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Memories

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The bridge from which this photograph was taken was a "humpitty-backed" stone bridge where a pair of arches spanned the river and a smaller arch crossed the "lade". The bridge was in service from about 1840 until the new bridge was ...Read more

A memory of Bridge of Allan in 1952 by Alastair Macdonald

Pre Student And Nurse

I worked at the Hospital from 1954 to 1958. My first ward was the Rheumatic Fever Unit for children. Prof: Bywater. Chief Rheumatologist. I remember that the visiting hours were Sunday 2.00pm till 400pm. So hard for the little ...Read more

A memory of Taplow in 1954 by Valerie Kent

Bristol's Christmas Steps, Lewins Mead Bs1

This is one part of ancient Bristol that has survived, virtually unchanged apart from the signs but the city beyond is very different. At one time sailing ships moored at the bottom of these steps before ...Read more

A memory of Bristol by Paul Townsend

Erbistock

I WAS BORN AND BROUGHT UP TO THE AGE OF 12 IN ERBISTOCK AND I LOVED IT.  THE BOAT INN WAS RUN BY THE WILLIAMS'S.   I PLAYED WITH CAROL AND TIMOTHY IN ALL THE OUTBUILDINGS.  I WENT TO SUNDAY SCHOOL IN THE CHURCH AND THERE WAS A LADY CALLED ...Read more

A memory of Erbistock in 1959 by Barbara Parry

To Ron Goodliffe A Trumpington Ploughman 1946 1958

My late father worked for the Pemberton Estate as a tractor driver from 1946 to around 1958. I offer below, in his memory, an extract from the tribute I composed for his funeral in March 2005. ...Read more

A memory of Trumpington by Brian Goodliffe

River Roding

The bottom of Silver Street on the other side of the bridge ended at the river with some railings over a drainage outlet.  This was a good place for children to get into the river from the middle of the village and paddle upstream under ...Read more

A memory of Abridge in 1962

Herbert William Day Cotswold Stone Builder 29/05/1893 1/2/1986

My first school was Botany; now a house. Children from the local villages went to Botany School until they reached the age of ten, then to Chedworth School. I remember ...Read more

A memory of Calcot in 1940 by Dorothy Lawrence

Part 17

Billy must have died when I was about 9 or so, say about 1949, and I do believe Liza died in about 1953, she died peacefully in bed. We did not see her one day, one of the men went in and she was upstairs in bed, she had died in the ...Read more

A memory of Middle Rainton in 1945 by John Harvey

Ravenscroft School From 1951 1958

I attended this school from 1951 -1958 and Mr Henry Francis Bailey ( with his wife Mary ) was always the head. At least till the time I left in 1958. They had one son Christopher who I believe wanted to become a ...Read more

A memory of Beckington by patwalker37srpen

Brimscombe Valley 1890 25165

This photo is taken off a knowle in Knapp Hill Lane, above the Factories, of Critchlies, (now demolished0, who made hair grips and knitting needles in the 1960s and Olympic Varnish, who in made working canal boats in ...Read more

A memory of Brimscombe by Philip Baker

Captions

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Caption For Lewes, The River C1960

Cliffe Hill Street 1894 Cliffe, across the River Ouse, still has a very separate feel to Lewes up the hill.

Caption For Eccleston, Eccleston Ferry 1895

The River Dee rises at Bala, and makes an 80-mile dash for the sea, sweeping through a dangerous switchback of rapids and rocks to Llangollen.

Caption For Woolverstone, The Hall C1955

Woolverstone Hall was built in 1776 by William Berners overlooking the Orwell, up-river from Pin Mill.

Caption For Chepstow, Horseshoe Bend 1950

Just up river from the bridge and the castle, this would appear to be a view from Wintour`s Leap of the beginning of the great Horseshoe Bend which encompasses the peninsula of Lancaut.

Caption For Chatham, View From The Lines C1960

The significance of the River Medway in the life and development of Chatham is well illustrated in this view of the town and the river from the slopes of The Lines above Town Hall Gardens.

Caption For London, The Kings Head 1875

This old inn, just over the river from London Bridge, was called by Stow 'one of the fair inns' of Southwark.

Caption For London, The Kings Head 1875

This old inn, just over the river from London Bridge, was called by Stow ‘one of the fair inns’ of Southwark. In 1720 it was described as ‘well built, handsome, and enjoying a good trade’.

Caption For Bainbridge, 1896

We are looking down on the village from the site of a Roman camp. The old Roman road drops steeply down onto the green, via a bridge over the short river from Semer Water, two miles away.

Caption For Bedford, View From Town Bridge C1955

Taken from slightly further out over the river from the bridge, this view shows the riverside conservatory/orangery added to the Swan's rear ranges before 1900 - it has subsequently been

Caption For Abingdon, Stert Street 1893

Rather unkindly, Jerome K Jerome of 'Three Men in a Boat' fame, and our constant companion along the river from Oxford to Kingston, described Abingdon as 'quiet, eminently respectable, clean and desperately

Caption For Pin Mill, The Butt And Oyster Inn 1909

The Butt and Oyster is probably the most well-known pub on the East Coast, at Pin Mill, on the River Orwell.

Caption For Bishopstoke, Montague Terrace C1955

At Bishopstoke the River Itchen divides into a number of waterways.

Caption For Chesham, The Waterside 1897

South-eat of Chesham town centre the road runs alongside the River Chess in its flat-bottomed valley.

Caption For Iffley, The Mill Lock And Bridge 1890

A little down-river from the city of Oxford is Iffley, with its mill lock and bridge. The water mill here dates back as far as the 11th century, and survived for almost 800 years.

Caption For Gourock, The Cloch Lighthouse 1900

During the Second World War, an anti-submarine boom ran across the river from Cloch Point to the Gantocks.

Caption For Orford, The Village 1909

Across the river from Orford are some of the defence installations built on Orford Ness during the First World War.

Caption For Totnes, The Weir 1905

The weir, a mile up the river from Totnes Bridge, was built in 1581 to provide water for the town mills, and marks the end of the freshwater Dart - below here the river is tidal.

Caption For Bristol, The Harbour C1935

In the days of sail, vessels making their way up the Avon to Bristol had to contend with several problems: the current, the wind through the Gorge, and the serpentine course of the river itself.

Caption For Calstock, From Ashburton Hill 1890

These ships are topsail schooners and what might be an inside or outside Tamar barge at Calstock, 17 miles up-river from the sea.

Caption For Ferrybridge, The Canal C1955

Grain and produce came up river from East Yorkshire, while coal, glass products, and minerals were sent from here both to London and the continent.

Caption For Bodinnick, The Ferry Inn 1888

Bodinnick is a tiny village built on a steep hill on one side of Pont Creek, an estuary of the Fowey River. From here the ferryboats would take the passengers across the fast-flowing river to Fowey.

Caption For Bodinnick, The Ferry Inn 1888

Bodinnick is a tiny village built on a steep hill on one side of Pont Creek, an estuary of the Fowey River. From here the ferryboats would take the passengers across the fast-flowing river to Fowey.

Caption For Whitby, From Spring Hill 1885

This interesting view was taken from the western side of the river from the site of today's police station, and shows many of the yards along Church Street.

Caption For Great Yarmouth, Town Hall 1891

Prior to the opening of the railways, considerable quantities of goods for Norwich and the villages along the way were sent up- river from Great Yarmouth.