Places
36 places found.
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- Ellesmere Port, Cheshire
- Burry Port, Dyfed
- Port Talbot, West Glamorgan
- Neath, West Glamorgan
- Briton Ferry, West Glamorgan
- Resolven, West Glamorgan
- Skewen, West Glamorgan
- Port Glasgow, Strathclyde
- Pyle, West Glamorgan
- Port-en-Bessin, France
- Port of Ness, Western Isles
- Crynant, West Glamorgan (near Resolven)
- Port Askaig, Strathclyde
- Port Ellen, Strathclyde
- Port Charlotte, Strathclyde
- Port Wemyss, Strathclyde
- Port Said, Egypt
- Port Elizabeth, South Africa
- Cockenzie and Port Seton, Lothian
- Laleston, West Glamorgan
- Seven Sisters, West Glamorgan
- Tonna, West Glamorgan
- Port Isaac, Cornwall
- Port-Eynon, West Glamorgan
- Port Erin, Isle of Man
- Port Sunlight, Merseyside
- Port Gaverne, Cornwall
- Margam, West Glamorgan (near Port Talbot)
- Port St Mary, Isle of Man
- Port Quin, Cornwall
- Glyn-neath, West Glamorgan
- Port Navas, Cornwall
- Aberavon, West Glamorgan
- Port Appin, Strathclyde
- Port Bannatyne, Strathclyde
- Port Soderick, Isle of Man
Photos
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Maps
711 maps found.
Books
1 books found. Showing results 169 to 1.
Memories
301 memories found. Showing results 71 to 80.
The Gables Westbourne
Reading my Mother's notes in my 'Baby Book ' ,something seemingly not done nowadays, I was reminded that I was born in a Private nursing home, The Gables, Pine Tree Glen ,Westbourne in 1947. Now flats and ironically retirement ...Read more
A memory of Bournemouth by
The Bank Chippy Bell Street
My friend lived at the Queens Head pub shown in the Bell Street photo, when we were cold and hungry we used to go to the Bank Chip shop (just out of shot at the top right of the picture, on the curve of the road opposite ...Read more
A memory of Wigston in 1971 by
Arthur Shackson And His Wife Gertie With Their Son Arthur.
This is my Uncle and Aunt and cousin Arthur, outside their cottage no. 32 North Hill in Clovelly village. They lived there for many years and took in many many people for B&B, people ...Read more
A memory of Clovelly by
Port Regis School
I can remember very clearly my first day at school, arriving at Victoria coach station, London and getting onto a coach, destination Port Regis School. I was a very young boy of 9 years old arriving at the school. I now have ...Read more
A memory of Broadstairs in 1973 by
Grandparents Home
From a very young age I have cherished memories of visits and sleepovers at the big old Victorian-era home belonging to my grandparents in Ringwood Road, E17. The cosiness of it is hard to replace these days. We would sleep in ...Read more
A memory of Walthamstow in 1967 by
Tom Lizzie Cook
1948 - onwards. My Mother and her two cousins were brought up by their Aunt and Uncle as above and I spent all my childhood holidays with them. Great Aunt Liz was well known for her teas for visitors and ramblers from CHA Porlock. ...Read more
A memory of Culbone in 1948 by
Port Regis
My sister and I were both at Port Regis for Delicate Girls between 1957 -9 approx. Various memories (good & bad). Very hard to find a site that is just for this convent. Seems to split between a Broadstairs site. Various names crop up but none that I recognise.
A memory of Broadstairs in 1957 by
Port Regis White Street Sign
While on Google Earth 2 days ago I looked at the white signpost on the driveway of Port Regis, it still looks the same as the first time I saw it in the 1960s. Today it says 'Nursing Home', but it still looks the same along with the white fence, for me like looking back in time.
A memory of Broadstairs in 1963 by
Former Landlord
Whilst doing our family history, we discover that the Andrews family were former proprietors of The Kings Head in Milborne Port. His name was Frederick James Andrews and his wife Annie. His son, Frederick Elisha Andrews married ...Read more
A memory of Milborne Port in 1890 by
What A Picturesque Valley
Well, about 34 years ago, I used to work in Forge Road, Port Talbot; part of my work in the newspaper industry sent me checking on all newsagents in the Valley, through Cwmavon up passing Pontrhydyfen, Duffryn Rhondda, Cymmer ...Read more
A memory of Cwmavon by
Captions
776 captions found. Showing results 169 to 192.
At this tiny port, a few miles from Camborne, copper ore was shipped for smelting at Swansea. The village, hemmed in by steep hills, nestles within a deep combe.
The Shropshire Union canal runs between Wolverhampton and Ellesmere Port. It passes through delightful countryside, especially around the Wheaton Aston area.
Ryde is one of the Isle of Wight's important access ports, with ferries crossing the Solent each day.
Only St John the Baptist's church and a couple of houses nearby escaped from the bombs intended for the port and the railway station.
Ryde is one of the Isle of Wight's important access ports, with ferries crossing the Solent each day.
The Custom House was built in the Palladian style in 1683 by Henry Bell, then mayor of this thriving port.
Known more these days as a container port, Felixstowe in 1906 was a genteel seaside resort, and steamers would have pulled up at the pier bringing passengers from Great Yarmouth, Walton-on-the-Naze, Clacton
This is where busy port and tourism came together. The South Pier, which forms the southern part of the harbour, and from where this picture was taken, was a popular stroll for holidaymakers.
It was still an important port, with several hundred vessels coming up river every year to discharge and take on cargo.
The journey from the capital to the naval port by coach took eight hours; the six hours to Liphook cost 13s 6d.
It was traditionally much more important than its 'little suburb by the sea', and was included in the jurisdiction of the Cinque Ports.
Sailing barges are tied up in the Wet Dock, the non-tidal part of the port of Ipswich.
This very attractive fishing port used to be a busy port for agricultural and fish product exports.
What makes the Wet Dock so useful is that it is a non-tidal section of the port. Water in the dock is held at a con- stant level by the lock gates.
Sixty years on, Beccles has declined as a port, with goods being carried more by road. The church is unusual in that the 92 feet high tower is actually separate from the nave.
A conventional rudder and tiller guides these three sailing boats as they navigate into port.
While Norwich has operated as a port for hundreds of years, it is only in more recent years that the recreational aspect has become more important, although it is known that Nelson almost certainly learned
Pleasure craft in the background are the future of small fishing ports such as this.
The town of New Romney was once a powerful Cinque Port with strong smuggling links. St Nicholas' Church, New Romney, dates from the 12th century.
Glasson was first used as a port for ships unable to navigate the Lune to Lancaster from 1787, but the arrival of the canal in 1826, followed by the railway in 1883, increased its effectiveness.
The two Cowes, situated on the west and east banks of the River Medina, are famous throughout the world as a centre for yachting and as the home port of the Royal Yacht Squadron.
The town was an important medieval port, and copper-ore and granite were once exported from its quay.
In its early years it developed into a substantial fishing port with two deep-sea fishing companies, a fish quay and ice-house, and ship repairing facilities.
Paddle steamers provided pleasure trips and a bus service of sorts out to the coastal ports of Harwich and Felixstowe.
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