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Station Road
I have very fond memories of walking up this road in order to catch the old steam train to Chippenham, but alighting at Black Dog so that we could visit my grandparents who lived in Stanley. In younger days, I would paddle in the canal ...Read more
A memory of Calne in 1950 by
Falcon Road
We lived in 'The Queen Victoria' pub on the corner of Falcon Road and Ingrave Street. I attended Falcon Brook School. Very near to the school was a little sweet shop where you could buy penny sweets, penny halfpenny lollies, teddy ...Read more
A memory of Battersea in 1960
When I Was A Child
We lived in the hamlet of Saham Waite - about a 2 mile walk for my mother with the pram and 3 older kids every time she needed some shopping. My Granny worked as a cook/housekeeper for a nearby farm and I think we got the ...Read more
A memory of Saham Toney in 1956 by
Machen Forge Blackweir Cardiff
My grandmother ran a pub called the Machen Forge in Blackweir and my mother has told me about when she was a young girl growing up there. The canel ran along the side of the pub. I would love to know if there are any photos of it.
A memory of Blackweir in 1920 by
Tooting Forever
What a delight to find this site. It reminded me of so much. My grandparents did a moonlight flit from Bethnel Green, walking to Tooting with four boys, one girl and a pram carrying Gran's pride and joy, a mangle. Three weeks ...Read more
A memory of Tooting by
Trevor
I have many many fond memories of Trevor. I grew up there as a child but was moved away from there at the age of 11. I lived across the road from the community centre, No 45, Julie Roberts used to live next door and my best mate Vincent ...Read more
A memory of Trevor by
Fishing On The Canal
I used to fish here quite a bit in the late 1960s. It was not far from the bus station.
A memory of Banbury by
M62 Motorway Bridge
I remember being taken to Peel Green one Sunday, and witnessed the opening of the new bridge over the canal. On that day, the bridge was closed to all motor traffic, and thousands of people walked across it, quite a unique ...Read more
A memory of Eccles by
Trevor Living There Practically All My Life
Further to Gary's memory I was the Julie that he lived next door to but my surname was Evans. For practically all of my life I have lived in Trevor and still see many of the people that I grew up with. ...Read more
A memory of Trevor in 2009 by
My Childhood In Astmoor
I lived in Astmoor with my grandparents. My grandma sold sweets, pop and cigarettes. I went to Halton School and walked down Astmoor Lane which we called Summer Lane. Grandad worked at Astmoor tannery. We lived next to Ivy ...Read more
A memory of Astmoor in 1956 by
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The canal turns to the north-east before reaching Broad Oak Bridge.
This photograph and photograph number L211057 illustrate the fundamental change in use for Britain's canal system during the 1950s and 60s.
The Frome Valley, dotted with mills and with the Thames and Severn Canal running through it, has long been a centre of industry. Chalford itself stands on the steep north bank.
Fleet is only 40 miles from London, and is located next to Aldershot and Farnborough; the Basingstoke Canal runs across the town. Today the population stands at 26,000.
When this picture was taken, the canal had only recently undergone a restoration programme. Of the two pubs shown here, The New Red Lion (centre) survives.
The village's assets attract visitors and shoppers, whilst the River Soar brings in canal cruisers. Of its sizeable population, many commute to surrounding East Midland towns.
A ditch ran alongside the building until the 1850s, intended to link Southampton with the Andover Canal and the River Test.
The Shropshire Union Canal was owned by a railway, the LMS, and was formed in 1864. It runs between Wolverhampton and Ellesmere Port.
This is the Staffs and Worcester Canal. St Mary and All Saints church looks delightful, and is built from local red sandstone.
Sited beside the main north road, the pub has always been a busy place, with the canal and, later, the railway also bringing their trade. The former nearby station took the name of Roebuck.
Other sections soon followed, with the Lancaster bypass opening in 1960 and the Thelwall Viaduct, which takes the road high above the River Mersey and the Manchester Ship Canal, being completed in
The river Torridge is to the left, and the straight line just to the right of it is the old course of the Rolle (or Great Torrington) canal.
Many of its buildings are influenced by 17th-century Dutch architecture, including the bridge, which was passed under by many boatmen using the canal.
Nearby is the Lancaster canal, a cut dug out by navvies (the term comes from navigator) in 1797. A poster (right) advertises a farm auction sale.
At the end of Mill Lane, across the course of the old Somerset Coal Canal (1794-1898) and past a small 17th-century stone lock-up, is the former water mill.
A delivery vehicle waits outside Henry Milling & Co's shop in this view from Lymm Cross towards the Bridgewater Canal.
Her body was dragged out of the canal two days later at the Bloody Steps in Rugeley, where her grave can be seen in the churchyard. Two of the crew were hanged and another transported.
This famous Edwardian county hotel was built on the edge of Savernake Forest, where the Great Western Railway and the Kennet and Avon Canal enter the Vale of Pewsey.
Here several small boys and girls are sitting beside the canal. In the past it was once busy with an incessant stream of barges laden with bales of cloth passing through this now-abandoned lock.
By the time this photograph was taken, commercial carrying in narrow boats was almost at an end; it was kept going in many cases by early canal enthusiasts, for whom working long anti-social hours in all
By the time this photograph was taken, commercial carrying in narrow boats was almost at an end; it was kept going in many cases by early canal enthusiasts, for whom working long anti-social hours in all
The lane to Lower Close was originally a canal, used for carrying stone for building the cathedral in the 12th century.
Horses grazing peacefully in a paddock act as a reminder of that rural past, and the Stourbridge Canal and the Staffordshire countryside are just a stone's throw away.
North of Daventry and close to the border with Warwickshire, Welton stands on a hillside above the Grand Union Canal. Its name comes from the springs and wells in the area.
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