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Laleham Abbey School
I was a pupil for two years at Laleham Abbey. My maiden name being, Elsa-Marie Burberry - Elsa. I was friends with Phyllis Baker who I remember as having beautiful auburn-red hair and who I think came from Totteridge. Other ...Read more
A memory of Laleham in 1956 by
Dukeshouse Wood Camp School Hexham (Part One)
My school was one of the first to go to Dukeshouse Wood Camp School just outside Hexham. This was in November 1945 shortly after the Second World War with the lads from Gateshead at Alexandra Road school. ...Read more
A memory of Hexham in 1945 by
The Old School House
The Old School House was the village school, which opened in 1868 and closed in 1960. The school was built by the landowner using the local blue lias stone. The windows were reclaimed from the Abbey, as were corbals and other ...Read more
A memory of Muchelney in 2008 by
Laleham Abbey Convent School
Is there anyone out there who was at Laleham Abbey Convent School around 1953?
A memory of Laleham in 1953 by
The Place Where I Was Born
I was born in Whalley, in the second cottage opposite the Catholic Church in the Sands, in December 1924. Next door to us was Mr Sutton who was well known around Whalley for his ice cream. He used to stand outside the abbey ...Read more
A memory of Whalley in 1920 by
Cirencester Abbey Woodchopping Competitions
My Father, Ken Mclennan, was in a Forestry Regiment of the Royal Australian Engineers posted to Scotland at the outbreak of WWII, prior to being deployed to New Guinea to fight the Japanese. Whilst in ...Read more
A memory of Cirencester in 1940 by
Monks Abbey
I used to play in the abbey in the war time as then it had an air bomb shelter, we used to think that there was a tunnel under the abbey to the cathedral.
A memory of Lincoln in 1942 by
St.Augustines Abbey School/College,Grange Road
My elder brother and I, attended the school between 1961-1969 as day-boys. I cannot find out why the school left Ramsgate to take premises in Westgate-on-Sea, and why the buildings in Ramsgate were ...Read more
A memory of Ramsgate in 1973 by
Laleham Abbey
I attended Laleham Abbey when I was 7 or 8 so that would put it c1953. I remember bonfire night on November 5 and eating hot potatoes, the nuns reading us Winnie the Pooh at bedtime, lining up for the cod liver oil and malt on a cold ...Read more
A memory of Laleham in 1953 by
Bradgate Cottages Abbey Gate
My parents lived at 3 Bradgate cottages, my brother would have gone to Slater street school mid to late 50's. My mum worked at the factory on the corner which is derelict. The garden backed on to the river.
A memory of Leicester by
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This fine church at the top end of the Market Place was situated by the south gate of the Abbey.
In about 1720 St Olave's was almost entirely rebuilt with stone from St Mary's Abbey.
In about 1720 St Olave's was almost entirely rebuilt with stone from St Mary's Abbey.
In about 1720 St Olave's was almost entirely rebuilt with stone from St Mary's Abbey.
This area of Malmesbury was once called the Sheep Fair; it is in the parish of Westport, which by the late 19th century became a civil parish of westport St Mary Within.
This photograph shows the magnificent hammer-beam roof of c1445, the Star of David St Edmund window of 1844 copied from the Abbey Gate, and the rood screen, which was erected as a Boer War Memorial in
The medieval town was at its gates, but moved westwards to its present location. The priory was founded around 1120.
At the far end is Abbeygate Street, with the three-storey Barclays Bank of 1881, which incorporated the Post and Sorting Office until 1895, the Midland Bank of 1914, and Whipps the fishmonger.
Thomas Berry, a yeoman farmer, built this house on the site of an abbey in 1745. In 1833 one of his descendants refaced the stonework, commemorating this with a Latin inscription over the front door.
Carrington renamed Loakes Manor the much more romantic Wycombe Abbey, and set about Gothicising and extending the house.
Beaumont Street is named after the family of Viscount Allendale; here stands the great Abbey Church of St Andrew that makes Hexham important.
Bindon Abbey was the location of an important Cistercian monastery and dates back to 1172. Little remains of the original building; this neo-gothic gatehouse dates back only to the 1790s.
The Abbey Church of St Editha dates from Norman times, but Polesworth Abbey is said to have been founded by King Egbert in 827.
All the stone used in the building came from the ruins of the abbey, a hundred yards away. The Hall was lived in until the late 1950s.
Just visible on the right, peeping through the trees, is Torre Abbey, home of the Cary family for 300 years.
Malmesbury Abbey`s unique south porch, dating from the mid 12th century and built in the Romanesque style, is decorated with thirty-eight fine sculptures depicting detailed and elaborate images, some
The abbey church of St Peter and St Paul is all that remains of an Augustinian abbey built on the site in 1170. The High Street has many interesting houses, some dating back to the 16th century.
Although fragments of the Norman abbey remain, the present abbey church dates from 1499, and was a prodigiously long time a-building: the nave was still roofless into the 17th century.
One of the country's largest parish churches, the abbey was founded in the 8th century, and refounded in 1091. Its great Norman tower is 132 feet high and 46 feet square, and dates from 1150.
This former Cistercian abbey was founded in 1131 by Walter de la Clare. The first brothers of the establishment came directly from Normandy.
This church may have the oldest foundations of any in Lancashire, dating from Saxon times. Norman traces remain in the rounded doorway (right) with its massive oak door.
It was owned by the Benedictine monks at nearby Ramsey Abbey, whom the local farmers tended to regard as crooks.
Facing us is Abbey Mill, whose origins date back eight centuries to the time when monks from the Benedictine monastery diverted the River Avon to power the mill to grind the corn that made their daily
In the grounds there is a sundial dating from the 1700s.The biggest problem for visitors to Whalley today is finding a space to park.Whalley Abbey and its grounds have passed through many hands since
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