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472 memories found. Showing results 51 to 60.

Donaldson Road

Wow, we first moved in to No 20 right on the corner opposite Davy Dun. We came up to stay at our grans in the late 60's. Great times spent helping 'the parky' and sittin around the Maypole with the great clang clang and waiting for ...Read more

A memory of Methilhill

The 1950s

Although I didn't live at Hamsterley Colliery, I spent all my school holidays with my grandmother, Mary Willis who lived in the top bungalow at Derwent Haven. She lived to be nearly a 100 which I suppose justified ...Read more

A memory of Hamsterley by Trevor Black

Cornish Splits

2 posters rang bells with me. 1. I too came to Australia, but in the late 70's. My first purchase was a lovely unit up above the bowls course on Clovelly Head, just up from the Clovelly sea baths. All so named because of its likeness to ...Read more

A memory of Padstow by Olivia R S

In Memory Of My Grandparents

Mr Gran and Grandad had their home in North Stoke, a Mr and Mrs Sallis (Elizabeth and Arthur). They lived in Calendula Cottage, as it was called then. My mother had three sons, Ray the oldest, Tony, and ...Read more

A memory of North Stoke by The Frith Memory Archivist

Sutton The Park And Pinnacle

Sutton as I remember it holds many memories. I was born and brought up there, attending school at the Council School, Sunday School at the Chapel and using the facilities of the Park from an early age until I ...Read more

A memory of Sutton-in-Craven by Alan Pickles

Meeching Court Farm Caravan Park

My parents used to camp there before the Second World War, they used to go most weekends. My first memories of Newhaven were of camping after the war I was five. We used go most weekends. My father built his first ...Read more

A memory of Newhaven by Joyce Aedy

The 60s

Schools - Davis Lane and Tom Hood (remember Gladys's music academy?). Memories of the wonderful library opposite the church; working in Woolworths on Saturdays for £1 a day; meeting Mum for lunch at Lyons and enjoying a steak & kidney ...Read more

A memory of Leytonstone

The Murder Of A Young Sailor

I've come across a set of 6 postcards that tell the tale of a young sailor who was murdered by 3 other sailors that he met up with in the, 'Red Lion' at Thursley. Apparently the other 3 sailors accompanied him up to 'the ...Read more

A memory of Thursley by Barry Peskett

Little Sutton 60s

The name Craig McAteer is very familiar to me. Was Craig a gifted footballer or am I imagining things? I do remember him though. I also remember those fairs on the field behind Curbishley's garage where the bowling green is ...Read more

A memory of Little Sutton by Stephen Owen

Summers In Blackhall

My Grandma - Bertha Lanaghan - lived in Third Street for over 50 years. She made hookey rugs as big as a room from old blankets, coats, etc whatever she could get, to sell for extra money. She dyed the wool three ...Read more

A memory of Blackhall Colliery by Kathy Ames

Captions

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Caption For Accrington, Blackburn Road C1965

They also made other sports equipment such as golf clubs and bowls.

Caption For Southend On Sea, The Pier C1962

Ten-Pin Bowling is played in the new pavilion.

Caption For West End, Swaythling Road C1950

Further ahead there is a crossroads: turn left to the Rose Bowl cricket ground and Botley, and go straight ahead for Hamble.

Caption For Dinas Powys, The Bowling Green C1955

Sited imperiously overlooking the bowling green is the fine Victorian residence Merevale; its foundation stone is dated 7 September 1893.

Caption For Port Sunlight, Bolton Road Bowling Green C1965

Bowls is a quintessentially English sporting activity, and it appealed to the founder of the project.

Caption For Bilsborrow, The Roebuck Hotel C1960

Parish boundaries cross and re-cross with those of Myerscough and Barton - one boundary cuts through the bowling green of the Roebuck Inn, as it was known in earlier days.

Caption For Chigwell, Grange Farm Centre C1960

Tennis courts and bowling greens and other sports facilities, which were funded by Chigwell Urban District, were made available for local people.

Caption For Crewe, Queen's Park C1965

The bowling green, which we see here in the foreground, still survives.

Caption For Burgh Heath, The Sugar Bowl C1955

The Sugar Bowl stands south of the junction with Reigate Road, on the east side of the road.

Caption For Woodhall Spa, Jubilee Park Swimming Pool C1965

The park caters for cricket, tennis, and bowls, and it has a putting green.

Caption For Leicester, Auto Magic Car Park, Lee Circle C1965

Situated behind the Palais de Dance, off Humberstone Gate, and incorporating an early supermarket and ten pin bowling facility, the six levels of Lee Circle car park were intended to relieve the city

Caption For Low Row, The Punch Bowl Hotel 1924

The Old Gang Mine, one of the area's oldest workings, is just a few miles from here, and miners would have trekked daily to enjoy the warmth and hospitality of the Punch Bowl Inn, which was built in 1638

Caption For Woodhall Spa, Jubilee Park Swimming Pool C1965

The park caters for cricket, tennis, and bowls, and it has a putting green.

Caption For Morecambe, The Tower From Central Promenade C1950

It then became a ten pin bowling alley through the 'swinging sixties', and then a bingo hall.

Caption For Sutton, High Street 1902

Bowling's the ironmongers moved to Grove Road in the 1920s, and their shop became a branch of the Midland Bank.

Caption For Alderley Edge, Liberal Club 1896

Besides the usual bar and bowling green, it boasted a library and reading room, and in the room above was Alderley`s first cinema.

Caption For Burnley, Queen's Park 1895

There were two bowling greens and two children's playgrounds.

Caption For Bingley, From Altar Row 1894

The massive mill on the right, part of the Bowling Green complex, still stands, and is now used by Damart.

Caption For Oving, Post Office C1955

This view is taken looking south towards Oving from Bowling Alley's junction with the North Marston to Whitchurch Road.

Caption For Bognor Regis, The Parade 1892

It was a sheep-cropped sward well into the 1920s, but the Council then covered it in bowling greens, high hedges and municipal gardens.

Caption For Normanton, Hawhill Park C1955

Part of it was used as a rubbish tip, but landscaping began in 1905 with the laying out of the first bowling green.

Caption For Littleborough, Lake Hotel Cafe C1950

The Lake Hotel had opened in 1872 with a floating landing stage, a subaqueous telegraph linking it to the booking office for ferry steamers, a skating rink, a bowling green and well laid-out

Caption For Berkhamsted, The Castle C1960

All that now remains of the huge structure, apart from the surrounding earthworks, are the broken ruins of the 12th-century flint and mortar curtain walls within the bailey, which encompass a bowling

Caption For Newark, The Ossington Coffee Palace C1965

As well as the coffee tavern, the building provided clubrooms, a library and a bowling alley to distract the citizens from the Demon Drink.