Places

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Maps

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Books

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Memories

4,583 memories found. Showing results 331 to 340.

Longleat

My grandfather Cecil Welch, who was the local estate agent and auctioneer based at the Old Town Hall in the High Street, bought several old cottages next to the blacksmiths in Church End for his son John and wife Peggy, at the vast cost ...Read more

A memory of Great Dunmow in 1948

Lightning Strikes

This is August 1953, I was 10. We were playing cricket on the clay field with some older lads, the stumps were iron and came from Spencers steel works which was nearby and stuff like this was easily got. Anyway I remember it was ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1953 by Jimmy Burrows

Childhood Memories Great Bardfield 1969

My late parents were the landlord and landlady of the Vine public house. I was just coming into teenage years. Friends came from the base who lived in the village. The pub itself was refurbished in that ...Read more

A memory of Great Bardfield in 1969 by Dawn Willshere

A Quiet Haven Of Peace.

I lived next door to Davenham Church, and one summer's day, when I was about 7, I went for a walk around the churchyard. Hearing a rustling noise on the ground, I crouched down, parted some long grass, and found a baby ...Read more

A memory of Davenham in 1959 by Lynn Quigley

Looking Back To The Early Days

I was born in rented 'rooms' at Wordsworth Road in 1936 and came to move with my parents to five different addresses at Easington before I moved away from the area, when I married in 1963. But although my ...Read more

A memory of Easington Colliery in 1900 by Harold(Harry) Barnes

My Second Home

Right from a small child i have grown up loving Wells-next-the-Sea, my dad used to take us on holidays there and we stayed in a little cottage which was a short walk to the quay where my brother and I would wander down to ...Read more

A memory of Wells-Next-The-Sea in 1969

The Low Davidson Family

My sister and I are from Canada and came to Scotland this past month, August, 2009, to see where our mother, Kathleen Low, and her family were born and raised in their youth. After many years of hearing them describe their ...Read more

A memory of Johnshaven in 1900 by Judi Parry

Warm Sunny Days Long Gone

I remember warm sunny days when me and the gang would go down to the local river and meet many of the guys there from surrounding villages and have a whale of a time. The summers were hot, and we spent hours upon hours ...Read more

A memory of Steeple Aston in 1968 by Linda Smith Ritlinger

Pinehurst Childrens Home Park Rd Camberley

Memories of Camberley come from my childhood days as an orphan residing at 'Pinehurst', a Surrey County Child Welfare Home 1949-1953. I was put there as a 9-year-old and recall spending a very happy part ...Read more

A memory of Pinehurst in 1949 by David Share

Lymington In The 1940s

My maternal grandmother and mother were both born in Lymington, my mother attending the grammar school in Brockenhurst (I remember as a small boy her pointing it out to me from the train) In 1944, when the V1 'doodlebugs' ...Read more

A memory of Lymington in 1944 by Brian Veall

Captions

926 captions found. Showing results 793 to 816.

Caption For Headingley, The Cricket Ground Pavilion 1897

Also, in the same year a North of England XI entertained the Australian team. In the first Yorkshire cricket game in June 1891 the home team lost to Derbyshire by 45 runs.

Caption For Staindrop, Raby Castle C1955

It later came into the possession of the Vane family, though it was temporarily lost by them to the Royalists during the English Civil War following a surprise attack.

Caption For Little Dalby, The Church C1955

In 1730 Mrs Orton ensured the village's undying fame, for although she sold it at Stilton in Huntingdonshire, it was here that she created Stilton cheese.

Caption For Donaghadee, Beach 1897

A busy port became the Royal Mail route, and then came the beautifully-engineered harbour and a lighthouse. That was nearly 80 years before this photograph was taken, and it was the days of sail.

Caption For Charlton, Brick Kiln Lane 1903

In the 1800s, the villagers' income came from the straw-plaiting industry, which served the hat-making trade at Luton.

Caption For East Witton, Village 1918

The original water supply to the village came from Diana's well, and the large stone (dated 1859) at the end of the green (centre left) still retains a tap.

Caption For Kingston Upon Thames, Parish Church Interior 1893

The Queen came here in her Jubilee year, 1977, to unveil a stone commemorating the crowning of her predecessor Edward the Elder on this site 1100 years ago.

Caption For Paignton, Round Tower 1894

After losing his wife, he came to Paignton and bought the tower, one of many built in the early 1800s to repel possible French attack.

Caption For Leyburn, Market Place 1914

A fine Georgian building, the hotel came complete with a Long Room where Leyburn Market Club, founded in 1832, still holds its dinners.

Caption For Petersfield, The Red Lion C1955

This impractical arrangement came to an end, and the parishes then became responsible for the upkeep of roads within their boundaries.

Caption For Leyburn, Market Place 1914

A fine Georgian building, the hotel came complete with a Long Room where Leyburn Market Club, founded in 1832, still holds its dinners.

Caption For Snowdon, Mountain Railway 1896

The crowds came in greater numbers after the Snowdon Mountain Railway opened in 1896, which provided easy access to the summit for hundreds of holidaymakers.

Caption For Sharpness, The Docks C1955

The wood came from Scandinavia, Russia and Canada, and was used in the city's furniture and match-making industries.

Caption For Aberystwyth, North Parade 1949

Chalybeate Street on the right led to the chalybeate well, which was used by visitors who came to drink its waters.

Caption For Great Eccleston, Raikes Road C1965

Held in the Square in the 19th century, six hundred stallholders came from all over the country, and great crowds from the Fylde turned up.

Caption For Sunderland, Shipyards On The Wear C1900

650 years of shipbuilding on the Wear came to an end with the closure of North East Shipbuilders' Southwick yard in 1989.

Caption For Golders Green, Golders Green Road 1960

Golders Green was farmland until the turn of the century; prosperity came in 1905 with the arrival of the Northern line. It is famous for its crematorium, partly designed by Sir Ernest George.

Caption For Whitby, East Cliff 1932

Old deeds of many of the East Cliff houses often included particulars of 'drying grounds', the rights of which came with the building in question.

Caption For Reeth, Green 1913

Fortunately for the village, this was also the time of the new tourist industry: Victorians came in search of peace and tranquillity away from the industrial West Riding.

Caption For Hodder River, Lower Hodder Bridges 1858

The name Hodder means 'pleasant stream'. It is a Celtic name, and it describes the river well.

Caption For Epsom, West Hill 1923

Already 21 years old when he came to Epsom, he had by then earned £25,000 at stud.

Caption For Manchester, The Grand Hotel C1885

Aytoun Street gets its name from Roger Aytoun (known as Spanking Roger), who came to Manchester from Scotland as an officer in the army.

Caption For Rugby, School House C1955

In 1777 an Act of Parliament allowed for the founding of Exhibitions and the appointment of assistant masters, and thus in 1778 Dr Thomas James became the first Headmaster.

Caption For Belaugh, The Church 1921

The lords of the manor, who took their name from the village, came here in the time of Henry II; John, son of Ybri de Belaugh, had a large estate.