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The Eight Bells

I have very happy memories of Hazel and I looking after the Eight Bells for Jack and Sylvia when they went on holiday. This was for a few years in the late 60's and early 70's. Most sadly, my lovely wife Hazel, 'nee' Cook, died ...Read more

A memory of Kelsale in 1968 by Brian Corbett

Morden I Loved

I lived in Polar Road, South Merton, but at the end of this road was Morden. I went to school in Morden and my Headmaster was Mr How. I went on to Willows High School for girls. I later went back in the '90s and how much it had ...Read more

A memory of Morden in 1973

Abingdon St

I have fond memories of visiting our grandparents on our mother's side, who lived at number 8. We recited the "ABC" streets and I can remember Smythes the cake shop at the top of the street, where we bought Snowball cakes from. We ...Read more

A memory of Sunderland in 1953 by Janet Dean

My First Job

This was my first full time job. I was the office junior. My name was Anne Steedman. I loved my role there; going round with the post, printing out on the duplicating machine (messy things in them days lol), learning all about he ...Read more

A memory of Corby in 1969 by Annie Gibbs

Wartime And Later

My mum and I were evacuated to Ingleton during WWII from Wallasey in the Wirral, after we had been bombed out. We lived at 129 New Village and when we went back to Wallasey after the end of the war, my Grandparents, Mr and Mrs ...Read more

A memory of Ingleton by Brian Corbett

Wonderful Childhood

I lived in Crib-y-mor with my grandmother, Emily Roberts, and my mother Patricia Jones (both originally Williamson). I lived opposite Tom Roberts and at an early age developed my own system of visiting everyone. First I ...Read more

A memory of Llanbedrog in 1959 by Angela Jones

Hill Street Penybont

I used to visit my grandmother - who lived on the aptly named Hill Street - throughout my childhood. My Gran was Ruth Robbins (nee James) who lived all her life in Hill Street, two of her daughters and their families also ...Read more

A memory of Abertillery in 1952 by Monica Wakefield

Find My Family The Flemings

Hello anyone who can help me! My dad was born in the Renton. I am trying to find any of my aunts/uncles or cousins. My dad's name was Alexander (Alec) Fleming. He was one of five brothers, Bill, Dan, Jim and Tommy. ...Read more

A memory of Renton in 1960 by Ann Webb

Fishing Under The Arches

I was born Marilynne Thompson at 17, The Lynch, Polesworth in January 1952. My mam and dad, Peg and Geoff Thompson both worked at Ensor's brickyard. When I was about two or three years old we moved to a cottage ...Read more

A memory of Polesworth in 1961 by Marilynne Connolly

Running Errands In Market Street

One of the shops I remember well was Fosters. It was like a mini department store. We had some of our clothes from there. You could buy things and pay so much a week. It was how we lived then. It was quite ...Read more

A memory of Polesworth in 1960 by Marilynne Connolly

Captions

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Caption For Lyme Regis, Bridge Street 1909

In the process it revealed Norman arches and probable remains of a chapel, as well as the underground room of a hermit, who was probably attached to Sherborne Abbey.

Caption For Easthampstead, Church 1901

Inside this expansive parish church the many signs of the Early English era are manifest in the pulpit, for instance, which is inscribed and dated 1631 on a large arched panel with a good helping

Caption For Avebury, St James' Church 1899

St James's church is of medium size; it has Anglo-Saxon windows, and a Norman chancel arch, arcades and font.

Caption For Burnley, Brunswick Chapel 1895

Though a good picture of a much-missed local landmark, this photograph also gives us a hint of Burnley as an industrial town.

Caption For Hampstead, The Spaniards, Spaniards End 1890

The semi-circular arch has gone from what is now the car park entrance, and the rather fine pub sign has also disappeared.

Caption For Broad Chalke, All Saints' Church C1955

Its crossing tower is possibly of the 14th century; it is buttressed by simple moulded half arches at the east end of the nave.

Caption For Rye, The River Rother 1901

Bodiam Bridge, completed in 1796, marked the limit of normal navigation, but its centre arch was raised sufficiently to allow river traffic to continue upstream when conditions were favourable.

Caption For Guisborough, Priory And Lake 1932

Screened from the road by rhododendrons, the Monks' Pond creates a very dramatic appearance as it reflects the priory arch - a frequent inspiration over the years for artists and photographers,

Caption For Barrow In Furness, St James Church 1895

The last one was recorded in 1908, and the curate of St James's Church in Blake Street, HIndpool (pictured here), with the backing of some local businessmen, provided a much-needed soup kitchen to alleviate

Caption For Guisborough, The Priory C1885

This unusual view shows the priory arch from the south; in the foreground are gardens which became a formal rose garden laid out for Margaret, later the first Lady Gisborough (see photograph

Caption For Devizes, St John's Church, Interior 1898

On entering the church, the immediate impression is of the Norman crossing, arches, chancel and east bay. The organ case is richly decorated with acanthus carving, and is late 17th-century.

Caption For Sharpness, The Severn Railway Bridge C1955

Constructed of wrought iron and completed in 1879, the Severn Bridge was the longest tied-arch, bowstring truss bridge on the British railway network.

Caption For Avebury, St James' Church C1955

The cylindrical Norman font is stunning: it has intersected arches, big scrolls and two big serpents with twisted tails, their heads looking at a saintly bishop, who is wearing a typical Norman

Caption For Malmesbury, Almshouses 1924

The entrance to the hospital was through the medieval arched doorway.

Caption For Milton Keynes, The M1 At Junction 14 C1965

The River Great Ouse flooded eight times in 1958- 59, hindering a viaduct construction of eight massive reinforced concrete arches.

Caption For Kettering, High Street C1955

The arched Venetian windows of a building of 1880 are still fairly staid, but in 1983 a ritzy V-shaped window would replace the flat front so the customers could see almost all round the display of Foster

Caption For Lyme Regis, Church And Town 1890

The tower was thought to date from the 12th century, but repairs in the winter of 1994 revealed a much earlier window, dating from about AD 980, in the south wall of the ringing chamber on the second

Caption For Rugby, The School Cloisters 1922

Cloisters with studies above run to the south and east of Old Quad, with a tall arch forming the entrance to the School House dining hall at the south-eastern corner.

Caption For Leeds, The Town Hall 1894

At the time of the opening of the Leeds Town Hall in 1858, an arch commemorating Queen Victoria's visit was erected in north Leeds.

Caption For Kettering, High Street C1955

The arched Venetian windows of a building of 1880 are still fairly staid, but in 1983 a ritzy V-shaped window would replace the flat front so the customers could see almost all round the display of Foster

Caption For High Wycombe, The Castle Mound And Castle House, Priory Avenue 2005

These medieval arches and walls survive because they were incorporated into the Grammar (Martin Andrew) The castle's medieval motte became a prospect mound with a garden room on top in the 19th

Caption For Hutton, Highcliff And Cleveland Hills C1885

commissioned the renowned Victorian architect, Alfred Waterhouse (who designed the Natural History Museum in London) to design a new mansion, Hutton Hall, which was completed in 1867; it replaced a much

Caption For Binfield, All Saint's Church C1955

An angel has appeared from a former house in the south chapel; the pulpit is dated 1628, and has blank arches and arabesque decoration; the back panel upper half has caryatids and the tester has strapwork

Caption For High Wycombe, The Grange, Amersham Hill 2005

Two of his later factories survive in Leigh Street (though they are no longer furniture factories): a three-storey one of 1901, brick built, and a much more ambitious one of 3 storeys built in