Places

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Maps

44 maps found.

1947, Shell Ref. NPO829547
1883 - 1903, Shell Ref. HOSM59008
1919, Shell Ref. POP829547
1898, Shell Ref. RNE829547
1899-1902, Shell Ref. RNC829547
1896, Shell Green Ref. RNE829557
1947, Shell Green Ref. NPO829557
1903, Shell Green Ref. RNC829557
1923, Shell Green Ref. POP829557
1920, Chells Ref. POP667260
1921, Great Chell Ref. POP719741
1921, Chell Heath Ref. POP667253
1897, Little Chell Ref. RNE757043
1896, Chells Ref. RNE667260
1925, Shelf Ref. POP829524
1903, Shelf Ref. RNC829524
1946, Chells Ref. NPO667260
1902, Little Chell Ref. RNC757043
1902, Great Chell Ref. RNC719741
1898-1899, Chells Ref. RNC667260

Books

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Memories

333 memories found. Showing results 1 to 10.

Post Office

I remember that postage stamp machine outside the post office. If you put a halfpenny in the penny slot & flicked it in forcefully you obtained a penny stamp. My mother made me & a friend, who shall remain nameless, ...Read more

A memory of Skelmanthorpe by Bob Slater

Through The Kitchen Window

I was born in my Grandparents house - "Wimbourne" - in the valley below the Mill. Many pleasant hours have I spent sitting in the kitchen with my grandmother shelling peas that granddad had grown in the garden. The Mill ...Read more

A memory of Barham in 1959 by Mark Whitaker

Happy Thoughts Of Bay

I believe I am the girl sitting on the grass looking towards the sea in this photograph. My name then was Susan Groves and my dad was a fisherman. We owned a shop down the bank called The Shell Shop where dad sold many ...Read more

A memory of Robin Hood's Bay in 1960 by Susan Cooper

1965

1964 and my parents announced to us kids that we were going to move to the countryside from Great Bar in Birmingham where we were all living at my grandmothers house My Father had died back when I was seven and mother had eventually ...Read more

A memory of Market Harborough by Keith Luckman

Eary Days

I was born at home in 1940 at Thornbridge Road, We had a large brick built air raid shelter at the side of our house as far as I can remember it was never used, I can remember being under the stairs with my mother a couple of times but as ...Read more

A memory of Garrowhill by Alexander Paterson

Leaving A Mark On The Landscape

It was 1966 myself and 2 colleagues were bouncing across the downs in a Landrover when I first saw Imber. What a beautiful little village nestled in the bottom of the valley. It's red brick manor house next to the church ...Read more

A memory of Imber by Chris Scott

Machine Gunned On Churston Drive By A Young German Pilot

My Aunt Joyce (born 1931) used to live on Churston Drive. She told me this morning about how she was walking to school with a friend one morning during the war when a German plane machine-gunned ...Read more

A memory of Morden by David Stephenson

Happy Days

I remember happy childhood holidays at Talacre. We would stay in a wooden chalet belonging to a friend of my Dad's. He would pick us up in his Ford Anglia, my dad would sit in the front. Then Mum, my sister Annette and myself would sit in ...Read more

A memory of Talacre by a.penty

Cordingley Braintree County High School (Bchs)

I was a pupil at BCHS from 1958-63 and have painful memories of him, albeit possibly unfairly. During a 3rd year biology lesson our female teacher regaled us of pranks she had undertaken at Uni which ...Read more

A memory of Braintree by Brian Canfer

Thrown Down The Bank

From Machen junior mixed to Bassaleg in 1959 ( I think) this reminds me of being 'initiated' by being chucked down the bank. fond memories of my stay there but not of the then headmaster-Penry-Reese- He was hopeless. Other ...Read more

A memory of Bassaleg by Peter Dutton

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Captions

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Caption For Woolacombe, Shell Beach 1911

Barricane Beach, also known as Shell Beach, is small and difficult to reach.

Caption For Crickhowell, The Castle 1893

When rebuilt in stone it featured both a shell keep and a shell gatehouse.

Caption For Saltash, Trematon Castle C1965

It was extensively rebuilt in the 13th century with a shell keep, bailey wall, and a strong gatehouse on the south-west side.

Caption For Woolacombe, Shell Beach 1911

Known as Shell Beach because of the number of sea shells to be found here, this beach's real name is Barricane Beach.

Caption For Pontypool, The Grotto C1955

Around 1830 Molly Hanbury, the wife of one of the most successful ironmasters in the country, commissioned the decoration of the grotto with shells, crystals and bones.

Caption For Thames Ditton, High Street C1967

With the decline of coking coal as a fuel, benzole production fell, and in 1957 National Benzole was acquired by Shell-Mex & BP Ltd - and Leonard North's garage is now selling Shell petrol

Caption For Crickhowell, The Castle 1893

When rebuilt in stone in 1272 it featured both a shell keep and a shell gatehouse.

Caption For Blackpool, Parade From Tower 1896

In those days, the beach area would often be a hive of activity, including donkey rides, ice cream and sweet stalls, shell fish and oyster sellers.

Caption For Dartmouth, Warfleet Road 1934

Gunfield House, now a hotel, took its name from One Gun Fort, where gunnery officers trained by shelling the opposite bank.

Caption For Bethersden, Forge Hill C1955

village of the Kent Weald, with its weatherboarded cottages clustered round its green, Bethersden was once famous for its paludrina marble extracted from the local clay and consisting of the fossilised shells

Caption For Burgh Heath, Brighton Road C1955

The parade of shops at the junction of Reigate Road and Brighton Road has an unfamiliar appearance without traffic lights and the extensive Shell Garage.

Caption For Diss, Mere Street 1925

On the left is West's Garage, offering Shell petrol and BP car batteries.

Caption For Margate, The Sands 1918

Margate suffered from both bombing and shelling during the First World War, and many people left the town.

Caption For Hawkstone Park, Giants Well 1898

The grounds here were laid out in the 1700s with all sorts of follies - a shell-lined grotto, a ruined castle, a rickety bridge over a narrow chasm, even a resident hermit.

Caption For Plymouth, The Guildhall And The Post Office 1889

During the last war it was reduced to a mere shell but has since been restored to its original glory.

Caption For Lostwithiel, On The Road To Restormel House 1906

Motorists drive this way today to visit the shell keep of the medieval castle standing high above the Fowey valley.

Caption For Castleford, Carlton Street C1965

The shell remains as a walkway through to Carlton Street, and it stands next to the 1905 Carnegie Library.

Caption For Newport, Crown House And Tudor House 1932

It was a late 16th-century building that underwent a makeover in 1692: this was when the shell-hood was added to the doorway, the pargework (or decorative plasterwork) executed, and the pub's name

Caption For Battle, High Street 1921

On the left a well publi- cised garage displays the AA insignia and advertises Shell petrol.

Caption For Studland, The Ferry C1960

The view is of Sandbanks Ferry from Shell Bay looking towards Poole's sandy peninsula.

Caption For Wisbech, Leach's Mill 1929

The shell of the mill tower has now been slightly reduced in height and converted into a private house.

Caption For Wadhurst, Castle 1903

Here it is seen in its full glory, creeper-clad and, frankly, rather unattractive, before the disastrous fire of 1933 which left it a shell.

Caption For Rye, The Windmill C1955

A dummy smock mill, this was built as an empty shell with no milling machinery.

Caption For Plymouth, The Guildhall And The Post Office 1889

During the last war it was reduced to a mere shell but has since been restored to its original glory.