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East Ham 1966/1968
I moved from Dulwich in 1966 as my father was in the army.We lived in the TA camp on Vicarage lane and I went to Vicarage Lane School. My maiden name was Mcnickle. I attend it for 18 months then went to Burges Manor which I have ...Read more
A memory of Barking in 1967 by
T A Centre Vicarage Lane
My dad was in the army and we left Nairobi in Kenya and went to live at the TA Centre on Vicarage Lane in East Ham. I went to Burges Manor School for girls and next door was Thomas Lethaby the School for boys. One of my ...Read more
A memory of East Ham in 1965 by
The Old Step Bridge Woking
This memory is very clear to me. As a resident of Horsell I would often walk down Brewery Road to Goldsworth School and over the step bridge, with its iron railings painted green in those days. My brother would take me along ...Read more
A memory of Woking in 1957 by
Kidderminster The Canal
Being born and raised in Kidderminster leaves me with a lot of good memories. I moved to the USA in 1958. My Dad worked on the canal before the war and indeed during the war. As a kid I spent a lot of my time ...Read more
A memory of Chaddesley Corbett in 1946 by
Peter Prankerd's First Born
I am Peter Prankerd's first born child, Catherine Anne Bulteel (nee Prankerd). I now live in South Africa. My brother (my father's second born) resides in the UK. I have vague memories of this house but vivid memories of ...Read more
A memory of Newnham in 1962 by
The Union Canal Falkirk
I have explored the Union Canal in Falkirk over the past 15 years as a local resident and canal user - I have walked, and traveled its length several times over on boats, too ( in short sections of course). The journey began ...Read more
A memory of Maddiston in 1997 by
Post War Brownsover
From the late 1940's to 1969 I remember this area as part housing, part prefabricated homes because of the war. Many old features were still around like barges carrying coal on the Oxford canal, the old disused mill, the huge ...Read more
A memory of Brownsover by
Awalk With Grandfather
A walk with grandfather « Thread Started Yesterday at 2:03pm » -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Walk with Grandfather. I was about 11 years old, one summer's day, when ...Read more
A memory of Stramshall in 1930 by
'threeways Cafe', Bures
My dad and mum owned the Threeways Cafe in Bures for a while in the late 1950s, they where Eddie and Margaret Morris. If anyone remembers them I would like to see their memories. Mary
A memory of Bures by
Home Farm
I am writing this on behalf of my Dad, Harold Holmes nicknamed Tiny who is still alive at the age of 91, the oldest male born in Saltfleet. He was born in Saltfleet in 1919 son of the local baker Alfred & Elizabeth Holmes. Educated at ...Read more
A memory of Saltfleet in 1920 by
Captions
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A Moore resident keeps a look out for a rare commercial barge making its leisurely way along the Bridgewater Canal.
However, the barge section was retained as a water channel.
Tamar barges such as the one in the centre of this picture would bring produce down from Calstock, Gunnislake and Bere Alston and land them at Cornwall Street in Devonport.
We are looking upstream, towards St Michael's Church, from the old quay; until the 1950s, Thames barges delivered grain here to Green's Mill.
The building on the left was once a warehouse for storing wood and coal, which was brought up stream by barge.
It is a summer morning and high tide outside the Palace of Westminster, with the barges at anchor.
A fleet of barges, their sales furled, are berthed at the quay.
At the height of the canal era, the Wharf was a bustling depot where up to ten large barges could load and unload.
The harbour is packed with an assortment of sailing craft, including fishing smacks, brigs and sailing barges.
The area beyond the Foundry Bridge had been converted into the city yacht station for pleasure boats, although as can be seen from this photograph, barges remained at the warehouse opposite.
Once the water could hardly be seen for the many barges packing the river from bank to bank, carrying their vast variety of cargo from Hull to York.
Lambeth Palace, residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury, is seen from a barge loaded with timber.
To the right was a canal and railway siding, where barges were loaded with lime and bricks for the local and London markets.
Here we see loaded barges and empty Humber keels.
The outbuildings of the White Horse Inn are nearest to us (left); the inn faces the old market place, where there is another dock area for barges.
The area beyond the Foundry Bridge had been converted into the city yacht station for pleasure boats, although as can be seen from this photograph, barges remained at the warehouse opposite.
This view of sailing barges stern to emphasises the ratio in length and beam possessed by these squat yet solid craft.
Here, a sailing barge negotiates the lock gates.
Its lower steps have been buried by the raising of the road.
At Stourport, cargoes were transhipped between Staffs & Worcs narrowboats and Severn trows - these were sailing barges that operated to and from the Bristol Channel ports.
Note the ornamental barge boards.
The River Lagan flows within a few miles of the huge Lough Neagh, which is bordered by four Ulster counties; a lot of work was done to make the river able to take barges, with a link to the lough.
Rags needed for the production were brought by barge from London.
A steam tugboat hauls a barge into the docks on the right.
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