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Memories
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East Kent Coastal Holidays In The 1950s/60s
As a child the East Kent coast was a regular destination for our 2 week family summer holiday. We usually stayed in Westgate. In the late 1950s the excitement started with the journey from ...Read more
A memory of Westgate on Sea by
Brian Tutt
This should be of interest, I hope. I attended Roper Street C of E Primary School from 1944 to1947, Head teacher, Mr Hatt and class teacher Miss Sexton. Brian Tutt was in this class. Sadly he contracted Polio in 1947 and was kept alive in ...Read more
A memory of Eltham in 1940 by
A Happy Time
I was born in 1965 at Cliveden and lived in Grubwood Lane near the entrance to Quarry Woods with my parents for 16 years. I remember walking to Cookham Dean Primary School where the headmaster Mr Turner made my life a misery! I ...Read more
A memory of Cookham Dean in 1965
St Marys
Just an up-date to my previous memory. I wonder if anybody remembers St Mary's Church just down the road from Valence Wood Road. I was a choirboy there for a numbers of years in the late forties - early fifties. I was married there on Oct 1st. 1955. Alan Gammans
A memory of Dagenham in 1955 by
I Am The One Who Baby Sat For Ian Warburton
Dear Ian, If my memory is correct it was about the above year that I baby sat for you while your mother and father went to Scotish Dancing. Bob who was studying at night school would sit and do his home work ...Read more
A memory of Helsby in 1954
A Seaside Holiday By Manorbier Beach
Although this view of Manorbier Castle dates from 1890 it is the only photo in the Francis Frith collection which shows the nearby beach. I am happy to record our family's day on the beach here and it is ...Read more
A memory of Manorbier in 2011 by
My Birth Place Scarcliffe
April 3 1946 is the date of my birth, born at 2 Nightingale Terrace, Scarcliffe. My parents being Rose and Albert Nicholls, I was baptised at St Leonards and went to Scarcliffe school and then went on to Moorfield ...Read more
A memory of Scarcliffe in 1946 by
Oakmeeds 1964
I was a student at Oakmeeds before it went comprehensive. In those days we had huge playing fields looked after by my mate's dad Mr Agate. The footpath ran straight through the school and the general public could walk through anytime. ...Read more
A memory of Burgess Hill by
Woodville Road, Ham, Prefabs
My Family moved into the newly built Prefabs in Woodville Road when they were first opened up for occupancy. I can't remember what year it was. Does anybody know what the date was? The Prefabs were kitted out with a Fridge which ...Read more
A memory of Ham by
Fawley School And Photo
My dad was in the RAF at Calshot and I attended Fawley school, and later Hardley secondary, in 1950-53. I have recently found a photo of myself and two other boys, standing in a pond holding jam jars of (presumably) tadpoles or ...Read more
A memory of Fawley by
Captions
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The east window has stained glass dating back to the late 1940s.
The post box is a unique Victorian model dated 1856.
Beyond is the Old Manor, dating from the early 16th century.
Guyden's Bakery (left) is a long-time landmark of the village; the front is 19th-century, but the building behind dates from the 18th century.
Ruins of an old palace dating from this time are visible to the left of this view.
The Angel Inn, on the left, advertising Clinches Witney Ales, dates back to the 17th century.
Dunster Castle, now belonging to the National Trust, was still owned by the Luttrell family at this date; they had occupied it since medieval times.
The building with the jettied gables to the left dates back to the 17th century, on the face of it one of the oldest buildings in St Ives, although earlier buildings survive behind more modern facades.
Much of its architecture dates from the 19th century, a reminder that the Victorians made this island their own as a holiday and residential location.
Hertford College dates back to 1284 when it was founded as Hart Hall.
The pump, with its stone Gothic-style pump house and metal wheel, is dated 1876.
The Rose and Crown Hotel, and the Victorian estate cottages behind, are typical of houses elsewhere in the village - many of them have dated plaques.
The half-timbered frontage of the George and Dragon inn (on the left of the photograph) dates from 1515.
The chancel and vestry date from 1894.
The present castle is a battlemented house dating from around 1800, and the seat of the Wharton family.
The farm and its outbuildings, roofed with Norfolk thatch, date from the 18th century.
The three-arched, balustraded bridge at Shillingford dates back to 1827 and carries the Wallingford to Thame road over the river.
Buckland Rings, the great earthworks nearby, probably date back to the Iron Age, though the Romans used the fortifications during their invasion of England - coins of the Emperor Claudius have been found
Most of the dockyard, where Nelson's flagship HMS 'Victory' has remained more or less intact since the Battle of Trafalgar, also dates from around that time.
There are a number of lovely timber-framed buildings in this village, and many more that were once of timber, until a brick façade was added at a later date.
The Priory dates from AD 900.
The church dates from the 18th century, replacing a Norman church which was destroyed when the spire fell on top of it.
The tree is still here, and so is the Old Hall (left), dating from the 17th century.
The building immediately beyond is the Tudor Merchant's house, dating from Elizabethan times and now in the care of the National Trust.
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