Places
14 places found.
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- Castle Acre, Norfolk
- Acre, Greater Manchester
- Laceby Acres, Humberside
- Acres Nook, Staffordshire
- South Acre, Norfolk
- Thorpe Acre, Leicestershire
- Five Acres, Gloucestershire
- West Acre, Norfolk
- Peas Acre, Yorkshire
- Bleak Acre, Hereford & Worcester
- Birch Acre, Hereford & Worcester
- Ten Acres, West Midlands
- King's Acre, Hereford & Worcester
- Two Hundred Acre, Yorkshire
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Memories
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What A Sight Fore Sore Eyes
I was a farm hand at Whitley Bridge and was for that day a tractor driver. My job was to pull a trailer down a row of rhubarb roots which had been pulled out onto the surface. Mr Huddleston employed girls on his market ...Read more
A memory of Bubwith in 1966 by
The Son Of A Preacher Man
1946 to 1951 - my father was the vicar at St Nicholas Church. The vicarage was a huge place in nearly two acres of land, with a quarter of it wild and rambling. Loads of trees and bushes to make a delightful ...Read more
A memory of Thames Ditton in 1946 by
Kirkandrews School In The 50s
We moved to Woodside, Kirkandrews in l956. It was a boarding kennel and my father, Harold Brown, turned the l4 acres into a small farm. The school was two rooms, one heated by a stove and the other with ...Read more
A memory of Kirkandrews-on-Eden in 1956 by
Seanor Match Works
Actually this memory via my father and grandfather go back further than 1860. My great-great-grandfather, Richard Seanor, got interested in match making and went to London to find out the process etc. He then came back to ...Read more
A memory of Rothwell in 1860 by
My Playground
The Priory was my playground from 1936 untill I started work in 1948. My father was Nip Turner, and he worked for Sir Edward Bligh as his chauffeur/gardener from 1920s untill 1972. I was born in 1933 at Lower Daltons. My ...Read more
A memory of Swanley Village in 1940 by
Goldings
Thousands of teenage boys would have spent their formative years at William Baker Technical School which was housed in the historic mansion of Goldings in the village of Waterford. In 1922 around 240 boys and staff marched from ...Read more
A memory of Waterford in 1967 by
How Things Were
I remember walking through simister down cordy lane past warhurst farm on to pole lanepast the hills turn right up to back o the moss farm they had 50 cow's 100s ofpigs chickens Turkey's they grew potatoes and barely and Swedes in ...Read more
A memory of Unsworth by
Lower Radley Romantic Reminiscences
"Thieves! Bloody villains and thieves, that's all they are. Makes my blood boil. I can't kill enough of the sods... no Sir!" I hadn't the heart to point out that I was actually a lover of all birds for ...Read more
A memory of Lower Radley
Barrack Road, Hounslow Heath
I used to live in Hinton Avenue, off Barrack Road. I went to school in Martindale Road initially and then onwards to he Junior School in Cambridge Road leaving in 1961. Mr Such was headmaster, Mrs Wilson was my first ...Read more
A memory of Hounslow by
I Grew Up In Six Acre Cottages
Hi Belinda Barton Having read about you on page 25 of the book " I remember when" from 2009, I see you lived at six acre cottages. I lived there in 1956 and again in 1958/59, my aunt Dolly and her husband ...Read more
A memory of Fawkham Green by
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Situated in 70 acres of parkland, the hotel treated patients suffering from gout, rheumatism, sciatica, neuritis and even insomnia.
His nursery, he claimed, boasted 10,000 acres of glass.
This ten-acre park was purchased by the council with the help of donations in 1904 from the landowner, Mrs Maynell Ingram of Temple Newsam House, Leeds.
The remarkable features of this shot, north-eastwards from a timber jetty, actually stand between the buildings - the Haven Hotel (centre right), an 1898-built villa (left) in an acre of land that was
In 1850 this 800-acre estate was sold to Lord Londesborough, and it was later to be owned by the Fielden family from Todmorden.
It opened as a public park in August 1924, completing the 153 acres of breathing space we now enjoy.
The Royal Victoria Dock opened in 1855, enclosing 94 acres of water.
The Royal Automobile Club acquired the house, along with its 300 acres of parkland, in 1913, when some of the historic interior fittings were dismantled and sold.
Arthur Hilliar did even better with Drove Cottage and its two acres, which he secured for £800.
The estate covered 770 acres (including the works); when it was finished, it housed around 6,000 people.
The estate has 700 acres of land, most of which belonged to the Countess Listowel, daughter of Admiral Windham.
This event, staged on a hot June day, marked the acquisition of the sixty acres of Colley Hill, overlooking the town, by the National Trust after a lengthy fund-raising campaign to gather the £5000 needed
Designed by John Carr of York, it is set in 70 acres of parkland.
Covering three acres, it controlled the point where the Fosse Way crossed the River Devon.
Sixty acres were transformed with terraced walks, as we see here.
The Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital, Heswall was opened in 1911 on a 9-acre site bordering Telegraph Road.
Before the birth of theme parks, a day out in the late 1950s (when comparatively few people owned a car) was by Midland Red bus to Groby Pool, Swithland Woods and Bradgate Park, with the
The Rogers family gave 1600 acres of their estate, including the Loe, to the National Trust in 1974 - at that time the single biggest gift the Trust had received.
Adjoining Clarence Park is the slightly smaller (14- acre) park surrounding Holmefield House.
Sixty acres were transformed with terraced walks, as we see here.
Parkstone Park, which opened in 1888, was originally Three Acre Field.
There was a lodge down in the village, and the estate of about 14 acres was laid out with attractive gardens and woods.
The huge building is set in a park of over 3,000 acres, which on certain days in the summer are opened to the public.
There are over 60 acres of gardens at the palace; these were begun by Cardinal Wolsey in the 16th century and remodelled by William III and Mary II in the Baroque manner.
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