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A Wartime Symbol Of Defiance A Giant Meat Pie!
One of Bradford’s famous literary sons was the author and playwright J B Priestley, who was born in Mannheim Road, Bradford, on 13 September 1894. J B Priestley provided Britain with a rather strange ...Read more
A memory of Bradford in 1940 by
A Week To Remember
It was always a sense of adventure searching for new place to visit on our holidays - and certainly we found an idyllic spot just a mile or so outside the town of Cemaes Bay. Mother had been staying with my younger sister who ...Read more
A memory of Cemaes Bay in 1976 by
A Yokels Tale
A Personal Recollection of growing up during the last days of the pedestrian era in rural England by Tom Thornton A Yokel's Tale My earliest recollection of my Thornton grandparents, Alice and Tom, dates back to my pre-school ...Read more
A memory of Owslebury in 1941 by
A Childhood At Sutton Flats, Pendleton
I was born in 192 Sutton Flats and Christened at St. Thomas's. My older brother Johnny and I were very happy there and both attended Halton Bank School. Our auntie, uncle and cousins lived close by in another ...Read more
A memory of Salford in 1950 by
A Childhood Holiday
My family spent a very happy holiday as guests of the Barnaby famly who owned the castle. About 6 years old, I recall being transported from the station in a Trojan estate car - a most innovative design at the time with its ...Read more
A memory of Bromyard in 1950 by
A Day Out To Woolwich
During the early years after the Second World War my mother would take me to Woolwich as a special treat. I was about 8 year old then. We would catch the 696 trolleybus from Dartford market and arrive at the Woolwich Arsenal ...Read more
A memory of Woolwich in 1952 by
A Great Place To Work
I had a part-time job at this Petrol Station in 1969 when I secured a job in Canada and left England, never to permanently return. I was working full-time in Portsmouth Dockyard at the time, but this station provided much needed ...Read more
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A Local Landmark
This granite archway (just off the Digey) once marked the entranceway to an old Manor House belonging to the Hicks family. The area beyond the arch is still known as Hicks Court.
A memory of St Ives by
A Long Time Ago !
I have fond memories of Mardyke. I remember Mr Childs (Headmaster) who sadly died before I left in 1961. We had 48 kids in my class. I used to get in the queue at the beginning of a lesson for help and I never got to see the ...Read more
A memory of South Ockendon in 1959 by
A Proposal In The Churchyard...
My paternal grandfather, Ernest Charles Chamberlain, proposed to my grandmother Annie Brooks, in the churchyard here. He brought her in his pony and trap, in about 1907. He had an agricultural business, Farmers' ...Read more
A memory of Acton in 1900 by
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For well over a century the room above Westgate's arch has functioned as a small museum.
Much of the woodwork was commissioned in 1938 from Robert Thompson from Kilburn, and his mouse trademark can be found on the pews and pulpit. The building to the right is the old hearse house.
The Tea Gardens have long closed, but peeping over the roof is the squat battlemented tower of de Braose's Norman church, brutally treated subsequently, but notable for the 1070s tower arch capitals: wonderfully
This stately five-arched structure now carries the Monsal Trail; and despite John Ruskins outbursts when it was built, it is now a protected structure.
The entrance arch, with its green gates, was demolished in the 1980s to allow access for lorries building the new leisure centre.
The great natural arch of Durdle Door braves the sea just a little way from the more famous Lulworth Cove.
The great natural arch of Durdle Door braves the sea just a little way from the more famous Lulworth Cove.
The old bridge with its seven irregular arches dates from the late 13th century and was partially rebuilt during the mid-14th century.
There seems to be ample room beneath the wide arches of Llanfoist Bridge, but when the Usk floods the waters have often risen to the top of them and flooded the Castle Meadows in the foreground.
Above this arch there is an impressive clock tower.
The River Severn is wide here on the approach to the town, so that a lengthy twin-arched bridge was needed to make the crossing. In typical Welsh tradition it was given a simple descriptive name.
The line is long-since closed, but this towering sixteen-arch structure stands as a lasting reminder of Victorian skill and energy.
The twin arches, with the quatrefoil over, are all that remain of the 13th-century Lady Chapel.
Grays is a much re-developed town, but it has a fine Norman church.
Above the altar hangs an impressive picture of the Last Supper.The chancel arch is a striking feature of the church, as is the 15th-century tower.
Since then it has been a school and a hospital; it is now Chepstow museum, which was originally housed above the Town Arch.
A temporary wall separates it from the crossing tower and the dust from the building works beyond the west tower arch.
The last two arches are showing signs of some form of reconstruction as the century closes.
The missing stone arch of Nanny Moore's Bridge marks the site of a mill.
St Mary and St Melore's is basically Norman, large and built mainly of flint; its large squat Early English tower rests on triple chamfered arches and has three wide-spaced single bell openings.
The arched building on the left is presently a building site. The bay windows on the right are still in existence.
In the background is the 16th-century five-arched bridge which gave the village its name.
The Lido Café was a much frequented leisure stop along the way.
The central bays of the promenade building survive, but the arched bays on each side were rebuilt in the 1950s.
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