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Quest For My Ain Folk

I visited St Peter's in August 1976 as part of a search for traces of my ancestors, the De Vauxs of Adlington, French Hugenots who first settled from France, in 1630. They became Yeomen farmers on the Leghs Adlington estate and ...Read more

A memory of Prestbury in 1976 by James Logan Bell

The Howard Family At Hammersmith And Barnes

My Great-Great-Grandad, Henry Howard, lived in the early 1800’s - a time of great rural depression - and so he left his Devon home to look for work in London with the result that several generations of ...Read more

A memory of Hammersmith in 1860 by John Howard Norfolk

Hessenford

I was so pleased to come across a site talking about 'my' family village of Hessenford. I was also evacauated to Hessenford with my mum and spent my 1st birthday there. This was the first of many August holidays with my Great Aunt Dorah ...Read more

A memory of Hessenford in 1944 by Judy Sharp

My Era Stockton Revisited

I was 28 years old at the time of this photograph, living at Roseworth, with wife, Doris,and daughter, Judith, aged two. Married at St Peter's Church in 1947, with Rev'd J McGill officiating, a 'wartime' wedding ...Read more

A memory of Stockton-on-Tees in 1955 by Ronald Haslock

Marriage

St. Peters church is where my ggg grandfather John Peck married my ggg grandmother Martha Robbins in 1813.

A memory of Burnham by Monica Peck

St Peters Court

I was a boarder at St Peter's Court, Bacton, Norfolk in the 1950s and a few years ago I found Rosemary, the daughter of the headmaster, in a village nearby. Sadly no one else had left their names so that some of us old boys could find ...Read more

A memory of Bacton in 1950 by Gerald Wase

Arlesey Bedfordshire

When my dad was demobbed after the war in 1946, we had to move back to London because of his job. We had all our funiture put on a lorry, and the local publican, a Ted Bland, delivered us to a requestioned place over a shop in ...Read more

A memory of Arlesey in 1940 by Michael Smith

Horror Uniform

One memory of my time spent at St Peter's as a border (my house been The Rise )were the God awful brown blazers purchased from Moss Bros (of York). It wasn't that they were uncomfortable that was the problem, it was the rule that they had ...Read more

A memory of York in 1985 by Steven Paley

Miss Holbrook

Fond memories, it set me up for later life, I recall a Miss Holbrook. Attended St. Peter's School in Scarborough.

A memory of Throxenby in 1958 by Leonard Wheatley

Memories Of Romford

I was born in 1940 at Recreation Avenue, London Road and have many happy memories of my birthplace. I attended London Road Junior School from 1946 to 1951 and remember three teachers as they were all vegatables, ie the headmaster ...Read more

A memory of Romford in 1952 by Bernard Strutt

Captions

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Caption For Drayton, Church Lane C1960

Church Lane runs north from the High Street towards its eastern end, with St Peter's Church a short way along it. The tower is 15th-century, but most of the rest was rebuilt in Victorian times.

Caption For Eype, Village 1930

This is another view of Lower Eype from further to the south-west, closer to the cliff above Lyme Bay, looking inland to Mount Lane and St Peter's Church (centre).

Caption For Heysham, St Peter's Church 1888

The origins of the parish church of St Peter on Heysham Head are lost in the mists of time. The earliest recorded date is 1080, when it was noted as an old Saxon church.

Caption For Maiden Newton, Riversdale 1906

The 100-foot high slender stone tower of the church of St Peter and St Paul domi- nates this village built on a hairpin bend.

Caption For Wilmington, The Old Yew Tree C1960

This very pretty village with its flint and brick houses and cottages runs south from the main road to its parish church of St Mary and St Peter, which is set high above the lane with the ruins of Wilmington

Caption For Horbury, Queen Street C1955

Off the High Street is Queen Street, taking us up towards St Peter's Church. On the left we see the long- established Andrassy's butcher's shop – it opened in 1886.

Caption For Langham, The School And School Lane C1950

There are two prominent buildings of quality in the village, firstly the 13th-century parish church of St Peter and St Paul, and Langham Old Hall with its date stone of 1665 built into the

Caption For Henfield, Golden Square C1955

Henfield is a main road village midway between Horsham and Brighton. St Peter's 13th-century church was rebuilt in 1870. Nearby is the Cat House, a quaintly decorated half-timbered residence.

Caption For Norwich, Market Place 1929

This broad open space at the heart of the city is a kaleidoscope of noise and colour on market day.

Caption For Kirby Hill, Church And Village 1913

Overlooking the fascinating village green from the direction of Dakyn House (1678), we see the parish church of St Peter and St Felix, which itself looks out over the remains of Ravensworth Castle.

Caption For Benington, Church Interior C1960

It is recorded that the site of the present St Peter's Church was used as a place of worship as early as the 9th century at the time of King Bertulph of Mercia.

Caption For Burnley, Colne Road 1895

In the distance, on the right, is Bank Parade house, once the home of Sir James Mackenzie (1853-1925).

Caption For East Blatchington, The Village 1906

St Peter's Church is still there.

Caption For Headcorn, The Village 1903

During the 15th century, Headcorn was a cloth-making centre which prospered with the arrival of Flemish weavers, and its single, long street has several fine buildings dating back to that time.

Caption For Marlborough, The Parade C1950

The Cross Keys Hotel was known as the Cross Keys and Unicorn from 1768. The present building is later; it perhaps dates from 1904, when the name was shortened.

Caption For Cowfold, St Peter's Church 1958

This village has grown around a road junction on the Horsham to Brighton road.

Caption For Manchester, St Peter's Church C1885

The church's foundation stone was laid on 11 December 1788, and the church was consecrated on 6 September 1795.

Caption For Syston, The Green C1960

The 15th-century local granite and limestone church tower of St Peter and St Paul, heavily restored in 1872 by P W Ordish, shows above the houses of quality which bound The Green.

Caption For Tilton On The Hill, Church And School C1955

St Peter's was originally late Norman, but virtually rebuilt in the 15th century.

Caption For Newnham, High Street 1955

Repairs of a more drastic kind were needed at St Peter's church on the nearby Nab headland, when it collapsed along with the cliff it stood on after severe flooding in 1360.

Caption For Saxby, The Church C1955

St Peters was designed by architect George Richardson in 1789 (for Robert Sherrard, 4th Earl of Harborough) in the Classical manner that Pevsner describes as 'an attempt at combining the tradition of

Caption For Ardingly, The Village C1950

Ardingly is a village overlooking the Ouse valley, north of Haywards Heath. The 14th-century church of St Peter has an impressive tower. Ardingly College, situated nearby, is a notable Public School.

Caption For Syston, The Green C1960

The 15th-century local granite and limestone church tower of St Peter and St Paul, heavily restored in 1872 by P W Ordish, shows above the houses of quality which bound The Green.

Caption For Tilton On The Hill, Church And School C1955

St Peter's was originally late Norman, but virtually rebuilt in the 15th century.