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A Brief Memory Of My School Days At Duncton
The first School I ever went to was Duncton Primary, I loved this school. Our Headmaster was Mr Salsbury who we nicknamed Mr Strawberry due to a strawberry shaped wort he had on the back of his head. He was an ...Read more
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Graham Kinnear Memories Of Brandon High School From Australia
Brandon High School, Motherwell, Scotland. Reminiscences by Graham Kinnear May 2023. Living in Australia since 1980. I was so fascinated by fun and games and adventures, that ...Read more
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Old Days!
I lived in Tudor Gardens West Acton, having been evacuated during the war. I attended West Acton infants school, then John Perrin Junior school followed by John Perrin Secondary ModernSenior School. I Started Senior School in 1952. It was ...Read more
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Schooling
We moved from Chelmsford to Radcliffe in 1968 - I was 2 years old. I went to Lorne Grove Nursery and my memory of that was the Rocking Horse Toy. I hated sharing it!! I was about 3 or 4 and I remember being so upset at being taken ...Read more
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Moreton School And The Radclyffe Family
Hello I would dearly love to hear from anyone who remembers my mother, myself and my sister when we lived at 'Crossways' with the Radclyffe family. My mother was their cook/housekeeper. It was the early sixties ...Read more
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The Second Mckays
We have just read Anthony McKays memories of Barningham Hall. After they left my husbands family, also McKays, how about that for coincidence, moved in also as driver to Sir Charles. My husband Terry was nine at the time ...Read more
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Down The Moggy
Hi my name is Brian Ratcliffe and I lived in Dalton street for 10 years or so in the 50's&60's,then Lancaster ave and Brookdale street. I had 2 brothers [howie & titch] and we spent most of our childhood "down the ...Read more
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My Great Grandfather
My father told me that my great grandfather , William Ratcliffe, worked on the swing bridge over the Manchester ship canal.I have not been able to find any information to verify this. I would be interested to hear from anyone who has information on this point.
A memory of Manchester Ship Canal
Childhood Years From 1948 58
I first saw Barningham Hall from the back of a removals van as we pulled into the yard along side, it looked enormous then, I was 3yrs old, my father,(later known as Mac by every one) was to become Major ...Read more
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Edenfield 1930
I was born at 117 Bury Road in 1930. Soon after we moved a liitle further along the road to 388 Whalley Road just past the Duckworth Arms. Our neighbours were Mrs Bretherton and children Nellie, Jim and Clifford?. On the other side ...Read more
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The pub on the left is the Radcliffe Arms, named for the Delmé-Radcliffe family who lived in the Priory for more than 400 years.
The pub on the left is the Radcliffe Arms, named for the Delmé-Radcliffe family who lived in the Priory for more than 400 years.
Designed by James Gibbs and completed in 1749, the Radcliffe Camera was paid for by a bequest from John Radcliffe, and originally housed a collection of books provided by him.
The present church contains a memorial to Dr John Radcliffe, one of Oxford's greatest benefactors and most famous figures.
Extending to Charlton and beyond, the Park was owned by the Delmé-Radcliffe family for 400 years.
The Radcliffe Camera is one of the reading rooms for the Bodleian Library, its dome an outstanding landmark on the city's skyline.
The boat trips down the river to Colwick and occasionally to Radcliffe-on-Trent have always been popular.
This Victorian photograph shows Brasenose College standing in the shadow of the Radcliffe Camera, which became one of the reading rooms for the Bodleian Library 30 years before this picture was taken
The present church includes a memorial to Dr John Radcliffe, one of the city's most distinguished sons.
The present church is the nave of the priory; the chancel and transepts were demolished after the Dissolution of the Monasteries by the new owners, the Radcliffes.
In 1539 they were forced to surrender it to the king, and it was eventually passed to the Radcliffe family, whose descendants continued to hold it until the 19th century.
Magdalen College belfry we look westwards along the High Street towards some of the wondrous 'dreaming spires', including the 14th-century spire of St Mary's Church; to its right is the dome of the sublime Radcliffe
The Hall dates from the 15th century, when it was the home of the Radcliffe family, though a later occupier, Andrew Barton, extended it in about 1516.
From suburban West Bridgford we move east along the A52 to Radcliffe, its village centre some 300 yards south of the River Trent.
Gibbs had previously designed St Martin in the Fields church in London and the Radcliffe Library in Oxford, whilst Patten's wealth came from his copper works at Bank Quay.
This Victorian photograph shows Brasenose College standing in the shadow of the Radcliffe Camera, which became one of the reading rooms for the Bodleian Library 30 years before this picture was taken
The Redcliffe had a hydropathic plunge bath on the seaward side of the building, connected to the house by a subway that filled with seawater at high tide.
The name Redcliffe derives from the red sandstone outcrop upon which the church stands.
In the background can be seen the cooling towers and chimneys of the Ratcliffe-on-Soar power stations.
On the right is that well-known hotel, the Royal County, created in the 19th century out of former town houses belonging to the Ratcliffe and Bowes families.
One wonders if the quoits were made at the local foundry, Ratcliff's, whose usual output was shears and other agricultural implements.
