Places
32 places found.
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- Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire
- Stowe School, Buckinghamshire
- Willingham by Stow, Lincolnshire
- Stow Bridge, Norfolk
- West Stow, Suffolk
- Stow, Lincolnshire
- Stowe, Staffordshire
- Stowe, Lincolnshire
- Stowe, Gloucestershire
- Stowe, Hereford & Worcester
- Stowe, Shropshire
- Stow, Borders
- Church Stowe, Northamptonshire
- Hoffleet Stow, Lincolnshire
- Stow Park, Gwent
- Stow Bardolph, Norfolk
- Stowe Green, Gloucestershire
- Stow Bedon, Norfolk
- Stow Maries, Essex
- Shepeau Stow, Lincolnshire
- Nether Stowe, Staffordshire
- Stow cum Quy, Cambridgeshire
- Stow Longa, Cambridgeshire
- Upper Stowe, Northamptonshire
- Stow Lawn, West Midlands
- Normanby by Stow, Lincolnshire
- Lower Stow Bedon, Norfolk
- Stowe-by-Chartley, Staffordshire
- Sturton by Stow, Lincolnshire
- Idbury, Oxfordshire (near Stow-on-the-Wold)
- Broadwell, Gloucestershire (near Stow-on-the-Wold)
- Donnington, Gloucestershire (near Stow-on-the-Wold)
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Memories
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Elliotts Fish & Chip Shop, High Street, Hogsthorpe.
Hi I was born in 1963 in Hogsthorpe and went to the primary school in Thames Street, I remember some amazing times in Hogsthorpe helping my Mum and Dad in the fish and chip shop rumbling the potato's ...Read more
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Lancing In The Fifties And Sixties
My family moved to Lancing when I was six months old, living first in Orchard Avenue and then Tower Road, which had a bad reputation - totally undeserved! I liked the fact that there were always children to play ...Read more
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Lived Worked And Played Here
My mother was born in keepers cottage in Battle Wood, who grew up and later got married in Battle church. My grandfather, Leonard Glyde was a fireman during the second world war stationed at Battle fire station. I was ...Read more
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Snow On The University Site
I remember when the snow was really heavy, I was about 6 years old and I lived with my grandparent and mother on New Ashby Road, just over the road from the Loughborough University. My uncles and Aunts took me over ...Read more
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First Job.
For about 6 wks prior to joining the navy in 1963, I worked at the Fyffes banana warehouse in Williamson St. (in photo). It paid about 3 quid a week (and all you could eat). Still, a handy easygoing fill-in job for a naive halfwit 15yr old ...Read more
A memory of Luton
Guernsey Evacuees
My mother and her family, the Petits, were evacuees from Guernsey during World War 2. They were housed in Coates by Stow and then Saxilby. They attended Stow School. There were 8 children, Cyril, Donald,Olive, Mavis, Monica, ...Read more
A memory of Saxilby in 1940 by
Hixon Village
I was 6 when we moved to Hixon from Stowe by Chartley. My dear dad Len, my 2 sisters Rose and Sue and my 2 brothers Gray and Mick. We lived in the Croft no 24, my brother still lives in that house today overlooking the woods that were ...Read more
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Bristol's Cabot's Tower
Bristol's Cabot's Tower, and the penny pinching Council. Bristol's most prominent land mark, the Cabot Tower, was 100 years old in 1998. But the official opening was marked by a disastrous fire, a confidence trick and ...Read more
A memory of Bristol in 1890 by
Memories Of War Years 1939 45 Newport
Memories of War years 1939 -1945. By John Beal. Little did I realise that I would be involved in the army when war broke out in 1939. I was attending Hatherleigh Central School in Newport at the time and as ...Read more
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Happy Days
Oh the memories stored away!! Charlie's opposite Cove Green, going there for sweeties on a Sunday, Cove Green (not as good as Tower Hill swings though!), Mundays closing at 1pm on Sundays, Thorntons with its yellow facade, and wool etc, I ...Read more
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'Stow-on-the-Wold, where the wind blows cold…' runs the ancient rhyme.
Stow-on-the-Wold is the junction of eight major roads, including the Roman Fosse Way, and has always attracted travellers from far and wide.
Stowe is of European importance in the history of landscape gardening.
The two main crossings were here, at Stow Bardolph, and at nearby Magdalen bridge: these were droving roads used by cattle traders, and there was formerly a major cattle fair here at Stow.
Built by Lord Cobham of Stowe in 1748 to help regain the assizes for Buckingham, and extended in 1839, the castellated Gothic building has been superbly restored as a fascinating museum
This Roman Catholic church dedicated to St Mary stands on Stow Hill on the site of an earlier, smaller, edifice.
This old inn, just over the river from London Bridge, was called by Stow 'one of the fair inns' of Southwark.
This old inn, just over the river from London Bridge, was called by Stow ‘one of the fair inns’ of Southwark.
The English Civil War ended at Stow-on-the-Wold when the parliamentarian Sir William Brereton defeated the aged royalist Sir Jacob Astley in 1646.
The dock was recently restored by the National Trust and the Stow River Trust.
Polperro's cottages, many slate-hung and with outside stone staircases, seem to grow out of the very rock, and the town has been poetically described as 'a human bees' nest stowed away in a cranny of the
The industrial complex is the tannery of Edward Stow, established in Milton Road from 1896 to 1904.
How different this quiet little place might have been had the potential been developed from the chalybeate spring, discovered in 1807 where the road leads out of the village to Stow, as inscribed on
'Chepe' and 'stowe' combine to mean 'market place', which indicates the early origins of this town.
Cannings (left) are first mentioned in 1930, when a Miss Canning had a haberdashery store; Stow's Stores (right) is still in the same place.
Cannings (left) are first mentioned in 1930, when a Miss Canning had a haberdashery store; Stow's Stores (right) is still in the same place.
Situated on the Wye just above its junction with the Severn, Chepstow derives its name from Chepe-stow, meaning market town.
Stow's ancient cross in the Square served as a reminder to market traders in medieval times that they should not try to pull the wool over their customers' eyes.
This Roman Catholic church dedicated to St Mary stands on Stow Hill on the site of an earlier, smaller, edifice.
Daniel Defoe records in his 'Tour of Britain' that 20,000 sheep were sold at Stow-on-the-Wold market in the year prior to his visit.
The Stow was to be the New Town's first major shopping centre.
Over the next three decades it bought out other brewers in Nailsworth, Stow-on-the-Wold, Northleach, Gloucester, Wickwar and Evesham.
But their attempt to burgle Tangley Manor between Stow and Burford went less well.
Middlesex University, the whole has taken on a care-worn air, which even extends to the early 18th-century garden statues by John van Nost, which were brought to the house by Sir Philip Sassoon from Stowe
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