Places
36 places found.
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- Thorpeness, Suffolk
- Thorpe St Andrew, Norfolk
- Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex
- Thorpe Market, Norfolk
- Thorpe Bay, Essex
- Thorp Arch, Yorkshire
- Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk
- Thorpe Arnold, Leicestershire
- Thorpe, Surrey
- Thorpe, Cumbria
- Thorpe, Derbyshire
- Thorpe, Yorkshire (near Burnsall)
- Thorpe, Norfolk
- Thorp, Greater Manchester
- Thorpe, Durham
- Thorpe, Nottinghamshire
- Thorpe, Lincolnshire
- Thorpe, Yorkshire (near Beverley)
- Kilton Thorpe, Cleveland
- Thorpe Acre, Leicestershire
- Thorpe Bassett, Yorkshire
- Thorpe Constantine, Staffordshire
- Thorpe Latimer, Lincolnshire
- Thorpe Waterville, Northamptonshire
- Barkby Thorpe, Leicestershire
- Ewerby Thorpe, Lincolnshire
- Little Thorpe, Durham
- Thorpe Morieux, Suffolk
- Thorpe Underwood, Yorkshire
- Thorpe Underwood, Northamptonshire
- Gayton Thorpe, Norfolk
- Ixworth Thorpe, Suffolk
- Little Thorpe, Yorkshire
- Lower Thorpe, Northamptonshire
- Thorpe Culvert, Lincolnshire
- Thorpe Edge, Yorkshire
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Memories
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Christmas Reading In Holy Trinity Church
I remember when I was in my last year at Thorpe Hesley Junior School when I stood up in church and did a Christmas reading. I was absolutely terrified but can still remember most of it. It began "And ...Read more
A memory of Thorpe Hesley in 1960 by
Abc Minors,Trolley Buses, Lonesome School, Oakleigh Way
I have just found this page and what memories it rekindles. I was a minor at the ABC, I even got a road safety prize from Coco the Clown. Thorpes record shop accross the road, there I bought my ...Read more
A memory of Mitcham in 1955 by
1962/63 Best Time Of My Childhood
I can't believe this, amazing even if the names are coincidence, I was at Warnham Court 1962-63, I can remember lots of names: Roy Riggs, with his 'German' dictionary. June Palmer. John Thorp, we ...Read more
A memory of Warnham Court School in 1962 by
Searching For Day Family
Does anyone know of any folks with the surname of Day living in Northfleet? Day was my mom's maiden name, her first name was Thora. She lived next door to Arthur Greenslade, pianist, on Stonebridge Hill. I live in Mission ...Read more
A memory of Northfleet by
East Ham In The 1960s
In February 1963, when I was six and a half, my parents bought their first house, in Thorpe Road, East Ham. It was and had been a very cold winter, and when we moved in we had difficulty opening the back door, as there was so ...Read more
A memory of East Ham in 1963 by
Burrow Hill School
My name is Roger Hibbard from Staveley, Derbyshire, I was at Burrow Hill School from Easter 1952 to Easter 1953. I went there because at that time I suffered from severe asthma but I was never ill once during the wonderful ...Read more
A memory of Frimley Green in 1952 by
Monton Green C1950
In 1950 the paths and green at Monton Green had been newly laid out as it exists today. The paths were red gravel and if you so much as scuffed your boots in the gravel there was a 'park keeper' to reprimand you. I had my photo taken ...Read more
A memory of Eccles in 1950 by
Wells Family In Thorpe Bay
A cousin found an old Birthday Book in which the names of some people from Thorpe Bay feature. We wonder if these were family members: Eileen Wells, 11 Plas Newydd, Thorpe Bay, Essex, Birthday February 28. Mrs. Day, 10 ...Read more
A memory of Thorpe Bay in 1920 by
School Days And Beyond
Having just stumbled on this website I felt compelled to add my recollections of living in Fenham in Cheeseburn Gardens from circa 1961 to 1980. I lived 2 streets down the hill from the first contributor who lived in Ovington ...Read more
A memory of Fenham by
Kenzie Thorpe
While wild-fowling on Frampton Marsh in the winter of 1954, I met McKenzie a well known Poacher. He showed me a curlew he had shot, he had it in a poachers pocket inside his coat, a jovial sort of fellow. He became a well known painter ...Read more
A memory of Boston by
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Thorpeness was a planned seaside resort financed by Glencain Stuart Ogilvie between 1910 and 1928 as a Tudor fantasy for the middle classes.
Trusthorpe Post Office is on the road to Thorpe, and is in a late Victorian projection from the left bay of a late 18th-century small farmhouse.
Trusthorpe Post Office is on the road to Thorpe, and is in a late Victorian projection from the left bay of a late 18th-century small farmhouse.
This sturdy bridge over the River Wharfe, linking Boston Spa with Thorp Arch, was built in 1770.
Upstream is Flint Mill (operational from 1772 to 1954, now converted to a house); this is the larger Thorp Arch Manor Mill, recorded in the Doomsday Book.
The house, which has splendid views over the town and valley towards Middleton, was built as a family home in 1881 for Mr and Mrs George Thorpe.
Thorne was already a busy market town when the Stainforth & Keadby Canal opened in 1802.
Thorne was already a busy market town when the Stainforth & Keadby Canal opened in 1802.The canal provided a link between the navigable rivers Trent and Don, and with its opening Thorne went on to
Here we see the gardener's house; it was originally surrounded by a kitchen garden and glasshouses to provide fresh produce all year long for the magnificent red brick Thornes House with its impressive
The Glastonbury Thorn on the hilltop left of the wood is missing from the photograph.
Only Holmefield House was built (it was much altered by Major Barker from 1864), although Foljambe built a large house on Thornes Lane from stone discarded during the construction of the
Christ Church in Thorne Road was opened in 1829.
St Michael's at Thorn was destroyed by bombs, so this is very much an archive photograph.
It took a number of years to carry out the process of dividing up the land, laying out roads, digging drains, planting thorn hedges, improving the land, and harvesting the crops from more and more
The ridge behind is now wholly covered in thorn scrub, as there are few sheep to keep the downland cropped.
At Thorne the church of St Nicholas has a late 13th-century tower and early 20th-century glass.
There was once a Holy Thorn tree in Orcop that was said to have grown from a cutting from the staff of Joseph of Arimathea.
This is ironic in a way, for Bunyan, the author of 'Pilgrim's Progress', had been a thorn in the flesh of the establishment in the 17th century, and was more likely to have been cast into prison by the
Yorkshire and offered a freight forwarding service to anywhere within the UK, and Pearson & Co operated a comprehensive packet service on the Barnsley Canal to places such as Hull, Wakefield, Selby, Thorne
Yorkshire and offered a freight forwarding service to anywhere within the UK, and Pearson & Co operated a comprehensive packet service on the Barnsley Canal to places such as Hull, Wakefield, Selby,Thorne
Thomas Crapper, inventor of the flushing toilet, was born in Thorne in 1837.
The Duke of Clarence opened the Technical and Art College on the site of the old Thornes House in 1891, and this adjacent park (29 acres), once grazing land, was opened to the public on 6 July
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