Places
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Photos
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Maps
494 maps found.
Books
25 books found. Showing results 385 to 408.
Memories
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Mersea Island Primary School 1950s
Born on Mersea island- what a haven we school children had to live and grow in. Endless poppy fields and bluebell woods, golden beaches and primrose banks flanked the leafy lanes. Greedy land grabbers have ...Read more
A memory of West Mersea in 1956 by
The Good Times
I used to go to Innellan when I was young to stay with my grandparents and what great memories I have, I used to get the bus from the pier and get off at West Church Lane where they lived. On Sundays we walked up to the church and my ...Read more
A memory of Innellan in 1946 by
My First Glimpse Of Gravesend.
I arrived in Gravesend in 1958 on the back of my boyfriend's motorbike, we had travelled from Colchester in Essex. My father, who was in the army, had been posted to Gravesend so we all had to move. We crossed the river ...Read more
A memory of Gravesend in 1958 by
School Days
As far back that I can remember, it was the summer of 1934 when I first started school at St Mary's Roman Catholic School in Calcutta Road. I sat next to a friend that I had made (John Toole) Who later in life emigrated to Canada and was ...Read more
A memory of Tilbury in 1930 by
Hawkinge, My Birthplace
I was born at Corner House, at the bottom of Aerodrome Rd, Hawkinge on 31st August 1936. My parents were the local newsagents in Canterbury Rd, backing onto the famous airfield. I have vivid childhood memories of the war ...Read more
A memory of Folkestone in 1940 by
Life In Full Circle
The little house next to Mary Newman`s Cottage is where I live now...but I first walked past it with my mother at about the time this photo was taken. We got off the steam train at the station just up the hill, to walk to the ...Read more
A memory of Saltash in 1955 by
Back In 1963
I was moved to Wickford with my family in December 1963, a hard winter, removal van had trouble getting up the unmade road. Coming from London, it was a bit of a sleepy village for me and especially for my teenage siblings. Had to wait ...Read more
A memory of Wickford in 1963 by
Best Four Years Of My Life As A Kid
We moved here in 1978/9 when I was 4 to 8 - St John’s Crescent, and was heartbroken when my parents split 5 years later and we had to move with my mother back to Knaresborough. Lots of lovely memories. The old ...Read more
A memory of Bishop Monkton by
The Teachers.
The lovely talented and sophisticated Miss Bartlett took the youngest class. I think she may have been to art school cos she drew a Spanish Conquistador (complete with sailboat steel helmet) in coloured chalk on the blackboard, dressed ...Read more
A memory of Luton
Beginnings
My parents moved from Pentire to Crantock when I was about 3 and Crantock is certainly ingrained in my memory as being my first home. My mother had taken a position as housekeeper to a Dr Nicholas and with it came Rose Cottage. My father ...Read more
A memory of Crantock by
Captions
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The settlement may date back to the earliest Saxon arrivals in Britain.
The bridge is mentioned in documents dating back to the reign of Henry III, and probably replaces the old Roman ford.
The White Hart (right) is believed to date back at least to 1720; it is now no longer an inn.
The Capital and Counties bank (now Lloyd's) and Post Office are in the foreground.
This view, dating from 1904, looks eastwards from the north bank and duplicates picture 43865.
In 1906 a night at the Red Lion would have set you back 2s 6d.
This photograph illustrates how the Victorian sea wall was designed to throw back the waves in a Channel gale.
The Stag Inn dates back to the 18th century, and the elm tree on the right reputedly marked the centre of Windsor Forest.
The Backs of Cambridge are probably as well known as the colleges themselves.
The Stag Inn dates back to the 18th century, and the elm tree on the right reputedly marked the centre of Windsor Forest.
The Bank c1955 The village of Whitburn lies between South Shields and Sunderland.
The seafront terraces and hills behind remain much the same today, and boating has grown ever more popular in the Dyfi estuary, which is fringed by wooded banks.
Most had two large driving wheels with a stabilizing wheel at either the front or back, or in some cases, both.
It is still possible to walk along the banks of the local waterways, just as these Edwardian children did nearly a century ago.
The two Cowes, situated on the west and east banks of the River Medina, are famous throughout the world as a centre for yachting and as the home port of the Royal Yacht Squadron.
This attractive town of grey slate houses sits at the edge of Bodmin Moor on the banks of the Camel.
This tiny village straddles a steep slope above the east bank of the Fowey River.
The present High Light, pictured here, dates back to 1676, and was originally coal-fired.
On the right, the imposing 18th-century brick frontage of Lloyd's Bank, with its stone pediment and columned entrance, faces the small shops across the road.
The wooded banks of this stretch of water are best explored by boat at high tide, though even at low tide the extensive mud flats are home to a huge variety of birdlife
Mention of a Roman signal station in the Domesday Book in 1086 dates the history of this area back as far as the fourth century.
There are various family portraits inside the castle, some of them dating back to the Wars of the Roses.
The advent of the motor carriage did not prevent the hotel advertising the stables at the back of this famous coaching hotel.
The single-street village is characterised by orchards, walnut trees and cottages with tall chimneys with the backs of bread ovens bulging from their bases.
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