Places
29 places found.
Those places high-lighted have photos. All locations may have maps, books and memories.
- Hook Head, Republic of Ireland
- Hook, Hampshire (near Fleet)
- Hook, Greater London
- Penton Hook, Surrey
- Hook Green, Kent (near Royal Tunbridge Wells)
- Hook Green, Kent (near Northfleet)
- Hooke, Dorset
- Hook, Wiltshire
- Hook, Dyfed (near Haverfordwest)
- Hook, Yorkshire
- Hook, Hampshire (near Fareham)
- Hook, Cambridgeshire
- Hook's Cross, Hertfordshire
- Hook, Devon (near Chard)
- Hook Norton, Oxfordshire
- Hook Street, Wiltshire
- Hook Park, Hampshire
- Hook Street, Gloucestershire
- Hook Heath, Surrey
- Welsh Hook, Dyfed
- Hook End, Oxfordshire
- Hill Hook, West Midlands
- Lower Hook, Hereford & Worcester
- Hook End, Essex
- The Hook, Hereford & Worcester
- Hook Bank, Hereford & Worcester
- Hook End, West Midlands
- Hook-a-gate, Shropshire
- Hook Green, Kent (near Gravesend)
Photos
99 photos found. Showing results 21 to 40.
Maps
167 maps found.
Books
707 books found. Showing results 25 to 48.
Memories
1,522 memories found. Showing results 11 to 20.
Priestfield Road
I was born in Priestfield Road and lived there until my family moved across the river to to Hoo when I was 14 years-old. I have fond memories of peers with whom I would play either in the road or we'd go to The Rookery, Strand or ...Read more
A memory of Gillingham by
1950s In Hook Heath, Woking
In 1949/50 my parents moved to Little Morton, Hook Heath Road when I was 2 years old. The house (now advertised as having 6 bedrooms) seemed enormous and the garden was very large. In about 1960 my parents sold part of it ...Read more
A memory of Hook Heath
My Great Grandfather Mother And Father's Link
My parents often told me this story. My Great Grandfather was John Roberts. His son, my father, Thomas Glyndwr Roberts and my mother Myra Roberts (Evans) as young children were playing on the swings in ...Read more
A memory of Blaenllechau by
Mitcham
I lived in Manor Road in the late fifties and then Lymington Close until the end of the sixties, it was a great place to live then. We played on Mitcham common going to the seven island ponds on our bicycles and the old gun site. Mr ...Read more
A memory of Norbury
St Nicholas (Later Box Hill) School & Remembering The Misses Garrard
I attended St Nicholas school (later Box Hill School) between approx 1957 and 1962. The school was co-educational and catered to children aged from about age 4 to 18. My brother was 4 and I was 7 when we started at the ...Read more
A memory of Mickleham by
25 Years In Beaconsfield.
Born in Wembley, I arrived in the New Town of Beaconsfield in 1957 aged 5. With my younger sister and my parents. I left home at 17 but returned occasionally until 1981 when my parents moved to Scotland. I lived in ...Read more
A memory of Beaconsfield by
War Time Solidarity
My mother, her mother and my great grandma lived through war time while my grandfather fought in France ww2. Everybody knew each other and there was a great sense of community. People would help each other and look after their ...Read more
A memory of Ellesmere Port
Ledsham Court, St Leonards, Sussex ...Great Memories! By John Franks, (Ex Rascal Boarder).
Well, I would like to bring a little history of our wonderful school in St Leonards back to life with the real colour and warmth of the time when I was there in the early ...Read more
A memory of Great Parndon by
Bordon Infant School Station Road Now The Phoenix Centre
Teachers. - Mrs Boyle, Mrs Clover, Mrs Parrott. Head teacher - Mrs Bingham - she had the library books, stamp and cards in her office upstairs. Playground surrounded the building and constructed ...Read more
A memory of Bordon by
The Village Was Home
I was born in 1950 at Orsett Hospital, a few minutes before my twin sister and on my mothers birthday no less. We lived at 28 St James Avenue East until 1968. The house was in fact that of my maternal grand parents and my ...Read more
A memory of Stanford-le-Hope by
Captions
434 captions found. Showing results 25 to 48.
As with Robin Hood's Bay, smuggling was a way of life here in the 18th century.
To the right is a destroyer of the Reserve Fleet; in the centre is the Naval Dry Dock; and to the left is the Harwich to Hook of Holland ferry.
Huge joints or even whole animals were roasted on the spit before the fire, whilst fowl or smaller pieces would be hung from the rotating hooks.
To the right, behind the flagpole is the Life Boat House, designed by Charles H Cooke and opened in 1878.
This 18th-century mill stands on the River Frome where it meets the stream from Hooke; there has been a water mill here since Saxon times.
The hook, centre foreground, and mooring blocks suggest that a small craft is often tied here, and the bathing huts, right, are well kept and brightly painted.
But river traffic at this point has now been greatly increased with the opening of the vast Penton Hook Marina in a flooded gravel pit on the south bank, which is accessed from just below this lock.
As with Robin Hood's Bay, smuggling was a way of life here in the 18th century.
One end of the pole was pushed through a little window in the lamp and hooked onto the mantle chain.
One end of the pole was pushed through a little window in the lamp and hooked onto the mantle chain.
This had to be fished out using a hooked heavy iron 'strudgel', which was lowered on a strong cable and scraped around the bottom until it caught on the handle of the bucket so that it could be brought
The ancient ports of Wardleys and Skippool near Hambleton Creek handled slaves and ships from Russia. 19th-century visitors to the creek came for 'Hambleton hookings', large mussels which sometimes contained
On the right, W H Hooke's bookshop (now a jeweller's) is the start of the market place encroachment.
A few doors away, the Swan Hotel has lost the bunch of grapes which, from the time of the Skidmores who owned it from 1692-1820, hung from the hook on the extreme end of the wrought iron inn sign.
She came equipped with a towing hook, so that if she came across any of the company's schooners becalmed, she could take them in tow.
Equally as interesting as the boats are the sheer legs erected on a timber foundation with a runner leading to a hook, and a vertical support on the diagonal, to which is fixed the slewing (or
Among its many frequenters none was fonder of this riverside resort than Thomas Hook, who penned 'The Song of the Shirt'.
This chained library is the finest in the world, containing books and manuscripts that date back a thousand years and more.
He collected a large library of chained books (the books were chained to their shelves so that they could not be taken away) which he bequeathed to the villagers.
He collected a large library of chained books (the books were chained to their shelves so that they could not be taken away) which he bequeathed to the villagers.
The book of 'Hampshire Treasures' states that the 'Bentley Book' on the left was 'designed by Lord Baden-Powell for the Daily Mail competition for village signs in 1923.
The library was founded after the Rev William Stone left his books to the Minster in 1686 and more were added in 1695.
The library has one of the largest collections of railway books of any public library in Britain - there are around 6,000 books on the subject.
Nearby Hay has become renowned over recent decades as a 'book town' where every other shop seems to sell second-hand books.
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