Places
11 places found.
Those places high-lighted have photos. All locations may have maps, books and memories.
- Seaton Burn, Tyne and Wear (near Ponteland)
- Burn's Green, Hertfordshire
- Burn, Yorkshire
- Burn Bridge, Yorkshire
- Luggate Burn, Lothian
- Burn Naze, Lancashire
- Remony Burn, Tayside
- Barrow Burn, Northumberland (near Shillmoor)
- Blaydon Burn, Tyne and Wear
- Denton Burn, Tyne and Wear
- Burn of Cambus, Central Scotland
Photos
97 photos found. Showing results 41 to 60.
Maps
405 maps found.
Books
2 books found. Showing results 49 to 2.
Memories
764 memories found. Showing results 21 to 30.
The Welling Mods: Long Gone But Never Forgotten
We were like one huge crazy family, not only from Welling, but also from the surrounding towns of Blackfen, Bexleyheath, Crayford, Dartford, Eltham, Plumstead and Woolwich - even as far as from the other ...Read more
A memory of Welling by
Featured Buildings.
The large building on the left edge of the photograph is Ruswarp Mill. A mill has been here since Saxon times and the first written record of this mill appears in the Domesday book. The name Ruswarp may have originated from the ...Read more
A memory of Ruswarp by
An Old Mans Memories
I was born in 1922 in the village of Mundford. My Father was the village policeman. The village was then a self-contained society and provided all the necessities of life, including a doctor, blacksmith, carpenter and general ...Read more
A memory of Mundford in 1920 by
Portsmouth Guildhall
Visiting the website I discovered a photograph of Portsmouth Guildhall which brought back sad memories. On 10th January 1941 the city was heavily bombed by the Luftwaffe including incendiaries on the Guildhall. On the ...Read more
A memory of Portsmouth in 1941 by
Newmarket
I spent most of my childhood in Newmarket, playing in the wood and on Bunting Hill shown in the photo with the old Quarry. Every year the hill would be set fire, the fire being lit at the top to burn slowly down, this was to encourage new ...Read more
A memory of Nailsworth
Horrible Place
We were there from 69 - 72. I say we. Me & my four sisters, Denise, Pauline, Joan, Isable & me June HASTIE. Anderson & Dunlop were vile. Scrubbing the floors until they were gleeming. We used to do that when we got home ...Read more
A memory of Hampstead by
Lived Here In 1963 64
My dad was stationed here in the early 60's with the US Navy. Although I was only 5 years old at the time the memories are still so vivid in my mind. So many thoughts and pictures are racing through my mind as I write this ...Read more
A memory of Innellan in 1963 by
Mid Eighties
From early 1984 to March 1987 I had the pleasure of being the Landlady of this public house. Many good times (some bad), many lovely customers, some of whom became friends and not forgetting all the people who came to ...Read more
A memory of West End in 1986 by
Reminders Of My Youth
I remember being taken to the village when I was very young - I believe one of my great uncles ran the Pub - One of the ubquitous Jermy Family - I am coming to Norfolk to try and research my roots at the end of July this ...Read more
A memory of Great Hockham by
Barn Croft.
The house in the middle is where I lived from 1972. The address is 62 Main Street and the house was called Barn Croft. The house on the right was a farm and the house that the middle house was built on was part of the ...Read more
A memory of Cossington
Captions
276 captions found. Showing results 49 to 72.
Most of the stone was used for building, and as a convenient source of limestone for burning and spreading on the fields of Castle Farm as fertiliser.
The men standing at the door on the left are customers of the Lion Inn, which burned down on 8 November 1908 and was never rebuilt.
After Tennyson's death in 1892 Burne Jones designed a window in Haslemere's St Bartholomew's Church as a memorial to the poet.
The novelist John Galt was born in the town in 1779, but Irvine is more famous as the place where Robert Burns eked out a living as a flax-dresser between 1781 and 1783.
Further up the road is the Victorian parish church, which replaced one of 1791 which itself replaced the medieval one, apparently burned down in the Civil War.
To the right of Balliol College is the famous Martyrs' Memorial, commemorating the 16th-century Protestant martyrs Latimer, Ridley and Cranmer, who were burned at the stake in nearby Broad Street.
For many years ancient forest crafts were practised, including the making of charcoal from green sticks, which were burned slowly under controlled conditions in great heaps.Two are shown here ready
The small village of Burnt Yates in Nidderdale is graced by this neat little Victorian sandstone church.
In 1698 the traveller Celia Fiennes noted that there was a considerable industry of cutting and burning the bracken on Cannock Chase.
It has no direct Scandinavian connection, other than the fact that the name comes from the Norse 'svithinn', which means 'land cleared by burning'.
The Victorian chapel was designed by Sir Gilbert Scott, and includes various tapestries by Burne-Jones and William Morris.
The church was burned down in the blitz, but restoration started in 1949 and the church was finally reconsecrated in 1957.
This bustling view of Church Road with its bicycles and horse-drawn vehicles is dominated by the sadly- lamented old Town Hall, which burned down in 1966.
It has no direct Scandinavian connection, other than the fact that the name comes from the Norse 'svithinn' and means 'land cleared by burning'.
On the extreme right is the former gaol, outside which the Protestant martyr Richard Snell was burned at the stake in 1558.
After Tennyson's death in 1892, Burne Jones designed a window in Haslemere's St Bartholomew's church as a memorial to the poet.
Originally oil burning, it was modified to electricity in 1940, about the time that this photo was taken.
Local lore says that they are a good luck charm, and that having a piece in your house will prevent it burning down.
Admittedly, these are replicas dating from 1880 – the originals burned down in 1711.
The notorious Judge Jeffries condemned her to be burned at the stake, but this sentence was commuted to beheading.
Another well-known multi-national dominates this view; the branch has been here since about 1930, though the left-hand extension is a post-War development on the site of the Cinema de Luxe, which burned
Secondly, a local farmer called Thomas Higbed was burned at the stake in 1555, on a charge of heresy.
Its west window was designed by the pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones.
During the 1830s this pretty village was the scene of a major uprising among farm labourers, with angry mobs burning hayricks and destroying machinery.
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