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
181,031 maps found.
Books
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Memories
29,044 memories found. Showing results 1,291 to 1,300.
My Racing Days.
At the age of 16 I arrived at Druids Lodge to become an apprentice jockey, signed to the trainer Noel Cannon. I had never sat on a horse, having come from the East End of London, but being only 5st 12lb my aspirations were high. ...Read more
A memory of Druid's Lodge in 1957
Jenny Lind Hospital
I was admitted to this children's hospital in the winter of 1961 aged 5 years, with acute asthma. I remember clearly a green bathroom with lots of hot water pipes and being bathed twice in a morning as I daren`t tell the second ...Read more
A memory of Norwich by
Daisy Bank School
Daisy Bank, with the lollipop lady always there and ready to tell you off if you were not concentrating on crossing the road. Playing tick and kiss chase in the playground. Looking after my little sister when ...Read more
A memory of Bradley
Visiting This Hospital In 1953?
I remember my father being in this hospital. He had scepticaemia. I was about 5 or 6 and my mother and grandmother were driven from Windsor to Taplow by a neighbour of my grandmother's. I would wait in the car in the ...Read more
A memory of Taplow in 1953 by
Stocks Hill.
Known as Stocks Hill, on the left of the photo is the Coop Drapery Shop. At the side of the shop was an alley and the Coop Bakery was there. The house facing in the picture was Ted Witneys car repair yard, along High Street was Keffords ...Read more
A memory of Moulton in 1950 by
Memories Of Padiham
I was born in 1947 to Betsy and Leonard Mcgough on Railway Terrace, which I believe is now called Russell Terrace. My mother worked in the cotton mills all her life and retired in a mill at Read. We moved to Moor Lane where we ...Read more
A memory of Whalley in 1957 by
Evacuation
I lived in Brook Bungalow between Latchingdon and Althorne during the war years and visited grandparents there into the 50's. I remember Barbie and Alec, the Mathams and the Plumbs (who ran the local garage) with such affection and ...Read more
A memory of Latchingdon in 1940 by
Working At The Coop Store.
This used to be a very busy street, with the Coop Store, butchers and the office at the back of the butchers, also the coal yard at the back. I worked at the Coop 1957 to 1963, very happy times. In the winter, the manager, ...Read more
A memory of Moulton in 1957 by
Hydecroft (House)
My grandfather was born at his family's home, Hydecroft, which I gather must have been quite a sizeable affair (advertised later as having 8 bedrooms, 28 acres including a tennis-court). I can find no record of it now, but does anyone have any family records or memories of it?
A memory of Lowfield Heath in 1880
Crowland Road Infants And Junior School
I grew up in Clifton Gardens N.15 going to Crowland Road infant and junior schools and later on to Markfield Secondary Modern, 1952 - 1962. My parents owned the grocery shop on the corner of Fairview and Walgrave Avenue. I enjoyed reading other memories from so long ago.
A memory of Tottenham in 1952 by
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Captions
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Fore Street and the triangular medieval market place are the heart of the town: here we see the south side, behind the Market House's stand of horse-drawn cabs.
A view of the Archbishop of Canterbury`s official residence when Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher, who crowned the Queen, was primate. The gatehouse was completed about 1495.
Conisbrough is derived from Cyningsburgh, Anglo-Saxon for the king's fortified settlement; it features in Sir Walter Scott's novel 'Ivanhoe' as the home of Athelstan, the last of the Saxon royal line.
The High Street was one of the principal shopping areas of the city to be damaged during the air raids of December 1940.
This photograph of the town was taken from the tower of St Thomas's church at the top of the High Street, depicting an elegant mix of Georgian houses, bow-fronted cottages and covered shop fronts.
Brook is still a beautiful village, despite being something of a dormitory for the expanding town of Ashford nearby. Here we see a group of picturesque old weatherboarded farm buildings.
This view looks across the broad expanse of firm sands to a goods train, which is probably carrying slate on the now-vanished harbour branch of the railway.
Cornwall's cathedral city is at the centre of a mining district and sits comfortably in a broad valley, at the junction of the rivers Kenwyn and Allen.
Weymouth's beach has gently sloping sands and is mostly sheltered from the storms and swells of the English Channel, making it suitable for the youngest and most inexperienced of bathers.
Looking north along Grafton Street towards Trinity College and the east portico of the Bank of Ireland. Grafton Street is Dublin's most elegant shopping street.
A tranquil mid-summer view of the Grand Junction or Union Canal, which reached the nearby town of Tring in 1799 as part of a massive construction, designed to link London and Birmingham and which subsequently
The fine bay windows of this house have been filled in with concrete and adorned with graffiti, while other windows have been boarded up.
These priests had plenty of money and plenty of time on their hands, and were always getting up to mischief.
The cannon 'Mons Meg' is said to have been cast at Mons, Belgium in 1486, on the orders of James III.
Some of the wooden battleships of Nelson's navy were built at the waterline of East Cowes.
At the end of South Gate is the Market Place, which has on its east side one of Lincolnshire's finest churches.
This is the top of Knowle Locks, an impressive flight of five wide locks built in 1932 to replace six narrow ones, the remains of which can still be seen.
On closer examination, however, the fabric's earlier origins become evident.
Cosily tucked away in a fold of the sandstone hills south-east of Godalming, Mare Lane leads to the highest point of the Down at Hydons Ball, where it reaches 593 feet.
A fisherman's life was hard, even when the weather was kind: in 1872 William Munday, coxswain of the Mullion lifeboat, and his crew of three were lost on a fine spring day when their boat foundered in
The original viaduct of 1847 collapsed after heavy rain, and was rebuilt three years later.
A directory of the time states that 'the church of All Saints is a plain and ancient edifice of flint, consisting of chancel, nave, south aisle and porch, and a small wooden tower with pinnacles, rising
The college was first built for the Minster's Chantry Priests in about 1465.These priests had plenty of money and plenty of time on their hands, and were always getting up to mischief.
This was the latest of many wooden bridges to span the River Stour at this point on the main route from Essex (right) into Suffolk.
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