.

Caption For Chelwood Gate, The Village C1930

Not far away are Chelwood Vachery, a re-created hall-house originally called Trimmer's Pond, and Kidbrooke Park, a much altered and decorated house with gardens laid out by Repton.

Caption For London, The County Hall C1955

Though it sits heavily on the Embankment, its broad facades and massed arches in the Piranesi style bring it a monumental dignity.'

Caption For Witchampton, Mill 1904

The mill at Witchampton stands on the site of a much older mill building.

Caption For Brompton, The Gordon Memorial And R E Institute 1894

The General died in 1885 and this statue, erected in 1890, faces the memorial arch.

Caption For Uppingham, School Quadrangle 1927

The air of a monastic undercroft, with its heavy circular columns and chamfered pointed arches, pervades the photograph.

Caption For Staines, Boating 1907

Guiding a punt - and its 'fair inhabitants' - towards the graceful arches of Staines Bridge.

Caption For Broadstairs, York Gate 1887

Leading from the old village to the harbour beyond, this 16th-century arch, originally fitted with a portcullis and gates, was built to protect the settlement against pirates and smugglers.

Caption For South Shields, Marsden Bay C1955

Nearby is Marsden Rock, an arched sandstone rock inhabited by thousands of seabirds.

Caption For Boston Spa, Thorp Arch Hall 1908

Thorp Arch Hall is now divided into three separate houses, and has been tastefully restored in recent years.

Caption For Reigate, Ricebridge On The Mole 1886

A group, thought to be part of a 'walking party', pose rather self-consciously on the two-arched bridge over the River Mole. This stands across the fields some two miles to the south west of Reigate.