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Memories
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Runcorn Hill On A Summer's Day
Runcorn Hill was a wild place when I knew it back in the early 1960s. I remember even now the smell of the trees and the shade they brought on hot summer days. Yes, we had them back then, when spring came after winter ...Read more
A memory of Runcorn in 1960 by
Sutton Forest Side
I recall living at 163 Mansfield Road in 1947, when we had real winter, close to Kitty Hibberts shop, this is now a Chinese takeaway. Across the road was cobbler Betts Hut at the top of Barnes Street, on the opposite ...Read more
A memory of Sutton In Ashfield in 1947 by
Rashwood School
I was at Rashwood School fron 1960 ish to 1967. My memory of the school was a very big entrance, we were allowed to take our roller skates to school and go from the top of the hill to the bottom, also the play bars had concrete ...Read more
A memory of Rashwood in 1967 by
Where Does The Time Go
This is the church where my 17 year old son was christened. This is also the church where I spent most of my childhood. From about the age of 10, my friends and I would go grave rubbing. We actually spent more time cleaning the ...Read more
A memory of Farndon in 1980 by
Church Choir
I think it was about 1959 when a new Vicar arrived in the village of Yapton he was the Rev. Nelson. I was 12 at the time, His wife who we only knew as Mrs Nelson decided to start a church choir. So with a few of my cousins and girls I went ...Read more
A memory of Yapton in 1959 by
Bus Shelter
Many is the time I have spent in that bus shelter, on a winters night, freezing, waiting for an Eastern National bus or a Campbell’s Flyer [1/2 penny cheaper in old money]. Having been to the Kingsway cinema and munching on a bag of ...Read more
A memory of Hadleigh in 1951 by
Hilly Fields
Situated at the top of our road, as young children Hilly Fields was something quite magical. During winter time we would trek our home made sledges over to toboggan hill and hurtle down to the brook at the bottom of the hill at breakneck ...Read more
A memory of Enfield in 1950 by
Windsor Road
We moved to Bromley Cross about 1947 just before my sister Virginia was born, it was a lovely new prefab, but I don't remember much about the inside of it apart from the wood-burning stove, that sticks in my mind for some ...Read more
A memory of Bromley Cross in 1947 by
Broadway Lido.....My Home
Yes.....the Broadway Lidi was my home. I am Stuart Smith, my father Gordon Smith was the first manager (well, they called it superintendent then) at the Lido. We moved there when I was about 3 years old, and lived in a ...Read more
A memory of Bridgwater in 1960 by
My Schooldays 1952 54 Near Skipton
My Grandparents lived at 26 Otley Street in Skipton from the 1940 ( or earlier ) and I had first visited them in 1945 after VE day, They were Thomas Henry Jackson, my Grandmother Charlotte Jackson and their batchelor ...Read more
A memory of Skipton in 1952 by
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Iwerne (pronounced Youen) Minster stands on the road to Blandford, and boasts this fine peace -rather than war - memorial.
The little cabmen's shelter at the side of the bar is no longer there.To the rear right of the bar we can see the turret on the roof of the Minster Chapter House.
To the rear of the photograph, on the right of the Minster, stands the smaller tower of St Wilfred's Church, which was built in 1864 and still stands.
To the rear of the photograph, on the right of the Minster, stands the smaller tower of St Wilfrid's Church, which was built in 1864 and still stands.
Two nuns from here were shipwrecked at Reculver on their way to Minster in Thanet.
The name means minster or church near the River Isle.
There had been an Anglo-Saxon minster church here, and some of its foundations were found in excavations in 1978.
White stone from Tadcaster was used to renovate York Minster; this stone was the reason for the Roman name for this town, Calcaria - meaning 'the white town'.
His replacement was William St Carileph, the man responsible for building the present cathedral, which occupies the site of the old stone minster built by Uchted.
The Minster Crypt 1886 There are many fine tombs within the Minster, including that of Saint Ethelred, a brother of Alfred, who was killed by the Danes in 873.
Our picture features Winter's jewellery shop and Petersgate Bridge. The bridge was built in 1868 to link the market square with St Petersgate.
In this late Victorian view from in front of numbers 12 to 14 Minster Yard, the quality of the mainly 13th-century Gothic cathedral comes over well.
The college was first built for the Minster's Chantry Priests in about 1465. These priests had plenty of money and plenty of time on their hands, and were always getting up to mischief.
The college was first built for the Minster's Chantry Priests in about 1465.These priests had plenty of money and plenty of time on their hands, and were always getting up to mischief.
Healing the sick is the theme of this window in the minster's north-west corner, formerly the Consistory Court.
The large colon- naded building is the Winter Villa, built by the Earl of Mount Edgecumbe for his wife, who found the winters at Mount Edgecumbe House a little too draughty.
In this late Victorian view from in front of numbers 12 to 14 Minster Yard, the quality of the mainly 13th-century Gothic cathedral comes over well.
The original monastic settlement at Minster was founded in AD670, overlooking Minster Marshes, then the open Wantsum Channel.
In this late Victorian view from in front of numbers 12 to 14 Minster Yard, the quality of the mainly 13th-century Gothic cathedral comes over well.
It is dedicated to the former abbess of Minster, and in the earliest records Tenterden was part of the manor of Minster-in-Thanet.
Begun in 1225 and completed in 1472, York Minster is considered to be one of the finest cathedrals in all England.
This view of the minster's north side from the High Street also shows the railings which once surrounded it.
The northern (Staffordshire) shore is quieter, and attracts wintering waterfowl and gulls.
Begun during the reign of King John and finally completed in 1472, York Minster stands on a site previously occupied by the Roman praetorium and by Saxon churches; the earliest of these was a small wattle
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