Places
28 places found.
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- Broom, Warwickshire
- Broom, Fife
- Broome, Shropshire (near Stokesay)
- Broom, Bedfordshire
- Broom's Barn, Suffolk
- Broom's Green, Gloucestershire
- Broom, Strathclyde
- Broom, Yorkshire
- Broom, Dyfed
- Broom, Dorset
- Broome, Norfolk
- Broom, Cumbria (near Appleby-in-Westmorland)
- Broome, Shropshire (near Acton Burnell)
- Broome, Hereford & Worcester
- Bow Broom, Yorkshire
- Barnham Broom, Norfolk
- Broom Hill, Avon
- Broom Hill, Dorset
- Broom Street, Kent
- Park Broom, Cumbria
- High Brooms, Kent
- Broom Green, Norfolk
- Hall Broom, Yorkshire
- Exhall, Warwickshire (near Broom)
- Broom Hill, Greater London
- Broom Hill, Hereford & Worcester
- Broom Hill, Suffolk (near Woodbridge)
- Broom Hill, Durham (near Consett)
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Ledsham Court, St Leonards, Sussex ...Great Memories! By John Franks, (Ex Rascal Boarder).
Well, I would like to bring a little history of our wonderful school in St Leonards back to life with the real colour and warmth of the time when I was there in the early ...Read more
A memory of Great Parndon by
More Memories From A Boy Growing Up In Burghfield
Back in Burghfield around 1962, I clearly remember one day during the School Summer Holiday seeing a Huge Red and Green Steamroller coming towards me with a whole host of Road Tar making ...Read more
A memory of Burghfield Common by
Green Bank School
2 roomed little private school which was the worst ever experienced. Owned/run/head mistress by an ex-nun MISS MELADY who was absolutely vile and cruel. Luckily she taught the older class whilst another teacher class I was in. My ...Read more
A memory of Yelverton by
There Are Still No Yellow Lines In Brook Street!!
Hello, My name is Graham Matthews and I was 7 years old when this photo was taken. I was born in Bampton but my family moved to Reading, Berkshire in 1961. However, I always thought of this lovely small ...Read more
A memory of Bampton by
Moree Way. A Different Life
Born in 1955, I'm told my first bed was in a chest of drawers. 2 rooms in Gilpin Cresc. With mum, dad and grandparents. Moved to Moree Way when Gilpin Cresc was due for slum clearance. Moree Way was built on the old Alcazar ...Read more
A memory of Edmonton by
Yesterday's Birch
I REMEMBER BIRCH IN 1960'S. THE VILLAGE SHOP WAS RUN BY A JEWISH MAN CALLED MR WOLFE. WHEN YOU CROSSED THE ROAD ON TO WHITTLE LANE THERE WAS A ROW OF HOUSES THAT WERE ATTACHED TO THE WHITE HART PUB . AS YOU WALKED UP THE LANE ...Read more
A memory of Birch by
Brook Street
I was born in 71 but my mum in 1934 and nan in 1910. Nan lived at 250 brook street all her life. My uncle Barry moved to 222 brook street for a while. Does anyone have memories of Beryl Barry or Rose Wain (Rose nee bowman)
A memory of Erith by
When The Reverend Nichols Was The Rector
Sadly, I believe St Michael's Church is little more now than a ruin of it's former self, nothing like it was in the 1940's when it seemed to stand proudly on the hill watching over and protecting the small ...Read more
A memory of Pitsea in 1940 by
When I Was A Girl
When I was about five years old my parents used to take us kids on a Sunday walk. Always remember it was to Stambridge mills. Back then the roads leading to the mill were not more then a country track. On the way to the mills dad ...Read more
A memory of Rochford in 1955 by
The Brook Secondary Modern School, Loughton, Essex
I am Peter Wright, I was in Stonnard? house, around 1961-1966. Fantastic memories of this place, perhaps the best being when the attached youth club hired a band to play - probably around 1965 - called ...Read more
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Situated to the south of Alcester on the Midland Railway line, Broom railway station was the interchange for a cross-country route linking up with the Midland main line from Rugby to Bedford.
The large broom hanging over the doorway is now in the Castle Museum.
There are a number of 16th- and 17th-century half-timbered cottages in this photograph, but judging by the state of some of them the village was living up to the 'Beggarly Broom' image given to it by
The others were Bidford itself, Bidford Grange, and the outlying hamlets of Broom, Barton and Marlcliff.
The rhyme goes: 'Piping Pepworth, Dancing Marston, Haunted Hillborough, Hungry Grafton, Dodging Exhall, Papist Wixford, Beggarly Broom, Drunken Bidford'.
The element 'Hurt' in Hurtwood comes from the Old English word 'ceart', meaning a rough common of bracken, gorse and broom.
Pearsall took advantage of the new handlooms developed by John Broom, a local entrepreneur.
The name referred to the wild broom which grew here. The castle was on a hill north of the church, comprising a motte and bailey with earth and timber fortifications.
The name referred to the wild broom which grew here. The castle was on a hill north of the church, comprising a motte and bailey with earth and timber fortifications.
The rhyme attributed to him goes: 'Piping Pepworth, Dancing Marston, Haunted Hillborough, Hungry Grafton, Dodging Exhall, Papist Wixford, Beggarly Broom, Drunken Bidford'.
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