Places

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Maps

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Memories

4,612 memories found. Showing results 721 to 730.

The Bell Inn

I moved to Outwood 10 years ago to work at the Bell Inn. With its own unique charm I was taken with it from the moment I entered. Originally run by a Mr. John Lane the pub was sold a few years later to a private investor and was sold ...Read more

A memory of Outwood in 2008 by Iain Waterfield

The Slate Islands Easdale

                                                  THE SLATE ISLANDS                                                         By Walter Deas Some 24k (15 miles) south and west of Oban lies an area with interesting old ...Read more

A memory of Easdale in 2005 by Walter Deas

Hobbs Farm

Our family moved from Bognor to Yapton in 1951 just before my 10th birthday. I was only 13 and attending Chichester High School for Girls when I started working weekends at Hobbs Farm, Bilsham Corner. It was a pedigree Jersey dairy farm and ...Read more

A memory of Yapton in 1954 by Josephine Hammond

Schools

I was five and walked down this road to the infants school on the left (you can just see the school railings). My future primary school (St Johns) is in the old building to the right. There was a little sweet shop on the left (out of shot ) ...Read more

A memory of Essington in 1965 by David Hector

New Inn Littleham

The picture of the New Inn at Littleham Village brought back memories of my childhood. Together with a sister and three brothers we were evacuated to Littleham and after our home in London was bombed all the family moved into a ...Read more

A memory of Littleham in 1940 by Albert Froud

Visiting This Shop

I started Gainford School in 1954 & remember Miss Browns little shop crammed full with habberdashery, stockings (nylons) hankies, knitting-wool, etc., everything you could possibly want - an oasis in this small village. She ...Read more

A memory of Gainford in 1955 by Faith Spence

Evacuation To Combpyne

My sister Margaret and I (nee Rayner) were evacuated to the home and caring of a friend Olive Tuck who had a cottage next to a farm just out of Combpyne.  Across the fields where we were allowed to play, was the path to Landslip ...Read more

A memory of Rousdon in 1942 by Jean Mc Kern

Early Years Of My Life

I was born in 1936 in Shipley nursing home and we lived at 1 The Green, Micklethwaite until 1944. My father died in 1941 and my mother was left with me and brother John, surname Walker, to bring up on her own. I ...Read more

A memory of Micklethwaite in 1930 by Christine Elliot

An Outing To Babbacombe Model Village

My wife Elizabeth and I went to Babbacombe on 1st April to give our granddaughter Anna a treat on her second birthday. We spent almost the whole day in Babbacombe Model Village which is close to the top of ...Read more

A memory of Babbacombe in 2008 by John Howard Norfolk

George Goode

George Goode who was born at Wappenbury in the 1840s was one of the builders who worked on one of the many re constructions that took place over the years on this church. He was my  great grandfather on my father's side of the ...Read more

A memory of Leamington Spa

Captions

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Caption For Freckleton, The Village C1965

The war memorial stands on the triangular village green in the area within the railings, (far left).

Caption For Wargrave, The Village 1890

The photographer has captured a sleepy Thames-side village just on the point of modernising to meet new demands from the middle classes, who were building along the river and around the villages.

Caption For Uley, From Uley Bury 1900

Here we have a panoramic view of this lovely village, whose handloom weavers produced some of England's finest broadcloth in the 18th century.

Caption For Totton, The By Pass C1960

Totton, Eling's larger neighbour, once claimed the title of the 'largest village in Hampshire' - though it has expanded so much in recent years that by no stretch of the imagination could it still be

Caption For Cosby, St Michael's Church C1965

Situated at what is now the southern end of this expanded village, the church with its elegant recessed spire dates for the greater part from the earlier 15th century.

Caption For Thorpe Arnold, St Mary's Church C1955

In a well-treed setting, the church is seen from the west. This small elevated village lies about a mile to the north-east of Melton Mowbray on the A607 Grantham road.

Caption For Horning, The Village 1934

This charming village straddles the banks of the River Bure amidst beautiful marshland.

Caption For Stanwell, St Mary's Church 1895

A little to the north of the Thames and beyond Staines is the village of Stanwell.

Caption For Cudworth, Village Club And Cinema C1960

Cudworth was never a pit village, although it is surrounded by collieries at Monk Bretton (opened in 1870), Carlton (1879), Grimethorpe (1897), Frickley (1905) and Ferrymoor (1917).

Caption For Clydach, 1936

Perched on a steep hill, the photographer has done justice to this picturesque view just off the Heads of the Valleys Road.

Caption For Frampton, The Bridge 1906

The village takes its name from a corruption of the words 'Frome Town'. This graceful arched bridge over the River Frome has wooden rails, which still guard the road.

Caption For Willington, The Hotel C1960

Situated to the south of the village, close to the Trent, this hotel was convenient for Repton School, 1½ miles away across the river.

Caption For Baslow, The Old Mill C1883

Here we see the old bridge and the mill.

Caption For Abbotsbury, The Tithe Barn 1890

Abbotsbury, situated at the western end of Chesil Beach, is most famous for its swannery, the waters of the Fleet often being turned white with hundreds of birds.

Caption For Hawkshead, Flag Street 1892

The overhanging first-floor jetties of the whitewashed houses add to the medieval charm of the village, which is a favourite of the many visitors to the Lake District.

Caption For Old Basing, 1898

The village has long been famous for Basing House, a ruined building reduced to rubble by Cromwell and his army during the Civil War.

Caption For Dolgarrog, Village C1955

Thirty years before this photograph was taken, the village had been devastated by a dreadful flood when two dams, the Eigau and the Coedty, broke after a fortnight of torrential rain.

Caption For Betws Y Coed, Miner's Bridge 1891

This wooden bridge was built over the River Llugwy so that the miners living in the village of Pentre Du could get to the lead mines of the Gwydir Forest.

Caption For Yapton, The Church 1898

The Church 1898. The village of Yapton lies between Bognor Regis and Littlehampton. Note the church's jumble of unusual angles and architectural styles.

Caption For Newick, The Green C1955

Newick is situated halfway between two great Christian centres of worship—Canterbury and Winchester—so the village was used as a resting-place for pilgrims.

Caption For Charmouth, The Beach 1922

The view eastwards from Higher Sea Kabe (left) looks across a pastoral Charmouth before the village extended to the sea.

Caption For North Curry, Jubilee Square C1960

Viewed from the post office, this memorial to Queen Victoria is known as the Pepperpot because of its shape.

Caption For Eastham, The Ferry 1887

This view northwards along the Mersey shoreline towards Eastham Pier shows one of the Mersey ferries alongside.

Caption For Wicken, Pond Green C1955

Butt's Farmhouse on the green was a medieval open hall. In the 17th century a chimney stack was inserted into the hall, and a cross wing built to the left. The small brick extension was a shop.