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My Home Town Of Rugby

I was brought up in Rugby 1949 - 1970. My parents owned Tudor Bakeries at 3 Regent Street. At first we lived above the shop with the bake-house in Oxford Street. Then we moved to Bloxam Gardens off Bilton Road and converted the ...Read more

A memory of Rugby by bob

Growing Up In Riddlesdown

I was born in 1955 and grew up in Ingleboro Drive. Our house, number 12, backed on to the woods, and my brother Robert and I would play out there at every opportunity. Of course, as we grew, we climbed the trees, and I ...Read more

A memory of Riddlesdown by Stephen Drake

1935

Quickly seperated at Front Hall from Parent. Led to Dining Room in shock. A Boy suggested " Secotine " on Bread. Moved to Class Room where another Boy took Pity and threw me a Ball as " Tarling "entered the Room. Taken to ...Read more

A memory of Yarlet Hall (School) by Philip Pryce

A Naughty Boy In Tottenham!

I was born in Wood Green but lived at 460b Lordship Lane over a boot repair shop from a couple of days after until I was about 11. I attended Risley Avenue Infant and Junior schools from 1946/7 until 1951 then we moved to ...Read more

A memory of Tottenham by First Name Last Name

Thanks For Reminding Me

I was born in 1947 and I went to Rokesly and Park Road Secondary modern schools as well. Then it turned into Priory Vale in Haringey. Eventually, I ended up at Stationers' for two years where I did my A levels and then off ...Read more

A memory of Crouch End by Graham Woods

Working On Blackburn Market In The 1950s

I was born in 1935 and raised in Blackburn, attending the Grammar School until my widowed mother could not afford to keep me there. I left school in February 1952 and got a job as a Junior Clerk in the ...Read more

A memory of Blackburn

Friends

We lived at the corner of Cleveland St and Vittoria. My dad was a docker. Life wasn’t easy, but we had lots of mates and family in the area. My friends were the Hickmans from Vine St. Audrey Wilson Vittoria St. Pam & Lorraine ...Read more

A memory of Birkenhead by p_mmartchenko

Tadworth 1943 1957

I was born over the shop at 1, High Street, then a MacFisheries where my Grandad was the manager until he retired at the end of October, 1956. We stayed there, with the shop closed, until moving to Downland Way, Tattenham Corner in ...Read more

A memory of Tadworth by William Armstrong

Photo 27 Cippenham, New Estate 1965

This is a photo of Hogarth close. I grew up in a house in Bower Way just to the left of the picture. I can remember them building these houses on the grounds of a house which included a chicken run at the bottom of ...Read more

A memory of Cippenham

Memories Of Gildersome

I'm always interested to read memories of Gildersome. I have just visited in October 2018. Just a short visit but it certainly hasn't changed in some respects. The streets are narrower from what I remember but street lane and ...Read more

A memory of Gildersome by katestengl

Captions

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Caption For Gatley, The Hotel And Parish Church C1955

When built, it consisted of a chancel, nave, transepts, and an unusual saddle-back tower.

Caption For Llanvetherine, Church C1950

A most interesting architectural feature of the church of St James the Elder at Llanvetherine is the tower.

Caption For Farnborough, The Parish Church C1955

The 17th century weatherboarded tower is an unusual feature, and is believed to have been constructed from ship's timbers.

Caption For Windsor, Romney Lock 1906

Windsor Castle's round tower can be seen against the skyline.

Caption For Gourock, From Tower Hill 1900

A view over the rooftops from Tower Hill. The steamer crossing West Bay is heading to Greenock. A steamer has just departed, crossing to Kilcreggan.

Caption For Bristol, Park Street 1900

This is Park Street in the days before the top end was dominated by the Gothic tower of the university, designed by Sir George Oatley.

Caption For Tilehurst, The Bear And Water Tower C1960

The distinctive water tower, in Park Lane, constructed in 1931-2, is one of Tilehurst's most famous landmarks and can be seen from miles around.

Caption For Skegness, Entrance To The Pleasure Gardens 1896

Father and son admire the tidy flower borders and shrubs in what is now Tower Gardens, more than a century ago. The garden underwent a complete reconstruction in millennium year 2000.

Caption For Howth, Harbour Road 1897

Looking east along the road, the view encompasses the ruined church and the little tower on the small promontory above the harbour. The only traffic is a small pony and trap.

Caption For Duntisbourne Abbotts, The Church C1960

The church of St Peter, with its unusual saddleback-roofed tower, dates from Norman times.

Caption For Leeds, The Parkinson Building C1960

Its broad tower dominates the city skyline.

Caption For Torquay, St Saviours Parish Church, Tormohun 1889

The Church of St Saviour at Tormohun has a 14th-century tower, and the rest is 15th-century.

Caption For Gravesend, The Roman Catholic Church 1902

Originally built as an Anglican church in Milton Road in 1834, and then purchased for the Catholic community in 1851, St John the Evangelist had its unusual and prominent tower, with a French-style saddleback

Caption For Coombe Bissett, St Michael's Church C1955

The south tower is ashlar-faced, with big buttresses; it is Perpendicular, as is the north arcade and the clerestory.

Caption For Writtle, The Church 1898

In 1800, shortly after the roof of Chelmsford's future cathedral had collapsed, the tower of All Saints', Writtle, followed suit.

Caption For Didsbury, Parish Church C1955

The west tower with its openwork loops dates from 1620, and is an earlier rebuilding. Inside is a monument to Sir Nicholas Mosley (1612), his two wives and children.

Caption For Finedon, The Village C1950

On the road to Thrapston is a round tower built by General Arbuthnot, a friend of the Duke of Wellington, to commemorate the Battle of Waterloo.

Caption For Kings Norton, Old Saracen's Head 1949

The village church, dedicated to St Nicholas, is Norman in origin and was partially rebuilt during the 13th century.Within a few decades the church was extended; the west tower with its octagonal spire

Caption For Westleton, The Village Sign C1965

Situated at the northern top of the green is the metal sign, showing a tower mill. It was erected by the Westleton Carnival Committee in 1963.

Caption For Beer, Village Street 1895

The thatch to the right has gone, and so has the church spire; it has a square tower today. Beer had a substantial reputation as a smugglers' base in years gone by.

Caption For Chelford, Church 1896

Dedicated to St John the Evangelist, the main part of the church was built at the Parkers` expense at the end of the 18th century, but the tower is an 1840s addition by their successors the Dixons.

Caption For Great Cornard, The Church 1900

The gable cross has gone, and clock faces have been inserted into the tower roundels; otherwise the view is unchanged today.

Caption For Westgate On Sea, Church 1897

The foundation stone was laid in 1883 by Sir Erasmus Wilson, a famous surgeon, who popularised Westgate for its health-giving air.The church, by C N Beazley, is unusual in that its north tower is

Caption For Cliftonville, The Oval 1927

contains 12th-century arcades, which accounts for its long low profile; St John's has been considerably rebuilt over the years, and was extensively restored in 1875 by Christian.The 14th-century tower