Places
36 places found.
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- Salisbury, Wiltshire
- Trowbridge, Wiltshire
- Marlborough, Wiltshire
- Swindon, Wiltshire
- Bradford-On-Avon, Wiltshire
- Chippenham, Wiltshire
- Calne, Wiltshire
- Malmesbury, Wiltshire
- Wilton, Wiltshire
- Devizes, Wiltshire
- Mere, Wiltshire
- Westbury, Wiltshire
- Royal Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire
- Warminster, Wiltshire
- Highworth, Wiltshire
- Melksham, Wiltshire
- Cricklade, Wiltshire
- Corsham, Wiltshire
- Pewsey, Wiltshire
- Castle Combe, Wiltshire
- Ramsbury, Wiltshire
- Stonehenge, Wiltshire
- Avebury, Wiltshire
- Amesbury, Wiltshire
- Tilshead, Wiltshire
- Longleat, Wiltshire
- Lacock, Wiltshire
- Box, Wiltshire
- Fovant, Wiltshire
- Ludgershall, Wiltshire
- Old Sarum, Wiltshire
- Burbage, Wiltshire
- Savernake Forest, Wiltshire
- Netheravon, Wiltshire
- Freshford, Wiltshire
- Zeals, Wiltshire
Photos
4,843 photos found. Showing results 21 to 40.
Maps
3,664 maps found.
Books
16 books found. Showing results 25 to 16.
Memories
113 memories found. Showing results 11 to 20.
Sixties Longleat
Many fond memories of Longleat over the last 46 years: the freedom we all enjoyed as villagers to roam across the estate - the sixth Marquess was always very generous in this respect. The remains of the American hospital were still ...Read more
A memory of Longleat in 1966 by
Happy Memories
I lived and went the junior school from 1964 to August 1965, the school's headmaster was Mr Smart, he was a fantastic teacher. I then went to Alnwick Secondary Modern, the name I can't recall. I have such fantastic memories of ...Read more
A memory of Alnmouth in 1965 by
Childhood
I did get the privilege to revisit Mitcham again this year. The fair green has changed little, there is now a main road running striaght to Tooting Broadway opposite the fair green, where the Bucks Head pub was there is a paved off area and ...Read more
A memory of Mitcham in 1964 by
Motorbikes In The Square
My mate John Lavois (known as Johnny Dustman) had a BSA Super Rocket and frequented the square. Also memories of the late Wilbur Wallace on his Manx Norton and "Flash" on his BSA Gold Flash, Chris Embling (Douglas Dragonfly), ...Read more
A memory of Wantage in 1964 by
Kevin Devine Remembers Little Jim's Cottage
In the early 1960s as a small boy, this was the home of my grandmother and grandfather, Hilda and John Guy. I remember going to visit them with my mother, Cynthia Joan Devine, formerly Guy. I used to love ...Read more
A memory of Polesworth in 1963 by
Sir G Richards
I was but a young lad of 13 when I were to stay in a small village called Oare with my brother-in-law and sister within a cottage of which was named the China Cottages. The cottages originally had ceilings as low as five feet ...Read more
A memory of Milton Lilbourne in 1963 by
I Used To Live There
I used to live with my family in the Black Horse Pub from around 1963-1965. I left just after starting secondary school. I still live in Wiltshire and often drive through Tilshead for a trip down memory lane. I am now in my ...Read more
A memory of Tilshead in 1963 by
Memories Of A Temporary 'home'
At the time, I was in the RN, serving in a Joint Servce org attachd to the Army at Wilton. My wife and I lived in Manor Road, just off London Road. Most of our shopping was done at weekends, starting off with a 'refuel' ...Read more
A memory of Salisbury in 1962 by
Memories Of My Childhood
I was born in 1956, in Wiltshire, but my first memories are of Pawlett, where we moved, when I was very small. It was a smaller, quiter village than it is even now. I went to the village school, on the village green, next to ...Read more
A memory of Pawlett in 1961 by
Barry Hammond
Though I have never been to the fair city of Chesterfield, I had a good army mate whom I served with in Corsham in Wiltshire. I have been trying to find him for years, who knows, someone on this site MIGHT just know of him, a stab in the dark, maybe !!
A memory of Chesterfield in 1960 by
Captions
77 captions found. Showing results 25 to 48.
Situated to the west of Romsey, Sherfield English lies close to the county boundary with Wiltshire.
This small Wiltshire market town has a long, roughly north-south High Street, seen here looking north from the junction with Bath Road.
This Wiltshire village grew up on three roughly parallel terraces on the steep and well-wooded Avon valley side, with the parish church at the south end.
This earlier view of the Strand shows the Wiltshire & Dorset Bank on the left and the Commercial and Temperance Hotel in the far distance.
This miniature model of Stonehenge in far-off Wiltshire was erected by William Danby of Swinton Hall, Ilton, near Masham in around 1820 as a folly to interest and impress visitors to his estate.
Home brewed Wiltshire Ales can be obtained at the New Inn, and Ushers Ales are still brewed today in the town.
It is amateurish in design, and the least impressive of all the Wiltshire horses.
Near the Wiltshire border, St Peter's contains a tablet which recalls a chorister's dedicated service in this church.
It is amateurish in design, and the least impressive of all the Wiltshire horses.
At No 23 is Rosa Lewis Cole, confectioner, and next door at No 24 is Wiltshire & Sons, butchers; their grocer's shop is opposite (left) at No 22.
Westbury Avenue, to the right, was named because of its view to Westbury White Horse in Wiltshire.
The school friends Brian Gregg, Rod Goodway, Roger Hartley, Bob Duke and Andy Rickell were discovered by pop impresario Micky Most, who lived in Wiltshire at the time.
Wharves and warehouses were built alongside the river to accommodate the trade in cheeses from all parts of Gloucestershire and North Wiltshire.
This church was built as part of the 'suburban' church movement for dealing with the expanding industrial towns of Wiltshire.
The business was founded by Joseph's father, who had come to Bristol from Wiltshire.
Hever is intimately associated with Anne Boleyn, who spent her childhood here in the company of her father Sir Thomas Bullen, the Earl of Wiltshire, whose tomb is at the little church of St Peter.
On the wall of the nave is 'one of the loveliest fragments of sculpture in Wiltshire, the portrait of a 13th-century lady, with curls in her hair, and hands clasped'.
This Wiltshire village is known locally as the village of four crosses, all medieval.
The petrol station opposite, once owned by Frank C Harcombe, according to Kelly's Directory of Wiltshire 1939, is now a parking area.
Wiltshire & Sons (left of photograph) opened their first supermarket in the 1960s, which later became Gateway in 1973.
South Tidworth is situated in the Test Valley, but in the 1974 boundary changes it ended up in Wiltshire.
This building opened as the Wiltshire & Dorset Bank in 1885 and is now used as offices and as a hairdresser's salon.
Trowbridge is the county town of Wiltshire, chosen in 1888 for reasons of communication.
The last tour heads west from the Wiltshire border to Devonshire; we are never far from Dorset to the south.
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