Places
36 places found.
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- Poplar, Middlesex
- Bow, Middlesex
- Bethnal Green, Middlesex
- Stepney, Middlesex
- Alton Towers, Staffordshire
- Isle of Dogs, Middlesex
- Limehouse, Middlesex
- Spitalfields, Middlesex
- Barjarg Tower, Dumfries and Galloway
- Bromley, Middlesex
- Stratford Marsh, Middlesex
- Tower Hill, Merseyside
- Tower Hill, Essex
- St George in the East, Middlesex
- Wapping, Middlesex
- Globe Town, Middlesex
- Old Ford, Middlesex
- Cubitt Town, Middlesex
- Tower Hill, Cheshire
- Tower Hill, Surrey
- Bow Common, Middlesex
- Mile End, Middlesex
- Millwall, Middlesex
- Ratcliff, Middlesex
- Warmley Tower, Avon
- Tower Hill, Hertfordshire
- Tower End, Norfolk
- Tower Hamlets, Kent
- Tower Hill, Devon
- Tower Hill, West Midlands
- Blackwall, Middlesex
- North Woolwich, Middlesex
- Hackney Wick, Middlesex
- Shadwell, Middlesex
- South Bromley, Middlesex
- Tower Hill, Sussex (near Horsham)
Photos
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Maps
223 maps found.
Books
1 books found. Showing results 121 to 1.
Memories
637 memories found. Showing results 51 to 60.
Will It Be Open?
My family moved from Bermondsey, where we shared my grandad's house, to Enfield, where Mum and Dad had managed to buy their own house (for £2,000) in 1960. It was some years before Dad could afford driving lessons and then a car. We ...Read more
A memory of London in 1966 by
Reedham Orphanage Purley
I do have some good memories of Reedham. My elder sister Suzanne and my younger sister Rosemary lived there for some years. We were born in Argentina. Who remembers Magot, assistant Matron!! Had some good times toasting ...Read more
A memory of Purley in 1953 by
Pound Street
My first main job on leaving school (Shaw House) was as a tea boy-dogsbody at H C James timber and builders merchants in Pound Street. For quite a while I cycled daily from Highclere Castle, approx 4 miles, it took me just over half ...Read more
A memory of Newbury in 1956 by
18 Happy Years
We moved into Avon Carrow in November 1991, just after the M40 motorway had been extended to Warwick, and started the most rewarding living experience of our mature lives. The Carrow has an interesting history for such a ...Read more
A memory of Avon Dassett in 2009 by
Those Were The Days 6
Continuing up the street on the right was a long parade of various shops and we come to Salisbury Ave on the corner was a large modernistic furniture shop later the shop nest door became a KFC and across the street next to ...Read more
A memory of Barking in 1950 by
St. Peter's
As soon as we moved to the village we became members of St. Peter's church and attended most Sundays. Mr. Powell was the vicar. I remember seeing the 8 bells outside the church before they were hoisted into the tower. After ...Read more
A memory of Alton in 1958 by
Evacuee
I was evacuated from London to Oxford with Burlington School on 1st September 1939. At first we had our lessons in the old Milham Ford School premises but after a few weeks transferred to the new school in Marston where we shared the ...Read more
A memory of Oxford in 1940 by
Pennyburn
The house on the right of the picture, I lived in in 1963, and was then called Pennyburn. The house next door on the corner was the local doctor whose name escapes me. I attended Holyhead Grammer School and went by train everyday from ...Read more
A memory of Rhosneigr in 1963 by
The Marlborough
The white building in the picture below the church tower was the Marlborough pub. During the war through till the early 1950s my grandmother and grandfather were licencees and my father was brought up there. I have a picture of ...Read more
A memory of Charlbury in 1940 by
Rivacre Baths.
For those who never saw (or may have forgotten), the photo shows the view you had after coming in through the main entrance. The large fountain can be seen in the foreground, and was enjoyed by many children as they ran around ...Read more
A memory of Little Sutton in 1947 by
Captions
3,036 captions found. Showing results 121 to 144.
Work on the palace began during the reign of James VI, when the north-west tower was built up against the nave of Holyrood Abbey.
On the right is the clock tower of Cambridge Hall; the clock and chimes were paid for by William Atkinson.
This tower was built between 1120 and 1148 as the main entrance to the Abbey, the churchyard and the two parish churches. It was also the belfry for St James's.
This view looks across the city, past Cow Tower. The great cathedral spire dominates the view, with the square block of the castle on the left and St Peter Mancroft's tower in between.
The bold square brick tower was built onto a 13th-century base c1656 after an earlier tower had collapsed.
The tower is late Norman, except for the top; the arcades are Early English, and the aisle wall and windows, the clerestory, and the north chapel are Perpendicular.
In 1892 the dimensions given were impressive: 510 ft long, 80 ft wide, 170 ft across the transepts, a 240 ft high central tower and two west towers each 138 ft high.
Lansdowne Terrace, now the Lansdowne Hotel, and, at the right, the Wish Tower Hotel, was the first major devel- opment west of the Wish Tower; it is in the style of the earlier stucco terraces, with
The tower, marking the eastern entrance to the High Street, dates back to 1492 and took seventeen years to complete. The delay was probably caused by lengthy financial problems.
The village lock-up and a medieval market cross and bell tower once stood here at the junction.
The village lock-up and a medieval market cross and bell tower once stood here at the junction.
His two sons, Edward and Richard, lived here before being taken to The Tower of London, never to be seen again - they were the two young 'Princes in the Tower'.
The clock tower with its slated spire-like roof sits on the western range of the claustral buildings, above the enclosed garden to its west and the small cloister to its east.
The City of London was defended by one of London's oldest and finest buildings, the Tower of London.
This is an excellent example of an East Anglian round tower.
Like a watch tower overlooking the river, the tower is embattled and has pinnacles at the corners. The church was restored in 1861 by Hutchinson, who rebuilt the chancel arch in the Norman style.
The 100ft tower of St Peter and St Paul's Church dominates this estate village of grey lias cottages. The tower is in the Somerset style, and is decorated with fifty carved figures.
The top half of this mill tower was demolished, along with the other factory buildings, leaving a stumpy tower, which has been modernised.
On the right is the clock tower of Cambridge Hall; the clock and chimes were paid for by William Atkinson.
Looking west past the Abbey gatehouse to the tower of St Lawrence's church, the photographer was standing on the site of the great Norman nave of the abbey church.
The main gatehouse was supported by flanking half-drum towers and the curtain wall had a rectangular tower at each end, though they were of different sizes due to the geography of the site.
It has a squat tower, about 40ft high, which was rebuilt at a cost of about £7,000. The ceiling of the nave was painted with a thousand stars.
The forework is a high tower which extends into the moat and dates from the remodelling of the castle by James IV and James V.
This view from the top of Morgan Street shows the 72ft-high ornamental clock tower and three of the four roads that lead from the Circle.
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