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Memories

1,284 memories found. Showing results 341 to 350.

Hopping In Kent

Now I can't say 100% that it was Marden but it just sticks in my mind. Although I am only 31 now I went hopping a couple of times with my family who were originally from Silvertown. The last time I went was in the early to mid ...Read more

A memory of Staplehurst in 1985 by Teresa Garrett

Cherished Memories Continued

How well I remember having to march down to the rectory for our school dinners, the chatter was mind-boggling, my grandma used to say!I can hear you boys coming as soon as you get by RA's shop", that was Instones the ...Read more

A memory of Broseley in 1947 by John Wilkes

East End

I was born in Sunderland in 1948 and Christened in Holy Trinity Church, Church Walk, where all of my mother's side of the family had been hatched, matched, and dispatched. I was raised in Wear Garth till the age of twelve years old when my ...Read more

A memory of Ryhope by Sheila James

End Of The Great Days

From Billy Bell: I remember the good days at the regatta, going to Hexham to row on the Tyne and then we grew up. I went to work at Hamsterly collierly then when I was 16 I worked underground, I had my own pit pony, driving tubs of coal to the landing to go to the bank which is the surface.

A memory of Ebchester in 1963 by Billy Bell

Ryhill Res

Ryhill Reservoir was the place where my sister Mary took me in the summer months, mainly on Sundays, and at that time there was a small shop which sold ice cream and pop and also fishing nets attached to a bamboo cane; there were plenty of ...Read more

A memory of Ryhill in 1961 by Roland Mitchell

New House

I was born in Fiddington in 1947, in a very old thatch cottage, so I was told. we moved to Northway in 1950 to a new house in Elm Road - number 6. It was a three bed and living room and kitchen, we felt very pleased ...Read more

A memory of Northway in 1950 by David Trenfield

Childhood To Marriage

MY first memory of"LLan"was driving down the hill from Swffryyd, to my new home at No.6 High Street. My father Thomas Hughes, with my mother Eileen, had purchased Barttlets Grocery Store,a long held wish of my fathers to own ...Read more

A memory of Llanhilleth by Derek Hughes

School Days

I remember attending the village school opposite Holy Trinity Church of which I was a chior boy for a few years. We had a local football team made up of choristors - we were very good. I lived at the bottom of the village in New ...Read more

A memory of Long Itchington in 1950 by Roger Sheasby

Paper Trail

Lundhill is a steep hill that leads into Royston, where the Monkton coking plant lies. Just at the side of Lundhill was Monkton Row, it was to be demolished in the 1980s. But before then a big flat bed lorry failed to take the corner of ...Read more

A memory of Barnsley by Roland Mitchell

Rooms Lane St Bernards

I was born on Room's Lane in one of three cottages near to the train station. My father worked for Roland Humphry. We moved to St Bernard's not long after I was born, the house was the previous horseman's home, My dad ...Read more

A memory of Morley in 1951 by Leslie Kershaw

Captions

827 captions found. Showing results 817 to 840.

Caption For St Ives, The Harbour 1892

Whilst one sculls from the stern, the youngster in the bows keeps a keen look out.

Caption For West Marden, Village C1955

There is plenty of history here: Bow Hill was a great Stone Age centre on the Downs and there is the site of a Roman villa nearby. A local mansion, Watergate House, is now demolished.

Caption For Windermere, The Baddeley Clock C1955

This clock is a notable landmark by the side of the road connecting Windermere with Bowness.

Caption For Retford, Grove Street C1955

Several of the houses are 18th-century, and are occupied, as in most small towns, by solicitors, including the one on the left with the bow windows.

Caption For Bowness On Windermere, The Ferry Boat 1896

The Bowness ferry carries a coach and four across Lake Windermere.

Caption For Pirbright, The Village Pond 1908

On the extreme left is the Cricketers pub, while Briant's general store (centre left) became Rice Stores after the Second World War, and is now a chic interior decorator's emporium called, appropriately

Caption For Bowness On Windermere, The Tennis Courts 1925

Just two motor cars are parked by what is now a very congested roadside.

Caption For Liverpool, Hms Hercules 1890

A problem with warships like 'Hercules' was that though they carried an impressive range of weaponry, they lacked firepower at the bow and stern.

Caption For Bolton By Bowland, The Green 1921

The village (the name means 'the dwelling by the bow of the river') has two greens; because it was all part of the Pudsay estate, there was no pressure to expand or to pull down and rebuild.

Caption For Great Yarmouth, Town Hall 1891

Several of them can be seen in this picture: the two in the background with white patches on their bows are North River wherries, which traded to places like North Walsham, but were limited because

Caption For Liverpool, Ss Adriatic 1890

Her speed and metal bows got her into trouble again in July 1885, when she sank the brigantine 'G A Pink' - five crew died.