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Serpentine Factory Poltesco
While resident in the area I was given a story about the demise of the factory which I visited many times but I cannot vouch for its accuracy. The factory specialised in large serpentine objects with elaborate and highly ...Read more
A memory of Poltesco in 1962 by
Old School
Gad's Hill Place was my school when I was 7-9 years old, from about 1950-1953. About 4 or 5 girls of similar ages lived on Thames Sailing Barges at Hoo and went to school together, sometimes by car, but usualy by bus. I don't remember ...Read more
A memory of Rochester in 1951
Old Southall Remembered
I lived in old Southall (Norwood Road - Norwood Green end) during the 1960s to the 1990s and have seen great changes. I went to school at Clifton Road, and the school had a great Headmaster, Mr Hancock, for a while. One ...Read more
A memory of Southall
Reminiscences Of Portsmouth In The Late 1930s
I was born in Portsmouth in 1933. My family and I lived first in Lyndhurst Road - about which I don't recall too much - then later in Merrivale Road. I remember very clearly where Merrivale joined ...Read more
A memory of Portsmouth by
Ware Swimming Pool
I spent great times as a boy in the swimming pool which always showed the water temperature on a board outside the entrance ( sometimes 50F ). Our favourite activity was doing bombs off the top board and soaking anyone who was near to ...Read more
A memory of Ware in 1955 by
My Memories Of Addlestone
Fashion shows with a cup of tea and a biscuit in the Copop on a Saturday. When I was younger the Co-op ran a sports day and we all got a goody box with cream cakes cakes and a suprise of fruit. We shopped at Parrs at the ...Read more
A memory of Addlestone by
1950 1967
I was a 5 year old when we moved into the new housing estate in Northolt, we lived at 31 Rushdene Crescent. Then always it seamed that we had long hot summer holidays, playing in the woods, or in the sand pit (ex army firing range) or over ...Read more
A memory of Northolt in 1950 by
Bombing Of Morland Avenue
Written by my mother when she was 70. She lived in Swaisland Road I think one of the things you would have noticed was the number of barrage balloons all around, high in the sky. The first sound of guns which we heard was ...Read more
A memory of Dartford in 1945
Croxley Station 1940 1945
Hi, my name is Brian Nicoll. My mother, father and I lived in 10 Frankland Rd from 25/9/35 when I was born until 1956 when I got married. As a small boy I used to have a friend called Roger Gosney who lived over the ...Read more
A memory of Croxley Green in 1940 by
Bathing In The River
Montague terrace was home to many children. I remember the Allen's, John, June, Barry, Hazel, Ivan & Valerie. The White's, Maurice and Barbara, The William,s and Smith,s, Joan, Roy, Margaret, Jeffrey, and at least three ...Read more
A memory of Bishopstoke in 1949 by
Captions
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Sailing barges are tied up in the Wet Dock, the non-tidal part of the port of Ipswich.
This photograph shows two spirit-rigged Thames river barges at Messenger's Boat House, Surbiton.
Two Thames sailing barges discharge cargo at low water on the beach, whilst drawn higher up are some bathing machines.
The eight spritsail barges wait to bring their cargoes into the dock.
This view, taken from Folly Bridge at the south end of St Aldate's Street, is of an earlier Eights Week with the Christchurch Meadow bank lined with the College Barges.
Before the deepening of the channel to Ipswich, ships stopped at Butterman's Bay to be unloaded into barges from Pin Mill.
Barges plied up and down the Wharfe delivering to the breweries, including John Smith's at Tadcaster, pictured here.
Steamers discharge their cargo by way of chutes into dumb barges.
In this ramshackle scene, flat-bottomed coal barges squat in the mud alongside a collier's wharf.
In the event, the main line from Taunton was built as a tub boat canal with a very short life, and an 11-mile stretch from Loudwells to Tiverton was built as a barge canal.
The house has been demolished, and to the left is the track for the barge horses who went overland to meet the barges at the other end of the tunnel.
At Gloucester, boats and barges, carrying mainly timber and grain, could pass into the basin by way of a lock.
In the event, the main line from Taunton was built as a tub boat canal with a very short life, and an 11-mile stretch from Loudwells to Tiverton was built as a barge canal.
Note the person working on the packed barge on the right - the distinctive hat could mean that he was a seaman from Asia working from the barge, or maybe he was a lighterman.
One of the sailing barges that used to work the coast and the River Orwell is laid up at the water's edge.
Timber is being loaded onto barges, or lighters, to be towed up to Gloucester, where vast wood yards were sited along the canal.
The bridge on the left beyond the barge is a cast-iron one dated 1824 and built by the Wilts & Berks Canal Company - the ironwork was cast at Acramans of Bristol.
A sailing barge makes its way past a moored steamer.
He proposed to build a canal 1.75 miles in length and deep enough to allow barges of up to 16 tons to dock at the city wharf at the watergate.
A barge loads at the quay, pleasure boats take trippers for a cruise.
A sailing barge makes its way past a moored steamer.
Empty barges waiting to be towed back down the river are tied up at the embankment alongside the Portsmouth Road where it becomes the High Street.
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.
As the steam-powered barge 'Caledonia' leaves Hunts Lock heading towards Northwich, a pair of narrowboats churn up the water as they line up to enter the lock.
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