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Memories
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Mansion Close/Inholmes
I lived in what is now Mansion Close from 1978 (when I was born!) to 1995 or so. There was a picture of the mansion in a book of old photos of Burges Hill, but I can't find it now sadly. It looked fairly forbidding in the ...Read more
A memory of Burgess Hill
Yacht "Albion"
This boat was called Albion, I remember her well as I spent my childhood in Cardnell's yard either sailing the family boat or fitting it out -(some of the happiest days of my life) - she was pale green, an unusual colour for a boat as ...Read more
A memory of Maylandsea
Post War Memories
I was raised in Mountsorrel in the Soar valley near Leicester. It was a Norman village that lay alongside the river Soar under Castle Hill. The hill got its name from the mote and bailey type 12c castle built by the Beaumonts – ...Read more
A memory of Mountsorrel by
Recollections Of Ash Vale By Lt Col Taylor
RECOLLECTIONS OF ASH VALE By Lt Col Taylor Ash Vale, viewed from the main route through it the Frimley and Ash Vale roads would not have appeared to alter a lot during the last 100 years. Houses do now ...Read more
A memory of Ash Vale by
Twydall Shops 1960
My sister was born in March 1960. We children, the four of us aged 9yrs, 10 yrs, 11 yrs 12 yrs had to go and stay with an Auntie and Uncle on the Estate In Twydall. We helped out, and I remember we had to go and shop with our ...Read more
A memory of Gillingham
Days Kids
My memories of Mexborough were playing by the canal down ferry boat lane of church street , canal barges would come along and we would open the old bridge and let them through and the boat man would throw us pennies for our help. We would go ...Read more
A memory of Mexborough by
Bathampton Tea Gardens
This is a view of the Bathampton Tea Gardens which occupied the old buildings of Bathampton Mill, and the picture is taken from Bathampton Bridge. On the O.S. Somerset sheet XIV Revision of 1930 with additions in 1938. The ...Read more
A memory of Bathampton in 1959 by
T He Nurden Family History Book.
My name is Dennis Nurden, I have a twin sister Valerie, we lived in Sunningdale Ave when Murex sports ground was there. Though not born there we did all our schooling there and left when we were about 18yrs old. At ...Read more
A memory of Rainham in 1950 by
Living There
I was born in Rettendon in 1938. My father (Ernest James Hazell) and mother ( Ellen Wiseman) were both born in the village as were my maternal grandmother and great grandmother. As a child I remember watching aircraft flying home ...Read more
A memory of Rettendon by
From Birth To 25yrs
I lived at the house just at the top of photo. The outbuildings can clearly be seen in the adjoining field to the family home. I spent all my childhood years playing with my brother and friends here. I used to love watching ...Read more
A memory of Stoke Hammond in 1944 by
Captions
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A Thames barge, fitted with a leeboard to assist in sailing such light draught craft, casts shortened shadows across the water.
Little more than a decade later most of the sailing barges had been replaced by modern steam-driven vessels.
There was a time when barges could leave the Severn and sail 97 miles up the Wye as for as Hay, but by 1870 navigation was limited to the lower 37 miles.
Tugs towing flat-bottomed barges are still plying the Thames in this 1950s scene.
The main lock is vast, 650 feet long, and designed to accommodate eight Thames barges and a steam tug.
Goods were carried on river barges between the busy seaport of Bridgwater and wharves here, and one of the entrepreneurs, George Stuckley, also ran a successful bank, which remained independent until
This is a typical lodge house of the Ailesbury Estate variety; it bears Gothic features such as the ornate barge-boards and detailing to the eaves.
The Castle and Ball Hotel has lost its decorative tile- hanging and barge boards; instead, a huge metallic ball is suspended over the pedestrians.
Situated at the western end of the main street, All Saints Church has dormer windows with carved barge- boards and a diamond-shaped clock with a gilded crown.
A barge makes towards the dock, passing the coal jetty on the left.
Ripon is the farthest north a barge can travel without being removed from the water.
Barges had continued to carry limestone from a quarry at Westleigh to lime kilns in Tiverton Basin.
Six of the arches are original; however, the central one was raised in 1822 to allow barges to pass through.
Coltishall was the natural limit of navigation up the river Bure.
This is a much changed view: the working barges have gone, to be replaced by ranks of houseboats.
Botley, once a small inland port, stands at the head of navigation on the River Hamble, and barges travelled upstream for corn, coal and timber until the early 20th century.
This scenic stretch of the Thames, by Christ Church Meadow, has long been a rowing reach; at one time the bank would have been lined with eye-catching college barges, which were used as clubhouses and
Although it looks like a Gothic folly, this roundhouse was lived in by a lengthmen and his family who collected tolls from passing barges on the Thames and Severn canal.
Botley, once a small inland port, stands at the head of navigation on the River Hamble, and barges travelled upstream for corn, coal and timber until the early 20th century.
In the past it was once busy with an incessant stream of barges laden with bales of cloth passing through this now-abandoned lock.
In the past it was once busy with an incessant stream of barges passing through this now-abandoned lock, laden with bales of cloth.
Here we see typical barge propulsion, with the animals taking a break as the photographer creates his picture.
Here, as we look downstream by the former ferry and towpath, working barges mingle with leisure rowing boats for hire.
Today traditional barges are moored along this reach, and in summer months a 'river bus' operates a regular service from the Malta Inn to Maidstone.
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