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River Derwent Crossings Brigham Broughton
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Brigham Church
Brigham is a village a couple of miles west of Cockermouth. Much of the church at Brigham is Norman, dating to 1080 and has connections to the Wordsworth family. At the time the church was built Cockermouth was part ...Read more
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Little Sutton Shops
The church was the Presbyterian and the fruit and veg shop also sold fish (Tommy Jones, fish). There was a furniture shop (Flackets) On the corner of Ledsham was Miss (although a Mrs.) Locket’s. Over Ledsham past the bank ...Read more
A memory of Little Sutton in 1967
Henry Tingey Ancester
My great grandfather Henry Tingey, was born November 18, 1819, in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire. He was the son of James Tingey and Elizabeth Boniss. James and Elizabeth, and family later moved from Bigglewade, Bedfordshire, ...Read more
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St Mary's Bay Holiday Camp. Brixham
I had a wonderful weeks holiday here in June 1961. I often think of the short time I spent there and the people I met, fellow campers. My chalet was, by today's standards a little more than a shed, but had gas ...Read more
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Dancing At The Brixham Heritage Festival 2008
One of the week long programme of events for the Brixham Heritage Festival is morris dancing on the old Fish Quay. Grimspound Border Morris entertained the crowds first. They "blacked up" in the ...Read more
A memory of Brixham in 2008 by
Brundall
Peggy from the USA, who sent a memory of Brundall, is my cousin. Arthur Henry Brigham was my grandfather, and he was the Signalman at Brundall railway station. I knew Sydney (her father) very well, and also spent many happy days at Brooms ...Read more
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Happy Memories In Brundall
Imagine my surprise while sitting here in U.S.A. looking at pictures of the village Brundall, the village that I was born in. I saw a picture of my dad, Sidney A. Brigham, launching a sail boat at Brooms Boat Yard. The ...Read more
A memory of Brundall in 1955 by
Grandfather
My paternal grandfather was born in West Hougham in 1864. His name was Harry Brigham Barton. His father was a wheelwright and lived it West Hougham. His name was Thomas Skinner Barton.
A memory of West Hougham in 1860 by
Occupations In Great Witchingham
I have found out that my great, great, great grandfather, William Brigham was a baker at Great Witchingham (1841 census). My other GGG grandfather, James Smith, was a miller. James Smith's son, Frederick, was ...Read more
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The flatness of the Wolds is interrupted by the hill on which the tiny hamlet of Brigham sits.
The flatness of the Wolds is interrupted by the hill on which the tiny hamlet of Brigham sits.
This view shows Bolton Cross on the road to Higher Brixham before it became the traffic-packed road junction it is today.
The boat under construction here is one of the famed Brixham trawlers.
For many years Brixham's Fore Street was the principal thoroughfare between Higher Brixham and the harbour.
This idyllic picture of the Brixham fishing fleet gives some idea of just how much the fishing industry dominated the town for hundreds of years.
Brixham became a major fishing port ranking alongside Hull, Grimsby, Fleetwood, Lowestoft and Fraserburgh.
Cars and buses are no longer allowed to park among the weird and wonderful gritstone formations of Brimham Rocks, near Pateley Bridge in Nidderdale, as they were when this photograph was taken.
Cars and buses are no longer allowed to park among the weird and wonderful gritstone formations of Brimham Rocks, near Pateley Bridge in Nidderdale, as they were when this photograph was taken.
Newton Abbot and Newton Bushel were two discrete settlements at the head of the Teign estuary when William of Orange arrived there from Brixham in 1688, on his way to displace James II as King of England
Until the 20th century, shipbuilding was Brixham's most important industry after fishing.
Until the 20th century, shipbuilding was Brixham's most important industry after fishing.
The wholesale fish market at Brixham was the largest in the west of England at this time.
William of Orange, whose statue looks away from the sea and towards England, landed at Brixham on 5 November 1688 to depose the Catholic King James II and to herald 'a glorious revolution'.
William of Orange, whose statue looks away from the sea and towards England, landed at Brixham on 5 November 1688 to depose the Catholic King James II and to herald 'a glorious revolution'.
The fishermen of Brixham refined the technique of trawling for their catch close to the bottom of the sea; this technique mostly replaced the earlier drifting.
It was the house to which William of Orange (later King William III) repaired soon after landing at Brixham in 1688 to end the Stuart dynasty and start the line of Protestant monarchs who have reigned
