Places
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- Shanklin, Isle of Wight
- Ventnor, Isle of Wight
- Ryde, Isle of Wight
- Cowes, Isle of Wight
- Sandown, Isle of Wight
- Port of Ness, Western Isles
- London, Greater London
- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
- Dublin, Republic of Ireland
- Killarney, Republic of Ireland
- Douglas, Isle of Man
- Plymouth, Devon
- Newport, Isle of Wight
- Southwold, Suffolk
- Bristol, Avon
- Lowestoft, Suffolk
- Cromer, Norfolk
- Edinburgh, Lothian
- Maldon, Essex
- Clacton-On-Sea, Essex
- Felixstowe, Suffolk
- Norwich, Norfolk
- Hitchin, Hertfordshire
- Stevenage, Hertfordshire
- Colchester, Essex
- Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
- Bedford, Bedfordshire
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
- Aldeburgh, Suffolk
- St Albans, Hertfordshire
- Hunstanton, Norfolk
- Chelmsford, Essex
- Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
- Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
- Brentwood, Essex
- Glengarriff, Republic of Ireland
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Maps
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Memories
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Little Pond House At Tilford
My wife's health was not that good, and, in 1961, she was sent for a recuperative fortnight at the Little Pond House. It was a convalescent home for children used by the NHS and had also been home to children from Europe ...Read more
A memory of Frensham by
Collyhurst
I was born at 528 Collyhurst Road, in 1961. I remember there was a shop at the end of the road and a croft facing our house. My dad worked on the railway and my mum stayed home to look after us. I went to Albert Memorial Nursery before ...Read more
A memory of Collyhurst in 1860 by
Marshes Pies
Does anyone remember Marshes pie and confectionary shop, corner of Old Whint Road, opposite no 1 Labour Club? They were the best pies ever made at the back of the shop.
A memory of Earlestown in 1960 by
Fish And Ice Cream!
Hello. I used to live in Thornhill from 1958 to 1968/9 (aged 1 -11) and I always seem to remember it being sunny even though the area is one of the wettest in the UK! Fish and Ice Cream....not together. I remember my mother ...Read more
A memory of Thornhill in 1965 by
My Father George Crump Was Born In Lucton In 1914
I would love to here from anyone who may know of the Crump Family from Lucton in the 1900s. My father was George Crump who was born there. My Grandfather was Richard George Crump also born in ...Read more
A memory of Sarnesfield in 1910 by
Finding My Roots
I was born in 1952 in Church Lane in my granddad's house which we all lived in, it had no electric or gas, only oil lamps as I know, I have still got one that my dad got new the day I was born, a bialladin table model, it ...Read more
A memory of Carlton in Lindrick in 1952 by
Events On The Hill
I have left the year of these incidents because they were on going throughout my childhood. The first concerns Dr Clinch's dog. Dr Clinch lived at the top of Penygarn Hill. He was a large man with a gruff exterior, I believe he ...Read more
A memory of Penygarn by
Mill Terrace
I remember when my uncle Lloyd Pritchard lived in Mill Terrace with his son Jack. Uncle Lloyd was my mother's eldest brother and was the first child of Lloyd and Hannah Pritchard who lived at Bunkers Hill, Bersham. He rode his bike ...Read more
A memory of Bersham in 1955 by
The Riding School
I spent two weeks of every school summer holiday in the 1950s in Allonby with my mum and two aunts and numerous friends. We used to either rent a cottage in one of the farmers' fields or in a old converted train carriage. It was a ...Read more
A memory of Allonby by
Beaconsfield St Was My Childhood
I was born in number 11 in 1932. My family name was Clough. MY dad was known to most people as Sammy Clough. We moved to number 28 a few years later. My Grandparents lived at 24. My great aunt at 22. I went to ...Read more
A memory of Prescot in 1940 by
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Here we see the southern end of the sands on a very crowded day in the 1950s, with the cranes of the harbour and Nothe Fort in the distance.
This is an odd echo of the past; moored hereabouts 700 years ago would have been ocean-going trading vessels loading up with tin.
When it was built, the meeting house was actually right in the centre of town, but coastal erosion over hundreds of years has swept away much of the old town, and left the beach almost next door to the
The old gateway to the priory of the Knights of St John stands in St John's Lane, south of the Clerkenwell Road.
Limestone rocks are a major part of Lathkill Dale.
The Pilgrim Fathers' Monument is built of Portland stone and rises 50 feet above the ground.
The ornate obelisk of 1763 commemorates a chapel that once stood on High Bridge.
Cirencester has managed to keep the worst ravages of unsympathetic development at bay.
The Children's Playground is in a westward projection of the common.
Bamford's parish church of St John the Baptist is largely a William Butterfield restoration dating from 1861.
The Windmill pub, on the left, was a new replacement for an earlier building which had burnt down.
Note that the pub sign is missing in this interesting Edwardian picture of Eversley. The sign-writing and decoration above the door is unusual and rather striking.
When this photograph was taken, the population of Yateley was just over one thousand. Less than one hundred years later, in the closing stages of the 20th century, it had risen to about 20,000.
This view of the village was taken from St Bride's. The Square, the building located at the head of the slipway, was once the village post office and is now part of the Mermaid restaurant.
There are plenty of changing tents on this beach, where a group of boys wave at the camera (centre foreground).
Originally one of four market crosses, the Poultry Cross, at the junction of Butcher Row and Minster Street, is the only one to survive.
At the other end of the Market Square is the bronze statue of James Boswell, drinking companion and biographer of Samuel Johnson.
A charter of 1560 appeared to give the vote to the 'commonality' of the town.
Sailing barges are moored in the harbour, with the Lighthouse in the centre of the picture.The harbour was originally important not just for the coasters and fishing traders, but as the place of
This is one of several villages typical of the industrial china clay area around St Austell.
Jane Austen, the novelist, lies under a slab of marble in the north aisle of the Cathedral. She died at a house in College Street in 1817.
The area is known as the Eye of Yorkshire, or the Eye of the Ridings. Parliamentary elections were held here until the 19th century. Two of the courts are still used on a daily basis.
This attractive village retains its quiet rural atmosphere; it is ranged along its north-south street about a mile to the south of Kibworth Beauchamp.
It is a truism that when you want to look at the history (even the relatively recent history) of a place you should always look at the upper storeys of buildings.
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