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Eastville Park Bs5

Eastville Park is a large park with a small lake, just to the east of the M32. The lake at Eastville Park was instigated as part of a social scheme by Ernest Bevin (a well respected westcountryman) who later became Minister of ...Read more

A memory of Bristol by Paul Townsend

Eastville Park

Eastville Park swimming pool was built in 1905, and the lake in 1909, with the present boathouse dating from 1925. Since then, local road building has resulted in the loss of the original boundaries of the park and its walls, gates and ...Read more

A memory of Bristol by Paul Townsend

East Ham In The 1960s

In February 1963, when I was six and a half, my parents bought their first house, in Thorpe Road, East Ham. It was and had been a very cold winter, and when we moved in we had difficulty opening the back door, as there was so ...Read more

A memory of East Ham in 1963 by Jackie Craig

Early Days In Failsworth

I was born in 1947 in boundary park hospital, as it was then. My mum and dad lived in Holt Lane in Failsworth. I can remember the Argyll Mill as a working cotton mill which was just down the lane. My mum was a housewife and my dad ...Read more

A memory of Oldham by suechalmers

Early Memories

My birth on 30 Nov 1946 at 34 Oldberry Road, Burnt Oak, is where it all started for me, but my mother & her parents moved into the house when it was built for the LCC. She's 89 now, but recalls that she, as a 9-yr-old in 1928, ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak in 1946 by Anthony Kerrison

Early Childhood In Romford

I was born in 1953 and lived for the first 3 years in an old house in Junction Road (Number 8) with my parents and Mum's mum (Granny). The back garden of the house seemed to be a jungle and had its end boundary with ...Read more

A memory of Romford by Roger Harley

Ealing Village

From the year I was born (1968) until the mid nineties I was brought up in Ealing Village, just off Hanger Lane. I have many fond memories of doing such things as building camps behind the tennis courts or in the White house, riding my ...Read more

A memory of Ealing by Alex Breski

Dunsmore People And Happenings Remembered

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION In 1995, when the first edition of this history was published, it seemed incredibly optimistic to have had three hundred copies printed for a market which was ...Read more

A memory of Dunsmore by Peter Jewell

Dorstone In The Golden Valley

In many parts of the world the countryside is largely unclaimed, untamed, even uninhabited; consider, say, the large swathes of Australia’s Kimberley region, Indonesia’s Kalimantan, or the interior of Baffin Island. ...Read more

A memory of Dorstone in 1940 by John S. Batts

Doctor's Cottage On Church Lane

This lovely cottage looks like the one which was located near where I used to live and go to school back in the 1960s. If I am right then the curved space in the bottom right of this picture was the boundary of a ...Read more

A memory of Balsham in 1969 by Judith Tack

Captions

233 captions found. Showing results 193 to 216.

Caption For Sutton, Banstead Downs, Golf Links 1903

This scene is of Banstead Downs, which are actually outside Sutton's boundaries, south of Belmont station.

Caption For Cheam, St Dunstan's Church And Lychgate 1925

The wall on the extreme right of the photograph once marked the boundary of West Cheam Manor.

Caption For Stanmore, Village 1906

Gone the row of cottages, probably only thirty years old when the photograph was taken, and now gone is the Red House, an 18th-century building behind its boundary wall, but out of sight to the extreme

Caption For Lytham, Parish Church 1890

In later years the cross defined monastic lands; one boundary was at the hamlet of Cross Slack.

Caption For Waddington, War Memorial 1921

Beating the parish bounds was important – the ceremony impressed upon young people the extent of the boundaries.

Caption For Halifax, Technical School 1896

The law was limited to the forest of Hardwick, including the 18 towns and villages within its boundary.

Caption For Tarring, The Church 1890

To the right is Church House, which shortly before this view was taken had ceased to be a farmhouse; the flint walls in front are remnants of its barns, retained as boundary walls.

Caption For Oldcotes, Main Street C1965

Still close to the Yorkshire county boundary and south- west of Harworth, Oldcotes village is situated at the crossroads of the A634 and A60; Main Street runs east from the A60 Doncaster Road

Caption For Abingdon, The Bridges From The Church Tower C1945

Oxfordshire's boundary was on the right bank with the riverside path until 1974, when Abingdon and north Berkshire became part of Oxfordshire.

Caption For Harrow On The Hill, Peterboro Road 1906

Behind the camera, built into the boundary wall, is a small stone plaque commemorating, what may well have been Britain's first fatal motor accident.

Caption For Bridport, Bradpole Road 1903

A horseman rides north-eastwards, along what is now St Andrew's Road towards Bradpole, when this was part of that parish before boundary changes brought the northern suburbs into Bridport borough.

Caption For Westbourne, County Gates 1913

The lodge became known as County Gates because this junction on the main Bournemouth-Poole road was also the boundary between both the two towns and Hampshire and Dorset.

Caption For Bush Hill, Elmscott Gardens C1955

Look at the timber windows with their coloured glass, the original front doors, the solid, yet attractive, garage doors, the original gates and boundary walls, and realise that all this has for the greater

Caption For Worthing, The Broadway 1919

The trees and flint wall in the photograph marked the southern boundary of the Warwick estate.

Caption For Castle Acre, The Priory, The West Front 1891

The priory occupied over 40 acres - there are remains of its flint boundary walls.

Caption For Simpson, Main Road C1958

Back in the new city of Milton Keynes, Simpson is one of the villages it engulfed; but it is conserved within its boundaries.

Caption For Royston, Therfield Heath 1929

Skirted by the Icknield Way on the right, the expanse of Therfield Heath originally stretched from the boundary of Baldock to Royston.

Caption For Bridport, West Allington 1897

Street names intially included 'Reform Place 1835' to commemorate electoral changes after the Boundary Commission had reported: 'The chief trade arises from the manufacture of hemp and flax, and Allington

Caption For Broxbourne, The Parish Church C1955

Hoddesdon was a small hamlet on its northern boundary, but when its church of St Paul was built, it broke away.

Caption For Worthing, East Parade 1919

Visitors, when looking westwards from the pier in 1899, would have seen terrace after terrace of lodging houses, interspersed with the occasional Victorian hotel, stretching to beyond the Heene Parish boundary

Caption For Tadcaster, The Bridge 1906

The centre of the bridge marks the boundary of the West Riding and the Ainstey of York - a grant of land by King John to the city that contained some twenty villages.

Caption For Hemingford Grey, St James' Church 1898

The gentle Great Ouse not only formed the northern boundary of the village, but it was a main source of trade and communication with Huntingdon and St Ives.

Caption For Southsea, Dagmar Terrace 1890

In 1895, the borough boundaries were extended to include the Great Salterns, and in 1904, the whole island was incorporated into the borough.

Caption For Southsea, South Parade Pier 1892

In 1895, the borough boundaries were extended to include the Great Salterns, and in 1904, the whole island was incorporated into the borough.