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Places
36 places found.
Those places high-lighted have photos. All locations may have maps, books and memories.
- Cardiff, South Glamorgan
- Barry, South Glamorgan
- Penarth, South Glamorgan
- Rhoose, South Glamorgan
- St Athan, South Glamorgan
- Cowbridge, South Glamorgan
- South Molton, Devon
- Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan
- Chipping Sodbury, Avon
- South Chingford, Greater London
- South Shields, Tyne and Wear
- Ayr, Strathclyde
- St Donat's, South Glamorgan
- Llanblethian, South Glamorgan
- Thornbury, Avon
- Llandough, South Glamorgan
- Fonmon, South Glamorgan
- St Nicholas, South Glamorgan
- Jarrow, Tyne and Wear
- Penmark, South Glamorgan
- Font-y-gary, South Glamorgan
- Maybole, Strathclyde
- Yate, Avon
- Oxford, Oxfordshire
- Torquay, Devon
- Newquay, Cornwall
- Salisbury, Wiltshire
- Bournemouth, Dorset
- St Ives, Cornwall
- Falmouth, Cornwall
- Guildford, Surrey
- Bath, Avon
- Looe, Cornwall
- Reigate, Surrey
- Minehead, Somerset
- Bude, Cornwall
Photos
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Maps
2,499 maps found.
Books
1 books found. Showing results 1,585 to 1.
Memories
1,580 memories found. Showing results 661 to 670.
A Long Time Ago
My father Leonard Alfred Passfield was born in South Ockendon, in 1916 to Fred Passfield and Emily Jane who lived in North Street. Many are the stories he told me of his early life in South Ockendon. He had three brothers, Ken, ...Read more
A memory of South Ockendon in 1910 by
The Stables
As a young arrogant doctor with an imposing E-Type Jaguar, I was privileged to live at the stables with assorted collegues. One a gynaecologist, now in Cape Town, one a London based psychiatrist of vivid eccentricity and one more, ...Read more
A memory of Wheatfield by
Granny's House
This was the childhood home of my maternal grandmother - Louise Kate Leftwich - her father was the miller. She lived here until 1903 when she married George Barnes and came to settle in South Africa. Various members of the family ...Read more
A memory of Pirbright in 1890 by
Evacuation 1940 1944
Our whole family were evacuated from Bow, London, to Kingsthorpe in November 1940. This was following the sudden sad death of my father in July 1940 and the blitz that began in September 1940. On our arrival the family ...Read more
A memory of Northampton by
Memories Of Romford
I was born in 1940 at Recreation Avenue, London Road and have many happy memories of my birthplace. I attended London Road Junior School from 1946 to 1951 and remember three teachers as they were all vegatables, ie the headmaster ...Read more
A memory of Romford in 1952 by
Married Life In Bexleyheath
We were married at St Paul's in Northumbeland Heath in 1962 and had reception at the Manor House, Danson Park. I was born in Romford and met my future wife at a party at the girlfriend's house. We courted each other ...Read more
A memory of Bexleyheath by
Highworth
I was only two when I moved here from south London but I remember going to school there just through an alley way off the market square, and headmaster's office was a hut in the playground. Lived in Queens Avenue which were the new ...Read more
A memory of Highworth in 1953 by
The Tin School
This is for Martyn Walker. I do remember the Tin School, but not in the 1960s however. I was a student there from 1941-1948. I just found this site by accident, it got me thinking about the Tin School. Then I came across your ...Read more
A memory of Durham in 1940 by
Campsall South Yorkshire Nr Doncaster
I lived in Campsall with my dad Joseph (Joe) Smith, my brother Terry and sister Jeanette. My father worked down Askern pit for many years till he retired at the age of around 55. He passed away in 2009 (Feb). ...Read more
A memory of Campsall in 1974 by
Summer Days At Oystermouth
Memories of The Mumbles by John S. Batts Viewing on-line a collection of Frith’s old photos of The Mumbles has jogged many memories. For me the place was simply known as “Mumbles,” home to a much-treasured uncle ...Read more
A memory of Mumbles, The by
Captions
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The photographer took up his position on the 13th-century road bridge and pointed his camera south towards Haddon Hall.
Iona lies just off the extreme south-west of Mull. In 1203, the Benedictines founded a monastery on the island which lasted until the Reformation.
Two miles to the south is the hamlet of Towton, where on 29 March 1461 a bloody battle involving an estimated 50,000 troops took place. This picture was taken from the junction with Bridge Street.
It was opened in 1889 and became the greatest coal shipping port in South Wales, handling 11 million tons in 1913.
They are heading south on the Grand Union Canal from Braunston Tunnel. At Braunston the canal drops sharply through six locks.
The mill is just south of the village on the Birkey Burn. The miller's house is dated 1728, and the three-storey mill building is also 18th-century.
Swynnerton lies about three miles south of Trentham.
On the top floor the south-east wing contains the long gallery; below it are what are now called the Regency rooms.
As we look south down High Street we can see that many of the buildings survive today, including the dormered building on the far left.
This well-preserved village, built around the old Wadworth Hall, lies just south of Doncaster.
This picture looks down the village of Wales towards Kiveton Park, both pit villages which boomed from 1867 during the heyday of the South Yorkshire coalfield.
This view looks south-west along the High Street. Beyond Crispin Hall, most of the houses and shops date from the Clark era, with the occasional much lower earlier cottages interspersed.
The Clarks were philanthropic Quakers, and William provided this splendid institute, The Crispin Hall, named after St Crispin, the patron saint of shoemakers, further south-west along the High Street
Yeovil is by far the largest town in south Somerset.
South of the town, beyond the stock market, the Bridgwater Road crosses the River Brue, here canalised.
An 1870s terrace of yellow brick flats over shops runs south from the scaffolding on the left, but the rest is mediocre 1930s and 1950s suburban building, apart from the Polegate Inn on the right
Back at ground level, this view looks across the pond near the church, past the railings alongside the A283 to the houses on the south side of the Green.
Some said that Burnley did not need parks, as the Pennines of South Lancashire are only ten minutes away, and some lovely countryside surrounds the town.
The Bute Arms (further down the street on the left) gets its name from the Marquises of Bute, great landowners in South Wales and important nationally.
Cheddar Gorge is one of the most spectacular natural phenomena in south-west England.The gorge cuts its way out of the carboniferous limestone as if it was in the Peak District of Derbyshire; it is an
bypasses Fleckney on its eastern side; the photograph looks north east across Second Lock, towards Kibworth bridge and Bridge House, as the waterway winds towards Newton Harcourt and South
In 1869 the Glasgow & South Western Railway opened a rail link between Johnstone and Princes Pier, Greenock, thereby offering an alternative route to Glasgow.
Here we are looking south.
To the south-west is another stone in the direction of the midwinter sunset, which is a far more useful calendar date for ancient agricultural communities.
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