Places
36 places found.
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- Shanklin, Isle of Wight
- Ventnor, Isle of Wight
- Ryde, Isle of Wight
- Cowes, Isle of Wight
- Sandown, Isle of Wight
- Port of Ness, Western Isles
- London, Greater London
- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
- Dublin, Republic of Ireland
- Killarney, Republic of Ireland
- Douglas, Isle of Man
- Plymouth, Devon
- Newport, Isle of Wight
- Southwold, Suffolk
- Bristol, Avon
- Lowestoft, Suffolk
- Cromer, Norfolk
- Edinburgh, Lothian
- Maldon, Essex
- Clacton-On-Sea, Essex
- Norwich, Norfolk
- Felixstowe, Suffolk
- Hitchin, Hertfordshire
- Stevenage, Hertfordshire
- Colchester, Essex
- Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
- Bedford, Bedfordshire
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
- Aldeburgh, Suffolk
- St Albans, Hertfordshire
- Hunstanton, Norfolk
- Chelmsford, Essex
- Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
- Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
- Brentwood, Essex
- Glengarriff, Republic of Ireland
Photos
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Maps
181,031 maps found.
Books
442 books found. Showing results 793 to 816.
Memories
29,041 memories found. Showing results 331 to 340.
Missing Home
I was born in Wales and lived at 3 Bailey Street until moving to Canada at age 10. All of my memories of Cwm are wonderful ones, sliding down the mountain on cardboard, wading in the river behind our house, climbing the hill to play at the ...Read more
A memory of Cwm in 1966 by
Family Holidays
My dad always ensured that we had a "fortnight's" family holiday each year. A fortnight was 2 weeks - ie fourteen nights. These holidays started in 1949, when I was seven and continued to up to 1958 when I was 16. In 1949 and ...Read more
A memory of Bournemouth in 1949 by
Youthful Pranks In Binstead! 1958 1962
I am a 67 year old British citizen and have lived for over 40 years as a rock musician in Germany. I went to Ryde School in the 60s. After I left I was lonely living in London and used come back to the island ...Read more
A memory of Binstead by
A Very New Broadway
In 1962 my parents and I (12 years old) moved from Bristol to open Victoria Wine (later to become the Wine Market before reverting back to Victoria Wine). There were still several empty units awaiting occupation. I can recall ...Read more
A memory of Plymstock in 1962 by
My Grandfather
I was born in 1953 and my Grandfather was already dead. His name was William Bowe and he was the last mill keeper at Hall Mill, although his son John, my uncle, ran a joinery business for a few years from there. Billy Bowe was the ...Read more
A memory of Workington in 1953 by
Great Uncle John Street
I can remember visiting Warnham when I was very young, with my parents and brother Ron. We stayed with great uncle John, who was blind. I believe his wife's name was May, but I am not sure. My brother kicked a ...Read more
A memory of Warnham Court School by
Long Service
I remember as a child being taken to see my uncle Ewart who was employed at Calne Railway Station for 55 years. My cousin Jean (his daughter) told me that he also used to use a long pole to put out the gas street lamps when on his way ...Read more
A memory of Calne in 1953 by
Sergeant Sissen
I knew Sergeant Sissen well as he used to meet the Hickling policeman in Catfield where I was born. Local police met regularly in what was called, I think, a "point". I was born in 1925 so I remember the two policemen standing by ...Read more
A memory of Ludham by
Village Life
My first visit to the village of Llanferres was in the mid 1970s visiting relatives. Walking to 'Fairy Glen' and surrounding fields, hills, woods and farmland, I was in heaven and still am after 30+ years living in the beautiful ...Read more
A memory of Llanferres in 1950 by
Hilly Fields
Situated at the top of our road, as young children Hilly Fields was something quite magical. During winter time we would trek our home made sledges over to toboggan hill and hurtle down to the brook at the bottom of the hill at ...Read more
A memory of Enfield in 1950 by
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Dedicated to the local saint, and often called 'the Cathedral of the Weald', it was built of local yellow sandstone in the mid 15th century, and was restored during the 19th century.
Eastbourne owes its development to the 7th Duke of Devonshire: after the railway arrived in 1849, he enthusiastically developed his estates here into a huge resort, with nearly three miles of seafront
It was the opening of James Nasmyth's engineering works that led to the growth of Eccles and Patricroft.
650 years of shipbuilding on the Wear came to an end with the closure of North East Shipbuilder's Southwick yard in 1989.
It was once one of the most important castles in the country, but little now survives of Berkhamsted except for the motte.
At Christmas 1557, Oxwich would be the scene of an incident that would result in litigation before the Court of the Star Chamber. Sir Rhys was distantly related to Sir George Herbert (?
Richard Fleming Richard Fleming (died 1431) was rector of Boston from 1408 to 1419, when he became Bishop of Lincoln.
Low wooden stalls along the walls of the choir accommodate the College; a large expanse of bare wall was left to be filled with a series of wall paintings.
There is plenty of activity in the South Bay as fishing boats are prepared for sea.
The cliffs to the south of Perranporth are riddled with the adits of old mine workings, which followed the rich veins of tin and copper that ran from the granite intrusion of Cligga Head into the surrounding
The commanding tower of the village parish church overlooks the quiet South Yorkshire village of Sprotbrough, now divorced from the neighbouring town of Doncaster by the busy A1M motorway.
The garden shown in this photograph was situated in the south-eastern corner of the grounds of Castle Mound.
The River Ribble in summer is the most pleasant of rivers, and to picnic and paddle by its banks has been a delight for many centuries.
This photograph shows the magnificent hammer-beam roof of c1445, the Star of David St Edmund window of 1844 copied from the Abbey Gate, and the rood screen, which was erected as a Boer War Memorial in
William Strickland is often credited with the building of Penrith Castle.
The inner keep is on the right, with holes knocked into its 9ft-thick walls.The smallest Norman keep in England, it last saw action at the end of the Civil War, when Colonel Assheton's forces barricaded
THE BEAUTY of the area round Westbury, which stands on the western edge of Salisbury Plain, has remained unspoilt for centuries.
Probably dating back to a chapel-of-ease on the site in the 14th century, St Michael and All Angels is a striking landmark visible from most of the town.
The convergent flying buttresses of the 1907 Trinity Methodist Church spire soar above the mock-Tudor frontages over the parade of shops at the start of Cheam Road, with the Edwardian cupola of the Curzon
This wide High Street has altered little over the years, although the proprietors of many of the shops have changed.
When the Domesday Book was being compiled, Kenilworth came under the jurisdiction of the royal manor of Stoneleigh.
According to the guide- book of your choice, Bourton is billed 'Queen of the Cotswolds','the Venice of the Cotswolds', or 'the jewel in the Cotswolds' crown'.
The design of the Number 24 Bournemouth bus and the Morris Minor van opposite it take us firmly into the post-war years.
The cluster of adjacent buildings, the largest of which is the former Guildhall, are still there, and so is the pump (just visible, centre left).
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