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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Happy Memories Of Clapham In The 50s 60s
I was born in Stonhouse Street in 1948, attended Stonhouse Street School and MacCaulay School. My father worked for Simonds Brewery on Wandsworth Road and my mother worked in the Sunlight Laundry in ...Read more
A memory of Clapham by
More Memories Of Blissford
My previous memories caused quite a bit of interest and several people who either knew me, or the area got in touch. I thought I would add a bit more to those memories. I mentioned how close we were to the bombing ...Read more
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60 Gonsolva Road
60 Gonsolva Road...I lived here from 1947 until my family had to move out in 1960. Slum clearance they called it. One car in the road. The Batty family, who lived further down the road, went hopping every year. A flat back lorry ...Read more
A memory of Battersea in 1950 by
Townfoot
I can still recall this picture 50 years on. As a child I walked this lane every day in the school week. My nana Mrs Dickinson lived in Acre Lane a little further on from the picture above. I went to Fleetwoods Charity School on the hill ...Read more
A memory of Preesall in 1960 by
My Very Happy Childhood In New Haw Road!!!
We originally moved in 1957 when I was 5 from Thornton Heath in Surrey to Burleigh Road in Addlestone because my dad had started working for Peto Scott (TV makers) near Weybridge. Then in December 1957 my ...Read more
A memory of New Haw in 1962 by
Gunsite Farm
Gunsite Farm was at the end of Limekiln Lane, which was a dirt track. On the left were a row of cottages, on the right, bigger semi detatched where the better off lived. The Alan Rutherford family, (loads of them), Brian Cummings, ...Read more
A memory of Fawley in 1958 by
Llanbedrog Bryn Du
I spent every summer staying with the Jones family at Bryn Du farm, from about 1957 to 1965. They were friends of my parents. The farm was sold some years ago, after Tom Jones had died. I enjoyed the farm very much, which was ...Read more
A memory of Llanbedrog by
Ledbury Grammar School Formerly Upper Hall
Mum was evacuated to Ledbury in 1940 when she was aged 15. She spent two very happy years living with the lovely Preece family. Mum attended Ledbury Grammar School, the 'Country House' in the Frith ...Read more
A memory of Ledbury by
My Birth Place
I was born at Balfour Gardens in l941 and grew up there during the War with my grandparents - Edward & Celia Veitch. The Veitchs were eight brothers & sisters and our Sunday gatherings were quite something. I also ...Read more
A memory of Milton of Balgonie by
My Memories Of A Byegone Luton
I was born in Luton in 1938 and spent most of my formative years until 1965 living with my parents in their small two bedroom bungalow in Mixes Hill Road, Stopsley. I began my education at the Stopsley enfant school before ...Read more
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Captions
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The borough council bought 21 acres of Newcroft Farm, off the east side of Lickhill Road, in 1954.
Between Richmond and Kew, on the Surrey bank, are the three hundred acres of the Royal Botanical Gardens, opened to the public in 1841.
Semer Water, which is about half a mile in length and covers about 100 acres, was formed by Ice Age glaciers gouging out the side dale known as Raydale.
Clacton was the brainchild of one man—Peter Bruff, an engineer with the Tendring Hundred railway company—who bought 50 acres of farmland here in 1865 with a view to its development as a holiday resort
to be eighteen settlements, or villages as they were to be called, linked together by dual carriageways, for predictions indicated that 'by 1976 it is expected that every family will have at least one car
Once known as Acres Field, it was here for about 500 years that Manchester's weekly markets and annual fairs were held.
The Spinney, as the manor house of the parish of Sully, was sold at auction in 1938 as part of 164 acres of land that included Sully Island.
Set in 98 acres of parkland, St Fagan's was donated for use as a National Museum by the Earl of Plymouth and now houses the Welsh National Folk Museum.
There are still remains of its Roman walling which enclosed about seven acres.
Beyond the castle is the tidal mill; it is set on a causeway which dams the Carew River, forming this 23-acre mill-pond.
Its 360- acres of open green space were called by William Pitt ‘the lung of London’.
About the time this picture was taken, plans by Sheppard Fidler had been accepted for a 461-acre development to include sixteen-storey tower blocks, two shopping centres, schools, community buildings
This now sits at the east side of a large roundabout of at least an acre, sited where the A24 and A29 London to Bognor roads diverge.
A sizeable crowd are fully engrossed in the action of a cricket match on the playing fields of the school, against the backdrop of the buildings, all of which are contained on an 85-acre site.
Amid scenery loved by the author Jane Austen, who was a frequent visitor here when her brother Edward Knight owned the adjoining 560-acre Godmersham Park, the River Stour flows quietly past
At one time Fountains had over 600,000 acres of land given over to wool production, but even so it was often in debt.
It is difficult to believe that the Town Planning scheme once scheduled portions of the island for development at a rate of 12 houses per acre.
'I must admit I have often cast lustful eyes on Bowers Gifford's acres which I can see from my office window', said General Manager Charles Boniface.
The smallest ones were about an acre in size, and this influenced the sorts of houses constructed during the Edwardian period; consequently the village reflects this glimpse of Edwardian elegance in its
This was among the 'horror pictures' used by the land agent John Cripwell in order to encourage Lord Antrim and the council of the National Trust to buy two thousand of acres from Lyme Regis to
But it may be that the final element of the name comes from the Norse word 'akr', indicating Viking settlement here – the Vikings certainly inhabited the county around Chester, but we will never know
It began in 1827, when a 14-acre farm was bought from Lord Donegall.
On the right, the narrow strip of park beyond the trees is the Common Acre, where the archers of Andover practised before going into battle under Henry V at Agincourt in 1415.
is over an open common of 52 acres, with nine holes 2,750 yards in length'.
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