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Fever And Festival

I remember January 1951, my second year at Croydon Parish Church Infants' School, I was six. I was beginning to wonder where about a quarter of the class had gone. Then I fell ill and Dr Schofield (not sure which one, there ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1951 by Phillip Cooper

Church Choir

I remember when I was about 14 being a choir boy in St Mary's Church. This would be 1953. We used to receive two shillings and sixpence for weddings, some of us belonged to another church further down the road toward Chatham and we ...Read more

A memory of Chatham in 1953 by Brian Atkinson

The Good Life

I was born in 1926 at no 2 The Terrace. My dad was Taity Ponsford and I had 5 brothers and 2 sisters my sister Ida and Cis, who was killed in a motor cycle accident in 1933, at the time she was with Bill Murrant a local golf pro. ...Read more

A memory of Sunninghill in 1920 by Ronald Ponsford

Albert Road

I lived at 68 Albert Road from about 1953 until they knocked the street down and we all moved up to the flats at the top of the road. It was a great place to be a kid, we still had the bomb site at the back of the gardens in between ...Read more

A memory of Kilburn

St Mary''s School Parrock Road Gravesend

St Mary's Boys returned from Ugbrook, Devon the estate of Lord Clifford to Gravesend when the war ended in 1945 and I was resident there until 1954. Although called a school it was in reality an ...Read more

A memory of Gravesend in 1945 by Delvin Flynn

Place Of My Birth

I was born in Gosport in 1959. As the daughter of a sailor we left a couple of times but always returned. I married at St Marys Alverstoke in 1980. I have very fond, maybe a little rose-tinted, memories of ...Read more

A memory of Gosport by Sue Hibberd

Brambletye School One Easter

It was wonderful to read ‘Memories of Brambletye Boys Preparatory School 1967 – 1971’ including a mention of the catering staff: "The food was always prepared and brought to the ends of the tables in large ...Read more

A memory of Brambletye House in 1964 by Carol Wallace

Reading In The 60's

I was born in Caversham, Reading. I used to go to a riding school at Sonning Common, owned by Rosemary Drayton and remember the riding school and farm at Bugs Bottom owned by Frank Stokes. I loved the ice cream sold at The ...Read more

A memory of Reading in 1968 by Rosemarie Donaldson

Happy Childhood Memories In Cheddleton

I have very happy memories of Cheddleton. My aunt and uncle, Mary and Norman Milne lived at 1 St Hilda's Avenue. We as a family, frequently visited. We stayed for a week in the summer holidays, spending ...Read more

A memory of Cheddleton in 1860 by Susan Martin

St Mary's Bay Holiday Camp. Brixham

I had a wonderful weeks holiday here in June 1961. I often think of the short time I spent there and the people I met, fellow campers. My chalet was, by today's standards a little more than a shed, but had gas ...Read more

A memory of Brixham in 1961 by Barrie Ward

Captions

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Caption For Nonington, Church C1955

Little has changed in this quiet spot, with St Mary's Church still attracting a fair amount of visitors to see its Early English features.

Caption For Tetbury, View From Cutwell C1955

Among them is the parish church of St Mary the Virgin.

Caption For Powerstock, The Village 1902

This view was taken from Nettlecombe looking towards the thatched Knapp House and St Mary's Parish Church (centre).

Caption For Eaton Bray, The Church C1955

A 13th-century building with 15th-century additions and some 1890s restoration, St Mary the Virgin has some very fine ironwork from the original building still in operation on the south door.

Caption For Gisburn, The Church Of St Mary The Virgin 1921

The church of St Mary is glorious with snowdrops in winter.

Caption For Oare, Vale C1960

John Blackmore was rector of St Mary the Virgin, and it was here that his grand- son Richard set the scene for the tragic marriage ceremony of Lorna Doone to John Ridd in his famous novel

Caption For Chelmsford, Duke Street 1919

St Mary's was never built to be a cathedral: until 1914 it was simply the parish church.

Caption For Andover, High Street 1908

Medieval Andover was established around a market which stands in the shadow of the 19th century church of St Mary, built in the Early English style by a former headmaster of Winchester College and described

Caption For Kingswinford, Parish Church Of St Mary C1965

Above the vestry door is a superbly carved Norman tympanum showing St Michael overcoming Satan.

Caption For Greywell, The Church Of St Mary The Virgin 1904

Prettily situated among trees and fields, the church of St Mary the Virgin is small but contains many treasures, including a silver chalice dating back to Elizabethan times, a 500-year-old font and

Caption For Andover, High Street 1908

Medieval Andover was established around a market which stands in the shadow of the 19th century church of St Mary, built in the Early English style by a former headmaster of Winchester College and

Caption For Widnes, Church Gardens 1923

St Mary's Church was consecrated in 1910 and has room for a congregation of over 750 people.

Caption For Calne, The Green 1957

Once, wool dominated Calne: then it was pigs.

Caption For Whittlesey, Market Place 1904

The market place is the focal point of the town; the 17th-century Butter Cross offered shelter to the women selling dairy produce.

Caption For Chesterfield, High Street C1960

Two helmeted local 'bobbies' stride towards the camera in another view of the Market Place in Chesterfield, looking up the High Street towards the famous Crooked Spire of the parish church of St Mary

Caption For Hornby, The War Memorial C1965

Beside the main road through the village on the base of the ancient cross is an elaborate war memorial.

Caption For Hinckley, Market Place 1964

Still a going concern, Hinckley's busy market draws people from a wide area of Leicestershire and Warwickshire.

Caption For East Worldham, The Church 1907

St Mary's Church has suffered many alterations.

Caption For Clayton Le Moors, St Mary's Roman Catholic Church 1899

St Mary's Roman Catholic Church on Burnley Road, Clayton-le-Moors dated back to 1819, and predated all other Roman Catholic churches in the area.

Caption For Saffron Walden, High Street C1950

The town boasts a maze that goes back to prehistoric times.

Caption For Lincoln, Pottergate And Cathedral 1890

This rural scene, about a mile east of the city centre along Monks Road, is now much changed.

Caption For Brixham, Parish Church 1922

St Mary's, the parish church of Higher Brixham, was the town's original place of worship, dating back to the 15th century.

Caption For Brixham, Parish Church 1922

St Mary's, the parish church of Higher Brixham, was the town's original place of worship, dating back to the 15th century.

Caption For Stoke, Church Interior 1890

There has probably been a church here for a thousand years, high on the hill overlooking the creek that once flowed from Stonehouse to Pennycomequick.