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Places

1 places found.

Those places high-lighted have photos. All locations may have maps, books and memories.

Maps

222 maps found.

1947, Marton Grove Ref. NPO775360
1947, Burroughs Grove Ref. NPO656938
1947, Hafod Grove Ref. NPO724398
1896, Rose Grove Ref. RNE819957
1896, Nut Grove Ref. RNE795052
1896, Spring Grove Ref. RNE836715
1899, Poplar Grove Ref. RNE808995
1896, Bantam Grove Ref. RNE632714
1896, Calder Grove Ref. RNE659504
1898, Catton Grove Ref. RNE664712
1940, Send Grove Ref. NPO827607
1899, Grove Vale Ref. RNE723109
1896, Hall Grove Ref. RNE725342
1898 - 1920, Bloxham Grove Ref. HOSM38133
1902, Dudleston Grove Ref. RNC694627
1898-1900, Aller Grove Ref. RNC621616
1920, Givons Grove Ref. POP714019
1921, Hollington Grove Ref. POP738122
1920, Harefield Grove Ref. POP727090
1921, Grove Green Ref. POP722997

Books

1 books found. Showing results 145 to 1.

Memories

532 memories found. Showing results 61 to 70.

Grandfathers Grave

As a child my father frequently told me that his father was buried next to John Peel in Caldbeck graveyard. I now live in Australia, but in 1997 I visited Caldbeck hoping to see my grandfather's grave. Unfortunately it was not in ...Read more

A memory of Caldbeck in 1997 by Mary Lillington

St Johns Priory (Private Girls School)

I was a pupil at St Johns Priory, and whilst I did not appreciate it at the time, it was an amazing start in life. The Nuns were incredibly strict so we all studied hard. Our classes were really small, by the ...Read more

A memory of Banbury in 1978 by Sarah Hartley

Memories Of A Nurse

I came to work in Sulgrave in the 1980s. I worked for Major George Coombs who lives at Stonecourt on the Hedom Road. My first thoughts of the village were that it was very quiet and that the people were all very ...Read more

A memory of Sulgrave in 1981 by Linda Fearis

Clach Eile Air Achairn

After many years, I came once more to Kiltarlity and saw again the post office, where my late father and his brother grew up. Robert, the elder, became the post master and lived there until his death. Donald, my father, left ...Read more

A memory of Kiltarlity in 1990 by Michael Cameron

My Granddad Stevens

Years ago my grandad had a small garage and workshop at the side of the Du-Cane Arms. My dad was born there and went to scool at Great Tottom. My grandad is buried in Great Braxted Church and my nanna is there too. In the ...Read more

A memory of Great Braxted in 1900 by Vera Martin

Webbs Brewery Six Bells Colliery

I grew up in Aberbeeg as Pat Howells. Everyone knew the Howells as my dad, Doug, was one of 8 children. My uncle worked in the brewery for many years and I grew up in Woodland Terrace and had to pass the brewery at ...Read more

A memory of Aberbeeg by Pat Addison

Otleys Outdoor Swimming Pool

The memory relates to one of at the year mentioned of a teenage secret shared with only a selected few, whom are long lost good school friends who I can recall enjoyed the secret night-time swimming in the outdoor pool. As ...Read more

A memory of Otley in 1978 by Sharon Hay

Lt Spencer Baker Died At Passchendaele 1917

Spencer Baker was my grandfather's cousin. He grew up at Forest Farm, Chelwood Gate, son of Spencer snr and Susan Baker (née Lindfield). Spencer was a building contractor and at the age of 29, in ...Read more

A memory of Chelwood Gate by William Lovell

Yateley Grange

My grandfather William Haines lived in Yateley Grange Lodge and was the coachman and eventually chauffeur to the lady who lived in The Grange, a Miss Thoits. He was also gardener and handyman and, strange as it may seem nowadays, made ...Read more

A memory of Yateley in 1910 by Robin Porter

Yes, Cold

The water was not just cold, but freezing! A few of us always wanted to go for a swim before school (very brave of us) but we never did. I never went off the stages, they were too high for me. Living in Cefnpennar we spent most of the ...Read more

A memory of Mountain Ash by Elvin Bennett

Captions

197 captions found. Showing results 145 to 168.

