Places
36 places found.
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- Melrose, Borders
- Kelso, Borders
- Jedburgh, Borders
- Innerleithen, Borders
- Hawick, Borders
- Peebles, Borders
- Eyemouth, Borders
- Coldstream, Borders
- Lauder, Borders
- Galashiels, Borders
- Duns, Borders
- Selkirk, Borders
- Newcastleton, Borders
- Swinton, Borders
- St Abbs, Borders
- Dryburgh, Borders
- Hermitage, Borders
- Ancrum, Borders
- St Boswells, Borders
- Town Yetholm, Borders
- Abbotsford, Borders
- Newstead, Borders (near Melrose)
- Nisbet, Borders
- Smailholm, Borders
- Broughton, Borders
- Denholm, Borders
- Coldingham, Borders
- West Linton, Borders
- Kirk Yetholm, Borders
- Langshaw, Borders
- Gordon, Borders
- Border, Cumbria
- Blyth Bridge, Borders
- Burnmouth, Borders
- Balmoral, Borders
- Cockburnspath, Borders
Photos
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Maps
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Memories
288 memories found. Showing results 51 to 60.
The Lordship Of Tilstock
I hold the Lordship of the Manor of Tilstock and have many maps and papers relating to its history. The Manor covers 2550 acres (just over 4 square miles) and has existed since before the Norman Conquest, when it was part of ...Read more
A memory of Tilstock in 2009 by
The Lancaster, Small, Lancaster And Woods Family
I was born in Barton on sea in 1965 My mothers family Harry Lancaster and Emily Jane Small lived at Burnt Lane Lymington. Harry used to work on the Railway. They had five children three boys and two girls ...Read more
A memory of Pilley by
The Happiest Days Of Your Life
Brambletye school, well set between the beautiful Ashdown Forest and thriving town of East Grinstead on the Sussex/Surrey border was a paradise on Earth for any schoolboy with an aesthetically romantic (!) ...Read more
A memory of Brambletye House in 1959 by
The Grove School
I went to the Grove in 1954, I think, as a weekly boarder. I loved Flo Upton's drama and dance classes and was intimidated by Mrs Boronov's acerbic piano teaching style. Anybody else remember doing Midsummer Night's Dream? I think I was one ...Read more
A memory of Wem by
The Convent Of The Visitation
I was a boarder there for about a year aged about nine or ten in about 1957. It was the unhappiest period of my life before or since. I don’t recall a moment of kindness, sympathy, or humanity from any of the nuns. As a ...Read more
A memory of Bridport in 1957
The Blackmore Family
A little more information on the Blackmore family, they moved from Ide to become the licences of the Sturt Arms, I would say around 1880, Albert was born 1886 and his sister Alice in 1874. Miss Lillian Wreford sold Albert ...Read more
A memory of Down St Mary in 1940 by
The Awakening
On the right of the photograph the second shop belonged to Arthur Sansom, the Newsagents and Confectioners. It has a sign board above the shop front: PICTURE POST. In the Easter holidays of 1959 at the age of 14½, I took my first ...Read more
A memory of Locksbottom
The 50's In Cullercoats
We lived in 6 Promontory Terrace, which was on the border of Cullercoats and Whitley Bay, that was 1950 a time when the Fishermen's Cottages were just around the corner and we would have their Dressed Crab or the Wilecks as we ...Read more
A memory of Cullercoats by
Taxel Lodge
I am writing to say at last I've found a photo of what I believe to be what I knew as Taxal Edge Convalescent home for children with chest problems, I was there in 1959 for 4 months. The home was used for children from Manchester, Liverpool ...Read more
A memory of Taxal in 1959 by
Talke A Forgotten Village
As you proceed north along the A34 towards the Cheshire border you will approach Talke traffic lights and on the left and right side of the road there are two areas of grassed land. This grassed area was once the village of ...Read more
A memory of Talke in 1959
Captions
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For many years, Todmorden (or 'Tod' as it is always known locally) straddled the border between Yorkshire and Lancashire, and this busy, bustling little town has always had a foot in both camps, although
The higgledy-piggledy development of this small country market town which resulted from its unusual position on the county border of Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire until 1896 is evident in this overall
This runs for 30 miles through the heart of Cheshire, and ends by the locks of Grindley Brook just on the border with Shropshire.
There is another High Park Farm too, just across the Staffordshire border.
Something of its former village quality remains, and it is still bordered by open countryside - something that not many towns in this county can claim.
Gretna stands on the Scottish/English border, and so it became popular for runaway marriages of English couples following the passage of Lord Hardwicke's act in 1754.
The Kent-Sussex border divides the village in two, but this area, the older part with tile-hung cottages clustered around a triangular green, is in Kent.
In this relatively unspoilt village the buildings are of various materials, including brick, flint, clunch (chalk) and sandstone, which reflects its location on the border between the South Downs and the
In doing so, he helped to define the borders of Wales.
The lake is over three miles long and 100 feet deep; it stretches north-east towards the edges of the town, its borders wooded and its shores gravelled.
This quiet road is built over an earlier byway bordering the extensive area of common land that was enclosed, drained and extensively farmed from the 17th century.
Loxwood is on the route of the partly-restored Wey and Arun canal near the Surrey border—'London's lost route to the sea'.The shop on the left has old enamelled metal cigarette advertising signs fixed
Yateley is near the Berkshire border. In 1950, 4,000 people lived here. It became a town in 1975, and now has 28,000 residents.
This quiet road is built over an earlier byway bordering the extensive area of common land that was enclosed, drained and extensively farmed from the 17th century.
It was not until 1970, however, that the M6 reached England's northern border at Carlisle.
There are actually two Langwiths - Nether and Upper - in north-east Derbyshire, near the border with Nottinghamshire and not far from Mansfield.
Knighton is so close to the English border that the railway station and hotel are actually on English soil.
It marks the official border between England or Wales in its ironwork. Note the double-decker bus entering Chepstow via the bridge.
Cenarth is situated alongside the River Teifi and the Cardiganshire border.
One of the most famous pubs in the area, the building stands on the Berkshire/Hampshire border, just to the south of Newbury.
The park is now a well cared-for green oasis, with manicured lawns, footpaths fringed with lovely flower beds and shrub borders, and a number of benches.
The sea wall had not been built either, and the promenade is bordered by cobbles sloping to the beach, with wooden piles providing some protection against the breaking waves.
Sutton Coldfield itself is to the east, while Streetly borders the park to the north-west. There are several entrances to the park at Streetly, most for pedestrians only.
These thatched cottages are by the old Reading Room on the North and South Tidworth borders. In front of the Reading Room is a red telephone box.
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