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Part 13
He then ran a wet fish trade from a horse and cart, but also ran a fish and chip shop. Last time I was in Houghton the fish shop was still there. In Newbottle Street, just up from the school and on the same side. Gran was very ...Read more
A memory of Middle Rainton in 1945 by
Happy Days
My father (Howard Case) worked on the Vinyl section and was a union rep. His boss was Tom Bailey and the clerks were Betty Powell and Sue. I worked in the Post Room for approx 18 months with Maisie Jones and then transferred to the ...Read more
A memory of Brynmawr by
Growing Up In Groeswen Happy Memories
I have fond memories of Groeswen. I was Estelle Davies who lived at Tir Treharne all my young life. We were a big family and poor but when I think back to the wonderful childhood and freedom we had, being ...Read more
A memory of Groeswen by
Living At No 4 1947 1965
We moved to No 4 Barrington Court Cottages (the first cottage right of centre) in 1947. My father arrived as head gardener in April and mum arrived in July when I was three weeks old. Mum was disappointed to find she ...Read more
A memory of Barrington in 1947 by
Growing Up
I moved to Manor Park in 1948 aged 4 - my stepfather ran Chan's Restaurant. Memories - catching the 101 bus to Woolwich and spending all day going backwards and forwards on the Woolwich Ferry. Seeing the variety shows before the film ...Read more
A memory of East Ham by
Wincheap School
I have a photo of the 'top class' sitting in front of what had been the connecting passage from the Head Master's Office(Mr Bradshaw) to another part of the school. It was known as 'the drainpipe' after the school was blitzed, we ...Read more
A memory of Wincheap in 1946 by
Born On The Graig
"It's only wind or powder on the stomach"my Mam had said as she walked home from the ammunition factory on a cold Autumn evening. The "wind" or "powder" was born on the 2nd December 1942. I, Colin Gronow, ...Read more
A memory of Graig in 1940 by
The Mance House Anthorn
My great-grandparents lived at the Mance House, Anthorn, Cumberland, they were the Marshall family. Alfred Bailey Marshall was a lay preacher there from about 1879 till about 1900, he was married to Emily Willoughby. They ...Read more
A memory of Wigton by
The Village
I moved to Borehamwood from Acton, North West London, when I was three years old. I spent my childhood there, scrumping in neighbours gardens, getting the greenline bus into London for trips to Selfridges at Christmas, to London Zoo ...Read more
A memory of Borehamwood in 1961 by
Would You Believe It
The young man on the outside of the pavement is me, the group standing in the distance are family members and the two on my right are demanding to know where I am going, as it happened I was going to see my Gran. Did not know ...Read more
A memory of Biddulph in 1955 by
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All that now remains of the huge structure, apart from the surrounding earthworks, are the broken ruins of the 12th-century flint and mortar curtain walls within the bailey, which encompass a bowling
It also had a Norman motte and bailey castle whose earthworks survive quite well.
A motte and bailey was built here in the early 1070s by Robert de Rhuddlan, but the ruins we see today date back to the fortress of Edward I.
Situated on the north bank of the Medway, the original motte and bailey castle was replaced with stone by the early 13th century, when the shell keep was built.
The present buildings are Victorian, and were worked by Frederick Bailey in the Great War. Until the Second World War his work was continued by Sidney Miller and his widow.
Inside the bailey the keep appears much more complete than it actually is.
The site has seen two previous strongholds - one a motte and bailey built by the Normans in the course of their early campaigns in the area, and the second a more substantial construction built by the
The first castle at Manorbier was probably a motte and bailey erected by Odo de Barri.
The first castle to be built at Kenilworth is thought to have been a motte and bailey constructed between 1122 and 1127 by Geoffrey de Clinton. It was de Clinton's son who built the keep.
Henry de Newburgh built a large wooden motte and bailey on the site of the present castle; before his death in 1123 he might well have begun to replace the wood with stone.
There had been an earlier marcher stronghold at Chirk; it was either on this site or nearer to the village, where traces of a motte and bailey survive, but wherever it was it had long fallen into disrepair
Midway between the ancient sites of two Norman motte and bailey castles at the extreme ends of the village, Holy Trinity Church is the topographical as well as the spiritual centre of Ascott; old
The original castle, raised around 1068, comprised a 70ft high motte and two baileys, built on the site of an Anglo-Saxon fortification.
They continued the rebuilding of the Priory church and the monastery, probably at about the same time Baldwin built the constable's hall, next to the Mill Stream at the northeast corner of the bailey
Like most Norman structures, the castle was the successor of a motte and bailey fortification.
Baileys Hotel, later the Metropole, had opened in 1776.
The Norman arrival led, as in other towns such as Norwich, to wholesale demolition to accommodate a castle with its baileys within the town walls.
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