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Memories

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All Our Yesterdays

I was born into a family of 6 brothers and four sisters in 1936, attending Barnby Dun infants and primary schools and then Armthorpe secondary modern school until the age of 15. Our family ran a large market garden on Top Road, ...Read more

A memory of Barnby Dun

Drawbridge Cottage Exeter Canal Photo Ref 82302

Ref: 82302 This is a photo of Drawbridge Cottage where my family lived in 1901. John Thomas Helley and wife Eliza Ann(nee Gitsham) lived there with their children Florence, Maud, Louie ...Read more

A memory of Newton St Cyres in 1920 by Peter Morris

Beales Family Tree

My great-great-grandfather George Beales owned the Pleasure Boat Inn. He ran a wherry boat from there in about 1890. I am looking for more information about this and for pictures of the Beales family - in anyone can help, please get in touch. Mike Beales mabeales@aol.com

A memory of Hickling in 2009 by Michael Beales

Cockfield Station

I was born at Cockfield station where dad was a guard and signalman, he was also in the Home Guard. My sister Jean and her friend Anne Coates used to walk over the fell to school, there were no school buses then. Last year I ...Read more

A memory of Cockfield in 1949 by Sylvia Baker

Watford Town Hall

I am visiting Watford on Wednesday as my husband is playing bowls for Kent! My mother [ Barbara Whiter ( nee Neech) who was born in Watford, and who is 90 in April, and now living in Colchester, Essex. ] just happened to mention ...Read more

A memory of Watford in 1940 by Sue Robinson

School Holidays

I feel I could write a book as the memories were brilliant! We used to spend the whole summer there and I cried when I had to leave. I remember the boatyard which was run by Mr May, his son was called Billy and he was my ...Read more

A memory of Potter Heigham in 1964 by Stephen Mackay

East Ham From 1958

I was born and raised in East Ham and was very proud of it.  We lived in Friars Road off the Barking Road and moved to Lincoln Road off High Street North.  The postcards brought back memories of home.  East Ham used to be a very ...Read more

A memory of East Ham in 1958 by Rosemarie Lee

I Would Like To Make Contact With Any Old School Mates

Hello to all, I was at Warnham Court in 1963 to 1970 (or thereabouts) My dormitory was Wran. I would very much like to make contact with anyone who may just be able to remember me. ...Read more

A memory of Warnham Court School in 1963 by Andrew Keith Murfet

Raf 90 Group Medmenham

After joining as aircrew in 1950 and being re-mustered as motor mechanic in 1951, I was posted to RAF Medmenham and attached to the motor pool. It was a wonderful posting with fond memories of walking along the river banks, ...Read more

A memory of Medmenham in 1952 by Bob Neil

H.L Daniel's Motorcycle Shop & Buckley's Bike Shop

I lived in Forest Hill in the 1960's on a road off Dartmouth Road. Two shops on the road stand out in my memory. Probably in 1965 both were still trading. H.L. Daniel was a Norton works motorbike ...Read more

A memory of Forest Hill in 1860 by Graham Chivrall

Captions

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Caption For Cawsand, The Bay 1904

We are on the south-east coast at Cawsand Bay; the twin villages perched above the beach, where fishing boats are drawn up.

Caption For Barnstaple, From Rock Park 1890

The area was also known as River Row, after the rowing boats that could be hired here.

Caption For Mapledurham, The Lock 1890

the lock, the footbridge, and the lock-keeper's cottage have all been rebuilt, it is still a tranquil stretch; the steam launch entering the lock may be similar to the one that towed the Three Men in a Boat

Caption For Maidenhead, Boulters Lock 1913

A little later, the year before the First World War started, the great boating craze of the later Victorian and Edwardian years is still in full swing.

Caption For Southend On Sea, The Boating Lake And Pier Hill C1950

This photograph looks west beside the boating pool, with the Palace Hotel dominating the scene.

Caption For Mevagissey, The Harbour 1904

Around the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, the majority of large fishing boats at Mevagissey had originated from elsewhere in Cornwall, mainly from the west.

Caption For Llanfoist, The Boathouse On Canal 1893

Originally a warehouse, the boathouse behind the trees is now the base of a boat hire company.

Caption For Whitby, The Pier C1955

At the time the pier extensions were constructed, some locals claimed that they had been built in the wrong direction, giving boats a rough passage over the harbour bar.

Caption For Oxford, Eights 1922

Each year every boat starts off in the position it occupied from the previous year in the table.

Caption For Llanfoist, The Boathouse On Canal 1893

Originally a warehouse, the boathouse behind the trees is now the base of a boat hire company.

Caption For York, St Mary's Tower C1885

The cart horses and their owners are waiting patiently to unload cargo from the moored boat - was it fish, perhaps?

Caption For Reading, On The Thames 1924

East from the south end of Reading Bridge John Tims Boatyard building, with its punts and boats for hire, has now all gone, replaced by the less than wonderful eleven-storey Reading Bridge House.

Caption For Gnosall, Wharf Bridge C1955

The Boat Inn stands beside the bridge.

Caption For Bathampton, The Canal And George Inn 1907

Today, the only boats you will see are recreational ones.

Caption For Manchester Ship Canal, Ellesmere Port 1947

This area, partially redeveloped, is now home to The Boat Museum.

Caption For Cambridge, Eights On The Cam 1909

Eights such as this one start off about one and a half lengths behind one another, and each boat has to catch up with the one in front, thus 'bumping' it.

Caption For Salcombe, The Quayside 1896

In late summer the pilchard shoals would arrive and the town was a bustle of small boats.

Caption For Cambridge, Eights On The Cam 1909

Eights such as this one start off some one and a half lengths behind one another, and each boat has to catch up with the one in front, thus “bumping' it.

Caption For Grange Over Sands, The Pier 1914

This photograph, taken from the bridge at Clare House Pier, shows a busy scene, with eight boats of varying sizes gathered around.

Caption For Hickling, The Pleasure Boat Inn C1955

At Hickling, where the Broadland waters fan into expansive shallows, there is a pleasing jumble of red tiled and thatched buildings clustering around the old Pleasure Boat Inn.

Caption For Fowey, From Hall Walk C1930

Here we see part of the town's waterfront, with a boat yard on the left, and Caffa Mill Pill, an inlet since reclaimed for a car park and a new slipway for the ferry.

Caption For Broseley, High Street 1904

Coal was exported downriver from here - in 1756, 87 boats were registered in Broseley to transport coal.

Caption For Middlesbrough, The Lake, Albert Park C1955

The boating lake was an original feature from 1868, and was placed at the east end of the main avenue through the park.

Caption For Oxford, 'the Eights' 1922

Here, we are on the tow path along the west bank, looking north towards Christchurch Meadow; it is the end of May, and the annual Eights Week, when the college boats race each other, is in full swing.