Places
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Maps
115 maps found.
Books
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Memories
1,359 memories found. Showing results 21 to 30.
Happy Days
In 1959 I became a pupil at St Michaels School (The Old Vicarage Residential Home) where I stayed for 3 happy years, until I was told it closed after the head disappeared with the school funds. Whether or not this is true I don’t ...Read more
A memory of Stockland Bristol by
Tywyn Capel / Trearddur Bay
This is a view across Trearddur Bay, looking south - the beach is known in Welsh as Tywyn Capel. The house behind the beach is Glan-y-Môr built in 1889 and next to it is the Dune Mound which was the location of St.Ffraid’s ...Read more
A memory of Holyhead
Family Connections.
This is my grandfather standing in his whelk house looking at the boats as they unload. He died after a motor car accident on Beach Road in 1934.
A memory of Wells-Next-The-Sea by
Swimming In The Thames At Sunbury
We often went to the 'Beach' on the banks of the Thames, near to the swimming pool in the 1950's. My Aunt DeDe , My Mam and Cousins, Billy & Keith Taylor' ,they lived in The Avenue' and my siblings would spend the ...Read more
A memory of Sunbury
Visiting My Grandmother In Newton
Every school holiday from 1959 onwards, my brothers Tony, Brian, and later my sister Karen and I stayed with my grandmother Sarah Stones & Harold Stones. Gran owned the Stones greengrocers shop in High ...Read more
A memory of Newton-le-Willows by
Margaret Beavan
My late wife Sandra stayed at the home, with her sister Carol, for 6 weeks in the summer of 1957. Sandra was just turned 11 and Carol 9 and a half. About 20 years ago Sandra and I went back to Heswall and, as others have commented, the ...Read more
A memory of Heswall by
Elm Cottage
My family used to stay at Elm Cottage on Trewoon Road in Mullion for many of our summer holidays during the 1970's. The cottage belonged to a Mrs Kent, known to us affectionately as Aunty Ellie, who at that time lived in Caerleon in Wales ...Read more
A memory of Mullion
Ice Cream
My parents and I spent several vacations at Higworth farm caravan camp in the early/ mid 50's. I remember my Father having to get out of the coach, along with others, to lighten the load to cross the bridge. On the way to the beach we ...Read more
A memory of Hayling Island
Southend Beach
My Great Uncle and Great Aunt (Joe and Rose) both passed away recently, so I decided to share their memory here. I am their Great Niece's daughter. As far as I am aware, they met about aged 17 or 18 on a "Beano" on Southend ...Read more
A memory of Southend-on-Sea by
Captions
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Lewesdon Hill, topped by beech trees, was given to the National Trust in 1943.
Beech Hurst was built in 1798 for ship's master Samuel Rolles, who was involved in Poole's trade with Newfoundland.
The house on the corner, known as The Beeches, was advertised for auction in 1920.
Goring is a riverside village lying between the beech-clad hills of the Chilterns and the windswept slopes of the Berkshire Downs.
At Water End, the River Gade runs under the fine three-arched bridge and through water meadows shaded by beech, willow and oak trees.
These lovely beeches were planted in the 18th century, possibly by the architect Sanderson Miller.
These lovely beeches were planted in the 18th century, possibly by the architect Sanderson Miller.
The bridge, built in 1848, carried the Great Northern Railway main line from Grimsby to London King's Cross (via Peterborough), but since the Beeching cuts it now only carries the Skegness to Nottingham
Clydach Gorge, once populated by forges, is well-known for its stands of beech trees which somehow survived the ravages of the charcoal-burners of the time.
Much of this feeling remains today: the churchyard wall with its railings and gates is unchanged, although the copper beech behind the left gate pier has grown very large.
Washington is on the main London to Worthing Road at the foot of the Downs.There are fine views of Chanctonbury Ring, a ring of beech trees planted on the site of an Iron Age hill fort 800 feet up
The 1920s Elm Tree Cottage on the left is now partly hidden by a large beech tree, while the 19th-century cottages behind the pillar box (which is still there today) have an extra bay to the
In the distance is Breaches Wood, a typical Chiltern beech hanger.
Behind the house is the famous Selborne Hanger, a beautiful beech-clad hill beloved of the 18th-century naturalist Gilbert White, who also lived at The Wakes.
The line was closed in Dr Beeching's drastic remodelling of Britain's railway network in 1965.
The posts have now gone, but there is still a bench; and the copper beech tree, just visible on the left, is now a fine, mature specimen that shades much of the Green.
Behind it is Beech Tree Court, houses formed out of old farmbuildings.
Beeching closed the railway line, and the village has been bypassed by the A541; the modern village website proclaims that 'there are no shops in Nannerch'.
The trees ... are very fine: oak, ashes and beeches; some of the finest of each sort.
Ruswarp station is the first stop on the Whitby to Middlesbrough railway line – mercifully ignored by Beeching, much to the benefit of the many isolated villages lying in the Esk valley
Prince Albert planted the beech tree, to be seen to the right of the picture, in 1860.
There are fine views of Chanctonbury Ring, a ring of beech trees planted on the site of an Iron Age hill fort 800 feet up on the top of the Downs.
As the railways since Lord Beeching's cuts do not visit Louth, the sign (left) pointing to the station has also gone.
It is also unusual (in this region) in being composed mainly of beech trees, though there are other species too, notably oak and sweet chestnut.
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