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Drawbridge Cottage Exeter Canal Photo Ref 82302
Ref: 82302 This is a photo of Drawbridge Cottage where my family lived in 1901. John Thomas Helley and wife Eliza Ann(nee Gitsham) lived there with their children Florence, Maud, Louie ...Read more
A memory of Newton St Cyres in 1920 by
Growing Up In The Avenues
I left school in 1965, Ogley Hay Girls' School, my maiden name was Kathleen Cooper. My birth father was George Kelly although I was brought up by my grandparents, Nell and Gerald Cooper. I loved the avenues, everyone knew ...Read more
A memory of Brownhills in 1965 by
My Time Near Andover
WE were married in July 1966. As I was stationed at Middle Wallop, after our honeymoon in London we caught the train to Andover and stayed for 2 nights at the White Hart (is that the name? Opposite the old bus station near the ...Read more
A memory of Andover by
Channel View
I've seen this photo in several places and it's always captioned as being 1965 - it's got to be before that because I lived in Channel View from 1960 to 63 just below those garages on the right of the photo - and in this photo the building ...Read more
A memory of Risca in 1960 by
Napier Terrace
I was born in Wisbech in 1937 in Ramnoth Road, we moved to Napier Terrace on the canal until after the war when we moved to Wales. I have fond memories of living in Napier Terrace, we lived in the last house, No 37. My father was in ARP ...Read more
A memory of Wisbech by
The Thirties
My grandmother, widowed, lived during the 20s and 30s at 1, High Street (next to The Dolphin), and was glad of family visits to assist in her invalid-style of life. That usually meant our family, and my mother took a number of ...Read more
A memory of Middleton Stoney in 1930 by
Escavating Eastham Dock
Lived in Eastham in late 40s and early 50s at Carlett Park (in the old army camp) during the digging of the dock and went to the village school. Had a lot of fun riding on the machinery when they were doing it. That was before ...Read more
A memory of Eastham in 1949 by
Growing Up In Purley
When I lived in Purley, there weren't many stores. I can remember when Sainsbury's opened across from Purley Fountain. There was a toy shop in the High Street called Morgan's. I stole a whistle from there when I was not very ...Read more
A memory of Purley in 1950 by
An American Boy In Stockton Heath England
I was a 13 year old boy from Wilmington, North Carolina, USA. My father was a Sergeant in the US Air Force, assigned to Burtonwood RAF Station. We rented a flat at 35 London Rd, Stockton Heath. It was ...Read more
A memory of Stockton Heath in 1956 by
Holiday Visits
In the early to mid 1950s I spent holiday time in Somersham - it was fascinating for a child from London, especially the little ditches and the wildflowers. I stayed with "auntie" (Emma Goodchild), a relative of some kind through my ...Read more
A memory of Somersham by
Captions
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Several small boys and girls are sitting beside the canal.
The Lancaster Canal follows a sinuous course between Tewitfield locks and a splendid aqueduct carrying it across the River Lune, just outside Lancaster.
Just to the north of Odiham runs the Basingstoke Canal, completed in 1794.
The Roman Foss Dyke canal fell out of use during Anglo-Saxon times, but was restored after the Norman Conquest to become one of the main outlets for the great medieval city's wool and lead exports.
When the Sheffield & South Yorkshire Canal was modernised in the early 1980s, several locks were re-sited and enlarged, and this was one of them.
Though there are a number of candles on the pulpit and in the chandelier suspended from the ceiling, it is likely that oil lamps would also have been used at this time.
Loaded narrow boats head north on the Grand Union Canal, their cargo concealed from both weather and prying eyes by careful sheeting.
Freshwater shell fossils, the fruits of ancient trees, and the fossilised remains of mammals can all be discovered.
The construction of the Basingstoke Canal in 1794 cut through the castle's outer defences to the south.
Once linked to the Bridgewater Canal, this view was taken near to Heath Road. The pool was subsequently drained and filled in prior to the development of the later road system around Runcorn.
Freshwater shell fossils, the fruits of ancient trees, and the fossilised remains of mammals can all be discovered.
A lock linked the river and Nottingham Canal at the projection near the end of the walkway.
Preston was a major cotton town, and the Lancaster Canal runs from Ashton Basin.
The hamlet of New Mill grew up near the canal north of Tring around Tring Mill, now Heygate Flour.
What is now a short arm and extensive marina moorings was once the main line of the Oxford Canal.
Here the railway, canal and Holyhead Road (A5) run beside the river amid the Berwyn Mountains, a wild heather-clad upland. King's Bridge spans the river on the left of the picture.
At the east end of the nave aisle and on each side of the chancel arch are large brass posts with decorated candle holders, five in all.
The Lancaster canal runs nearby, dug out by navvies in 1797. Tom Rowe, the Lancashire cheese factor, lived at York House in Bilsborrow.
Hidden beyond it is the Thames and Severn Canal, and then the railway. Behind the viaduct on the left is Bourne Mill, formerly used by H S Hack to produce walking sticks.
From there, the Kennet & Avon Canal plunges down the extraordinary flight of 29 locks at Caen Hill to the valley below.
These locks are so close together that in order to maintain a satisfactory supply of water, it was necessary to extend the canal at the left-hand side above each chamber.
It was once an iron-ore warehouse from which the ore was loaded onto canal boats and shipped on to local ironworks. There is still some evidence of this traffic in the form of tramlines.
Set on the banks of the Tennant Canal, the Abbey was founded in 1130 by the Norman baron Richard de Granville. John Leland, in the 16th century, described the abbey as 'the fairest in all Wales'.
Loxwood is on the route of the partly-restored Wey and Arun canal near the Surrey border—'London's lost route to the sea'.The shop on the left has old enamelled metal cigarette advertising signs fixed
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