Places
11 places found.
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- Seaton Burn, Tyne and Wear (near Ponteland)
- Burn's Green, Hertfordshire
- Burn, Yorkshire
- Burn Bridge, Yorkshire
- Luggate Burn, Lothian
- Burn Naze, Lancashire
- Remony Burn, Tayside
- Barrow Burn, Northumberland (near Shillmoor)
- Blaydon Burn, Tyne and Wear
- Denton Burn, Tyne and Wear
- Burn of Cambus, Central Scotland
Photos
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Maps
405 maps found.
Memories
764 memories found. Showing results 1 to 10.
Ready Token
I have livid in ReadyToken for the last 62 years I was born in Bibury in Arlington corner and the family moved to Field Farm then we moved to The Catherine Wheel were my Grand father was the proprietor. My parents ran the Pub during ...Read more
A memory of Ready Token in 2014 by
Peterlee Then And Noe
I don't remember any of my childhood until I moved to Peterlee in 1971. I was 5 years old at the time and was started at Eden Hall infants. When I moved to the big school aged 7 I was placed in Mrs Hoy's class, she was a ...Read more
A memory of Peterlee in 2014 by
Walking Around Collessie In Late Spring
We came to live in the centre of Collessie nearly three years ago, and it is a beautiful, quiet hamlet that is truly untouched by the modern world that surrounds it. The village is a peaceful haven with a ...Read more
A memory of Collessie in 2012 by
Ye Olde High Lane
I moved to High Lane with my parents when I was 15 in 2000. It was a tiny old fashioned village, so tiny infact that there was only one house and everybody in the village lived there. There was one village shop (run by Tubbs and ...Read more
A memory of High Lane in 2000
A Lovely Girl And A Bonny Place
It's a bit unfair to say my memory is from 2000, as it actually goes back to when I was born (1980) and only ends last year (2008). My earliest memories are of being at my Aunty Stella's. She wasn't really an ...Read more
A memory of Denton Burn in 2000 by
The Pavillion The Welfare Park
The pavillion burned down some years ago, can't exactly remember when. I seem to recall it was vandalism.
A memory of Gilfach Goch in 1999 by
Glebe Barn
It was such a delight to find our house so clearly captured by the photographer in this composition! The barns pictured to the right of the church were bought by my husband and I in 1998. Originally they were grain storage barns, and in ...Read more
A memory of Sheviock in 1998 by
Peter & Elizabeth Tayman ~ In Memory
My parents bought an old railway carriage bungalow at 66 East Front Rd, on Pagham Beach in the early 1990's. The place was a total dump, so they burned it down on the beach and built a brand new ...Read more
A memory of Pagham in 1994 by
My Sisters Village
My sister moved from Manchester in 1990 to Keinton as her husband was working in Shepton Mallet. We have been visiting the village at least 3 times a year, Easter, Summer and usually Christmas. Our children say they can ...Read more
A memory of Keinton Mandeville in 1994 by
Happy Memories
I have many happy memories of High Wycombe as it was where I met my wife in 1990. We were married in 1992 and lived at the RAF Camp at Naphill. We also spent some time living in Booker Lane and our neighbours were a lovely ...Read more
A memory of High Wycombe in 1992 by
Captions
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Born at Alloway, Ayrshire in 1759, Burns's love of poetry was instilled in him by his teacher, John Murdoch.
Scotland's most celebrated poet Robert Burns was born in this simple cottage on 25 January 1759.
Robert Burns was born here on 25 January 1759.
Famous as the birthplace of John Macadam in 1756 and of Robert Burns in 1759, Ayr was founded under a charter granted by William the Lion.
Robert Burns came to the town in 1791 and lived with his wife and family in a house in Millhole Brae.
It was at a house in Westgate in February 1555 that Bishop John Hooper spent his last night before being burnt at the stake in St Mary's Square.
During the 1830s this pretty village was the scene of a major uprising among farm labourers, with angry mobs burn- ing hayricks and destroying machinery.
It was burned down by the French in 1377 along with Rottingdean's inhabitants, who had taken shelter inside it.
The mill is just south of the village on the Birkey Burn.
Robert Burns played in this churchyard as a boy, and the popular legends about hauntings and the ghostly atmosphere of the roofless ruin affected him deeply.
Nearby is the Grand Hotel (rooms 4s 6d, dinner 5s), the parish council building, the school board offices and a statue of Robert Burns.
Robert Burns came to the town in 1791 and lived with his wife and family in a house in Millhole Brae.
The 'burn' part of the name comes from the stream which runs through the village.
The Burnhams take their name from the river Burn, which runs through this picture.
It burned down in 1928.
It burned down in 1928.
It is seen here in its former glory, for it was burned down in 1934; it has since been rebuilt in brick - a copy of the stone original.
Burns's father is buried in the churchyard.
It was extensively remodelled during the 19th century by the architect William Burn; it had previously been modernised between 1768 and 1788 by John Carr of York.
The theatre burned down in 1926; plays then had to be performed in a local cinema.
The cars rattled and juddered around the circuit, and on hot days there was always the pervading smell of burning oil.
Before the coming of tourism, Torquay was an obscure fishing hamlet, its villagers scratching a living from the sea, smuggling and lime burning.
While many houses burned down in the fire of 1659, the 15th century church of St.
In his 'A Shropshire Lad', the poet A E Housman opens with the words: 'From Clee to heaven the beacon burns, The shires have seen it plain . . .'
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