Maps

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Books

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Memories

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The Alley Beside The Tradesman's Arms In Cove

This alley had the vicarage on its other side. You had to go under or beside a no-cycling bar to get through - there was one at the other end too, and they were brilliant for hanging upside down on. The ...Read more

A memory of Cove in 1965 by Christine Higgs

Danbury Village School C.1950

One of three sons, Peter Came a local historian and former pupil of Danbury Infants and Juniors School who later became a teacher at Maldon School wrote extensively about the village in preparation for a book which ...Read more

A memory of Danbury in 1950

"Woolies"

In 1958 I was a pupil at Blackpool Grammar School on Raikes Parade. At lunchtime it wasn't unknown for some of us to leave the school premises and walk down to FW Woolworths store near to the Tower. Here, a virtual cornucopia of ...Read more

A memory of Blackpool in 1958 by Martin Stewart

Presthaven Sands

Does anyone remember presthaven sands in the 60s and 70s,we would spend potters fortnight there every year,sometimes in the chalets in gronant,does anyone remember jobie's bingo in gronant by the bridge going over to presthaven,the ...Read more

A memory of Gronant by Paul Roberts

Early Days 1956

Wonderful Experience spent my sixteenth birthday at the school, Memories fade, I believe my house master was a Mr Morrell? My badge was all blue, I had to go to his room for my assessment sat in front of a blazing log fire. We had a ...Read more

A memory of Whitby in 1956 by Philip Wells

Still Clear Memories Of My Birth Town

I notice many other contributors focus on the shops in the town centre and I will cover these in my next ramblings but start with my schools. I was born in March 1949 at Upney maternity hospital and my first school ...Read more

A memory of Barking by geoff.purdy

Way Back Then.

lived in margate from approx. 1945 to 1952. There was a pier with a life boat station halfway up.Took a trip on the lifeboat, public once year, and was really seasick. There was also the Pavilion, close by was a 'pillbox' a wartime concrete ...Read more

A memory of Margate

Around The Corner & Far Away In Time Forster Drycleaning Co 33 Bower Way, Cippenham

Hi my Dad used to work with John Wallis Drycleaners as a Van Driver (John Wallis was based in Windsor, Datchet & other towns with the Factory in Hillside, Chalvey) who ...Read more

A memory of Cippenham by michael

80 Years Turnchapel

Hi, my name is William John Maunder and I am 81 years old and my first memory of Turnchapel is the early years of the WW2 . At the time I was living at Crownhill at that time on the outskirts of Plymouth, today day near B&Q ...Read more

A memory of Turnchapel

My First Memories Were Of Hemel Hempstead

I don’t know exactly how old I was when we moved to Hemel from Willesden London N.W.10.. My first memories were from about the age of 4.. We lived in a flat in Underacres Close near Mayland’s Wood.. I ...Read more

A memory of Hemel Hempstead by Keith Pocock

Captions

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Caption For Castor, The Church Of St Kyneburgha 1890

The tower is decorated by window openings that are repeated as blind arcades; the spire was added in the 14th century.

Caption For Eastbourne, The Lansdowne Private Hotel C1955

Lansdowne Terrace, a long Italianate terrace facing the Wish Tower, was built in the 1860s with its centre spanned by a wide triangular pediment; it was soon mostly colonised by the Lansdowne Private

Caption For Newmarket, The Jubilee Clock Tower C1955

The red brick clock tower of 1890 commemorates Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. On the left is Moon's cycle depot, connected with the garage in Bury Road.

Caption For Wickham Market, The Mill C1960

The tower of the steam engine house has now been demolished. The water mill is 18th-century, with three pairs of wheels driven by a cast iron breast-shot wheel.

Caption For Skegness, Sands 1899

The two wood and pantile shelters on either side of what was to become Tower Esplanade were useful refuges when it began to rain.

Caption For Lynmouth, The Harbour 1899

The pier was 18th-century, and the Rhenish tower added early in the 1800s by a General Rawdon.

Caption For Branston, Branston Hall Hospital C1965

The round turret by the side of the main entrance with its ogee cap looks very much like a windmill tower.

Caption For Fowey, Market Street 1888

Here we have a glimpse of the church tower between the houses of Market Street in the old heart of the waterside town. Note the gutter in the centre of the narrow roadway.

Caption For Newton Valence, St Mary's Church 1907

It can just be seen on the west wall of the tower, through the branches of the tree.

Caption For Marlborough, St Peter's Church, High Street 1907

It has a magnificent 120ft tower. The Sun Hotel on the right is still trading today.

Caption For Penzance, Quay Street 1906

Its pinnacled tower looks down over the old fishing quarter. This narrow lane winds down to the docks and harbour. On the left is the Dolphin Inn and, on the corner, the Harbour Office.

Caption For Boston, Hussey Tower 1893

To the right of the Tower you can make out haystacks in the farmyard (now the top end of Rowley Road) and behind the Grammar School.

Caption For Oxford, Magdalen College From River 1922

Lying in the shadow of Magdalen Tower are the buildings of the University Botanic Garden, founded in 1621 by the Earl of Danby and established on the site of a 13th-century Jewish burial ground.

Caption For Blisworth, The Grand Union Canal C1955

The pretty tower of the 14th-century church is clearly visible here.

Caption For Patrixbourne, Village 1903

The late Norman church, with its tower surmounted by a 13th-century shingled spire, was built around 1160 and stands in its small churchyard shaded by a selection of conifer trees.

Caption For Hadleigh, Deanery Tower 1922

When the Deanery Tower was built in the latter part of the 15th century by Suffolk's Archdeacon William Pykenham, it was supposed that it would be the gateway to a palace.

Caption For Colchester, The Water Tower 1907

Like the town hall tower, it dominates for miles around, and is also in a monumental Baroque style. The pond is now replaced be the uncompromisingly modern Mercury Theatre, built in 1972.

Caption For Penryn, Market Street 1890

This scene is dominated by the granite clock tower, which was erected in 1839. Behind it is the Town Hall of 1825, containing council chambers, a market hall and a police station.

Caption For Godalming, Charterhouse 1927

The main gothic-style buildings with their towers were designed by Philip Hardwick. Thackeray, John Wesley and Vaughan Williams were all educated here.

Caption For Southampton, Old Town Walls 1892

Extensive stretches of the old medieval town walls survive today, and many of the towers and gates are still standing.

Caption For Southampton, Bargate C1955

The original Norman arch dates back to about 1175, and the tower was added a century later. The upper floor used to be the guildhall.

Caption For Mundford, The Stores And King's Head C1960

The village church is an ancient building with no tower, which is unusual for Norfolk.

Caption For South Ockendon, The Village C1955

To the right of the photographer is the interesting church of St Nicholas with its round west tower.

Caption For Heybridge, St Andrew's Church 1901

This church, with its seemingly unfinished tower, is an important example of 12th-century architecture. The round-headed doorways and windows are typically Norman.