Places
36 places found.
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- New Mills, Derbyshire
- New Mills, Powys
- Clogh Mills, County Antrim
- Sion Mills, County Tyrone
- O'callaghan's Mills, Republic of Ireland
- Osmington Mills, Dorset
- Flatford Mill, Suffolk
- Mill Hill, Greater London
- Buck's Mills, Devon
- Pin Mill, Suffolk
- Heasley Mill, Devon
- Bardon Mill, Northumberland
- Rilla Mill, Cornwall
- Riding Mill, Northumberland
- New Mill, Hertfordshire
- Barton Mills, Suffolk
- Shaw Mills, Yorkshire
- Litton Mill, Derbyshire
- White Mill, Dyfed
- Middle Mill, Dyfed
- Yeo Mill, Devon
- Mills, Fife
- Millness, Cumbria
- Bish Mill, Devon
- Bache Mill, Shropshire
- Clay Mills, Staffordshire
- Kestle Mill, Cornwall
- Kirkby Mills, Yorkshire
- Lee Mill, Devon
- Rigg Mill, Yorkshire
- Roby Mill, Lancashire
- Nash Mills, Hertfordshire
- Pecking Mill, Somerset
- Mill Dam, Yorkshire
- Mill Hills, Suffolk
- Mill Lane, Hampshire
Photos
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Maps
745 maps found.
Books
1 books found. Showing results 793 to 1.
Memories
1,715 memories found. Showing results 331 to 340.
Mud And Beer
Although we lived in Ashingdon, my mum used to take me and my siblings swimming at Stambridge Mill. The Cherry Tree pub nearby was where I used to go under-age drinking before I left school. As a very young child I remember visiting ...Read more
A memory of Rochford in 1964 by
Family Reunion At Easter Time.
My mum's family, the Tame's, owned Shilla Mill during the war. In 1975 we stayed there over Easter for a family reunion.
A memory of Polzeath in 1975 by
Happy Days At Brimington School?
I attended Brimington Boys from 1962 - 1966. The Headmaster during my school time was the arch nemises of all pupils, Mr D Kelly. Looking back now I have nothing but admiration and a great respect for him and his ...Read more
A memory of Brimington in 1962 by
Happy Youth
I first found out about when I moved to Great Horton in Bradford about 1952. I met a boy called Philip Tempest who lived in a house near by, we became life long friends. His parent took me on holiday with them to a cottage they owned in ...Read more
A memory of Nesfield in 1950 by
Jackson's Mill
I grew up in Bourne End and went to the Primary School from 1954 to 1960. My father, Dennis Sharley, was the catering manager at the Mill. I vividly remember collecting newspaper to be weighed and sold for a few shillings. Also fond ...Read more
A memory of Bourne End in 1955 by
Working At Litton Mill
I went to work at Litton Mill when I was seventeen. Worked in the Sizing, Charlie Mellor was the supervisor. I met many lovely people and a great lot of characters. The sizing was machines with huge rollers set in a bed of ...Read more
A memory of Litton Mill by
Memories Of Padiham
I was born in 1947 to Betsy and Leonard Mcgough on Railway Terrace, which I believe is now called Russell Terrace. My mother worked in the cotton mills all her life and retired in a mill at Read. We moved to Moor Lane where we ...Read more
A memory of Whalley in 1957 by
Oh For Thing Past.
I was born in 1941 in St Augustine's Rd at the top of Chalk Pit Ave. The memory I have are, the Bull Inn at the corner of Sandy Lane next to Nashes Paper Mills. Ridge ways ? the all one shop, {things past}. Doing paper rounds ...Read more
A memory of St Paul's Cray in 1950 by
My School Bus.
In this photo is pictured a 645 Trolly bus the one I used to catch to Edgware Secondry Modern School at Spur Road I Lived in Manor Park Cresant the bottom of which is just in front of the Trolly bus on the right, I lived in Edgware from ...Read more
A memory of Edgware by
Early Days In Failsworth
I was born in 1947 in boundary park hospital, as it was then. My mum and dad lived in Holt Lane in Failsworth. I can remember the Argyll Mill as a working cotton mill which was just down the lane. My mum was a housewife and my dad ...Read more
A memory of Oldham by
Captions
1,162 captions found. Showing results 793 to 816.
The coming of the railway during the middle of the 19th century was the catalyst that sparked Blackpool's development as a holiday resort, and factory and mill workers flocked from
Mobs ransacked his home fearing that the machine would rob them of work, and mill owners refused to pay his royalties; he ended his days a pauper in France.
Born near Bolton in 1768, he established Preston's first cotton mill, known as the Yellow Factory, and founded a textile business that grew to be one of the biggest in the world.
Lying near the coast below Bossington Hill, these cottages over- look a stream that once powered a corn mill. Close by is Lynch Chapel, a medieval chapel-of-ease to the church at Selworthy.
Woolverstone Hall was built in 1776 by William Berners overlooking the Orwell, up-river from Pin Mill.
Station Road is readily recognisable as it drops away from the underground station towards Hale Lane and Mill Hill.
market place, with the stolid red-brick White Lion, on the extreme right, and the King of Prussia pub along the road on the left, ready to slake the thirst of the workers from the maltings and corn mills
In this view the medieval bridge is on the left and the former Crepe Mill of 1814, now the Dulverton Laundry, dominates the centre.
There were bleaching works, flax mills, leather factories and chemical plants. Leeds also became the leading centre for the manufacture of ready-to-wear clothes.
The 'Widgeon' is drawn up alongside the mill offloading its cargo.
Like many businessmen in the 18th century the Gregs, who built Styal Mill, were Nonconformist, in their case Unitarians, and this was their chapel.
Mr and Mrs Potts kept the village shop opposite the mill and on the corner of the A34 and Church Lane. In the 1930s, they also sold day licences for fishing in Radnor Mere in Alderley Park.
Deep in the Colne Valley, Slaithwaite is dominated by the massive Worsted Mills.
Benefit, in earlier views The Angel Hotel, is now an Edinburgh Woollen Mill shop.
This is a relatively modern development, while a mile and half away is the older village of Headley. There are still plenty of trees here.
The 104 acres of the lake are only 3 miles from Rochdale cen- tre and were a popular rendezvous by the mid 1860s.
A Panorama south-eastwards across Allington hamlet and West Allington street to the Rope Works, St Michael`s Works and Priors Mills (middle distance, left).
The white gravestone is in memory of Edward Baker, owner of Cornard Mills (d1891) and Elisabeth his wife (d1917).
Rochdale abandoned its tramway system in November 1932; it was a casualty of the Depression, along with many of the town's cotton mills.
The Irish Sea can be as flat as a mill pond, but when an easterly, south-easterly or north-easterly gale blows up, this is what happens at Douglas.
The mill, functioning in 1890, is now a house, and the weatherboarded bag-hoist house has gone.
Here we see a fine example of a white weatherboarded Kentish smock mill with a two-storey square brick base and wooden staging for access to the sails.
The cotton mill and the later factories were in full production from the 18th century, but now they form part of a heritage park for tourists.
Ahead is the Water and Roller Mill, and to the left is the tower of St Gregory's Church, with the workhouse, or Sudbury Union, now Walnut Tree Hospital, in between.
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