Places
36 places found.
Those places high-lighted have photos. All locations may have maps, books and memories.
- Bath, Avon
- Bristol, Avon
- Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
- Clevedon, Avon
- Bradford-On-Avon, Wiltshire
- Weston-super-Mare, Avon
- Chipping Sodbury, Avon
- Nailsea, Avon
- Radstock, Avon
- Thornbury, Avon
- Midsomer Norton, Avon
- Keynsham, Avon
- Yate, Avon
- Kingswood, Avon
- Bidford-on-Avon, Warwickshire
- Welford-on-Avon, Warwickshire
- Felton, Avon
- Portishead, Avon
- Backwell, Avon
- Clifton, Avon
- Worle, Avon
- Winscombe, Avon
- Bleadon, Avon
- West Harptree, Avon
- Almondsbury, Avon
- Combe Down, Avon
- Frampton Cotterell, Avon
- Wellow, Avon
- Henbury, Avon
- Blagdon, Avon
- Banwell, Avon
- Alveston, Avon
- Frenchay, Avon
- Severn Beach, Avon
- Lower Swainswick, Avon
- Batheaston, Avon
Photos
4,755 photos found. Showing results 61 to 80.
Maps
247 maps found.
Books
10 books found. Showing results 73 to 10.
Memories
89 memories found. Showing results 31 to 40.
Royal Airforce Gaydon
I was posted to RAF Gaydon in the summer of 1963 after serving 3 years in Cyrpus at RAF Nicosia. I underwent training on the Victor BMK 1 and then to 232 OCU where I found life a lot tougher than I was used to, tiring shift ...Read more
A memory of Gaydon in 1963 by
Recent Visit To This Spot
Recently we took my Dad's Canadian cousin to this spot. John Pine (her father) was born here at New Mills, Loddiswell in 1889. William Henry Pine (my great grandfather) was miller and parish overseer. In our family photos ...Read more
A memory of Loddiswell by
Ratfyn Power Station
In the 1950s I was in the Royal Engineers and came over from Germany to our school of military engineering at Chatham where we did a course in electrical power stations. We were then posted to Bulford barracks, and did our ...Read more
A memory of Bulford in 1954 by
Purley / Woodcote 1960's
We lived at 18 The Bridle Road (off Foxley Lane) for many years. Attended Collingwood Boys' School (Wallington) - great school for punishments; Woodcote Secondary (like a holiday camp after Collingwood) and Purley Grammar School ...Read more
A memory of Purley in 1964 by
Prefabs In Ripple Road Dagenham 1947 To 1959
I was born in Upney hospital in July 1947 and lived in a prefab at 703 Ripple Road. Opposite was a bone/scrap yard and along the road the Ship & Shovel pub. I went to Campbell and Dawson schools and ...Read more
A memory of Dagenham by
Post War Brownsover
From the late 1940's to 1969 I remember this area as part housing, part prefabricated homes because of the war. Many old features were still around like barges carrying coal on the Oxford canal, the old disused mill, the huge ...Read more
A memory of Brownsover by
Plaistow In The 1940s & 50s
I was born in Sutton Road, Plaistow (Plaster to us locals) in 1944 and from the age of 4 I was free to roam. Things were different then! Barking Road for all the shops, and the pubs. Rathbone Street market on a Saturday, ...Read more
A memory of East Ham by
Pentrebach 1960s
I became familiar with the village and people of Pentrebach and around that area from about 1967, when I began to go out with the daughter of the local Publican / School Bus driver / Sawmill worker, Eddie Williams. I remember ...Read more
A memory of Pentre-bach in 1967 by
Penhill
Born in 1951, I lived in Lechlade,Ledbury, Highworth, Oldtown, Cunningham Road and I lived on Penhill Drive in the late 1950s, I went to the infants and junior school. In the infants we learned to count by using small stones kept in a tobacco ...Read more
A memory of Swindon by
Pearce Bevan Family
In the church at Kentchurch there is a plaque on the wall remembering John Bevan who left money for the poor and the endowed school in 1729, My great great grandfather, William Pearce Bevan lived at Llanithog Farm with his wife, ...Read more
A memory of Kentchurch by
Captions
172 captions found. Showing results 73 to 96.
Yet another of Worcestershire's imposing old mills stands on the banks of the River Avon near to Fladbury.
The church, partly medieval with some rebuilding over the centuries, dominates what was a busy three days a week market square surrounded by Georgian frontages, and the banks of the river Avon.
In 1838 the South Midland Temperance Association embraced a large number of towns, including Stratford-upon-Avon.
Bigbury-on-Sea stands on a promontory above the River Avon, which rises high on southern Dartmoor.
Bradford-on-Avon has changed little in the last century.
The River Avon flows serenely through Ringwood, and not far away is Fridays Cross.
It is situated on the Avon in an extensive and complex area of water meadows and carriers which control the flow of the river downstream.The parish church is extremely old and surprisingly large
The ferry ran from Crockerne Pill to Shirehampton, seen here across the Avon.
Harnham Bridge crossed the Hampshire Avon just south of Salisbury between the twin hamlets of East and West Harnham.
The stream is a tributary of the Hampshire Avon which rises close by.
Aveton Gifford (pronounced Auton, meaning the settlement on the Avon) stands at the head of the estuary.
Sitting on a steep slope of the Avon Valley between Stroud and Nailsworth, Woodchester is home to one of the best Roman mosaic pavements in the country.
Bidford-on-Avon is one of eight villages satirically described in a rhyme attributed to William Shakespeare and penned after a heavy drinking session.
Established by the Romans on the banks of the river Avon, it was known to them as Aquae Sulis; the Roman bath-house is now open to visitors.
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.
When it was built in 1248 it was an outstanding piece of civil engineering for its time, as it involved the diverting of the River Frome from its junction with the Avon at Bristol Bridge.
This delightful stretch of towpath, with its lines of quaint cottages and period houses, is where the Kennet & Avon Canal enters Newbury on its way to meet the Thames at Reading.
Ringwood sits on the River Avon, and is situated on the Hampshire/Dorset border.
In this view of the River Avon, we see a horse cooling off by the ancient ford and a thatcher practising his age-old craft on one of Ringwood's most picturesque cottages.
This is how the River Avon looked alongside Churchill Gardens, just south of the city centre in 1923.The bridge in the distance is the old Harnham Bridge—the photograph was taken before the building
In a scene that has changed little in 100 years, the tranquil surface of the River Avon gently reflects the majesty of the Cathedral and its magnificent 404 ft spire, the highest in England.
Crane Bridge carries the road over the River Avon.
Crane Bridge carries the road over the River Avon..
This is how the River Avon looked just north of the city centre in 1923, forty years before the water meadows on the left were turned into the huge Central Car Park.
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