Places
11 places found.
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- 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 61 to 80.
Maps
405 maps found.
Books
2 books found. Showing results 73 to 2.
Memories
764 memories found. Showing results 31 to 40.
Haytor, Moorland Hotel Fire 1970
I was the manager of the Moorland Hotel from July 1967 until March, 6th 1970 when it burned down. The manager from whom I took over was called Brown and he before him was called Maurice Trew. The writer before ...Read more
A memory of Haytor Vale by
Rothamsted
Much of the Farm Management Course I studied in Devon in the early 1970s was based on work done at Rothamsted. I felt very lucky to land a job here in 1975 and gradually to meet and even work with the authors of text books I had studied. ...Read more
A memory of Harpenden by
From The Pews Of The Church In Kilinian To Pioneers In Colonial Australia. The Patterson Clan.
The Church at Kilinian during the 18th and 19th century, if not earlier, was a Celtic Presbyterian Church where my ancestors, the Patterson and McClean ...Read more
A memory of Kilninian by
Graces Road
My Mother was born in Graces Road in Aug 1893 in her parents house with her eight Bros/Sisters until she married my father in 1918, on leave from France. In 1920 they moved to Green Lane, Thornton Heath. I was Born in 1930. On special ...Read more
A memory of Camberwell by
Growing Up At Tombuie Cottage
My name is Drew Ramsay and my father retired from Calcutta India back home to Dundee in 1963 when I was 13 years old. He leased Tombuie Cottage for 5 years as a holiday home which came complete with a little over ...Read more
A memory of Tombuie Cottage by
Ashhurst Way Memories
I was brought up from the age of two living in 63 Ashhurst Way and what lovely memories I have got. I was brought up in a large family. A lot of people I can remember are no longer with us and the friends I had Tony ...Read more
A memory of Rose Hill by
Chalk Pit & The Hunt
Julian's hunt story is almost right. I was living at the Chalk Pit at the time, and still do. It was about 1981, on a Saturday lunchtime, when the hunt came over the top, but it wasn't on Boxing Day. The hounds were chasing Hares. ...Read more
A memory of Odiham in 1981 by
Fond Holiday Memories
In the summer of 1963 my Dad took my sister (11), brother (4) and me (6) to stay with my Auntie Marie. She lived in the house adjoining the pub. I think it had a name like Penryn and appeared on the front cover of Country ...Read more
A memory of High Easter in 1963 by
Family Of Ewj Moloney, Lancing Solicitor D 1978
I was part of the St James the Less Players, the Parish church drama group, which started my career on the boards. The Downs,The Manor, The Park, The Clump, The Chalkpit..The Woods The Beach..were ...Read more
A memory of Lancing by
Church Path, Mitcham And The People That Lived There
I was born in Collierswood Maternity Home, a very short time before it was bombed during the Second World War. The year was 1944. My family being homeless were housed in requisitioned properties in ...Read more
A memory of Mitcham in 1944 by
Captions
276 captions found. Showing results 73 to 96.
If coal was burned in these houses, it had to be imported from the mainland.
The Constitutional Club (far left) burned down in February 1910.
It has no direct Scandinavian connection, other than the fact that the name comes from the Norse 'svithinn', which means 'land cleared by burning'.
This replaced the old palace, which burned down in 1834.
Its west window was designed by the pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones.
The river Burn runs through the villages of South and North Creake too.
Secondly, a local farmer called Thomas Higbed was burned at the stake in 1555, on a charge of heresy.
The rectory burned down in the 1950s.
The village of Braemar is situated on the banks of Cluny Burn.
At the junction of Common Road and Slough Road, two College schoolboys, one carrying a cricket bat over his right shoulder, are seen walking past the 'Burning Bush'.
There is a local story that as the old church burned the vicar suddenly exclaimed: 'Good gracious, and I have left my false teeth in the vestry!'
Charcoal burning was one of the New Forest's earliest industries, though it is a rarer occurrence today.
The current building here dates from 1858, its predecessor having burned down.
Said to be a devotee of the black arts, he was abducted by his God-fearing tenants, rolled in a sheet of lead and taken to Ninestane Rig, a stone circle beyond Whitterhope Burn.
It was originally a water mill, and was owned by Rankins the Millers when it burned down in April 1965.
This 'superb temple of legislation' in Tudor Gothic was built to replace the old medieval Palace which burned down in 1834.
This ‘superb temple of legislation’ in Tudor Gothic was built to replace the old medieval Palace which burned down in 1834.
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 following year, Hertford was back in Scotland, burning five market towns, sacking 243 villages, and laying waste to crops.
left) is now Clarks, Radio House (next door but one) is now Dixon's, and Woolworth's have totally replaced the buildings beyond, the Red Lion (there is a commemorative plaque inside the store) and Joan Burns
This is the lower reach of the old Liskeard and Looe Canal; it was still used occasionally at this date to carry sea sand and limestone for burning in the kilns at Sandplace.
The ironmonger's sold Witchem's firelighters among other products - these must have contributed to the conflagration when the building was burned to the ground in 1920.
THE ACT OF UNION in 1707 was bitterly reviled at the time, and even for many years afterwards - Robert Burns echoed popular sentiment when he dismissed the Scottish commissioners with the lines
Visit the church at Yateley, and have a look at the glass in the 13th- century east window: it depicts Peter and John, and is the work of William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelite artist Sir Edward Burne-Jones
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