Places
25 places found.
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- East Wall, Republic of Ireland
- Pell Wall, Shropshire
- Wall, Northumberland
- Heddon-on-the-Wall, Northumberland
- Wall, Cornwall
- Walls, Shetland Islands
- Wall, Staffordshire
- East Wall, Shropshire
- Wall End, Kent
- Hobbs Wall, Avon
- Wall Bank, Shropshire
- Wall Nook, Durham
- Knowl Wall, Staffordshire
- Hazelton Walls, Fife
- Wall Mead, Avon
- Mid Walls, Shetland Islands
- Greetland Wall Nook, Yorkshire
- Aston le Walls, Northamptonshire
- Wall Heath, West Midlands
- Wall Hill, Greater Manchester
- Wall under Heywood, Shropshire
- Wall End, Cumbria (near Millom)
- Dale of Walls, Shetland Islands
- Bridge of Walls, Shetland Islands
- Hole-in-the Wall, Hereford & Worcester
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Memories
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The Post Office
1971 - 1984: Whilst I lived in village the Post Office was where you got all you needed in an emergency. As a little one, I personally loved the vending machines on the wall. In those days we all used to be sent out for groceries even ...Read more
A memory of Polgooth by
The Brown Family Who Lived In A Cottage Called The Groves
I was surprised to find no memories recorded for Auchinairn, even though it is a small place, so the following is a start. When I was about the age of 10 in the mid 1950's my mother told me ...Read more
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Probably Strangely Out Of Place At Hawthorns.
It was 1952 or '53. I was one of a few young boys boarded at Hawthorns in those Post-War days. I was sequestered there while my parents toured the United States for a year. I didn't remember them when ...Read more
A memory of Frinton-On-Sea by
Purfleet In The 50s And 60s
I was born in Purfleet in 1947 and lived in Riverview Flats opposite Thames Board Mills until leaving for University in 1966. The flats were owned by Esso where my Dad, Herbie Jarvis, was a manager. He worked there for 46 ...Read more
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When We Played In The Road
Gipsy Road in Welling where I lived as a child in the 1950's was a long one. It stretched from Okehampton Crescent near Bostall heath and woods at its north end, down to the Welling/Bexleyheath mainline railway and a short ...Read more
A memory of Wellings, The
Horrible Place
We were there from 69 - 72. I say we. Me & my four sisters, Denise, Pauline, Joan, Isable & me June HASTIE. Anderson & Dunlop were vile. Scrubbing the floors until they were gleeming. We used to do that when we got home from ...Read more
A memory of Hampstead by
Hendon, The Fountain C1960
In the 1900s the site of the 'Fountain' (Frith H397067) was then known as 'The Burroughs Pond' and was/is sited at the crossroads of The Burroughs, Station Road and Watford Way, back then it was open ended at ground level so that ...Read more
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A Family Business.
I am the lady at the door with my husband Don Weston. The date is about 1959 because that is the year we had electricity in the village and started to sell ice cream. Hence the Walls sign. My parents Mr and Mrs Caesar Evans ...Read more
A memory of Bosherston by
Life As A Young Boy In Saltdean
THE LIFE & TIMES OF DONALD CHARLES WILLIAMS Personal recollections from Don Williams from Hailsham who lived in Saltdean from 1937 to 1952 - Many thanks for these wonderful stories & photo's of Saltdean in the ...Read more
A memory of Saltdean in 1940 by
Abbotsham School In The 1960's
Growing up at Fairy Cross, Alwington and as our village school had closed in the late 1950s we had to catch the school bus daily morning and afternoon to Abbotsham Primary School. (Shown in the centre back of the ...Read more
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Captions
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Behind the wall, lined with seats, is the River Thames.
Consequently, it was one of the first Roman-British towns to have complete city walls.
Consequently, it was one of the first Roman-British towns to have complete city walls.
The retaining wall along Torquay Road was the 1886 halfway meeting place of the 'Flatpole' and 'Dicky Bird' bands of warring youths!
Apart from the electricity poles, the only clues to this scene being in the 20th century are the ubiquitous signs for Walls, Brooke Bond Tea and Woodbines, which probably now stir many an early memory
The view today, over 80 years on, is little changed, except that the wall to the right has largely disappeared.
From Palace Pier looking east, beyond the terminus of Magnus Volks' 1883 Electric Railway, we can see the late 1890s arches of Madeira Terrace, halfway up the sea wall in front of Marine Parade, with Kemp
The road at the right leads to the original railway station, whilst the road cutting under the city wall leads to the new station built in the 1870s.
Wareham is seen here from South Bridge, looking westwards to the banks of the Anglo-Saxon Town Walls and Castle Close (centre right), built by Edward Seymer Clark on the footings of a Norman fortress
The 17th-century mill at Hinxton oozes character with its weatherboarded walls, although the corrugated asbestos roof it sports in this view does not particularly add to its charms.
Whitwell's church once served two parishes, the building being divided in half by a stone wall.
On the next 'terrace' up is Middle Limpley Stoke, its narrow winding lane flanked by dry stone and mortared walls.
This view is taken from outside the walls, looking north.
The sign on the wall offers coffees, accommodation, teas and lunches.
Brunel, showing considerable foresight, did not cut Dawlish off from the sea when he built his railway, but incorporated its walls into a splendid promenade which can be followed all the way to Dawlish
A view looking north west, past the tower and along the east wall of the harbour, to Ireland's Eye.
The road descends northward to Middleborough beyond the line of the Roman wall.
The sea wall is the one featured in that most evocative of paintings, 'The Boyhood of Raleigh', painted by Sir John Millais when he was resident in the town.
Now known as the Great Chamber, this room has since had panelling added to the walls, bringing it more into line with how it probably looked in around 1600.
Note the rowing boats for hire on the beach with oars propped against the sea walls.
Built of cast-iron, the bridge was opened in 1863 and improved the city by giving direct access to the original railway station, which was situated within the city walls.
A fragment of the medieval Town Wall, this postern gate allowed the townsfolk to obtain drinking water from springs at the Greyfriars.
This is another postern gate surviving from the Town Wall, which was built to defend Richmond against Scottish raids shortly before the Battle of Bannockburn.
Part of ancient Norwich, Cow Tower was once an integral part of the city wall.
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