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Maps
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Books
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Memories
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Gate Burton Hall
I was also born at Gate Burton Hall. My mother was evacuated from Hull. I hope to get more information and visit Gate Burton in June next year.
A memory of Gate Burton in 1942
Growing Up
I was born in 6 Hedgefield View, Dudley on 4th January 1947, this is where my life's journey started and at 5 years of age I attended the junior school, then the secondary modern (or the big school as it was known locally), leaving in 1961. ...Read more
A memory of Dudley in 1940 by
Life And Times Of Suzanne Knight In New Haw.
I lived at 5 Manor Drive with my 3 sisters, Kathleen, Elizabeth and Mary. I was born in the house at 1am on a snowy night in 1954 and was delivered by my dad and Dr Poles, while Mary slept and Kathleen and ...Read more
A memory of New Haw in 1954 by
Lodge Gate Houses
My grandma and grandad used to live in one of the gate houses - Gerald and Lucy Woolmer!
A memory of Rushton by
Rothley My Home
It is now 41 years since I resided in Rothley, and there is not one day that passes that I don't think about it. Recently I found photographs on an 'Old Rothley' website, as I was browsing I found a photograph of my parents standing ...Read more
A memory of Rothley by
St Patrick's School
I was born to Michael and Mary Murray (nee Williamson) at 79 Reather Street - a long terrace street running between Rochdale Road and Oldham Road about a mile and a half from the city centre. I remember going to Osborne Street ...Read more
A memory of Collyhurst in 1950 by
When Gates Corner Was A Corner
Lived in South Woodford with my parents from 1952-1972 before marrying, and worked for Gates in this very building from 1968-1977 before moving up the High Road to their new Head Office when this building caught ...Read more
A memory of South Woodford in 1968 by
Gate Burton Hall
I was born 27th February 1945, In Gate Burton Hall. My mum was evacuated from Hull with other expectant mothers. She often used to talk of the carpet of snowdrops she could see through the window. Every birthday she would get ...Read more
A memory of Gate Burton by
Fathers Date Of Birth
Correction Norman. Dad was born in 1893 NOT 1896
A memory of Pontybodkin in 1890 by
Simon's Well, Scotland Hill
My father was in the US Navy and stationed at Blackbush. We rented a wonderful place known as Simon's Well. It had big English roses, a garden with rubbarb and such. I attended Yately Hall. These times were the happiest ...Read more
A memory of Sandhurst in 1958 by
Captions
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The Guildhall is the town's oldest public building, dating from about 1714, but it was heavily restored during the mid 19th century.
The half-timbered house on the right dates from Tudor times.
Written records of St Mary's Church date back to 1210.
The interior is lined with monuments to the Gurdon family dating from the 16th to 20th centuries.
Centre left stands the Bear Hotel, a lovely old coaching inn dating back to 1432.
The pub on the left is the White Horse Inn dating from 1851.
Consequently the town of Ellesmere Port could be said to date from 1 July 1795, when the Ellesmere Canal was opened.
The earliest castle ruins date from the 12th century, and include the keep and curtain wall of the inner ward.
The bridge dates from 1867.
The two nearest buildings on the left were demolished shortly after this date.
Nearby is the station, dating back to 1840 and the only one on the 19-mile stretch of railway between Winchester and Basingstoke.
We are looking north down the slope to Station Way, and the bridge which dates from the opening of the railway in 1847.
The beautiful timber-framed house, beside the lych-gate leading into the church of St Mary the Virgin, has an inscription over the door dated 1630.
The present tower, dating from the 13th century, was possibly built by Hugh de Balsham, the Bishop of Ely from 1257-86 and the founder of Peterhouse.
This view looks east along West Banks, with its numerous small bridges, to the mainly late Victorian artisan cottages (some are dated 1901).
Abingdon's bridges were built in 1416-17 widened in 1820 and substantially rebuilt in 1927; the wide central arch dates from this rebuild.
The projecting north transept (right) dates from the 13th century and is two centuries older than the tower.
This area dates back to the Middle Ages.
On the left is the Close Wall and St Ann's Gate; on the right the White Hart Hotel stands out, with its giant portico surmounted by the eponymous deer.
Brockworth church is late Norman and 13th-century, while the adjacent Brockworth Court dates from the 16th century and was built for the last prior of Llanthony.
Presiding over the town is the 120ft high pinnacle-topped tower of St James', which dates from the 15th century.
This street, which is on the periphery of the main shopping area of Stourbridge, has now become rather run down - a pity, since there are one or two fine houses here dating from the 1700s,
Over ten feet high, with a protective hat-like capping of 1820, its date is uncertain, but it is probably 8th-century.
West Horndon is a planned village dating only from the 1940s.
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