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Hart Lane

I was born in hart lane opposit water tower / Dick

A memory of Luton by richardtuffnell

Trying To Find Ancestors

I am trying to find my Grandparents who lived in or around Alton. They were John Power and Martha Power (formerly Martha Brown). My father John Robert Power was born in Alton 18th November 1926 at 7, Tower Street Alton. He ...Read more

A memory of Alton by john.power

King Richards Road

We moved from Willesden in London to Kingrichards Road, Leicester when I was 5 yrs old in 1965. I went to King Richards Infants with my brother, Wayne. The building I think was something to do with a church, I think, an old ...Read more

A memory of Leicester in 1965 by Tina Mile

Lunchtime At Whitehall School 1955

Well nobody actually said "lunch", It was "dinner" then. No families that I knew of ate a cooked evening meal so "dinner" was the main meal of the day. The school had no kitchen or dining facilities and so every ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge by Philip Cousins

Boyhood Memory

I was 12 years old when this photograph was taken. I lived in a public house, just out of camera shot, called The Castle Inn. The only building left today is the Institute Clock Tower. Looking at this site today, you would see The ...Read more

A memory of Wisbech by Dave Garford

Sense Of History

There is a sense of history by walking along Church Street with its deep guttering, for the times when and where horses were the transport and along to the Church, the Palace Of Eastry, Eastry Court and then Eastry farm and the C. ...Read more

A memory of Eastry by Michael Mitchell

“Where In Truro Can You Find Victoria, Edward And Alexandra?”

I remember visiting my grandmother in Truro as a child, and being intrigued when she asked me if I knew what ‘Victoria, Edward and Alexandra’ were. Then she told me that the answer can be ...Read more

A memory of Truro in 1950 by Julia Skinner

Crouch End (St Mary's School High Street Hornsey)

I lived in 57 Avenue Road just off Crouch End Hill. I lived with my mother, father, sister Pamela and brother Gerald in two rooms. My brother was 7, my sister 12 and myself, 14. There were 6 ...Read more

A memory of Hornsey in 1957 by Hazel Pratt

Churcher's

This starts in 1938 when I was taken by my mother and ended up having tea with Bill Hogarth - Chinese tea, horrid. That September I started in Form One to be loudly proclaimed by Bill 'a dunderhead' as I could not understand Latin ...Read more

A memory of Petersfield in 1940 by Brian Seabrook

Hamilton Road

Just out of shot on the left is the turning for Hamilton Road, where my wife, Angela, and I both lived for many years. Some way down Hamilton on the right hand side just before the junction with Clive Road was a small row of ...Read more

A memory of West Norwood by Trevor Watkins

Captions

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Caption For Sittingbourne, High Street 1961

The 15th-century flint tower of the parish church still dominates the long street, which retains vestiges of a Georgian heritage in some of its buildings, although the Victorians were responsible for desecrating

Caption For Brancaster, St Mary's Church C1965

The parish church is of flint, with a large west tower. A

Caption For Old Hunstanton, The Church C1955

The tower is 15th-century, but most of the remainder of the building was rebuilt in the 1850s. The interior has many interesting monuments to the L'Estrange family, who owned nearby Hunstanton Hall.

Caption For Bath, Municipal Buildings And Abbey 1896

Brydon certainly caught the spirit of Baldwin's Adam-esque masterpiece, only departing from it in the Baroque towers at each end.

Caption For Slaidburn, From The Bank 1921

Its strong tower is 12th-century, and was used to shelter villagers when the Scots raided Lancashire. Brennand's Endowed School, built in 1717, stands next to the church.

Caption For Higher Walton, Walton Hall C1960

It was largely demolished in the late 1970s apart from the clock tower.

Caption For Bury St Edmunds, Angel Hill C1955

To the left are Abbey House, the Cathedral, the Norman tower and St Mary's.

Caption For East Hagbourne, Upper Cross C1955

Perched on the tower parapet of the church is a bell-cote, which houses its Sanctus bell. The timber-framed, part jettied house on the right is one of a row of three.

Caption For West Witton, The Village C1960

In the distance on the extreme right we can just see the 16th-century tower of the parish church of St Bartholomew.

Caption For Beverley, East End From Chantry Lane 1886

The Early English east end was begun in 1220, and the magnificent Perpendicular west front, with its richly pinnacled towers, was completed in 1420.

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 Ormskirk, The Clock Tower C1960

There have been weekly markets at Ormskirk since 1286; the ancient market cross was replaced by this clock tower in 1876. It contains the town's fire bell, given by Lord Derby in 1684.

Caption For High Wycombe, All Saints' Parish Church C1955

Taken from the north-east, this photograph shows the 16th-century west tower with its pretty Gothick cornice, open quatrefoiled parapets and banded obelisk pinnacles designed by Henry Keene and added

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 Reading, St Mary's Butts 1912

The chequerboard flint and limestone tower of the church of St Mary's is a distinctive local landmark. The church dates back to Saxon times.

Caption For Padiham, Gawthorpe Hall 1895

This photograph shows the gardens to the front of the Hall and the pele tower, which probably existed here in the Middle Ages. Behind the Hall the land falls away to the Calder.

Caption For Rochester, The Cathedral 1894

The central tower was rebuilt ten years later, and was crowned with a spire. Beyond is a glimpse of the industrial Medway.

Caption For Godalming, Peperharow Road 1907

Note the water tower on the skyline, centre. Water was pumped up from the valley below; this facilitated the development of Frith Hill.

Caption For Newton Abbot, St Leonard's Tower 1906

St Leonard's Tower is all that remains of a 14th-century church demolished in 1836.

Caption For Kendal, Sizergh Castle 1896

Originally a 14th-century defensive pele tower, Sizergh was the home of the Strickland family. The present building is mainly a 15th-century Elizabethan mansion, now in the care of the National Trust.

Caption For Coniston, From Church Tower 1906

This view from the church tower was taken looking towards the wooded slopes of High Guards and up the valley of the Yewdale Beck.

Caption For Wisbech, Parish Church Tower 1923

The tower was rebuilt in the 1530s, after its catastrophic collapse during the previous century.

Caption For Cromer, The Lighthouse 1894

Before that, the town's church tower - the tallest in Norfolk - used to be employed as a lighthouse.

Caption For Maiden Newton, Whitehall 1906

The curious stone tower attached to the Castle Inn, whose sign hangs over the roadway, stands by a bridge over the Toller, or Hooke, shortly before it flows into the River Frome.