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Photos

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Maps

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Books

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Memories

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Dynea, Glamorgan Canal

Can anyone remember upper and lower boat? I was told that my grandparents lived in the lock keepers cottage at Dynea and I know my grandmother Dora Bateman/Jones was born in Pencoed with the rest of her ...Read more

A memory of Rhydyfelin by Mrs Robinson

Childhood Memories

I lived at Bridge cottage from 1955 to 1964. Just across the road from the Blacksmiths Arms with the Plough Inn at our rear, and the Nags Head in the middle of the village there was no shortage of pubs for the adults. Two Dales ...Read more

A memory of Two Dales in 1960 by Margaret Sockett Nee'wilson

Working On The River

doe,s anybody remember the tug boat the conrquer paddle steam tug I worked on it for a short time. we used to bring the big coal ships from the mouthe of the tyne. I think I have spelled the name wrong but somebody out there will remember or have a photo cheers tara

A memory of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1953 by William Dempsey

National School

I lived in 26 Caledonia Street, from 1944 till 1953. I went to the National School in George Street. To get to school we had to pass Sadie Bells hens that she kept in her back yard but let them out in the back lane. They were ...Read more

A memory of Thornaby-on-Tees in 1950 by Norma Price

Always My Home.

Barnes was the place no matter what year I grew up there from 1951 born in Cleveland rd, I remember the pond freezing over and walking to the Island slipping and sliding on the ice...floating my boat.. with my dad..feeding the ducks on ...Read more

A memory of Barnes in 1962 by Susan Fisher

Pickmere Boating Lake

My wife came across John Baylies memories of Jack Spence. I was the little lad who also helped bring water from the spring. I only lived over the fields and was always down the lake, I remember the rowing boats blue & white ...Read more

A memory of Pickmere in 1958 by Daniel Lees

Venture Bus Company

My dad was a driver for the Venture Bus Company, we lived in Greenside not far away and in 1962 I went to Hebburn Technical College to do a two-year secretarial course. At this time, living in a pit village, girls ...Read more

A memory of Victoria Garesfield in 1962 by Pauline Tweddell Stafford

Happy Daze, Happy Holidaze

My memories take me back to South Bragar as a young boy of 9. My father, Angus Murray, born in No.30 moved to Glasgow many years before. But then and till this day I still go back with my family and tell them probably to ...Read more

A memory of South Uist in 1972 by Norman Murray

'swallows & Amazons' (Or Our Childhood On The Weaver!)

My parents also had a boat down at AB called 'Jan' which was moored outside the cottage. The cottage was lived in when my parents bought the boat, but then the husband (Mr Noden I think) died and ...Read more

A memory of Acton Bridge in 1961 by Christina Moores

The Ferry Boatman Disaster

Sad boat accident Monday morning 26th March 1877 at Ryton. There were two brothers named Scott who lived in a house on Ryton Island, this was just below Moor Court. (You can read about this in my other stories). The brothers had ...Read more

A memory of Ryton

Captions

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Caption For Heybridge, Th Old Ship And Jolly Sailors Inn C1955

This is a popular area for boating, and here we see two of the inns much used by those who have enjoyed a day afloat - the Old Ship to the left, and the Jolly Sailor facing the camera.

Caption For Galgate, Boatyard C1960

The boatyard serves the marina, which has space for 100 boats. Lucas's boatbuilders are the premises near the large craft (centre). Popular regattas are held, and the Lancaster canal is nearby.

Caption For Bosham, The Harbour 1903

The picturesque cottages and boating activity here have long made this part of Sussex an obvious subject for artists and photographers.

Caption For Penzance, Fishing Boats 1890

Fully decked, and ranging in length from about 45ft to 55ft and from 14 to 25 tons, these boats were employed chasing mackerel.

Caption For Heswall, The Slipway C1955

A mixture of near-derelict and beached craft gives this working slipway an untidy appearance that will certainly have been at odds with the fact that the majority of the boats represented someone's

Caption For Aberdour, The Stone Pier 1900

The length of the boat is fairly substantial compared to the head of the jetty, so she requires delicate and careful manoeuvring if she is to be handled

Caption For York, St Mary's Tower C1885

The cart horses and their owners are waiting patiently to unload cargo from the moored boat - was it fish, perhaps?

Caption For Scarborough, South Bay 1891

Gentleman were taken out into the bay in a small boat, or cobble, where they jumped stark naked into the sea. Ladies were obliged to bathe nearer to the beach, and wore some sort of gown.

Caption For Scarborough, From The Fish Pier 1890

A Lowestoft-registered fishing boat slips out to sea unnoticed by the anglers on the harbour. In the background is the imposing, if somewhat overpowering, edifice of the Grand Hotel.

Caption For Porthleven, The Harbour Entrance 1890

Boats wait in the harbour entrance for the rising tide to take them into the inner harbour. The clock tower is conspicuous near the pier, and the new lifeboat house faces the sea on the right.

Caption For Blackpool, From Central Pier 1896

The reflections of the Tower and the sailing boats kiss the sea on a brilliantly sunny, flat-calm day.

Caption For Staithes, High Street 1950

Much of the villagers' living comes from the tourist trade, a far cry from the century before, when the men risked their lives going out to sea in their small boats and women spent their time looking after

Caption For Runcorn, The Docks C1900

The enormous piles of white stone are actually piles of china clay from Cornwall awaiting trans-shipment onto narrow boats so they can be taken to the china factories in Stoke-on-Trent.

Caption For Roughlee, The Lake C1955

The lake, originally the reservoir for the cotton mill at the far end, was used for boating and swimming, whilst sunbathers and picnickers enjoyed its wooded banks.

Caption For Laugharne, The Boat House C1965

This attractive boat house is set at the foot of a steep cliff alongside the River Taf with its 'heron-priested' shore.

Caption For Southend On Sea, Marine Parade 1898

This view looks east from the pier: excursion sailing boats are waiting for trade.

Caption For Richmond, From The Bridge 1899

Beyond the scrum of pleasure boats for hire in this view looking downstream from Richmond Bridge is the three-storeyed White Cross pub.

Caption For Gravesend, Hms Gleaner 1902

Anchored off Gravesend is the torpedo gunboat HMS 'Gleaner', built at Sheerness Dockyard in 1890 and sold off in 1905; by that time the faster torpedo boat destroyer, later abbreviated to destroyer, had

Caption For Oxford, 'the Eights' 1922

Here, seen from the tow path along the west bank, looking north towards Christchurch Meadow, the annual Eights Week is in full swing at the end of May when the college boats race each other.

Caption For Torquay, Hauling In The Nets 1888

This style of fishing - taking a net out by boat into a semi-cirlce and then hauling it in from the shore - is almost obsolete today.

Caption For Woolhampton, The Canal C1965

Today, walkers and fishermen can be seen at intervals along the canal, as well as colourful boating activity.

Caption For Lympstone, Church Street 1904

Visitors staying in these cottages would enjoy a quiet holiday walking the marshy banks of the estuary and the surrounding heathlands, or boating and fishing.

Caption For Barry Island, Friars Point, Whitmore Bay 1900

A line of rowing boats is moored in the bay waiting for the tide to turn.

Caption For Clifton Hampden, The Barley Mow Inn 1890

east bank, beyond the bridge, this medieval inn is noted for its 'cruck' construction, the large curved timbers in the gable wall, and for the fact that Jerome K Jerome commends it in 'Three Men in a Boat