Places
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Photos
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Maps
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Books
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Memories
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The Good Old Days At Betws Yn Rhos
Seeing this picture brings back many memories of helping my father to serve Petrol at our small village shop, called Min Afon Stores. Not too sure if that is not me, in the picture, as we actually went out to ...Read more
A memory of Betws-yn-Rhos by
Happiness
Hi in the seventies every summer my late husband, myself and our three children stayed in an old caravan on Plas Hen farm,and they were the happiest of times. We could walk down Lon Geod to go to Afon Wen beach,and a more lovelier walk is ...Read more
A memory of Chwilog by
Surveying At Newry
In the early 1950s Mining undergraduates at the University of Birmingham practised land surveying at Llanfairfechan. They lodged for most of June at Newry Cottages, now Plas Heulog. The task was to traverse the area south of ...Read more
A memory of Llanfairfechan by
Newcomer Road
That must have been just before we moved in to number 57 newcome I was actually born in the prefabs at the bottom of newcomer road . We did move next door to you & I do remember Mr & Mrs cote and I do remember you .My mother was ...Read more
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Prefabs In Ripple Road Dagenham 1947 To 1959
I was born in Upney hospital in July 1947 and lived in a prefab at 703 Ripple Road. Opposite was a bone/scrap yard and along the road the Ship & Shovel pub. I went to Campbell and Dawson schools ...Read more
A memory of Dagenham by
1861 Leese Hall, Near Leeming Area
Hi, does anyone know of a Leese Hall, I presume on the Leese Road (which is still present running along the A1 on google maps). My relative, through marriage to my great aunt; I'm helping trace his family - the ...Read more
A memory of Pickhill by
A Fondly Remembered Childhood
I was born in 1942 and and spent my childhood in Walthamstow, which up to the time I left in 1967 was predominantly a white working class area in north-east London; I went to Chapel End Infants and Junior Schools ...Read more
A memory of Walthamstow by
The Plough Inn, Kibblesworth
This is for Margaret Elliot, I am from Kent but my adopted Grandad, Fred (Frederick Joseph) Johnson was the landlord of the Plough Inn during and after the Second World War and my mother and I were evacuated there and ...Read more
A memory of Kibblesworth by
Penhill
Born in 1951, I lived in Lechlade,Ledbury, Highworth, Oldtown, Cunningham Road and I lived on Penhill Drive in the late 1950s, I went to the infants and junior school. In the infants we learned to count by using small stones kept in a ...Read more
A memory of Swindon by
Plaistow In The 1940s & 50s
I was born in Sutton Road, Plaistow (Plaster to us locals) in 1944 and from the age of 4 I was free to roam. Things were different then! Barking Road for all the shops, and the pubs. Rathbone Street market on a Saturday, ...Read more
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Captions
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Llantwit Major stands on the Afon Colhugh, and the place is said to have once been a port.
Corris, which gave its name to the Welsh narrow-gauge railway line, is a slate-quarrying village in the valley of the Afon Dulas.
Llantwit Major stands on the Afon Colhugh, and the place is said to have once been a port.
Llantwit Major stands on the Afon Colhugh, and the place is said to have once been a port.
This finely-composed study shows the Afon Bowydd, the road bridge, the railway bridge, the ranks of terraces of Blaenau, and the mountains beyond.
This beautifully proportioned stone bridge (Y Bont Fawr means 'the big bridge'), built over the Afon Conwy in 1636, has been a well-known beauty spot and subject for artists for centuries.
Set on the south coast of the Lleyn peninsula, at the mouth of the Penrhos river, it was once a thriving commercial port; but the sea threw a sandbank across the mouth of the Afon Erch, causing the maritime
Centre left of the picture we can see a Bon Marché shop; the Bingo Hall now stands on this site.
Inside the church is a bone: according to legend, it is a rib from a cow that provided all the milk for the village!
Later the race served a bone mill and a small woollen and cotton mill nearby.
The village sits astride the A6, only two miles north of Mountsorrel, and although deeply embedded in granite country, the buildings in the photograph lack any of that hard-edged quality.
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