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Tales Of College Green
This shows College Green and its grand posh upmarket shops, at a time in the past when parking wasn't a problem. Many famous people lived round the Green over the years including Mary Robinson; actress and mistress of the ...Read more
A memory of Bristol by
St John's Gate Broad Street
St John's Gate in Broad Street in Bristol is the only surviving medieval city gateway, at one one time there were seven gates into the old city. Fortified gateways pierced the town wall at intervals. St John's Gateway, ...Read more
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Bristol's Cabot's Tower
Bristol's Cabot's Tower, and the penny pinching Council. Bristol's most prominent land mark, the Cabot Tower, was 100 years old in 1998. But the official opening was marked by a disastrous fire, a confidence trick and ...Read more
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Boating On The Broads
Two years after our first visit we came again, bringing our own river cruisers towed by our own cars. We had located a slipway to launch at Martham boatyard prior to starting the holiday. The location at Martham was ...Read more
A memory of Potter Heigham in 1970 by
My Mother Sarah Jane White
My mum was born in Brandon in 1910, one of 14 children. She sailed to Australia on the Vedic in 1926 and sadly never returned to Brandon. My son and I visited Brandon in 2010 and were disappointed to find that the street ...Read more
A memory of Durham in 2010 by
Oddington 1946 1959
I was born in Moreton in Marsh and lived the first 13 years of my life in Oddington. My father was a farmer and we lived at Green Farm right in the middle of the village. We used to have the village bonfire (November ...Read more
A memory of Lower Oddington by
Childhood Memory
I recall moving house from the Spike, Blaydon, to a newly built house in Linden Road, Blaydon. The steps leading down from the gateway where not quite finished so my Dad had laid wooden planks down so my mum could get down to the ...Read more
A memory of Blaydon in 1955 by
3 Jacks
Hi, my name is Robert Hartness l went to BRANDON/Dalziel from 1963 till 1966, l would like to hear from any.old classmates who were in 3 jacks, it's been just over 50 years since I left Motherwell and would like to hear from you. Cheers
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Evacuation
I am with my Dad, peter Brandon, who was also evacuated to the area during the war with his 2 brothers and sister and parents. They were in a terrace of cottages, Dinnaton Cottages south od Swimbridge. he went to Swimbridge school, ...Read more
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Barnes In The Sixties
My name is John Lines. I will always consider Barnes to be my home. I was born in 1951 in Railway Street which had allotments and even Jack Sedgewick's Pigs between the end of the road and the railway line. The Old Barnes ...Read more
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Brandon was famous for its flint knapping industry, which supplied gunflints throughout the world. The Edwardian pub retains many original features, including stained and lettered glass windows.
Brandon's on the right is now Brandon House, and Broadway Court beyond lost its shopfronts in the 1980s.
This view looks towards the main entrance ranges, which were altered and added to by Brandon in the 1860s and 1870s.
This rather ponderous Victorian Gothic building, designed by Raphael Brandon (1817-77), is faced in ironstone, with a heavy spire and tower.
This rather ponderous Victorian Gothic building, designed by Raphael Brandon (1817-77), is faced in ironstone, with a heavy spire and tower.
As Bristolians had enjoyed free access rights to Brandon Hill since the 16th century, the Radicals simply held their meetings there, attracting large crowds; they were almost impossible to police.
Barges once travelled up the Little Ouse as far as Brandon and Thetford, although here it is much more the province of pleasure boaters.
The picture shows Sompting General Supply Stores with a sign fixed to the shopfront advertising Players Weights cigarettes, a popular budget brand. On
The County Lunatic Asylum was built at Stone, three miles west of Aylesbury, in the early 1850s by the architects Thomas Wyatt and David Brandon.
Struck by lightning in 1672, it was restored in 1862 by the architect David Brandon.
Taken from the footbridge over the river, the towerless Christchurch was designed by Raphael Brandon and dates from the 1860s.
On the left is the white render of the former Brandon's department store, a somewhat overpowering building, and to the right of The Cock Tavern is the 1950s neo-Georgian Barclays Bank,
This attractive three-storey building is in the Jacobean and Tudor style much favoured by its builder, David Brandon.
Struck by lightning in 1672, it was restored in 1862 by the architect David Brandon.
To the left of the Clocktower and the County Hall is the Jacobean-style Town Hall and Corn Exchange building by Brandon, dated 1865.
Brandon's department store with its classical pilasters concealing its steel frame is now shops and offices.
The church is Holy Trinity by David Brandon, built in the 1840s in flint pebbles and stone, with further Victorian additions in brick and stone.
The church was built in 1841-45 by Thomas Henry Wyatt and D Brandon for the Rt Hon Sir Sidney Herbert, Secretary of War, a member of the Earl of Pembroke's family.
The picture shows Sompting General Supply Stores with a sign fixed to the shopfront advertising Players Weights cigarettes, a popular budget brand. On
David Brandon rebuilt the hospital in 1859 to 1862 in a similar style to the earlier one; it had been a Georgian country house, with wings added in 1832.
Looking towards Blucher Street the old and admittedly somewhat run down cottages survived until Brandon's store replaced them in the 1930s, a three-storey white painted block at odds with everything
At the end of the broad drive leading to the castle grounds are the fine entrance gates, beyond which is the 12th-century church of St Brandon.
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