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Places

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Photos

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Maps

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Memories

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Upbringing

I went to school first at Tondu infants and then to the Primary school, I remember when we had the school photographs taken in the play yard (where are they now?). I had a really great and happy childhood there living with all the ...Read more

A memory of Aberkenfig by Jeffrey Warner

Relatives Buried At Rousdon Church

My great grandmother's sister Frances Ostler/nee Start (died 1889) is buried at Rousdon Church yard with her husband Luke Ostler (died 1916). They have a very strange looking memorial it is a long oak slab with an ...Read more

A memory of Rousdon in 1880

Ormskirk

I was born in Ormskirk 1959, My parents were John & June Carr of Sephton Drive, we lived at number 21. I have five brothers. We attended West End, and Crosshall High School, My Grandfather Thomas Gabbitas lived near the Gas works in ...Read more

A memory of Ormskirk by Sandra Lee

Mr Laidlaw

I read a post from STEVEN LAIDLAW asking if I/we remember his grandfather who owned a building company. Yes, Steven, I remember it well and I believe the entrance to his yard is still there in St. Albans Road, but I'm not sure. Mr ...Read more

A memory of High Barnet by Roland Wood

Schooldays

Billingham Campus School consisted of four halls - Bede, pictured in the foreground, Davy behind and Faraday furthest away.  The fourth hall, Stephenson was about 800 yards away, not pictured.  There was a sports block with a swimming pool which can just be seen to the left of this photograph.

A memory of Billingham in 1968 by Lyn Wells

Brixham

Coming to Brixham from just outside of London as an 11 year-old was a real culture shock. New smells (fish!) new sounds (seagulls) and new faces (the inhabitants of the south west certainly have distinct facial features...to say nothing of the ...Read more

A memory of Brixham in 1880 by Stephen Jeffery

Happy Days In Thorne Park

Happy days in the paddling pool and on the swings, the old parkie taking your name for riding your bike in the park, what did he do with all the names? Remembrance Day in the park in 1963 as a cub, Mr Metcalf leading us. Church ...Read more

A memory of Thorne in 1962 by Nigel Shearman

On My Way Into Town Or To Visit My Friend Steve Flanagan

Having lived in the U.S now for 35 years this photo makes me very homesick as I haven't seen the old place since 1972!  I remember walking down Lord Mayor's Walk and turning the corner next to the ...Read more

A memory of York in 1962 by David Knapton

The Marlborough

The white building in the picture below the church tower was the Marlborough pub. During the war through till the early 1950s my grandmother and grandfather were licencees and my father was brought up there. I have a picture of my ...Read more

A memory of Charlbury in 1940 by Diana Larkworthy

St Endellion Church

In this old and wonderful church I was baptised, went to Sunday school and was confirmed, and every time I enter it I am in awe and feel my ancesters all around me.  Being born and brought up in Trelights, my mother was a ...Read more

A memory of St Endellion in 1940 by Jan Cowling

Captions

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Caption For Nottingham, Ye Olde Trip To Jerusalem Inn 1949

Behind it now is the Brewhouse Yard Museum (of Nottingham life), opened in 1977, and the Angel Row Gallery, both housed in a row of brick houses of about 1680.

Caption For Borth, St Matthew's Church C1950

St Matthew's Church was built on a hillock a few hundred yards inland from Borth.

Caption For Horsham, The Carfax 1898

The bandstand, now relocated some yards away during recent pedestrianisation, was opened amid civic pomp in 1892.

Caption For Swindon, Men Leaving G.W.R. 1913

Here we see workers leaving the Great Western Railway yard, which at one time employed 12,000 people. The sheer size of the building indicates the importance of the railway to the town.

Caption For Doncaster, Baxtergate 1903

At Hatfield it took five years to reach the Barnsley bed at 852 yards below the surface.

Caption For Amroth, The Beach C1960

Nearby Amroth Castle is a grand 18th-century house that sits on the site of Amroth's original Norman fortress, just yards from Amroth beach.

Caption For Haverfordwest, The Castle From The River 1890

The watch-tower in the roof of the new prison was built so the guards could observe all activity in the exercise yards.

Caption For Launceston, Castle Gardens 1935

The pump in the foreground, dating from 1796, is in what was the prison yard.

Caption For Forth Bridge, 1897

It has an overall length of 2,700 yards including approach viaducts. The tracks run across the bridge 150 feet above sea level.

Caption For Gravesend, The Ferry 1902

Reached via a cobbled yard in front of The Three Daws pub, and visually obstructed by the high sea wall, the pier is somewhat run down, unlike the Royal Terrace Pier.

Caption For Leeds, Briggate C1965

The street had many small inns for the market customers, built on plots in yards behind the street.

Caption For Brimscombe, The Valley 1900

The Chalford Valley, with former woollen cloth mills every few hundred yards along its length, extends through Brimscombe into the distance.

Caption For Selby, Old Toll Bridge 1918

Shipbuilding was also carried on here, the yard specialising in fishing vessels, tugboats and inland waterways craft. Because of the width of the river, vessels were launched sideways.

Caption For Leeds, Briggate C1965

The street had many small inns for the market customers, built on plots in yards behind the street.

Caption For Launceston, Castle Gardens 1935

The pump in the foreground, dating from 1796, is in what was the prison yard.

Caption For Haverfordwest, The Castle From The River 1890

The watch-tower in the roof of the new prison was built so the guards could observe all activity in the exercise yards.

Caption For Bangor, Pier 1897

The quay here was 300 yards long. The Victorian pier was built in 1896 and juts out 1,500 feet into the turbulent waters of the Menai Strait, stretching two-thirds of the distance to Anglesey.

Caption For Bradford On Avon, Knees Corner 1900

The building was demolished to make an entrance to Lamb Yard.

Caption For Bradford On Avon, Town Hall 1914

The building was demolished to make an entrance to Lamb Yard.

Caption For Wherwell, Village 1901

Behind the tearoom, the village shop, now closed, was once an inn with stables and yard running back from the road.

Caption For Whitby, Arguments Yard 1913

Here, in Arguments Yard, the house on the right is derelict, the stone stairs have seen better days and the outside toilet looks ready to collapse.

Caption For Dartford, High Street 1902

The ornate façade of the Bull Hotel with its massive lanterns, on the right, conceals a Georgian galleried yard.

Caption For Dartford, High Street 1902

The ornate façade of the Bull Hotel with its massive lanterns, on the right, conceals a Georgian galleried yard.

Caption For Old Hunstanton, The Neptune Hotel C1960

Monuments to the brave officers who attempted to stem the trade in contraband still stand in the church yard: these are William Green, a customs officer, and Light Dragoon William Webb, who