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 81 to 97.
Maps
405 maps found.
Books
2 books found. Showing results 97 to 2.
Memories
764 memories found. Showing results 41 to 50.
Nick Bowyer
I joined the BARN THEATRE SOCIETY in 1970 and we put on several performances of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas in the new (1972) building opposite the Campus
A memory of Welwyn Garden City by
My Youth In Farnham Common By Peter Harrison
I spent my youth in Farnham Common and have nothing but happy memories. We lived in an old house called Glenwood in Templewood Lane. In those days (The 1950's and 1960's) there were very few houses. ...Read more
A memory of Farnham Common by
Bordon County Junior School Budds Lane
Teachers in the 1970s Mr Pearson - an elderly man whose dentures moved around in his mouth when he spoke. He was great fun and shared his family cinefilms with us during the lessons. It was great fun when he ...Read more
A memory of Bordon by
Grand Living At Moresdale Hall, Lambrigg
We came to a deserted Moresdale Hall in the 1980s and spent several years refurbishing it. Because it had 2 front doors and 2 staircases we were able to divide it and share it with my brother's family. ...Read more
A memory of Moresdale Hall
Memories Of Bedford Lane.
This cottage is in Bedford Lane. I lived in the house called Connemara which is still in Bedford Lane. My father Samuel Frederick Richardson and his brother George were both bricklayers. Both were demolishing the ...Read more
A memory of Frimley Green by
Fun Times
I was born in Lower Aire Street in 1944, my brother was born in 1942. I left when I was 8 years old but can still remember the street. We lived next door to Mr and Mrs Wiley on one side and Mrs Hargreaves on the other ...Read more
A memory of Windhill in 1944 by
My Second Home
Right from a small child i have grown up loving Wells-next-the-Sea, my dad used to take us on holidays there and we stayed in a little cottage which was a short walk to the quay where my brother and I would wander down to ...Read more
A memory of Wells-Next-The-Sea in 1969
Broadstairs And St Mary's Home 1957
I was 6 years old and had had bronchitis and asthma and so I was sent away from smoggy London to St Mary's Home in Broadstairs. I was taken with other young children on a train by a nurse in a brown uniform. ...Read more
A memory of Broadstairs in 1957 by
Evacuation
I was 6 years old in 1941 and a native of Glasgow. During the worst of the German bombing at that time, my mother, brother and I moved to Auchnahyle Farm, which was farmed by my father's uncle and aunts, Bob, Mag and Jess Jamieson. My ...Read more
A memory of Pitlochry in 1941 by
Cheadle In The Second World War
I think that we must have moved to Cheadle around 1938, because I was born in Newcastle under Lyme, but my younger sister was born in Cheadle in 1939. At that time we lived on Leek Road. We had various ...Read more
A memory of Cheadle in 1930 by
Captions
276 captions found. Showing results 97 to 120.
Here the Burn winds its way through lavender-covered salt marshes to the sea; here the sand dunes stretch away to Holkham in the east and Scolt Head island to the west.
Tyre burning polluted the reservoir in 1975 and it has not been used for drinking water since.
When lead was discovered in Weardale, the mining rights were granted to the bishops of Durham; by the 13th century, mining, smelting and charcoal burning and so on were on a large scale for the period.
It did not, however, stop them from burning it to the ground in 1215 and 1217.
Burne-Jones (1833-1898), a frequent visitor to the manor, is said to have painted a piano there.
Note the building and heaps of lime in the foreground of the picture - Middleton Dale was once the site of many lime-burning kilns.
The factory burned down in 1963.
As Bishop of London during the reign of Mary Tudor, he earned the name 'Bloody Bonner' for his part in sending so many Protestants to be burned at the stake.
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.
The church's most famous vicar was John Frankish, one of the martyrs of 1555 burned at the stake in Canterbury.
This could have come from pyres on which bodies were placed, or perhaps from burning autumn stubble.
Famous as the birthplace of John Macadam in 1756 and of Robert Burns in 1759, Ayr was founded under a charter granted by William the Lion.
The Scots failed, but for centuries afterwards traces of the burning could still be seen.
Mercifully, some might say, it burned down in 1926.
A quay has been constructed in front of Quay House on the left, where there appears to be a good fire burning in the grate.
Following the burning of Rye in 1377 and of Winchelsea in 1380, Bodiam Castle was built in 1385 because of the imminent threat of invasion by the French.
They failed, but for centuries afterwards the traces of the burning could still be seen.
In case of fire, there were very long rakes which could remove the burning roof.
The Blue Pool at Furzebrook, the best known of Purbeck's former heathland claypits was dug by Watts, Hatherley and Burns of Newton Abbot, in 1846.
Edinburgh fell, Holyrood was burnt.
The stained glass chancel window of the four evangelists is by Burne Jones, and executed by William Morris & Co.
The halfpenny toll on the original Blackfriars Bridge caused riots, and in 1780 angry protesters burned down the toll-house.After a succession of expensive repairs a replacement was suggested, and
The Scots failed, but for centuries afterwards traces of the burning could still be seen.
In 1689 most of the town was again burned to the ground when another fire swept through it.
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