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A Memory Of Heswall Children's Hospital

Anybody remember me in Heswall Children’s Hospital. My name then was Veronica Roberts I had a RTA on the way home from school beginning of summer 1957.I had a broken leg, concussion and a broken nose. I had my 5th ...Read more

A memory of Heswall by Veronica Kelly

Post Office

I remember that postage stamp machine outside the post office. If you put a halfpenny in the penny slot & flicked it in forcefully you obtained a penny stamp. My mother made me & a friend, who shall remain nameless, return ...Read more

A memory of Skelmanthorpe by Bob Slater

Harrow Driving School Rayners Lane 1985 1986 Approx

Memories of getting the tube from Arnos Grove to Rayners Lane and then the long walk up Imperial Drive - until reaching the driving centre. The set up included traffic lights, zebra crossings, ...Read more

A memory of Harrow by John Walmisley

Larner And Mustoe Families

I am very interested in Northleach because my family connections, the Mustoes and Larners, go back several hundred years there and certainly in the case of the Larners back to the 1600's. Both families were shepherds and ...Read more

A memory of Northleach by Gary Hargreaves

Caravan Holiday In 50s

My parents had a caravan at The Old Coastguards close to Seasalter Sailing Club from 50s to 70s. It had only 3 caravans on it. I regularly got up early as a child to accompany the site owner, a super guy, while he followed the ...Read more

A memory of Seasalter by Andrew Henderson

A Holiday From Glasgow

I went to fornethy residential school twice in my childhood, each time my mum was having a child. 1960 and 1962. I spent 6 weeks each time. I have read thru most of the comments here, and I’m so glad for me I ...Read more

A memory of Fornethy Residential School by Letitia Latt

Lord Mayor Treloar Hospital Sandy Point

At the age of 12 I was a patient at Treloars in Alton, having been diagnosed as having TB knee - a clout with a cricket ball was a little more serious than just a swollen knee, and I was sent to Treloars ...Read more

A memory of Hayling Island in 1953 by Heather Tierney

Post War Harlesden.

I was born in Tredegar, South Wales in April 1941. My mother had been evacuated to that small welsh town when she fell pregnant with me in 1940. We lived with her parents. My dad was away doing War things. We moved back to London ...Read more

A memory of Harlesden by John Howley

Family Connections.

The couple on the right pavement are my grandparents George Gray and his wife Elizabeth (nee Phippen) of Thornford. The photo would have been taken on a Thursday because after his retirement they always travelled to Sherborne on ...Read more

A memory of Sherborne by Claire Allen

Moving Of The War Memorial

Note in this photo that the war memorial has been moved back and the wall lowered. Flats have been built on the Banstead house site. You could always see the green houses over the high wall from the top of the 164a bus. The ...Read more

A memory of Banstead in 1956 by Heather Lee

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Caption For Coniston, From Church Tower 1906

This view from the church tower was taken looking towards the wooded slopes of High Guards and up the valley of the Yewdale Beck. The

Caption For Coniston, From Church Tower 1906

This view from the church tower looks towards the wooded slopes of High Guards and up the valley of the Yewdale Beck. The

Caption For Scarborough, Peasholm Park C1955

These ornamental pools are located higher up the valley and are fed by Peasholm Beck. The

Caption For Gilling West, Village 1913

We are looking east towards the bridge over the beck. The

Caption For Gilling West, Village 1913

We are looking east towards the bridge over the beck. The

Caption For Cark In Cartmel, Mill Close C1968

Former mill workers' houses, now modernised, line the beck.

Caption For Keighley, Quebec Street C1890

The bed level of the North Beck was raised five feet by the accumulation of rubbish.

Caption For Staithes, The View From The Viaduct C1885

This view illustrates how Staithes is perched on two cliff sides which flank a beck.

Caption For Sandsend, East Row 1901

A horse and cart trundles along the road spanning East Beck, one of two streams that meander through the village - the other is Sandsend Beck.

Caption For Thornton Dale, Beck Isle Cottage C1965

This much-photographed cottage stands alongside the beck, in which trout can still be seen.

Caption For Boosbeck, Lockwood Beck C1960

The Lockwood Beck Reservoir is situated at the junction of the A171 Guisborough-to-Whitby moor road with the road to Castleton.

Caption For Saltburn By The Sea, Skelton Beck 1891

A group of intrepid Victorian ladies and gentlemen derive great hilarity from their exploits as the ladies attempt to cross Skelton Beck in full- length dress!

Caption For Staithes, The Town And The Boats 1927

A view showing clearly how Staithes stands on two sides of a beck, that to the right being in Cleveland and that to the left in North Yorkshire.

Caption For Buttermere, The Village 1889

The small stock enclosure which goes across the Sail Beck was probably used for sheep washing in the summer, before shearing.

Caption For Buttermere, The Village 1889

The small stock enclosure which goes across the Sail Beck was probably used for sheep washing in the summer, before shearing.

Caption For Redmire, The Ford C1955

This charming photograph shows two lads and a girl pulling a handcart carrying metal milk churns over the ford across the beck in Redmire, a village situated in mid Wensleydale.

Caption For Arkengarthdale, The C.B. Hotel C1960

The white-painted CB Hotel in remote Arkengarthdale recalls the initials of Charles Bathurst, the 19th-century lead mining master who owned the circular powder house of the CB Smelt Mill nearby.

Caption For Cropton, The Green C1955

A deserted seat stands invitingly under the spreading chestnut tree on the village green at Cropton, four miles from Pickering on the southern edge of the North York Moors.

Caption For Ambleside, Bridge House 1912

Easily the most famous and most photographed building in Ambleside is Bridge House, a tiny one-up, one-down house constructed on a bridge over the Stock Beck.

Caption For Saffron Walden, Hospital 1912

The Hospital opened in 1866 and was designed by William Beck.

Caption For West Burton, Bridge And Fall 1893

As Walden Beck cascades towards the Ure, it crosses under the Blue Bridge; it used to power the old mill downstream.

Caption For Morland, The Village 1893

A local character lounges on a wall on the left in the charming and unspoilt village of Morland, in the Eden Valley.

Caption For Malham, Village C1877

The limestone cliffs, crags and scars make the setting for Malham a delight for urban eyes.

Caption For Ulverston, Hoad Hill From Mowings Lane 1925

In the foreground are allotments, now buried under housing.