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Places

2 places found.

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Maps

44 maps found.

1903, Shelf Ref. RNC829524
1899-1900, Shelf Ref. RNC829525
1946, Chell Heath Ref. NPO667253
1897, Chell Heath Ref. RNE667253
1897, Great Chell Ref. RNE719741
1882 - 1901, Shelve Ref. HOSM59022
1902, Chell Heath Ref. RNC667253
1946, Great Chell Ref. NPO719741
1946, Little Chell Ref. NPO757043
1850 - 1892, Shelf Ref. HOSM59105
1896, Shelf Ref. RNE829524
1897, Shelf Ref. RNE829525
1947, Shelf Ref. NPO829524
1922, Shelf Ref. POP829525
1947, Shelf Ref. NPO829525
1947, Shelve Ref. NPO829633
1921, Russell's Hall Ref. POP823039
1925, Maiden's Hall Ref. POP772019
1946, Russell's Hall Ref. NPO823039
1901-1903, Maiden's Hall Ref. RNC772019

Books

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Memories

334 memories found. Showing results 11 to 20.

Innocent Happiness

I was born just after the Second World War and like many people came from a fairly poor working class background. I was, however, blessed in many areas of my life and one of them was having an aunt who lived at 8 Hamilon ...Read more

A memory of New Brighton by Rachel Weatherall

Sittingbourne To Australia

My name is Margaret.  I was born in Park Road, Sittingbourne on 18.4.45. My parents were Flossie and Cyril Neaves. My dad worked as a machine man in the Sittingbourne paper mills and my mum worked fruit picking in the ...Read more

A memory of Sittingbourne in 1971 by namscox

War Years

The Tucker family were evacuated to Green Hammerton from 1940 - 1942. My brother John lived with Mr & Mrs Blackburn and my sister lived with Mrs Wray at the post office. They are both alive and still keep in contact with one of the village residents whom I shall be visiting this September.

A memory of Green Hammerton in 1940 by Ray Tucker

A Glance Backwards

I came to live in Stadhampton in 1954 from Henley on Thames. My father was the village Policeman. I found that even for 1954 life in Stadhampton was comparatively primitive compared with what I was used to! But it was a very ...Read more

A memory of Stadhampton in 1954 by John Harker

A Day At The Seaside Littlehampton C 1955

I cannot remember how old I was when we started going to the south coast of England for a Sunday trip, but it was when my father sold his Norton motorbike and bought a Golden Flash with a sidecar ...Read more

A memory of Littlehampton in 1955 by Carole Baldwin

Cofton Farm Camp Site

'Eee, when I were a lad'....... in the 1950's my dad and I would get the bus from Exeter to Dawlish and camp for a week at Cofton Farm, using a little WWII army-surplus 2-man ridge tent. My elder brother was in The Scouts, and ...Read more

A memory of Starcross by Christopher Howard

Moving To Prudhoe 1947

We moved to Prudhoe in 1947, I was 12 years old. My dad, Bill Turner RSM, took over the Drill Hall in Swallow Close. I thought it was wonderful as we had relatives in Prudhoe, plus a grandma, Mary Ann Turner. I was born in ...Read more

A memory of Corbridge in 1947 by Marie Bugden

Wrens Warren Camp

I'm reading a book. Came upon the name Christopher Wren (astronomer around 1683). Suddenly it slipped into my mind the combination Wrens Warren Camp and via google came upon this site. I'm Dutch, survived the winter of ...Read more

A memory of Colemans Hatch in 1945 by Antoon Kooij

Lime Grove

I was born in Buchaven in Fife. I stayed in 93 Lime Grove and have great memories of the cul de sac. An old Polish couple, the Rhodes, stayed next door, then there was the Murray's, the Capes, the Livingstones, the Wipers, the Fentons, ...Read more

A memory of Methilhill in 1973 by Anne Watters

Willingham School

I remember my first day at Willingham School. I was so daunted by Mrs Readers presence. She was so authoritative and strong of mind and confidence. She never demanded respect, she would never have to because she earned ...Read more

A memory of Willingham by Stow in 1971 by Robin Merrall

Captions

119 captions found. Showing results 25 to 48.

