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Places
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Memories
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Windsor Road
We moved to Bromley Cross about 1947 just before my sister Virginia was born, it was a lovely new prefab, but I don't remember much about the inside of it apart from the wood-burning stove, that sticks in my mind for some ...Read more
A memory of Bromley Cross in 1947 by
1948 Olympic Games
My father represented Great Britain in the 1948 Olympic Games. He (Thomas Patrick Holt) and his brother John and two sisters were on the swimming team. Unfortunately, Thomas came fourth in his event, as he was struck down with a ...Read more
A memory of Wembley in 1948 by
Doodlebug Exploding In Village Ww2
I was just 3 yrs. old staying in my aunt and uncle's bungalow in Newdigate, (they were working in a local munitions factory). My mother and baby sister were there from Sth. London with me. It was a lovely sunny ...Read more
A memory of Newdigate in 1942 by
Jamaica Planter
I have been told some information about the Jamaica Planter which was sunk off the Port of Barry, but cannot remember all the details. Is anyone able to help me? My father-in-law was aboard her on the two occasions she came in to ...Read more
A memory of Barry Dock in 1940 by
The Cottage
My father was an Officer in the USAF. In 1954 he was transferred to Fairford RAF Station, and we came to live in The Cottage, Sherborne. I was 9 years old and I loved every minute of living in Sherborne. Mr. Hooper was ...Read more
A memory of Sherborne in 1954 by
Songs Of Praise At Ecclesall Church
This was the church I went to as a child - mostly I had to go as a condition of attending Brownies, but it was always both imposing and comforting as a building and place of worship. However, the most outstanding ...Read more
A memory of Sheffield in 1961 by
Hop Fields
Horsmonden - the end of my hop picking days. I was born in east London 1939 and hop picking was four weeks in the country, camp fire cooking in the evening, a sing along and down to the Gun or the Town House on Saturday evening. ...Read more
A memory of Horsmonden in 1959 by
Mixed Feelings
I first arrived in Llanegryn at the latter end of 1939 along with my younger sister and a lot of other kids from my school (St Johns)in Birkenhead. I was eight years old at the time and my sister was six. We were all put into the ...Read more
A memory of Llanegryn in 1930 by
1972
Married at the wonderful old church of St. Peter's Walton on the Hill, 5th July 1972. At this time, my parents were living at Tudor Court, Walton St. Walton on the Hill, and Mum, owned the shop below, Anne Cleeves. I had been over in ...Read more
A memory of Walton on the Hill in 1972 by
Ancestory
I have just discovered that my great great great grandparents came from Rye so could anyone tell me if a place called Fishers House still exists, and also what a farm baliff was expected to do, or what kind of job did a fly catcher do? Are any family called Wenham still living in Rye?
A memory of Rye by
Captions
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The George Hotel, here on the right, offered popular accommodation to Victorian visitors and those who came this way throughout the 20th century.
Its steep banks and overhanging trees would have provided protection for travellers when the winter storms came.
When the railway came to Grange-over-Sands in 1857 it signalled the town's rapid expansion as a seaside resort for visitors from the industrial mill towns of Lancashire.
Henry VIII came here with Anne Boleyn.
In the early 17th century it came into the possession of the Sandys family. Three veterans of Waterloo are commemorated in the church, including Lord Sandys, aide-de-camp of Lord Wellington.
The County Hotel is one of the main hotels in the centre of Kendal; it dominates this part of the old town, whose wealth was founded on the woollen and textile industries.The famed Kendal bowmen at
The Corbet Arms Hotel is named for an important Shropshire family that came to England with William the Conqueror.
It contains 17th-century panelling which originally came from Devon. Behind it rises the slim tower of St Michael's Church, a late Victorian construction.
Kirby was the most blitzed English village during the last war: a lone bomber came over following a raid on the Midlands and destroyed many buildings.
This hotel became well known in the 1970s when it was associated with Eric Morecambe (of Morecambe and Wise fame); more recently it has become a Thai restaurant, where I am afraid you would need to pay
The village is probably most famous as the home of the Bluebell Railway, a popular attraction since it came into private ownership in the early 1960s.
Centuries ago, an arm of the sea came up to Wareham from what is now Poole Harbour.
In later centuries, the port of West Bay was opened downstream and goods came once more by sea and into this ancient town.
The famed Kendal bowmen at the Battle of Flodden Field (1513) were clad in home-spun Kendal Green cloth.
A newer Shanklin grew up along the seashore to cater for the demands of both visitors and those who came to settle.
The peaceful sea could be deceptive: a memorial in the church relates to nine local people who went boating one Sunday in 1799 and never came back.
Prosperity came to Warrington along with industry in the 1800s, and this is reflected in the quality of all the town's commercial buildings.
The present coastal footpath came into being as a patrol route for the coastguards who had the duty of intercepting illicit cargoes.
Ingatestone's livelihood came from its position on the London-Chelmsford road. Even the 'stone' in its name may refer to a milestone.
These originally came from Chile. The Victorians were very keen plant collectors, and introduced an immense range of plants to gardens around Britain.
After the 1930s the next blow to the Woollen District came in the 1960s with the import of cheap Italian heavy-woollen skirtings and coatings.
After the 1930s the next blow to the Woollen District came in the 1960s with the import of cheap Italian heavy-woollen skirtings and coatings.
The railway (then the South Devon, which was taken over by the great Western in 1878) came to Paignton in 1859, and eventually ran through to Kingswear.
Before the M4 motorway existed, traffic from London came through Datchet en route to Windsor. Francis Frith's Berkshire
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