Places
36 places found.
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- Cardiff, South Glamorgan
- Barry, South Glamorgan
- Penarth, South Glamorgan
- Rhoose, South Glamorgan
- St Athan, South Glamorgan
- Cowbridge, South Glamorgan
- South Molton, Devon
- Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan
- Chipping Sodbury, Avon
- South Chingford, Greater London
- South Shields, Tyne and Wear
- Ayr, Strathclyde
- St Donat's, South Glamorgan
- Llanblethian, South Glamorgan
- Thornbury, Avon
- Llandough, South Glamorgan
- Fonmon, South Glamorgan
- St Nicholas, South Glamorgan
- Jarrow, Tyne and Wear
- Penmark, South Glamorgan
- Font-y-gary, South Glamorgan
- Maybole, Strathclyde
- Yate, Avon
- Oxford, Oxfordshire
- Torquay, Devon
- Newquay, Cornwall
- Salisbury, Wiltshire
- Bournemouth, Dorset
- St Ives, Cornwall
- Falmouth, Cornwall
- Guildford, Surrey
- Bath, Avon
- Looe, Cornwall
- Reigate, Surrey
- Minehead, Somerset
- Bude, Cornwall
Photos
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Maps
2,499 maps found.
Books
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Memories
1,577 memories found. Showing results 311 to 320.
Post War Harlesden.
I was born in Tredegar, South Wales in April 1941. My mother had been evacuated to that small welsh town when she fell pregnant with me in 1940. We lived with her parents. My dad was away doing War things. We moved back to London ...Read more
A memory of Harlesden by
Hubert Terrace
I often wondered who Hubert was. Other road names around were obvious. Bank Street was on a bank; School street had a school at the end of it. But Hubert Terrace? One side of my street was brick and the other was stone; something else ...Read more
A memory of Bensham in 1964 by
Born On The Graig
"It's only wind or powder on the stomach"my Mam had said as she walked home from the ammunition factory on a cold Autumn evening. The "wind" or "powder" was born on the 2nd December 1942. I, Colin Gronow, had ...Read more
A memory of Graig in 1940 by
Glenrothes And Area
Moved to Glenrothes as part of the overspill from Glasgow where we had bought room and kitchen 3 up, in 1963 for 285 pounds, paid back at 5 pounds every 2 weeks. We moved to a HOUSE with a back and front garden, what a luxury, and ...Read more
A memory of Dysart in 1968 by
Ida Brandon
After a trip to Gilfach Goch in July 1999 I started researching my family tree. I live in Cape Town South Africa and my mother was Ida Brandon, born 2nd February 1919. Her brother was Ernest Brandon and her sister Lilian. ...Read more
A memory of Gilfach Goch in 1999 by
Return Of The Native
I am now 63 but it wasn't till a couple of years ago that looking at my BC I actually took in that I was born at the Holbrook Maternity Home June 30th 1947. I'd always put down Belper as my place of birth as I'd only glanced at ...Read more
A memory of Holbrook in 1947 by
4 Years At The Castle School Stanhope
In 1945 I was placed in South Hetton Remand Home at the age of 10 by Sunderland Magistrates Court.(I had a difficult homelife with a very physically abusive stepfather, otherwise I would have been fined 5 ...Read more
A memory of Stanhope in 1946
Parallel Parking In South Street In The 1960s
I had recently passed my driving test and drove a Morris Minor Saloon, to practice my parallel parking I used to drive down South Street after work or on a Sunday and park outside of Woolworths or ...Read more
A memory of Dorchester in 1969
Film Shows And Waitresses
I was an apprentice at Sellafield in 1957 living in Seascale. In the winter months some of my pals and I would frequent the Scawfell Hotel, but go in the back entrance where we could mix with the young waitresses in their ...Read more
A memory of Seascale in 1957 by
Captions
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It is the south gate in the medieval town walls; it is now almost lost amongst the later buildings that have since been attached to it.
Until the Dissolution members of the family were interred at Burscough Priory; then Edward, the 3rd Earl, had a vault built at the south-east end of Ormskirk church.
Clay has been mined commercially in South Devon since the 17th Century.
This is a more modern part of town, off the A6 to the south. The stone-faced houses are well in keeping with the rest of Bakewell.
Continuing north-west towards Felbridge from the Moat Road junction we see the Italianate Church of Our Lady and St Peter, looking south east.
During the Second World War villagers were evacuated from many villages around the South Hams so that the district could become a D-Day training ground for American troops, who would practise landings
Linthorpe Road was at one time the town's only road south.
It has a low tower, nave and north aisle, with a south transept on the far side. Within, a curious niche in the west wall may be the entry to an anchorite's cell of c1400.
This view looks south along King's Parade, with King's College Chapel and the beautifully pinnacled screen and gatehouse leading to Front Court on the right.
The chancel is Early English, but it was restored in 1849; this restoration stretched to the 13th-century south nave windows and the north aisle.
The Green Bank Hotel, on the south bank of the Penryn River, was built in 1785 to cash in on the trade brought to the town by the mail packets.
Cressing is an expanding village just to the south of Braintree. It has its own railway-station, formerly known as Bulford station.
Stretching away to the south is the Alde, passing the Martello Tower on its left; it runs adjacent to the shore for a further ten miles, a quite remarkable feat considering that the sometimes violent
For example, one of the locks at Latchford (in the south of Warrington) is 600 feet long and 65 feet wide.
An interesting view from the south bank of the Thames looking east, before Christchurch Meadows on the left were made into a riverside park, and, more significantly, before Reading Bridge was built
On the south bank of the river is the Barley Mow, which is featured in Three Men in a Boat.
Beachy Head is where the chalk range of the South Downs reaches the sea in magnificent chalk cliffs rearing almost vertically five hundred feet out of the sea.
Two smart white-liveried motor charabancs are collecting holiday makers from the pier, possibly for the advertised excursion over the South Downs.
This small south Norfolk village runs along a single street. The high pitch of the roof on the house to the right suggests that it may originally have been of thatch.
The Witterings are seaside villages of bungalows, chalets and caravans on the Selsey peninsula, a flat area south of Chichester. The Norman church of the Assumption was rebuilt in 1875.
Taken from the south shore, this view features two attractive clinker-built rowing boats still afloat as the tide streams out.
Three girls pose on the wooden bridge leading to the ivy-clad south-west towers.
As well as having one of the most important markets in the South Hams, Kingsbridge was also a thriving port.
The rails here are presumably a siding, for the Tavistock line ran across the picture a little way past the far end of the terrace, while the Princetown branch curved round to the south (left, well out
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