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Lost And Found In Bristol

Our family had returned to England at the very end of 1948 from a short overseas BOAC posting in Montreal. My father, a BOAC pilot, was due to begin training to fly Boeing Stratocruisers at Filton in 1949, and along with ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1951 by John Liles

Mistaken Identity

This not "The Sandhills." This view is from the railway bridge overlooking Harrison Park, so named after a famous Wallasey family. The hills are man made, allegedly from the spoil from the building of the Wallasey tunnel. This is ...Read more

A memory of Wallasey by larryjonze

Nobby Clarke Pilgrims Wood

Remember my young childhood days at pilgrims WOOD sandy lane childrens home.1944. The searchlights & BARRAGE BALLOONS up on the hogs back. Playing in the woods building camps with BRACKEN & CLIMING TREES ...Read more

A memory of Guildford by frederickclarke310

Tommy Hull, The Farmer

Tommy Hull had his house and opposite his barns on the bend of Church Road just before St Nicholas's Church . His main hayfield was were the estate at the top of Beaumont Terrace was built. Later when he retired the barns were ...Read more

A memory of Gosforth

The Boathouse At St. Nicholas Park, Warwick.

From the late 60's to early 70's I worked as an assistant boatman at St Nicholas park Boathouse. My duties included hiring motor boat and rowing skiffs to the public in the summer......in the winter months ...Read more

A memory of Warwick by jpsutton1

Castle Street Swimming Baths

I was a pupil at St Nicolas Primary School, Portsmouth Road, from 1964-1966. We went swimming at the Castle Street baths every week. I remember thinking even at the age of 10 how run down the street was and how old ...Read more

A memory of Guildford by Andrew Webb

Gosforth Just After The War

I was born at the Ravensbourne Nursing Home , opposite All Saints Church in 1943. At that time my father was in the army and my mother and I lived with my grandparents in Henry Street, my oldest aunt lived next door. My ...Read more

A memory of Gosforth by bunz

More Research Of One Of The Houseboats In The Photo.

With reference to the Polish Motor Torpedo Boat houseboat in the photo ('Hippocampus/S-8/HMTB 427'), I have done some more research using the local Electoral Registers (held in Winchester and ...Read more

A memory of Bursledon by Tim Deacon

Living In Godstone 54 74

I was born in Godstone in Ivy Mill Close, just the other side of the Green.  I walked to the primary school along the Bay Path.  My Gran lived in St Mary's Almhouses right opposite the school and I would go there for ...Read more

A memory of Godstone by Joy Hearn

My Childhood In Godstone 1944 1959

I was born in Eastbourne Road, in a house opposite the sand pits and the common. My name was Wendy Mitchell. With my sisters and brother I would spend hours picking bluebells and primroses and climbing trees ...Read more

A memory of Godstone by Wendy Soall

Captions

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Caption For Launceston, High Street 1906

The corner shop, here selling crockery, tin bowls and leather bags, is now Peter Briggs, a shoe shop, but it remains largely unchanged, even preserving the same windows we see here.

Caption For Pevensey, The School From The Footbridge C1955

The middle ground is now less rural, with fences either side of the path; to the right are 1960s elderly persons' bungalows, St Nicholas Close.

Caption For Sabden, The Caravan Site C1965

Beside Sabden Brook stands the church of St Nicholas, built in 1846.

Caption For Benhilton, The Hilton 1904

We have already seen All Saints in Benhilton, and this view shows the old parish church of St Nicholas, which did not escape the church building fervour - it was entirely rebuilt in the 1860s

Caption For Worth, St Nicholas's Church And The Lychgate C1960

The fine Anglo-Saxon church of St Nicholas was a principal church in pre-Conquest times.

Caption For Scarborough, The South Cliff Tramway 1890

Thanks to the terrain at Scarborough, two other tramways were built; one near the Grand Hotel and another at St Nicholas Gardens.

Caption For West Boldon, St Nicholas Terrace C1955

Some of the cottages in St Nicholas Terrace, which is located to the north of the church, are 18th-century, and one of them is dated 1771.

Caption For Simpson, Main Road C1958

Back in the new city of Milton Keynes, Simpson is one of the villages it engulfed; but it is conserved within its boundaries.

Caption For Norton, The Village C1950

One of the earliest references to Norton is a grant by Offa of Mercia to the monastery at St Albans.

Caption For Great Yarmouth, Market Place 1908

In the distance is St Nicholas's Church, said to be one of the largest parish churches in England.

Caption For Charlwood, The Street 1904

The historic core of Charlwood is to the west of the view seen in photograph No 54172, by the medieval parish church of St Nicholas which was restored by William Burgess in 1858.

Caption For Broadwater, Village 1906

It was the seat of the De Braoses, with a mighty stone castle; but its keep of about 1100 is now merely a fragment, for the market and town migrated to nearby Steyning when the Adur silted up.

Caption For East Dereham, 1893

In the background are the two towers of St Nicholas's church.

Caption For Lazonby, The Church C1955

The church of St Nicholas which dominates this view was redesigned in 1863 by Anthony Salvin.

Caption For Abingdon, Stert Street 1893

Skirting the modern shopping centre, our tour reaches Stert Street, which runs south towards the Market Place; in the 1890s, it was one of Abingdon's main shopping streets.

Caption For Thorne, Market Place C1955

Ascend the clock tower of St Nicholas's parish church and see six of the county's major rivers - the Humber, the Don, the Went, the Ouse, the Trent and the Aire.

Caption For Liverpool, The Provisional Cathedral 1890

St Peter's was the name of this church, which gave Church Street its name.

Caption For Bramber, Church C1900

It was the seat of the De Braoses, with a mighty stone castle; but its keep of about 1100 is now merely a fragment, for the market and town migrated to nearby Steyning when the Adur silted up.

Caption For Addlethorpe, Church C1955

St Nicholas' Church and the village are now bypassed from the busy A52 that thunders along towards Mablethorpe.

Caption For Liverpool, George's Dock C1881

Construction of St George's Dock was authorised by an Act of Parliament in 1761.

Caption For Cottesmore, The Village C1955

Here is a village at ease with itself, in the heart of stone country.

Caption For Liverpool, George's Dock C1881

We can just see St Nicholas' Church and the Tower Building at the very far end.

Caption For Earley, St Peter's Church 1910

St Peter's is Early English in style and is appropriately in Church Road, Earley, now part of Reading.

Caption For Launceston, High Street 1906

The corner shop, here selling crockery, tin bowls and leather bags, is now Peter Briggs, a shoe shop, but it remains largely unchanged, even preserving the same windows we see here.