Places
23 places found.
Those places high-lighted have photos. All locations may have maps, books and memories.
- Mead Vale, Surrey
- Meads, Sussex
- Wall Mead, Avon
- Mead, Devon (near Morwenstow)
- Mead, Devon (near Ashburton)
- Abbot's Meads, Cheshire
- Thicket Mead, Avon
- Chownes Mead, Sussex
- Chertsey Meads, Surrey
- Mead End, Wiltshire
- Nazeing Mead, Essex
- Rushey Mead, Leicestershire
- Teasley Mead, Sussex
- Coles Meads, Surrey
- Abbey Mead, Surrey
- Ilchester Mead, Somerset
- Old Mead, Essex
- Port Mead, West Glamorgan
- Mill Meads, Greater London
- Bushey Mead, Greater London
- White Ox Mead, Avon
- Mead End, Hampshire (near Lymington)
- Mead End, Hampshire (near Horndean)
Photos
75 photos found. Showing results 121 to 75.
Maps
658 maps found.
Books
3 books found. Showing results 145 to 3.
Memories
579 memories found. Showing results 61 to 70.
Stiperstones Poem
THE STIPERSTONES T’was long ago the Ludlow people vexed the Devil very sore He vowed to stone their homes and steeples until they were no more On Cranberries Hill he then collected his apron full of rocks and stones With ...Read more
A memory of Stiperstones by
The Flats
This is the new flats in Thirlmere Way, the top end near Royal Avenue, and you can see the Labour Club too on the left of the flats. The GUS ( Great Universal Stores) offices was built on the field as well but I don't remember the date. I ...Read more
A memory of Widnes in 1965 by
My Childhood Days Brynna Boy
8 Southall Street /16 Tan-y-Bryn. We, the Brynna Boys, used to run to school, Mr & Mrs Davies Head Master and thei two daughters, strict and friendly, firm and kind. I can only describe those happy days, Coronation ...Read more
A memory of Brynna in 1953 by
Visiting My Inlaws
In 1953 I used to visit my in-laws who lived at 19 Rumbold Road, Fulham. I remember when we walked along Kings Road towards the football ground there was an antique shop that had an unusual armchair in the window. It was carved ...Read more
A memory of Chelsea by
Summer Hols In Milford On Sea
When I was a child, living in Coventry, my parents used to pack me off to Milford to get some fresh sea air and spend quality time with my cousins! My best times were when we went off to buy sweets - I loved ...Read more
A memory of Milford on Sea in 1961 by
Love That Place!
Born at Petersfield in 1940, my first home was Berry Cottage, down Sandy Lane, opposite Sibley's farm. Berry cottage had only 4 rooms (2 up and 2 down), no running water, only a well and later a tap down in the lane. I remember ...Read more
A memory of Rake Firs in 1940 by
Great Horton
Our family lived in Lidget Green, near the Great Horton railway station. I was born in 1949 near Bradford (Wakefield), and lived in Lidget Green from toddlerhood until we emigrated in 1960. The neighborhood provided many memories ...Read more
A memory of Bradford in 1959 by
Badger Hall, Thundersley, Essex Circa 1900
My Great Uncle and Aunt, Archibald “Arch” and Clara Meade, owned Badger Hall, Thundersley, around the turn of the 19th to 20th century. It was then described as having 22 acres of parkland and holding ...Read more
A memory of Thundersley by
First Holiday
My first holiday was when I was 9 years old (in 1958) and my parents and I came to Goodrington. We stayed at Beech Hurst which if I remember correctly was in Youngs Park Road. It was lovely. I made friends with a girl who lived ...Read more
A memory of Goodrington in 1958 by
Not Strictly Ashby : )
Willesley Close was the centre of the universe for the first twelve years of my life from 1959. The garden enclosed twenty yards of the old railway embankment and featured a natural spring, the source of much ...Read more
A memory of Ashby-de-la-Zouch in 1971 by
Captions
156 captions found. Showing results 145 to 168.
As was demonstrated in the tragic accident in 2004 which involved the loss of more than 20 Chinese cocklers, Morecambe Bay is a treacherous and deadly crossing point, and requires local specialist knowledge
A local labourer and his dog obligingly pose for the camera on the sandy path leading from the summit of Leith Hill, at 967ft the highest point in the south-eastern counties.
This 1908 view of the churchyard from the south shows the gates that once protected the dead from body snatchers.
This 1908 view of the churchyard from the south shows the gates that once protected the dead from body snatchers.
As queen of the Essex Iceni, she was incensed that the Romans broke her dead husband's treaty.
Unfortunately, before the burial could take place the funerary decorations caught fire, and the body, portraits of the young man's dead ancestors and the great gallery went up in flames.
The row beneath contains the souls rising from the dead, lifting their tombstone lids; in the next row are bishops, kings, knights, saints, martyrs, and virgins.
On the corner stands the Bull's Head public house. Until just a few years ago the abattoir had its premises behind the pub, and here cattle were slaughtered on a regular basis.
Three years later he was dead.
Did they come from miles around to bury the ashes of their dead princes here? Were they nomads carrying the remains from a fair distance to a sacred spot or a clearing in the forest?
The pathway leading through it had solidified into the road known as Friars Place. The Grammar School itself had had a rough ride through the 19th century.
The detailing is borrowed from the eight blank panels in the Medici chapel in Florence; on these panels are carved the names of the town's dead of the First World War.
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