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Maesteg So Many Happy Childhood Memories.....

So many happy memories of Maesteg - where do I start? I was born in 1947 and lived at No 3, Plasnewydd Street until I was about 19. My best friend when I was young was Paul Spracklen (with whom I re-kindled ...Read more

A memory of Maesteg by Nick Davies

Red Towers, Hersham

I am looking for a house called 'Red Towers' in Hersham where my mother and two aunts were born and lived in their early days. Does anyone know the Harris family who may have owned or rented this property and the house itself? I would love to know for my family tree.

A memory of Walton-on-Thames in 1910 by Mary Ann Gage

Avenham Colonnade, Preston (1946 1964)

As a child (b1940) I lived at 3 Avenham Colonnade from 1946 until I married in 1964. The late Georgian terrace (built abt 1836) comprises 6 houses built on the slope alongside Avenham Walks ("The Top Walks") . ...Read more

A memory of Preston in 1946 by Mike Lambert

Edna Molesworth Nee Gardner

My grandparents lived in the Lantern House. Granddad, William Gardner, was a shepherd; Granny Mary Eleanor was a midwife and nurse for the area. She used to ride with the Doctor in a horse and trap to visit their ...Read more

A memory of Wormleighton in 1940 by Roger Molesworth

Growing Up In Eccles 1951 To 1968

I lived in the Red Bull from age 6 to 23. I have so many good memories, from playing in the surrounding countryside - the chalk pits, the clayhole reservoir, the woods, the ruined cement works etc. The village ...Read more

A memory of Eccles in 1951 by David Clifton

Forest Hill

My memory of Forest Hill, London, is Horniman's Museum and Horniman's Park. The museum had a wonderful, huge clock. We lived in Forest Hill from about 1952 or 53 to about 1961, I think. Someone held a fancy dress Coronation party for ...Read more

A memory of London by Marion Del Favero

Lancaster Or Wellington Bombers

Coincidentally Colin (Hayes) I lived near by you in St. George's Avenue! And around the same time I used to regularly cycle over to Southend Airport with a friend. Here we used to plane spot - do you ...Read more

A memory of Southend Airport by Barry Wenden

Pupil

I attended Caterham School in the 90's, and very little had seemed to have changed since Victorian times. I'd be interested to know what the tower thing in the centre of the building is/was, it's purpose and why it was removed.

A memory of Caterham

Wartime Memories Of Lewisham And New Cross

My mother, then called Billie Gwilliam, was living in New Cross in South London with her parents Bill and Connie Gwilliam during the Blitz of the Second World War, and has many memories of what it was ...Read more

A memory of Lewisham in 1940 by Julia Skinner

Still There...

My family have lived in and around Rayleigh since the early 1900s. I was born in the early 1960s and just about remember the High Street being two-way. Woolworths has now been replaced by ASK and Grants by a card shop, general store ...Read more

A memory of Rayleigh by Ian Gale

Captions

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Caption For Winnersh, Bearwood Church C1955

The tower is nearly 90ft high, and the whole church is built in imitation mediaeval style.

Caption For Devizes, St John's Church 1898

A massive tower with a round stair turret dominates this basically Norman building. Externally the church is Perpendicular, except for the west front, which was rebuilt in 1861-62.

Caption For Tamworth, Castle 1949

This was replaced by the shell-keep and tower, which still stand.

Caption For Beccles, Market Square 1900

The Market Square of Beccles is overlooked by the detached tower of St Michael's Church.

Caption For Thetford, St Cuthbert's Church 1921

St Cuthbert's is a medieval church that was entirely rebuilt after its tower fell in 1851.

Caption For Penrith, Market Place 1893

This view shows the Clock Tower and a surprisingly empty Market Place.

Caption For Tealby, The Village C1960

All Saints' Church, higher up the village, has a massive Norman tower, and the church is built in the local iron-rich brown limestone.

Caption For Upton, St Mary's Church C1955

The clock on the church tower was a later addition of around 1912.

Caption For Lowfield Heath, Church And Village 1905

Built in1867, it has a square tower and a pyramidal spire.The whole area is now very close to the greatly expanded and very busy Gatwick Airport, which was built in the 1960s partly on the site of

Caption For Abingdon, Abbey Gardens, Trendell's Ruins 1925

The church lay east of the circular garden, and Queen Victoria's statue is roughly where the detached bell tower was situated.

Caption For Blaenavon, C1955

The church with the central rose window and tower (left) is the Park Street Methodist church, built in 1885–86.

Caption For Foxearth, St Peter And St Paul's Church 1904

The tower with its tall lancet windows divided by louvres and its broach spire, designed by Henry Woodyear in 1862, blew down in 1947.

Caption For Tamworth, The Town Hall C1950

Soon after the Conquest, the Normans built a wooden motte and bailey castle at Tamworth on the site of the Mercian fortifications of 913.This was replaced by the shell-keep and tower, which still

Caption For Crewe, Queen's Park, The Main Entrance C1950

The clock tower stands just inside the main entrance to Queen's Park.

Caption For Uppingham, High Street C1965

Victoria Tower (1897) flies the school flag. To the far right is the cross on the school chapel.

Caption For Bilsborrow, The Vicarage C1960

Money was left for the building of the stone church and tower in the will of Jane Salisbury, tragically killed on the railway in 1922. She was owner of Myerscough Hall.

Caption For Guisborough, Westgate C1955

The tower of the parish church of St Nicholas can just be seen in the distance. At this date Church Street, leading out of the Market Place, was very narrow. It was widened in 1962.

Caption For Happisburgh, Church Farm C1960

The tower is 110 feet high and, because of its prominent position, it was bombed in the Second World War. It was repaired in 1956-8.

Caption For Warwick, The Castle, Caesar's Tower And Guy's Tower 1922

There are guardrooms on the top floors: only here are there arrow-loops in the tower walls.

Caption For Maidstone, Kent County Library C1965

This is one of modern Maidstone's many tower blocks.

Caption For Caernarfon, Castle Square 1906

There are 13 massive towers in pentagonal, hexagonal and octagonal designs.

Caption For Lanteglos, The Church 1901

Note the unbuttressed west tower and the roof of the south aisle in poor condition, just three years before restoration.

Caption For Harwich, The Recreation Ground C1960

The building with the tower is known as Low Lighthouse, although it has now been converted into the Maritime Museum. Built in 1818, it replaced an earlier wooden structure.

Caption For Bloxham, High Street C1955

The tower in the background is part of Bloxham School.