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Maps
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Memories
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Chestfield Kent During Ww2
I was born in Bromley, Kent in 1940.My childhood was spent alternating between my mother and father's house called, from memory, either Stafford or Stratford House, on the right hand side proceeding from the Chestfield ...Read more
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Laura Lavinia's Girls In The Selsey House
Ellen Laura (Ibbett, Clack, Hodgson) Preston, arrived from Canada and recorded: My sister Jessie and brother Lawrence met me for lunch in London and looked up my sister's train for Selsey, Sussex, with whom I was ...Read more
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Green And Silley Weir
I worked for Green and Silley Weir in Royal Albert Docks in the mid 1960's. I remember there being a nice bunch of people working there. Every Christmas us girls in the offices used to get a few big boxes of chocolates from the ...Read more
A memory of East Ham by
Evacue
I purchased this photo in a gentlemans clothes shop in Grange-Over-Sands as i believe the two children sitting on the wall could be my mum and uncle who were evacuated there during the second world war,so i wondering if the date could be ...Read more
A memory of Grange-Over-Sands
I Join The Railway.
I Join the Railway In the summer of 1953, my Aunt and Uncle were staying with us for their holiday. It must have been my Uncle who first spotted the advertisement in the Dartmouth Chronicle ...Read more
A memory of Kingswear
Witnessing The Last Throes Of Strict Bathing Segregation Laws
The caption in the Francis Frith book 'Paignton', by Peggy Parnell (p.46), reads: 'With his powerful business aptitude, Mr Dendy quickly installed the most important tourist commodity, ...Read more
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Born In Aldershot In 1946
I was born in Aldershot in June 1946. I believe the event was at the General Hospital at the top end of St.Georges Road. For the first year or so I lived with my parents and older brother at the bottom end of Victoria Road. We ...Read more
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Further Memories Of Potters Bar
My name is Colin Dickins and I stumbled on this recollection by Arthur Brown and thought I would add some of my memories. While I don't recall the name we must be about the same age. I lived in Coningsby Drive and went ...Read more
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Ironmongers On The High Street
Does anyone remember the name of the ironmomger shop on the High Street ? During the war we did not have electricity in Beaumont Terrace and our Wireless was run from an accumulator (later called a battery) that I used to ...Read more
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Wonderful Days
We spent all our warm summer holidays at Westgate. We lived in South London. My Grandmother lived in Quex Road and we had a caravan on St Crispens caravan site. I loved getting fish heads from the fish monger to go crabbing. I ...Read more
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Captions
1,440 captions found. Showing results 961 to 984.
St Michael's tower (right), which dates from the mid 15th century, is all that remains of the city centre church today.
Wheat-straw covered chalk clunch walls at Haydon Farm, and a long 1704-dated barn in Flemish-bond brickwork, stood beside a hayrick in the centre of the village.
Dating from 1838, it was built to seat more than a thousand, to cater for the growing parish.
Shipping had much declined by this date, and the quays are becoming derelict.
Built in 1866 by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board to provide observations for the benefit of shipping, its records include a full set of observations dating from 1867.
Steeton was graced by two grand estates: High Hall, rebuilt in 1674, and Low Hall, dating from 1662 (now Steeton Hall Hotel and Restaurant).
The idea for Harlow New Town dates from the late 1940s.
Palace Green is a large, well-tended area between the castle and the cathedral, enclosed on both sides by a range of historic buildings dating from the 18th century.
The chancel and south chapel date from the 14th century and the exceptionally tall tower was built about a century later.
To the south-west is another stone in the direction of the midwinter sunset, which is a far more useful calendar date for ancient agricultural communities.
The large clock on its ornamental bracket outside St Martin’s Church dates from 1668; it still shows present-day shoppers the time.The chap in the smart motor car looks a proper toff!
The half-timbered manor house of Blakesley Hall dates from 1575.
Little survives of the old town, although parts of the former Greyfriars church of St John, where Robert the Bruce held a Parliament in 1315, are thought to date back to its origins.
The castle, which dates from 1282, was left to slide into decay following its siege during the Civil War in 1645.
There are no medieval churches in central Leeds, though several date from the 17th and 18th centuries.
If this picture is correctly dated it must have been taken very shortly before opening, possibly in December.
By this date the area had expanded southwards, no longer impeded by the dingle, with a bridge facilitating an extension of the parkland towards Cliff Road.
The V Richardson shop is still a shop, but the next but one beyond, dated 1886, is now a house, the Old Bakery.
Hope Cottage near the church is dated 1888, and at No 16 Church Street a tall tree has replaced what looks like a broken-off post (right).
In the background is the abbey church, dating from around 1100.
After this date there was an inevitable spreading of streets and tramways.
The chancel dates from 1886, and the stained glass is also vintage 1880s.
Built in the Irish style, the round tower dates from the 10th or 11th centuries and would have been used by the monks as a place of refuge during raids by pirates or Vikings.
This and the stylish pedestrian bridge date from 1892-4.
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