Places

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Maps

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1946, Terras Ref. NPO846088
1900, Terras Ref. RNC846088

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Memories

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The Ellor Twins

I was born in Mexborough in 1953 an identical twin with my sister Kathryn. Our mother is Mabel Ellor (nee Brewster) who was a teacher at Roman Terrace School which my sister & I attended. My father is Ron Ellor a pianist, ...Read more

A memory of Mexborough in 1953 by Sharon Ellor

Esh Winning Colliery Sawmill

I recall as a young boy the Saw Mill that existed neat Esh Winning Colliery. It was sited just prior to where the Railway siding crossed the road at the bottom of West Terrace. It used to cut pit props which were ...Read more

A memory of Esh Winning by James Wigmore

My Fenny Stratford Childhood

Having recently by chance spoken with someone who knew Fenny Stratford I was prompted to start looking on the internet and came across this site and for what it’s worth decided to record my memories. I was born ...Read more

A memory of Fenny Stratford by Dawn Cousins

Mining My Archive

At the age of ten, my father moved me and the rest of the family from Low Fell to Esh Winning, without consulting any of us, including my mother. He had bought a tumble-down holiday cottage, situated between the pit-heap and the ...Read more

A memory of Esh Winning by David Woodhead

Albert Terrace

This is a picture of Albert Terrace where my mother lived at no 3. THe Bates family. I'd be interested in anyone who has any information.

A memory of Washford by Brian Brett

My Grandparents

My grandparents George and Elsie Wood lived on Landells Road for most of their married lives. They had two daughters, my mum Elsie and my auntie Bibby (Vivian). When my parents and I moved to Derby around 1965 (when I was about ...Read more

A memory of Dulwich in 1967 by Elise Wharrad

Horton Kirby In The 1960's

I was born and brought up in Dartford but my aunt, Nora Hall, was housekeeper to Sir Edward Bligh and they had moved to Horton Kirby in 1961 from Swanley Village. Sir Edward took a ten-year lease upon the house that ...Read more

A memory of Horton Kirby by Stuart Hall

The Anchor

I was born on the Anchor in 1941. The houses were set back from the road with rough patch of ground in front of them where Pat Collin's fair used to set up every year in the summer. From the canal bridge on the left was the pub, The ...Read more

A memory of Deepfields by Robert Leadbeater

The Rhondda Fawr And Me!

My mother was born in Blaenrhondda at the top of the Rhondda Fawr in 1914 and was one of four sisters but she was the only one to leave the Rhondda at the age of fourteen to go into service in England. During WW2 when my ...Read more

A memory of Treherbert by Viv Browne

Evacuee In Cefn Hengoed

During the Second World War my family were evacuated to Cefn Hengoed. Two of my brothers were with the Hughes family, two with the Palmers and two of my sisters with the Jones Famly. We arrived in 1941. Being one of the ...Read more

A memory of Cefn Hengoed in 1941 by Firs Terryt Name La Carneyst Name

Captions

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Caption For Worthing, Marine Parade 1890

Little Terrace (centre on above photograph) was built as a terrace of fashionable lodging houses by a Brighton bricklayer named William Hall circa 1794.

Caption For Windsor, Castle, North Terrace And Norman Tower 1895

Cannons and a statue can be seen near the Castle walls along the North Terrace. The cannons are still there but the statue has gone.

Caption For Brotton, Brittania Terrace C1955

Opposite the parish church are to be found a row of late Victorian houses known as Britannia Terrace, characterised by their bay windows and long front gardens.

Caption For Eastbourne, The Lansdowne Private Hotel C1955

Lansdowne Terrace, a long Italianate terrace facing the Wish Tower, was built in the 1860s with its centre spanned by a wide triangular pediment; it was soon mostly colonised by the Lansdowne Private

Caption For Corby, Rockingham Road C1955

This long terrace of shops with flats above is typical of the earlier growth of Corby.

Caption For Dudley, Elephants At Dudley Zoo C1965

One result of this was the terracing that is so much a feature of the zoo - requiring much climbing by visitors!

Caption For Aldeburgh, Pretoria Terrace 1903

Pretoria Terrace, a well-rutted mud and sand road, looks towards the town steps. The name of the terrace must commemorate the recently fought Boer War.

Caption For Tenby, South Sands C1925

Lexden Terrace (centre) was built in the Georgian style in 1843 by the builder and developer Captain John Rees.

Caption For Bawdsey, The Manor 1899

On the terrace is the newly built teahouse, with a copper dome. The arch at the bottom of the terrace is a sheltered seating area.

Caption For St Ives, Draycott Terrace 1901

This is a steep site, and the road along the front of Draycott Terrace is supported by a substantial stone wall. The terraced cottages in Primrose Valley below are still intact.

Caption For Hove, The Parade 1921

Behind the spacious promenade are the superb 1820s stucco compositions of Brunswick Square and Terrace and Adelaide Terrace beyond, all rather like Nash's Regents Park in London.

Caption For St Ives, General View 1890

St Ives is seen from Draycott Terrace, overlooking cottages in Primrose Valley below and the curving sweep of the railway station beyond, most of which is now a car park.

Caption For Gravesend, The Ferry 1902

Gravesend has two Victorian piers: the Royal Terrace Pier of 1843 lies to the east of the slightly earlier Town Pier we see in this view.

Caption For Ebbw Vale, General View C1955

The terraces of Newtown are to the right. The railway network serviced the iron and steel furnaces, and the railway wagons were unloaded directly into the furnaces.

Caption For Bath, The Paragon 1911

Continue down Lansdown Road to The Paragon, a superb terrace of twenty-one houses set between two roads on steeply differing levels, their stables and vaults fronting Walcot Street far below.

Caption For Sutton, High Street C1960

Opposite the corner building of the 1880s terrace, now painted, is Sutton Court Road. Two buildings of the 1870s terrace on the right were demolished for 1970s road widening.

Caption For Cliveden, The House 1893

Cliveden benefits from a breathtaking river view from its terraces.

Caption For Ebbw Vale, General View C1955

The terraces of Newtown are to the right. The railway network serviced the iron and steel furnaces, and the railway wagons were unloaded directly into the furnaces.

Caption For Aberystwyth, Sands 1903

Since the completion of the railway, great improvements have been made here, one of the most important being the construction of Victoria Terrace, by which means the Marine Terrace has been completed.

Caption For Wollaston, High Street C1955

A 1970s terrace replaces the pebble-dashed terrace on the right.

Caption For Lancaster, The River Lune From Skerton Bridge 1918

Our view clearly shows the terraced housing, built on the north side of the Lune outside the old city walls, where Lune Terrace and Derby Road are today.

Caption For Swindon, Regent Circus And Commercial Road 1961

The old terrace of shops to the left include J N Read & Son, butchers.

Caption For Weymouth, Parade And Clock Tower 1898

The Esplanade stretches south-westwards fromn the Georgian and Victorian apartments and hotels of Gloucester Terrace (right), with Royal Terrace dominated by the Royal Hotel (centre), to a glimpse of the

Caption For Worthing, The Beach 1890

The gap to the right between terraces is the end of the Steyne Gardens, laid out after 1807, and originally intended as the centre of the resort, but most development in fact went westward.