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Memories

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Happy Times

I went to live in Llanthony village around 1970 with my husband who was brought up at The Daren Farm, and our children Lynda and Andrew. We lived in The Cornmill which is directly opposite the old post office, it was called Mill Cottage ...Read more

A memory of Llanthony

Wonderful Years

Living on the island was like living in paradise - it seemed like a constant holiday! I remember walking from 'Danehurst' along Pitts Lane across Binstead Road and up Cemetary Road to school every day. I loved walking to the beach ...Read more

A memory of Binstead in 1955 by Carole Wilson

Winchcombe Congregational Church

I would be very interested to obtain pictures / photographs of the Congregational Church and The Abbey house. My grandfather Henry W Florance was a minister of the Congregational church from 1900 - 1906. According ...Read more

A memory of Winchcombe in 1900 by James Florance

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 teen ...Read more

A memory of Watford in 1953 by J Lawrence Prior

Upney Lane

I was born in the Cottage Hospital in Upney Lane in 1950 and lived in Beccles Drive (Glenny Estate) until I married in 1976. My grandparents lived at 26 Upney Lane, next door to Mr and Mrs Welch (Vera Lynn's mother and father). I can ...Read more

A memory of Barking in 1953 by Susan Mitchell

Tunnel Road Memories

I lived in number 9 Tunnel Road which is still there today. It's the road running from the side of the flyover at the bottom of Chester Street to access the tunnel. Me and my brother and sisters played every day on the top (as ...Read more

A memory of Birkenhead in 1962 by Anita Starkey

Those Were The Days 5

Come out of there and you were at the Magistrates Court in the square I remember a big tree in the back behind black iron fencing and thinking that's where they did the hangings right in front of Barking indoor swimming pool and ...Read more

A memory of Barking in 1950 by Chrs

Thomas Hardy

I lived 30 years at Monk Hopton, my mother, Barbara Stoves, was the school headmistress from 1954 until it closed in 1980 (I think 1980). It closed when she became ill; it was her determination largely that kept it open. She always ...Read more

A memory of Monkhopton in 1975 by David Stoves

The Sound Of Bells...

Working on my bungalow today in the ancient, beautiful Dorset town of Sherborne, I kept on hearing the tolling of the local Abbey bells. Not really unusual, except today, the sound seemed to 'resonate', and take me 'way back' to ...Read more

A memory of Acton by alangtaylor

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 Antony Cook

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Captions

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Caption For Malmesbury, The Abbey C1955

This pastoral scene includes the impressive Malmesbury Abbey on the skyline and abbey House, partly hidden behind the trees.

Caption For Whitby, Abbey 1901

The Abbey, the Parish Church, Abbey House and Church Stairs

Caption For Tavistock, Bedford Hotel 1893

The hotel was originally the Abbey House, but was converted to a hotel in 1822.

Caption For Bury St Edmunds, Angel Hill C1955

To the left are Abbey House, the 18th-century town house of the Davers family of Rushbrook, the Cathedral and St Mary's.

Caption For Bury St Edmunds, Angel Hill C1955

To the left are Abbey House, the Cathedral, the Norman tower and St Mary's.

Caption For Abingdon, Market Place 1890

The statue was presented to the town by Edwin James Trendell, who lived in Abbey House, and whose gardens occupied the site of the abbey church and monastic buildings.

Caption For Whitby, The Upper Harbour C1955

Directly above St Michael's Church (right) one can see Abbey House and the ruined shell of the classical banqueting hall built by Sir Hugh Cholmley in 1672, roofless since the 1790s; at the

Caption For Abingdon, Abbey Gardens, Trendell's Ruins C1945

Edwin James Trendell, who had presented the Queen Victoria statue to the town to commemorate her 1887 Golden Jubilee, lived in Abbey House, and laid out its grounds, Abbey Gardens, in the 1880s.

Caption For Whitby, East Cliff 1932

The donkeys have a long walk every day from their field just below the Abbey House, down the donkey path, along Church Street, over the bridge and down Pier Road to the sands.

Caption For Rosedale Abbey, The Green C1960

The small Cistercian abbey housing 10 nuns was formed in 1158.

Caption For Bisham, The Abbey 1893

Today, many know Bisham Abbey as the training ground of the England football team.

Caption For Kirkstall Abbey, The Ruins 1891

The abbey played a part in the industrial development of Leeds, for it was here that iron forging first began in the district.

Caption For Abingdon, The Cosener's House From The River 1893

Situated on the island between the river and the mill stream is the Cosenor's House, now mainly 18th- and 19th-century, but replacing a medieval building.

Caption For Reading, The Abbey, The Chapter House 1904

Reading's great Benedictine abbey, founded in 1121 and completed in 1164, was one of the grandest and richest abbeys in all England.

Caption For High Wycombe, The Abbey 1906

Originally Loakes Manor, a 17th-century manor house in grounds laid out by Capability Brown, the house was remodelled by James Wyatt in 1803 for the then Lord Carrington, acquiring the romantic

Caption For Pershore, From Avonbank 1931

A religious house was founded in Pershore in about 689.

Caption For Leicester, Cavendish House, Abbey Park C1955

This house of 1600 was built by Henry Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon, using stone robbed from the remains of Leicester Abbey; but it was to be reduced to a skeletal ruin by fire 45 years later.

Caption For Malmesbury, The Old Bell C1960

One was Castle House, whose owner, Joseph Moore, was licensee of The Old Bell and mayor of Malmesbury in 1894 and in 1909.

Caption For Uttoxeter, Cattle Market C1965

From the 12th century, the rearing of sheep for their wool became a major source of revenue for the monastic houses in the north of England.

Caption For Abingdon, Abbey Mill 1890

Abingdon Abbey was founded in 675 AD, and the town grew up at its gates.

Caption For Kirkstall Abbey, The Ruins 1891

Kirkstall Abbey was founded by Cistercian monks from Fountains Abbey and was financed by the landowner Sir Henry Lacy.

Caption For Bisham, The Abbey 1893

This splendid photograph shows Bisham Abbey overlooking a scenic stretch of the Thames.

Caption For Kirkstall Abbey, The Ruins 1891

The abbey played a part in the industrial development of Leeds, for it was here that iron forging first began in the district.

Caption For Kirkstall Abbey, 1891

The abbey played a part in the industrial development of Leeds, for it was here that iron forging first began in the district.