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My Ancestors

I have been compiling my family tree for about 20 years and recently found Christopher Crakeplace, who built Crakeplace Hall, as the son of my 10xgreat grandfather, Oswald and wife Isabella, nee Williamson. Unfortunately I do not ...Read more

A memory of Crakeplace Hall by Angela Rigley

Probably My Finest Hours But Never Knew It

I started at Oughtrington as a very shy and quiet 12 year old in 1955. My first impressions were that I had been dropped off the bus, from Altrincham into a holiday hotel, not school. Progressing ...Read more

A memory of Oughtrington by lesandve

Summer Memories Of Picktree Village

In the late 1950’s and as a young boy around 8 or 9 living in the west end of Newcastle, I used to visit my Auntie Bella and Uncle Ted regularly. They lived at Number 3 Picktree Cottages, a short row of picturesque ...Read more

A memory of Picktree by Ben Haddon

Bluebells

My godmother and her parents lived 'forever' at Gravel Road, just up from the small shop on the Park Avenue end. With a marvellous garden of flowers, fruit and poultry; a walkway tunnel of Quince, a black & white tiled pathway to ...Read more

A memory of Farnborough in 1950 by Olivia R S

Merland Rise Infant School

I remember well receiving the Silver Jubilee coin (still have it!) when my sister and I had just started at Merland Rise Primary School. The headteacher became Mrs. Pepper but I can't recall the name of the ...Read more

A memory of Tattenham Corner in 1977 by Melanie Watson

Northolt Wonderland

I was born in Barnet in 1942, but the Germans bombed our house and killed my dad a few months later. I was sent to Wales to avoid the Blitz. (BlitzKrieg - Lightening strikes) after 5 years I found myself in Millway Gardens in ...Read more

A memory of Northolt by Philip Yorke Edgell

Married In Oakhanger Church

In 1991 my husband and I married in Oakhanger Church. The whole of the month of June had been absolutely horrendous with rain and we didn’t hold out much hope for the day of our wedding. That day was the only ...Read more

A memory of Oakhanger by D Toovey

Looking Back At My Life Growing Up, And Working In Fareham Plus More.

Leaving Southampton Road School in 1954, I started working on the outskirts of Titchfield for Sanders & Sons in their tomato glass houses, which was a good working start for me. ...Read more

A memory of Fareham by Alan Kitchin

Southall Memories

My parents, who came to England from India in 1955, when I was 3 months old, moved to Southall in 1959, from Whitton, when I was 4. I remember Southall Broadway at that time-there was actually a saddlery business there! C. ...Read more

A memory of Southall by Sandya Narayanswami

Rest & Recuperation During World War Ii

Throughout our childhood our Mother talked about Whitby. During WWII she served as a gunner (Ack Ack girl) operating a predictor machine in the ATS. Her unit started protecting Felixstowe docks, then Sutton ...Read more

A memory of Whitby by Pam Antink

Captions

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Caption For London, Hyde Park Corner, The Screen 1900

Decimus Burton’s impressive arch is topped by a decorative frieze depicting horsemen, the design imitated from the Elgin Marbles which were on display in the British Museum.

Caption For Bury St Edmunds, Abbots Bridge C1955

The arches once had portcullises into the water, and there is a walkway on the inside of the wall.

Caption For Brighton, The Beach 1902

From Palace Pier looking east, beyond the terminus of Magnus Volks' 1883 Electric Railway, we can see the late 1890s arches of Madeira Terrace, halfway up the sea wall in front of Marine Parade, with Kemp

Caption For Alton, The Round House C1955

Even before the Great War business had been transferred to a 'much more commodious police station'.

Caption For Great Haywood, Essex Bridge C1955

The original bridge consisted of 42 arches and stretched some way back from the river in order to clear wet ground.

Caption For Alton, The Round House C1955

Even before the Great War, business had been transferred to a 'much more commodious police station'.

Caption For Fareham, Union Street 2005

The bricks that were used to build many of the houses in the High Street were the same kind, the magnificent Fareham Reds, that built the spectacular railway viaduct, whose seventeen arches loom

Caption For Walberswick, Bridge 1919

Horsedrawn carriages and motorised vehicles had to take a much longer route, about nine miles, via Blythburgh.

Caption For Hadleigh, Toppesfield Bridge 1922

This is the three-arched red brick medieval bridge over the River Brett at Hadleigh.

Caption For Eastbourne, Belle Vue Hotel C1965

All the buildings in this view survive, including the smaller houses in Elms Avenue and the rather good 1850s stucco of the Belle Vue Hotel, with its arched ground floor windows and heavy moulded cornice

Caption For Huntingdon, The Old Bridge 1898

The medieval bridge over the River Ouse was started in 1332 to connect Huntingdon with Godmanchester, and the respective authorities paid for three arches - note the different styles - with the builders

Caption For Warminster, Market Place C1965

On the right is a heavily-rusticated arch leading through to the rear of the hotel, a reminder of the town's coaching days.

Caption For Northwich, Anderton Boat Lift C1960

One such can be seen sandwiched between two barges. The Anderton Lift created a much faster passage for boats and increased the tonnage of river traffic to 226,000 in 1913.

Caption For Lee, Old Maid's Cottage C1950

This was built as a much smaller cottage in 1653, and rebuilt in the 1870s by Robert Wilson.

Caption For Chelwood Gate, The Village C1930

Not far away are Chelwood Vachery, a re-created hall-house originally called Trimmer's Pond, and Kidbrooke Park, a much altered and decorated house with gardens laid out by Repton.

Caption For London, The County Hall C1955

Though it sits heavily on the Embankment, its broad facades and massed arches in the Piranesi style bring it a monumental dignity.'

Caption For Witchampton, Mill 1904

The mill at Witchampton stands on the site of a much older mill building.

Caption For Brompton, The Gordon Memorial And R E Institute 1894

The General died in 1885 and this statue, erected in 1890, faces the memorial arch.

Caption For Uppingham, School Quadrangle 1927

The air of a monastic undercroft, with its heavy circular columns and chamfered pointed arches, pervades the photograph.

Caption For Staines, Boating 1907

Guiding a punt - and its 'fair inhabitants' - towards the graceful arches of Staines Bridge.

Caption For Broadstairs, York Gate 1887

Leading from the old village to the harbour beyond, this 16th-century arch, originally fitted with a portcullis and gates, was built to protect the settlement against pirates and smugglers.

Caption For South Shields, Marsden Bay C1955

Nearby is Marsden Rock, an arched sandstone rock inhabited by thousands of seabirds.

Caption For Boston Spa, Thorp Arch Hall 1908

Thorp Arch Hall is now divided into three separate houses, and has been tastefully restored in recent years.

Caption For Reigate, Ricebridge On The Mole 1886

A group, thought to be part of a 'walking party', pose rather self-consciously on the two-arched bridge over the River Mole. This stands across the fields some two miles to the south west of Reigate.