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A Walk From Shotgate Baptist Church To The Nevendon Road Part 2 See Part 1 Below

Continued from Part 1 below. Next to Martins Bank was a record shop, where I remember going with my parents and standing listening to records in the small listening ...Read more

A memory of Wickford by Kevin Mears

Walthamstow

I was born in Forest Road, Walthamstow, in 1927. My father was a councillor in the thirties, on the entertainments committee organising film star visits and concerts by the London Symphony Orchestra. He owned the ironmongers, Cole ...Read more

A memory of Leytonstone in 1930

Early Days In Filton

Although originally from Manchester my parents were living in Filton when I was born in Cheltenham in December 1941. My father, like the majority of men in that area worked at what was then the BAC. He worked at the Rodney Works as ...Read more

A memory of Filton in 1940 by Frieda Curnow

Ancestry From Luddendenfoot

I am trying to find out about my family who came from L/Foot, The person it all starts with is called John Henry Musgrove wife Amy and daughters May & Dora, John moved from Nottingham, John who was my ...Read more

A memory of Luddenden Foot in 1910 by Richard Kendall

Lindfield School Hyde End House

Lindfield School, Hyde End House, Brimpton. I would love to hear from anyone who has memories of Lindfield School, Hyde End House, Brimpton. I was there from when I was six until I was eight, between 1947 - 1949, ...Read more

A memory of Brimpton in 1947

Where I Was Originally Born

My mother was born at 8 Queens Grove Road in 1921 and lived there for a further 58 years before she moved to Highams Park. I was born in Chingford in 1947 and lived at that address until I got married at 20. One of my ...Read more

A memory of North Acton by Geraldine Todd

St Peters Church

My father was Rector here from 1947 - 1964

A memory of Portishead by Charles Coombes

The Grapes, St Peters Street,1871

My grandmother, Elizabeth Ann Higgs, was widowed in 1869, when her husband, John Russell Higgs, was drowned at sea. Her brother Silas Short was working at the brickyard in the town so she and her 2 children, ...Read more

A memory of Bishop's Waltham in 1870 by Jo Berryman

Northleach

My father's family was from Northleach going back to at least 1795. In 2006 I finally was able to visit the town. My Great Grandfather, Herbert Charles Earle was organist and choirmaster at St. Peter and St. Paul for fifty years until ...Read more

A memory of Northleach by Chris Earle

My Wedding Day

I was married in St. Peter's Parish Church, Swinton on September 7th, 1957 - one of the happiest days of my life.  It was a lovely sunny day and my best friend May Timperley was my bridesmaid.  My husband and I had a honeymoon in St. ...Read more

A memory of Swinton in 1957 by Sheila Collins

Captions

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Caption For Bolton By Bowland, The Church 1921

The church of St Peter and St Paul dates from the 13th century, but the magnificent tower was rebuilt in 1852. Inside is a memorial to a local knight, Sir Ralph Pudsay, who had twenty-five children.

Caption For Peel, The Bay 1895

In the centre foreground of the picture stands St Peter's church, intact at this time, built out of locally quarried Triassic red sandstone and identified by its unusual helm-roof tower.

Caption For Swimbridge, St James's Church 1894

Here is another broach spire, 102ft tall, after the style of St Peter's, Barnstaple. The church, St James, is packed with interest.

Caption For Water Orton, The Parish Church C1965

It was founded in 1347 as a chapel of ease to Aston. Water Orton became a separate parish in 1871, and the new Church of St Peter and St Paul was built of brick in 1878-79.

Caption For Ruthin, St Peter's Square C1965

A wonderfully varied street scene in this ancient town displays the varied architecture from different centuries in the town's history.

Caption For St Mary Bourne, The School C1955

This is a lovely environment for children to go to school; here they have been photographed during their break.

Caption For Uppingham, Market Place And Church 1932

The square seems quite small now for a town which has had an extremely active market since the 13th century.

Caption For Swinton, The Church 1896

St Peter's is the only church in the Manchester area to have been commissioned from George Edmund Street.

Caption For Liss, St Peter's Church 1901

A new village was born around the railway station and with it a new church, St Mary's, built in 1892 by Sir Arthur Blomfield.

Caption For Cartmel, From Hag Lane 1897

St Peter's was originally a chapel of ease to Cartmel Priory, and was consecrated by the Bishop of Chester on 30 June 1745.

Caption For Bournemouth, Southbourne Terrace C1875

The fine tower and spire of St Peter's Church dominated much of central Bournemouth, until unkind planners allowed the construction of too many large buildings nearby.

Caption For Redditch, St Peter's Church, Ipsley C1955

Ipsley was in Warwickshire when it was mentioned in Domesday Book (1086), and only transferred to Worcestershire in 1931. It predates Redditch, but has long since been swallowed up by it.

Caption For Bishop Auckland, The Castle 1892

Begun as a manor house, Bishop Auckland was castellated around 1300, though much of the building shown here dates from the extensive alterations carried out in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Caption For Salcombe Regis, Church 1928

The earliest mention of this Norman church is 1149, although during the reign of King Athelstan (AD925-940) there was a wooden church here.

Caption For Bovey Tracey, 1907

The Church of St Peter, St Paul and St Thomas of Canterbury was built in the 15th century; it was extended in 1858, when the north aisle was added.

Caption For Hawkley, The Village C1960

This village lies around a green, and here the church of St Peter and St Paul can be found. At the first house on the right, a window beside the front door has been bricked up.

Caption For Navenby, The Church C1965

This is another of the Lincolnshire churches built with the local limestone. It overlooks the Trent and Witham valley towards the Nottinghamshire border.

Caption For Wisborough Green, The Church, Village And Windmill 1896

This is a fine view of a pastoral hillside. The church of St Peter ad Vincula has a shingled broach spire. We can see a fine smock windmill in full working order in the left distance.

Caption For Macclesfield, St Peter's Church 1903

Built in 1848 with funds raised almost entirely from public subscriptions, St Peter's was consecrated in July 1849 by the Bishop of Chester, Dr Graham.

Caption For Yateley, The Village C1965

The Dog & Partridge sign stands in the middle of the green; the pub is still trading, and it is the Official Monster Raving Loony Party's headquarters. Yateley is near the Berkshire border.

Caption For Pickering, Smiddy Hill C1955

Smiddy Hill in Pickering, a bustling little market town west of Scarborough on the edge of the moors, probably takes its name from the site of a former blacksmith's shop in the area.

Caption For Sudbury, Market Hill And St Peter's C1960

St Peter's Church is now redundant. The statue of Thomas Gainsborough, the artist, was erected in front of the tower in 1913.

Caption For Sheffield, Parish Church 1893

The original parish church of St Peter & St Paul was built in the 12th century and rebuilt two or three hundred years later.

Caption For Accrington, St John's Church C1945

The interior view of St John's Church shows the east window depicting Christ holding the orb, flanked by St Peter and St Mary. It is a memorial to the Rev George Garbett, vicar of St James'.