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Maps
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Books
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Memories
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Childhood Memories
I was born in Severn Beach in 1953. We lived in the Chalets at first, and then moved on. I would like to know if any of my old friends are on this site. The fairground, the boating lake, the club, the swimming pool are now sadly, all gone.
A memory of Severn Beach by
The Roundabout
The Roundabout use to be a popular place for me to go, it was a public house just a short distance from the Wakefield Jail. I was somewhat surprised on chatting to one man at the bar (I was somewhat interested where he lived) he ...Read more
A memory of Wakefield in 1968 by
St Anselms Church Youth Club Easter Monday Ramble To The Sugar Loaf Inn
Every Easter and Spring Bank Holiday Monday (Whitsun as we used to call it) our youth club from Hatch End's St Anselms Church organised a ramble. In 1963 we had a ...Read more
A memory of Little Chalfont in 1963 by
52 Aisby
On my first day at Corringham School, my mother walked me, aged five, down the long lane from Aisby with our faithful old dog Floss and a playmate, Monica Bramford, a year or so older than me. During assembly I started to cry ...Read more
A memory of Corringham in 1950 by
Killips Shop
The name of the shop on the corner of the High Road and Lancelot Road was Killips. There was also a smaller Killips shop on the other corner, and above the shop was a big square-shaped clock known popularly as "Killips clock". I lived in ...Read more
A memory of Wembley in 1950 by
Park House Carlton
My Gt Grandfather John Godfrey had Park House, Carlton, built for his family in the early 1900's. The house was on the corner of Main Street and Burton Road. After John died in 1921 my Gt Grandmother lived there for ...Read more
A memory of Carlton by
The Fairy Belle Restaurant 1950''s
The building that was once The Fairy Belle still stands at the bottom of the High St on the opposite side to The Crown & Sceptre. The name has nothing to do with bells. The word belle was a shortened form of ...Read more
A memory of Uxbridge by
Bexleyheath Western End Of Broadway
Just behind the black car pulling out of a driveway on the left is Christchurch and cemetery. Also behind the car is the Pincott Memorial, which used to be sited where the clocktower now is. Pincott Memorial, a ...Read more
A memory of Bexleyheath by
Child Hood And Teen Age Years
Downham Market in my younger days was a happy small market town where everyone knew everyone else, in the days before overspill there were lots of small shops, like the bakers Stannards and Slys where you would ...Read more
A memory of Downham Market by
Senghennydd Railway Station
At 17 years of age, after interviews at British Railways commercial HQ at Cymric Buildings in Cardiff, I started work as a Booking Clerk at Senghennydd Station, replacing David Sellick who lived overlooking the station ...Read more
A memory of Senghenydd in 1955 by
Captions
1,163 captions found. Showing results 889 to 912.
Robert Burns played in this churchyard as a boy, and the popular legends about hauntings and the ghostly atmosphere of the roofless ruin affected him deeply.
Aberystwyth became a popular resort for the well-off, who came here to bathe and socialise from the late 18th century.
This was a popular place for trippers, with train services from Temple Meads beginning at 7.00am.
Just beyond the churchyard and the Belisha beacon is the Bridge Hotel, still a popular restaurant and hotel.
As with many seaside resorts, one of the popular attractions was a trip in a boat.
Known popularly as ‘Number One, London’, it was built by Robert Adam in the 1770s.
Southend was immensely popular with the lower middle and working classes from north and East London: none of the genteel pretensions of an Eastbourne here.
Curls was a popular forerunner of today's department stores.
People mostly arrive at the Lickeys by car today (though there are plenty of buses), but from 1913 to 1924 they came by bus, and from 1924 to 1952 on the hugely popular Number 70 tram, which served
Despite the popularity of this waterside restaurant, Bracebridge Pool is still a good place to see wild birds such as heron and moorhen.
The climb to the great dam of Cruachan Reservoir is popular with walkers, who ascend the steep paths through beautiful woodland, passing these tumbling falls.
THE ACT OF UNION in 1707 was bitterly reviled at the time, and even for many years afterwards - Robert Burns echoed popular sentiment when he dismissed the Scottish commissioners with the lines
Gretna stands on the Scottish/English border, and so it became popular for runaway marriages of English couples following the passage of Lord Hardwicke's act in 1754.
It was created in the 1830s on the site of the King's Mews and a juimble fo decrepit buildings known popularly as Bermuda, Caribee, and Porridge Islands, where the poor of London frequented a plethora
This impressive picture house shows how popular moving pictures had become in the first decade after the Great War.
Prior to the advent of mass car ownership cycling to the park was an even more popular option than today. With so many bicycles present this busy scene is more reminiscent of Oxford or Cambridge.
The magnificent beach at Rhosili, accessible only along narrow paths, and popular with swimmers and surfers, curves for 3 miles. The barque 'Helvetia' was wrecked here in 1877.
Roughlee Lake was once a popular local day out.
The writer seems to recall it being more of a very popular pub than a busy hotel.
Other wealthy gentlemen followed his example, but it was to be the middle of that century before the town achieved popularity as a holiday resort.
This end of a narrow valley at the foot of a steep hill has been a popular seaside resort for many years.
It was here that he wrote, in the space of only 3 weeks, his most popular play, 'The Importance of Being Earnest' and perhaps as a tribute to the town, named one of the central characters Jack Worthing
It had already been popular with wealthy city merchants for a century or so, and much housing development had taken place along the High Street.
Then, as now, sales and auctions were a popular attraction for holidaymakers, and in the Royal Hotel, a little further along the promenade, was the famous Craven's Sale Room.
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