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1960's And 1970's Childhood Bush Hill Park
Memories are funny, they come and go and during this time of lockdown I've thought quite a lot about my childhood. We lived in Amberley Road, very close to the Raglan School entrance in Raglan Road. ...Read more
A memory of Bush Hill Park by
Abbey Hotel
I think that is the name of the pub/hotel on the right hand side not far from the entrance gate to the Abbey. I used to stay there as a child with my mum & dad. My dad met the licencee Harry (Allman?) in the second world war. It ...Read more
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Abeygate Street
In the 50's there was two way traffic in Abbeygate Street with T.H.Nice's Garage half way down with petrol pumps which swung over the road.I bought my first car, a prewar Ford 8 from him for £100,- which was the new price in 1938 !
A memory of Bury St Edmunds by
Beanz Dreamz...
Our family moved to Friars Road in the summer of 66, from a damp house in Boothen Green, which looked over toward the Michelin Factory. I was 5 years old. My father Graham was a former art student at Burslem College of Art under the ...Read more
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Bradgate Cottages Abbey Gate
My parents lived at 3 Bradgate cottages, my brother would have gone to Slater street school mid to late 50's. My mum worked at the factory on the corner which is derelict. The garden backed on to the river.
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Bramley (Lincroft Crescent) In The Years 1951 To 1967
Bramley In The Years 1951 To 1967 A conversation with Lynden Flint From: john.holliday11@btopenworld.com To: Lynden Flint Hi Lynden. I do hope you are well and still ...Read more
A memory of Bramley by
Buses
I had forgotten that the buses used to use the area in front of the abbey as a terminus. I lived in Selby from my birth in 1954 until 1972. I frequently caught a bus from the corner of Buller Street & Flaxley Road to school on Abbotts Road. ...Read more
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Childhood In Minster
My two brothers, my sister and I were all born in Minster in what is now called Turner Cottage but was then "The Swifts". My granddad was a village postman and my best friend's granddad was also a postman and we ...Read more
A memory of Minster in 1968
Cirencester Abbey Woodchopping Competitions
My Father, Ken Mclennan, was in a Forestry Regiment of the Royal Australian Engineers posted to Scotland at the outbreak of WWII, prior to being deployed to New Guinea to fight the Japanese. Whilst in ...Read more
A memory of Cirencester in 1940 by
Dhl Barber
My Father and Grandfather both had shops in London Road, Waterlooville. My Grandfather had an ironmongers in the late 30s early 40s (unfortunately I don't know the dates) but it was located near Pinks. From the early 50s to the ...Read more
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The Abbey Gate Restaurant to the right is not 14th-century as it claims, but the adjacent Abbey Gate is.
The property on the right calls itself The Abbey Gate and claims to be a '14th-century restaurant' while offering home-made cakes and pastries.
Abingdon's Market Place is an ancient space, probably established at the gates of Abingdon Abbey by the year 1000, some years after AD954 when the Anglo-Saxon abbey had been re-founded by St Ethelwold
The beautiful white gates pictured here are not the ones that give this village its name - the name probably arose from much older gates at the nearby Vale Royal Abbey, once the largest Cistercian abbey
The Norman Gate was built by Abbot Anselm in the first half of the 12th century, providing an entrance gate to the impressive abbey church.
William the Conqueror, having beaten and killed the Anglo-Danish King Harold on Senlac Hill in 1066, vowed to found an abbey on the site of the great battle, known as the Battle of Hastings.
Note theThe Norman Gate was built by Abbot Anselm in the first half of the 12th century, providing an entrance gate to the impressive abbey church.
The town grew up at the gates of the abbey on a low island amid the surrounding marshes, receiving its charter in 1142.
Of Eudo Dapifer's great abbey foundation in 1096, only the 15th-century gate- house and some of the precinct walls survive, the rest having been bombarded during the 1648 siege.
This was the main entrance to the secular part of the Abbey of St Edmunds.
The abbey gate replaced a Norman gate destroyed by the townspeople in 1327, who then had to pay for this castle-like defensive structure.
Here we see a busy day in the Market Place with charabancs and cars parked outside the magnificent Abbey Gateway, which was built in 1338.
Abingdon Abbey was founded in 675 AD, and the town grew up at its gates.
The small village of Burnt Yates in Nidderdale is graced by this neat little Victorian sandstone church.
Near the entrance to Worksop College, on Sparrow Hill (the old road into Worksop), are the lion gates and one of the many lodges and gateways into the vast 3,000 acre grounds of Welbeck Abbey, built
Whitegate is named for an old white gate which would once have marked the entrance to the former Vale Royal Abbey.
The town grew up at the gates of the abbey on a low island amid the surrounding marshes, receiving its charter in 1142.
He was born at Upper Bockhampton 2 June 1840 and died at Max Gate Dorchester 11 January 1928.
St Nicholas's Church was built at the abbey gates for lay abbey staff, tenants and workers, and for travellers to pray for safe onward journeys or who were about to cross the River Thames.
Chertsey was once the town at the gates of one of the most powerful abbeys in England.
These arches can be seen when approaching Sawley (or 'Sally') Abbey.
We are looking up river towards the lock gates, with the site of the former abbey and its grounds on the right.
The photograph shows Abbey Row; we are looking down towards the Triangle and the parish of Westport.
Beyond is the church schoolroom and the lych gate - from where Monks Path runs to Cleeve Abbey.
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