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Memories Of Benson
My memories of Benson started in 1946/7 when we moved to Sunnyside, which in those days did not have the recreation field. Nor did the village have street lighting apart from a couple in the High Street, one of which was on the ...Read more
A memory of Benson in 1947 by
Tosh And I And Easy Pickings
Tosh and I and easy pickings Hi everyone, It's me again with the continuation of my wee story. I was taken by surprise how many people liked and responded to ...Read more
A memory of Newarthill by
Talke A Forgotten Village
As you proceed north along the A34 towards the Cheshire border you will approach Talke traffic lights and on the left and right side of the road there are two areas of grassed land. This grassed area was once the village of ...Read more
A memory of Talke in 1959
My Fenny Stratford Childhood
Having recently by chance spoken with someone who knew Fenny Stratford I was prompted to start looking on the internet and came across this site and for what it’s worth decided to record my memories. I was born ...Read more
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Oakhanger, Hampshire
Grew up in Oakhanger and enjoyed the freedom of exploring the common in the centre of the village. Some good times were had sledging down a hill on the common in the snow. Also, finding and catching tadpoles in the pond ...Read more
A memory of Oakhanger
The Old Thatch
Ah, The Old Thatch. I remember it well, for this is where I grew up from the early 1940s until 1956. By today's standards it was grim: no heating, no running water, no flush loo - nothing. Yet it was a wonderful place in which ...Read more
A memory of Nether Wallop in 1940 by
Another Slice Of Life In Burghfield And Sulhampstead
My Grandfather George Thomas Cooper 1880 to 1957 lived at Hebron a Detached Victorian House ( which is opposite what today is Coopers Place, named after my late Father Phillip George ...Read more
A memory of Burghfield Common by
Perfect Place
My name was Sandra Goodfellow when I was born at home in Erbistock in 1954. I lived on Twining hill. I had a very happy childhood there with my three siblings, Mum and Dad. I started Erbistock school in 1957. It was a cosy, two ...Read more
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Weekends At Chapel Row
I didn't live in Bucklebury but was born in Cold Ash where I lived prior to moving to Thatcham. Unfortunately my father died as the result of a motor cycle accident when I was eight years old, and social care being what it ...Read more
A memory of Bucklebury by
Cheslyn Hay 1960 1977
My parents moved from Essington to Cheslyn Hay in 1960. We briefly lived in one of the cottages in Hollybush before moving to Low Street. I remember Harry Bates selling fruit & veg from his horse & cart and people ...Read more
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Looking south-eastwards from Abbotsbury Hill to Abbotsbury Gardens in Stavordale Wood (right) and Cleverlawns (centre).
There were few Cornish villages without a chapel; this one is typical of many, situated near the top end of old Polgooth.
Lying near the coast below Bossington Hill, these cottages over- look a stream that once powered a corn mill.
Lantern Hill and the Chapel of St Nicholas are not just a focal point for visitors; for centuries the light on the chapel was a vital navigational aid for mariners.
Both chapel and school are standing to this day, although the school has become a restaurant.
This is London Road, once known as Red Hill, leading up to Scale Hill.
At the top of Lantern Hill (centre right), 100 feet above sea level, stands the Chapel of St Nicholas, patron saint of sailors, fittingly enough, and also of scholars.
This Pennine hill village had a chapel in 1216.
This sizeable village, close by Liskeard, sprawls along a hill-top surrounded by high moorland.
Bethesda House was once a Wesleyan Meeting House for the benefit of older folk who found it difficult to walk up the hill to the Wesleyan Chapel.
We are looking north-westwards from above Lower Yondover Farm to the 1839-built Congregational chapel (centre left) at the crossroads near Laurel Farm.
Although best known for its castle, Framlingham's heart is Market Hill, in a town where many of the buildings are in fact made from stones removed from the castle.
St Lawrence's Church provides good views towards Wincanton and the hills on the boundary with Dorset.
West Dorset's medieval seamark on a conical hill above the Chesil Beach was retained after the closure of Abbotsbury Abbey in 1539, and repaired in 1742.
Although best known for its castle, Framlingham's heart is Market Hill, in a town where many of the buildings are in fact made from stones removed from the castle.
The Postal Directory of Flintshire, 1886, describes Tremeirchion as a 'considerable parish in the Vale of Clwyd'; near the Jesuit College of St Beuno stands a 'neat little chapel' on
This view of Potter Hill shows the classical façade of the Primitive Methodist Chapel, built in 1885, on the left.
Up the hill to the left is the Workhouse, with the Trenance flour mill and its chimney below.
To the right, Newbridge Hill descends to the Tamar crossing into Devon, with a large chapel on the bend.
The small building at the far end of the quay, below Lantern Hill, with the small chapel on top, is the lifeboat station.
It was originally built as a chapel in the 12th century; the present commanding building on its hill overlooking the village mainly dates from the 15th century.
A wellhead is just discernible at the left, and to the right is the chapel.
The outer quay has been extensively redeveloped, but St Nicholas's chapel atop Lantern Hill is still there.
St Mary's Church dominates the photograph from its well-treed setting, with to its right the sheer elevation of The Foss and Grove Hill by Habershon, and to its left the Speech Room tower and chapel fleché
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