Places

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Maps

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1911-1912, Port Arthur Ref. RNC809225
1895, Fenham Ref. HOSM36253

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Memories

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Memories Of My Widnes School Days

Having lived the first 25 years of my life in Widnes ,I have many happy memories of my school days there. Born in Dundalk Lane in 1940, from 1943 until 1945, I attended the Nursery,situated next to Ditton County ...Read more

A memory of Widnes by John Pye

Grindrod Family

My Great Grandparents, Jim and Elizabeth Grindrod, lived at 10 Sydney Street, along with my Grandfather, Brian Grindrod, and my Great Great Grandparents, Michael York and Lily York. From the 1930s- late 1940s, Jim was a Grocer's ...Read more

A memory of Failsworth by Bradley Walker

Happy Days

My family holidayed on bute for years. Spent fair fortnight at arthur (robertson) slip in rowing boats. My brother would rescue people in rowing boats who didn't know how to row! Great days

A memory of Port Bannatyne by Elizabeth Jane Cunninghame

Teenage Memories

Cove was a special place, a place where I was born, at 11 Sydney Smith Close...now stands Beverly Crec.... My grandad Matthew Smith lived at 39 Holly Rd, and worked on the railway as a plate layer. Growing up we lived in Hazel ...Read more

A memory of Cove in 1958 by Peter Smith

When I Was A Child

My father was born in Great Bedwyn, his name Arthur Maurice Hatter. When I was young in 1952 we were invited to stay with a member of his family in 47 High Street, I remember they had a wonderful garden, layered with full ...Read more

A memory of Great Bedwyn in 1952 by Arthur Hatter

Cross Keys Camp

Iv been trying for years to find something out about the camp . I was born there in 1948 when my farther Mr Arthur Blowes was sent to North Korea when he back from the Second World War

A memory of Roxwell by Sheila Peasey

Car Project.

The Morris car depicted in the photograph was overhauled and bodied by my late father, Arthur Parker, in 1951-2. He had removed the body from a c1937 Morris 8 van, overhauled the mechanics and the chassis, and built from scratch a new ...Read more

A memory of Duston in 1951 by Claire Allen

The Anchor

I was born on the Anchor in 1941. The houses were set back from the road with rough patch of ground in front of them where Pat Collin's fair used to set up every year in the summer. From the canal bridge on the left was the pub, The ...Read more

A memory of Deepfields by Robert Leadbeater

Memories Remembered

Memories Remembered After reading Brian Keighley’s story of his memories in Lifton, my memories came flooding back and has prompted me to recall a few of my own. I was born in Lifton 18 months after my sister Jean in 1927 at ...Read more

A memory of Lifton by geoffbailey29

Memories Of Sutton Lodge, In Sutton Lane—Just South Of The Great West Road, Heston/Hounslow

Recorded by Nicholas Reid, Canberra, Australia. I was christened in the Anglican church at Heston in 1959, though for obvious reason I don’t have any memories ...Read more

A memory of Heston by Nicholas Reid

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Captions

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Caption For Sulby, The Bridge 1894

Arthur Caley, the eleventh of twelve children and known as the Sulby Giant, was 7 ft 6 ins tall, and weighed in at 44 stone.

Caption For Clevedon, St Andrew's Church 1935

Buried here is Arthur Hallam (1811-1833), the son of historian Henry Hallam (1777-1859).

Caption For Richmond, Arthur's Oven 1913

This cave near Round Howe is known as Arthur's Oven; perhaps the name alludes to the legend that King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table sleep in a vast cavern below the keep of Richmond Castle

Caption For Richmond, Arthur's Oven 1913

This cave near Round Howe is known as Arthur's Oven; perhaps the name alludes to the legend that King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table sleep in a vast cavern below the keep of Richmond Castle

Caption For Winchester, Round Table 1906

The Round Table of King Arthur, made supposedly by the magician Merlin, has hung in Winchester's Great Hall for some six hundred years.

Caption For Ludlow, The Castle From The River 1923

It was here that the newly married Prince Arthur brought his bride, Katherine of Aragon.

Caption For Bewdley, Load Street C1938

Prince Arthur, the eldest son of Henry VII, married Catherine of Aragon here - by proxy, for she was an absent bride.

Caption For Tintagel, The Village 1906

Visitors can stay at the King Arthur's Castle Hotel where once, no doubt, Arthur entertained Guinevere, or queue for fish and chips in the same establishment once patronised by the Knights of the Round

Caption For East Grinstead, London Road C1965

Only two of the small shops - the nearer of which is Arthur S Fry, family butcher - now survive from the four converted from cottages in the 1890s; the other two were demolished in July 1965

Caption For Carrickfergus, Looking North East 1897

This is the Joymount corner of the town; the gardens, no longer there, mark where a governor of the castle, Sir Arthur Chichester, began to build a fine mansion in 1610.

Caption For Launceston, The Chain Bridge 1906

Mr Cecil Cole, talking of his childhood in the early years of the 20th century, quoted in Arthur Bate Venning and Arthur Wills' book 'Yesterday's Town'.

Caption For Belfast, Corn Market 1897

This is a short street just off High Street that links it to Arthur Square.

Caption For Okeford Fitzpaine, C1960

The village, seen from Okeford Hill with Piddles Wood beyond (left), was estate-owned until April 1966, when it was auctioned by Sturminster Newton estate agent Arthur Richards.

Caption For Camelford, The Grave Of King Arthur C1960

Since there is no evidence of Arthur ever existing, the claim that this is his grave is academic, though it would be foolish to ignore the power of handed-down legend.

Caption For Westbury, The White Horse C1955

However, the present horse replaced an even earlier one reputedly cut by King Arthur!

Caption For Camelford, King Arthur's Grave 1906

Many places stake a claim to be either the burial place of King Arthur or the site of his last battle.

Caption For Camelford, King Arthur's Grave 1906

Many places stake a claim to be either the burial place of King Arthur or the site of his last battle.

Caption For Launceston, The Chain Bridge 1906

Mr Cecil Cole, talking of his childhood in the early years of the 20th century, quoted in Arthur Bate Venning and Arthur Wills' book 'Yesterday's Town'.

Caption For Bristol, Park Street 1950

Incorporated in 1909, the main university buildings were paid for by Sir George Arthur Wills and his brother Henry Herbert Wills in memory of their father.

Caption For Edinburgh, The Old Town C1880

The dominating mass of Arthur's seat, 822 ft high, stands in a 648-acre park.

Caption For Glastonbury, The Tor C1965

Glastonbury Tor once stood like an island in the surrounding marshes, and it has been linked with King Arthur's Avalon.

Caption For Middlesbrough, The Park 1913

Albert Park was opened by Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, in 1868, and the land was purchased for the town by Henry Bolckow.

Caption For Falmouth, Mylor Bridge C1950

The chapel-like building is the Tremayne Institute, a reading room and library erected in 1880 by Col Arthur Tremayne of Carclew and lord of the manor of Restronguet.

Caption For Cambridge, Selwyn Entrance 1923

Selwyn College was designed in the Tudor Gothic style by Sir Arthur Blomfield.