Places
36 places found.
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- Rhyl, Clwyd
- Llandudno, Clwyd
- Tenby, Dyfed
- Cardiff, South Glamorgan
- Aberystwyth, Dyfed
- Colwyn Bay, Clwyd
- Carmarthen, Dyfed
- Barmouth, Gwynedd
- St Davids, Dyfed
- Betws-y-Coed, Clwyd
- Criccieth, Gwynedd
- Dolgellau, Gwynedd
- Aberaeron, Dyfed
- Conwy, Clwyd
- Chepstow, Gwent
- Llangollen, Clwyd
- Beaumaris, Gwynedd
- Porthcawl, Mid Glamorgan
- Devil's Bridge, Dyfed
- Prestatyn, Clwyd
- Fishguard, Dyfed
- Swansea, West Glamorgan
- Bala, Gwynedd
- Newport, Gwent
- Haverfordwest, Dyfed
- Brecon, Powys
- Tywyn, Gwynedd
- Barry, South Glamorgan
- Bangor, Gwynedd
- Menai Bridge, Gwynedd
- Pwllheli, Gwynedd
- Wrexham, Clwyd
- New Quay, Dyfed
- Kinmel Bay, Clwyd
- Ruthin, Clwyd
- Abergavenny, Gwent
Photos
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Maps
729 maps found.
Books
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Memories
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My Memories Of The Coronation 2nd June 1953
My memories of the Coronation-2nd June 1953 While I was studying at the Bridgend Preparatory and Commercial School two events happened which changed the course of history for Great Britain. In February ...Read more
A memory of Aberkenfig in 1953 by
Home
My memory goes back to the time my mother and father lived in Ponti and it was a very happy time. My father passed away in 1956, killed in Bristol and my father asked my mother to marry him in the bandstand in Ponti Park and they had a good ...Read more
A memory of Pontypridd in 1940 by
Eastry Childrens Home
I had a wonderful upbringing ‘up the hill’ from Buttshole pond… 1958 - 1966 I was raised in one of the seven cottages- mine was Lime Cottage. My matron was Mrs. Aunty Betty Harris- who had a daughter, ...Read more
A memory of Eastry by
Mother Stay At Hut Hotel
When my Mother died in 2000 we found a letter saying my mother nee Mary Kingston and her friend stayed at the hotel . The lake had frozen and they went skating on it at Christmas time . She would have been about 12 at the time ...Read more
A memory of Wisley by
Northolt Wonderland
I was born in Barnet in 1942, but the Germans bombed our house and killed my dad a few months later. I was sent to Wales to avoid the Blitz. (BlitzKrieg - Lightening strikes) after 5 years I found myself in Millway Gardens in ...Read more
A memory of Northolt by
Oakhanger, Hampshire
Grew up in Oakhanger and enjoyed the freedom of exploring the common in the centre of the village. Some good times were had sledging down a hill on the common in the snow. Also, finding and catching tadpoles in the pond ...Read more
A memory of Oakhanger
Elm Cottage
My family used to stay at Elm Cottage on Trewoon Road in Mullion for many of our summer holidays during the 1970's. The cottage belonged to a Mrs Kent, known to us affectionately as Aunty Ellie, who at that time lived in Caerleon in Wales ...Read more
A memory of Mullion
Nostalgia
I have been reading many articles printed here & it got me & my wife thinking back to our childhood days (my wife was born in Llanelli, South Wales , & her childhood memories of the 1950's & were very much akin to mine ...Read more
A memory of Leytonstone by
Caravan Park Early 1950's
I was 5/6 years old and lived with my two sisters, older brother, baby brother and mum & dad in a cramped caravan that was given to us after the war. We were called 'gypsies' but my dad worked at the Woolwich 'arms factory' ...Read more
A memory of Datchet by
Coronation Festivities In Dagenham And The Prefabs
My parents and I lived in a prefab in Gale Street, Dagenham in 1953. I was only six but have vivid memories of the Coronation. My father managed to obtain a TV and all my relatives from Wales came ...Read more
A memory of Dagenham in 1953 by
Captions
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Looking across the Menai Straits to Anglesey, the city of Bangor is the largest town in the north-west corner of Wales, the former principality of Gwynedd, and home to an ancient diocese and the University
Frederick, the Prince of Wales, who was personally interested in science, made visits, and later Hales became chaplain to the Princess Dowager of Wales for a time.
Prince of Wales Road was cut through the town in 1862 to provide a fittingly grand route from Thorpe Station.
North Wales has been a popular venue for the annual army camps for regulars and for the Territorial Army from around the turn of the 20th century.
Here was built one of the earliest stone keeps in Wales, a rectangular affair of two storeys, later raised to three.
By the mid-1890s, most Lancashire cotton towns enjoyed a full Wakes Week.
The town has, in fact, a long industrial background: it was once a centre for the production of copper - South Wales's first smelter was built here in 1584.
The eye is drawn further afield to the distant Severn Estuary, the Black Mountains of Wales and Exmoor.
Ore was taken to the smelters of South Wales, and the same ships returned with coal to power the mines.
Ornamental towers at each end adorn the viaduct, which carries the railway over the River Teme into Wales.
Dating from 1857, this viaduct once carried one of the busiest railways in South Wales.
The Guildhall (left) and Municipal Buildings (right, containing the Lord Mayor's Parlour) were opened in 1874 by the Prince of Wales, who later became Edward VII.
In 1863, 121 trees were planted along Ladies Walk to commemorate the wedding of the Prince of Wales to Princess Alexandra.
The area was then landscaped and turned into a park, which was opened by the Prince of Wales in 1921.
This college is the second-oldest institution of higher education in Wales: it was founded in 1848 to train teachers for Church schools.
The lifting bridge was opened by the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VII, in 1894.
A crowd of 70,000 cheered the Prince and Princess of Wales, who were also here to open the Bradford Exhibition at Lister Park.
This circle of stones, known locally as the Druids Circle, was placed in the park and used for the proclamation ceremony of the Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales in Barry in 1920.
This schooner may well have been unloading limestone, which was shipped from South Wales to be fired in the lime-kiln that still stands at the side of the beach.
Just inland of the sand dunes is a golf course - it was established in 1885, and may be the oldest in Wales.
Shortly after it was dedicated in 1927, the Prince of Wales (the future Duke of Windsor) came from Bournemouth to lay a wreath in the presence of schoolchildren.
The South Wales Railway reached the town in 1854.
Its foundation stone was laid by the Prince of Wales in May 1921, and the memorial was unveiled by the Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall before a huge crowd on 30 October 1921.
Its foundation stone was laid by the Prince of Wales in May 1921, and the memorial was unveiled by the Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall before a huge crowd on 30 October 1921.
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