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
- Heads Nook, Cumbria
- Agar Nook, Leicestershire
- Wornish Nook, Cheshire
- Pickering Nook, Durham
- Salendine Nook, Yorkshire
- Wall Nook, Durham
- Urlay Nook, Cleveland
- Sour Nook, Cumbria
- 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
- Moss Nook, Greater Manchester
- Water Garth Nook, Cumbria
- Greetland Wall Nook, Yorkshire
- The Nook, Shropshire (near Prees)
- The Nook, Shropshire (near Childs Ercall)
- Bleak Hey Nook, Greater Manchester
Photos
40 photos found. Showing results 421 to 40.
Maps
247 maps found.
Books
707 books found. Showing results 505 to 528.
Memories
2,382 memories found. Showing results 211 to 220.
The Sompting General Supply Stores.
I have a photocopy of a photograph of the General Supply Stores, Sompting, dated around 1913, showing the owners, J and A White, proudly standing outside, one with a little dog at his feet, the other holding his ...Read more
A memory of Sompting in 1910 by
52 The Meadows
My sister, Joan, lives at No.52, and several years ago she gave me a copy of a book prepared and published by one of her (recently deceased) neighbours. This man, with friends and acquaintances all suffering from the postwar housing ...Read more
A memory of Ingrave in 1947 by
Reminiscing
I was born in NW London. My first visit to Woburn Sands was about 1950 when my Uncle Ted and Aunt Ada moved here. They lived at the 'Dene' Aspley Hill. Aunt Ada did the housework for Mrs Russell the owner of the 'Dene' and my uncle ...Read more
A memory of Woburn Sands in 1950 by
My Years Living Next To The Butchers
My dad Rowland Cook took over Lasts butchers in 1985. I grew up in The Maltings which was attached to the shop and is the house on the right hand side of the photo with the big bay window from the age of 11 until ...Read more
A memory of Botesdale in 1985 by
Evac
I was evacuated to Balcombe in 1940 along with the Stanley Technical College pupils from south London. At first, 3 of us were billited at Monks, a large and beautiful home some 3 km out of the village. At that time the Johnston family owned the ...Read more
A memory of Balcombe in 1940 by
Living With Nanny
I remember well living with my nanny in Neames Forstell, she was Rose Beake, a formidable lady, but oh how I loved her. I remember going to Selling school, and if it rained or snowed being brought home in the police car by Sargeant ...Read more
A memory of Selling in 1954 by
This Was My Grandmas House As A Child
This house was where my grandma grew up, and her father before her. Her father was a gardener and her mother was a seamstress, she grew up to be a nurse. She currently lives in Bromley and is now 72 and has been ...Read more
A memory of Farningham in 1930 by
Growing Up Miss Patricia May
My memory is my first day of school. I hated it - all I wanted to do was go home, I did not want stay there. My family lived in Port Isaac all my life and generations before us. Myself and my sister were very happy in ...Read more
A memory of Port Isaac in 1959 by
Flood
I was sent off to buy some bread by my mother. But crossing the river Crouch by the bridge was impossible. Wickford was under water. I don't recall the year. But the brand name of the bread was: Wheatchief. I used to buy sandpaper in Mays for ...Read more
A memory of Wickford by
St. George's Presbyterian Church
St. George's Presbyterian Church stands in the forefront of this photograph between what was the Co-operative shop and Tommy Jones the fishmongers shop. How long the Presbyterian Church has stood on this site I ...Read more
A memory of Little Sutton in 1972 by
Captions
517 captions found. Showing results 505 to 528.
We are looking north towards Kemple End. The first sod of the railway line at Clitheroe was cut on 30 December 1846.
In 1888 there were no less than 88 houseboats and 55 launches moored along the river banks.
LOOKING TO the future, a lot depends on the fortune of the nation and its place in the world.
LOOKING TO the future, a lot depends on the fortune of the nation and its place in the world.
During the middle years of the 18th century the 'self help' movement flourished, and whenever evening classes were available, working men took the opportunity to 'better' themselves.
They played a significant role in getting some of the worst local pubs closed down through (Robert Cook) The Brewery Tap dates back to the 17th century.
in this book show a vanished Medway, with timber rafts towed by barges outside the Archbishop's palace, a once-familiar scene of the river as an industrial highway that is no more.
The Hall by the Sea opened in 1865 taking over the booking hall of a railway terminus that was never used and was converted into a ballroom and concert hall.
Many people approached their houses by grass tracks, and drew water from a well or carried buckets to a standpipe (sometimes a half-mile away); they cooked by paraffin or coal and lit their homes
Luton is about people, whatever the buildings look like. One must admit that modern towns are unbearably look-alike, but none look like Luton.
(Marion Hill) Woughton is one of the area's eighteen villages existing in the 11th century which were mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086; thirteen of the villages became local centres for the new
Certainly the former of these was a substantial settlement by the time of Domesday Book, and enjoyed market rights in the Middle Ages.
I have not mentioned the Civil War or local politics at all - these belong in other books; but I hope I have indicated that the town seen in the Frith views has much of its earlier framework or skeleton
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