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The Castle Lawn

I have a clearer copy of this photo in the book on Sevenoaks and Tonbridge and have studied it with a magnifying glass. I was one year old in 1951 (and according to my parents, already walking at 9 months). The posture of the ...Read more

A memory of Tonbridge by Rodney Warrener

Memory Lapse2

I remember when I was transferred from the children's hospital in Birmingham to Bryn Bras Castle at the age of about 9 yrs - I was in the hospital for about a week before being driven by a Health Visitor dressed in a navy blue ...Read more

A memory of Hayling Island in 1944 by Shirleyst Name Hearne

National Oil Refinery

I started work at the laboratory in the Llandarcy Oil Refinery in 1942 for the great weekly wage of one pound, one shilling and ninepence, when I was 16. Mostly women worked in the lab but once the war was over the company ...Read more

A memory of Llandarcy in 1942

No Mercy At All

Wow! No more canings from the towering Sister Lawrence? And in my day it was California Syrup of Figs we were forced to take to keep us regular (we held it in the mouth and spat it out in the playground). There was a middle ...Read more

A memory of Monks Kirby by Patricia Mc Loughlin

The Bed Bug Weathervane!

St Mary’s Church at Kingsclere, north west of Basingstoke, is famous for a most unusual decoration, a weather-vane in the shape of a bed-bug, seen on the left hand side of the tower in this view. It is a very tasteful ...Read more

A memory of Kingsclere by Julia Skinner

South Weald School

My memories of St Peter’s school South Weald - starting in 1956(?) I started, in what I seem to remember as the ‘pre-fab’ classroom in the lower playground with, I believe, Mrs Fox as my first teacher. We had slates and ...Read more

A memory of South Weald in 1956 by Douglas Mcneil

Gheluvelt Park

My family lived in Lavender Road from 1958, then Tower Road till 2007, and we have been in walking distance of the park till now (2013). We have had many hours of enjoyment there and our two children spent many hours in the park ...Read more

A memory of Worcester in 1958 by Philip Pegler

Memories Of Bedhampton

We lived at 'Pantiles', Penhurst Rd, Bedhampton from approx the mid fifties until the mid sixties. I went first to the Priory school on Hayling Island, when Miss Rapley was Head teacher, until a Mr Neilsen-Carrigan took ...Read more

A memory of Bedhampton in 1956

Three Towers Of Castle 2004

Now that high defensive wall has been removed you can truly appreciate the fortification of this castle.

A memory of Windsor by Carolyn Babin

Small Heath Memory

I was born at 54 Herbert Road on January 21st 1940 a war-time baby although I remember nothing of the bombing raids that wrecked a number of the houses in the lower part of the road where the bus garage and the railway line ...Read more

A memory of Small Heath by Brian Buck

Captions

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Caption For Aylesbury, County Office C1965

These now face 'Fred's Folly', the concrete 1960s tower block.

Caption For Countisbury, St John's Church 1907

The nave was rebuilt in 1716, the tower in 1835, and the arcade in 1846.

Caption For Poole, The Beach, Rockley Sands C1960

On the left is a water tower serving steam engines. The main camp road ran directly on to this beach.

Caption For Menheniot, Village 1912

The church of St Lalluwy has a 13th-century tower; the needle spire was added by the 15th century, when the rest of the church was rebuilt.

Caption For Colchester, St Peter's Church 1907

Its tower of 1758, in red brick with yellow brick quions and battlements, the Geogianised aisles, and the 18th century galleries inside, all disguise a medieval church.

Caption For Washington, The Village C1965

this time were the Roman Catholic Our Blessed Lady Immaculate, which dated from the late 1870s, and Holy Trinity, which had been rebuilt in the 1830s, extended in the 1880s, and given a bell tower

Caption For Tetbury, Bath Road C1955

It was rebuilt in 1781, and the tower and spire were rebuilt a hundred years later. Note the huge size of the windows.

Caption For Evesham, Bell Tower From The Avon 1892

Abbot Lichfield's Bell Tower, built in 1539, dominates the water meadows of the River Avon. Notice the Romany caravans at rest on the far bank.

Caption For Kirkby In Furness, Beckside C1955

The tower of the parish church dominates this view of Beckside, a small hamlet on the slopes of the Furness Fells above the village of Kirkby-in-Furness on the Duddon Estuary.

Caption For Tideswell, The View From The Church Tower C1960

This view of Tideswell is from the pinnacled Perpendicular tower of the parish church.

Caption For Newnham, The Clock Tower C1955

The clock tower dates from 1875, by which time Newnham had long ceased to be the most important Gloucestershire town on the west bank of the river.

Caption For Rainham, St Margaret Parish Church C1955

stone church on this site, just beside the old Watling Street, was built soon after 1066, but the present building is mainly 13th-century, with a rather handsome 15th-century stepped-buttressed beacon tower

Caption For Appleton Le Street, The Church C1960

Appleton-le-Street's hill-top parish church of All Saints is famous for its tower, the lower part of which shows signs of Saxon work.

Caption For Bridport, From Allington Hill 1897

It was built in 1826 in the rare Greek-revival style, with a circular bell tower above the pedimented Doric portico.

Caption For Benington, Church Interior C1960

The building has been restored on number of occasions, and when the tower was renovated in the early part of the last century, some of the stone heads were re-carved to represent the workmen.

Caption For Beauchief, The Abbey C1950

The abbey was founded in 1175; all that now remains is the west tower.

Caption For Beauchief, The Abbey C1950

The abbey was founded in 1175; all that now remains is the west tower.

Caption For Hunstanton, The Green And Pier 1907

Hunstanton's chief feature is its distinctive white and red banded cliffs, which rise from nothing at this point to a towering 30 metres just 300 metres further north.

Caption For Beccles, New Market And Parish Church 1950

The church is unusual in that the 92 feet high tower is actually separate from the nave.

Caption For Salisbury, Silver Street And Bridge Street C1955

In this picture, the impressive County Hotel and Barclays Bank (built originally as a wine and spirit warehouse) can be seen on the corner, with the clock tower and the old Infirmary beyond.

Caption For Horning, The River 1902

In the background the church tower rises among the leafy summer trees.

Caption For Lands End, And Armed Knight Rocks 1890

It was replaced by the 112-foot present tower in 1873.

Caption For Penrice, The Castle, Tower Lodge 1910

The earliest castle was an earthwork and timber fortification at Mounty Brough, built soon after the Normans had taken the Gower.

Caption For Bodmin, Mount Folly Square 1906

Over the roofs rises the four-pinnacled tower of the parish church, the largest in Cornwall. This broad, pleasing square was later converted into a car park.