Places
36 places found.
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- Melrose, Borders
- Kelso, Borders
- Jedburgh, Borders
- Innerleithen, Borders
- Hawick, Borders
- Peebles, Borders
- Eyemouth, Borders
- Coldstream, Borders
- Lauder, Borders
- Galashiels, Borders
- Duns, Borders
- Selkirk, Borders
- Newcastleton, Borders
- Swinton, Borders
- St Abbs, Borders
- Dryburgh, Borders
- Hermitage, Borders
- Ancrum, Borders
- St Boswells, Borders
- Town Yetholm, Borders
- Abbotsford, Borders
- Newstead, Borders (near Melrose)
- Nisbet, Borders
- Smailholm, Borders
- Broughton, Borders
- Denholm, Borders
- Coldingham, Borders
- West Linton, Borders
- Kirk Yetholm, Borders
- Langshaw, Borders
- Gordon, Borders
- Border, Cumbria
- Blyth Bridge, Borders
- Burnmouth, Borders
- Balmoral, Borders
- Cockburnspath, Borders
Photos
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Maps
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Memories
281 memories found. Showing results 61 to 70.
Family History
I visited Heywood in November 2010, to see for myself the area where my family originated sometime in the 1600's. I know that was a long time ago, but, I swear, when I walked up Bury New Road to the top of Summit and then ventured ...Read more
A memory of Heywood by
Payne Family Knaphill / Bisley
I have enjoyed reading the 'Memories of Knaphill' contributions, and though I have not lived there myself, my Payne family did, so thought I might share a few of their memories! In the 1890's, Captain George Payne and ...Read more
A memory of Knaphill
St. Catherines Church
I was at Mount Pleasant School as a boarder for 6 years from 1946 to 1952. The school was in Dalmeny Road but apparently was taken down in 1965. I have been trying to find anyone who attended this school. Before going to ...Read more
A memory of Southbourne in 1948 by
Recollections Of St Gorran School
I attended in the late 1950's. I understood it to be mainly for children whose parents were abroad. There were 2 teachers - one I cannot remember the name of and the other was Miss KR who always wore corduroy ...Read more
A memory of Manaccan in 1958 by
Happy Days At Sheephatch Camp School
I spent some happy times whilst a boarder at Sheephatch Camp School, Tilford. I was staying there in the very bad winter of 1947 when we were snowed in for several weeks. Had long walks in the snow to Crooksbury ...Read more
A memory of Tilford in 1947 by
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
Summerfield Hall School
My grandmother, Nesta Thomas, was a boarder at this private school, after her father died in 1901. The Head Mistress was one Pollie, who was the sister-in-law of Nesta's father, David Sadwrn Thomas, who had been the Head of ...Read more
A memory of Maesycwmmer by
Happy Days
My name is Selwyn Ball, I was also a border at Whitchurch Grammar School in the fifties, and i well remember . Ian Jolly, James Cracknell, Malcome Davidson, and many others .We in fact shared the same dorm. I was a poor scholar and ...Read more
A memory of Whitchurch by
The Lancaster, Small, Lancaster And Woods Family
I was born in Barton on sea in 1965 My mothers family Harry Lancaster and Emily Jane Small lived at Burnt Lane Lymington. Harry used to work on the Railway. They had five children three boys and two girls ...Read more
A memory of Pilley by
Happy Days Outweighed The Bad
Hi Heather & Briony & Kate I was also a boarder at St Oswalds Girls School,Rowena Steveson was the head mistress(Rhino).I remember the dreaded morning run having to eat a spoonful of molasses every day(supposedly ...Read more
A memory of Allerwash by
Captions
290 captions found. Showing results 145 to 168.
The Act of Union ended border warfare and Henry Blencow who lived here was knighted by King James I and became Sheriff of Cumberland.
About one mile to the north-west is the bastle house of Low Old Shield, one of many fortified farmhouses built during the days of the Border raids.
Built as one of a series defending the English border from Welsh attack, the castle had already fallen into disrepair by the 1600s, when it was refortified during the Civil War.
This is not Isaac Newton's Woolsthorpe, but the village west of Grantham in rolling countryside right on the Leicestershire border; it has fine views of Belvoir Castle a mile away on its hill on the other
We are on the upper River Medway north of the Ashdown Forest, near the Kent border.
Tadley is not far from the Berkshire border.
Motorists heading out of Cornwall from Callington must descend a steep hill through the old mining village of Gunnislake, which is situated in the Tamar valley close to the Devon border.
Tantallon was the stronghold of the Douglases, wardens of the Border Marches, lords of Galloway, and by the end of the 15th century masters of much of Lothian, Stirlingshire and Clydesdale.
It was one of many castles built by the de Lacy family and was part of a network of castles throughout the area, used to control what was once wild, border country.
Moving south from Grantham, out into the oolitic limestone country towards the Leicestershire border, we reach Skillington; it has a good range of stone houses, and a parish church with some Anglo-Saxon
Guarding the road from the south, the Hotspur Gate was built in 1450; a licence to fortify the Border town of Alnwick had been granted in 1434.
It lies a little to the west of Penn, just across the county border in Staffordshire (where Penn also used to belong, of course).
The stronghold formed an integral part of the defences of the western border of Glamorgan, which also included the castles of Newcastle at Bridgend and Coity.
It was one of many castles built by the de Lacy family and was part of a network of castles throughout the area, used to control what was once wild, border country.
Moving south from Grantham, out into the oolitic limestone country towards the Leicestershire border, we reach Skillington; it has a good range of stone houses, and a parish church with some Anglo-Saxon
The college opened with 80 borders and 20 day boys.
In fact it sits between two small lakes, making it a well defended site from possible Welsh attack - the border is only three or four miles away.
From Tyrley the canal crosses the Tern by a single-arched aque- duct and crosses the border into Shropshire.
Civil wars, rebellion and border raids all brought destruction before the stability of the mid-18th century, and prosperity from trade with the Indies encouraged investment in grand houses and civic buildings
Like its near neighbour Dunsfold, this cluster of weather-tiled cottages close to the Surrey-Sussex border derives part of its name from the term for a cattle enclosure.
As its name implies, this small town is the westernmost in Kent, almost on the border with Surrey.
Tamworth fails to get a mention in the Domesday Book, but this is believed to be due to a clerical error caused by the fact that the town straddles the border between Staffordshire and Warwickshire.
Flimwell is centred on a crossroads near the Kent border.
We are on the upper River Medway north of the Ashdown Forest, near the Kent border.
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