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Going To Junior School In Radcliff On Trent In 1960
My dad was in the Canadian Air Force (RCAF) stationed in Langar (born in England though) but my family lived at 16 Douglas Close just outside Radcliffe. I remember walking daily to the ...Read more
A memory of Radcliffe on Trent in 1960 by
The Roxy
Saturday mornings at The Roxy, Barkerend Road, Bradford were a magical event in the lives of 8 year olds plus in the 1950's. The film breaking down which it did every week to the sounds of a hundred kids stamping and yelling and booing. ...Read more
A memory of Bradford in 1953 by
Alice Eastwood Nee Colthup
My great aunt Alice was a teacher at Five Ashes village school in the early years of the 20th century. She was born in New Brompton, Kent on 29.8.1879 and died 23.12.1966 and is buried in the village. She married Fred ...Read more
A memory of Five Ashes in 1900 by
St Mary's Church At The Foot Of The Causeway
The church has been extended in recent years by a 'block' (blot?) on the nearest corner of this photo. Although a nice building in its own right it does not fit in with the style of the church. St Mary's C ...Read more
A memory of Horsham by
Born In Ilford
Ilford Town Hall is on the corner of Oakfield Road where I lived throughout WW2. The public Air Raid Shelter we used to sleep in was opposite the Town Hall in Oakfield Road. A very large department store called Moultons was opposite, in ...Read more
A memory of Ilford in 1940 by
Growing Up Miss Patricia May
This is another place I rememeber well when I was growing up. My auntie and uncle lived in the village of St Minver, they were called Mr and Mrs worden. My uncle was Ern Worden and he used to dig the the graves, and my ...Read more
A memory of St Minver by
Draycott Hall
Draycott Hall was the home of the Denys family. Sir George Deny wrote in his 1836 journal in Spain. “To my Uncle, whose Heir I am…Dear Uncle, I’ve waited to hear, of your death so, alas! very long, That, despairing, I yield to the ...Read more
A memory of Fremington in 1860 by
A Lovely Village Where Time Has Stood Still
I recently visited Kirdford with my mother to try and trace family history. My mother is a Pullen and all her ancestors originated from Kirdford, we visited the graveyard and lo and behold found some Pullen ...Read more
A memory of Kirdford in 2006 by
The Norfolk Family
I am John Howard Norfolk and although I have never lived in Yorkshire I know that my Norfolk family were farmers, millers and tanners in Harewood and nearby Wharfedale villages for many hundreds of years until the late 1800's. I ...Read more
A memory of Harewood in 1860 by
Ladd Family 1878
My grandfather Ernest Ladd, born Eastry 1878, is buried in the churchyard. Although as a child when visiting my grandmother we would tend the grave and put flowers on it, I only have a vague recollection of its location. My mother and ...Read more
A memory of Eastry in 1950 by
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They now share a tomb and epitaph: 'Inmate in grave, he took his grandchild heir, Whose soul did haste to make to him repair, And so to heaven along as little page With him did post, to wait upon
Yet, until about 1800, the village was known as Beddcelert, the grave of St Celert. The creeper-clad Prince Llewelyn Hotel is on the right, with two gigs waiting in front of it.
Get A Head (a ladies' hairdresser) has taken over from Margaret Graves (left), and the chemist (centre left) is still there.
With the first Duke already in his grave, revenge fell upon Murdoch and other members of the Stewart family.
The churchyard (right of centre) was extended in 1817 and had filled with Victorian graves, towards the monkey puzzle tree.
In front is the 1911 grave of Villebois, a horse wounded in the Boer War and brought back to England by Lord Chesham.
It was Queen Victoria who originally argued the need for such a hospital; its objective was to care for the gravely-afflicted casualties of war.
The monks of the abbey reputedly found his grave in Glastonbury. The building on top of the tor is St Michael's Church.
The grave of Roman soldiers killed in a skirmish with the Brigantes is said to be marked with a large stone to the left of the gates to the Hall.
At the time of this photograph, Miss Rogers lived in the old rectory and grazed her goats in the churchyard.
Note the grave slabs and box tombs, and the rear of Brookfields shop behind the church.
The local church here contains the graves of two Englishmen - both remembered for entirely different reasons.
Nearby are the graves of the Welsh-speaking servants whom Lady Llanover had employed. Their command of the Welsh language had been a prerequisite for their employment.
The Asshetons looked after their village.Almost all the villagers had jobs on the estate.The Roman road from Ribchester to Ikley passes through Downham Park at the end of the village.The grave of
Nowhere was this effect felt more strongly that at the paper mills, where a severe downturn in the industry caused grave problems.
Their graves and monument in the churchyard remind us of the perils of 19th-century working conditions.
landmark: the Methodists' Victoria Hall in Norfolk Street in 1908, Sheffield Newspapers' Kemsley House in High Street in 1916, the City Hall between 1928 and 1932; the Central Library and Graves
Get A Head (a ladies' hairdresser) has taken over from Margaret Graves (left), and the chemist (centre left) is still there.
Gelert's grave – 'bedd' - gives the village its name.
Laindon took its name from the River Lyge, a lost tributary of the River Crouch, which rose from the hill on which St Nicholas's Church stands and is responsible for the extreme dampness of the graves
They are buried in seven graves here around the Husker Monument, which bears the inscription 'Take ye heed, watch and pray, for ye know not when the time is'.
It rarely looks back to the past and to the time when, for example, Daniel Clerk the grave digger kept a large basket of human bones in his kitchen, claiming that he knew whose remains each was.
An ancient pulpit, a Norman font and the gravestone of a medieval knight, besides old and interesting stones and graves in the churchyard, enthrall the visitor to this 'cathedral of the Fylde'.
Southampton came complete with dry docks, graving docks and a foreign animals wharf.
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