Books

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Memories

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Childhood Days In The Broch

I left Fraserburgh as an eight year old. but I remember playing round the lighthouse. On the rocks below there was a large pool where we built rafts from herring boxes nailed together and filled with cork floats from the ...Read more

A memory of Fraserburgh by boyd.livingstone

Born In Upper Boat 1943

Ken Beard speaking. My parents were evacuated to South Wales from Bermondsey London during the 2nd. war. I wish I had some dates, as there is no one alive to ask. We lived at 63 Crwys Crescent where I was born in 1943.I'm not ...Read more

A memory of Upper Boat by ken.beard

Mitcham County Grammar School For Boys

Mitcham County Grammar School for Boys Remembered Memory is a selective thing, the best is easy, but the mind glosses over the worst. Some things recollected as certainties turn out to be not quite so. These are ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham by Jack Simmons

My Golden Years At Stokes Bay

I was born in Gosport in 1929, my father was a long serving seaman in the Royal Navy and so our family life was all things navy - so Stokes Bay was a big part of our lives. I had three elder sisters who were frequently ...Read more

A memory of Stokes Bay by Ronald Bennett

Happy Childhood Late 50s Early 60s

I live in Watford but I was born at 55 South Crescent in 1953, my mother's maiden name was Christlow, they moved to 16 Reginald Street. I remember visiting one time and my cousin Joe Lee used to play the ...Read more

A memory of Boldon Colliery by Brian Rees

The People Of Kilfinan

The year my mum and dad got married in Kilfinan Church. My mum was born and brought up in Kilfinan Post Office where my granny, Mrs Maclachlan was the post mistress for many of my childhood years. I don't actually remember the ...Read more

A memory of Kilfinan in 1951 by David Goodman

Memories Of Margaret Beavan Home

I was a poorly child and on two occasions spent time at the Margaret Beavan Home in Lower Heswall around 1956 and 1958. I remember the house being very large and grand, as it would would be to a small child of ...Read more

A memory of Heswall in 1956 by Lesley Ann Austin

Phil & John's Amazing Journey Part 2 Football, Pubs, Old Friends

Stopping briefly outside the Working Men’s Club, the meeting place on Saturday lunchtimes for us Groby footballers before away games, we pass the chippy, the old blacksmiths where the old ...Read more

A memory of Groby in 1970

Great Place To Grow Up

My dad, Adam Pagan, was a great dad who loved his town and told me loads of Maryport history about links with the mutiny on the bounty. I loved going on the shore and the fair coming. When I was young I lived in Kirkby St, ...Read more

A memory of Maryport in 1950 by Joann Whittaker

Ww2 Memories At St.Catherine's

I boarded at St. Catherine's from 1942 until 1948, which I believe was connected to Middlesex County Council during that time. I was 3 years old when I started, my home was in Victoria Square, Clifton and my parents ...Read more

A memory of Almondsbury in 1942 by Tim Latty

Captions

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Caption For Clovelly, Harbour 1890

Small boats were used effectively in this harbour to ferry passengers to and from the paddle steamers anchored off-shore.

Caption For Padstow, The Railway Bridge 1906

The branch line from Wadebridge runs along the southern shore of the estuary; the first train ran on 23 March 1899.

Caption For Cadgwith, Main Street 1899

Apart from the obvious hazards of storms and wrecks, failure of the fish stocks for even one season could lead to starvation that was only marginally eased by scraping limpets from the shore.

Caption For Rowlands Castle, St Hubert's Church Idsworth C1955

Portchester is one of the largest of the 'Saxon shore' forts, and it was regularly used by kings when they visited Portsmouth.

Caption For Ramsey, On The Sands 1895

Though the shore to the south of Ramsey is rocky, a stroll along it at low tide was a popular Victorian way of taking some gentle exercise.

Caption For Tilbury, Ferry C1960

A little further east along the Essex shore our photographer reaches Tilbury and continues his maritime theme; he firmly turned his back on the remarkable 1670s Tilbury Fort, built by a Dutch engineer

Caption For Wastwater, The Lake 1889

This photograph of the northern shore of Wastwater shows (left to right) the trio of peaks at the head of England's deepest lake—Yewbarrow (2,061 ft), Great Gable (2,949 ft) and Lingmell (2,649

Caption For Pilling, Main Street C1960

Brandy, tobacco, lace and velvet were brought up from Pilling shore by horses.

Caption For Cirencester, 1898

Inadequate foundations meant that the tower began to show signs of instability even before it was completed, and it had to be shored up with spur buttresses.

Caption For Kingston Upon Thames, The Bridge 1906

Tea- rooms, small restaurants, public landing places and hotels were built, as we can see from the notices on the Surrey shore: 'Bond's Sun Hotel', 'Luncheons, Teas, Dinners', and 'Public

Caption For Oxford, 'the Eights' 1922

Spectators in up-to-the-minute 1922 fashions look on from the shore and from punts.

Caption For Bowness On Windermere, The Ferry Boat 1896

But in 1870, twenty-six years before this photograph was taken, it became steam-operated; this resulted in the building of the Ferry Hotel on the western shore in 1879.

Caption For Chasewater, Pleasure Park C1965

The northern (Staffordshire) shore is quieter, and attracts wintering waterfowl and gulls.

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 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 Hawkshead, Esthwaite Water, Roger Ground From Colthouse Heights 1912

An Edwardian lady relaxes in a meadow on Colthouse Heights, on the eastern shores of Esthwaite Water, looking across to the knoll of Roger Ground, near Hawkshead.

Caption For Totnes, Totnes Castle At The Landing Stage 1896

Note the covered carriages waiting on shore.

Caption For Barrow In Furness, Walney Bridge 1912

Houses for the dockyard workers can be seen to the right on the Barrow shore.

Caption For Lands End, Longships Lighthouse 1893

A little over a mile from shore, this imposing granite tower, 62 feet in height, rises out of a cauldron of furious waves. It was originally built in 1795. The one seen here was built in 1873.

Caption For Rock, St Michael's Church C1960

The small church is on the north shore of the Camel estuary at Porthilly near Rock. There is evidence for a Norman church although it was much rebuilt in 1867.

Caption For Bala, The Town And The Lake 1931

The lake is over three miles long and 100 feet deep; it stretches north-east towards the edges of the town, its borders wooded and its shores gravelled.

Caption For Runcorn, Transporter Bridge C1906

One of only three such bridges in the country, the transporter bridge connected Runcorn with Widnes on the north shore of the River Mersey.

Caption For Newby Bridge, Nickle Landing Stage 1914

A short distance downstream from Fell Foot, a young boy watches for fish in the shallow, reed-grown water by the shore, apparently in charge of a large rowing boat.

Caption For Bispham, Palm Court From The North C1955

Here we have a good view of the tram track near Palm Court at the Cavendish Road stop on the high cliffs (a lift was available to convey visitors to the shore and the Promenade).