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Photos

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Maps

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1901-1903, Low Alwinton Ref. RNC767748
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Memories

637 memories found. Showing results 161 to 170.

Village Carnival Queen

Hello, I have many happy memories of Quarnford, born and bred there till my marrage in 1973. Born at New Lodge, Quarnford. Although we got a lot of low cloud and bad weather, I enjoyed my life living there, as a child I loved ...Read more

A memory of Flash in 1957 by Jessica Smith (Nee Poole)

New Years Eve And Blaen Infants School

Born and bred in Princess Street, Blaen, stayed until the family moved to Maerdy and from there I went to East Glamorgan Hospital to train as a nurse. Now in Bangkok working as a consultant to a large ...Read more

A memory of Blaenllechau by John Howe

Park Court ~ Balham Park Road

My Aunt & Uncle (Ella & Cecil Forbes) lived in a two bedroom flat in Park Court in Balham Park Road from 1948 & throughout the 1950s and I spent much time staying with them as my parents ran pubs in The City. ...Read more

A memory of Balham in 1955

Garfield Road Rec

Half way down Garfield Road was the Recreation Ground; better know to all as simply the Rec. It was quiet a large area bounded on one side by Garfield Road and the other by the River Wandle, about which more another time. Along ...Read more

A memory of Wimbledon in 1954 by David Aubrey

Mr Atlee Garfield Road

Mr Atlee, or as he was when I knew him, Old Mr Atlee, lived on the corner of Cowper and Garfield Roads. Garfield Road was a long road starting at the balloon factory, passing the primary school and the Rec and ending at the ...Read more

A memory of Wimbledon in 1953 by David Aubrey

400 Green Lane

It is with found memories of growing up in the war years that I look back on my time in Palmers Green.   We had moved from Tottenham in 1940 when I was 6 years old into the shop and house opposite the Fox Lane Almshouses. My ...Read more

A memory of Palmers Green in 1941

Evacuation From London To Harpley

I remember Harpley as a four-year-old, when it had no running water, electricity or gas.  I was evacuated there when first born, in 1939 during the war years and stayed in a cottage opposite to the village ...Read more

A memory of Harpley in 1940 by David Newman

When We Came Here

When our family, consisting of myself, Jean Pauline Smith, my mother who has since passed away (also called Jean, but her middle name is Audrey), and my sister and brother came to Bulwell, we came from the famous or infamous Balloon ...Read more

A memory of Bulwell in 1978 by Jean Smith

My Polish Papa

This story was told to me by my daddy's best friend called Will Lawson. When I was one year old daddy used to cut the grass at Gleneagles and he was alowed to take the cuttings away to make bedding for the pigs that he kept. One day ...Read more

A memory of Glen Eagles in 1950 by Linda Newport

Choir Boys

Hello - I was a chorister at the church, I think between 1958/60 as I was born in 1947,o ur family the Schofields lived at no 10 Carville Avenue, Southborough, we were a Christian family. I have only found out by doing family research ...Read more

A memory of Southborough in 1958 by Nigel Schofield

Captions

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Caption For Measham, The School C1965

The standard plan puts the main entrance up two steps, with the assembly hall on the left under a low pitched roof, the boiler chimney in the middle, and classrooms to the right.

Caption For Kilburn, The Village Centre C1965

This is a village in two halves, High Town and Low Town, a quarter mile apart. Land around here was once one of the royal hunting grounds. The White Horse, a chalk hill figure, was carved in 1857.

Caption For Ascott Under Wychwood, The Green C1950

Behind the spot where the photographer must have stood is Windrush Valley School, founded in 1951, and the low building on the extreme right of the picture, next to the three-gabled house

Caption For West Bay, The Quay 1897

Low tide in the Basin of what was still generally known as Bridport Harbour. Sailing vessels are grounded on their keels. The prominent building is the George Hotel (left).

Caption For Seatown, 1912

The view is westwards to the ledges of Cann Harbour (centre left) extending into Lyme Bat at low tide.

Caption For Misterton, The Church 1960

A long straggling village on a (very) low ridge, Misterton has its medieval parish church at its north end, with a fine stained glass window by John Piper in the Lady Chapel added in 1965.

Caption For Horning, The Swan C1965

Since 1965 an extension to the hotel has replaced the low building beside the thatched house. The village staithe is on the right of the picture, with a row of Georgian houses behind.

Caption For Beddgelert, The Bridge And Llewelyn Hotel 1889

The gracious two-span stone bridge spans the River Colwyn, which is running low in the summer drought.

Caption For Barnstaple, From The Railway Station 1894

Shapland & Petters works is now built, served by rail from the Ilfracombe line behind the new houses (left).

Caption For Trossachs, Hotel And Loch Achray 1899

Trossachs, overtopped by Ben Ledi and other high mountains, enclose the lake at the head: and those houses which we had seen before, with their cornfields sloping towards the water, stood very prettily under low

Caption For Wallasey, The Village 1895

From Old Wallasey (meaning 'the low land where the Welsh live') you can see over the Wirral to the Dee and Wales and the Irish Sea beyond.

Caption For Wisbech, The Canal 1929

Yet the tides have played the town foul over the centuries, silting up successive estuaries of the River Nene so that now the town is stranded ten miles from the sea.

Caption For Bibury, Swan Hotel C1960

The Coln runs alongside the village street, where ducks waddle along the tops of low stone walls and spotted trout nose their way through the waving waterweeds.

Caption For Lyme Regis, The Cobb 1900

The picture, at low tide, looks northwards to Ozone Terrace, the Lifeboat Station (centre), the Coastguard Station and the Bonded Store, and along to the end of Cobb hamlet at Cobb Cliff (centre

Caption For Bridport, East Street 1904

This lively low-angle shot, virtually from ground level, looks north-eastwards along the Market Place and the northern side of East Street at its western end.

Caption For Eton, Wall Paintings In Eton College Chapel 1930

Low wooden stalls along the walls of the choir accommodate the College; a large expanse of bare wall was left to be filled with a series of wall paintings.

Caption For Charmouth, The Beach C1960

Jane Austen writes in 'Persuasion': 'Charmouth with its high ground and extensive sweeps of country, and still more, its sweet retired bay, backed by dark cliffs where fragments of low rock

Caption For Bangor, The Front 1897

For those who made the short sail out from Belfast, the charms of this piece of coast were obvious: a bay lined with low, craggy rocks and sands providing picturesque bathing pools.

Caption For Beddgelert, The Bridge And Llewelyn Hotel 1889

The gracious two-span stone bridge spans the River Colwyn, which is running low in the summer drought.

Caption For Wisbech, The Canal 1929

Yet the tides have played the town foul over the centuries, silting up successive estuaries of the River Nene so that now the town is stranded ten miles from the sea.

Caption For Fleckney, High Street Looking South East C1960

This photograph shows a village opening out onto the low hedges and standard trees of the 1769 enclosure fields, which in their turn overlie the prominent ridge and furrow of an earlier age.

Caption For Lyme Regis, The Parade And Sands 1922

We look north-westwards at low tide to the cuboid shape of Sundial Cottage, and Library Cottage, which incorporates exotic but re-set older lead-work from France.

Caption For Teddington, The Anglers Hotel And The River 1890

The river is at this point scarcely affected by the tides, which are two hours later than at London Bridge, and the low and high water levels are respectively 16½ and 1½ feet higher, the bed

Caption For Loftus, Town Hall C1955

A peculiarity of Loftus town hall is that there is no south-facing clock face, because funds were low and this face was mostly out of sight, so expense was saved by only buying three faces!