Maps

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Books

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Memories

8,147 memories found. Showing results 421 to 430.

A Holliday At A Manor House

My name is Donna Boyd then Wilson. l went in 1968 then again in 72. I have good memories - so good I would have went back again if I could. l remember the long walks through the woods also walking ...Read more

A memory of Fornethy Residential School by Donna Boyd

Growing Up In Seaton Sluice In The 1960s

I moved from Blyth to Seaton Sluice into a newly built house in Cresswell Avenue in 1957. Life as a child in the village was exciting; most days we would either play on the beach and harbour or the new ...Read more

A memory of Seaton Sluice by Stuart Mc Leod

Happiest Time Of My Life

Me and my family would always come to Fairbourne for our summer holiday, staying for weeks at a time with friends. Friends of mine would ask what there was to 'do' there and I would answer 'nothing'. Fairbourne is so ...Read more

A memory of Fairbourne in 1990 by Kelly Fletcher

The Old School

This School was in Love Lane but has now been pulled down and houses have been built on the site, this has only been done in the last 4 years or so. My brother Andy Brown went to this school before going up to the bigger one, the school then became part of the Thurrock Tec in the 1980's.

A memory of Aveley in 1974 by Chris Brown

Stephensons Shop

The house on the left, when I was a child in the 60's was Stephensons Shop. We called there for sweets on our way down to Water End to visit relatives.

A memory of Holme by Karen Raper

Childhood

I lived in Mayfield Road, which is where the foreground bollards are situated, from 1961 -1979. The junction was a little bit treacherous when cycling in the wet as I found out to my cost. Although a Girls school, boys could attend in ...Read more

A memory of Sanderstead in 1965 by Paul Benton

Chipperfield's Circus

In fact these are not Lotmore Cottages, which were along the road that leads to the River Wylye, immediately left in the photograph past the front of the Royal Oak pub on the left, about 50 metres down on the right.  I ...Read more

A memory of Great Wishford in 1948 by Chris Rawlence

Vale Of Health Hotel

My great grandfather Henry Braun owned the Vale of Health Hotel (shown in the right of this photo) overlooking the lake, from 1877 until the early 1900's. The hotel was used as an Anglo German club called the Athenaeum and by ...Read more

A memory of Hampstead in 1880 by Frances Francis

Walk Down To The Bay

We used to walk down to Red Wharf Bay on the first night at my aunt's who had a house in the village at the bottom of the steep hill called Journeys End. It was wonderful to go to the paddly bridge as we called it and gaze ...Read more

A memory of Red Wharf Bay in 1950 by Jean Newbigin

Ashhurst Way Memories

I was brought up from the age of two living in 63 Ashhurst Way and what lovely memories I have got. I was brought up in a large family. A lot of people I can remember are no longer with us and the friends I had Tony ...Read more

A memory of Rose Hill by Leonard Jones

Captions

2,258 captions found. Showing results 1,009 to 1,032.

Caption For Beer, Beach 1898

The crew, it is said, settled down at Beer, married the local womenfolk and repopulated the community.

Caption For East Dereham, Church Street 1893

A solitary pony and trap head down the street.

Caption For Ambleside, Windermere From Loughrigg 1912

We are looking south down the length of Windermere from Todd Crag, a southern outlier of Loughrigg Fell above the hamlet of Clappersgate.

Caption For Oughtibridge, Cross Roads C1960

The steep road leading down to the bridge over the River Don at Oughtibridge, north of Sheffield, leads the eye to the steel works across the river.

Caption For Oakham, The Cricket Pavilion C1950

Vandals burnt down the pavilion in January 2002.

Caption For Dovedale, The Entrance 1894

Note the drystone walls leading down to the river crossing.

Caption For Batheaston, High Street C1960

Down the street stands Batheaston House with its many chimneys: it was originally the home of the Walters family, 18th-century cloth merchants.

Caption For Weston Super Mare, The Grand Pier C1955

By the 1950s bingo had become popular, and the walkway down the pier was covered.

Caption For North Walsham, Market Place C1955

The spectacular Market Cross was built in about 1600, replacing one burnt down in the major town fire of that year.

Caption For Southbourne, From The Pier 1908

A cliff railway toils up and down the cliffside to help the bather gain access to the many miles of beach between Sandbanks and Hengistbury Head.

Caption For Island Of Philae, Pharaoh's Bed C1857

Epsom Downs with its close-cropped turf and easy access from London was the place for it.

Caption For Chartham, The Parade 1905

The downs can just be glimpsed over the rooftops - in 1875 the East?Kent Lunatic Asylum was built here, and accommodated 900 patients.

Caption For Chippenham, New Road From The Viaduct C1960

This view was taken from the top of Brunel's railway viaduct and looks down New Road to the bridge and the beginning of the High Street.

Caption For Southend On Sea, 1898

The pier is a mile and a quarter in length; one may be conveyed right out to sea by the electric tramway, which runs down the pier in five minutes.

Caption For Newark, Castle Gate 1904

This view looks down Castle Gate and the road to Leicester and Nottingham. In later years the house on the extreme left of the picture would become the Castle Garage.

Caption For Hemswell, Dawnhill Lane C1955

The houses on the right were built by the council not long before the photograph was taken, and from their appearance several are now privately owned.

Caption For Woodhall Spa, Golf Hotel C1965

The recent news is that spa water has been found about six hundred feet down, and the Golf Hotel is about to resurrect the spa baths sometime during 2005.

Caption For Scarborough, Foreshore Road 1890

The lifeboat was slung on a wheeled cradle which would be hauled out of the station, down the ramp immediately in front of it, and into the sea; the boat floated off once there was sufficient water under

Caption For Scarborough, Foreshore Road 1890

The lifeboat was slung on a wheeled cradle which would be hauled out of the station, down the ramp immediately in front of it, and into the sea; the boat floated off once there was sufficient water under

Caption For Cartmel, The Cross And Market Place 1894

This most attractive of towns is sets amongst woods and gentle rolling hills.

Caption For Kettering, Montague Street C1955

Further down, past a wool shop, is the large brick-built Kettering Conservative Club, built on a site donated by the Duke of Buccleuch in 1876.

Caption For Penarth, The Esplanade 1896

Alighting at the railway station, it was now possible to travel comfortably by carriage down Beach Road, admire the Esplanade, and return up Cliff Hill back to your train via Marine Parade and Plymouth

Caption For Stamford, Cheyne Lane C1960

This narrow passage leading down to St Mary's Street was home in 1900 to a fishmonger and hairdresser, as well as the Hole in the Wall Inn, previously the Coach and Horses (although it is hard to imagine

Caption For Leeds, Briggate 1951

The last bow-windowed shop here, William Green's, was demolished in 1922, and the last surviving medieval building on Briggate, Wallis's Hosier and Glover's, was taken down and replaced by Timpson's shoe