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Sharpness photos

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Sharpness maps

Historic maps of Sharpness and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis.   View all Sharpness maps

Sharpness map

Historic map of Sharpness

Gloucestershire map

Illustrated Victorian map of Gloucestershire

Sharpness map

Historic Map of any Sharpness postcode

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Sharpness books

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Gloucestershire Living Memories
Paperback
$28

Cotswold Villages Photographic Memories
Paperback
$28

Cotswolds Revisited Photographic Memories
Paperback
$28

Sharpness books
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Memories of Sharpness

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Vindicatrix

I was a trainee at the Vindi between 25 October and 31 December of 1954. Met at the Sharpness station by a boy Bos'un who took the opportunity to cadge fags from us, we were marched(?) across the high bridge to the camp. Boys aready on courses hung around and attempted to extract ciggies from us but the bos'un... [more]

Shared on 08 January 2010 by George Hancox.

Feeling Homesick

You know I haven't come across anyone who did their 8 weeks' training at Vindi in the summer months, most people you talk to remember most of all the severe winters. I am no exception, I remember going down to the ship from the camp last thing at night for a couple of slces of bread and butter and a mug... [more]

Shared on 03 November 2009 by Allister Jones.

l remember it being dam cold

l came across the vindi site by accident,and was amazed to see the old ship again, l trained on her on the stewards side over the1965 xmas period and went on to travel the world on the m.v. huntsland, carrying cargo all around the world.
seeing the photo brougt back so many memories of many years ago, does anyone else remember... [more]

Shared on 04 December 2007 by Ray Webster.

Training

I must have been one of the first on the training ship because I thought it was 1954 I was there, but if it is recorded as c1955 who am I to argue! I was there training for the merchant navy for about 12 weeks. I was the camp bugler until I was relieved of my post because I was... [more]

Shared on 08 March 2009 by Colin Friend.

Gloucestershire memories

The Cordwainers Shop

My Great Grandfather, Samuel King, ran a boot and shoe business (as a Cordwainer) from this address in the 19th century. His family home is listed in the 1881 census as The Old House, Market Place, Berkeley.

His father John King (Dob 25.5.1765) was also a Cordwainer in Berkeley in the 18th century.

The King family were residents of... [more]

Shared on 11 December 2006 by Paul Latham.

Lydney - 1939-1945

My father, the late Cyril Cook, spent some time in Lydney, during the war, as a Nurse.
Unfortunately, I know very little about his time in Lydney.

Ken Cook

Shared on 16 November 2008 by Ken Cook.

Holidays

It's just great to look at the old pictures of Blakeney's High Street, it seems almost like yesterday when I used to walk from my gran's house in the row of cottages where the railway bridge used to be. We used to go on holiday every year from our house in Haverhill, Suffolk. I remember it used to take nearly all... [more]

Shared on 29 July 2009

MUMS HOME VILLAGE

MY MEMORY IS OF MY FIRST VISIT TO ENGLAND TO SEE MY MUMS' HOME VILLAGE.THE YEAR WAS 1967.SHE WAS BORN IN CAM IN 1923. SHE MET MY DAD DURING WW11, AND MARRIED IN HER FATHERS GARDEN .SHE THEN CAME TO THE USA WHERE I WAS BORN.
TODAY SHE IS 85 AND LIVING HERE IN EAST BRUNSWICK,NJ.USA.
CAM IS A LOVELY... [more]

Shared on 10 December 2007 by Kathleen Layendecker.

Extracts From Sharpness & Gloucestershire books

Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Sharpness, inspired by Frith photos.

Down the Severn Photographic Memories

As well as timber, Sharpness handled all manner of grains, linseed, palm kernels, cotton seed, offal grains and ground nuts. From here anything up to a 1000 tons a day was taken by barge to mills along the reaches of the upper Severn. On the right of the picture is the grain silo. It was built in the 1930s, and had... [more]

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Down the Severn Photographic Memories

The National Sea Training School trained both deck and catering ratings for service with the Merchant Navy. The trainees slept in the barrack-type accommodation seen in this picture.

This is an extract from Down the Severn Photographic Memories.
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Down the Severn Photographic Memories

Constructed of wrought iron and completed in 1879, the Severn Bridge was the longest tied-arch, bowstring truss bridge on the British railway network. At 4161 ft in length, it carried not only the railway but a gas main. On the evening of 25 October 1960 in dense fog the bridge was struck by the estuarine tankers 'Arkendale H', carrying 400 tons... [more]

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