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
49 photos found. Showing results 241 to 49.
Maps
88 maps found.
Books
1 books found. Showing results 289 to 1.
Memories
1,485 memories found. Showing results 121 to 130.
Lymington In The 1940s
My maternal grandmother and mother were both born in Lymington, my mother attending the grammar school in Brockenhurst (I remember as a small boy her pointing it out to me from the train) In 1944, when the V1 'doodlebugs' ...Read more
A memory of Lymington in 1944 by
Happy Days
I was just reading 'Formative years in Kirn'. Yes they were good. I used to fish off Kirn pier for cat fish for Mrs Drovandi's cat and in exchange she would give me an ice cube. I remember Reggie Brooks and the boats - We used to live in ...Read more
A memory of Kirn in 1950 by
Broadstairs And St Mary's Home 1957
I was 6 years old and had had bronchitis and asthma and so I was sent away from smoggy London to St Mary's Home in Broadstairs. I was taken with other young children on a train by a nurse in a brown uniform. ...Read more
A memory of Broadstairs in 1957 by
Holidays In Laugharne
I and my family stayed at the Ferry House, next to the Boat House from 1965 to 1973. The house was then owned by the wife of my dad's boss and we used to be able to go for a fortnight each summer. We used to park our car, ...Read more
A memory of Laugharne in 1965 by
Raf Radar At Inverbervie
I was based in Inverbervie from March 1957 till March 1958 with 977 Signals Unit of the Royal Air Force. 977 SU operated radar from an underground site on the hill a couple of miles north of the village. Height finding ...Read more
A memory of Inverbervie in 1957 by
Rayne In 1950 1960
I was born in Rayne and in the 1950s.I have fond memories of being able to play various sports in the road at School Road with my brother Peter and friend Richard Dodd, gaining a few more players as word got around! We used to ...Read more
A memory of Rayne by
Henry Wilder And Son {Boathouse]
I am the great-granddaughter of Henry Wilder. I think in this photo the boats are in front of the boathouse which belonged to my family. Henry died about 1910 so it passed on to the childrem, Henry, Charlotte and Elizabeth. Elizabeth was my grandmother.
A memory of Maidenhead in 1930 by
Caerau Square
Looking at this photo of the Square at Caerau brings back some happy memories of when the steam train would pass over the bridge in all its glory with the steam coming out of its funnel. The big billboard before the bridge was the ...Read more
A memory of Caerau in 1955 by
Heswall Childrens Hospital Circa 1979 1980
I was in this hospital for a couple of years when I was around 4 years old! (Hence the vagueness.) I recall the wards (dorms) and I recall bouncing from one bed to another along the entire length of the ...Read more
A memory of Heswall in 1979 by
Those Were The Days 6
Continuing up the street on the right was a long parade of various shops and we come to Salisbury Ave on the corner was a large modernistic furniture shop later the shop nest door became a KFC and across the street next to ...Read more
A memory of Barking in 1950 by
Captions
1,648 captions found. Showing results 289 to 312.
Motor boats can be seen in the foreground but the pool was split in two.
Villagers wait with their baskets for the boats to come in with their catches of herring.
A fisherman and two boys scull their boats around the pier of the inner harbour.
Gone too are the once numerous pilot boats and boat yards.
Although still labelled Dunton's, the ferry and boat-building business now belongs to the Davy family.
By the mid 1960s the boat hire business has boomed, judging from this photograph. Also the pleasure boat rides are increasingly popular, as they are to this day.
The delightful steam boat is the 'Maid of Athens'. A trip round Waterloo lake was 2d for adults and 1d for children.
Many of the boats in the foreground would have been for hire. Victorian holidaymakers of some competence were encouraged to explore the coastline of Shanklin Bay by boat.
As well as the ever- popular ball games, picnics and simply watching the boats go by, the Strand at Gillingham also offered a paddling pool, a boating pool, a children's playground, miniature
Exmouth's long beach offers safe bathing, and its gently shelving sands allow easy access for boats. Here we see local mariners taking passengers out for trips along the coast.
A pair of boats prepares to enter a lock. The left-hand one – the 'Stafford' – sports its Fellows, Morton & Clayton livery, a company that stopped trading when the canals were nationalised in 1948.
Some 30 years after No 31158, above, many of the fishing boats are now powered by motors. The days of sail were really over, and the boats were either converted or replaced with new craft.
Paglesham once relied on three things: agriculture, boat-building and oysters. In the 1870s there were up to 100 boats and 200 people engaged in the oyster- fishery here.
Here we see a pair of loaded working boats on the Aylesbury Arm near Broughton on the edge of town. The wooden stumps (bottom left) are known as strapping posts, and were used to tie up boats.
Villagers wait with their baskets for the boats to come in with their catches of herring.
The Rising Sun public house is ideally situated to refresh visitors who moor their boats alongside the well-kept common.
The flags are flying and a throng of holidaymakers waits to board a fleet of row boats for a trip along the coast.
Trip boats cruise above, pleasure boats below: and ne'er the twain shall meet.
Whilst most of the boats appear to be pleasure craft, 'Rose' - nearest to the camera - was probably a fishing boat.
The flags are flying and a throng of holidaymakers waits to board a fleet of row boats for a trip along the coast.
Jobson's business included boat building and boat hire.
The wind-rippled water sets the craft pitching and rolling gently as the man in the nearest lower foreground boat attends to its moorings, with one eye anticipating its motion.
Many were used as pleasure craft, but these were working boats, used as tugs and pilot boats.
All boats and boatmen had to be licensed, and the boats were carefully inspected before the licenses were granted.
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