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Memories

439 memories found. Showing results 191 to 200.

Vague Memories

I was born in February 1941 and have vague memories of living in Watchet sometime in 1943/1944 for a period of almost two years. My mother (Kathleen/Kitty) and her sister (Olive) rented a house which I believe was on the Doniford Road. ...Read more

A memory of Watchet by john_elst

My Youth In Uxbridge.

I lived in Cherry Grove in Hillingdon until 1965, I went to Hillingdon Primary School then Evelyns Secondary School, when I left school I work for a Company called H.J. Smarts at the back of Uxbridge Station. I have fond ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge by yvonne1946

Charrington's Pub The Kings Head

My father-in-law was a landlord of a large pub in Paddington, The Artesian, a pub then owned by Charrington who were a large London brewer. In 1957 they published a book titled A Brewers Progress 1757-1957 ...Read more

A memory of North Weald Bassett by cliffordgellis

Huntcliffe Cottages

On this photograph there is a little 'bump' on the horizon just below Warsett.  That 'bump'  is 3 railway cottages and my Dad lived in No. l with his parents and brother and sister around 1912 - 13ish when he was ...Read more

A memory of Saltburn-By-The-Sea in 1947 by Georgina Smiles

September Wedding

I got married in 1968 at The Old Dagenham Church as it was known, although I believe its correct title to be St Peters and Pauls. (Correct me if I am wrong.) The marriage did not last, but I have 3 wonderful children and 2 ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham in 1968 by patricia.young

Growing Up British

Since my birth coincided exactly with the outbreak of World War II in the September of 1939, my mum must have felt that childbirth was synonymous with calamity;  I was Mum's 'war effort'. Home was a semi-detached two-storey ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak in 1945 by Heather Rohrer

Working At The Headland Hotel

While still at Helston Grammar School, I worked at the Headland Hotel during one summer. Pickles was the manager, he was a tyrant but I seemed to get the better of him. I wrecked the lawn-mower running over a rock ...Read more

A memory of Coverack in 1967 by Steve Gilvear

Caravan Holiday

I remember going on holiday quite regular to a caravan on Kinkell Braes in St Andrews somtimes with my parents and sometimes my grandparents.  The owner of the caravan was our milkman Bill Byres.  We had some great times and a ...Read more

A memory of St Andrews by Morag Campaigne

Sleaford In The 50`s

I was a member of staff at Rauceby Hospital 1951 - 56 and have many memories of Sleaford at that time. I was a member of the Sleaford weight lifting club which had a work - out room on the first floor of a building in the ...Read more

A memory of Sleaford in 1955 by Clifford Charlesworth

The 1960s

I lived my early years here, until the 1970's, having been born in Wells and brought home to Cheddar as a baby. I have many family ancestral links to Cheddar via my father's parents. In the late 1800's-early 1900's my great-grandfather ...Read more

A memory of Cheddar by Christine Derrick

Captions

646 captions found. Showing results 457 to 480.

Caption For Walton On The Naze, The Promenade 1891

Here families stroll along the parade on the top of the cliffs, which was soon to be developed as Marine Gardens.

Caption For Cromer, The Lighthouse 1894

A young lad sits on the grass on the sheltered inward side of the cliffs.

Caption For Broadstairs, Thames Barges, The Harbour 1902

Note the line of bathing machines under the cliffs.

Caption For Goodwick, The Harbour C1955

The rock for these was blasted out of the cliff, 800 tons being required for each linear foot!

Caption For Runswick, A Fisherman's Cottage 1936

Lobster pots dry in the fresh air outside one of the tiny cottages that cling to the dramatic cliff swooping down to the sea.

Caption For Beachy Head, From The Sands 1903

The red and white lighthouse at the foot of the cliffs is pictured here.

Caption For Boscastle, The Harbour 1894

The natural setting of this small port between cliff faces is idyllic.

Caption For Cheltenham, Devil's Chimney 1901

This is not a natural rock formation, but one carved out deliberately by the quarrymen extracting building stone, used for the construction of Cheltenham, from this precipitous cliff face.

Caption For West Bay, 1930

Looking eastwards from the cliffs above Black Rock.

Caption For Dover, Marine Parade 1892

An assortment of small fishing and rowing boats has been hauled safely above the high water mark in this picture of the eastern end of the Marine Parade; the famous white cliffs are visible beyond the

Caption For Westgate On Sea, From Cliffs 1892

We are looking westwards to the Victorian skyline of Westgate and along the cliffs to Ledge Point.At the time this picture was taken,Tower House Retreat at Westgate, founded in 1879, was the only

Caption For Ravenscar, The Camping Coaches C1955

This pair of old railway coaches parked on the cliff top at Ravenscar, the eastern terminus of the Lyke Wake Walk, served as basic accommodation for campers in the mid-Fifties, but they have long since

Caption For Tintagel, King Arthur's Castle 1894

Perched on rocky cliffs five miles north-west of Camelford, Tintagel probably owes its survival to its association with the Arthurian legends.

Caption For Cheddar, Gorge, High Rock C1873

The gorge cuts its way out of the carboniferous limestone as if it was in the Peak District of Derbyshire; it is an underground cavern whose roof has collapsed, leaving soaring cliffs and crags of

Caption For Doniford, 1927

This attractive view from just behind the hamlet of Doniford looks along the bay towards the low Lias cliffs that partly conceal Watchet.

Caption For Hunstanton, The Bathing Beach 1921

The coast was particularly attractive with its striped chalk and carrstone cliffs, which rise to 60 feet.

Caption For Penarth, The Esplanade 1896

Alighting at the railway station, it was now possible to travel comfortably by carriage down Beach Road, admire the Esplanade, and return up Cliff Hill back to your train via Marine Parade and Plymouth

Caption For Uppingham, West End, High Street C1955

Cliff's on the right seems to be privately occupied, once it was a butcher's.

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Caption For Cromer, 1933

They appear to be deciding which way to go, as there is a choice of two esplanades: one is virtually on the beach, where dogs have total freedom, and the other is along the top of the cliffs, where

Caption For St Margarets Bay, South Foreland Lowerlight 1898

It was built in 1843; for a further ninety years after this photograph was taken, it offered both a warning and guidance for ships passing north along the white cliffs, and for those heading

Caption For Lyme Regis, Gun Cliff And Cobb Gate From Back Beach 1890

This view looks south-westwards from Broad Ledge to Long Ledge (foreground) below Gun Cliff to the Guildhall (top right), the Fossil Depot beside Buddle Bridge and the Assembly Rooms (centre), with the

Caption For St Alban's Head, Bottom Valley 1899

Hill Bottom (centre), south-west of Renscombe Farm is seen here in a view towards Chapman's Pool and Houn's-tout Cliff The slopes of the Plain and St Alban's Head (left) rise to the south.

Caption For Southend On Sea, Westcliff C1955

Many of the houses along this stretch of the cliff top have decorative balconies overlooking the sea.There was no problem with parking at this time, in what is now a very busy area, within walking

Caption For Lyme Regis, 1890

Lyme Regis, seen here from the heights of Timber Hill, is situated at the westernmost end of Dorset.Walking through the fields and cliffs of Lyme the visitor can never be quite sure whether he or