Places
14 places found.
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- Coates, Lancashire
- Coate, Wiltshire (near Swindon)
- Coates, Lincolnshire
- Coat, Somerset
- Coates, Gloucestershire
- Coates, Nottinghamshire
- Coates, Cambridgeshire
- Coates, Sussex
- Coates, Lothian (near Penicuik)
- Coate, Wiltshire (near Devizes)
- Great Coates, Humberside
- Salt Coates, Cumbria
- Little Coates, Humberside
- North Coates Airfield, Lincolnshire
Photos
49 photos found. Showing results 41 to 49.
Maps
88 maps found.
Books
1 books found. Showing results 49 to 1.
Memories
1,485 memories found. Showing results 21 to 30.
Shopping Memories.
On the left hand side of the photograph next to the zebra crossing is Eastwells, a greengrocers and fruiterers. My father Harold Besent who is in the window in a white coat was a partner and also the managing director from 1940 ...Read more
A memory of High Barnet in 1955 by
Old John Barley Corn....
Known as the 'John Barley Corn' children because at the Staithe where they all used to play, there is an inlet. In the 1920s, when boats came past, the children would sing 'Old John Barley Corn if you throw us a penny we will ...Read more
A memory of Belaugh in 1920
Binsted School
I can still remember the day I started school. My Mum walked me from Isington to Binsted, I didn't know exactly where I was going and when we got to the school we had to go up these steps that were overhung with trees, it reminded me ...Read more
A memory of Isington in 1958 by
My Poor Upbringing By Teresa Shackell/Torrington
I was brought up in gwehelog no usk very poor and I can ember vividly very hungry most of the time oh and ice inside the windows I was so cold yet we had coal or rather wood from our local fields we used to ...Read more
A memory of Usk by
Fleetwood Ferry
My great-grandfather, Thomas Newton Croft, a member of the family that founded the Fleetwood to Knott End ferry, managed it for the local council from c.1896 to his death in 1915. I am told that my grandmother, Alice, used to do ...Read more
A memory of Fleetwood in 1890 by
Good Times
I lived at 14 oak street Chapel of Ease. I can remember the two estates being built and the bridge in the photo is also the way I went to school at the west end primary school. The red phone box is still there I believe, in the photo the ...Read more
A memory of Abercarn by
Happy Days
I remember happy childhood holidays at Talacre. We would stay in a wooden chalet belonging to a friend of my Dad's. He would pick us up in his Ford Anglia, my dad would sit in the front. Then Mum, my sister Annette and myself would sit in ...Read more
A memory of Talacre by
Old Blokes In White Coats!
Sometimes on the way to the Green we would watch the men walking up and down the Bowling Green. They really took things seriously! The Green was mown to precision and I'm sure the bloke that cut it measured the length of ...Read more
A memory of Camberwell in 1967 by
Daily Chats
I remember when I was a van salesman with Sunblest in Aberdeen - my round was Royal Deeside. My morning started at 02.30hrs in Northfield in Aberdeen. Loaded, I would head for Deeside. I enjoyed my round but more so when I ...Read more
A memory of Bridge of Gairn in 1983 by
College Road
Whilst staying with my Grandparents (Weekes) of College Road, I liked to play down the bottom of the road with my friends (I was about 8 years of age at this time) - playing steppy stones in the mud of the river - a very dangerous ...Read more
A memory of Northfleet in 1950 by
Captions
1,648 captions found. Showing results 49 to 72.
It is decorated with coats of arms, including that of the Worcestershire Hussars.
The remaining bushes have gone, and the walls have acquired a nice bright coat of paint.
To give the bridge just one coat of paint requires 6,000 gallons of paint.
The old Wheal Coates mine, perched on the steep cliffs of St Agnes Head, has been frequently photographed over the years.
Across the street, the mock-timbered frontage of the Holmsdale pub, with its coat of arms suspended beneath the Watney's Red Barrel advertising emblem, adjoins the similarly sham premises of Freeman, Hardy
In 1824, Baines said that the hall was 'plain, comfortable and commodious', and that the exterior had recently been renovated with a coat of Roman cement.
It still looks the same as in this photograph, apart from a fresh white coat of paint and a new pub sign hanging from the wrought iron wall bracket.
The Buttercross was built in 1744 at a cost of £1,000. The ground floor served as a butter market, hence the name.
Birds figure strongly in the coats of arms for many old Bedfordshire families, and it is likely that the cranes of the hotel's title refer to one of these.
Look at the depressing differences in the first building on the left, which has gained a coat of cement render and lost its original windows.
Behind the photographer is the Reading Blue Coat School, founded in 1646, which in 1946 moved to Holme Park at Sonning from Bath Road in Reading.
Outside the extensive premises of Lewis & Godrey's clothing store, a No 51 charabanc and its white-coated and booted driver prepares to take on passengers.
Founded by Henry VII's mother, Margaret Beaufort (as was St John's), the impressive gateway depicts her coat of arms, with a statue of her above.
Around its cornice are Latin inscriptions and 90 coats-of-arms of landed families. The Market House is cross-shaped in plan.
Notice the coat of arms above the corner of the street.
Although not clearly visible in the photograph, the ceiling, built by Sir Jeffrey Wyatville, contains the coats of arms of all the Knights of the Garter since the foundation of the Order in the 14th
The Parker coat of arms ornaments the broken-scrolled pediment. Two oeil-de-boeufs and a later Tuscan-columned porch complete this quite picturesque composition.
Further along the street is the opulent Thomas Coats Memorial Church, built and endowed by the famous Paisley weaving family.
designed by the Coalbrookdale Iron Company for Sandringham House, and shown at the International Exhibition of 1862, they were adapted by replacing the central Prince of Wales' feathers with the Warrington coat
The morning-coated and top-hatted scholars stroll past Barnes Pool, rebuilt in 1930 in Neo-Georgian style.
These lovely almshouses of 1703 feature a striking life-size statue of a scarlet-coated Robert Berkeley in a niche on the chapel.
Founded by Henry VII's mother, Margaret Beaufort (as was St John's), the impressive gateway depicts her coat of arms, with a statue of her above.
Its most prominent feature is the magnificent vaulted roof exquisitely decorated with figures and coats of arms. The Oxford Martyrs were cited to appear for examination here.
A look at the shop fronts is interesting, with names like Gilbeys, selling wines and spirits; the Home & Colonial Stores; Dewhursts the butcher's; and Drakes, selling coats and gowns, all reminding us
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