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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A Wonderful Childhood In Brixton
I remember it so well, being told we were moving to a house in Sudbourne Road, Brixton. I was nearly six years old and moved into a very old and neglected Victorian House at no 23, Sudbourne Road, with my mum, ...Read more
A memory of Brixton in 1952 by
My School Days Begin
Great Witley school is where it all began,we lived at Ockeridge some 5 miles from Great Witley,but soon after my parents moved to the Engine House,situated down witley court drive, and opposite the Hundred pool. So i left ...Read more
A memory of Great Witley in 1954 by
Houghbridge Hall Gtoakley
In January 1949, my parents moved into Houghbridge Hall - on the winding country lane mid way between Stones Green and the church at Gt. Oakley. I remained there until called up for National Service in November 1952, ...Read more
A memory of Great Oakley in 1950 by
A Career In Music
I was born in 1946 in Dovercourt. I went to Sir Anthony Dean school, I think I was there the first day it was opened. My family name is Oldroyd, and I lived in Oaklands Road. As far as I know I'm the only person from that time ...Read more
A memory of Dovercourt by
Those Wonderful 60`s
My father was the caretaker for the Linquists` Club in Holland St from 1959 to the early 70`s, when the building (Niddry Lodge) was demolished to make way for the new Kensington town hall. We lived in The Cottage ...Read more
A memory of Kensington in 1959 by
The Gable House
The black and white half-timbered building in the photograph was The Gable House, owned by my late grandmother, Nancy Hawkes and her sister, Hilda Cook. The house was run as a short-term residential home for patients staying ...Read more
A memory of Droitwich Spa in 1940 by
Unrequited Love At Church Farm Honingham.
Samantha was about seventeen when I first met her, she lived at the large house next to the old Church Farm. I remember it was a hot sunny day and I was heaving straw onto the ground from the cart, wheat ...Read more
A memory of Honingham in 1981 by
Molesey Memories
I was born at the Bearstead Memorial Hospital in 1946 and lived on Hurstfield Road for my first 5 years, then moved to Weston Avenue. That house backed on to Hurst Park racecourse and I used to love to look over the fence to ...Read more
A memory of West Molesey in 1950 by
Morchard Road To Crediton Railway 1930
From 1935 to 1941 I was a pupil at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School Crediton, travelling every day by train from Morchard Road Station, leaving home at ten minutes past eight to board the eight thirty ...Read more
A memory of Down St Mary in 1930 by
The Book Shop
My family lived at the Book Shop in the middle of the photograph from 1961 to 1981, it was a shop that seemed to me to sell everything, newsagents, sweet shop, chemists, haberdasherers as well as selling books. I was 6 years old ...Read more
A memory of Berry Hill in 1965 by
Captions
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Lancelot 'Capability' Brown landscaped the grounds of this 1800-acre estate, which opened to the public in 1950 and now attracts over 300,000 visitors each year.
A campsite of 450 acres was provided free of charge by the then Birkenhead Corporation.
A campsite of 450 acres was provided free of charge by the then Birkenhead Corporation.
The Grammar School was then rebuilt on its three-acre site and opened on 25 October 1897 by the Earl of Crewe.
In March 1902 she sold the hall and its 62 acres to Burnley for the very low price of £17,500, and paid for the art gallery it housed.
The relative peace and stability of the period meant that less emphasis was put on fortification and more on decoration, hence Longleat's acres of windows, which gave plenty of light but would have been
There was a lodge down in the village, and the estate of about 14 acres was laid out with attractive gardens and woods.
A vast 450-acre greenfield site at Dalton was acquired for the construction of the new works.
Standing in 270 acres of parkland, Raby Castle was the seat of the Neville family for two hundred years.
The Heath, extending from Kenwood House in the north to an area around Parliament Hill in the south, occupies some 800 acres; it has been popular with artists and authors (and the Gordon Rioters) since
Enclosed from Enfield Chase in 1777, and acquired by royal physician Sir Richard Jebb, Trent Park covered some two hundred acres.
The Roman fort once enclosed several acres of coastal land and must have been a powerful stronghold for the occupying army.
James Atherton, who bought the 170 acres of land on this north-east corner of Wirral, had to modify his original grand plans.
In July 1929 the 423 acre park was turned over to the Boy Scouts for the world's first Scout Jamboree.
This 33-acre lake was constructed from an old quarry.
They covered 19 acres, including seven for a nursery garden.
Yet the family who had done so much to establish Cardiff,had driven the South Wales coal industry, had built the gothic fancy Castell Coch, and boasted an estate of 22,000 acres passed on a mere £437 as
Lancelot 'Capability' Brown landscaped the grounds of this 1800-acre estate, which opened to the public in 1950 and now attracts over 300,000 visitors each year.
This became the main park for Minehead in 1924 following private donations towards a scheme for the conversion of 6 acres of meadows.
Standing in 270 acres of parkland, Raby Castle was the seat of the Neville family for two hundred years.
Covering some 500 acres, the park was probably in existence in Saxon times; it was disparked and became farmland in the 17th century.
Bradgate, a park of 820 acres, was enclosed out of Charnwood Forest in c1200 as a hunting park, and it did indeed produce very fine venison.
The Duke of Clarence opened the Technical and Art College on the site of the old Thornes House in 1891, and this adjacent park (29 acres), once grazing land, was opened to the public on 6 July
He finally bought a three-acre plot from the Sergison family just north of Muster Green; one of the many restrictive clauses was that any future house built on any part of the site must cost in excess
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