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
97 photos found. Showing results 121 to 97.
Maps
405 maps found.
Books
2 books found. Showing results 145 to 2.
Memories
764 memories found. Showing results 61 to 70.
Bramley In The Years 1935 To 1941
Now 80 years of age I used to live with my Mum and Dad and brother Michael in Lincroft Crescent just above the Sandford estate. The houses were new and rather small though we were so happy there ...Read more
A memory of Bramley in 1930 by
Matchams House 1960's
With a large family of Uncles and Antys we were very fortunate to have our Grandparents live in Matchams House. Wednesdays always being a special day as it was market day in Ringwood with one bus in the morning and one ...Read more
A memory of Ringwood by
Great Horton
Our family lived in Lidget Green, near the Great Horton railway station. I was born in 1949 near Bradford (Wakefield), and lived in Lidget Green from toddlerhood until we emigrated in 1960. The neighborhood provided many memories which ...Read more
A memory of Bradford in 1959 by
St Malachys Primary School 1951 To 1956
I was born in Manchester in 1945, and moved with my family to Kingsly Crescent Collyhurst flats. My father died in 1948, and my mother, brother Joe and I moved to Elizabeth-Ann Street, Collyhurst, where we ...Read more
A memory of Collyhurst in 1951 by
Bombing Raids In 1940
Bristol's premier shopping centre was turned into a wasteland of burned out buildings after major bombing raids in 1940, during the Second World War. Bridge Street Summary Bridge Street ran from High Street, rising up a ...Read more
A memory of Bristol by
Betton A Rural Idyl
I literally stumbled upon this website and have been interested to read the memories of people who lived in Betton, a place well known to me. I lived there as a wartime evacuee in the 1940s, and Marc Chrysanthou's ...Read more
A memory of Market Drayton in 1940 by
The Old Bakery
The building in the distance is the old bakery. When I was a child/teenager (in the 1960s) my grandparents (Bert and Annie Hurd) lived in a cottage just behind where this picture was taken, and whenever we visited them we would go ...Read more
A memory of Byworth by
Boyhood Memories
As a child I lived in a lovely house called Glanafon next to the old County Stores bakery in St Clears with my mother Anglea and step-dad Malcolm, and my 2 sisters, Rosemarie and Teresa. Unfortunately Teresa passed away over 20 ...Read more
A memory of St Clears in 1976 by
Dunsmore People And Happenings Remembered
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION In 1995, when the first edition of this history was published, it seemed incredibly optimistic to have had three hundred copies printed for a market which was ...Read more
A memory of Dunsmore by
Memories Of Bonfire Night In The 1950s
I grew up in Berwick Street, Liverpool. The best night of the year was Bonfire Night. My mates and I would collect bonny wood for ages before the big night and store it in a bombed out ...Read more
A memory of Fairfield in 1955 by
Captions
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The half-timbered house on the left was the Priest's House, and it stands beside a small church which was rebuilt in brick after being burned down in 1514.
Once the site of a rambling royal palace largely burned down in the 1690s, the road gradually acquired government offices and the home of the prime minister in Downing Street - its entrance
'Slaid' means 'flat marshy ground', 'burn' is the Old English word for brook, so the name means 'flat marshy ground by the brook', which describes the area well.
The east window was designed by Burne-Jones and installed in 1891.
This splendid town hall was burned down in 1947; it was built in the Market Place on the site of the old town hall, which was demolished in 1862.
Apart from Westminster Hall, the old parliament buildings were burned down in 1834 and the present buildings, in Gothic style, replaced them.
Gregory Gregory, a bachelor, was probably responsible for as much of the design as his architects, Anthony Salvin and later William Burn, as it rose slowly throughout the 1830s and 1840s.
left) is now Clarks, Radio House (next door but one) is now Dixon's, and Woolworth's have totally replaced the buildings beyond, the Red Lion (there is a commemorative plaque inside the store) and Joan Burns
Among other things, Christian threw out the beautiful 15th- century font cover; this was rescued in 1870 from a nearby linhay, but not before the farmer's wife had tried to get her husband to burn
By 1900 it had ceased milling corn and was a timber yard and chair maker's workshop, but it burned down completely in 1912.
The house was used as a school from 1921, but it burned down on 15 July 1951.
The half-timbered house on the left was the Priest's House, and it stands beside a small church which was rebuilt in brick after being burned down in 1514.
It was burned down around 1900 and given a tiled octagonal roof with dormers and a weather vane.
Poltross Burn, which flows through the middle of the village, marks the border between Northumberland and Cumbria.
The area on the left burned down in 1883, and the buildings post-date that; they include the former Free Library built in 1895, the building with the tall oriel bay windows.
The 13th-century church of St Margaret, on the edge of the park, was struck by lightning in 1598 and largely burned to the ground.
He was a ruthless man, and involved himself in sentencing wrong-doers to be burned at the stake - especially Protestants.
The smithy stood there, and in Butts Lane was a tithe barn and turf dales at what was then called West End.
There had been a No 1 grain elevator on Trafford Wharf, but this had been hit by an incendiary bomb during the Second World War, and after months of burning and smouldering because it was full of grain
The fact that there are so many streams and burns feeding into the river system makes the area even more fascinating.
The corn mill burned down in 1961, and then in 1964 Dr Beeching swung his axe and the pretty railway line from Buntingford to Ware was closed.
It is the work of Morris and Co, which is Burne-Jones 1876, as is some of the other stained glass.
But later, during his visit in 1835 as a young cub newspaper reporter, he witnessed the burning of the west wing when the first marchioness was burnt to death after knocking over a lighted candle.
The earlier town hall was burned down during the post-First World War disturbances in July 1919.
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