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Memories
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Victory Parade And The Sudden Downpour
What memories this picture brings back to life again!! I had just been discharged from the Fever Hospital having spent six weeks there with Scarlet Fever. Nothing was going to stop me from taking part in the ...Read more
A memory of Pitsea by
Visiting Pontllyfni
I spent two wonderful summers in Pontllyfni in 1974 and 1976. I was a college student from the U.S., visiting Wales with a friend who had a cousin living there. The family owned a small inn just up the road from the beach. ...Read more
A memory of Pontllyfni in 1974 by
Loss Of Childhood
I attended the local school at the bottom of Gisbrough Bank - I have several school photographs of myself and classmates. I had a fight with a school friend as to whose turn it was to serve the school dinner that day. This was ...Read more
A memory of Ormesby in 1953 by
Messing About On The River
With my sisters, catching tiddlers on warm summer days. We would have picnics beside the river. We loved helping to change the lock for the boats that came through. Later, when a little older we would swim and for a while ...Read more
A memory of Harlow in 1960 by
Charles Arthur Samphier Born12 5 1937 Wyatts Green
My parents bought Wyatts Stores in about 1936 and moved from West Ham, E.London., with my two sisters. Dad kept about 300 chickens in the back field. I was born on Coronation Day at Wyatts ...Read more
A memory of Doddinghurst in 1930 by
Autumn Walk
I moved into West Park Road ( seen in the photo off to the left ) in 1955 at the age of 7. The house was a glorious Victorian residence with 1881 as the year of build noted on the front. Childhood was bliss here, particularly living ...Read more
A memory of Mottingham in 1959 by
The Day The Tide Came In
Is this Joane, Stuart, Mandy and Claire in the sinky sand
A memory of Amble by
Queen Square School 1857 1969.
Of course l did'nt realise how picturesque the building was when l was a pupil there 1955-1958. Fortunately, Edward Callum did and his painting is "normally" displayed in Wardown Museum. (Hopefully in its entirety cos little ...Read more
A memory of Luton
Little Green/The Old Forge
I visited the house with my 2nd cousins as their mother, Ethel Smith, and my grandmother, Rosa Matilda Smith, lived in the house with their family for many, many years until the last of the Smiths living in the house died, ...Read more
A memory of Mells in 1972 by
Lived Worked And Played Here
My mother was born in keepers cottage in Battle Wood, who grew up and later got married in Battle church. My grandfather, Leonard Glyde was a fireman during the second world war stationed at Battle fire station. I was ...Read more
A memory of Battle by
Captions
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Canon Sir James Philipps, rector from 1859 to 1897, paid Blomfield to renew the church of St Denys in 1887- 89.
In 1929, the Dublin-born crime writer Freeman Wills Crofts came to live in Blackheath.
The village features in the story surrounding Wulfhere of Mercia and his two sons Ulfred and Rufin.The two claimed to be going hunting, but came instead to Eccleshall; here they were baptized by
It is thought that the chancel screen came from Sawley Abbey.
Old Sarum is a hillfort built by the people of the Iron Age, who came to Britain from around 500BC.
The addition of 'under-Scar' came in the 16th century to distinguish the village from other Prestons.
Lord Craven refurbished Stokesay for Elizabeth; it is sad to think that she never even came here.
The cannon 'Mons Meg' is said to have been cast at Mons, Belgium in 1486, on the orders of James III.
Nine years before it was taken, a young Flora Thompson, who wrote the trilogy 'Lark Rise to Candleford', came to Grayshott to work at the post office.
He came from a wealthy family, and spent much of his fortune developing St Catharine's (named after the patron saint of learning).
The timber came from the Haigh and from Crawford's estates in Jamaica.
Much of the money for the gallery came from wealthy glass manufacturer Thomas Osler, whose firm made the famous glass fountain centrepiece for the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace.The clock
The village of Waddington has won the 'Best Kept Village in Lancashire' title on many occasions.When Queen Elizabeth II came to the throne in 1953, the village erected a Coronation Bridge and laid
Before the railway came in 1838 and today's town began to grow, this was the centre of Woking.
The sea came well up to the promenade; in later years, as at Southport, it has receded.
A further boost to the port's success came with the construction of a spur to the Lancaster Canal in 1826, and a huge basin was built to accommodate the barges that transported the cargoes inland.
The early 18th-century Bell Inn on the Eastbourne Road was one of several important staging inns in this village when Cobbett came here in 1822 and lauded it as being beautiful.
Even the Pre-Raphaelites came.
In the church of St John the Evangelist, W S Gilbert, of Gilbert and Sullivan fame, sleeps under the widespread wings of a white angel; Gilbert lived at Grimsdyke, a house designed by the architect Norman
From this came the nautical cry of 'ahoy'.
The Eastern Telegraph Co's large cable station was established in the valley just inland from the beach at Porthcurno, where undersea cables came ashore.
Edward VI dissolved all chantry chapels in 1549 and the building eventually came into corporation ownership.
Taw Vale Parade is to the right of the Albert Clock, whose building was started in 1862 and not completed until a decade later; the money came from public subscription.
From this came the nautical cry of 'ahoy'.
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