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Convent Of The Visitation Bridport Dorset
CHAPTER TWO School Years - Convent of the Visitation 1939-1945 One’s school years leave an indelible impression on one for good or bad. My views over these years in this regard, have modified ...Read more
A memory of Bridport in 1940 by
Merry Christmas
What a joy to see the stained glass window again. Every childhood Christmas with my beloved mum & dad, my brother and I would enter the fancy dress competition in this very room. Also we eagerly awaited the arrival of Father ...Read more
A memory of Bispham in 1974 by
The Infant School
I started in the Infant School in 1949, the year my family came to Corby - I was 6 years old. I can remember the huts with the old coke stoves. Each classroom had a partition and there was a stage in the last one where we used to ...Read more
A memory of Corby in 1949 by
Kingswear, Me, And My Dog.
He was only a few weeks old when he came to us, my mother had got to know about him and thought he was just the thing I needed to cheer me up. I was fourteen years of age and had not long moved home; my parents had decided ...Read more
A memory of Kingswear
New Unit New Baby
I remember the Maternity Unit being built. My father was on the committee that planned it and it was paid for by the Nuffield Trust, as was the Diagnostic Centre. I remember dad telling me that 'it cost £1,000 a bed' and there were 40 ...Read more
A memory of Corby by
New Pupil At A New Grammar School
I was one of the first pupils through the door at Corby Grammar School in 1955. I'd spent my first year at Kettering High School so was in the second year at CGS and I loved every minute from the day I first walked in. ...Read more
A memory of Corby by
My Dad
My wonderful dad passed away last October. He was born in Cwm in 1934 and left aound 1955 when he moved to Corby, Northants. he was so very proud of his welsh roots and was over the moon when we took him back to Cwm a couple of years ago and ...Read more
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How Corby Helped Win The War
This photograph shows the now-demolished Pluto pub at Corby, which used to stand on Gainsborough Road. Its name was a reminder of a significant part played by the former Steel Works at Corby in the war effort during the ...Read more
A memory of Corby in 1944 by
An Image From My Memory....!
My mother passed away in 1955 just two days after my 12th birthday following which a couple who my father knew and who had a handicapped son in a children's home in the village in Suffolk where I lived took me to their ...Read more
A memory of Little Common by
I Started There The Day It Opened
When I passed my 11+ in 1954 our class was sent to either Kettering Grammar School (for boys) or Kettering High School (for girls). That building in Bowling Green Road is now Kettering Borough Council's offices. There ...Read more
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It was paid for by Dr John Taylor, a man of humble origins who rose through the ranks to become chaplain to Henry VIII and Master of the Rolls. The church was built in 1533.
The building to the right of the tower is Whitworth Hall, paid for by the Sir Joseph Whitworth Estate.
The church was paid for by Lady le Fleming of Rydal Hall.
The modern Corbis Steelworks now only employs about 700 men. In 1895, the Summers family had bought 40 acres of reclaimed marshland for £5.
We may be thankful that this survives and is being meticulously cared for by its present owner.
On the right can be seen gravestones in the churchyard of St Mary's church; it has a mostly medieval tower, but the rest of the church was rebuilt in 1855, paid for by the Broadwood family.
A new dock was authorised by Act of Parliament in 1881 and was opened in 1882, partly paid for by the Great Northern Railway, who extended a branch line to it.
The small J Corby shop opposite is now Las Vegas Amusements.
Frith photographer's desire to take views of post offices has led him to ignore the beautifully-situated village centre around its green and also the good 1879 church, designed, built and paid for by
The church was paid for by Lady Ann Bland, the last of the Mosley family. Queen Anne was on the throne, so naturally the church was named St Ann's when it opened in 1709.
The actors stayed at Peak Farm and Corby House during their twelve weeks of summer shooting on location. All the film stock was stored in the stables at the hotel.
For the next five hundred years or so, Shrewsbury, like Hereford and Chester, would be an English frontier town; it was fought for by Welsh patriots, Normans and rebellious barons alike.
The Esplanade, also behind the photographer was paid for by Thomas Colfox and opened in 1897 as part of the celebrations of Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee.
The bridge was built in the mid 1500s at a cost of £70, and was paid for by Richard Sherburne, lord of the manor.
Beyond the fine house, which is now an estate agent's, is the showroom of Crabtree & Son - by 1929 the business had been taken over by W H Johnson & Sons Ltd.
The statue of John Cobden can been seen in the middle of the square: this bronze statue, by Marshall Wood, was paid for by public subscription and was presented to the town on 23 April 1867 by the President
This photograph shows all that was built at the beginning; there is no evidence yet of local pride in the shape of buildings paid for by industry, including the Harland Engineering Laboratory.
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