Places
14 places found.
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- Coates, Lancashire
- Coate, Wiltshire (near Swindon)
- Coates, Lincolnshire
- Coat, Somerset
- Coates, Gloucestershire
- Coates, Nottinghamshire
- Coates, Cambridgeshire
- Coates, Sussex
- Coates, Lothian (near Penicuik)
- Coate, Wiltshire (near Devizes)
- Great Coates, Humberside
- Salt Coates, Cumbria
- Little Coates, Humberside
- North Coates Airfield, Lincolnshire
Photos
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Maps
88 maps found.
Books
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Memories
1,483 memories found. Showing results 631 to 640.
The Original Beach Cafe
When I was a boy in the 1950 to 1970 period my Mother was employed as the cook/manager of the what I assume was the original substantial brick built Cafe/Restaurant. It was rented out to a Mrs Esme Elley whose family owned ...Read more
A memory of Hunmanby Gap by
1960s & 70s
My grandparents (McNaught) lived in Henrietta Street, and my parents & I stayed with them for many holidays in the 60s and 70s. An uncle & aunt lived in George Street - they were retired teachers from Barrhill school. Another aunt ...Read more
A memory of Girvan by
Tanktops And Bellbottoms
Tank tops and bell bottoms-memoirs of a Birkenhead lad I was born in Birkenhead in 1954 at the back of Central Station, opposite the Haymarket, and still remember being hungry all the time. We were poor, as was everyone ...Read more
A memory of Birkenhead by
The Boathouse At St. Nicholas Park, Warwick.
From the late 60's to early 70's I worked as an assistant boatman at St Nicholas park Boathouse. My duties included hiring motor boat and rowing skiffs to the public in the summer......in the winter months ...Read more
A memory of Warwick by
Tyn Y By The Sea
First stayed there in 1951. My dad rented the chalet opposite the green corrugated Chapel aside of the sandy path which lead to the beach. Apart from the shop and chippy there was a Welcoast ice cream kiosk on the corner that ...Read more
A memory of Tyn-y-Morfa by
Happy Days
I am the dark haired young man sitting upright in the boat in the bottom left hand corner of the photograph taken in 1961. The boat was the Judith Mary built by Percy Mitchell for my late father, Spencer Clarke, in Portmellon in 1949. ...Read more
A memory of Gorran Haven by
12a Coronation Close Blenden
I was born at 12a Coronation Close, Blenden (near Danson Park and Bexley woods) in July of 1947. My family shared the house with my nan and aunts, Molly and Olive for the first 5 years of my life (we then moved to ...Read more
A memory of Bexleyheath by
Wolverley In The Fifties
In the Fifties A family called the Robinsons owned Wolverley Court. They had three children, Michael who had a sports car, Judy who played the violin and Ian. They ran a youth club for the village children and ...Read more
A memory of Wolverley by
Memories Are Made Of This
Seasalter - A place name from the past for 2 reasons. No.1 - in the 1960s my paternal grandmother and grandfather had retired from Tooting, Sarf London to Bapchild, Sittingbourne and had acquired a beach hut close by the ...Read more
A memory of Seasalter by
Paradise!
My grandparent's on mother's side lived in top flat of Otterburn, Stroncarraig Brae, Rhubaan and my first visit was in August 1938 on a three weeks holiday from my home in Penarth, South Wales. My grandfather had a small open motor ...Read more
A memory of Tighnabruaich by
Captions
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Boats travelling down the Thames estuary from London were met by stagecoaches here, and their passengers were transported onward by road to Dover.
By 1925, the Promenade behind the boat station was fully developed; here it is being used by a variety of vehicles - a charabanc, a horse and trap, a motor car and an invalid carriage
The large boat in the foreground is the Janwal, owned by Jimmy R Crockford.
An empty pair of boats (the one in front is the 'Clio') head towards Manchester, probably to collect coal.
The man in the boat alongside the slipway holds her steady, making it easier for his lady passenger to disembark.
In his comic novel 'Three Men in a Boat', Jerome K Jerome vividly describes such a scene as this.
By the 1920s shipbuilding had declined, and in the years since Kippford has become a popular yachting centre, its harbour and channel busy with visiting boats in the summer months.
An empty pair of boats (the one in front is the 'Clio') head towards Manchester, probably to collect coal.
It was here that the Manchester liners and Eleman boats could be turned round ready for their journey back out to sea.
By 1955, everything appears to have settled down, and pleasure craft and punts are using the boat yards, landing stages, riverside cafes and the garden to the Old Falcon Inn (left).
Boats are on the Chesil Beach between Chiswell and Victoria Sqaure (top left), with Portland Harbour on the other side of the pebble bank (centre background), in a panorama north-westwards from Paradise
Note the boats pulled up above the high- water mark, the free-range livestock grazing, and the vegetable plot by the cottage.
A fishing boat is venturing out from the Cobb, but no one has braved the slanting seat (which has since been removed).
In the 1970s evidence was unearthed that as early as March 1777 the authorities in Liverpool had given orders for repairs to 'the boat, which was formerly ordered to be built and kept at Formby
Some of the details are still to be seen, including the steps from which the boat is pulling away.
A hire boat yard now occupies the site around the dyke where the dinghies are moored.
Though the Broads are wild and empty places of sweeping skies and wind-blown marshes, the traveller by boat is never far from history.
The three young lads out in a rowing boat sum up the simple pleasures of the mid 1950s, the quiet void before the rock 'n roll era and the Swinging 60s began.
This view shows the river at low water, again with evidence of boating.
The characters in Jerome K Jerome's 'Three Men in a Boat' are said to have lunched at the Bull.
The warehouse beneath is owned by the London Midland & Scottish Railway Company; one of their boats is moored close by.
Boat building was carried on, and sailcloth was made in cottages equipped with handlooms.
The range of houses and outbuildings offer some refreshments, and the odd fishing boat to hire.
Due to the frequent heavy seas and sudden squalls, this flimsy-looking structure was often washed away, and a boat had to be launched to recover it from Bootle Bay.
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