Places
28 places found.
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- Broom, Warwickshire
- Broom, Fife
- Broome, Shropshire (near Stokesay)
- Broom, Bedfordshire
- Broom's Barn, Suffolk
- Broom's Green, Gloucestershire
- Broom, Strathclyde
- Broom, Yorkshire
- Broom, Dyfed
- Broom, Dorset
- Broome, Norfolk
- Broom, Cumbria (near Appleby-in-Westmorland)
- Broome, Shropshire (near Acton Burnell)
- Broome, Hereford & Worcester
- Bow Broom, Yorkshire
- Barnham Broom, Norfolk
- Broom Hill, Avon
- Broom Hill, Dorset
- Broom Street, Kent
- Park Broom, Cumbria
- High Brooms, Kent
- Broom Green, Norfolk
- Hall Broom, Yorkshire
- Exhall, Warwickshire (near Broom)
- Broom Hill, Greater London
- Broom Hill, Hereford & Worcester
- Broom Hill, Suffolk (near Woodbridge)
- Broom Hill, Durham (near Consett)
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Ledsham Court, St Leonards, Sussex ...Great Memories! By John Franks, (Ex Rascal Boarder).
Well, I would like to bring a little history of our wonderful school in St Leonards back to life with the real colour and warmth of the time when I was there in the early ...Read more
A memory of Great Parndon by
Green Bank School
2 roomed little private school which was the worst ever experienced. Owned/run/head mistress by an ex-nun MISS MELADY who was absolutely vile and cruel. Luckily she taught the older class whilst another teacher class I was in. My ...Read more
A memory of Yelverton by
More Memories From A Boy Growing Up In Burghfield
Back in Burghfield around 1962, I clearly remember one day during the School Summer Holiday seeing a Huge Red and Green Steamroller coming towards me with a whole host of Road Tar making ...Read more
A memory of Burghfield Common by
Yesterday's Birch
I REMEMBER BIRCH IN 1960'S. THE VILLAGE SHOP WAS RUN BY A JEWISH MAN CALLED MR WOLFE. WHEN YOU CROSSED THE ROAD ON TO WHITTLE LANE THERE WAS A ROW OF HOUSES THAT WERE ATTACHED TO THE WHITE HART PUB . AS YOU WALKED UP THE LANE ...Read more
A memory of Birch by
When The Reverend Nichols Was The Rector
Sadly, I believe St Michael's Church is little more now than a ruin of it's former self, nothing like it was in the 1940's when it seemed to stand proudly on the hill watching over and protecting the small ...Read more
A memory of Pitsea in 1940 by
When I Was A Girl
When I was about five years old my parents used to take us kids on a Sunday walk. Always remember it was to Stambridge mills. Back then the roads leading to the mill were not more then a country track. On the way to the mills dad ...Read more
A memory of Rochford in 1955 by
A Long Time Ago
I lived in Codsall Wood between 1944 and 1952. I attended Albrighton Infants School between 1950 and 1952, I still have my school cap, the only names I can remember was the dinner lady a Mrs Orange and 2 other pupils Darryl Massey ...Read more
A memory of Albrighton in 1951 by
A Great Place To Live
Having been born and brought up in Buckhusrt Hill in the 1960s and 1970s and 1980s and now living in Kent, it reminds me what a unique place it once was. My immediate memories are of Lords Bushes and living in Forest ...Read more
A memory of Buckhurst Hill by
Days Gone By
My memories of Greyabbey date back to 1940 just after the Blitz when Mum and her 3 sisters plus one sister-in-law with a bunch of kids relocated to Cardy, a small community appox. 3 miles from Greyabbey. I was 8 years of age at the ...Read more
A memory of Greyabbey in 1940 by
The Brook
Wonderful memories! It was awonderful place to have grown up. I learned to swim in the brook, aged about 11 years. I wonder who wrote the following which I was taught in school. Very appropriate! "Little stream flowing ...Read more
A memory of Gayton by
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Situated to the south of Alcester on the Midland Railway line, Broom railway station was the interchange for a cross-country route linking up with the Midland main line from Rugby to Bedford.
The large broom hanging over the doorway is now in the Castle Museum.
There are a number of 16th- and 17th-century half-timbered cottages in this photograph, but judging by the state of some of them the village was living up to the 'Beggarly Broom' image given to it by
The others were Bidford itself, Bidford Grange, and the outlying hamlets of Broom, Barton and Marlcliff.
The rhyme goes: 'Piping Pepworth, Dancing Marston, Haunted Hillborough, Hungry Grafton, Dodging Exhall, Papist Wixford, Beggarly Broom, Drunken Bidford'.
The element 'Hurt' in Hurtwood comes from the Old English word 'ceart', meaning a rough common of bracken, gorse and broom.
Pearsall took advantage of the new handlooms developed by John Broom, a local entrepreneur.
The name referred to the wild broom which grew here.
The name referred to the wild broom which grew here.
The rhyme attributed to him goes: 'Piping Pepworth, Dancing Marston, Haunted Hillborough, Hungry Grafton, Dodging Exhall, Papist Wixford, Beggarly Broom, Drunken Bidford'.
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