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The Bringing Of Buckland Lower Lodge Into The 20th Century.

I am Jeannette McNicol (nee Elliott). My brother John and I moved there with my parents ,when I was 13 years old and he was 12. I had found the house when we were having a ...Read more

A memory of Buckland in the Moor by jenner

St Peter In Chains & St Gildas School Crouch Hill

My family lived on Mountview Road N8, from 1959 until 1971. We were blessed with a ground floor flat with cellar, in an old Victorian House at ,No. 35. We were opposite the reservoir, so had a ...Read more

A memory of Crouch End by kb

Myrtle Street

i was brought up in myrtle street all during the war ...i remember the Tivoli picture house, i well remember the life we lived ...so poor but a real community spirit...our doctor was Dr. Black, up Lapage St. we first went to Bowling ...Read more

A memory of Bradford

The Awakening

On the right of the photograph the second shop belonged to Arthur Sansom, the Newsagents and Confectioners. It has a sign board above the shop front: PICTURE POST. In the Easter holidays of 1959 at the age of 14½, I took my first ...Read more

A memory of Locksbottom

Moulds My Dad's Old Shop

After the war Dad found work as an assistant in a long established family-run department store called Moulds. Situated in Leatherhead High Street, it was an imposing sort of place with double glass doors set well back from ...Read more

A memory of Leatherhead by Brian Simmons

Belleville School

A lady writing on here mentioned a couple of places in Battersea that bring back memories. First of all, she mentioned Meyrick Road. I never lived there, but my mum and dad did when my mum was carrying me. My mum and dad were Mr. and ...Read more

A memory of Battersea by s.fomes

Crescent Road School

I was at Crescent road school in 1947 and had Mrs Payne headmistress and mr chinery, I also remember Mr Davies,I lived in south road, at the back of us was the fairfield, which we had great fun playing in,when I first went to ...Read more

A memory of Erith

Epsom Army Cadets

We were part of the 3rd Cadet Batallion of the East Surrey Regiment. Our base was the wooden huts erected behind Snows cycle shop in East Street after a German bomb obliterated the infants school that was there. The Officer in charge ...Read more

A memory of Epsom by b.waterman

1973 Demolition Year For The Market Buildings

I arrived in Wolverhampton when demolition of the market buildings was under way. The buildings in front of the church (in the photo) must have already been long gone, but the buildings on the side ...Read more

A memory of Wolverhampton

The Woodland, Colliers Wood.

I, too was born in Colliers wood in 1938 and I believe the nursing home was called The Woodlands. I grew up in Mitcham until I was 11 years old and went to a prep school in Mitcham park for 3 years where the principal was a ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham by verityan

Captions

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Caption For Marlborough, The Parade C1950

The present building is later; it perhaps dates from 1904, when the name was shortened. It closed in 1974, and is now known as Marsh House.

Caption For Cowfold, St Peter's Church 1958

The church has a fine Horsham stone roof and a large brass on the floor of the nave to Thomas Noland, Prior of the Cluniac St Pancras at Lewes, who died in 1433.

Caption For Burgh Le Marsh, The Church C1965

The church of St Peter and St Paul, another of the marshland churches, is located by the side of the A158 main road to Skegness - during the summer this is a very busy road indeed.

Caption For Drayton, Church Lane C1960

Church Lane runs north from the High Street towards its eastern end, with St Peter's Church a short way along it. The tower is 15th-century, but most of the rest was rebuilt in Victorian times.

Caption For Chalfont St Giles, The Pond C1955

Chalfont St Giles retains much more of its heritage and character than its southern neighbour, Chalfont St Peter, with a High Street lined with good buildings, a pond and the parish church

Caption For Burgh Le Marsh, The Church C1965

The church of St Peter and St Paul, another of the marshland churches, is located by the side of the A158 main road to Skegness - during the summer this is a very busy road indeed.

Caption For Chester, Bridge Street 1903

It is coming up to ten minutes to eleven by St Peter's clock as one of the new electric tramcars rattles along Bridge Street on its way to Saltney.

Caption For Poole, From Constitutional Hill 1908

The tram is at the junction of Cotes Avenue. All the large Victorian houses have gone, except for the one on the left. Parkstone's St Peter's Church can be seen behind.

Caption For Middle Rasen, The Church C1955

The church of St Peter, in North Street, has a superb Norman doorway, possibly the best in the county (so the experts say), and the church has further Norman architecture inside.

Caption For Farnborough, Old Parish Church 1897

Easily the oldest building in Farnborough, the parish church of St Peter dates from about 1200, although there is evidence to suggest a Saxon church may have occupied the site before

Caption For York, Clifton, St Peter's School 1909

In 1844 it was acquired by the Dean and Chapter to use for St Peter's School, which had outgrown its former site.

Caption For Harrogate, Cambridge Crescent C1955

'The Prisoner of Zenda' was showing at the Regal Cinema in the elegant North Yorkshire spa town of Harrogate when this picture was taken.

Caption For Caversham, The Church 1913

This view shows the tower of St Peter's Church from the now much-municipalised Reading bank. The church tower was rebuilt in 1878.

Caption For Drayton, Church Lane C1965

The tower of St Peter's Church was built in the 15th century.

Caption For Bristol, St Peter's Hospital 1901

In 1712 St Peter's Hospital looked after around three hundred sick and poor people. It was under the management of the Bristol Corporation for the Poor.

Caption For Fremington, The Church C1955

Much of the quaintness of St Peter's was lost when Sir George Gilbert Scott 'restored' it in 1867. But the Norman tower was unaffected. It is believed that there was once a spire atop this.

Caption For St Ives, Fish Street 1906

The road off to the right is St Peter's Street.

Caption For Aberdovey, From The Hills 1892

St Peter's, the Victorian church in the middle of the picture, was Aberdovey (or Aberdyfi's) first church, though the song 'The Bells of Aberdyfi' suggests that an earlier church lies drowned beneath the

Caption For Lavenham, The Church Porch C1955

During a restoration in 1965, statues of St Peter and St Paul by Eric Winters were placed in the central niche, a gift of the Friends of Lavenham Church.

Caption For Stamford, St Peter's Callis C1955

St Peter's Church was 'pulled down' in 1560, and this building was built in 1863.

Caption For Exeter, The Cathedral C1940

A statue of St Peter, the cathedral's patron saint, stands high on the gable. In this photograph, the cars, already period pieces to our eyes, serve to emphasise the timeless majesty of the building.

Caption For Eype, Edgecliff Camp C1955

A small-scale start for what is now Highlands End Caravan Park. here we are Looking north towards St Peter's Church, on The Mount.

Caption For Prestbury, High Street 1896

The tower of St Peter's can just be seen above the roofs on the right-hand side of the picture.

Caption For Manchester, Art Gallery C1885

The other fine buildings along the street include the Portico Library and St Peter's Church.