Places
31 places found.
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- Combe Martin, Devon
- Castle Combe, Wiltshire
- Combe Down, Avon
- Milton Combe, Devon
- Combe St Nicholas, Somerset
- Monkton Combe, Avon
- Burrington Combe, Avon
- Combs, Derbyshire
- Combe Raleigh, Devon
- Combe, Sussex
- Combe, Oxfordshire
- Combe, Berkshire
- Combs, Yorkshire
- Combs, Suffolk
- Combe, Hereford & Worcester
- Combe, Devon (near Blackpool)
- Combe, Devon (near Salcombe)
- Combe, Devon (near Buckfastleigh)
- Combe, Somerset (near Somerton)
- Combe Almer, Dorset
- Combe Fishacre, Devon
- Combe Florey, Somerset
- Combe Hay, Avon
- East Combe, Somerset
- Combe Common, Surrey
- Combe Pafford, Devon
- Combe Throop, Somerset
- Combs Ford, Suffolk
- Abbas Combe, Somerset
- St Combs, Grampian
- Combe Moor, Hereford & Worcester
Photos
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Maps
161 maps found.
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Memories
1,236 memories found. Showing results 91 to 100.
Torture
I was here with my sisters in the 1980s and I remember it as scary and horrible. There was 3 teachers i remember miss fletcher she worked in a wee tiny tiny shop with her wee white dog.miss lockie old women played piano in ...Read more
A memory of Fornethy Residential School by
Nostalgia
I lived on Hatton Hill Road in the 1940/1950s. Remember the bombs landing across the road in the park and sheltering under the stairs. Bryant and May bombed where my father worked, he then had to travel to Garston each day for the rest ...Read more
A memory of Litherland by
Early Childhood
After retiring from the RAF, my father was with Air Ministry Constabulary and we moved to Stanwix in 1938 when my father was posted to 4 MU. We lived in Knowe Park Avenue and I attended Stanwix School. My sister attended the ...Read more
A memory of Stanwix in 1930 by
Bungay And Woodton
Early years - Nurse Britton was a friend as she was to most I believe. I was too young to be exact with memories but my gran lived opposite Whitemans shop which got hit by a bomb in the Second World War. I remember the garage ...Read more
A memory of Bungay in 1951 by
Days Gone By
My family arrived in Seaforth late in 1939 after we were shipped back from Gibraltar where my father was stationed with the Kings Regiment. Early memories of our house in Holly Grove are vague. My sister Maureen and I, along with ...Read more
A memory of Seaforth in 1940 by
Colindale The Early Years
I was born in the house on the corner of Woodfield Avenue and New Way Road in 1944 and lived there until the end of the 1970s. My birth was in fact on Friday the 13th of October, which coincided with the dropping of a ...Read more
A memory of Colindale in 1958 by
A Townie In Timberland 1947
My memory is of arriving in Timberland with my widowed mother to look after my grandad, George Curtis. I had to go to Timberland C of E school, imagine me, 9 years old and wiv a Sussex accent, everyone called me a ...Read more
A memory of Timberland
The Smallfield Brickyard
I was born at 1 Kings Cottages in April 1931. I have two brothers, and as young boys we were close friends of the late Gerald Mitchel. Gerald's mum, nee Doris King, lived with her husband (Syd, who served with the RAF) ...Read more
A memory of Smallfield in 1930 by
Lymington In The 1940s
My maternal grandmother and mother were both born in Lymington, my mother attending the grammar school in Brockenhurst (I remember as a small boy her pointing it out to me from the train) In 1944, when the V1 'doodlebugs' ...Read more
A memory of Lymington in 1944 by
Memories Of Sneinton
Betty and I were brought up in Davidson Street, Sneinton just before the Second World War. It was a small back-to-back terraced house with an outside toilet. One of my first recollections was being bathed in the small kitchen ...Read more
A memory of Sneinton in 1930 by
Captions
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Large, German hydrogen-filled airships were making bombing raids on England but Loughborough was thought to be out of range.
It was badly bombed in 1941 and was rebuilt behind the original Grecian frontage.
It was badly damaged by bombing in the Second World War.
There had been a No 1 grain elevator on Trafford Wharf, but this had been hit by an incendiary bomb during the Second World War, and after months of burning and smouldering because it was full of grain
The pair of houses on the east side of the building were so badly wrecked in the bombing that they had to be demolished.
It was bombed in the Second World War and has now been added to, and modernised out of all recognition.
The Lady Chapel is behind the high altar; unfortunately, all the lovely stained glass seen here was blown out in December 1940 when the cathedral was bombed.
On 30 October 1940 German bombs fell on the village post office and cottages.
We will visit buildings that have been swept away by bombs, storms, and changes of fashion, and buildings that stand as firm today as they did 100 years ago.
Apsley Mills came under the technical control of the Ministry of Munitions and Nash Mills made mortar bombs and small shells.
The Lady Chapel is behind the high altar; unfortunately, all the lovely stained glass seen here was blown out in December 1940 when the cathedral was bombed.
In September 1941 a landmine landed in the park, and was examined by the Royal Navy bomb disposal team.
There was even a bomb plot!
Also scheduled for redevelopment was the remaining old part of the town between Church Street and the river, which had suffered bomb damage in the war.
The 1946 New Towns Act, designed to alleviate a huge housing problem in the bomb-damaged capital, offered a lifeline.
Later, this became the administrative block for the Manor Hospital and, although damaged by a flying bomb in the Second World War, the building is still largely intact, and has recently been converted
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