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Memories

86 memories found. Showing results 11 to 20.

A Child Was Born In Bargoed

Born on the 15th April 1950 in my grandparents front room in Bristol Terrace I didn't realize until now what we had in those " good old days". I am a self made millionaire but I would trade all what I have now for those ...Read more

A memory of Bargoed by rthomas

Redbricks 50s

I was born and bred in Tunnel Road, Galley Common in the Pit houses (belonging to Haunchwood Colliery). One of my early memories of which there are many was of the tip which was waste slag from the mine and was always on fire and ...Read more

A memory of Galley Common

Growing Up In Aberkenfig

Growing up and the family - Part 1 My grandfather William Morgan Cockram (son of Lewis Cockram) and grandmother (Mary Cockram) (granny and grandpa Cockram) took over the ironmongers after the death of John Richards. ...Read more

A memory of Aberkenfig by Catherine Delahay

Sunny Blaenllechau

born in sunny blaen in 1954 growing up in the village was and always will be the highlight of my childhood so many good people i remember playing in the Glyn with Kevin hughes slapperers around blaen sports day up in the field ...Read more

A memory of Blaenllechau by Howard Thomas

George Ambrose Ex Gurney Valley And Eldon Lane.

lovely to read claire keller story.i new her father,grandfather and great grandfather.wonderful family everyone of them.the place they walked to i can tell was grange hill farm it powers down on to eldon ...Read more

A memory of Eldon Lane by bambroseuk

John Parkin 1965 1969

I lived at Links Avenue, West Monkseaton between 1965 and 69. Went to Park Road Junior school next to what was then the cinema, and Spanish City. Ended up at Valley Gardens Secondary Modern. Names I remember from those days are, ...Read more

A memory of Whitley Bay by jvparkin

Pride Of The Valley

My mother was born in Churt and grew up at Number Four Sandy Lane. She worked for a time at the Pride of the Valley during the war and lived upstairs in one of the rooms. While working at the Pride, she met and later married a Canadian ...Read more

A memory of Churt by rlangner

Post War Memories

I was raised in Mountsorrel in the Soar valley near Leicester. It was a Norman village that lay alongside the river Soar under Castle Hill. The hill got its name from the mote and bailey type 12c castle built by the Beaumonts – ...Read more

A memory of Mountsorrel by Janet Brookes

Childhood Days

This picture of Combe Road brings back many memories, looking straight ahead and slightly to the right is Summer Lane where I attended infant school, the shop on the left was a tobacconist and sweet shop at this time. On the right of ...Read more

A memory of Combe Down by Frank Sumsion

The 1960s

I lived my early years here, until the 1970's, having been born in Wells and brought home to Cheddar as a baby. I have many family ancestral links to Cheddar via my father's parents. In the late 1800's-early 1900's my great-grandfather John ...Read more

A memory of Cheddar by Christine Derrick

Captions

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Caption For Newquay, Trenance Gardens 1928

These civic gardens are in the Trenance Valley and fringe the River Gannel as it twists away from the eastern edge of the town.

Caption For Harpenden, Village Pond 1897

The pond was drained and grassed over during the twenties as the 'highway-valley' village grew into a 'garden-town'.

Caption For Hackness, The Park And Lake C1877

Just inland from Scarborough, along the Forge Valley, lies the peaceful village of Hackness.

Caption For Pangbourne, Whitchurch Bridge 1890

The Thames emerges from the Goring Gap at Pangbourne, and the valley widens out again.

Caption For Bath, Newbridge Road 1909

There was considerable expansion of Bath in the later 19th century along the valley towards Bristol.

Caption For Ardingly, The Village C1950

Ardingly is a village overlooking the Ouse valley, north of Haywards Heath.

Caption For Chalford, The Golden Valley 1910

The Frome Valley, dotted with mills and with the Thames and Severn Canal running through it, has long been a centre of industry.

Caption For St Blazey, Church And Cottages 1893

The cottages have small gardens, walled enclosures, sheds and washing lines.

Caption For Polkerris, C1950

Here we see the village tucked away in its valley, with the great expanse of the bay reaching beyond to Black Head (centre) and the Dodman Point (left).

Caption For Loose, The Valley 1898

Loose is situated just south-east of the Medway; it is an unusual village that spills down the hillside towards the valley bottom, and is surrounded by hop and fruit gardens.

Caption For Newquay, Trenance Park And Viaduct 1912

The attractive Trenance Gardens were developed in this sheltered valley which emerges near the head of the Gannel.

Caption For Kersey, The Village From The Church C1965

We look down through the ironwork of the churchyard entrance to the water splash, and up to Stay Barn on the other side of the Brett valley.

Caption For Budleigh Salterton, The Beach 1925

This charmingly-situated little watering-place lies in a sheltered valley, and its garden-girt villas are further beautified by a sparkling brook, spanned by numerous rustic bridges.

Caption For East Dean, Old Forge 1921

We are in a valley of the Downs near Beachy Head.

Caption For St Austell, Pondhu Road 1912

This thatched cottage with its little garden stood in Pondhu Road, in the valley bottom to the south west of the town centre.

Caption For Porthcurno, The Station C1883

The Eastern Telegraph Co's large cable station was established in the valley just inland from the beach at Porthcurno, where undersea cables came ashore.

Caption For Gilfach Goch, Colliery C1955

A farmer in the Neath valley who had moved to Merthyr, and had worked as a haulier and later a collier, he ran the Six Bells public house and brewery.

Caption For St Tudy, Church Town 2003

This picturesque village sits in a beautiful valley between the Rivers Camel and Allen.

Caption For Dorking, Denbies Mansion 1905

A later owner was a Mr Wakeford who, in 1754, sold the property to Jonathan Tyre, the founder of Vauxhall Gardens.