Places
11 places found.
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- Taunton, Somerset
- Blagdon Hill, Somerset (near Taunton)
- Taunton, Greater Manchester
- Charlton, Somerset (near Taunton)
- Haydon, Somerset (near Taunton)
- Ash, Somerset (near Taunton)
- Heale, Somerset (near Taunton)
- Coombe, Somerset (near Taunton)
- Ham, Somerset (near Taunton)
- Upcott, Somerset (near Taunton)
- Meare Green, Somerset (near Taunton)
Photos
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Maps
55 maps found.
Books
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Memories
60 memories found. Showing results 1 to 10.
Harold Hill Memories
Hi people, Just wanted to share a few memories of living in Harold Hill. My family moved from Bow to Hilldene Ave in 1962, I was 7 so I went to Bosworth junior school which was only across the road from where I lived. I was ...Read more
A memory of Harold Hill by
Probably Strangely Out Of Place At Hawthorns.
It was 1952 or '53. I was one of a few young boys boarded at Hawthorns in those Post-War days. I was sequestered there while my parents toured the United States for a year. I didn't remember them when ...Read more
A memory of Frinton-On-Sea by
Shopping Memories.
My father was a greengrocer and his shop appears in this photograph on the left side going into the Rex Cinema arcade, a butchers shop was on the right side. During the war years and into the very early 1950s, he was the largest ...Read more
A memory of Bridgwater by
Taunton Manor High School
I attended this school between !971 and 1974 before moving on to Purley High School. It was a truly awful school run by a Dickensian character, who still used corporal punishment. He was aided and abetted by like minded ...Read more
A memory of Old Coulsdon
Annunciation Infants And St Martins Junior School Burnt Oak 1977 1983
I was born in 1973 and lived in Burnt Oak for 6 lovely years from aged 4 to 10 when we relocated to South London. I attended the Annunciation Primary School and St Martins School on ...Read more
A memory of Burnt Oak by
Yvonne Veronica Anne Drake Married A Chafai (Moroccan) In Bristol In 1965
Hi, Does anyone remember a young woman born in 1943 called Yvonne Veronica Anne Drake who was working in a ladies clothing store in Bristol in 1965. Her dad was Peter Frank Drake, an ...Read more
A memory of Bristol
My Paper Round
I worked as a paper boy at Newby's in Taunton Lane. I got up at 5 am and went to the shed behind the shop to sort and mark-up the papers. I then did 2 rounds before school for 6/- a week per round and 5/- for the marking up; a ...Read more
A memory of Old Coulsdon in 1959 by
Moving Away
I was born in Redhill hospital in 1948 and lived in Shirley Avenue. I went to Downland School which was a stone cottage called Pound Cottage just before Stanley Close. There was Cherry Tree Cottage about 3 doors up, they used to sell ...Read more
A memory of Old Coulsdon by
The Village Stores
Our family, that is father Stan, mother Eve and five of we children moved in 1952 to this shop from our farm in North Devon. We were a general store, delivering papers and general goods to the surrounding area. After helping ...Read more
A memory of Hatch Beauchamp in 1952 by
The Two Bob Gun
At the top of Queens Road in Buckhurst Hill is a small newsagents shop. It was owned by the Mr & Mrs. Silk. The shop sold papers magazines cigarettes, sweets and a few toys. Situated right across the road from where Princes ...Read more
A memory of Buckhurst Hill by
Captions
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Despite the importance of nearby cities such as Bath or the cathedral city of Wells, Taunton proudly remains the County Town of Somerset.
A splendid view over the heart of Taunton town.
A splendid view over the heart of Taunton town.
Taunton was not always the peaceful town we know today.
The presence of so many merchants in Taunton probably explains the independent line taken by local folk in political matters - not always in their best interests.
Crossing Mary Street from the southern end of the High Street brings the explorer of Taunton to Vivary Park.
Hundreds of houses in old Taunton were torn down during Victorian times and throughout the 20th century, particularly in the aftermath of the First World War.
The first chapter's tour starts in the heart of the lush Vale of Taunton Deane in the county town of Taunton, a bustling town with much of its former through traffic taken by the nearby M5.
The Grand Western Canal was a 19th-century dream, planned to run from Taunton to the river Exe near Exeter.
The Grand Western Canal was a 19th- century dream, planned to run from Taunton to the River Exe near Exeter.
Taunton has always had strong links with the military.
The Castle Hotel, with its fine porticoed entrance, was a popular place to stay for Taunton's Victorian visitors.
Taunton has had a long connection with the military: a cavalry barracks was built as long ago as 1796.
The Parade, seen here with North Street in the distance, is at the very heart of Taunton.
In the heyday of Taunton market there were some twenty inns in this area of the town.
A cricket match on the County Ground is still a familiar site during a summer in Taunton, as it has been since the club was founded in 1875.
Now in effect a suburb of Taunton, the village has a 1586 Elizabethan manor house.
Known just as Lyng, East Lyng is strung out along the busy road over the Levels from Taunton to Street.
A meet of hounds at Halse, a charming old village to the north west of Taunton.
Taunton had neither a Mayor nor a Corporation for much of the 19th century: its affairs were administered by the Market Trust.
The two streets were once separated by East Gate, the old boundary of Taunton Borough.
The double-decker shows an advertisement for Hatcher's, a department store in Taunton.
In 1874 it became a halt on the Taunton to Minehead railway line, now the privately run West Somerset Railway.
The Grand Western Canal was part of a grandiose scheme to link the Bristol and English Channels between Taunton and Exeter.
