Books

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Memories

8,155 memories found. Showing results 261 to 270.

Slough High Street Park Street & Chandos Road

Hi, I am researching my family tree and am trying to locate Chandos Road and Unity Cottages in Park Street.  I believe that Chandos Road was knocked down when the Queensmere Centre was built.  I wondered if ...Read more

A memory of Slough in 1900 by Jan Saunders

Helmshore 1950 1968

I was born in Musbury Road at the bottom of Tor Hill and spent 5 years with Tor as my back yard; my name is still chiselled in the rocks at the top. Anyone remember the Tor Mile race? In 1955 we moved up to 3, Lancaster Avenue, ...Read more

A memory of Helmshore by Ian Seville

Mother's Brother And Sisters

Just after the war Dad, Mum and I would travel every other weekend to visit aunts and uncles and cousins on our Norton motorbike and sidecar. We usually based our visit with Aunt Flo and Uncle Stan (a wartime despatch ...Read more

A memory of Andover in 1940 by John Scott

My Early Childhood Years

My grandfather worked at Murex down by the river and I loved being able to pick him up from work on the odd occassion with my late Mum, Dad and younger sister as we would be allowed to see any boats passing. I still love the ...Read more

A memory of Rainham in 1964 by Rosemary Singleton

Staying At The Bullers Arms

When i was 11 I started school at Tavistock, and met a lovely girl called Helen Desmond who became my best friend. Helen's family (sister Sandra and brother Jonathan) lived at the Bullers Arms and I used to stay there ...Read more

A memory of Mary Tavy in 1971 by Lesley Favliones Nee Bishop

Boyhood Memories From 1952

It was around this time that the tram lines were taken up from Sunderland Road in Gateshead. The men stored the old lines in Somerset Street and Devonshire Street. As boys we would dig up the tar from around the  streets ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead in 1952 by Dave Southern

Childhood Memories From 1949

I was born in Hubert Terrace which ran off Bank Street and along to Cuthbert Street. Further down was School Street and Marian Street which ran along to Derwentwater Road, and on Derwentwater Road was Lady Vernon School ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead by Betty Harris

Swimming Above Stepping Stones Weir At Bothal

Our Mam being an Ashington lassie, we returned to her birthplace when Mam divorced my father who she met before the Second World War - that was when Mam was in London and working in 'service'. We were ...Read more

A memory of Bothal in 1949 by Wullie Harries

A Quiet Haven Of Peace.

I lived next door to Davenham Church, and one summer's day, when I was about 7, I went for a walk around the churchyard. Hearing a rustling noise on the ground, I crouched down, parted some long grass, and found a baby ...Read more

A memory of Davenham in 1959 by Lynn Quigley

Mountpumps Farm Flimwell

I would love to hear from anyone who remembers my parents Les and Sheila Pickering who farmed Mountpumps Farm in Flimwell from about 1944 to 1951. Mrs Everett owned the farm and rented it to my parents. I know they were ...Read more

A memory of Flimwell in 1944 by Ann Brunger

Captions

2,258 captions found. Showing results 625 to 648.

Caption For Ambleside, Sweden Bridge 1912

High Sweden Bridge is a picturesque packhorse bridge over the Scandale Beck between High Pike and Snarker Pike (there is a Low Sweden Bridge lower down the valley).

Caption For Hythe, High Street C1955

Note the blinds down on the shops on the right.

Caption For Falmouth, Cowlands Creek River Fal 1912

Behind is a typical ramshackle scene: a heap of firewood, a tumbling-down boarded building advertising 'good stabling' to visiting riders, and a trio of beached row-boats for hire.

Caption For Wetherby, North Street 1909

Further down the street, Continental Motors is the local agent for Michelin.

Caption For Wetherby, North Street 1909

Further down the street, Continental Motors is the local agent for Michelin.

Caption For Kington St Michael, The Church C1960

Long-standing local residents do not remember the church tower without its pinnacles, although one pinnacle was struck by lightning and fell down in the early 1990s.

Caption For Bingley, Boating On The Aire 1923

The view from this side of the river includes the industrial gasworks, but further down river past the weir is the rather more pleasant Myrtle Park, which opened to the public in 1908.

Caption For Rothwell, High Street C1955

The Old Greyhound Inn is still in business, and the cottages further down still look up the street towards the junction.

Caption For Rothwell, The Charnel House In The Church Crypt C1955

Frith's photographer takes us down into the crypt of Holy Trinity church, discovered by an 18th-century gravedigger when the aisle floor collapsed beneath him.

Caption For St Annes, On The Pier 1906

The latter's pier, however, was pulled down in 1960. The pier at St Anne's opened in 1885, with extensions following in 1904.

Caption For Corringham, One Tree Hill C1955

Formerly Bennitts Hill, One Tree Hill was named after the large ash that stood here until the First World War (when it blew down in a gale).

Caption For Fowey, From Bodinnick Village 1888

Down the slipway beyond the historic Ferry Inn, car ferries ply to and fro across the waters of the Fowey.

Caption For Parkmill, The Gower Hotel 1910

Further down the road we come to the Gower Heritage Centre.

Caption For York, Law Courts 1893

These awe-inspiring and formidable walls and gates were knocked down in 1934. At that time there were no conservation laws, and anything that was in the way of progress was destroyed.

Caption For Accrington, Cottage Hospital 1899

The need for Cottage Hospitals was great a century ago, but with the advent of more advanced equipment and specialised nursing, these cottage hospitals, like the isolation hospitals, closed down.

Caption For Ambleside, Sweden Bridge 1912

High Sweden Bridge is a picturesque packhorse bridge over the Scandale Beck between High Pike and Snarker Pike (there is a Low Sweden Bridge lower down the valley).

Caption For Oxford, View On The Cherwell 1906

The River Cherwell is quieter than the Thames; a popular run on a summer evening is up for a drink to the Victoria and Albert pub at Old Marston, whose garden runs down to the river.

Caption For Cambridge, 1st Eastern General Hospital C1918

Looking south down the wonderful architectural hotch-potch of Trinity Street, with the medieval church of Great St Mary in the distance.

Caption For Cambridge, Trinity Street 1914

Looking south down the wonderful architectural hotch-potch of Trinity Street, with the medieval church of Great St Mary in the distance.

Caption For Burry Port, General View C1950

This general view shows typical houses of the time; the terrace in the foreground is followed by 1950s semis leading down to the waters of the inlet of Carmarthen Bay, with the Gower peninsular just visible

Caption For Chatham, Town Hall Gardens C1960

The gardens are laid out on a site that slopes gently down towards Rope Walk and The Brook, offering a pleasant place in the centre of town in which to stroll or sit, and perhaps recover

Caption For Grindleford, The Village C1960

Here we see the junction of the Hathersage road and the road leading down to the bridge over the Derwent.

Caption For Wareham, North Street C1955

Its streets, North, South, East and West, follow the pattern laid down by the Romans.

Caption For Midsomer Norton, The War Memorial C1965

It emerges from under the Island in the Square and runs down to Radstock. A tunnel now diverts its once frequent floods.