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I Remember Richmond
I attended the Frenchgate School (1954). The head mistress was Nan Woodwark, a tall Viking of a woman who would oftentimes speak of her Norse heritage. I managed to find her obit on a website I came across. She lived to the ...Read more
A memory of Richmond
The Davidsons And The Cunninghams
My Grandparents - David C. Davidson and Isabel Cunningham were from Slamanan and came to the U.S. in 1906. David was a coal miner alongside of George Cunningham who came to the U.S. with David; my Grandmother ...Read more
A memory of Slamannan in 1900 by
The Rec
The "Rec" was the place to be in the 1970's when you lived on the Cedar Rd Estate. We lived just round the corner on Elmdale Rd and had a garden which backed on the Rec. This was a good short cut into the Rec. Lived there as a young ...Read more
A memory of Earl Shilton by
Bampton Open Day
Each August Bank Holiday Monday Bampton, near Exmoor, is the venue for a huge village open day. This year's event featured a duck race, teddy bear parachuting form the top of St Michael's Church Tower, tombola, white elephant ...Read more
A memory of Bampton in 2010 by
Cafe
There was a wee shop on the High Street of Lesmahagow that my mother always took me to as a boy. Down the left side were tables where you could sit and have juice and stuff, (not sure what I had, but I bet it was gooey and good! They sold ...Read more
A memory of Lesmahagow in 1964 by
Metheringham Feast
My family used to visit Metheringham regularly to vist my mother's aunt. Her name was Nellie Garrick and she lived in Lime Tree Avenue (I think that is the right name). She was married to Jack Garrick. We used to go on a ...Read more
A memory of Metheringham by
Courtenay Park Salcombe
This view of Courtenay Park is quite poignant for me. It shows houses at the lower end of Devon Road and also the land on which Egremont Terrace was later built. My parents lived in no. 10 Egremont Terrace from the late ...Read more
A memory of Salcombe in 1950 by
Early Learning
I lived at Winchelsea Beach and attended Winchelsea school which was behind the Church.This was from 1925 to 1930 when my family moved to Eastbourne as a result of the 1928 disaster when the sea breached the shingle and flooded the ...Read more
A memory of Winchelsea
Heather And Gorse Clog Dancers Busk At The Sidmouth Folk Festival
Each August huge numbers of dancers and musicians head to Sidmouth for the annual folk festival - a week long event which celebrates our national heritage of music, dance and song. ...Read more
A memory of Sidmouth in 2008 by
Old Pics Required
Hi all who read this... I have lived in Bratoft now in this very old cottage since 1992. I am very interested in any info about this cottage, Great Steeping Cottage, or Steeping Cottage as it was once called. The property was ...Read more
A memory of Bratoft in 1940
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It is built on a spit of land to the south side of the Teign estuary, and can be reached by only one road. It is immensely popular with visitors, and on a Sunday lunchtime it is very crowded.
Victorian enthusiasm for railways soon ensured that all the major tourist centres of the Isle of Wight could be reached by the Permanent Way.
There were bleaching works, flax mills, leather factories and chemical plants. Leeds also became the leading centre for the manufacture of ready-to-wear clothes.
This popular public house can be reached only by boat, bicycle or on foot - cars are not allowed on the narrow track across Exminster marshes.
This modest resort of broad beaches and spectacular rock scenery can be reached along the sands from Newquay.
Its narrowness and the fact that it is surrounded by high cliffs make it very difficult to spot from the sea, and a winding inlet has to be negotiated before the harbour can be reached.
At one time Bardsea was part of Lancashire, and could only be reached by boat or by a dangerous route over the shifting sands of Morecombe Bay.
The long Asparagus Island on the left can only be reached across the beach at low tide.
The village can be reached from a number of directions, but each one is a minor road, and consequently it remains a quiet spot.
There were bleaching works, flax mills, leather factories and chemical plants. Leeds also became the leading centre for the manufacture of ready-to-wear clothes.
There were a couple of foundries and several coal mines operating, but many still earned a living working with flax or bleaching and weaving linen.
It is said that this 'venerable' church, St Saviour's, is 900 years old, and that the apostle Paul preached here.
To the right, Spout Lane goes round to the other side of the village; as the name suggests it is another watery place and there is still a spring that can be reached down some steps from beside the roadway
The plastered and pargetted room above now has no means of access and has to be reached by ladder.
We can see that the entrance is 40ft up the lighthouse, and can only be reached by climbing an iron ladder fixed to the outside of the 90ft structure.
1980s and 1990s a succession of proposals, rejections, counter-proposals, appeals, inquiries and discussions took place with various developers and the local population, but no agreement could be reached
A wax bleaching and candle making factory was in operation on Waldegrave Road, which provided further jobs.
All parts could be reached from this corner, and its popular name of Castle Junction had become fixed. The 114 cars and 1,000 horses were the property of the Belfast Street Tramway Company.
