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Edmund Not Alban

This photograph is of St Edmund Hall, affectionately known as 'Teddy Hall', which by common consent is the oldest seat of learning in the University of Oxford. Founded in the early 13th century by St Edmund of Abingdon, who lectured in ...Read more

A memory of Oxford in 1973 by Peter Britton

Looking For Rob

My name is Margaret Wynne.  I am writing this on behalf of my sister Christine Jones (nee Parrington) who was a nurse at St Asaph Hospital in the 70's and there was a fellow in St Asaph named Robert (Rob) who was interested in my ...Read more

A memory of St Asaph in 1970 by Margaret Wynne

Low Petergate

Does anyone remember the Longsborough Arms in Petergate? My grandfather was landlord there in the 60s, his name was Frederick Hare.

A memory of York in 1957 by Paula Dobson

Working In Dartmouth Road

I worked at the gas board showroom on Dartmouth Road. It was next door to the bank on the corner of London Road. As well as selling gas appliances and receiving payment on gas bills we used to sell bags of "shillingsis!" for ...Read more

A memory of Purley by Raymond Day

Croxley Station 1940 1945

Hi, my name is Brian Nicoll. My mother, father and I lived in 10 Frankland Rd from 25/9/35 when I was born until 1956 when I got married. As a small boy I used to have a friend called Roger Gosney who lived over the ...Read more

A memory of Croxley Green in 1940 by Brian Nicoll

Wartime Evacuation In 1944

I was placed in an orphanage on 13th October 1943 together with my elder brother Brian.  My father had died on the infamous Siam (Thailand) Railway as a forced labour navvy. He was a regular soldier and had already been ...Read more

A memory of Tairgwaith in 1944 by Michael Lowdon

Parkstone Girls' Grammar School

This was the entrance to Parkstone Girls' Grammar school where I went from 1956, with Miss Allen as headmistress, until we moved to the present site in Sopers Lane in, I think, 1960 or 61, when these buildings were taken ...Read more

A memory of Poole in 1956 by Marion Brown

My Family Roots

My father lived in Abergwynfi as a child, his name was Peter Thomas Walley. My grandmother was from the area, her maiden name was Eirwen Thomas and she had  brothers named Estyn, Edward, Emlyn and Thomas. She also had a sister named ...Read more

A memory of Abergwynfi by Gwyneth Harding

#69 Broadway

I was only 11yrs old when we moved from Helmshore to America.  Helmshore was a wonderful place to have your childhood. Sometime between 1963 and 1965 we built a snowman that made the front page of the local paper, that year was a huge ...Read more

A memory of Helmshore in 1965 by Peter Chadderton

Where I Grew Up

I lived most of my life in Sible Hedingham, as a family we moved there from London in 1962.  I was just 2 years old at the time. My father Robert Farren, "Bob" as he was best known and my mother Ivy, took over the licence of ...Read more

A memory of Sible Hedingham in 1962 by Anne Elder

Captions

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Caption For Inskip, Baptist Chapel C1950

Inskip Church, St Peter's, was built in 1848.

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 Wisborough Green, The Church, Village And Windmill 1896

The church of St Peter ad Vincula has a shingled broach spire.

Caption For Wenvoe, The Castle 1899

Designed by Robert Adam, Wenvoe was built in 1775 by the wealthy Yorkshireman Peter Birt. 11 years after this photograph was taken, it was destroyed by a fire so devastating that the owners could not afford

Caption For Navenby, The Church C1965

The tower of the church of St Peter was rebuilt in the 18th century after the previous one fell down.

Caption For West Wittering, The Village Green 1953

The 11th-century church of St Peter and St Paul is heavily restored.

Caption For Hertford, Panshanger House 1933

Panshanger was built in 1806 by Peter, fifth Earl Cowper on high ground close to the valley of the River Mimram.

Caption For Newdigate, The Church 1906

The church of St Peter, with its 14th-century tower made entirely of wood and supported inside by a framework of huge oak timbers, also has a 13th-century chancel and a south aisle added a hundred years

Caption For Hayling Island, Creek Road C1960

Board sailing was invented here: this was confirmed by a High Court ruling in 1982 stating that Peter Chilvers invented the sail board at Hayling in 1958 when, as a boy of ten, he used a sheet of plywood

Caption For Ruthin, Clwyd Street C1955

The cars appearing here in St Peter's Square, where a roundabout now guides traffic, were to be followed by many more as car ownership increased from the 1950s.

Caption For South Petherton, St James' Street C1960

Its graceful parish church, dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul, is dominated, as is the town, by its octagonal crossing tower.

Caption For Burnley, St Peter's Church 1895

This photograph shows how the church was extended in the 1850s — at this time there was great demand for pews in St Peter's.

Caption For Yoxford, Village 1909

Outside St Peter's church, an ornate cast iron signpost erected in 1830 has hands pointing to London, Yarmouth and Framlingham.

Caption For Blaenavon, C1955

On the right is St Peter's, the parish church of Blaenavon, built by the ironmasters Hopkins and Hill in 1805.

Caption For Uplyme, Church 1900

The parish church of St Peter and St Paul, a favourite dedication of King Ine in Anglo-Saxon times, stands on a knoll overlooking Uplyme village.

Caption For Lancaster, The Castle Gateway 1896

The tower of St Peter's Roman Catholic Cathedral can be seen in the background.

Caption For Chester, Bridge Street 1895

It is remarkable to think that St Peter's Church, at the top of the street, sits right on the site once occupied by the headquarters building (or principia) for an ancient Roman legion.

Caption For Belaugh, The Church From The River C1930

This view from the river shows almost the whole village, including the church of St Peter, whose tiny churchyard is a designated conservation area with particularly interesting ferns, lichens and flowers

Caption For Gloucester, Northgate Street Looking Towards London Road 1949

The church spire in the distance is that of St Peter's; it was built between 1860 and 1868, during the pastorate of Canon Calderbank.

Caption For East Blatchington, The Village 1891

We are on the Downs, just north of Seaford.The church of St Peter has a fine Norman fonty.

Caption For Horbury, Queen Street C1960

After a working life based in York, he returned to Horbury to build, at his own expense, the new church of St Peter and St Leonard in 1794.

Caption For Fleetwood, Rossall School 1904

Rossall Hall, Peter Hesketh's ancestral home, became Rossall School on 22 August 1844.

Caption For Bedford, St Peter's Square C1955

The later image shows that the aspect of St Peter's Square is more open, with a lifted tree canopy over Bunyan's head and the removal of the railings around the gardens behind the statue.

Caption For Bedford, De Parys Avenue 1897

Taken from the west edge of St Peter's Green, this view looks north up the long avenue towards Bedford Park.