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Happy Days
Having been so lucky as to spend my childhood in a big house in Royal Avenue and spending many long summer evenings playing cricket on the beach with my grandad I have always wanted to return to Scarborough. In particular the Zoo & ...Read more
A memory of Scarborough in 1969 by
Yorkshire
Hello all you Yorkshire people, wherever you may now be... Here is a poem I wrote about good old York. Enjoy. Shopping in the Shambles on a snowy Christmas Eve Playing hide and seek in Acomb Wood Watching Andy Pandy by the fire in our front ...Read more
A memory of York in 1955 by
Low Dover/Dorothy's Cafe
Used to live over the cafe, then downstairs when it was closed and made into a flat; the younger two of our four sons were born there (one upstairs and one downstairs!). our two eldest boys went to the village school, and ...Read more
A memory of Beadnell in 1962 by
More Caddy''s Memories And Also Queenie
I too remember the tall fizzy Ice creams at Caddy's, I suspect they were simply called Ice Drinks or something. As someone else mentioned (but I can't find it now) The Parlour was between Long Causeway and ...Read more
A memory of Dewsbury by
My Special Place
My Seaview experiences started from shortly after I was born and go right up to the present day. I'm from Reading, Berks, but our whole family used to rent a big house somewhere in Seaview every summer for a holiday. I was born in ...Read more
A memory of Seaview by
Pagham From The 1960s Til Now!
I first came to Pagham in 1965, we used to holiday at Church Farm Caravan Site and in those days it was run by John and Shirley Romaine. I have fond memories of Buster and Cocker from my Church Farm Days and I remember ...Read more
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The 1950s
I well remember what seemed like an age, the summer holidays of the early 1950s. My brother and I would spend all day on the beach or after the harvest playing stage coaches with the bales of hay in the field in Stocks Lane. In 1953 ...Read more
A memory of Bracklesham Bay
Tooting 1948 1971
I was born in Balham in 1948 and lived initially in a flat in Trinity Road near the then police station with Mum, Dad and Aunty Edie, and finally in a bay-fronted twenties house on Tooting Bec Road until I left home to go to ...Read more
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The Post In The Centre Of The Bay
I am not sure which grandfather it was (how many greats do you want?) but the old part of my family, the Strevens, have lived in Broadstairs for the last five hundred years, and have the honour of having erected ...Read more
A memory of Broadstairs by
Very Very Happy Early Childhood
I spent eight years of my early childhood in Portree, my father James Argo was the Manager of the now Clydesdale Bank on the corner of the Square, my friend was Donnie Stewart whos father owned the largest store and ...Read more
A memory of Portree in 1920 by
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The interior is much earlier than the exterior. The aisles have Perpendicular windows, but some extensive restoration has spoilt its earlier magnificence.
A steep road from Sabden leads to the well-known pass of Nick o' Pendle.
A solid little stone tower on a slant, nothing elaborate, dates from the 13th century and is on the north side of the church, not at the usual west end. The church has Norman origins.
The lifeline between Poole and Purbeck, crossing between Sandbanks (right) and Shell Bay (left), is the Floating Bridge.
There is evidence that the earliest bricks in Fareham come from Portchester Castle.
Aberdour in the Kingdom of Fife, lies between Burntisland and Dalgety Bay, just across the Firth of Forth from Edinburgh.
We are looking eastwards along gated Ware Lane (centre) to Golden Cap (skyline, centre right) and Lyme Bay (right).
Tenby was described thus in a Victorian guidebook of 1895: 'Tenby stands on a tongue of limestone rock, ending in a green promontory, which is crowned by the ruins of the old castle, and is now pleasantly
Tenby was described thus in a Victorian guidebook of 1895: 'Tenby stands on a tongue of limestone rock, ending in a green promontory, which is crowned by the ruins of the old castle, and is now pleasantly
This former slate-mining village lies below Cadair Idris, cupped in the Dysynni valley between Tal y Llyn and Tywyn.
Now we are a few yards further along the thoroughfare.
Hest was part of Bolton-le-Sands, and was a hamlet near Morecambe Bay. Hest Bank was the seaward side of the village, right at the southern side of the mouth of the River Kent.
These views show each end of the bridge - two were taken in 1890.
Heysham Tower was built by T J Knowles in about 1837, and it was the home of the Cawthra family.
The village is said to have begun as a result of a shipwreck, when the survivors from a French ship scrambled ashore and decided to stay.
Donkeys are awaiting the arrival of the day's holidaymakers on the beach. A fisherwoman in a tall hat stands behind the donkey boys and their mounts.
When they see it from the road or the nearby railway, travellers are puzzled by this church with towers at both ends.
South Luffenham on the river Thater is a 7th-century Saxon settlement with North Luffenham, now adjacent to the A6121 Uppingham to Stamford road to the north, an attractive village of narrow streets and
This is another view of Lower Eype from further to the south-west, closer to the cliff above Lyme Bay, looking inland to Mount Lane and St Peter's Church (centre).
This is another view of Lower Eype from further to the south-west, closer to the cliff above Lyme Bay, looking inland to Mount Lane and St Peter`s Church (centre).
Here we have a detailed view of the premier pre- Domesday minster church of the Dorchester hundred. Its present fabric has grown from a cruciform building of the 11th century.
The Royal Arms of James I above a ground-floor fireplace may indicate its continuing official use into the 17th century.
Seaside bustle on the promenade, built as the old Upper Walk between the town and the Cobb Harbour in 1817; it is now known as Marine Parade.
The second view looks along Waldron Road into the High Street, with the London road turning beyond the houses on the right; the nearest of these, Warnham Cottage, is no longer a shop but a
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