Places
26 places found.
Those places high-lighted have photos. All locations may have maps, books and memories.
- Nook, Cumbria (near Kirkby Lonsdale)
- Barrow Nook, Lancashire
- Moss Nook, Merseyside
- Agar Nook, Leicestershire
- Pickering Nook, Durham
- Heads Nook, Cumbria
- Wornish Nook, Cheshire
- Salendine Nook, Yorkshire
- Sour Nook, Cumbria
- Urlay Nook, Cleveland
- Wall Nook, Durham
- Acres Nook, Staffordshire
- Donna Nook, Lincolnshire
- Hale Nook, Lancashire
- Windy Nook, Tyne and Wear
- Daisy Nook, Greater Manchester
- Nimble Nook, Greater Manchester
- Pocket Nook, Greater Manchester
- Pudding Pie Nook, Lancashire
- Water's Nook, Greater Manchester
- Greetland Wall Nook, Yorkshire
- Moss Nook, Greater Manchester
- Water Garth Nook, Cumbria
- The Nook, Shropshire (near Prees)
- The Nook, Shropshire (near Childs Ercall)
- Bleak Hey Nook, Greater Manchester
Photos
39 photos found. Showing results 321 to 39.
Maps
247 maps found.
Memories
2,374 memories found. Showing results 161 to 170.
Standon Life.
I had a wonderful childhood growing up in Standon. I went to the old school in Standon High Street. We walked across the road to have dinner in the village hall. We had the luxury of a swimming pool - outdoor changing rooms. We had drinking ...Read more
A memory of Standon by
A Polzeath Lad
I grew up in Polzeath and my two best mates also lived in the area, sadly, both dead now. I remember in the summers the CSSM coming down and staying in New Polzeath, arranging lots of beach games in the afternoons but building a 'Pulpit" ...Read more
A memory of Polzeath by
Coronation Day
My mother took short term housekeeping positions and in 1953 we lived in Westbrook House in Westbrook village, looking after Sir Edgar and Lady Ludlow Hewitt. He was a gentleman farmer and I sometimes drove around his land with him in ...Read more
A memory of Bromham in 1953 by
Campsbourne Junior School Around 1960
I attended Campsbourne Junior School between 1958 and 1961. I arrived during the 2nd Year at the age of 8, having moved from St Michael's School in Highgate. I was placed in the top stream and my class teachers were ...Read more
A memory of Hornsey by
Late Childhood Memories Of Watchfield
Like others on the site I have very happy memories of living in Watchfield (1956 to 1966).My father was the Hall Manager of Kitchener Hall (RMCS) and we lived in army quarters in Hill Road. The houses were two ...Read more
A memory of Watchfield by
Coney Hall Resident 1966 1988
I've great memories of jumping through those bushes in the central reservation, before the zebra crossing, and subsequent Pelican crossing, was installed connecting the Post Office to the Co-Op on the corner facing the ...Read more
A memory of West Wickham
Marist Convent Nympsfield
I arrived at the Marist Convent in Nympsfield in 1948 with my brother Bobby but. from then on he was known as Robert. We had travelled from Manchester with Social Workers with another brother and sister Nora and David ...Read more
A memory of Nympsfield by
Brampton Road Primary School
I began my school days during the 1950's at Brampton Road Primary School, Bexleyheath. My over-riding memory is a time of innocence, wonder and happiness, where we were given freedom to learn and be creative in a ...Read more
A memory of Bexleyheath by
St. Mary Bourne
This is the War Memorial, which is in the centre of the village. The white house was occupied a few years later by Air Vice marshall and Mrs. Perry-Keene and adjacent is the home of Mr. and Mrs. Cook with their daughter Angela, not to mention the Jack Russell Terriers.
A memory of St Mary Bourne in 1955 by
The Great North Road
How great was the Great North Road when it squeezed through these ancient gates until the early 1970s? Traffic built up on both sides waiting to get through. For a child this was the spot that marked where our holidays began, as ...Read more
A memory of Alnwick in 1968 by
Captions
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The pub became especially well-known for its home-cooked hams. The war memorial—with Greek maiden and her once fully-operational electric torch—had been erected in 1922.
Two doors up there are postcards outside the stationer, book- seller and Athenaeum Library of Evans Harrison.
In the Domesday Book the village was mentioned as 'Bodetone', meaning 'the dwelling house of Botl'. It was 1706 before the name became what it is today, a common old England name.
Nestled in the rear slopes of the North Downs, the village derives its ancient name from the Saxon word 'wudmeresthorn', meaning 'thornbush by the boundary of the wood', and was mentioned in the Domesday Book
We also see our first caravan of this book: there will be a lot more over the years, as people seek cheap mobile holidays.
We are looking northwards towards the Square (centre), with 18th-century brick and tile houses on both sides of Wimborne Street.
The Captain Cook Birthplace Museum was built here in 1978, and is well worth a visit.
Its white- painted stone under a thatched roof is pierced by Norfolk sashed windows with extremely meagre- looking timber lintels.
This Wednesday morning 9 o'clock photograph is the first view we have in this book of Sheep Street in the far corner of the Square.
Taken from Winney Hill, this photograph looks over Harthill in the northerly direction of Kiveton Park collieries.
As this book is published, considerable concern is being expressed with regard to the already over-full graveyard, and its future is being actively discussed.
By coincidence, one of the best-selling books of the time was 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', so Taylor simply stuck the figurehead on the roof, and added those of Eva and Topsy, implying that the cabin was
Booksellers and stationers T W Atkinson even operated a library from which books could be loaned at 2d a time.
When the author was researching this book (2004), the road (the A631) was almost non-existent as large road works were taking place, which were due for completion by the spring.
Like the first photograph in this book, the timeless beauty of this scene has remained unchanged for more than half a millennium.
This is how the village must have looked when the writer Eric Parker passed this way while researching his book 'Highways & Byways in Surrey', published in 1908.
At the time of the Domesday Book there were already 21 houses in Christchurch, and 24 canons attached to the priory church.
We also see our first caravan of this book: there will be a lot more over the years, as people seek cheap mobile holidays.
He was staying in Ilkley when his book 'The Origin of Species' was published in November 1859.
Looking like a refugee from Disney World, or something dreamed up by mad King Ludwig of Bavaria, the Shakespeare Memorial Building was erected in 1879.
Many factories ran holiday clubs whereby workers could save over the year, and seaside lodgings were also cheaper if you provided your own food, which the landlady would cook.
In the Domesday Book it is written as 'Cocreham'. The original village was burnt down in the 1600s and had to be completely rebuilt.
The pub became especially well-known for its home-cooked hams. The war memorial—with Greek maiden and her once fully-operational electric torch—had been erected in 1922.
The ethos of the owners was to supply the public with old-fashioned home baking and cooking in a comfortable and pleasant environment.
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