Places
36 places found.
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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
Photos
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Maps
181,031 maps found.
Books
442 books found. Showing results 8,017 to 8,040.
Memories
29,034 memories found. Showing results 3,341 to 3,350.
Reminiscences Of Portsmouth In The Late 1930s
I was born in Portsmouth in 1933. My family and I lived first in Lyndhurst Road - about which I don't recall too much - then later in Merrivale Road. I remember very clearly where Merrivale joined ...Read more
A memory of Portsmouth by
Some Childhood Years In Sorbie 1932 T0 1937
The family moved from Reay in Caithness to Sorbie in 1932 - I was 2 years old and had a sister who was 12 years old and a brother, 10 years old, so there was a huge difference in ages and I was brought up as ...Read more
A memory of Sorbie in 1930 by
Mclaren High School Callander
I was eight years old when I became a pupil at McLaren High School. The Rector was a fine gentleman who wore a tail coat and striped trousers. His name was Mr Leckie. We also had a janitor who wore a uniform and had an ...Read more
A memory of Callander in 1940 by
Summer Holidays
The sun always seemed to shine on our annual summer holiday to my grandmother's at Emmanuel Road. What excitement running down West hill to the town and the beach. There was always a ride on the boating lake, you could smell the ...Read more
A memory of Hastings in 1955 by
Bad Memories
I was in the Sanatorium, the children's section, aged seven in 1949 suffering from TB, my mother was sent there the following year and stayed in the woman's section, also with TB, and unfortunately she died there after just a few ...Read more
A memory of Chandler's Ford in 1949 by
Tidworth In The Mid 1950's
I attended this school in September of 1953 until December 1954, when I left and went to Salisbury College of Further Education. My father was in the army and we came back from Germany in July 1953 to live in ...Read more
A memory of North Tidworth in 1953 by
Bestwood Lodge
After browsing this site in search of any information or memories about Bestwood Lodge. Nothing comes up other than Bestwood Village. So I thought I would add my own. So here goes...........Is there anyone out there who had a ...Read more
A memory of Bestwood Village
Victoria Park Latchford
I remember when there used to be a place in Victoria Park, Latchford, called `The Pavillion'. It had a row of bushes beside it - dividing it from a sunken paddling pond that had rather ornate brick walls around it and steps ...Read more
A memory of Warrington in 1945
Laurel Cottages
A few years ago, along with two of my daughters, I came to look for Laurel Cottages as my mother had lived there up to her death in September 1942. My mother, Mona Braithwaite, was a cook and lived at 9 Laurel Cottages. ...Read more
A memory of North Warnborough in 1940 by
Caddy
This is going back a long way, but my great-great-grandfather, George Caddy, was born in Great Ellingham in 1776. He was one of 8 children of William and Elizabeth (nee Hinsby). His son, John Thomas Caddy, left for London sometime ...Read more
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Captions
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The village lay on the A4 Bath road, but it is now a by- passed backwater with the roar of the M4 within quarter of a mile. Traffic levels are almost back to those of the 1950s.
Bembridge is the location of a famous public school founded in the first half of the 20th century by the spirited Mr Whitehouse.
This old town is at the heart of a region of fertile farming country known as the South Hams. This view looks down the main street towards the tidal estuary extending up from Salcombe.
This is the site of an ancient ferry crossing; it linked Portscatho and Gerrans on one side of the Percuil River with St Mawes on the other.
This is a most attractive hamlet of thatched cottages not far from Truro. Its church is on an ancient site, for a Dark Age inscribed stone was found here.
Travelling here in 1871 would not have been a venture to take lightly: it was nearly fifteen miles' distance on unmade roads from Ashburton.
Building a hotel here in the 19th century must have been something of an act of faith, for the nearest railway station was four miles away at Bovey Tracey and the hotel could only be reached by coach.
In the early 18th century the manor passed to Thomas Pitt, an enterprising businessman who made a lot of money by selling a valuable diamond to the Regent of France.
This turn of the century photograph shows a thatcher busy at work on the roof of a picturesque cottage on the banks of the River Avon, which flows serenely through Ringwood on its way to Christchurch
With stalls creaking under the weight of locally grown produce, there is no hint of the rationing to come after the outbreak of war the following year.
Seaton is a mostly Victorian town hard by the mouth of the River Axe. Though never one of Devon's more fashionable resorts, it has a charm of its own and an attractive setting.
A young man enjoys the broad prospect of Gorleston sands from the worn and pocked cliff. The ports of East Anglia have suffered continual erosion down the centuries.
Lines of wind shelters adorn the beach at the popular Yorkshire coast resort of Filey.
This is probably the oldest part of the present village. The houses were built on a fair sized, flat piece of land sheltered by Penny Nab. There was easy access to and from the sea for the cobles.
Joseph Wade, a Hull timber merchant, had a strong influence on the development of a resort here following the arrival of the railway in 1864.
Viewed from the position of what in 2002 became a sparkling new piazza, the 1950s Lytham exhibits little of its potential.
Port Skillion at the foot of Douglas Head was reached by ferry from the harbour, fare 1d, and was used by gentlemen only for open-air bathing.
In September 1960 the electrification of the London Midland Region's line between Crewe and Manchester was completed.
St Peter's, the Victorian church in the middle of the picture, was Aberdovey (or Aberdyfi's) first church, though the song 'The Bells of Aberdyfi' suggests that an earlier church lies drowned beneath the
The Stone Bridge over the River Can - otherwise Bishop's Bridge or Moulsham Bridge - is the primeval hub of Chelmsford. There was probably a bridge here in Roman times.
Haigh Hall was designed by the twenty-fourth Earl of Crawford for himself and built at a cost of £100,000 between c1832 and 1840.
It is one of the biggest in the country with over 200 volumes, the oldest dating back to 1343.
Beeston was one of a series of fortresses built by Rannulf de Blundeville, Earl of Chester and Lincoln.
Runcorn is now the terminus of the Bridgewater Canal, but there was a time when it continued down a massive flight of locks to connect with the Mersey and the Ship Canal.
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