Caption For Binstead, The Forge C1960

Freshwater shell fossils, the fruits of ancient trees, and the fossilised remains of mammals can all be discovered.

Caption For Plymouth, The Guildhall And The Post Office 1889

During the last war it was reduced to a mere shell but has since been restored to its original glory. Its tower is a noted landmark over the city.

Caption For Billesdon, Back Street C1955

At the southern end of Back Street, mud walls survive opposite the 17th-century Old School building, and the turn-of-the-century Stone House displays the builder's artful use of a cheaper brick shell adorned

Caption For Arundel, Castle And Town From The Air C1955

Halfway along the castle, Henry II's shell keep on the Norman Motte or mound divides the two baileys, the right-hand one filled with the massive Victorian rebuild.

Caption For Stoborough, Garage C1955

Offering both Shell and British Petroleum, this was established beside what used to be the A351 road into the Isle of Purbeck.

Caption For Binfield, Terrace Road C1955

Further on, the local garage sells both Shell and BP petrol, and also offers car hire.

Caption For Burton Bradstock, The Beach And Burton Cliff 2003

The path (foreground) is now part of the South-West Peninsular Coast Path, Britain's longest national trail, all the way around the South-West Peninsula from Shell Bay to Minehead.

Caption For Rhyl, Donkeys On The Sands 1891

She would wander the sands hawking freshly-caught cockles and other shell-fish to the visitors.

Caption For Cardiff, Newport Road 2004

The city has gained another luxury hotel, the Macdonald Holland, housed in the shell of what was originally the Julian Hodge building.

Caption For Perranporth, The Lost Church Near Holywell 1914

Because of its early date and association with St Piran, it was given protection from the elements and blown sands by the building of this rather unattractive shell.

Caption For London, Covent Garden Porters 1885

The flower market was no less frenetic.

Caption For Pickering, 1953

The ruins are substantial, and include the curtain wall, three towers, a shell keep standing on a motte, chapel and halls.

Caption For Hitchin, Bridge Street C1955

On the right is Sale's garage, with a Pratt's petrol pump delivering Shell fuel.

Caption For Heysham, Stone Coffins 1891

The chapel is one of the oldest in the country; the remains of its walls are 2ft 6ins thick, bonded with immensely strong mortar made by burning sea-shells – this method was used by the Romans.

Caption For Lechlade, The Convent Of St Clotilde C1960

The architect John Pearson completed the designs in 1872, and the shell was erected for a modest £8,850.

Caption For Warrington, Training College Chapel 1894

In the early hours of 28 December 1923 a devastating fire swept through the main buildings beside the Parish Church, and by daylight only a blackened shell remained.

Caption For Tenby, South Sands 1890

The Victorians were avid collectors of many things, and the rocks, pools and caverns around St Catherine's Island were abundant with shells, ferns, various crustaceans, starfish, jellyfish and seaweed

Caption For Stafford, The Technical College C1955

This Tenterbanks part of the college was begun in 1937, but the shell of the building was requisitioned by the military and was used as a store by the Americans during the war.

Caption For Dover, Promenade 1908

Dover was known as 'Hellfire Corner' in the last war, as it was bombed and shelled and many buildings were destroyed.

Caption For Tamworth, Castle 1949

Soon after the Conquest, the Normans built a wooden motte and bailey castle at Tamworth on the site of the Mercian fortifications of 913.This was replaced by the shell-keep and tower, which still

Caption For Plymouth, St Andrew's Cross 1900

After St Andrew's had been reduced to a shell by the Luftwaffe in 1941, somebody put a wooden board above the door with the word Resurgam on it, from the Latin for 'I will rise again'.

Caption For Plymouth, St Andrew's Church 1889

Its status as the mother church of Plymouth could not protect it from the Luftwaffe and in 1941 it was reduced to a shell.

Caption For London, Victoria Embankment C1955

Rising above the bridge is Shell-Mex Houe in the Strand, which was built in the early 1930s. The clock, being larger than Big Ben, was nicknamed 'Big Benzene'.

Caption For Rothesay, Castle 1897

Described in 1549 as 'the round castle of Buitte callit Rosay of the auld', the first stone castle was a circular shell keep 142 ft in diameter with walls 30 ft high and 9 ft thick; four projecting drum