Places
11 places found.
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- Seaton Burn, Tyne and Wear (near Ponteland)
- Burn's Green, Hertfordshire
- Burn, Yorkshire
- Burn Bridge, Yorkshire
- Luggate Burn, Lothian
- Burn Naze, Lancashire
- Remony Burn, Tayside
- Barrow Burn, Northumberland (near Shillmoor)
- Blaydon Burn, Tyne and Wear
- Denton Burn, Tyne and Wear
- Burn of Cambus, Central Scotland
Photos
97 photos found. Showing results 141 to 97.
Maps
405 maps found.
Books
2 books found. Showing results 169 to 2.
Memories
764 memories found. Showing results 71 to 80.
Gladstone Park
Our family moved from Churchill Road, Willesden to the country right out to Dudden Hill, in Normanby Road. The entrance to the park was just down the end of the road near the old iron bridge. There was a rather short tree ...Read more
A memory of Hendon in 1961 by
The Railway Inn
My Gran - Katherine Thomas - ran the Railway Inn (the Tap) for many years. My grandfather Thomas died shortly after I was born. My mother Hilda Jeffery (nee Thomas), my father William Jeffery and myself lived there. My mum died ...Read more
A memory of Llansamlet by
Bombing Of Morland Avenue
Written by my mother when she was 70. She lived in Swaisland Road I think one of the things you would have noticed was the number of barrage balloons all around, high in the sky. The first sound of guns which we heard was ...Read more
A memory of Dartford in 1945
Paddock Wood Huts
Not sure how long I went with my grandparents, then when they passed away my parents, but I was born in 1941 and I know we were still going there until we migrated to Australia in 1961. We 'lived' in the first hut on the right ...Read more
A memory of Paddock Wood
Number 2 Montague Terrace
Barbara Brian. I loved reading your memories of Montague Terrace and I thank you for them. Were you the young Miss Andrews that rode that posh bicycle and lived behind the shop and did your dad at times teach tap dancing ...Read more
A memory of Bishopstoke in 1930 by
Windsor Road
We moved to Bromley Cross about 1947 just before my sister Virginia was born, it was a lovely new prefab, but I don't remember much about the inside of it apart from the wood-burning stove, that sticks in my mind for some ...Read more
A memory of Bromley Cross in 1947 by
Hoyles
I would like more info on the Hoyles of Haslingden, plus the Burns family from Accrington, and Baxendale. My great grandfather was a accomplished runner Samuel Brookes Hoyle, and also delivered mail in the locality especially Grane Road. Mr ...Read more
A memory of Haslingden in 1920 by
Schooldays
I was born in Hayfield Cottages, Auldgirth in April 1931. My first year at school Mrs Garthwaite was my teacher. She lived in the house just north of the school. In the mid 30s my brother Bob and I saw an airship fly over Barbra Mill. ...Read more
A memory of Auldgirth in 1930 by
The Bus
My family purchased and converted an old single decker bus for us to have holidays in. It was parked on a small piece of land opposite the church. An old Gypsy caravan was parked just inside the gate to the land, I was told that it had to ...Read more
A memory of Lowsonford by
Captions
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Slaid means 'flat marshy ground', burn is the Old English word for brook, so the name means 'flat marshy ground by the brook', which describes the area well.
For those unfamiliar with Felicia Hemans (1793-1835), she is most famous for the line 'The boy stood on the burning deck', from her poem 'Casabianca', written in the 19th century.
Sectarian Riots The last serious religious troubles in Stafford were the Sectarian Riots of 1715, when a mob of 'lewd fellows of the baser sort' attacked the Presbyterian Chapel with the intention of burning
St Mary's, with its very tall spire and eleven bells, has two stained glass windows executed by Burne Jones.
This provoked a riot in which Dr Ingles's door was blown off, windows were broken, and desks, benches and books were burned on the Close.
His earlier one in Denmark Street burned down in 1886, and was rebuilt in brick three storeys high.
Alderley Park itself, where the house itself had largely burned down in 1932, was bought by ICI after the war.
During the early part of the 18th century, a local parson named Jonathan Darby from the parish of East Dean unofficially displayed a candle-burning lantern hung in a hollow carved out of the chalk
The town with its mostly timber buildings was burnt, though the stone Temple of Claudius defied the Britons for two more days.
Some are reconstructions of burnt down timber predecessors.
The Great Barn, or Tithe Barn, is part of Barton Manor Farm, which comprises 8 or 9 buildings grouped around a large open courtyard.
Further along is Jubilee Barn, the original tithe barn of the village.
On the south side of the station is the Barn Hotel, an attractive timber-framed complex incorporating a very tipsy barn.
Glebe Farm and the tithe barn disappeared in the 1960s; the original thatched roof was under corrugated iron sheeting.
The barn and outbuilding seen here were demolished in the 1940s as part of the long-overdue restoration programme.
The Hall lies in a crook of the River Hodder, with a stream called Barn Gill and its waterfall in the Hall grounds.
The camera looks at the early 16th-century Great Barn, which was originally one of four opening onto the farmyard; a second smaller one has quite recently been particularly well restored from a skeletal
The herd of dairy cattle is making its way to Hall Farm, which included the former tithe barn dating from the 17th century.
Here we see the interior of the chapel as designed by Frederick Barnes in 1859, with the classical sanctuary filled with the organ.
The Great Barn of Abbotsbury Abbey was built in about 1400.
Among the old buildings, close to the new centre, is Barn House, an early barn conversion of little merit, Field End Farm House, Field End Lodge and Retreat Cottage, all timber-framed.
The tour has to reach Bury by road, but until the 1950s you could get from Amberley to Bury by ferry.
Just a few yards up the hill from All Saints' Church, Barn Hill is a far cry from the commercial bustle of Red Lion Square.
The former stables of the Archbishop's Palace, for long believed to be a tithe barn.
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