Places
14 places found.
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- Castle Acre, Norfolk
- Acre, Greater Manchester
- Laceby Acres, Humberside
- Acres Nook, Staffordshire
- South Acre, Norfolk
- Thorpe Acre, Leicestershire
- Five Acres, Gloucestershire
- West Acre, Norfolk
- Peas Acre, Yorkshire
- Bleak Acre, Hereford & Worcester
- Birch Acre, Hereford & Worcester
- Ten Acres, West Midlands
- King's Acre, Hereford & Worcester
- Two Hundred Acre, Yorkshire
Photos
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Maps
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Memories
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Personal Memories
Memories from many years ago. My father David Dickson was the dentist who built the house at 9 Newcastle Street which is where I spent my early years.. After the war we moved to Birkland Villa which we entered from a laneway just ...Read more
A memory of Worksop by
Our Family Home
Our family have owned Glevering since 1936, firstly my Grandfathers cousin, W.H and then during the war, the Royal Tank Regiment commendeered the Hall and Parkland and also some of the soldiers were stationed here before the D-Day ...Read more
A memory of Glevering Hall
Glorious Childhood
I was 10 years of age when this photograph was taken in 1955. Ecclefechan was the centre of the world to me at that age. I lived in Castle Acre and had the most wonderful childhood possible. I recall walking the burn under ...Read more
A memory of Ecclefechan in 1955 by
Dad,S Farm
These sheep are on one of the fields that made up the 200 or so acres of my fathers farm, Llandough Farm. The family were tenants from the mid 30s until the late 60s (my father died in 72) For about 25 years they supplied the milk to the ...Read more
A memory of Llandough by
My Ancestors
My great grandfather John Robert Leaman was school master at Castle Acre school - his wife (my great grandmother) was Elizabeth Jane Leaman (nee Ellis). I have visited Castleacre recently and found the village such a beautiful, ...Read more
A memory of Castle Acre in 1890 by
Old Thorne
In 1851 my Grandfather had a sixty acre farm at 109 Finkle Street in Thorne. His name was also Richard and his wife's name was Harriet. Is there anyone in Thorne that could share any information with me about the Watson family in Thorne. ...Read more
A memory of Thorne in 1860 by
Nineteen Years Pleasurable Living In Great Amell
My family of four childen, my husband and I, moved into part of a large country house known as 'Ravenscourt', standing in 3 acres of land: we named our semi "Little Ravenscourt'. Within our back ...Read more
A memory of Great Amwell in 1964 by
Oh To Be A Bishops Daughter
In 1971 my father The Right Reverend Kenneth John Woollcombe became the youngest Bishop Of Oxford at the age of 47 and we came to live at Bishop's House, Cuddesdon, opposite the Theological College, next to Bishop's Wood. ...Read more
A memory of Cuddesdon in 1971 by
Progress ?
From 1958-61 our family was the only one living on Mill Lane, just off the parade grounds near here. My stepfather was 'stationed' with the RAEC at Eltham Palace and I attended Shooter's Hill GS and Westminster Hotel School, subsequently. ...Read more
A memory of Woolwich in 1959 by
Chippenham Grammar School
Chippenham Grammar School in wartime, way up on the Malmesbury Road, was a great place to be, despite inevitable privations. Textbooks were in short supply, exercise books were rationed, and some of the teachers were away ...Read more
A memory of Chippenham in 1945 by
Captions
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The tile-hung Dog and Pheasant pub (left) faces out on to a six-acre cricket ground in the centre of this lovely hamlet between Milford and Haslemere.
Mr C H Elkes, a local businessman, offered an eleven-acre field sloping down to the Picknall or Hockley Brook.
With a shortage of burial places in the capital, the London Necropolis Company bought 2,000 acres of heathland at Brookwood and laid out one-fifth of it as a cemetery.
The structure covers two and a half acres and is in the shape of an irregular oblong.
The Ashworth Estate, covering 1,000 acres mainly of pasture, is still largely intact.
The 240-acre common is now in the care of the National Trust.
This is not entirely a cosy hamlet, as the MOD has a vast army training ground here covering 27,000 acres.
The 600-acre site is owned by the Forestry Commission, and offers 17 miles of paths to explore.
The 65-acre Meare was the first stage of the development.
The archway, dating from 1870, is in memory of Admiral Robert Mitford, who lived in Hunmanby Hall with its 56-acre park.
When part of the property was sold in 1983 for £80,000, Hyde Hall was described as 'a magnificent mansion enjoying 40 acres of maintained ground'.
The Royal Edward dock had a water area of 25 acres and a graving dock 875ft in length.
He obtained Syerston in 1792 when he bought 500 acres from Lewis Fytche for £12,375.
It is in delightfully wooded grounds of four acres.
William Cobbett came to Botley in 1805 and purchased the Fairthorns Estate, comprising 300 acres.
A top of the range television set - twice the size of the little boxes on which the nation viewed the Coronation two years earlier - stands in the communal room at the end of the first line of Golden Acre
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.
The last squire of Kingston Lacy, the Honourable Ralph Bankes, left his 16,000-acre estate to the National Trust in 1981.
He obtained Syerston in 1792 when he bought 500 acres from Lewis Fytche for £12,375.
On two acres of Whin Common, to the north, the poor were once permitted to collect gorse bushes as firewood.
About 400 acres of this area were purchased by Dr Sydney Long in 1926.
Described in 1890 as a ‘handsome modern thoroughfare’, Corporation Street was the result of a massive redevelopment of 93 acres of slums.
north towards Kingsway, leaving an island of fine buildings between it and the Strand.The scheme for the development of the locality was completed in 1905, involving the demolition of twenty-eight acres
Since then it has become a full-blooded tourist attraction, set in its 500-acre park.
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