Places
18 places found.
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- Royal Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire
- North Weald Bassett, Essex
- Drayton Bassett, Staffordshire
- Compton Bassett, Wiltshire
- Colston Bassett, Nottinghamshire
- Letcombe Bassett, Oxfordshire
- Bassett, Yorkshire
- Bassett, Hampshire
- Dunton Bassett, Leicestershire
- Sutton Bassett, Northamptonshire
- Charney Bassett, Oxfordshire
- Thorpe Bassett, Yorkshire
- Winterbourne Bassett, Wiltshire
- Berwick Bassett, Wiltshire
- Bassett Green, Hampshire
- Preston, Wiltshire (near Royal Wootton Bassett)
- The Common, Wiltshire (near Royal Wootton Bassett)
- Green Hill, Wiltshire (near Royal Wootton Bassett)
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The Barbary's Denby Rd
Hi I have just been given a batch of school reports belonging to my mother Patricia Barbary. Two reports are from Hearnville Road school 1949 & 1952. The rest is when she attended The Rosa Bassett School, Streatham. ...Read more
A memory of Balham by
Where Are You Celia
1958/9 Stationed in the Radio School RAF Compton Bassett I met my first true love Celia from Edinburgh. Always wondered what happened to her after we last met RAF St mawgon,just before I was posted to Germany!
A memory of Compton Bassett by
Great Grandfather
It is strange to see one of the two portraits that hung in my grandparents' hallway, for sale on the web. Issac was born in 1837 in Berwick Bassett, Wiltshire. Taught himself to read and write while an agricultural labourer, ...Read more
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Re Story Of Tales From My Father
I still hear all the tales of those days from my father,who spent his holidays at Number 37 with the Offer family and was sent there during the Second World War as a child, he also knew your father Reginald ...Read more
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Memories
I was born at 30 Marstown Avenue on 29-04-1938, now living in Nijmegen, Holland. I went to the Bassert Street school and the Sec Mod school. Played rugby for school and county, have good memories from the s.w.o.b. and very good ...Read more
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The Awakening
On the right of the photograph the second shop belonged to Arthur Sansom, the Newsagents and Confectioners. It has a sign board above the shop front: PICTURE POST. In the Easter holidays of 1959 at the age of 14½, I took my first ...Read more
A memory of Locksbottom
Memories Of Oulton, Stone Staffs.
I lived in the village of Oulton & attended Oulton Primary School prior to joinong Granville Secondary Modern school on Stone at the age of 11 years. I clearly remember many of the pupils & staff. Annette ...Read more
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The Kennels, Alice Brown
My auntie Alice ran the kennels in Berwick Bassett in a lovely old cottage with outside toilet and no electricity, I loved going to visit , she was very kind to me and let me help out with walking and feeding the dogs, she ...Read more
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Wycliffe Road
I lived in 31 Wycliffe Road just down from where the chimney sweep kept his soot. A number of films were shot in the "courts" between the streets Beaufoy Road and Bassnett Road. I moved in 1965 aged 11 not long after the area was ...Read more
A memory of Battersea by
Blissful Memories
Sat Mar 20th 2021, at 3:22 pm Peter Tuthill commented: Yes, thanks for the photo of Smuggler's Cottage. It was criminal,wanton destruction to demolish it and throw up those totally characterless boxes. How planning permission was ...Read more
A memory of Portreath by
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According to Christine Smith (author of 'Sutton Coldfield under the Earls of Warwick'), on the death of Richard I (Richard the Lionheart), Lord Bassett enclosed a hunting ground - Bassett's Heath
Immediately beyond is a swing bridge.The 15-acre Drayton Manor park and zoo is close by; the village of Drayton Bassett is to the southwest.
The 15-acre Drayton Manor park and zoo is close by; the village of Drayton Bassett is to the southwest.
The church was designed by W Bassett Smith of London and built at a cost of £3,320; it was consecrated on 11 May 1869.
RAF Compton Bassett was built on farmland mainly in Calne and Cherhill parishes, and operated from 1940 to 1964.
At its head is Watermouth Castle, built in 1825 for Joseph Davie Bassett.
It was closed as a school in the 1970s, and is now the Wootton Bassett Civic Centre.
It is not difficult to see why Thomas Hardy used Letcombe Bassett as the setting for the fictional village of Cresscombe in his novel Jude The Obscure.
This hill figure cut in the chalk lies on the face of Hackpen Hill, to the right of the road from Wootton Bassett to Marlborough, where it zigzags to climb the hill.
On the stony Stanton Road, Domesday Scepecote (meaning 'shelter for sheep') was home to the powerful Bassett family.
Drayton Bassett is situated four miles south of Tamworth.
On the stony Stanton Road, Domesday Scepecote (meaning 'shelter for sheep') was home to the powerful Bassett family.
Portreath's first pier was built in 1760 by Francis Basset, a member of one of Cornwall's most prominent mining families.
Colyford was established by Thomas Basset as a new borough in the 1200s.
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