Places
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- St Nicholas, South Glamorgan
- Combe St Nicholas, Somerset
- St Nicholas at Wade, Kent
- Sydling St Nicholas, Dorset
- St Nicholas, Dyfed
- St Nicholas, Hertfordshire
- Deeping St Nicholas, Lincolnshire
- Sutton St Nicholas, Hereford & Worcester
- St Nicholas South Elmham, Suffolk
- Llanmaes, South Glamorgan (near St Nicholas)
- Downs, South Glamorgan (near St Nicholas)
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Gosforth Just After The War
I was born at the Ravensbourne Nursing Home , opposite All Saints Church in 1943. At that time my father was in the army and my mother and I lived with my grandparents in Henry Street, my oldest aunt lived next door. My ...Read more
A memory of Gosforth by
Tommy Hull, The Farmer
Tommy Hull had his house and opposite his barns on the bend of Church Road just before St Nicholas's Church . His main hayfield was were the estate at the top of Beaumont Terrace was built. Later when he retired the barns were ...Read more
A memory of Gosforth
Nobby Clarke Pilgrims Wood
Remember my young childhood days at pilgrims WOOD sandy lane childrens home.1944. The searchlights & BARRAGE BALLOONS up on the hogs back. Playing in the woods building camps with BRACKEN & CLIMING TREES ...Read more
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Castle Street Swimming Baths
I was a pupil at St Nicolas Primary School, Portsmouth Road, from 1964-1966. We went swimming at the Castle Street baths every week. I remember thinking even at the age of 10 how run down the street was and how old ...Read more
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The Boathouse At St. Nicholas Park, Warwick.
From the late 60's to early 70's I worked as an assistant boatman at St Nicholas park Boathouse. My duties included hiring motor boat and rowing skiffs to the public in the summer......in the winter months ...Read more
A memory of Warwick by
Grandmother
My grandmother used to live in St Nicholas Road next door to the corner shop opposite St Nicholas House. I have many happy memories of visits from Downend, and walking her dog Smokey. Gran died in 1968 after the police ...Read more
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A Lovely Devon Village
We moved to No. 6 Tipton Vale in 1950. Maureen a baby, myself (Valerie) and parents Eric and Joan White fom Fenny Bridges. The house was a new council house, pink and blue. Dad dug out a bank at the rear and we found ...Read more
A memory of Tipton St John in 1950 by
Music
We moved to Burghfield Common when my father started work as an MOD policeman at Burghfield. We moved into Bannister Road when the estate was still being built and I remember my mother saying that one day she opened the back door to ...Read more
A memory of Burghfield Common in 1956 by
Proud Of My Watfordian Roots
I was born in Watford Hospital March 1961. There is evidence that we - mum, dad and l - lived in Durban Road, and Wellington Road. I'm told one of these 'homes' was a flat in which l became proud owner of a little pink ...Read more
A memory of Watford in 1961 by
My Time In Godstone
I was baptised at St Nicholas church, we were then living at the Homestead vicarage. After a short time living in Sussex we moved back and lived in 13 Salisbury Road. I went to the school riding on my bike. We played by the ...Read more
A memory of Bletchingley in 1950 by
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The Normans established a town, and provided the church which was dedicated to St Nicholas.
This is the time when Dereham was in its prime.
Thanks to the terrain at Scarborough, two other tramways were built; one near the Grand Hotel and another at St Nicholas Gardens.
The fine Anglo-Saxon church of St Nicholas was a principal church in pre-Conquest times. The 18th-century Worth Abbey is on the site of a town house called Paddockhurst.
We have already seen All Saints in Benhilton, and this view shows the old parish church of St Nicholas, which did not escape the church building fervour - it was entirely rebuilt in the 1860s
Back in the new city of Milton Keynes, Simpson is one of the villages it engulfed; but it is conserved within its boundaries.
In the distance is St Nicholas's Church, said to be one of the largest parish churches in England.
Some of the cottages in St Nicholas Terrace, which is located to the north of the church, are 18th-century, and one of them is dated 1771.
One of the earliest references to Norton is a grant by Offa of Mercia to the monastery at St Albans.
The corner shop, here selling crockery, tin bowls and leather bags, is now Peter Briggs, a shoe shop, but it remains largely unchanged, even preserving the same windows we see here.
St Nicholas' Church and the village are now bypassed from the busy A52 that thunders along towards Mablethorpe. Locally the church is known as 'the Queen of the Marsh'.
It was the seat of the De Braoses, with a mighty stone castle; but its keep of about 1100 is now merely a fragment, for the market and town migrated to nearby Steyning when the Adur silted up.
St Peter's was the name of this church, which gave Church Street its name. Built in 1704, St Peter's was a very popular church and well attended.
Ascend the clock tower of St Nicholas's parish church and see six of the county's major rivers - the Humber, the Don, the Went, the Ouse, the Trent and the Aire.
Skirting the modern shopping centre, our tour reaches Stert Street, which runs south towards the Market Place; in the 1890s, it was one of Abingdon's main shopping streets.
In the background are the two towers of St Nicholas's church. George Borrow, the 'gentleman gypsy', was lucky to have been born in this pleasing old country town.
The historic core of Charlwood is to the west of the view seen in photograph No 54172, by the medieval parish church of St Nicholas which was restored by William Burgess in 1858.
It was the seat of the De Braoses, with a mighty stone castle; but its keep of about 1100 is now merely a fragment, for the market and town migrated to nearby Steyning when the Adur silted up.
The church of St Nicholas which dominates this view was redesigned in 1863 by Anthony Salvin.
Here is a village at ease with itself, in the heart of stone country. On the extreme right is a single-decker bus which would now be an asset to any transport collection.
We can just see St Nicholas' Church and the Tower Building at the very far end. George's Dock was built out from the original shore-line and opened in 1771.
Construction of St George's Dock was authorised by an Act of Parliament in 1761.
St Peter's is Early English in style and is appropriately in Church Road, Earley, now part of Reading.
The so-called Jewry Wall, which can be seen in front of the superb Saxon Church of St Nicholas, formed a part of the exercise hall to the public bath.
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