Places
25 places found.
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- Lake District, Cumbria
- Lake Misurina, Italy
- Lake Maggiore, Italy
- Lake Como, Italy
- Lake Chabot, USA
- Lake Orta, Italy
- Lake Vyrnwy, Powys
- Llangorse Lake, Powys
- Lake, Isle of Wight
- Lake, Wiltshire
- Lake, Devon (near Bridestowe)
- Lake, Devon (near Milton Damerel)
- Lake, Dorset
- Lake, Devon (near Barnstaple)
- Red Lake, Shropshire
- Holywell Lake, Somerset
- Ashmore Lake, West Midlands
- Black Lake, West Midlands
- Clay Lake, Lincolnshire
- Lake End, Buckinghamshire
- The Lake, Dumfries and Galloway
- Tumpy Lakes, Hereford & Worcester
- Sutton Lakes, Hereford & Worcester
- Bala Lake Railway, Gwynedd
- The Lakes, Hereford & Worcester
Photos
2,505 photos found. Showing results 61 to 80.
Maps
374 maps found.
Books
2 books found. Showing results 73 to 2.
Memories
979 memories found. Showing results 31 to 40.
Visiting My Grandmother In Newton
Every school holiday from 1959 onwards, my brothers Tony, Brian, and later my sister Karen and I stayed with my grandmother Sarah Stones & Harold Stones. Gran owned the Stones greengrocers shop in High ...Read more
A memory of Newton-le-Willows by
The Old Thatch
Ah, The Old Thatch. I remember it well, for this is where I grew up from the early 1940s until 1956. By today's standards it was grim: no heating, no running water, no flush loo - nothing. Yet it was a wonderful place in which ...Read more
A memory of Nether Wallop in 1940 by
Gold Cottages Government Road
my dad Walter James Harrison lived in 2 Gold Cottages, the Stubbs i think on government road its where the fishing lakes are now. his dad Albert Edward Harrison died there in 1936. just trying to find out more about the place back in the day
A memory of Ash Vale by
Best Years Of Our Lives
My name is David Cannon I was born in Dagenham in 1947 at my maternal grandmothers house but immediately moved to Alfred’s Way Barking opposite the Volunteer pub to live with my Gran and Grandad Cannon. They had lived in ...Read more
A memory of Barking by
The Lawrence Children's Home, Situated In King Harry Lane
From the age of 2 in November 1949 until December 1953, due to my mother's very early death, I found myself enrolled as a resident at The Lawrence Children's Home in King Harry Lane, St ...Read more
A memory of St Albans by
Meadvale As A Living Village
When we first moved to "the estate" in the early fifties I would have to catch the bus into Reigate as I went to school in Holmesdale Road. The school I have forgotten about but what is memorable was the smell of the ...Read more
A memory of Reigate in 1957 by
Grounds Of The Royal Military Academy
While I was growing up in Sandhurst, the grounds of the College was open to the public and we could walk from the village of Sandhurst through to Camberley. This building with parade ground in front is famous ...Read more
A memory of Sandhurst in 1940 by
East Horsley In The Sixties
I grew up in East Horsley, where I attended St Martin's C of E Primary School. We had no car and we lived nearby so we always walked to the primary school and my mother walked to the shops on Bishopsmeade Parade. When ...Read more
A memory of East Horsley by
Emigration To Ottawa, Canada
Ottawa has been my Home Base for nearly fifty years, having lost my faith of a future in UK during a troublesome strike by miners which was crippling the UK economy - no doubt the miners thought that the closure of ...Read more
A memory of Ottawa by
Growing Up In Milford
My mother was in the WAAFs during WWII. She met my father (an American G.I.) at a dance in Henley. They married in 1944 and after the war, my mother traveled to the United States as a war bride. I was born in Nebraska in ...Read more
A memory of Milford by
Captions
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The Fisherman`s Inn (the white building on the right) is the lake`s oldest inn.
This is one of the classic mountain views in the Lake District, with the glaciated knife-edge of Striding Edge leading off eastwards towards High Spying How.
Esthwaite Water, south of Hawkshead, is one of the quietest of the lakes, and is a Norse name meaning 'the lake by the eastern clearing'.
Esthwaite Water, south of Hawkshead, is one of the quietest of the lakes, and its Norse name means 'the lake by the eastern clearing'.
The lake in Cyfarthfa Park covers nearly 7 acres. It was used for boating in pre-Second World War days, but after this it slowly ceased to be used for this purpose.
When the lake and the adjoining parkland was presented to the people of Romford in 1902 by Herbert Raphael it was named Raphael Park. Ever since, it has remained an oasis of calm.
Launched in 1900, she was at that time the biggest boat ever to sail on the lake.
The wooden gates and fences in the photograph are typical of this southern, less-mountainous part of the Lake District.
To the south of the lake the Coal Board built a children's swimming pool. It was later made rectangular, but now appears disused and empty of water.
He landscaped the fields and created the two lakes and the formal water gardens. Next to the round lake he built the Temple of Hercules in 1742, the year of his death.
The Bowness Ferry across the narrowest part of the lake was originally a hand-rowed operation.
Despite its natural appearance, the lakes of Tarn Hows are in fact artificial, and there were once several smaller tarns.
Built to link the Promenade to the attractions of Princes Park, the doubly-named bridge rests on two artificial islands in the Marine Lake.
The lake of Dyffryn Mymbyr lies in a broad, windswept upland valley. It is almost divided into twin lakes by a central delta.
The lake, privately owned, was justly renowned for its beauty, especially in autumn.
This classic view of England's largest lake was taken from the south end of Loughrigg. Ambleside town is round the corner to the left.
South-east of the town, along the valley of the River Ise and west of Barton Seagrave village, is The Wicksteed Park with the river dammed to form a large lake as the centrepiece.
Chandler's Ford Lake has been much improved since this photograph was taken.
Hollingworth Lake was originally constructed as a feeder for the Rochdale Canal.
Unlike the recently formed flashes, Pick Mere ('the lake where pike are found') is a natural feature. It was formed as a hollow in the ground filled with melted ice at the end of the Ice Age.
Southend The Marine Lake
We are looking south along West Kirby's busy Promenade, with the marine lake to the right.
Southend The Marine Lake
The name Hoylake refers to Hoyle Lake, a deep-water anchorage just off the shore and favoured by ships transporting cargoes of goods and passengers either along the Dee Estuary or into Liverpool.
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