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
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Maps
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Memories
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My Mothers Story
My mother Irene was born in 1927 in London. In the 1930’s she and her parents, Charles and Ada Moore, lived in Chingford. On the evening of 30 Sept 1940 a bomb was dropped on their home on Normandshire Dr. My grandfather, a member of ...Read more
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I Was Born In Chippinghurst Manor. On The 15th July 1942..
Due to the fact that my mother was in Oxford, to escape the bombing in London while she was pregnant, during the second world war, she gave birth to me in Chippinghurst Manor on 15th July 1942. ROBERT NEIL CRAWFORD.
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A Privilege To Grow Up Here!
I was born in 1961 in Thorpe Combe hospital in Walthamstow and brought up by my parents in Forest Edge Buckhurst Hill. I consider myself very privileged to have lived there for the first 26 years of my life and have ...Read more
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Northolt Wonderland
I was born in Barnet in 1942, but the Germans bombed our house and killed my dad a few months later. I was sent to Wales to avoid the Blitz. (BlitzKrieg - Lightening strikes) after 5 years I found myself in Millway Gardens in ...Read more
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Purveyor Of Sweetshops
I knew all the best sweet shops on Lavendar Hill Rd. Easily the best was Browns Sweet shop where Stormont Rd met Lavendar Hill. It had every sweet you could think of and seemed to be open 7 days a week until 9pm. I think the ...Read more
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1942 1968
Brought up > 66 Grantham Gardens 42 to 48; 319 High St 48 to 55, 32 Chadwell.Heath Lane 55 to 68. My sister was born in 48 @ 319. My father was C. M. Liley & Co, Builders @ 313 High Road [Grantham Gardens before that] + Had job ...Read more
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Hop Picking. Telephone Exchange Tunbridge Wells
DOES ANYONE EVER ANSWER TO OUR MEMORIES?. THERE MUST BE SOMEONE OUT THERE COME ON JOIN IN I joined Tunbridge Wells telephone exchange September 1948. I remember so well the evening the man would ...Read more
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Happy Hours Of Reading But Also Destruction.
So many hours of reading here in this library. The children's section was in the main door and to the right served by the 2 windows shown on the ground floor. I recall taking out every Arthur Ransome ...Read more
A memory of Wallington by
My Story
My name is Peter Mills. I was born in 1939 and I lived in Barest Road, Nunhead. I lived through the war years, evacuation, hiding in the Anderson shelter, having to use the bungalow bath, outside toilet, coal fire, ascot water heater, ...Read more
A memory of Peckham in 1950 by
Baglan A Wartime Paradise
My Dad did his army training adjacent to Baglan during WW2. The hastily built barracks did not have enough bathroom facilities and asked local residents for permission for soldiers to have a bath in their houses. A super-kind ...Read more
A memory of Baglan
Captions
232 captions found. Showing results 73 to 96.
St Michael's at Thorn was destroyed by bombs, so this is very much an archive photograph.
In 1940 a German bomb fell in the open area, Founder's Court, blowing out all the windows but doing no seri- ous structural damage.
The parish church lost its spire from bomb damage in the Second World War.
The early Saxon town was attacked several times by Danish raiders, was destroyed by the French in 1340 and 1690, and badly bombed during the Second World War.
The church was bombed in 1940, but has now been carefully restored.
St Giles Cripplegate Church survived severe Second World War bombing to stand in the centre of development which was completed in the early 1980s.
St Michael's at Thorn was destroyed by bombs, so this is very much an archive photograph.
The Bible Christian Chapel (centre) with the schoolroom beneath it was built in 1889 and bombed in August 1942.
Acomb was once a centre for the lead-mining industry.
The Bishop's Palace was bomb-damaged in the Second World War; this view shows the 1615 front long before it had to be rebuilt.
Only St John the Baptist's church and a couple of houses nearby escaped from the bombs intended for the port and the railway station.
All Saints' Church in the distance survived bombing and post-war clearance, along with a thatched pub, the quaintly-named Barking Dickey, which later became a greengrocer and then a bank.
All Saints' Church in the distance survived bombing and post-war clearance, along with a thatched pub, the quaintly-named Barking Dickey, which later became a greengrocer and then a bank.
Regarded as symbolic of British oppression, the statue was bombed away in 1937.
Originally founded for the training of school mistresses, the college was bombed and destroyed in the Second World War.
Now on the main road to the North Sea seaside resorts from Canterbury, Sturry was, along with Canterbury itself, bombed heavily during the Second World War.
Following bombing during the Second World War, the familiar tower is today attached to a new church.
A decade earlier the Isle of Wight had known the hostile use of air-power, being one of the first areas to be bombed during the Battle of Britain.
The Bishop's Palace was bomb-damaged in the Second World War; this view shows the 1615 front long before it had to be rebuilt.
The tower is 110 feet high and, because of its prominent position, it was bombed in the Second World War.
Altogether, around twenty thousand Plymouth buildings were destroyed as a result of enemy bombing.
Altogether, around twenty thousand Plymouth buildings were destroyed as a result of enemy bombing.
In the background is Chelsea Old Church, which suffered extensive bomb damage in the War.
It is surprising to learn that the town was bombed repeatedly during the last war and an amazing 3% of the population were casualties.
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