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Maps

9 maps found.

1947, Broad, The Ref. NPO650827
1885, Broad, The Ref. HOSM55117
1920, Broad, The Ref. POP650827
1900-1902, Broad, The Ref. RNC650827
1899, Broad, The Ref. RNE650827
1945, The Norfolk Broads Ref. NPO1190745
1922, The Norfolk Broads Ref. POP1190745
1898, The Norfolk Broads Ref. RNE1190745
1901-1902, The Norfolk Broads Ref. RNC1190745

Books

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Memories

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Working In Clyffe Pypard

I came down from Scotland when I was 16 & was a nanny in Broad Hinton for a year for Mr & Mrs Huddy (can't remember the name of the house), & then I decided that I wanted to work with horses, so I got a job ...Read more

A memory of Clyffe Pypard in 1969 by Alison Cloy

Welling Corner The Embassy And Elsa Road School.

I lived on welling corner, above the shops, flat 15b. I went to the embassy on Saturday nights where I met my wife in 1959 and still going strong. My watering hole was the Nags Head. I went to Saint ...Read more

A memory of Welling in 1950 by Michael Hibberd

Tynemouth Beach

I remember this beach well, especially the open air swimming pool which is also on a photograph here in this collection , I remember going on a school swimming session weekly ( Preston High school ) now john spence and dreading ...Read more

A memory of Tynemouth in 1966 by Neil Critchlow

Trying To Remember The Road I Lived On

Am trying to piece together my life while in England. I was sent to some kind of institution when I was a few months old, probably in 1945/46. I believe that place was in the North of England. Then my mother ...Read more

A memory of Heston in 1949 by Paul Langseth

To The Lady Wanting To Find People Remembering Josephines

I do remember this lovely lady, her brother, and her quaint little shop. She sold flowers, fruit, veg, sweets, tobacco etc, and wonderful lemon dip sugar. My dad used her shop nearly every ...Read more

A memory of Botley in 1955

Schooldays

I went to the High School in Ludlow from 1941 - 49 and then went back to teach there in about 1956. I had a flat in Broad Street just below where this picture stops and used to go to this church of St Laurence on a very regular basis- they ...Read more

A memory of Ludlow in 1941 by The Revd. Madeleine Evans

Redmire Children

My great great grandparents arrived in Redmire in the 1840s or thereabouts.   This photo was taken in 1929 when my mother would have been about nine or ten.  She was born in Redmire in 1921 to George and Ellenor Miller who had five ...Read more

A memory of Redmire by Josiephine Bell

Phillip Ladds Nursery

Hello, Does anyone remember Phillip Ladd's nursery on Goldsel Rd? I worked there 1955 to 1961, was in the boilerhouse in the winter and outside in the summer! Frank Weatherby was the Foreman, remember Len Christmas he came from ...Read more

A memory of Swanley in 1955 by Brian Trimmer

My Family Lived Across The Road From Southall Dog Track

my granddad raced grayhounds there. my dad & his brothers lived lived there 2 thay live on the haverlock rd in old cottages that backed on to the canal MY GRANDADS NAME WAS . SAM DONNELLY

A memory of Southall

My Family

The Mansbridges were my great grandparents. My grandmother, Elizabeth M Card is buried in the church yard and lived for many many years in the thatched cottage just outside the church gates. I spent many holidays there as I only lived in ...Read more

A memory of Combrook by Philip Card

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Captions

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Caption For The Broads, Hickling Broad C1945

Away from the broad, along the staithe, the moored boats can bob gently in the calmer water.

Caption For Ballymoney, High Street C1900

This turn of the century view shows the broad and spacious high street.

Caption For Shanklin, From Lift Steps 1892

The yacht is passing by the north side of the Broad, with 1930s bungalows along the frontage.

Caption For North Walsham, Market Place 1921

Much of this prosperous market town north of the Broads was rebuilt after a major fire in 1600.

Caption For North Walsham, Market Place 1921

Much of this prosperous market town, north of the Broads, was rebuilt after a major fire in 1600.

Caption For North Walsham, Market Place 1921

Much of this prosperous market town, north of the Broads, was rebuilt after a major fire in 1600.

Caption For Loddon, Basin C1965

By 1965 most of the boats on the Broads were motorised.

Caption For Oulton, Hoisting Sail C1955

The yacht is passing by the north side of the Broad, with 1930s bungalows along the frontage.

Caption For Horstead, The Mill 1902

Coltishall is the gateway to the Broads, set on a low hill above the winding Bure.

Caption For Acle, Oby Drainage Windmill C1929

Though the Broads are wild and empty places of sweeping skies and wind-blown marshes, the traveller by boat is never far from history.

Caption For The Broads, "Silver Swallow" C1932

The Broads The 'Silver Swallow'

Caption For Barton Turf, The River 1902

On the River Bure, Coltishall is a picturesque place and an important centre for building the famous Norfolk wherry.

Caption For Acle, The River And River Walk C1929

Holidays on the Broads were already big business when this photograph of cruisers was taken of the moorings near Acle.

Caption For Cannock, The Square 1960

Trees shade the broad square.

Caption For North Berwick, From The East 1897

Here we see the broad sweep of the sandy bay to the west of the harbour area on a quiet day.

Caption For Potter Heigham, The River Thurne 1934

Typical sailing cruisers glide majestically along the River Thurne, passing one of the essential wind pumps which drain the fields throughout the Broads area.

Caption For Horning, The Old Wind Pump 1902

The classic Broads marshland scene with an open-trestle windpump.

Caption For Ipswich, On The River Orwell 1909

A sailing barge makes its way along the Orwell, with lush wooded hillsides coming down to meet the broad tidal mudflats at the water's edge.

Caption For Salhouse, Boats On Salhouse Broad C1940

Woodland surrounds many of the broads in the upper stretches of the Bure, providing shelter and seclusion for these early cabin cruisers.

Caption For Hastings, The Beach 1925

On a clear day, Eastbourne may be seen to the west across Pevensey Bay from Hastings Pier and the sea front.

Caption For Bellerby, Village 1929

North of Leyburn is the manorial village of Bellerby.

Caption For Cranbrook, High Street 1901

Note the broad width of the street where the market used to be held, and the pleasing variety of architecture and raised pavements.

Caption For Norwich, The Wensum And Prince Of Wales Bridge 1935

A sailing barge, once a common sight on the Broads and Norfolk rivers, is moored opposite the pleasure boats below the yacht station.

Caption For Hickling, The Staithe From The Pleasure Boat Inn C1950

It is the word used for all mooring places on the Broads, whether along the river or up an inlet.