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In Loving Memory Of My Dad Jimmy Aka James Chambers!!

I want my dad to be remembered by all you that knew him he was born in coalville and spent his days growing up in witwick.The memories i have of my dad are all good he was always smiling and ...Read more

A memory of Whitwick in 2004 by Julie Chambers

Miniature Train Rides In The Park

Close to the Grand Union Canal which runs through Cassiobury Park is a splendid miniature railway. It loops through woodland, has level crossings over footpaths and criss-crosses several lines before returning to ...Read more

A memory of Watford in 2002 by John Howard Norfolk

Priory Lodge

My husband and I moved to Clacton on Sea year 2000 and soon afterwards we visited the Priory. We enjoyed the visit and recently 2011 I was doing more research on my family tree (May family) when I discovered an ancestor Edward ...Read more

A memory of St Osyth in 2000

A Lovely Girl And A Bonny Place

It's a bit unfair to say my memory is from 2000, as it actually goes back to when I was born (1980) and only ends last year (2008). My earliest memories are of being at my Aunty Stella's. She wasn't really an ...Read more

A memory of Denton Burn in 2000 by Aidan Henderson

Natures Gentleman Abou.

William Campbell Anderson. I lost a friend, He was a rock, A dignified and decent bloke, Had many a pain to Ca his ain yet never a day did he complain. Always welcome in his home, even cats and dogs did come. Not a man for ...Read more

A memory of Kilbirnie in 1998 by John Allan

Grandfathers Grave

As a child my father frequently told me that his father was buried next to John Peel in Caldbeck graveyard. I now live in Australia, but in 1997 I visited Caldbeck hoping to see my grandfather's grave. Unfortunately it was not ...Read more

A memory of Caldbeck in 1997 by Mary Lillington

Basse Croft

My Granny and her brother Willy were born in this home in the late 1800's. My grannie was Hettie Annie Cockbill. She left here in the early 1900's to marry my grandfather who was from Stratford. My grandfather had moved to the new ...Read more

A memory of Claverdon in 1996 by Brian Marshall

Stepping Back In Time

It started when my mother was dying, when we asked her about the family history, and she gave us names and dates. Her family came from France in late 1500. They were Hugenots and they were Puritans, and were chased out of ...Read more

A memory of Cinderford in 1995 by Brenda Mccartie

Millbrook

1995 and up, I haven't always lived in Millbrook. But I pretty much visited every summer since I was born, and I then moved down in 2004 (I think). Lots of good memories here, like: Mayday, dens, Maker festival, Millbrook School, rope ...Read more

A memory of Millbrook in 1995

Stayed In Quidinish

My father Ewen Mackay was born in Quidinish. He came to New Zealand after the Second World War and died in Dunedin in 1958, aged 35 years. In 1991 my brother Ian MacKay, his wife Pauline and I travelled to Harris to meet our ...Read more

A memory of Quidinish in 1991 by Catherine Marsh

Captions

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Caption For Bournemouth, From The Square 1900

A great effort was made to tame the wild landscape across which Bournemouth grew up.

Caption For Bournemouth, St Peters Church C1955

Bournemouth's Square stands at the very heart of the town, astride the Bourne Stream.

Caption For Ewell, The Pond 1903

The pond is in central Ewell; the wall separates it from the grounds of Bourne Hall on the right.

Caption For Bekesbourne, Church And Lychgate 1903

Here we see another church in an attractive location near the small village of Bekesbourne, which contains 18th-century cottages and some modern housing.

Caption For Bournemouth, The Square 1904

The Square stands at the very heart of the town, astride the River Bourne.

Caption For Addlestone, Crockford Bridge 1904

A view across the River Bourne, a tributary of the Thames, with a hay cart fording the river and horse and cart and mounted horseman looking down from the bridge at the lower end of Brighton Road.

Caption For Eastbourne, High Street, Old Town 1890

This view captures well the qualities of old East Bourn, now called the Old Town.

Caption For Biddulph, Mow Cop Castle C1955

Mow Cop could be said to be the birthplace of the Primitive Methodist movement, for it was here in 1807 that Hugh Bourne (1772-1852) and William Clowes (1780-1851) held their first meetings.

Caption For Bourn, Bourne Mill C1955

A windmill was first recorded in Bourn in 1279.

Caption For Bournemouth, From West Cliff 1897

Bournemouth pier stands above the original mouth of the River Bourne.

Caption For Southampton, Bargate C1955

This was Southampton's main entrance until the 1930s.

Caption For Market Deeping, Church Street C1955

This view looks north along the A15 towards the church of St Guthlac and Bourne.

Caption For Bournemouth, From The Pier C1871

Bournemouth's Pier stands above the original mouth of the Bourne Stream.

Caption For Biddulph, Mow Cop Castle C1955

Mow Cop could be said to be the birthplace of the Primitive Methodist movement, for it was here in 1807 that Hugh Bourne (1772-1852) and William Clowes (1780-1851) held their first meetings.

Caption For Cardiff, Roath Park Lake 1902

The lake is now restricted to boaters; they may take out a skiff, but no private motor boats or any such thing noisy and anti-social.

Caption For Gomshall, The Tilling Bourne 1917

The Tilling Bourne quietly adds its own liquid note to this peaceful scene as its flows past The Compasses, one of two pubs in this small village on the main Guildford to Dorking road.

Caption For Market Deeping, Market Place C1955

This is the A15 road coming in from Bourne, which makes the traffic island a very busy place - it is now much smaller than it is in the picture.

Caption For Peaslake, The Village Green C1955

It lies along the slopes of a narrow valley at the head of a stream that flows towards the Tilling Bourne. This

Caption For Bournemouth, From Southbourne Terrace C1870

In 1810, Lewis Tregonwell built a holiday home on lonely heathland, close to the mouth of the River Bourne. Other

Caption For Coulsdon, Public Library C1955

The Library and adjacent buildings on the left are of more recent date than those on the right because there was a regular problem with flooding on this side of the road, caused by the local Bourne stream

Caption For Margate, The Sands 1906

This crowded beach scene shows minstrels performing on the sands.

Caption For Addlestone, Pyle's Farm 1904

Cattle seek the summer shade and the cool waters of the Bourne at this ancient farm.

Caption For Wareside, Babbs Green C1955

They face onto the road leading to Wareside village centre.

Caption For Market Deeping, Market Place C1955

This is the A15 road coming in from Bourne, which makes the traffic island a very busy place - it is now much smaller than it is in the picture.