Places
17 places found.
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- Bridge End, Oxfordshire
- Bridge End, Lincolnshire
- Bridge End, Essex
- Bridge End, Bedfordshire
- Bridge End, Clwyd
- Bridge End, Warwickshire
- Bridge End, Surrey
- Bridge End, Durham (near Frosterley)
- Bridge End, Northumberland (near Hexham)
- Bridge End, Hereford & Worcester (near Tirley)
- Bridge End, Hereford & Worcester (near Bosbury)
- Bridge End, Shetland Islands
- Bridge End, Cumbria (near Carlisle)
- Bridge End, Northumberland (near Hexham)
- Bridge End, Devon (near Kingsbridge)
- Bridge End, Devon (near Sidmouth)
- West End, Yorkshire (near Pateley Bridge)
Photos
40 photos found. Showing results 401 to 40.
Maps
524 maps found.
Books
2 books found. Showing results 481 to 2.
Memories
1,926 memories found. Showing results 201 to 210.
Bankil's Ironmonger
Bankil's of Woodford Bridge was my uncle's shop. The two men in brown coats were 'Hock' and Dick Chinnery. My uncle was John Banks. My father Brian and brother Peter also worked there for short periods of time on Saturdays. ...Read more
A memory of Woodford Bridge in 1960 by
Derbys Old West End
My father had a scrap-yard in Nuns Street. It was right next to the bridge over Markeaton Brook. I remember always asking to be picked up so I could look over the bridge - I don't know why! Markeaton Brook was filled with old ...Read more
A memory of Derby in 1949
Where I Was Born
I was born on New Road, Crickhowell in the very early 1930s. My mother was born in Bridge Street, number 28, where my grandparents lived. My grandfather worked on Glanusk Estate for the then Lord Glanusk until he died. The estate ...Read more
A memory of Crickhowell by
Holidays With Grandad
Thank you for showing the photo of Bank Houses, the house on the right was where my grandad lived and I spent a lot of very happy holidays there. His garden was aways full of lovely things to eat and as I lived in an industrial ...Read more
A memory of Somersham in 1954 by
Name Change
Interesting to see the photo entitled "Solva, Middle Hill". The village shown here is known as "Middle Mill" and the mill (on the River Solfach) is in the centre behind the bridge.
A memory of Solva by
Found Memories Of Early Days At Yealmpton
Now living in Australia and having revisited Yealmpton in recent times, the changes are amazing. Where there used to be fields in which I played with mates, sadly houses now stand. The old bridge, church, ...Read more
A memory of Yealmpton in 1950 by
Ivybank Childrens Home
I thought I would leave a message here also, I was a child at Ivybank Children's Home in Nightingale Lane. Sadly though I don't think it is there any longer. We were an all-girls children's home, with a range of ages from 5 ...Read more
A memory of Farncombe in 1958 by
Long Lost Contact
In 1952 I was serving in the Royal Air Force at R.A.F. Ouston, not far from Wylam. One evening there was a dance in the NAAFI and a number of young ladies came from the Castle Hill Convalescent Home by coach. I met and danced with a ...Read more
A memory of Wylam in 1952 by
Childhood In The Village!!
I was devastated in 1964 when my mother told me we were to leave the village so that my mother could pursue her dream of owning her own small business elsewhere. It was a dreadful culture shock, one that has remained with ...Read more
A memory of Mollington in 1961 by
Early Memories
My birth on 30 Nov 1946 at 34 Oldberry Road, Burnt Oak, is where it all started for me, but my mother & her parents moved into the house when it was built for the LCC. She's 89 now, but recalls that she, as a 9-yr-old in 1928, ...Read more
A memory of Burnt Oak in 1946 by
Captions
1,770 captions found. Showing results 481 to 504.
The new single-span 1,082ft road-bridge built between the railway viaduct and the transporter. Once the bridge opened the transporter, which was one of only three in the country, was decommissioned.
Acle Bridge now has a thriving boatyard with leisure-boating facilities. The old Bridge Inn building has gone, but the pantiled outbuilding survives as a craft and gift shop.
On the left of the picture is the long 900-ft bridge of sixteen arches, and on the opposite bank is the Town Arms. To the right is the Bridge Boat House and landing stage, now a restaurant.
After a service at St Paul's, the ageing Queen was driven in her state coach past Parliament and across this crowded bridge, escorted by her loyal troops.
Another view from Cromford Bridge of Willersley Castle, this time seen peeping above the trees.
Although the Transporter Bridge had opened in 1905 vehicular crossing wasn't easy and the presence of the bridge did not, at that time, encourage growth within the town.
East of Sandy, the small village of Sutton is distinguished by its narrow medieval pack-horse bridge which took pedlars and carriers' pack ponies dry-shod past the ford, which is still in use today.
This photograph shows the graceful architecture of Maidenhead Bridge, distinguished by its elegant arches, striking stonework and fine balustrade.
Coity Castle stands less than two miles to the north-east of Bridgend. There is a legend of how Payn de Turberville acquired Coity following the Norman conquest of Glamorgan.
Acle Bridge now has a thriving boatyard with leisure-boating facilities. The old Bridge Inn building has gone, but the pantiled outbuilding survives as a craft and gift shop.
Hiring a boat from Wray's Pleasure Gardens was always popular with visitors and locals. The new bridge (1904) can be seen in the distance; it opened up the Middleton side of the river.
This photograph was taken from Pirbright Bridge, where Queens Road leaves the A324 and leads to Pirbright Barracks and the Bisley rifle ranges.
Pateley Bridge, in Upper Nidderdale, lies on the road between Grassington and Ripon, and was once an important crossing point over the river.
Fingle Bridge, typical of an old Dartmoor pack bridge, spans the River Teign.
The wooden swing bridge appeared on maps in 1847.
The ancient bridge in the foreground - the site dates from before 1180 - was in 1964 found to be unsafe and replaced.
A hackney carriage and a horse-drawn cart pass under the first Waterloo Bridge.
To the north-west of the New Forest is the peaceful little town of Fordingbridge, named after the ancient ford and medieval bridge which facilitate a passage across the River Avon at this point.
Easily the most famous and most photographed building in Ambleside is Bridge House, a tiny one-up, one-down house constructed on a bridge over the Stock Beck.
Thatched cottages (right) stand between Woolbridge Manor and the River Frome, looking upstream from the five mediaeval arches of Wool Bridge.
Atherton was a cotton-spinning town, and for 200 years a mining community. Local collieries included Howe Bridge, Gibfield, and Chanter.
The Rother and Arun bridges are a remarkable survival and justly renowned: mostly medieval, some have until recently had to survive increasingly heavy traffic.
The inn on the corner of Lower Bridge Street and Shipgate Street was in need of urgent repairs.
The river near the new bridge now has rows of wooden houseboats moored along the right bank, where Wayford Farm has been developed into the Wayford Bridge Hotel.
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