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Serpentine Factory Poltesco
While resident in the area I was given a story about the demise of the factory which I visited many times but I cannot vouch for its accuracy. The factory specialised in large serpentine objects with elaborate and highly ...Read more
A memory of Poltesco in 1962 by
Old School
Gad's Hill Place was my school when I was 7-9 years old, from about 1950-1953. About 4 or 5 girls of similar ages lived on Thames Sailing Barges at Hoo and went to school together, sometimes by car, but usualy by bus. I don't remember ...Read more
A memory of Rochester in 1951
Old Southall Remembered
I lived in old Southall (Norwood Road - Norwood Green end) during the 1960s to the 1990s and have seen great changes. I went to school at Clifton Road, and the school had a great Headmaster, Mr Hancock, for a while. One ...Read more
A memory of Southall
Reminiscences Of Portsmouth In The Late 1930s
I was born in Portsmouth in 1933. My family and I lived first in Lyndhurst Road - about which I don't recall too much - then later in Merrivale Road. I remember very clearly where Merrivale joined ...Read more
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Ware Swimming Pool
I spent great times as a boy in the swimming pool which always showed the water temperature on a board outside the entrance ( sometimes 50F ). Our favourite activity was doing bombs off the top board and soaking anyone who was near to ...Read more
A memory of Ware in 1955 by
1950 1967
I was a 5 year old when we moved into the new housing estate in Northolt, we lived at 31 Rushdene Crescent. Then always it seamed that we had long hot summer holidays, playing in the woods, or in the sand pit (ex army firing range) or over ...Read more
A memory of Northolt in 1950 by
Bombing Of Morland Avenue
Written by my mother when she was 70. She lived in Swaisland Road I think one of the things you would have noticed was the number of barrage balloons all around, high in the sky. The first sound of guns which we heard was ...Read more
A memory of Dartford in 1945
Croxley Station 1940 1945
Hi, my name is Brian Nicoll. My mother, father and I lived in 10 Frankland Rd from 25/9/35 when I was born until 1956 when I got married. As a small boy I used to have a friend called Roger Gosney who lived over the ...Read more
A memory of Croxley Green in 1940 by
Bathing In The River
Montague terrace was home to many children. I remember the Allen's, John, June, Barry, Hazel, Ivan & Valerie. The White's, Maurice and Barbara, The William,s and Smith,s, Joan, Roy, Margaret, Jeffrey, and at least three ...Read more
A memory of Bishopstoke in 1949 by
The Towpath Where The Boats Were Moored Later On
There used to be a very large weeping willow there that used hang over the river. We used to cast underneath it as fish used to congregate under it. This is the bank where I did most of my fishing from. ...Read more
A memory of Harlow in 1949 by
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Timber is being loaded onto barges, or lighters, to be towed up to Gloucester, where vast wood yards were sited along the canal.
The bridge on the left beyond the barge is a cast-iron one dated 1824 and built by the Wilts & Berks Canal Company - the ironwork was cast at Acramans of Bristol.
A sailing barge makes its way past a moored steamer.
He proposed to build a canal 1.75 miles in length and deep enough to allow barges of up to 16 tons to dock at the city wharf at the watergate.
A barge loads at the quay, pleasure boats take trippers for a cruise.
A sailing barge makes its way past a moored steamer.
Empty barges waiting to be towed back down the river are tied up at the embankment alongside the Portsmouth Road where it becomes the High Street.
A sailing barge makes its way along the Orwell, with lush wooded hillsides coming down to meet the broad tidal mudflats at the water's edge.
As the steam-powered barge 'Caledonia' leaves Hunts Lock heading towards Northwich, a pair of narrowboats churn up the water as they line up to enter the lock.
This view also shows the old towpath, with moored barges, prior to the improvements for pleasure boating.
The Cow Tower, with barges moored nearby, looks out from the edge of Cowholme, now in the riverside walk park, to the late 19th-century city expansion beyond the Wensum.
This view also shows the old towpath, with moored barges, prior to the improvements for pleasure boating.
Here is a vanished sight - a freight barge towed by a horse along the Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation, a scene not dissimilar to those painted by Constable on the Stour Navigation.
The Cow Tower, with barges moored nearby, looks out from the edge of Cowholme, now in the riverside walk park, to the late 19th-century city expansion beyond the Wensum.
Although the railways were well established by the start of the First World War, barges such as these still did plenty of trade carrying grain and other goods along the Fenland waterways.
A sailing barge negotiates the lock gates.
Timber barges from Avonmouth Docks await discharge on the Lydney Canal.
Thames spritsail barges involved in the coasting trade are moored alongside the stone pier.
Barges once travelled up the Little Ouse as far as Brandon and Thetford, although here it is much more the province of pleasure boaters.
Boys fish beside the lode that was once busy with barges.
Several sailing barges involved in coastal trade are moored close to the pier.Wagons can be seen on the pier railway.
Sailing barges are moored on the river.
Strictly speaking, this barge is on a canal.
It is a summer morning, and high tide outside the Palace of Westminster, with barges at anchor.
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