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Family Killed By Mushrooms Circa 1950

Hi. Does anyone recall a family who ate wild mushrooms and died around 1950? I was reliving memories of Rocklands St Peter and Caston and the man I was talking to, now 75 years old, asked if I could remember ...Read more

A memory of Stow Bedon by Alan Gardiner

My First Boyfrield Was From Splott

My first boyfriend was John Hawkins, he lived in Splott. My name was Christine Morris then and I lived in no 8 Rossily Road, Rumney with my aunty Eunice Lloyd and my cousin Dennice. I loved living down there. I used ...Read more

A memory of Splott in 1961

The Shop In The Picture.

My father, Peter Mansfield, owned this shop from c1955. He was an electrician and refrigeration engineer. I can remember filling cans with paraffin for my father to deliver. My future husband says he only married me because my ...Read more

A memory of Felsted in 1955 by Marianne Halford

Bombing Raids In 1940

Bristol's premier shopping centre was turned into a wasteland of burned out buildings after major bombing raids in 1940, during the Second World War. Bridge Street Summary Bridge Street ran from High Street, rising up a ...Read more

A memory of Bristol by Paul Townsend

Bristol Blitz

The High Street - the scene of many stirring events in Bristol's history and the heart of the city - was destroyed and lost forever during the Second World War. As a city with docks and industry at its heart, Bristol was a natural ...Read more

A memory of Bristol by Paul Townsend

Youthful Memories From A Member Of A 1960s'' Bromley Band

In the 1960s, in my late teens, Bromley was the hub of my universe. I played in a local group - Paul and the Playboys (later 'The Machine' - I had a 1958 Ford Popular with 'The Machine' crudely ...Read more

A memory of Bromley in 1964 by Peter Hobden

Broadway Revisited!

I first set foot in Broadway in March 1964. I was a scared young Danish girl visiting my boyfriend's family for the first time, they were Herbert and Joyce Milner who lived at 'Wormington Brake' on the road to Wormington. I loved ...Read more

A memory of Broadway in 1964 by Kirsten Milner

I Lived Next Door

My family lived in the cottage next to the well during the Second World War and for a short time after. I have many very happy memories, including falling asleep on the stone monument on the moors, sitting on the stone wall of the ...Read more

A memory of St Cleer in 1940 by Peter Wells

Harrow Farm

My grand x3 grandfather James Sewell lived at Harrow Farm, he worked as a farm labourer. There was land named Sewells land which was auction by the Boggis estates and sold in 1914. Another ancestor, James, was a publican and ...Read more

A memory of South Hanningfield in 1870 by Sarah Hay

Boy Scouts

I was in the Wolf Cubs (as they were known at that time) and we used to meet in a room above the old stables at Weyhill. I was there from about 1956. Loved every minute of it. Then went up to the Boy Scouts at the age of 11 in 1959. The ...Read more

A memory of Weyhill in 1956 by Dave Cleaver

Captions

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Caption For Uppingham, Market Place And Church 1932

The grand church of St Peter and St Paul, which oversees the goings-on, is from the 14th century, but it was badly mauled in a restoration of 1842.

Caption For Rothwell, High Street C1955

The proudly pedimented Midland Bank is now Peter M Ayres clothes shop while R Walker on the left has become Alistair Mackay's antiques and clocks.

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 Southend On Sea, The Pier 1898

The pier is now flanked by large areas of reclaimed land on which sit a brash funfair and amusement park, Peter Pan's Adventure Island.

Caption For Liss, St Peter's Church 1901

Over the years this new church has led to the gradual demise of St Peter's, West Liss.

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

St Peter's was built in 1345, probably on the site of a Saxon church.

Caption For Bishop Auckland, The Castle 1892

The former banqueting hall was converted by Bishop Cosin into the chapel of St Peter during the 1660s after the original had been demolished to make way for a mansion.

Caption For Salcombe Regis, Church 1928

The tower was built by Bishop Lacy in 1450 with stone quarried from a hillside nearby, and only then did the church receive its present dedication to St Peter - previously it had been dedicated

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 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.

Caption For Leeds, Parish Church 1891

St Peter's in Kirkgate was noted for its 15th-century brasses, whilst 18th- century Holy Trinity in Boar Lane had perhaps the most attractive-looking spire in the area.

Caption For Lincoln, The Cathedral And Stonebow 1890

The church tower belongs to the church of St Peter At Arches, demolished in 1933.

Caption For Addingham, The Church C1955

This scene of the parish church of St Peter at Addingham, standing in its walled churchyard on the village green and reached by a stone bridge over the beck, has not changed substantially since this photograph

Caption For Aldeburgh, Old Market Square 1929

His poem about the embittered fisherman Peter Grimes inspired an opera by a much later and better known resident, Benjamin Britten.

Caption For Wallingford, Church And Bridge 1899

Back on the river, this view looks north-east from the Crowmarsh Gifford bank to Bridge House, with the remarkable spire of St Peter's Church beyond.

Caption For Lincoln, High Street 1923

This view shows the ornate cast-iron balcony of the Saracen's Head Hotel, now shops, and the tower of St Peter at Arches beyond Stone Bow, built in 1720, demolished in 1933 and largely rebuilt in Lamb

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.

Caption For Colchester, North Hill 1891

The church on the right is St Peter's - the town church.The tower was completed in 1758.

Caption For Ormskirk, Church Street 1894

Ormskirk's parish church, dedicated to St Peter and St Paul, dates from about 1276.

Caption For Horbury, Cluntergate C1955

He is buried in the crypt of the parish church of St Peter and St Leonard, which he designed and built himself.

Caption For Hever, The Village 1906

Hever is intimately associated with Anne Boleyn, who spent her childhood here in the company of her father Sir Thomas Bullen, the Earl of Wiltshire, whose tomb is at the little church of St Peter.