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Eccles Family History

My great-grandfather, Joseph Eccles, built Bilsborrow Hall. He owned a number of cotton mills in Preston and played cricket for Lancashire. I have just started to look into our family history and will hopefully be able to ...Read more

A memory of Bilsborrow by Peter Eccles

Rowes Of Netheravon.

As a little girl I remember visiting Auntie Alice and Uncle Bill Rowe. They lived in Vine Cottage just down from the SSW Army Camp. Dad was stationed there after the Second World War, that's where he met my mother Margaret ...Read more

A memory of Netheravon in 1965 by Christina Jobling

Bomb Craters In Buckhurst Hill

I note that several Memory Writers have mentioned Knighton Woods and Lord's Bushes in their stories. I too remember these great places to play. We'd pretend we were soldiers defending an imaginary stronghold. ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill by Denman Lalonde

Life In Sutton Road

i remember growing up on Sutton's housing estate, I lived with my grandparents, the Heatons, at no 20. I went to Sacred Heart School, with my friends Alan Overend, Peter Harney, from Trust Road. Palled around with Bill Cutts, ...Read more

A memory of Gorton in 1957 by Peter Ellis

Tennis Courts Portway Bristol

These Clifton Tennis Courts alongside Bristol's Portway road were built just after the road was opened. The new built Portway from Bristol to Avonmouth a very modern road in its day. The wide A4 Portway trunk road ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1930 by Paul Townsend

Bristol's Loveliest Church, St Mary Redcliffe.

St Mary Redcliffe Church. Bristol's loveliest church, St Mary Redcliffe, was described as 'the fairest, the goodliest and most famous parish church in England' by Queen Elizabeth I in 1574. Thanks to ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1880 by Paul Townsend

Hopkinstown

I was born in 50 Hopkinstown Road, right by the school. My name was then Heather Jones. I am now in Austraila, NSW. I have been back and it all looked so small and the roads. I was in the jazz band and was in pantomimes that my uncle would do, his name was Bill Price, and it was a lot of fun.

A memory of Hopkinstown in 1950 by Heather Segboer

White Bear

Haighton's is one of the mills to which you refer where my parents worked. Is that John Hill the teacher whose mother's name was Margaret? I was formerly Margaret Drake, nee Mount.

A memory of Barrowford by Margaret Dickinson

Thorpeness Mill 1942 To 1957

My father Ted Friend was the millwright at Thorpeness for many years, he worked on the Ogilvie estate, and we lived at Thorpe Road. He and I would often walk on a Sunday afternoon around the mill, and Dad would tell ...Read more

A memory of Sizewell by Yvonne Jeffries

Working For The Ministry

I started working for the ministry (ancient monuments) in 1969 at South Wingfield Manor. At the time it was owned by two brothers, Sam and Bill Critchlow, who ran a dairy farm situated at the side of the manor, in ...Read more

A memory of South Wingfield in 1969 by Stuart Chambers

Captions

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Caption For Horncastle, Bull Ring C1965

R L Kisby and the Trustee Savings Bank (right) have gone, and Mills the newsagents have taken their place.

Caption For Shaw, Market Street C1950

Shaw developed as part of Crompton and by the early 1900s it had 29 spinning mills.

Caption For Downham, Post Office And Old Stocks 1921

The film 'Whistle Down The Wind' with Hayley Mills was filmed in and around Downham village.

Caption For Bingley, Locks On The Leeds And Liverpool Canal C1900

At 127 miles, this is the longest canal in Britain, and creates a vital trans-Pennine crossing between the mill towns of Yorkshire and the seaports of the Mersey.

Caption For Bridport, East Bridge 1897

This picture shows a mill leat from the River Asker (right) and a three storey building (left), the former Marquis of Granby, which dates from 1768.

Caption For Birkenhead, Docks C1965

The flour mills (B399087, left background) are a reminder of the port's heyday when the trading vessels of the world would have queued to unload.

Caption For Offord Cluny, The Village 1906

Station Road, on the left, leads over the railway and across the Great Ouse to the mill.

Caption For Westbury, Composite C1965

In nearby Westbury Leigh, part of the parish of Westbury, cloth mills and weavers' cottages remind us of its past.

Caption For Burnley, Manchester Road 1895

There were once 200 mills and industrial chimneys pouring smoke into the air of Burnley.

Caption For Boston Spa, The Bridge 1908

A little to the west of here, near the weir, is the old mill, also now luxury houses.

Caption For Lytham, Windmill And Lifeboat House 1924

The 18th-century machinery inside is older than the structure, but like many of the tower mills it has a long history.

Caption For Dinas Mawddwy, The Village C1955

Distinctive Welsh woollen cloth was manufactured at the mill in the village, and has latterly become a tourist outlet for these products.

Caption For Loxwood, Combination Stores C1950

Brewhurst Mill is a complete and conserved corn watermill. The shop on the left has old enamelled metal cigarette advertising signs fixed to the wall. There is a larger shop across road.

Caption For Painswick, New Street C1950

The stream water was used to power cloth mills. The pure water was also suited for dyeing cloth. The Falcon Inn dates from the early 1700s - it has a date stone of 1711.

Caption For Burnley, Brunswick Chapel 1895

The other mill chimneys in the distance are in the Burnley Wood area.

Caption For Bingley, Locks On The Leeds And Liverpool Canal C1900

At 127 miles, this is the longest canal in Britain, and creates a vital trans-Pennine crossing between the mill towns of Yorkshire and the seaports of the Mersey.

Caption For Whitworth, St Anslem Roman Catholic Church C1950

Whitworth`s mills and quarries attracted Irish immigrants, who had to walk to St John`s Roman Catholic Chapel, Rochdale until the Rev John Millward opened a Whitworth Mission in 1860.

Caption For Blackburn, The Market And Town Hall 1894

For over a century, Blackburn was known as 'the biggest weaving town in the world'; it boasted over 80,000 looms in 130 mills.

Caption For Painswick, New Street C1950

The stream water was used to power cloth mills. The pure water was also suited for dyeing cloth. The Falcon Inn dates from the early 1700s - it has a date stone of 1711.

Caption For Bridport, East Bridge 1897

This picture shows a mill leat from the River Asker (right) and a three storey building (left), the former Marquis of Granby, which dates from 1768.

Caption For Aysgarth, Middle Fall And Church 1887

The water provided power for the two mills; the last closed in 1965, and the other generated electricity for the village until 1948.

Caption For Birkenhead, Docks C1965

The flour mills (B399087, left background) are a reminder of the port's heyday when the trading vessels of the world would have queued to unload.

Caption For Gargrave, The Lock, Eshton Road C1955

The 127 miles of the Leeds to Liverpool canal took 40 years to complete; the canal reached Gargrave from Bingley and Skipton in 1774, and linked with Leeds three years later.

Caption For Wetherby, Weir From Bridge 1909

The weir provided power for the ancient mill that has been here since the time of the Knight's Templars.