Places
22 places found.
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- Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset
- Burnham-On-Crouch, Essex
- Burnham, Buckinghamshire
- Burnham Overy Staithe, Norfolk
- Burnham Market, Norfolk
- Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk
- Brent Knoll, Somerset (near Burnham-on-Sea)
- Burnham Overy Town, Norfolk
- Burnham Deepdale, Norfolk
- Burnham Norton, Norfolk
- Burnham, Humberside
- Burnham Green, Hertfordshire
- Middle Burnham, Somerset
- East Burnham, Buckinghamshire
- Low Burnham, Humberside
- Wick, Somerset (near Burnham-on-Sea)
- Steart, Somerset (near Burnham-on-Sea)
- Creeksea, Essex (near Burnham-On-Crouch)
- Creeksea, Essex (near Burnham-On-Crouch)
- Northend, Essex (near Burnham-On-Crouch)
- St Lawrence, Essex (near Burnham-On-Crouch)
- White Cross, Somerset (near Burnham-on-Sea)
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Maps
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Memories
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25 Years In Beaconsfield.
Born in Wembley, I arrived in the New Town of Beaconsfield in 1957 aged 5. With my younger sister and my parents. I left home at 17 but returned occasionally until 1981 when my parents moved to Scotland. I lived in ...Read more
A memory of Beaconsfield by
Good Old Days
i lived at 13ward gardens just by the village green.spent my youth there until moving to new zealand when i was 25,spent many a day fishing for sticklebacks in the stream by the pond back in 1964,as i got older spent many an hour in the ...Read more
A memory of Cippenham by
Where Has The Time Gone
to have good memories of baughurst my parents both worked at AWRE we moved there when I was one and we left the area in 1970 when I was 15 We lived at 50 long grove and I also went to hurst school I now live in new Zealand ...Read more
A memory of Baughurst by
Growing Up In Burnham
In this year I was 5 years old, and just starting school in the church hall in Gore Road, which is the road in which I also grew up. I remember Burnham as a small, close-knit community, we went to church every Sunday, it was ...Read more
A memory of Burnham in 1962 by
The New Nhs
Straight from school at 17 and a half, I started training at Treloars in 1948. The Managers had managed the transfer to the NHS very efficiently! As Lord Burnham was Chairman of the Board [and also of the Daily Telegraph! ] we we well ...Read more
A memory of Alton by
Perimede Road Perivale
Hi there ,I was born in Perivale hospital in July 1960. No longer there? I also remember flying a kite with my grandparents which was so much fun. I wonder if there is anyone out there who knew or knows a family who lived in ...Read more
A memory of Perivale
Memories Of My Childhood
I was born in 1956, in Wiltshire, but my first memories are of Pawlett, where we moved, when I was very small. It was a smaller, quiter village than it is even now. I went to the village school, on the village green, next to ...Read more
A memory of Pawlett in 1961 by
Early Recollections
Amongst my earliest memories of Burnham-on-Sea are those of being in the forge of my grandfather's blacksmith's shop, he was Mr Welland, watching him shoeing horses. After the work was done he would hoist me up onto the ...Read more
A memory of Burnham-on-Sea in 1940 by
Number 1 Kersemill Cottages
I started being accident prone at an early age it seems. My parents lived at the above cottages with me and my big sister. My dad was a meal miller and worked at the meal mill just up the the road to the right I think, ...Read more
A memory of Kersemill in 1956 by
Holidays
We spent many a happy holiday in the Bridgwater area, sometimes staying on a farm just outside Bridgwater and in later years in a flat in the holiday village in nearby Burnham on Sea. Many wonderful memories of my dead parents and dogs!
A memory of Bridgwater by
Captions
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The name of this inn is the Hero, after the most famous inhabitant of the Burnhams: Horatio Nelson, born in the rectory of nearby Burnham Thorpe, and later to become England's greatest admiral, and victor
Once known as Alfred Street, Burnham's main shopping street was an avenue at one time; but the trees were removed to accommodate traffic.
The Burnhams take their name from the river Burn, which runs through this picture.
Moving further east along Somerset's coast, we reach Burnham on Sea.
The village stands above the estuary of the River Crouch, about three miles north west of Burnham-on-Crouch.
Across the River Crouch lie Burnham and Creeksea.
Burnham desperately struggles to keep its identity separate from the sprawl of Slough, but the historic core is surrounded by suburban housing and its main street has seen injudicious change since 1955
All the way north from Burnham to Brean Down, the six miles of road behind the sand dunes and beaches has a string of bungalows, chalets, shops, caravan parks, amusement parks and holiday camps, as well
The George Hotel on the right with the porch survives, but the branch railway line to Burnham- on-Sea, its level crossing gates shown closed, has long gone.
Closer in, you can look down on Weston Bay and Weston-super-Mare to the north: it is probably better not to look too closely at the holiday sprawl along the road back to Burnham-on-Sea.
It was built by W H Pemberton for the Burcham-Rogers family, who wanted it completed in the Elizabethan style.
