Places
26 places found.
Those places high-lighted have photos. All locations may have maps, books and memories.
- Blackpool, Lancashire
- Blackpool, Devon (near Dartmouth)
- Bispham, Lancashire
- Newton, Lancashire (near Blackpool)
- Little Bispham, Lancashire
- Queenstown, Lancashire
- Marton Moss Side, Lancashire
- Blackpool, Devon (near Newton Abbot)
- Blackpool, Dyfed
- Blackpool, Devon (near Ivybridge)
- Blackpool Corner, Devon
- Layton, Lancashire
- Little Layton, Lancashire
- Little Marton, Lancashire
- Warbreck, Lancashire
- Norbreck, Lancashire
- Hoohill, Lancashire
- Mereside, Lancashire
- Little Carleton, Lancashire
- South Shore, Lancashire
- Squires Gate, Lancashire
- Whiteholme, Lancashire (near Thornton)
- Hawes Side, Lancashire
- Great Marton, Lancashire
- North Shore, Lancashire
- Combe, Devon (near Blackpool)
Photos
286 photos found. Showing results 61 to 80.
Maps
119 maps found.
Books
2 books found. Showing results 73 to 2.
Memories
232 memories found. Showing results 31 to 40.
Bryan Sharples & Sarah "Sally" Mc Kinnell
I am trying to make contact with any close family or friends of the late Bryan Sharples and his late wife Sarah (Sally) McKinnell. Bryan was born in Blackburn in 1932, served with the 11th Hussars in the ...Read more
A memory of Blackburn by
Park, Fields And The Ivy House
I was born in 1947 - youngest of five (4 girls and a boy) lived on Seaforth Avenue. Motspur Park was a great place to grow up, we had such a wonderful childhood. As well as "The Park" at the end of Marina Avenue - ...Read more
A memory of Motspur Park
Waterfoot Is Still My Home After 54 Years.
I was born in 298 Burnley Road East on August 18th 1945. The Nurse who delivered me was Nurse Bowe, who was a good friend of my Gran's (Teresa Whittaker, nee O'Brien). All my Aunties and Uncles were born ...Read more
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Radlett Prep
I attended Radlett Prep between 1958 and 1965. It was located in a converted three floored Edwardian house on the corner of Hillside Avenue and Aldenham Grove, and has since been converted back to a private residence. Aldenham Grove ...Read more
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Percy Linden Lyden Fulwood Road Area Little Sutton
Hi, I am wondering if anyone would possibly have a picture of this house, in World War Two, I don't even know the name of the house, but Percy Linden/Lynden lived in this during the war. His ...Read more
A memory of Little Sutton by
1949 1966
I was born at 16 Roding Avene, the prefabs right next to the River Roding. Across the main London Road was Delayneys, also the Masters Match factory with its tall chimmney. I remember seeing the chimney being knocked down, the man at the ...Read more
A memory of Barking by
The Good Old Days Continued
I also recall the days when the old tramp used to go around the bins in the old market hall looking for food, and old Les the deaf mute who used to hang around the taxi rank on Market Hill, he used to go to Warwicks fish ...Read more
A memory of Luton by
Memories Of Colden Common
I have never heard of this person, although he makes reference to some people, and places in Colden Common I knew. So if anyone who knows him ever comes across this then I have been some help! COLDEN COMMON? Oh, ...Read more
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Chubby At The Winter Gardens
We drove to Blackpool on our way back from Gretna after getting married. Went to see Chubby Brown at the Winter Gardens. Beautiful building, a great night and a lot of laughs. x
A memory of Blackpool by
New Pupil At A New Grammar School
I was one of the first pupils through the door at Corby Grammar School in 1955. I'd spent my first year at Kettering High School so was in the second year at CGS and I loved every minute from the day I first walked in. ...Read more
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Captions
85 captions found. Showing results 73 to 96.
The village became Increasingly popular with visitors because of its proximity to Blackpool, but caravans and a holiday camp seem at odds with a village recorded in the Domesday Book.
Preston was the centre of a wheel of railway transport: spokes went off to Blackpool, Lancaster, Blackburn, Manchester, London, Liverpool and Southport.As we can see, the river was used for pleasure
Just like Blackpool today, our tower building contained a theatre (later a cinema), a ballroom and gardens.
The Blackpool, St Anne's & Lytham Tramways Company Ltd, who laid track from Squire's Gate to Lytham Square, had opened up the coast further, but the first trams, driven by gas engines, were noisy, smelly
In the 1920s Southport, along with Blackpool, Skegness and Porthcawl, held speed events for sports cars along the sands or the promenade, and it was possible to tax and equip high-powered cars such as
To the right behind the Blackpool sign is the old Floral Hall, which was demolished in 1904.
In the 1920s Southport, along with Blackpool, Skegness and Porthcawl, held speed events for sports cars along the sands or the promenade, and it was possible to tax and equip high-powered cars such
We are close to Blackpool and Garstang.
This is a good close-up view of the main exhibition building that backed onto Talbot Road, which got its name when Sir Humphry Trafford married Lady Annette Talbot in 1823.
, until it was replaced by an acetylene gaslight that had a range of 13 miles, The new electric light fitted in 1953 is 30 times more powerful with a range of 18 miles, and can be seen as far away as Blackpool
By the time the railway arrived in Blackpool in 1846, the town was already a resort attracting several thousand visitors a year.
Dreamland soon became the Londoner's equivalent of Blackpool's pleasure beach.
The railway reached Fleetwood in July 1840, six years before Blackpool.
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