Caption For Silkstone, The Church C1960

They are buried in seven graves here around the Husker Monument, which bears the inscription 'Take ye heed, watch and pray, for ye know not when the time is'.

Caption For Standon, High Street C1965

It rarely looks back to the past and to the time when, for example, Daniel Clerk the grave digger kept a large basket of human bones in his kitchen, claiming that he knew whose remains each was.

Caption For Churchtown, The Parish Church C1955

An ancient pulpit, a Norman font and the gravestone of a medieval knight, besides old and interesting stones and graves in the churchyard, enthrall the visitor to this 'cathedral of the Fylde'.

Caption For Southampton, No5 (Prince Of Wales) Dry Dock 1908

Southampton came complete with dry docks, graving docks and a foreign animals wharf.

Caption For Ockley, The Sanatorium 1914

The rigorous approach does not appear to have been particularly successful; many of those who came here now lie buried in graves at St John's cemetery in the village.

Caption For Liverpool, George's Dock C1881

It was linked to the town's two older docks and the graving dock, allowing vessels to move between them without having to enter the Mersey.

Caption For Gisburn, The Ribblesdale Arms C1950

An unusual grave can be found in the churchyard of St Mary - the opening notes of Francis Duckworth's famous hymn 'Rimington' are engraved on the stone.

Caption For Hythe, St Leonard's Church, The Charnel House 1903

The skulls and bones here pictured make up the remains of some 4,000 people, which are thought to have been disinterred from old graves to make way for new.

Caption For Guisborough, Cemetery 1899

After the churchyard became full, Admiral Chaloner gave land for the creation of a new town cemetery, although the churchyard continued to be used for later interments into existing family graves.

Caption For Liverpool, Sefton Park Bridge 1887

The Prince stayed in Liverpool at the Grange, Wavertree, the home of Liverpool MP Mr S R Graves.

Caption For Linlithgow, Palace, Queen Margaret's Bower 1897

Before it was finally laid to rest in an unmarked grave, the King's disembodied head was kept as a curio by Lancelot Young, master glazier to Elizabeth I.

Caption For Dorking, The Cemetery, Reigate Road 1906

James Graves held the licence in 1891. The area was the site of the Punchbowl Fairs.

Caption For Glasgow, Atlantic Quay 2005

The sole remnants of the great days of Clyde shipping today are the three derelict graving docks at Govan and the giant crane across the river.

Caption For St Neots, The Rotary Club Millennium Clock 2005

The derelict buildings around the square, which had been the cause of grave concern, have also been brought back to life.

Caption For Alderley Edge, Chapel Road C1955

Beside the A34 in Nether Alderley is the grave of the third Lord Stanley, buried apart from the rest of his relations as he was a Muslim.

Caption For Dorchester, Max Gate, Thomas Hardy's Home 1930

Much of literary society visited him here, braving the attentions of his ferocious little dog Wessex.

Caption For Lulworth, Durdle Door 1894

The great natural arch of Durdle Door braves the sea just a little way from the more famous Lulworth Cove.

Caption For Lulworth, Durdle Door 1894

The great natural arch of Durdle Door braves the sea just a little way from the more famous Lulworth Cove.

Caption For Coalville, Broadway Shopping Centre C1965

This could be any town, anywhere, the epitome of the Borough Architects' brave new world of the early 1960s.

Caption For Winchester, Cathedral 1922

A bronze statuette commemorates the brave man who saved Winchester Cathedral.

Caption For Aldeburgh, The Beach 1906

Here, Edwardian bathers are braving the chilly East coast waters.

Caption For Birkenhead, The Docks C1965

Its closed appear to belie the traditional welcome one would expect from a parish church, but even in 1965 it was a brave cleric who held the doors open wide at all times.

Caption For Moreton, Catholic Church C1965

Its closed appear to belie the traditional welcome one would expect from a parish church, but even in 1965 it was a brave cleric who held the doors open wide at all times.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Broad Street 1900

Few who saw the film version of the latter will forget the scene where the enigmatic heroine, played by Meryl Streep, stood braving a storm at the end of the Cobb—Lyme's harbour wall.