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My nan and grandfather lived at Lindsay Cottage, Milton Combe. My grandfather was head gardener at Drakes Abbey, a short walk. I stayed with them every year for ten years from 1960. My nan used to send me up for milk at the dairy ...Read more
A memory of Milton Combe in 1960 by
When England Was England.
From a book my sister left me I chose Rosedale Abbey as my destination on my first journey through England. I was alone and took the train to York in 1971. From there I went to Whitby and then the moorland train to ...Read more
A memory of Rosedale Abbey by
Vanishing Watford
My family moved to Watford in 1953 to a large house in Rosslyn Road, a side road within a few yards of the Rickmansworth Road right opposite the Town Hall concert hall entrance. I spent virtually all my childhood there plus the ...Read more
A memory of Watford in 1953 by
The Hole In The Wall
Way back in the 50's I had not been long in Bury where I had arrived to join the staff in the Borough Offices on Angel Hill. It was Armistice Day, and the Councillors and senior staff paraded to the Cathedral for a ...Read more
A memory of Bury St Edmunds by
The War Years And A Life Of Bliss
During the Second World War my parents, my sister and I moved from Birmingham to stay with my paternal grandparents at New Mill Bridge wher my grandmother Harriet Cook owned and ran the local store "Cooks ...Read more
A memory of Shelsley Walsh in 1941 by
The Slate Islands Easdale
THE SLATE ISLANDS By Walter Deas Some 24k (15 miles) south and west of Oban lies an area with interesting old ...Read more
A memory of Easdale in 2005 by
The School Of The Holy Child, Laleham Abbey
heads the label in a dictionary of music that I received as a prize in Upper IA. No date. It must have been 1955. My name was/is Margaret Morley. I joined the school on my return from Malaya in 1951, followed ...Read more
A memory of Laleham
The Place Where I Was Born
I was born in Whalley, in the second cottage opposite the Catholic Church in the Sands, in December 1924. Next door to us was Mr Sutton who was well known around Whalley for his ice cream. He used to stand outside the ...Read more
A memory of Whalley in 1920 by
The Old School House
The Old School House was the village school, which opened in 1868 and closed in 1960. The school was built by the landowner using the local blue lias stone. The windows were reclaimed from the Abbey, as were corbals and other ...Read more
A memory of Muchelney in 2008 by
The Great Children's Summer Garden Party
During the1950's, long before the introduction of Green Shield and other reward stamps, members of the Co-operative Society in the days before the Co-op as we know it today, earned tin coin cash money to ...Read more
A memory of Bexleyheath by
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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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