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Memories
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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 next ...Read more
A memory of Goodrington in 1958 by
The Hangmen
I was one fifth of a rock band called The Hangmen who played at the Knott Memorial hall in the centre of Heddon-on-the-Wall. Every Sunday we would transport our equipment and instruments to the hall and play songs and tunes to ...Read more
A memory of Heddon-on-the-Wall in 1964 by
A Winter Crossing On The North Sea
I well remember the King George Dock as I embarked here with 33rd Signal Regiment (a TAVR unit formerly known as the Lancashire and Cheshire Yeomanry). We were en route to Germany having a posting to ...Read more
A memory of Kingston upon Hull in 1968 by
Living At Almington Hall
I was only 5 or 6 years old when my mother was employed as a cook at the hall. I remember we had a bedroom at the top of the hall and when Mother put me to bed, Nanny would come and take to the nursery to play. I remember a ...Read more
A memory of Almington in 1945 by
Rock
Walking around the square time and time again to have a piece of Numer 8 rock off the Welsh Lady. What a treat and it was free.
A memory of Caernarfon in 1967 by
Stockdales Greengrocers Shop
Stockdales shop was owned by by grandma Winnie Stockdale and her husband Jim. She retired from the shop in 1965 and lived at Church Street, Cudworth. She opened the shop in about 1937. My grandad Jim worked at Monk ...Read more
A memory of Cudworth in 1956 by
Pellon Lane Area In The 1950s
I used to live just off Commercial Road on Gibson Street in the 1950s. The houses were very basic with a living room, a bedroom, attic and cellar. We shared a toilet with another family which was at the end of the ...Read more
A memory of Halifax by
Birthplace And Never Forgotten When Asked
I was born in Dysart to a mining family of 5 brothers, me being in the middle. My mum watched over us all and used to take us walks by the man in the rock along to Wemyss and back via the castle estate. ...Read more
A memory of Dysart by
1951 1979 Life In Aldbrough St John
Reading Carol's memories brings to mind a lot of happy times in the village, especially the bus shelter and phone box. We managed to make up a lot of our own entertainment, especially the 'village youth ...Read more
A memory of Aldbrough St John in 1972 by
Benjamin Siddle Rm
My great-grandfather served on this ship between 1875/1876 as a Royal Marine marksman, having joined the RM's at 13 years old in 1870. He also served on HMS's 'Agincourt', 'London', 'Simoom', 'Thetis', 'Lion' and finally ...Read more
A memory of Devonport in 1870 by
Captions
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The park is well timbered with established trees that have taken a lifetime to grow.
Lying to the north-east of Iona, the uninhabited island of Staffa is celebrated for its caves and rock formations. Legend has it that the cave was formed when the giant Finn McCoul made the island.
Other than Burton, brewing in Staffordshire received a shot in the arm with the opening in 1992 of the Lichfield Brewery, which produces such delights as Resurrection Ale and Xpired.
Queen Victoria much admired the town of Dartmouth and its beautiful estuary, recording in her journal that '...the place is lovely, with its wooded rocks and church and castle at the entrance.
We are looking west towards the Green Bridge, with the castle rock more visible here. The young woman on the right needs her parasol, because Castle Walk is a south-facing sun trap.
The Isle's main town of Fortuneswell grew up, as the name implies, around a supply of fresh water, as did many of the Portland settlements.
Lying opposite Castletown in Carrickey Bay, the inner harbour dries completely at low water, exposing an varied array of assorted weed and barnacle-covered rocks.
The Lido and the walks were popular with the Victorians, and they offer beautiful views across the Sound.
The Lido and the walks were popular with the Victorians, and they offer beautiful views across the Sound.
In the distance is Monkstone Point, so called because of the remains of a monastic cell which were discovered among the precipitous rocks there.
Thurlestone takes its name from a holed, or thirled, rock just out at sea in Bigbury Bay, which was mentioned in a Saxon charter way back in 845.
Castletown lies within the island's carboniferous limestone area. The west side of the bay comprises Scarlett Point, which has outcrops of lava and volcanic ash, while the stack is columnar basalt.
This dramatic rock formation lies just south of Whitby, on the Cleveland way, along the old railway track.
A quiet corner of the tiny village of Cark, where the River Eea flows under a low bridge into the sands of Morecambe Bay. Note the upturned cart by the bridge.
'The large cellars or caves beneath the town, dug out of the sand rock, are highly curious.
Fortuneswell 1894 The Isle's main town of Fortuneswell grew up, as the name implies, around a supply of fresh water, as did many of the Portland settlements.
Remove the old car, and the perfect little village of Treen would look exactly the same today.
His carriage has stopped near the summit of one of the most famous of the Lake District passes. It connects Troutbeck with Patterdale.
On weekdays, the main railway line from the Rhondda valley to Barry carried coal to the docks, but it was used on Sundays and bank holidays by excursion trains to the seaside.
The Borrowdale Hotel is in one of the wildest valleys of Lakeland.
The small beach to the left is at Prechers Rock.
The Pearts' eldest daughter Amelia (17) holds her baby brother, George; the twins take a rather damp seat on the seaweedy rock, and Jennie and Tom watch the photographer put them all in the frame for
This 'convulsion of nature', close by Lynton, was highly popular with Victorian artists and writers, and other early seekers after the sublime and picturesque.
On the western fringe of the town, a very pleasant walk leads up the wooded valley to Panorama rocks. Just below the moors is this rustic old well in Heber's Ghyll.
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