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Maps

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1898, Latton Bush Ref. RNC753258
1902, Holly Bush Ref. RNC738321
1920, Beggars Bush Ref. POP636657
1946, Bush Green Ref. NPO657416
1946, Bush Green Ref. NPO657417
1920, Peckham Bush Ref. POP802491
1898, Bush Bank Ref. RNE657389
1896, Latton Bush Ref. RNE753258
1897, Holly Bush Ref. RNE738321
1898, Beggars Bush Ref. RNC636657
1878 - 1879, Matlock Bath Ref. HOSM53417
1947, Newbiggin-By-The-Sea Ref. NPO790567
1947, Marske-By-The-Sea Ref. NPO775183
1947, Saltburn-By-The-Sea Ref. NPO824563
1897, Newbiggin-By-The-Sea Ref. RNE790567
1913, Marske-By-The-Sea Ref. HOSM53329
1896, Bush Hill Park Ref. RNE657422
1898-1899, Bush End Ref. RNC657395
1899-1901, Bush Green Ref. RNC657415
1901-1902, Bush Green Ref. RNC657416

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Memories

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Reigate London Road Shops.

I love this photo of London Road Reigate. There was a sweet shop just after Yorke road on the left - leading on to a chemists. I'd love to see a photo of them. Maybe folk didn't realise it was the shops that would be of ...Read more

A memory of Reigate by baxfilmore

Council Workers

Does anybody remember Tam Ritchie and his band of merry men ? They were the council workers based at Dunivard Place always good for a laugh ! Tam lived in an old caravan which I think Marco Galli has rotting away in his yard at ...Read more

A memory of Garelochhead by Ian Gowans

Savage Memories Of Pilsley Pit

I have two professionally taken pictures of an official visit to PILSLEY COLLIERY, the pit as grandad called it, by what looks to be the colliers wives. The last pit closed in 1957 & I suspect the ...Read more

A memory of Pilsley by Chris Nee Savage

Graham Kinnear Memories Of Brandon High School From Australia

Brandon High School, Motherwell, Scotland. Reminiscences by Graham Kinnear May 2023. Living in Australia since 1980. I was so fascinated by fun and games and adventures, that ...Read more

A memory of Motherwell by thebeild

Special Memories Pier And Baths

When I was 9 we lived in a new block of flats (at that time) opposite the Pier and just across the road from the baths. I used to walk to Stanwell Rd School through the Park which was always beautiful. I actually never ...Read more

A memory of Penarth by Cheryl Lewis

Great Memories

I was at Angus house garden city woodford Essex. in the 60s I used love going on holidays to yarmouth we used put our mattresses in the back of a van and go to the church hall it was great every day uncle that was mr and mrs ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Bridge by Bryan Callahan

Barnett Family

Hi, just trying to find out more information on my family - mother was Edna Barnett, who was the youngest child of Fred and Catherine (Cass) Barnett who lived on Trealaw Road. Mum was the youngest of 9 surviving children with her ...Read more

A memory of Trealaw by Helen Jee

Southall Memories

My parents, who came to England from India in 1955, when I was 3 months old, moved to Southall in 1959, from Whitton, when I was 4. I remember Southall Broadway at that time-there was actually a saddlery business there! C. ...Read more

A memory of Southall by Sandya Narayanswami

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

A memory of Battersea by tedpettit

The Kings Arms Marston's 1807

My Uncle Frank and Aunt Vi managed this pub back in the 60's. My Uncle, Frank Edward Betts was Mayor of Appleby in 1954 and was a manager at Express Dairies. I am trying to find out if this pub still ...Read more

A memory of Appleby-in-Westmorland by Sharon Jeffries

Captions

1,059 captions found. Showing results 97 to 120.

Caption For Earlswood, New Pond 1922

A wonderful evocative scene of people enjoying themselves on the pond; note in particular the boat with a canopy.

Caption For Bognor Regis, The Beach 1890

From the beginning of the 19th century most resorts had bathing machines in which bathers could change while being dragged into the sea, initially by horses and later by winches.

Caption For Margate, Sands 1906

A large crowd gathers around Edward Perkins' bathing platform on the gently sloping Margate Sands.

Caption For Winchester, College From The Cathedral 1929

Until the 1960s, Winchester's pupils led a Spartan existence, bathing every day in cold water in tin baths; perhaps this helped generations of schoolboys to face the rigours of life outside and

Caption For Swanage, The Beach 1925

Swanage has an advantage as a resort in that there is little difference between high and low tides, allowing good bathing at most times of the day.

Caption For Combe Down, Church Road C1965

Now part of the City of Bath, this once provided access to the Bath stone quarries of the 18th-century magnate Ralph Allen.

Caption For Wroxeter, The Ruined Bath House C1864

Wroxeter, known in Roman times as Viroconium Cornovior, became a tribal capital and the fourth largest Roman town in Britain.

Caption For Bournemouth, The Bathing Beach 1925

By the 1920s, bathing costumes had become more practical than those shown in the previous illustrations, and the bathing machines had become redundant in favour of smaller kiosks and tents.

Caption For Shanklin, The Beach 1893

Safe bathing brought thousands of early visitors to Shanklin, as we can see from the profusion of bathing huts and tents.

Caption For Weymouth, The Beach C1955

The early use of bathing machines made Weymouth a popular resort for sea bathing, and the town has never looked back.

Caption For Clifton, Granby Hill And St Vincent's Park 1887

As Clifton's reputation as a resort grew, the late Georgian terraces were built in a style that deliberately imitated Bath.

Caption For Bath, View From Pulteney Bridge 1914

Bath is, architecturally speaking, one of England's greatest cities.

Caption For Wroxeter, The Ruined Bath House C1864

Wroxeter, known in Roman times as Viroconium Cornovior, became a tribal capital and the fourth largest Roman town in Britain.

Caption For Frome, Bath Street 1907

Much grander is Bath Street.

Caption For Ilfracombe, Capstone Hill And Parade 1911

The bathing arrangements here are peculiar.

Caption For Bath, Roman Baths 1897

In 1897 the architect John Brydon added these dignified colonnades around the baths with their balustrades and statues.

Caption For Barry Island, The Promenade And Gardens 1925

Rows of bathing huts line the beach, with bathing costumes (which could be hired) drying in the wind on lines behind them beside the newly-built promenade.

Caption For Ventnor, The Esplanade 1908

Ventnor never compared to Sandown or Shanklin as a centre for sea bathing, though bathing machines for ladies and gentlemen flourished in King Edward VII's reign.

Caption For St Annes, Open Air Sun Lounge C1955

The open air baths were well populated in summer.

Caption For Wakefield, Holmfield House C1960

The extended garden of the house is now a forecourt for a modern hotel built on the site of the old rock garden, which used to be the kitchen garden with glasshouses.

Caption For Paignton, Bathing Beach 1896

Bathing machines were designed to be pushed into the sea, allowing bathers to change and enter the water with maximum decorum.

Caption For Ripon, The Spa Baths 1914

On the west side of the city, towards Fountains Abbey, stands the Spa Baths and Pump Room, opened on 24 October 1905 by Prince Henry of Battenburg.

Caption For Stafford, The Royal Brine Baths C1950

During the 19th century the borough council were desperately seeking new fresh water supplies for the town.

Caption For Sidmouth, Esplanade Looking East C1955

An elderly visitor contemplates a busy Sidmouth sea front on a summer's day in the 1950s.