Places
36 places found.
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- Shanklin, Isle of Wight
- Ventnor, Isle of Wight
- Ryde, Isle of Wight
- Cowes, Isle of Wight
- Sandown, Isle of Wight
- Port of Ness, Western Isles
- London, Greater London
- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
- Dublin, Republic of Ireland
- Killarney, Republic of Ireland
- Douglas, Isle of Man
- Plymouth, Devon
- Newport, Isle of Wight
- Southwold, Suffolk
- Bristol, Avon
- Lowestoft, Suffolk
- Cromer, Norfolk
- Edinburgh, Lothian
- Maldon, Essex
- Clacton-On-Sea, Essex
- Norwich, Norfolk
- Felixstowe, Suffolk
- Hitchin, Hertfordshire
- Stevenage, Hertfordshire
- Colchester, Essex
- Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
- Bedford, Bedfordshire
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
- Aldeburgh, Suffolk
- St Albans, Hertfordshire
- Hunstanton, Norfolk
- Chelmsford, Essex
- Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
- Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
- Brentwood, Essex
- Glengarriff, Republic of Ireland
Photos
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Maps
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Books
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Memories
29,044 memories found. Showing results 1,281 to 1,290.
Battersea Park
I have great memories of Battersea park. In the school holidays, with mum working days and dad working nights, my sister, brother and I, along with friends were taken to the park every day while dad went home for a sleep. I must have ...Read more
A memory of Battersea by
Jaywick
I have had a long association with Jaywick - I am the organist at St Christopher`s church in Meadow Way. I was approached by Mrs Elsie Coleman (who was steward 'in charge' then) over thirty years ago to do a `temporary stint`. I loved the ...Read more
A memory of Jaywick in 1978 by
Sternhold Avenue Memories
We lived in Sternhold Avenue, No 87 I think, and I went to Sunnyhill Road School until we moved to Crystal Palace some two years later. I remember the bombed out old Streatham Theatre and a milk bar call the Blue Riband ...Read more
A memory of Streatham in 1949 by
Mike's Barber Shop
I knew Mike. I used to go round his house and he would give me health foods and tell me how to stay healthy. I think he lived in Greenstead Road. He was a very nice man, very quiet but friendly. When he told me he was a barber I ...Read more
A memory of Loughton in 1963 by
The Ogmore I Knew
I was born in 1940 and attended Tynewydd Junior School then the Park School then Bridgend Tech. Even though we had the constraits dictated by the war, life was happy we had the mountains to explore. We would dam the river for ...Read more
A memory of Ogmore Vale by
The Toy Shop In Queens Road
I remember the toy shop, there was also a dolls hospital at the back of the shop where my beloved dolls were taken to have their broken limbs fixed and also to have the occasional eye replaced.
A memory of Buckhurst Hill in 1950 by
Jaywick Sands From 1954 1960
I first discovered Jaywick when I was just ten years old in 1954. I was taken there by my parents in a 1936 Bedford Van to stay with my uncle Bill, aunt Flo and cousin Bill who was 6 months younger than me. This would be ...Read more
A memory of Jaywick in 1954 by
Maybury Street, Tooting.
I was born January 1945 and from the age of three I often went to stay with great-aunt Lizzie in Maybury Street, Tooting (possibly house number 23.) My great-aunt, was Mrs Reader, a widow, who lived downstairs in the house, ...Read more
A memory of Tooting in 1947
Caster Avenue
I was born at 46 Caster Avenue in 1951, my name was then Sue Riley. My mother was Lilly, my grandparents were Jack and Maud Clare who lived at 17 Caster Avenue. I have happy memories of playing on the bloody field and the reck attending ...Read more
A memory of Runcorn in 1956 by
Working At Litton Mill
I went to work at Litton Mill when I was seventeen. Worked in the Sizing, Charlie Mellor was the supervisor. I met many lovely people and a great lot of characters. The sizing was machines with huge rollers set in a bed of ...Read more
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Captions
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The frontage of the Swan Hotel hides its 15th- and 16th-century origins.
Punch and Judy hold the attention of the formally-dressed crowd of holidaymakers in the South Bay.
Later this was to become the 'end of the line' for trams from Birmingham.
This famous vista, taken from Bankside, shows the glorious dome of St Paul’s rising over the roofs of London.The river is edged not with the anonymous and monumental office blocks we see today but
Situated at the corner with Donegall Street, and very near the parish church, the academy was in a pleasant enough part of the town.
The block at the corner is one of the latest boarding houses, and has clearly pushed back some older buildings.
It was purchased by the town from the manor of Shirley in 1228 for ten silver marks - quite a bargain!
West of Long Sutton and east of Spalding, Holbeach is another of Lincolnshire's numerous small market towns. It received its first market charter in 1252.
Shortly after the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, the War Office commandeered part of the grounds of Woodcote Park for training purposes and erected a large encampment.
The broad street of the village, with its grass verges, is lined with brick and weatherboarded houses.
The clock turret of Moreton's most prominent building displays the date of its construction as 1887, and on the south wall is the coat of arms of the Redesdale family of Batsford Park who
Bright yellow bands of geological strata known as the Bridport Sands make Burton Cliff one of the most distinctive landforms of the Dorset coast.
The old tracks from the neighbouring village of Uplyme are the original routes into the town before the construction of the present road along the coast.
It was purchased by the town from the manor of Shirley in 1228 for ten silver marks—quite a bargain!
We are in a marshy area—Amberley Wild Brooks, beside the tidal and navigable River Arun.The castle was a fortified manor of the Bishops of Chichester; it was crenellated c1377 to defend the coastal
This detail from R84037 (page 34) is a reminder of how our streets were once filled with a profusion of tobacco advertisements - Capstan, Player's, St Julien, St Bruno, Gold Flake, Senior Service - hardly
Moulton is a village of narrow winding lanes, lined by stone-built cottages and houses, nowadays with traffic calming and one-way systems.
One of Kent's oldest townships, Charing was taken from Canterbury by the King of Mercia in 757 and assigned to some of his favourites.
The coming of the railways put Helensburgh into the Glasgow commuter belt, whilst its steamer connections helped it to develop as a holiday centre.
This famous vista, taken from Bankside, shows the glorious dome of St Paul's rising over the roofs of London.The river is edged not with the anonymous and monumental office blocks we see today but
Built on the site of an early Saxon church, the present St Mary's has elements dating back to the 12th century.
The parish church of St James is thought to date back to the reign of either Henry II or Richard I, though it was heavily rebuilt about a hundred years after its original construction.
Here is a fascinating picture taken from the newly built block of flats, Low Cross Court.
In 1873, this wonder of nature had a quarrymen's village at its entrance.
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