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439 memories found. Showing results 141 to 150.

Salcombe Hotel

I worked as Baker- Pastry cook at The Salcombe Hotel when Peter Ryder was the owner. It was a great job, the bakery had a lovely view over the estuary & I first worked with old 'Billy' Carter who was in his 70s then & always ...Read more

A memory of Salcombe by Ian Mabbitt

Summer Days

It was a happy childhood, I was born in Etwall in 1954 and our council house in Windmill Road is still our family home. Some of my fondest memories are the simple pleasures of life as a young lad in the 1950/60s. Always keen to get home ...Read more

A memory of Etwall in 1963 by Vince Cooper

Willingdon Childhood

I was born and raised in Willingdon and lived two doors away from the previous correspondent Ian Friend. I also attended the school referred to as Willingdon Church Hall before a new school was built in Rapsons(?) Road, Lower ...Read more

A memory of Willingdon by Jeff Miller

Music And Dancing In The Streets Of Teignmouth

Teignmouth Folk Festival attracted crowds who filled the sunny promenade and town centre streets to watch the many Morris Teams at this 2009 event. Musicians and dancers formed a procession at the ...Read more

A memory of Teignmouth in 2009 by John Howard Norfolk

Dancing On The Downs In Front Of Babbacombe Theatre

I spent a lovely sunny July evening with my morris dancing friends at Babbacombe providing a musical and dancing entertainment for the holidaymakers on the Downs. The entertainers were the ...Read more

A memory of Babbacombe in 2009 by John Howard Norfolk

The Old Quay

This photo is taken from the Old Quay, the medieval original Newlyn pier. My family lived in a shop (general stores) overlooking on The Cliff facing, near the Fisherman`s Rest and the Red Lion pub and bus-stop. Idyllic days were spent as ...Read more

A memory of Newlyn in 1946

Stanhope

ok you loti do remmber some ofyou stanhope was not that bad their were places that you could not get out like acliffe near darlington {mr corner}and if i remmber 1 in middelsboro }mr pervis} you no me but you dont know wereim at i also ...Read more

A memory of Stanhope

Coastguard Cottages Mawgan Porth

The old coastguard cottages at Mawgan Porth were leased by Mrs Kate Knight and her youngest daughter Winifred in about 1920 from Col Williams of Carnanton at St Mawgan. They ran a tearoom and let two of the ...Read more

A memory of Mawgan Porth by Anne Martin

Memories Of Colden Common

I have never heard of this person, although he makes reference to some people, and places in Colden Common I knew. So if anyone who knows him ever comes across this then I have been some help! COLDEN COMMON? Oh, yes - ...Read more

A memory of Colden Common by Bert Catt

Kennegy Cove

Looking from Prussia Cove (Prussia Cove is the area, not an actual cove) towards Kennegy. Tin mine workings exposed on beach and on cliffs above. Kerrier DC (it's just on the border of Kerrier and Penwith DCs) have replaced the rope we ...Read more

A memory of Rosudgeon by Dave Hill

Captions

646 captions found. Showing results 337 to 360.

Caption For Eastbourne, Western Lawns 1912

The view looking beyond the Lansdowne Hotel and the Grand Hotel is now dominated by South Cliff Tower, an eighteen-storey block of flats about which the words 'sore thumb' come unbidden to mind: an example

Caption For Walton On The Naze, Coronation Camping Ground C1955

The town is well known for its fossil-bearing cliffs.

Caption For Newquay, Towan Beach 1901

This is a great place for a seaside holiday, with golden sand serviced by the growing resort of Newquay, with hotels and boarding houses built literally to the cliff edge.

Caption For Southend On Sea, Westcliff Parade C1955

This path has been built over the Cliffs Shelter, seen in the previous picture.

Caption For Polperro, The Harbour 1888

Built in a narrow gully in cliffs 400 feet high, this was once a smuggling village.

Caption For Bridgnorth, The Hermitage 1896

Bridgnorth and its castle sit on a cliff of very soft sandstone.

Caption For Bridgnorth, The Hermitage 1896

Bridgnorth and its castle sit on a cliff of very soft sandstone.

Caption For Folkestone, The Leas 1901

In the year of Queen Victoria's passing, these fashionably-clad Edwardians take the air along the mile-long greensward of The Leas on top of the cliff, and against the backdrop of these smart Victorian

Caption For Cromer, The Lighthouse 1894

A young lad sits on the grass on the sheltered inward side of the cliffs.

Caption For Blackpool, Uncle Tom's Cabin 1906

Shortly after this picture was taken in 1906, cliff erosion caused a part of the building to collapse; the remainder was demolished in 1907.

Caption For Scarborough, Belmont 1890

Here a group of people take the chance to admire the view over Spa Cliffs, or catch up with the latest news.

Caption For Tilehurst, Roebuck Ferry House 1899

Behind is the London to Bristol main line railway, and on top of the tree-clad river cliff bank is the Oxford Road.

Caption For Lower Heysham, Cliff Walk C1955

The low coastal cliffs below the village provided a pleasant walk above the beach.

Caption For Budleigh Salterton, From West 1925

This fine view along Budleigh's strand looks towards the mouth of the River Otter and the bulbous cliff top of Otterton Ledge.

Caption For Ramsgate, Westcliff Windmill 1901

Originally built on the East Cliff, it was dismantled and erected on this site in 1810 by John Marshall.

Caption For Bispham, The Lounge, Palm Court Methodist Holiday Home C1960

The Bispham cum Norbreck Ratepayers Association and Gynn Estate residents were vocal in the early 1900s about gas supply and cliff erosion.

Caption For Cromer, The Garden Of Sleep 1899

They are surrounded by poppies, which grew in profusion along this cliff top - it is now known as 'Poppyland'.

Caption For Marske By The Sea, The Beach C1955

The end of the High Street lies in the centre, and Cliff House stands just out of view on the right.

Caption For Blackgang Chine, View From The Observatory C1955

The great chasm of Blackgang Chine was an early tourist attraction on the Isle of Wight, with its dramatic waterfall and eroded colourful cliffs.

Caption For Sidmouth, The Esplanade 1918

The red sandstone cliffs in the picture rise to 500ft on either side of the river Sid's valley.

Caption For Bridgnorth, The Lift 1898

Rising 111 feet high up the cliff, it is 201 feet long.

Caption For St Ives, The Parish Church C1955

The church was built in the early 15th century using granite quarried from sea-level cliffs near Zennor, a few miles west along the coast.

Caption For Warwick, Guy's Cliffe House 1892

In the 1920s domestic staff at Guy's Cliffe worked a six-and-a-half-day week.

Caption For Polperro, Harbour 1901

It nestles comfortably inside the slate ledges and cliffs of a narrow inlet.