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When I Was A Girl
When I was about five years old my parents used to take us kids on a Sunday walk. Always remember it was to Stambridge mills. Back then the roads leading to the mill were not more then a country track. On the way to the mills dad ...Read more
A memory of Rochford in 1955 by
Childhood Holidays
I have happy memories of visiting Croston in the late 1940s-early 1950s. My aunt and uncle, Margaret and Bob Chisholme, lived in part of the Rectory for a few years before moving to a large, rambling house in Station Road next to ...Read more
A memory of Croston in 1947 by
Spaldwick Windmill The Belton Family
The Belton family has a long association with Spaldwick as millers, witnessed by a hill being in the family name, (O.S. map 153), just north of the village. My mother's sister Violet Bass, from nearby ...Read more
A memory of Spaldwick in 1955 by
My Early Years In Rothwell
I was born in Rothwell in 1949 and have lived there all my life and remember when it was a picturesque village where everyone knew each other. What changes have taken place over the years. I remember going to ...Read more
A memory of Rothwell in 1955 by
Memories Of Sandy
I lived in Sandy between about 1963 and 1979 and have seen changes even in that short time. It was a fairly quiet village when we first came in spite of the adjacent A1. I went to St Swithuns school in St Neots Road, then Sandy ...Read more
A memory of Sandy by
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
Lovely Little Dartmouth, A Time Capsule
My uncle, Reginald, always called Dartmouth, "The Town That Time Forgot". And he meant that in a good way because Dartmouth was largely unchanged over the years and of course, as a result, is now quite the ...Read more
A memory of Dartmouth by
Memories When I Was Small.
i lived at 51 wednesfield road oppisite the poplar public house. Ican remember fosters shop i also used to walk up sun street to corn hill were there was a small shop before the wheel public house we bought fish chips ...Read more
A memory of Heath Town in 1960 by
Kay Key Moss Farm Witherslack
My great-great-great-grandfather JOSEPH FLETCHER Esq lived at Kay Moss Farm (as it was called then), now known as Key Moss. He is buried along with 3 of his children who died young and 1 daughter Ellen at St ...Read more
A memory of Witherslack in 1870
Chingford’s Telephone Exchange Silverthorn
My first job when I was 15 was in Silverthorn Telephone Exchange. I remember, when I went to the Telephone Managers Office for my interview. I had wanted to work in Directory Enquiries but was told that ...Read more
A memory of Chingford by
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These two imposing buildings stand on Cornhill.
This photograph lets us have a closer look at the Venetian-style town hall standing on Cornhill.
We are looking east along Tavern Street from Cornhill.
The well-grown tree hides Arndale House and the new Cornhill development, but the ugly Town Hall extension of 1966 (right) is still in clear sight.
The Arndale House building is much the same, but the cinema has made way for the Cornhill shops, and beyond the canopy of the Town Hall extension are the new shops which have
Looking east along Tavern Street from Cornhill.
Also just visible on the left are the new Cornhill shops, which are on the site of the Odeon cinema.
We are looking east along Tavern Street from Cornhill.
This photograph shows Cornhill.
The road on the right is Cornhill leading onto Acreman Street.
The earlier Corn Exchange on Cornhill was demolished in 1880 for the new post office.
The Town Hall, with the clock tower, was built on the Cornhill in 1867.
On market days, Wednesday and Saturday, there are about 100 stalls trading in the Butter Market and Cornhill.
To the left, at the junction of Cornhill and the Old Market, can be seen the Midland Bank which was built in 1921.
This was thought to have been the house in which Jane Austen stayed, but modern research shows that it must have been Pyne House, in Cornhill, above the Square.
The level area where the marketplace opened out was called Cornhill.
In the corner is the Corn Hall, built in 1857, with its impressive Corinthian columns.
Bourton's oldest bridge dates from 1754, and stands in front of the old Corn Mill, which opened in 1978 as the Cotswold Motor Museum.
The growth of popular motoring was to lead to the destruction of Ringwood's old corn mill, and even its vicarage, to facilitate the movement of traffic.
Over to the right are the railway station and the old corn mill.
East Mill, a corn mill, was on the north side of East Road.
Formerly there were at least three mills - one of them was a paper mill - including this corn mill, which worked until the First World War.
It was always a corn mill, and was enlarged in the 1830s with four pairs of stones, storerooms and other outbuildings.
There was already a corn-mill here in 1413.
