Maps

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Memories

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No.1 Jetty And The Tsmv New Prince Of Wales 1, S.M.N.Co.

This twin screw motor vessel at the Jetty belonged to our family company, the Southend Motor Navigation Co. Ltd. She was built for the company in the 1920's by the local Hayward's Boatyard, ...Read more

A memory of Southend-on-Sea in 1950 by Julian Wilson

The Lovely Fountain

This lovely fountain has been around for years, but some things have disappeared. Does anyone know what happened to the lovely black clock that was in Royal Square?

A memory of Redditch by Wendy Cave

Royal Hotel Ww2 And Afterwards

From 1939 to 1959 I lived in West View, just a couple of hundred yards from the Royal. We were friendly with the proprietress of the time, a Miss Florence Shute. Miss Shute had a brother who lived in our flats and ...Read more

A memory of Ilkley in 1940 by Christopher Youhill

Brothers And Sisters

My brother Christopher and I first went down to school at Visitation Convent, Bridport in September 1957. We lived in Ascot as our father had been an officer in the Royal Horse Guards and had been based at Windsor. We took a ...Read more

A memory of Bridport by Timothy Clarke

20 Boscombe Road, Boscomebe Down

I was born here, don't know much about the place, wondering if anyone has any information. Dad was in the army about 1961 Royal Artillary, John Collins. Any information or photos would be great.

A memory of Great Durnford in 1961 by June Fouracre

Pole Hill Obelisk

I've never heard of this being referred to as Queen Bodicea obelisk. I have always known it as the Royal Observatory obelisk, created as a referral point for the Greenwich 0 (zero) deg line of longitude which it is placed on. The ...Read more

A memory of Chingford in 1930 by Ted Dowling

Mixture

The quaint older houses on the right now faced new bungalows to our left, and on our left is another walkway to the primary school. Now Jimmy came to live in one of the bungalows and then he came to our school when he was about 10. He was from ...Read more

A memory of Eastry by Michael Mitchell

The Eleanor Cross At Geddington

The two girls seen in this photo of the ford at Geddington in the mid 1950s aren’t me and my sister, but they easily could have been! We used to visit my grandmother at Geddington regularly around this time, and ...Read more

A memory of Geddington in 1955 by Julia Skinner

A Good Experience

I was at Bordeston from 1948 to 1953. I remember being one of a large class where only the six top students could do the new GCE Ordinary Level exam. I was the only one to take Biology which I got and went on to do Advanced ...Read more

A memory of Hanwell by John `lewington

Mr George Baker, Wooburn Green

My Great Grandfather George Henry Baker (1880 -m1947) was the owner (following his father also George Henry) of the Blacksmith and Scrap Metal Dealer later known as Slades Scrap Yard In Wooburn Green. My Great ...Read more

A memory of Wooburn Green by dmdundjer

Captions

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Caption For Rothesay, The Esplanade 1897

In the centre of the town are the ruins of Rothesay Castle, once a royal residence, and said to have been built about the year 1100.

Caption For Littlehampton, Beach Hotel 1890

Littlehampton had been an important port in the Middle Ages and even a Tudor royal shipyard, but it declined until reviving with the canalisation of the Arun in 1723; it was most successful during Victorian

Caption For Tewkesbury, Church Street 1907

The 18th-century Royal Hop Pole Hotel on the right- hand side of the street, with its wrought iron, flower- bedecked canopy and window boxes, is featured in Charles Dickens's 'Pickwick Papers

Caption For Sudbury, King Street C1955

On the right, the Royal Oak, the shop with the arched door and window, and the building nearest the camera, here Dolly's sweet shop, all remain.

Caption For Orford, The Village 1909

II's great 12th century keep stands sentinel over Orford, built to guard the coast where Flemish mercenaries were brought ashore by the Earl of Norfolk, whose castles far out-numbered royal

Caption For Lowestoft, The Harbour C1955

The late Victorian terrace includes the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen. On the right is the shingle mill, a vast screening plant, which was used to process shingle until 1958.

Caption For Clitheroe, Castle 1903

One rooftop of 1860 shows the Royal Insignia; it was the Court House, Lowergate (just out of this photograph).

Caption For Bridgwater, High Street 1913

To the left is the side elevation of the Market Hall, and to the right The Royal Clarence Hotel; this is of about 1835, with tall first-floor sash windows and a columned porch.

Caption For Fortrose, 1880

It was made a royal burgh in 1592. In January of that year a hoard of silver coins dating from the time of Robert III were unearthed near the ruins of the cathedral.

Caption For Lytham, The County Commercial Hotel 1907

The course at St Anne's was to become the famous Royal Lytham St Anne's after the 1926 Open Golf Championships, an event which now fills the hotels yearly.

Caption For Macclesfield, Market Place 1898

Shortly after they had left, a troop of Royal Dragoons arrived in the town.

Caption For Gravesend, Hms Gleaner 1902

Sheerness, founded in 1665, closed in 1960, and Chatham Dockyards, founded in the 16th century, in 1984, finally severing the Royal Navy's connection with the Thames Estuary.

Caption For Conwy, Castle 1913

His choice of site was deliberate: here was the royal hall of Llywelyn the Great and the Cistercian Abbey of St Mary where he lay buried.

Caption For Redruth, West End 1902

Opposite is Salter & Son's carpenters' workshops, while on the same side of the road are the Western Hotel and the Royal Standard Inn.

Caption For Northampton, Market Square C1950

The impressive Royal Insurance building and the premises of Abel's Pianos have both gone; the Admiral Rodney pub, Household Linens, the Queen's Arms and Victoria House, at the very end of the row, have

Caption For Matlock Bath, Royal Cumberland Cavern C1955

The Royal Cumberland Cavern was one of several public show caves in Matlock Bath during the 1950s, and was well known for its formations of calcite and traces of the work of former lead miners.

Caption For Liverpool, The Royal Liver Building C1955

Opened on 19 July 1911 to house the Royal Liver Insurance Company, this was the country's first building to be constructed from reinforced concrete.

Caption For St Leonards On Sea, Royal Victoria Hotel 1891

Originally called the St Leonard's Hotel, the Royal Victoria was the first principal building of the new town laid out by James and Decimus Burton.

Caption For Lacock, William Henry Fox Talbot, The Abbey C1955

This portrait, painted by Anna Zinkeisen in the 1950s, was commissioned by the Royal Photographic Society, but then given to the family. It now hangs in the Fox Talbot Museum.

Caption For Tyneham, Rectory 1972

The last rector of Tyneham was Rev Humphrey Churchill Money, who was away serving with the Royal Engineers, when the Rectory was requisitioned by Southern Command, to extend the Lulworth

Caption For Alton, High Street C1955

On the right, above the street, is the sign of the Royal Oak. At about this time, the occupier was W J Pilbeam.

Caption For Waddington, High Street C1960

Waddington is now noted more for its large Royal Air Force station to the east of the village, but it grew up on a diversion of Ermine Street to the western scarp of the limestone ridge.

Caption For Guildford, Castle 1895

It was the only royal palace in Surrey; the motte was raised soon after the Norman Conquest.

Caption For Cuckfield, South Street C1950

This indicated that accommodation was available here, and that the rooms were of a standard approved by the Royal Automobile Club.