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Memories

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The Happiest Days Of Your Life

Brambletye school, well set between the beautiful Ashdown Forest and thriving town of East Grinstead on the Sussex/Surrey border was a paradise on Earth for any schoolboy with an aesthetically romantic (!) ...Read more

A memory of Brambletye House in 1959 by Giles Daubney

St. Mary's High School

I'm wondering if anyone remembers St. Mary's High School in Western Road. I attended the school when I was very young in 1946-9, before my family emigrated first to Canada, then to the USA. My best friends were Zena O'Shea, ...Read more

A memory of Romford in 1949

Mr John White, Principal Lighthouse Keeper

My great-grandfather, John White, was Principal Lighthouse Keeper, from 1883 onwards. John, with his family, a wife, and three sons, travelled from Wales where he was a Lighthouse Keeper at South Bishop ...Read more

A memory of Cromer in 1880 by Jillian Carr

Growing Up

North Somercotes played a large part in my growing up, I lived with my parents, sister and brother on the Lakeside Lido in St Annes Avenue, next to my friend Cherry Mayfield. I particularly remember when we both had chickenpox ...Read more

A memory of North Somercotes in 1968 by Linda Butler

Ivybank Childrens Home

I thought I would leave a message here also, I was a child at Ivybank Children's Home in Nightingale Lane. Sadly though I don't think it is there any longer. We were an all-girls children's home, with a range of ages from 5 ...Read more

A memory of Farncombe in 1958 by Dorothy Laker

1951 1979 Life In Aldbrough St John

Reading Carol's memories brings to mind a lot of happy times in the village, especially the bus shelter and phone box. We managed to make up a lot of our own entertainment, especially the 'village youth ...Read more

A memory of Aldbrough St John in 1972 by Jeff Auton

Heather And Gorse Clog Morris Dance At Rixey Park

Among the attractions at this year's annual Rixey Park Tractor Rally were the Heather and Gorse Clog Dancers and their band - a local dance team based at Combeinteignhead. For days ...Read more

A memory of Kingsteignton in 2008 by John Howard Norfolk

Living In

When I moved to live on the Cricket Green with my parents in 1947, the previous tenants were called Bacon, and for many years afterwards, people would say "Oh you live in Bacons' old house" - my mother would seethe!  My brother ...Read more

A memory of Hartley Wintney in 1950 by Heather Tierney

Married Quarters Inkerman Road

My dad was a military policeman stationed at Inkerman Barracks and we lived at No. 1 MSQ Inkerman Road. It was great fun there, the woods over the road, next to the Victoria Cafe (all now gone). To the side of No. 1 ...Read more

A memory of Knaphill in 1959 by John Burbridge

Shaftesbury's Bad Reputation!

Shaftesbury's position high on a hilltop with only a meagre water supply meant that water had to be brought up to the town from wells at the bottom of the steep slopes, usually by horses and donkeys carrying ...Read more

A memory of Shaftesbury by Julia Skinner

Captions

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Caption For Lastingham, The Blacksmiths Arms C1950

The village was formed around a Celtic monastery, which in turn became a shrine to St Cedd in 1078. 19th-century architecture took hold in the village after the building of Lastingham Grange.

Caption For Peterborough, Church Street 1952

The ancient Guildhall and St John's Church loom large, evoking the city's ancient past.

Caption For Frome, From Innox Hill 1907

The spire in the middle back- ground is the church of St John the Baptist.

Caption For Carnaby, The Church C1885

The church of St John the Baptist is in the village of Carnaby, which is just over two miles from Bridlington and was on the Scarborough and Hull branch of the North Eastern Railway line.

Caption For Stanmore, Ruins Of Old Church, Uxbridge Road 1906

Great and Little Stanmore are situated close to the Hertfordshire border, and it is to the rising ground above the present village that the visitor needs to look for semi-rural quality.

Caption For Liverpool, Bold Street 1887

We can also see St Luke's Church at the top of the street.

Caption For Oxford, High Street 1900

St Mary the Virgin Church stands on the site of an 11th-century church which was once Oxford's most famous building.

Caption For Seven Kings, Aldborough Road C1965

The Aldborough Road estates were established by the 1900s, and their own church of St John had been built by 1903.

Caption For Countisbury, St John's Church 1907

St John the Baptist stands high above the Bristol Channel on windswept Countisbury Common.

Caption For Totnes, Seymour Hotel 1928

The Seymour Hotel was built by the 11th Duke of Somerset, who also built the church of St John in Bridgetown.

Caption For Ashwell, Ashwell Museum C1960

Truly one of the finest small museums in Hertfordshire, Ashwell Village Museum was founded in November 1930 and is based on the collection of Albert Sheldrick and John Bray, made when they were schoolboys

Caption For Atherton, Market Street And Parish Church C1955

The murderer William Chadwick was tracked down and eventually stood trial at Liverpool Assizes.

Caption For Weymouth, The Parade 1904

In the far distance is the spire of St. John's

Caption For Seaburn, Lower Promenade C1955

Two of the houses are Georgian; the half-timbered building is Whitburn House, which is dated 1869 and has a Perpendicular window from St John's Church, Newcastle.

Caption For Paignton, Church Street 1912

St John's Church at Paignton originally dated from the 12th century, but was rebuilt three hundred years later.

Caption For Keynsham, The Church And Station Road C1955

St John's Church stands at the busy crossroads of the High Street and Station Road, which runs towards Fry's (now Cadbury's) chocolate factory at Somerdale.

Caption For Blackpool, St John's Church 1890

St John's was situated on Church Street, and perhaps its most famous vicar was William Thornber, known for his fiery sermons.

Caption For Gravesend, The Roman Catholic Church 1902

Originally built as an Anglican church in Milton Road in 1834, and then purchased for the Catholic community in 1851, St John the Evangelist had its unusual and prominent tower, with a French-style

Caption For Keswick, The Church 1889

The elegant spire and pinnacles of the parish church of St John feature in many views of this town, situated at the foot of Skiddaw in the northern Lake District.

Caption For Paignton, Church Street 1912

St John's Church originally dated from the 12th century, but was rebuilt three hundred years later.

Caption For Paignton, Church Street 1912

St John's Church originally dated from the 12th century, but was rebuilt three hundred years later.

Caption For Worcester, New Road 1906

An early traveller from Worcester bound for the Westside would first cross the bridge, then follow a causeway across flood meadows before trudging up narrow, winding Cripplegate to St John's.

Caption For Tideswell, Church 1896

The magnificent parish church of St John the Baptist at Tideswell has justly earned the epithet 'the Cathedral of the Peak'.

Caption For Oxford, Cornmarket Street 1922

A motorbike and side car can be seen heading towards St Michael's Church, where John Wesley preached from the 15th-century pulpit in 1726.