Maps

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Books

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Memories

826 memories found. Showing results 481 to 490.

Florries Stores

As a child my family moved from Leytonstone, London to Church Lane in South Benfleet. Memories are sketchey but I remember clearly living in what were called at the time a 'bungalow stores', it was a pre-war pebbledash type ...Read more

A memory of South Benfleet in 1967 by Michael Gough

Chilwell Barracks

I was stationed at Chilwell barracks just outside Nottingham in 1953. I was posted there from Deepcut after serving a year in an Ordnance Field Park. Incredibly my father was stationed in the same barracks which were nick named ...Read more

A memory of Nottingham in 1953 by Les May

War Years In Aspley

I well remember being 'evacuated' by my parents to live for a while with my Aunt Elsie, and Uncle Percy Locker, after our family were 'bombed out' of our home in Hertfordshire. They lived at 87, Harwill Crescent Aspley, with my ...Read more

A memory of Nottingham in 1942 by Margaret Mosley

Real Holton Sparkes Of Cary In Castle Cary

My great uncle Mr Arthur Real who was born at Axmouth Devon in 1886 and grew up there, started a business in Castle Cary Somerset with Mr Walter Holton from Trowbridge Wiltshire in the 1930s. They named ...Read more

A memory of Castle Cary in 1940 by Kay Foulger

My Playground White Horse Close

At the age of 11 we moved here & a group of us could always be found (gambling our pocket money at cards) on the steps in the photo. It always amazed us the number of tourists who would enter the close asking if ...Read more

A memory of Edinburgh in 1957 by Ian Tant

County Members

That pub is the County Members. We lived just round the corner, in the Street, which leads to the Castle. Between us and the pub, was an old farmhouse, which became the Castle Tea Rooms for a short while. My mum cleaned at the pub, ...Read more

A memory of Lympne in 1953 by Sue Tym

Bristol, High Street And The Blitz 1940

Bristol's High Street scene of many strirring events in Bristol's history the heart of the city was destroyed and lost forever in 1940. As a city with docks and industry at its heart, Bristol was a natural ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1940 by Paul Townsend

Scouts 1909

I have a photo of my great-grandfather John Richard (Dick) Erskine outside the Castle Hotel, Hornby in 1909 with two young Scouts named Lawrence and Hector Todd (born 1900 and 1901 approx). They all formed part of the 1st Lancaster Troop. ...Read more

A memory of Hornby in 1900 by Tanya Russo

Tab Packets

I was eleven in this year 1954 and me and the lads were by this time avid collectors of anything, tab packets was top of most lists, we would scour the streets and gutters wherever we went for that elusive cardboard. The bins behind the ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1954 by Jimmy Burrows

Polzeath In The Second World War.

We lived at "Caradon" during the Second World War. I was young when we moved there and we left soon after the war ended. I remember Dr Thames' pre-school, and the nursery school on the Terrace in New Polzeath - and ...Read more

A memory of Polzeath in 1943 by Diana Robinson

Captions

1,894 captions found. Showing results 1,153 to 1,176.

Caption For Kingsgate, The Castle 1908

Kingsgate Castle was rebuilt in the mid 1800s by Lord Holland. It was a private house for a while, and then became a hotel run by the North Foreland Hotels Ltd.

Caption For Cloughton, Wyke C1955

A sandstone quarry above the village is the source of the stone for Scarborough Castle.

Caption For Raglan, The Castle, Grand Staircase 1914

Raglan was the last castle to hold out against Parliament in 1646. On his restoration, Charles II rewarded the Pembroke family by raising it from an earldom to a marquessate.

Caption For Rochester, The Castle And Cathedral From Strood 1894

The 125- foot high keep of the Norman Castle and the tower of the Cathedral dominate this view of the crowded anchorage on a bend of the river, en route to its union with the Thames off Garrison point

Caption For Newark, From St Mary's Church Tower C1965

In this view from the top of St Mary's tower, the castle ruins can be seen in the centre background.

Caption For Great Doddington, Hard Water Mill C1965

Some sources suggest that the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas a Becket, fled here after a confrontation with King Henry II at Northampton Castle.

Caption For Worcester, Silver Street C1950

In 1771 it was replaced by the present infirmary in Castle Street.

Caption For Merthyr Tydfil, Cyfarthfa Castle Museum C1955

Cyfarthfa Castle was built in 1825 for the Crawshay family, the ironmasters; then it was bought by the Merthyr Tydfil Corporation in 1909 for £19,700.

Caption For Castle Hedingham, Pye Corner C1965

Hedingham's dominant feature, the enormous castle keep, looms behind these cottages just to the right, out of picture. Bones were recently unearthed in a garden at Pye Corner.

Caption For Hornby, The Castle Hotel C1965

Pictured from outside Hornby's Anglican church is the Castle Hotel. During the 18th century, the village was a halt for stage coaches travelling between Lancaster and Kirkby Lonsdale.

Caption For Heysham, Half Moon Bay C1960

Children paddle in the shallow waters or investigate the rock pools, whilst others dig castles from the soft sand.

Caption For Polruan, From Fowey 1908

The blockhouse on the shore to the right was the castle from where a chain was stretched across the river for protection in times of war.

Caption For Llanvetherine, White Castle C1950

It is not difficult to see why the grassy inner ward of this formidable castle became one of the picnic destinations of Rudolf Hess.

Caption For Belfast, A View Of Cave Hill 1897

To get just the contour he wanted, Frith got himself into the Belfast Waterworks and captured the hilltop, the aristocratic castle and an expanding suburb.

Caption For Llanvetherine, White Castle C1950

It is not difficult to see why the grassy inner ward of this formidable castle became one of the picnic destinations of Rudolf Hess.

Caption For Hadleigh, The Castle 1891

The castle had two main towers and a further tower guarding the entrance on the north side.There was no keep. Kentish Ragstone was brought across the River Thames for the construction.

Caption For Tylers Green, The Green C1955

Tylers Green was the centre of a major medieval tile-making industry whose decorated floor tiles were used at Windsor Castle in the 14th century and for paving numerous Chiltern churches.

Caption For Aberystwyth, Rough Sea C1930

Storms are frequent along the coast, but these buildings are protected from the worst by Castle Point, from which this view was taken.

Caption For Kimbolton, The Village C1955

Nearby is the garage selling Cleveland petrol, and a child sits on the wall of Castle Green.

Caption For Broughton, The Gardens And Gatehouse C1955

Broughton is probably best known for its moated manor house, Broughton Castle, built in 1300 for Sir John de Broughton.

Caption For Middleham, Market Place C1955

It is now famous for its race horses and historic castle, once the home of Richard, Duke of York and later King Richard III.

Caption For Durham, The Castle 1892

In 1836 Bishop van Mildbert exercised one of his few remaining powers as a Prince-Bishop by turning over the castle to the university.

Caption For Launceston, Castle Lodge 1906

Down the lane to the left, on the other side of the castle green, is Northgate and Doomsdale, the prison which included among its inmates the Catholic martyr St Cuthbert Mayne, the Quaker George Fox, and

Caption For Bodiam, The Castle 1890

This photograph was taken before Bodiam's restoration by Lord Curzon, who bequeathed the castle to the nation in 1925.