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Change In Quay Working In The Last 10 Years
Since moving to North Devon 10 years ago from London, have seen the quay area rebuilt as a flood defence system. The equipment on the quay, with the replacement of the old crane with a new modern crane, ...Read more
A memory of Bideford in 2012 by
My Memories Of Dibden Purlieu
I lived in Talbot Road back then with my foster sisters and our wonderful Foster Mum Mrs. Jones. I can remember attending Orchard Road Junior School durring the Queens Silver Jubilee and getting a coin with the ...Read more
A memory of Dibden Purlieu in 1977 by
The N.H.S. Early Years To Retirement
The Transport Department at Southmead Hospital when I joined them consisted of an officer, foreman, and four porter drivers, with two buses, three vans, and two cars. We were responsible for supplying ...Read more
A memory of Bristol in 1960 by
Collecting Runner Beans
My mothers' side of the family all come from Appledore and thereabouts. I have 3 out of 4 of older sisters who were all born in Appledore. I was born in Wallsend on Tyne. My mother and father (he was stationed at ...Read more
A memory of Appledore in 1960 by
But You Cant Take The East Ham Out Of The Boy
I was born at Howard's Road Hospital in 1954. My parents lived with relatives in Walpole Road then Elm Park before coming back to East Ham. We moved about the manor a fair bit. Mountfield Road, Stannard ...Read more
A memory of East Ham in 1958 by
Where I Grew Up
play field at the top of Westway. The fun and games we had as kids up to 1946, helping those friendly German prisoners build fairfield housing estate. We moved to 43 Westway in about 1948, My farther Horace, Waterhouse. Mother Lucy, ...Read more
A memory of Farsley in 1958 by
Memories Of Farsley
Grew up in Land Street, slept with my first girlfriend Wendy Gill until the pram got too small, that would be 1940, where are you now Wendy?. I still remember the Messershmitt and pilot who landed in the play field at the top of ...Read more
A memory of Farsley in 1958 by
School Years
I lived at Glebe House. I went to the primary school at Warehorne, the very strict head was Miss Sane (later to become Mrs Buxton) and my teacher was Miss Small. Most of Kenardington's children including myself got taken to school ...Read more
A memory of Kenardington in 1957 by
Can You Help With Information About A Childrens Home On Epping New Road
Can anybody help with information, memories or photos of a former children's home in Epping New Road, in Buckhurst Hill? I spent part of my childhood in a children's ...Read more
A memory of Buckhurst Hill in 1955 by
Sally Bash
This was about 1954. The Salvation Army was a large hut on Millfield bank, they did lovely pie and pea suppers now and again for about threepence. Every Sunday evening from six till about seven the Salvation Army band would play on the ...Read more
A memory of Newburn in 1954 by
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Appledore stands on a branch of the River?
Instow is on the Torridge, opposite Appledore.
Instow is on the Torridge, opposite Appledore.
The quay at Appledore, built in 1846, still stands; but these coastal trading schooners, once the lifeblood of trading along this north Devon coast, are now only memories, superseded by motor transport
The busy little port of Appledore is now home to just a few fishing boats.
and Appledore, and ran for sixteen years, closing in March 1917.
It stood in the dunes near the lighthouse at the northern side of the crossing of the Torridge estuary from Appledore.
Bideford, two miles up-river from Appledore, is now the main commercial port in the area.
(1901) and Appledore (1908).
and Appledore, and ran for sixteen years, closing in March 1917.
But the great storm of 1287 altered the course of the River Rother, and Appledore then developed as a market town, although its last fair was held in 1899.
Bideford, two miles up-river from Appledore, is now the main commer- cial port in the area.
THE only safe anchorage on the inhospitable, craggy coastline between Appledore and Boscastle, Clovelly lived precariously for centuries from the herring fishery.