Places
36 places found.
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- Poplar, Middlesex
- Bow, Middlesex
- Bethnal Green, Middlesex
- Stepney, Middlesex
- Alton Towers, Staffordshire
- Isle of Dogs, Middlesex
- Limehouse, Middlesex
- Spitalfields, Middlesex
- Barjarg Tower, Dumfries and Galloway
- Bromley, Middlesex
- Stratford Marsh, Middlesex
- Tower Hill, Merseyside
- Tower Hill, Essex
- St George in the East, Middlesex
- Wapping, Middlesex
- Globe Town, Middlesex
- Old Ford, Middlesex
- Cubitt Town, Middlesex
- Tower Hill, Cheshire
- Tower Hill, Surrey
- Bow Common, Middlesex
- Mile End, Middlesex
- Millwall, Middlesex
- Ratcliff, Middlesex
- Warmley Tower, Avon
- Tower Hill, Hertfordshire
- Tower End, Norfolk
- Tower Hamlets, Kent
- Tower Hill, Devon
- Tower Hill, West Midlands
- Blackwall, Middlesex
- North Woolwich, Middlesex
- Hackney Wick, Middlesex
- Shadwell, Middlesex
- South Bromley, Middlesex
- Tower Hill, Sussex (near Horsham)
Photos
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Maps
223 maps found.
Books
1 books found. Showing results 265 to 1.
Memories
637 memories found. Showing results 111 to 120.
Rev.Johnson
I have fond memories of the Johnson family.I went to school with Monica and Damaris. We used to practice handbell ringing in their enormous kitchen.Well it seemed it then. On Acension day we used to go to the top of the church tower to say prayers.
A memory of Mere by
Brierley Hill Girls Memories
I was born in Chapel Street, in 1947. My uncle, Len Gray, had a newsagents in the town, near the bus stop by the Old Post Office, as was. My Grandad used to sell papers on the Five Ways and as a girl I would stand ...Read more
A memory of Brierley Hill
Day Tripper
I was raised in Manchester 1943-1967 when I emigrated to the US. I remember special Excursion Trains, that left from Victoria Train station to Blackpool usually on Bank Holidays. We packed jam butties and tea in a thermos and our ...Read more
A memory of Blackpool by
Croston Towers
I have long sought information about one of the great Victorian villas of Alderley Edge, the house named Croston Towers in the centre of the large plot bounded by Woodbrook Road, Tempest Road and Macclesfield Road. My earlier ...Read more
A memory of Alderley Edge by
Scarisbrick Hall In 2018 And Its History.
Hi. Scarisbrick Hall is now an independent school, and I couldn't be more proud to be a student there! From what I know of its history, it was done up as the beautiful, gothic building we know and love ...Read more
A memory of Scarisbrick
My First Memories Of Saltfleet
My first visit to Saltfleet was as a 12 year old in 1956. A relative , Kitty Scherdel was managing the Sunnydale site for local farmer George Tuxworth and had recently moved a converted bus there from South Yorkshire ...Read more
A memory of Saltfleet by
Blackfriars Tower
I also remember this tower as my Great grandmother, Elizabeth Welham lived under the tower when I was a boy. This would be in the late 1940's/ 1950's. The door to her rooms was just inside the archway and you would take one ...Read more
A memory of Great Yarmouth by
Hove To Holidays
My maternal grandparents ran a hotel/tea rooms in the High st called “Hove to”. I fondly remember our family visits 3 or 4 times a year (we lived in Rutland), a long drive in those days. I am 62 now and we must have visited ...Read more
A memory of Lee-on-the-Solent by
Happy Days
My name is Brian Newman and I was born in Barking in 1942. My old man was a grocer and his shop was Newman Stores in Ripple Road by the Harrow, or as we called it, the "arrer". There was a long row of shops either side of Ripple Road. I ...Read more
A memory of Barking by
Coming Into Halifax Via North Bridge
As a child we used to return in the car down the hill towards North Bridge and the game was to be the first to spot Wainhouse Tower amongst all the other mill chimneys there were at that time (late 50s/early ...Read more
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Captions
3,036 captions found. Showing results 265 to 288.
Situated at the north east of Loch Awe, Kilchurn is a 15th-century tower built by Sir Colin Campbell of Glenorchy.
Today, the thick coating of ivy on the tower and all the ornamental shrubs and trees are gone, allowing the tower on its mound to be seen in all its glory.
We can see clearly the two castellated towers: the older tower on the right of the picture dates from the 16th century, and is noted for its gargoyles.
The transept north tower is said to be Perpendicular survival rather than revival, but the five-bay Norman arcade was largely rebuilt after the original crossing tower collapsed in 1638, probably
The western section of the High Street (viewed here from the forecourt of The Spread Eagle) is dominated by the clock tower built by Butler and Hedge in 1847-48.
On the skyline you can see Darwen Tower.
The design of the tower with its faceted buttresses is very much like the one at nearby Eye.
Beyond Victoria Tower is the great royal abbey, Westminster Abbey, with its pair of west towers and the centrepiece of the medieval palace, along with Westminster Hall.
Beyond Victoria Tower is the great royal abbey, Westminster Abbey, with its pair of west towers and the centrepiece of the medieval palace, along with Westminster Hall.
This view looks towards the Jubilee Clock Tower, with Lumley Road to its left.
The church tower is that of St John the Baptist, which stands over one of the medieval gateways into the city.
The church here, as in many coastal parishes, has a very tall tower to act as a landmark: Winterton church tower is 130 feet high.
Situated at Barbourne, the tower originally formed a vital component of the waterworks, built in 1770. A waterwheel lifted water from the Severn to a storage tank at the top of the tower.
This view of the Broadway shows the clock tower, with its three faces.
This view looks towards the Jubilee Clock Tower, with Lumley Road to its left.
Based on Blackpool Tower, New Brighton' tower was built between 1897 and 1900 at a cost of £120,000.
In 1859 Walter Barton May built a 170ft-tall tower at Hadlow Castle, and in 1951 it became protected by a special preservation order. The tower is very prominent in the mid-Kent landscape.
This classic view shows to good advantage Worcester Cathedral's splendid central tower and the west window (designed c1870 by Sir George Gilbert Scott).
After the abbey was destroyed, the tower was used as a bell tower for St James' Church, which, 16 years after this photograph was taken, became the cathedral for the diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Originating from a 13th-century pele tower, the castle was largely rebuilt as a stately home during the 18th century.
Overlooking the Square is what appears to be the tower of a church. Actually, it is a bell tower, described by Arthur Mee as 'the glory of Evesham'.
Through the Cloisters to the south-west lies the Birching Tower, used until corporal punishment ceased in the 1960s.
A comfortable Tudor farmhouse beside a 15th-century pele, Turton Tower is associated with Humphrey Chetham, remembered for the free library, school and hospital that he founded in Manchester.
The tide is in, and the sea is a millpond fringed by bathing machines in this view looking from the lawns east of the Wish Tower.
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