Places
36 places found.
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- Shanklin, Isle of Wight
- Ventnor, Isle of Wight
- Ryde, Isle of Wight
- Cowes, Isle of Wight
- Sandown, Isle of Wight
- Port of Ness, Western Isles
- London, Greater London
- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
- Dublin, Republic of Ireland
- Killarney, Republic of Ireland
- Douglas, Isle of Man
- Plymouth, Devon
- Newport, Isle of Wight
- Southwold, Suffolk
- Bristol, Avon
- Lowestoft, Suffolk
- Cromer, Norfolk
- Edinburgh, Lothian
- Maldon, Essex
- Clacton-On-Sea, Essex
- Norwich, Norfolk
- Felixstowe, Suffolk
- Hitchin, Hertfordshire
- Stevenage, Hertfordshire
- Colchester, Essex
- Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
- Bedford, Bedfordshire
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
- Aldeburgh, Suffolk
- St Albans, Hertfordshire
- Hunstanton, Norfolk
- Chelmsford, Essex
- Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
- Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
- Brentwood, Essex
- Glengarriff, Republic of Ireland
Photos
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Maps
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Books
442 books found. Showing results 2,185 to 2,208.
Memories
29,043 memories found. Showing results 911 to 920.
Lymington In The 1940s
My maternal grandmother and mother were both born in Lymington, my mother attending the grammar school in Brockenhurst (I remember as a small boy her pointing it out to me from the train) In 1944, when the V1 'doodlebugs' ...Read more
A memory of Lymington in 1944 by
Coastguard Station
We came to Bolt Head in 1950, my father having joined the Coastguard service after being in the Royal Navy for 40 years. I found it quite a way to cycle to work, I worked in the post office in Malborough. I used to go ...Read more
A memory of Bolt Head in 1950 by
Our Lady Of Walsingham Church And School
Attending the Senior School, my memories are of the dinner dances that where held in the school hall to raise money to pay for the church and school, many of the events where organised by the local church ...Read more
A memory of Corby in 1961 by
A Great Place To Live
Having been born and brought up in Buckhusrt Hill in the 1960s and 1970s and 1980s and now living in Kent, it reminds me what a unique place it once was. My immediate memories are of Lords Bushes and living in Forest ...Read more
A memory of Buckhurst Hill by
Salfords Memories Of A Small Boy
We lived in Salfords from about 1948-1952, at the top of Honeycrock lane. Yes Angela, you did pay in the cubicle in the butcher's and the baker's shop was Cakebread's - very appropriate. I went to the old ...Read more
A memory of Salfords in 1948 by
Happy Days
I was just reading 'Formative years in Kirn'. Yes they were good. I used to fish off Kirn pier for cat fish for Mrs Drovandi's cat and in exchange she would give me an ice cube. I remember Reggie Brooks and the boats - We used to live in ...Read more
A memory of Kirn in 1950 by
A Butcher's Lad
Mr Purvis the butcher, whose shop stood on the corner of Talke and Audley Roads, was my Saturday morning employer. He always wore a striped apron and a straw boater hat and sported a rather slick moustache. His manner with the ...Read more
A memory of Alsager in 1954 by
Growing Up In A Small Village
My parents moved to Twycross from London in the early 1960s. We lived on Sheepy Road next door to Mr Charlie Brooks and Louie Jones. On the opposite side were Stan and Ilma Jones and Len Gibbs and his daughter Joan. ...Read more
A memory of Twycross by
Cherished Memories
Finding this site has brought many wonderful memories back to me. I was born in St Mary's Hospital, Croydon. My maiden name was Chappell. I lived in Purley Road, South Croydon not far from the Red Deer until 1957. Every Saturday ...Read more
A memory of Croydon in 1953 by
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Captions
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This street, in one of the largest of the Holderness coastal villages, used to be called Poskett Lane.
It is only forty years after the first ground was turned, and the scale of development is breathtaking.
Little remains of the 13th-century Hailes Abbey except the ruins of the cloisters.
Now a suburb of Wellington, the village was once known as Rowe Green, but often dubbed 'Rogue Green' because of the unruly behaviour of some of its inhabitants.
This monument was erected in 1928 at the site of Monmouth's defeat at the hands of the Royalist army in memory of all those killed during the battle or who subsequently suffered imprisonment, transportation
Situated two miles south-south-west of Bridgend, Ogmore was originally a ringwork with a timber palisade built in 1116 by William de Londres to guard crossing points on the rivers Ewenny and Ogmore.
This street scene is much altered from that of the 1906 photograph.
This attractive close-studded timbered house of the mid 15th century provides a fine, almost secret entrance to Castle Yard.
Perhaps this view was taken on a Sunday - notice that the entrances to all the shops on the left have gates closed across them.
In September 1927 the Ministry of Health published a report agreeing to the building of a 300-bed hospital at Sully for the treatment of TB.
Just up river from the bridge and the castle, this would appear to be a view from Wintour`s Leap of the beginning of the great Horseshoe Bend which encompasses the peninsula of Lancaut.
This is another excellent view of the harbour. There are many children who have presumably been drawn to the permanent excitement of a busy port.
Among its many memorials is an effigy of William Leigh, shown vested in the robe of a Knight of St Gregory and holding in his hands a model of the church he founded.
At the height of the coaching era, Maidenhead was littered with posting inns either side of the High Street. Some of these hotels continued to thrive during the age of the motor car.
When this picture of Pownell Hall was taken, it had been acquired by Henry Boddington, a member of the Manchester brewing family.
The Borrowdale Hotel is in one of the wildest valleys of Lakeland.
The Town Hall dates back to 1826; the building's Greek Doric style makes it one of Andover's most distinguished landmarks.
Looking to the north-east the course of the Western Cleddau can just be seen at the bottom of the picture beyond what would have been part of the Marychurch Foundry.
Much of St Mary's church, behind the mill, was used as a private house after the Dissolution; the ivy-covered remains of part of it can be seen here, attached to the right of the church.
Swallowed up by the suburbs of Market Harborough, this little village has managed to salvage some individuality.
Very few parts of the town are far from the beach.
The ivy-clad inn on the left of the photograph is the Miller of Mansfield, a famous pub in the Thames Valley.
This charming study shows part of the main street of Great Bookham, which grew up on the spring line of the North Downs.
This attractive little village in West Dorset stands at the junction of a number of ancient packhorse trails.
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