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Memories Of Bitton In Gloucestershire

The Grange at Bitton was the home of the Seymour family, one member of which was Jane, the third wife of King Henry VIII. The village is dominated by its open countryside setting. This relationship arises from ...Read more

A memory of Bitton by Paul Townsend

Tales Of Brandon Hill

Queen Elizabeth I granted housewives the right to dry their washing on Bristol's Brandon Hill. Bristol's most prominent land mark, the Cabot Tower, was 100 years old in 1998. But the official opening was marked by a ...Read more

A memory of Bristol by Paul Townsend

Hill Top Farm Holcombe And Peel Tower

My grandmother Ms Vickers lived with her mother and father and brothers for many years at the farm and had the keys to the tower. There are so many fascinating stories that I've been told about the farm and tower but I will put them all in here another day.

A memory of Holcombe by Lindsey Isherwood

Mr And Mrs A Garland

I remember spending many happy times in Shipley, staying with my grandparents, Mr and Mrs A Garland, or Arthur and Edith (Arlie) Garland, at 16, Church Close, Shipley, Sussex. I used to walk the dog with my grandad ...Read more

A memory of Shipley by Jane Vertntenten

Happy Childhood

We moved from Balham to Burgess Hill in 1956. My parents had bought 267 Junction Road and then proceeded to renovate the house as it was in a shocking condition. Both my parents worked in London so I walked to my grandparents' ...Read more

A memory of Burgess Hill in 1959 by Fran White

Golders Green

I lived in Temple Fortune about a mile north of Golders Green up the Finchley Road, along which passed buses and trolleybuses going up to Finchley and Barnet, and south to Baker Street, Trafalgar Square and London. In the 1940s ...Read more

A memory of Golders Green in 1953 by R Stonhold

Childhood In Affetside

Born at Baxterhead Farm in 1938, later lived at Butcherhead Farm. Attended village school, teacher Miss Davies, at playtime end she would blow a cuckoo whistle. Had to go to Sunday school but had to walk to Hawkshaw with my ...Read more

A memory of Affetside in 1940 by Frank Ryle

Fond Memories

I now live in Adelaide, South Australia, but lived in Holly Road in the 1950s and I too have fond memories of Christopher's sweet shop. My brother and I played on Cove green a lot and I broke my foot there atthe age of 6. I took a trip ...Read more

A memory of Cove in 1957 by Hazel Drummond

Millbank Road

We lived at 54 Millbank Road, off Caledonia Road, near the Wishaw train station. As kids we trainspotted, played soccer, cricket, rounders, etc. I had lots of cousins to play with. We would go to the pictures in the town ...Read more

A memory of Wishaw in 1952 by William Bunce

Happy Daysin Bexleyheath And Barnehurst

I remember Barnehurst and Bexleyheath in the 1960s. I loved a girl called Lin who lived in Rudland Road in Barnehurst. We used to spend lots of Saturday afternoons in the Astor Cinema near to Bexleyheath ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath in 1963 by Rich M

Captions

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Caption For Freston, The Tower 1893

Coastal Suffolk may not be the first place you would think of for a skyscraper, but the charming Tudor redbrick folly Freston Tower could fit the bill, albeit in a scaled-down manner.

Caption For Malton, Market Place 1959

The Norman tower of St Michael's parish church watches over the busy Market Place of Malton, filled with cars in this picture.

Caption For Newbury, Northbrook Street C1955

Though rather cluttered, this photograph of the street does allow you a distant glimpse of the clock tower at the far end.

Caption For Bristol, Cathedral 1890

The west towers shortly after they had been completed.

Caption For Kendal, Sizergh Castle 1896

Originally a 14th-century defensive pele tower, Sizergh was the home of the Strickland family; the present building is mainly a 15th-century Elizabethan mansion, now in the care of the National Trust.

Caption For Penryn, Broad Street 1897

We are further down into the town and looking back up towards the clock tower, which is just visible.

Caption For Glasgow, Sauchiehall Street 1897

Most of the buildings shown here have gone, and there is a large indoor shopping complex and car parking facilities where the clock tower appears.

Caption For Newton Abbot, St Leonard's Tower 1906

St Leonard's Tower is all that remains of a 14th-century church demolished in 1836.

Caption For Saltburn By The Sea, Station Street C1955

Station Street is lined with some attractive private residences, shown here, and the extremely attractive chapel with its very distinctive tower, which now serves as a community theatre.

Caption For London, Tower Bridge C1895

This view is from Butler's Wharf, with the Tower of London on the right.

Caption For Broadstairs, Promenade 1902

Bleak House stands on the right, while on the left is the prominent tower of Holy Trinity church, built in 1862. Note the canopied deckchairs on the right.

Caption For Helmsley, The Square C1955

In the background is the pinnacled tower of the parish church of All Saints, largely rebuilt in 1867.

Caption For Weybourne, The Village C1955

The village is dominated by the parish church with its 15th-century flint tower; it is surrounded by the ruins of the priory founded here in the time of King John by Sir Ralph Mainwaring.

Caption For Chatham, Riverside Gardens C1965

The gardens were laid out in the early 1960s on the former Gun Wharf, providing a welcome green space below the pinnacled tower of St Mary's parish church.

Caption For Chatham, Riverside Gardens C1965

The gardens were laid out in the early 1960s on the former Gun Wharf, providing a welcome green space below the pinnacled tower of St Mary's parish church.

Caption For Talgarth, The Square And Tower Shop 1938

Here we have a close view of Mr Evans' builder's and ironmonger's shop built on to the old tower, which was constructed in the 14th century.

Caption For Bromyard, Tower House C1965

This beautiful building stands in Tower Hill, part of Bromyard that has been virtually cut off from the rest of the town by a new bypass.

Caption For Kendal, Sizergh Castle 1896

Originally a 14th-century defensive pele tower, Sizergh was the home of the Strickland family; the present building is mainly a 15th-century Elizabethan mansion, now in the care of the National

Caption For Loughborough, Queen's Park Entrance C1955

The tower contains a grand carillon of forty-seven bells. Built to remember the fallen of the Great War, it is a fitting tribute, for one of Britain's two bell foundries is in the town.

Caption For Dovercourt, The Beach And New Promenade C1955

The lighthouse tower was restored between 1983 and 1988.

Caption For Tenterden, Bells Lane 1902

The church tower rises above these small weatherboarded and tiled cottages in a side lane off the main High Street.

Caption For Birmingham, The Art Gallery And Museum 1896

Much of the money for the gallery came from wealthy glass manufacturer Thomas Osler, whose firm made the famous glass fountain centrepiece for the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace.The clock tower is

Caption For Llanvetherine, White Castle C1950

Probably he was responsible for this twin- towered gatehouse, which in the 1260s became the new entrance to the castle via a drawbridge over the deep moat.

Caption For London, Westminster Abbey C1867

The abbey was embellished by its lofty twin towers in the early 1700s.