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Best Days Of You Life?

I was lucky enough to attend Bede Hall. We had a terrific staff team in those days - Clive Bell, Peter Dixon, the late Annie Woodward et al. The whole experience was mind blowing, as the mix of administered and self ...Read more

A memory of Billingham in 1967 by Dot Laird

Ward End Adult School

The Ward End Adult School was held on Sunday mornings in 'The Barn', St.Margaret's Road, Ward End before the 2nd World War. It was run on a sort of religious basis, like a church (non-denominational, I think, but similar to ...Read more

A memory of Ward End in 1930 by Roy Shakespeare

Searching For Day Family

Does anyone know of any folks with the surname of Day living in Northfleet? Day was my mom's maiden name, her first name was Thora. She lived next door to Arthur Greenslade, pianist, on Stonebridge Hill. I live in ...Read more

A memory of Northfleet by Clive Jeffrey

Look For Pals

My father Arthur Wright was born at no 2 Waterside Cottages on 6 December 1938. He often reminisces about his childhood and his old pals at North Seaton Colliery. Sadly a few are no longer with us but he would like to hear of ...Read more

A memory of North Seaton by Steven Wright

One Very Good Pub In England

One of My Employments of Yesteryear: Did you know that this public house has a corner where George Elliot used to write some of her famous books? Situated right opposite the War Memorial and next door to where Harry ...Read more

A memory of Witley in 1955 by Patricia White

Great Memories Of This Area

Really it was 1961-66. I worked as a Geologist for the United Steel Companies based in Rotherham. I visited Haile Moor and Beckermet Mines every two or three weeks for 5 years and came to love the area and its people ...Read more

A memory of Thornhill in 1961 by Geoff Potts

Hawthorn Box Fields

Pat - it's lovely to read about Hawthorn as my grandmother Mrs Berrett and my Uncle Peter and Aunt Hilda Evans also lived there. School holidays were spent picking blackberries at the old D.P camp and playing in the ...Read more

A memory of Hawthorn in 1955 by Jennifer Mclarney

Childhood Memories

I lived in Alderley Edge as a child between 1947 and 1955. I remember going for walks on the Edge, and being told about a legend that Merlin and King Arthur and his knights were sleeping inside a cave there, waiting to be ...Read more

A memory of Alderley Edge in 1954 by Elizabeth White

Kings Builders

I started school in Smallfield in 1934. In those days there were bucket lavatories. The sewer was laid in 1938 and then most of Smallfield was able to do away with the buckets. There were 3 teachers, Miss Kempshall who came from ...Read more

A memory of Smallfield in 1945 by Dennis Stenning

A Gentlmen From Amblecote

A Gentlemen from Amblecote, Staffordshire By The Oracle | April 16, 2009 This public voice, dos not usually, print obituaries. However, three persons have signed their names to a tribute to Samuel Kinnear from ...Read more

A memory of Amblecote

Captions

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Caption For Middlesbrough, The Park Entrance C1965

Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, in opening it, named it after his father, the Prince Consort, who had died in 1861.

Caption For Brandon, River Ouse 1925

The Ouse River Hotel (centre right) was run by Arthur Rolph.

Caption For Caterham, Godstone Road 1903

Grand Parade (right), housing the post office and Arthur Hopkins' butcher's shop, was newly built at the time this picture was taken.

Caption For Walmer, Promenade 1906

Sir Arthur Wellesley, later the Duke of Wellington, lived in Castle Road in 1808, and later at Walmer Castle as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, where he died in 1852.

Caption For Sudbury, St Peter's Church And Market Hill 1900

To the left is Arthur Brook's glass and china shop.

Caption For Wellington, Fore Street 1912

Indeed, Arthur Wellesley, the victor of Waterloo, took his title from this Somerset town.

Caption For Bossiney, The Village C1955

Tintagel is a 'must' on every tourist's itinerary, and the main street is full of hotels, guest houses and souvenir shops, many developed since writers such as Tennyson romanticised the legend of King Arthur

Caption For Sennen, The Village 1908

King Arthur is said to have celebrated a victory over the Danes by feasting at a rock nearby called the Table Mên.

Caption For Selborne, Church And Vicarage 1898

The Rev Arthur Kaye became vicar in 1894.

Caption For Cockfosters, Christ Church, Chalk Lane C1965

The building has echoes of the Commissioners' preaching boxes so familiar around London, but in 1898 this austere quality was partly ameliorated by additions to the designs of Sir Arthur Blomfield.

Caption For Minehead, The Parade 1903

Fourteen years after this photograph was taken, the science fiction writer Arthur C Clarke was born in nearby Blenheim Road.

Caption For Arrochar, The Shore From Loch Long C1955

The locality is famous with climbers, who tackle the formidable Ben Arthur, which is more commonly known as 'The Cobbler'.

Caption For Chipstead, The White Hart C1955

Licensees since the war include Frank Adams, Mr Rogers, Arthur and Lilian Lane and Mike Austin.

Caption For Ash Vale, Shawfield Road 1908

It was run by Arthur Hillary, who was a Special Constable and, during the Second World War, an ARP Warden.

Caption For Worcester, The Cross 1923

Edward I held a parliament in Worcester, and Prince Arthur, elder brother of Henry VIII, lies in the Cathedral.

Caption For Rugby, Rugby School 1922

They were Arthur Stanley's 'Life and Correspondence of Dr Thomas Arnold' and Thomas Hughes's 'Tom Brown's Schooldays'.

Caption For Pin Mill, The River Orwell 1909

Arthur Ransome described Pin Mill with its 'crowd of yachts and its big brown sailed barges and steamers going up to Ipswich or down to the sea'.

Caption For Eamont Bridge, 1893

It is perhaps best known for its two prehistoric monuments: King Arthur's Round Table, a Bronze Age henge, and the former Neolithic stone circle and henge at Mayburgh, of which only one standing stone

Caption For Castleton, The George And Dragon Hotel 1951

One urges onlookers: `Your choice Arthur Tweedale again for Castleton`.

Caption For Sudbury, Gainsborough House 1932

Beyond is the Tudor-style Drill Hall of 1881, designed by Arthur Grimwood for D Company 2nd Volunteer Battalion Suffolk Regiment.

Caption For Glastonbury, The Abbey From The East 1927

The 'discovery' of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere's graves in the 12th century, and the legend of Joseph of Arimathea, Christ's uncle, founding the first Christian church in England were powerful

Caption For Middlesbrough, The Transporter Bridge C1965

The Transporter Bridge was opened on 17 October 1911 by Prince Arthur of Connaught, whose father had opened Albert Park in 1868.

Caption For Sudbury, St Peter's Church And Market Hill 1900

The first two shops in the next building were owned by Arthur Brook, glass and china dealer.

Caption For South Luffenham, St Mary's Church C1955

St Mary's Church has a 14th-century 'curiously crocketed spire' (Arthur Mee).