Places
28 places found.
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- Broom, Warwickshire
- Broom, Fife
- Broome, Shropshire (near Stokesay)
- Broom's Barn, Suffolk
- Broom's Green, Gloucestershire
- Broom, Bedfordshire
- 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
- Hall Broom, Yorkshire
- Broom Green, Norfolk
- 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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Whitethorn Morris At Letchmore Heath
The Three Horseshoes is an attractive pub facing the village green and the war memorial at Letchmore Heath, a beautiful place between Elstree and Aldenham just outside Watford. This pub regularly attracts ...Read more
A memory of Elstree in 2006 by
Hensons Of Scawby Brook
My great-great-grandfather worked as a gardener and groom at Scawby Hall in the 1800s. He was John Henson. His son, also John, worked there, and also his daughter, Maud Alice. She was a parlour maid but died aged 23 in 1883, ...Read more
A memory of Scawby in 1880 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
Hard Times But Happy Days
We lived on Park View facing the library and Queens Park which had its own museum and everything a victorian park could offer two young brothers yearning for adventures. We would ride our guiders all over that park, and ...Read more
A memory of Harpurhey in 1960 by
Cullerne Farm Caravan Site Around 1958
Cullerne Farm Caravan Site was owned by Willy Bichen, farmer of Blinkbonny, Brodie. The caravans made use of the old hard standings, for part of the farmlands had been an airfield. There was small brook ...Read more
A memory of Findhorn
Ernest Brooks
My dad went to the Episcopal School from 1940(?) with his twin brother after leaving Countess Wear School Rooms.
A memory of Exeter in 1910
The Brook
Wonderful memories! It was awonderful place to have grown up. I learned to swim in the brook, aged about 11 years. I wonder who wrote the following which I was taught in school. Very appropriate! "Little stream flowing ...Read more
A memory of Gayton by
Explosion At Ici Broom 11th February 1954
It is 56 years this week since my beloved husband, WALTER JOHNSTON was killed in an explosion at the ICI plant known as The Broom, at POWFOOT, Dumfriesshire.He was 26 years old, tall, handsome (Gregory ...Read more
A memory of Powfoot in 1954 by
Days Gone By
My memories of Greyabbey date back to 1940 just after the Blitz when Mum and her 3 sisters plus one sister-in-law with a bunch of kids relocated to Cardy, a small community appox. 3 miles from Greyabbey. I was 8 years of age at the ...Read more
A memory of Greyabbey in 1940 by
Brook Farm Caravan Site
As a young lad, I enjoyed many happy holidays at Brook Farm Caravan Site in Nansen Road, Holland-on Sea, where my parents owned a caravan. This site was very quiet and superbly unspoilt with nothing but a small shop ...Read more
A memory of Holland-on-Sea in 1965
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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.
The others were Bidford itself, Bidford Grange, and the outlying hamlets of Broom, Barton and Marlcliff.
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 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 element 'Hurt' in Hurtwood comes from the Old English word 'ceart', meaning a rough common of bracken, gorse and broom.
The rhyme goes: 'Piping Pepworth, Dancing Marston, Haunted Hillborough, Hungry Grafton, Dodging Exhall, Papist Wixford, Beggarly Broom, Drunken Bidford'.
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 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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