Places
14 places found.
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- Coates, Lancashire
- Coate, Wiltshire (near Swindon)
- Coates, Lincolnshire
- Coat, Somerset
- Coates, Gloucestershire
- Coates, Nottinghamshire
- Coates, Cambridgeshire
- Coates, Sussex
- Coates, Lothian (near Penicuik)
- Coate, Wiltshire (near Devizes)
- Great Coates, Humberside
- Salt Coates, Cumbria
- Little Coates, Humberside
- North Coates Airfield, Lincolnshire
Photos
49 photos found. Showing results 241 to 49.
Maps
88 maps found.
Books
1 books found. Showing results 289 to 1.
Memories
1,483 memories found. Showing results 121 to 130.
Holidays In Laugharne
I and my family stayed at the Ferry House, next to the Boat House from 1965 to 1973. The house was then owned by the wife of my dad's boss and we used to be able to go for a fortnight each summer. We used to park our car, ...Read more
A memory of Laugharne in 1965 by
Raf Radar At Inverbervie
I was based in Inverbervie from March 1957 till March 1958 with 977 Signals Unit of the Royal Air Force. 977 SU operated radar from an underground site on the hill a couple of miles north of the village. Height finding ...Read more
A memory of Inverbervie in 1957 by
Rayne In 1950 1960
I was born in Rayne and in the 1950s.I have fond memories of being able to play various sports in the road at School Road with my brother Peter and friend Richard Dodd, gaining a few more players as word got around! We used to ...Read more
A memory of Rayne by
Henry Wilder And Son {Boathouse]
I am the great-granddaughter of Henry Wilder. I think in this photo the boats are in front of the boathouse which belonged to my family. Henry died about 1910 so it passed on to the childrem, Henry, Charlotte and Elizabeth. Elizabeth was my grandmother.
A memory of Maidenhead in 1930 by
Caerau Square
Looking at this photo of the Square at Caerau brings back some happy memories of when the steam train would pass over the bridge in all its glory with the steam coming out of its funnel. The big billboard before the bridge was the ...Read more
A memory of Caerau in 1955 by
Heswall Childrens Hospital Circa 1979 1980
I was in this hospital for a couple of years when I was around 4 years old! (Hence the vagueness.) I recall the wards (dorms) and I recall bouncing from one bed to another along the entire length of the ...Read more
A memory of Heswall in 1979 by
Those Were The Days 6
Continuing up the street on the right was a long parade of various shops and we come to Salisbury Ave on the corner was a large modernistic furniture shop later the shop nest door became a KFC and across the street next to ...Read more
A memory of Barking in 1950 by
Fish Strand Quay
Yes, I 'grew up' on Fish Strand and still use it to this day. My father kept various boats off the quay and we always had a dinghy moored there, and we still do, my father is now in his 90s and I have 2 grandaughters. I ...Read more
A memory of Falmouth in 1958 by
Thorne Water Sports
One of the highlights of the year was the annual Thorne Water Sports held in the canal between Dunston's shipyard and the Canal Tavern. The event included swimming races and sculling races where competitors stood in a rowing ...Read more
A memory of Thorne in 1948 by
Small Boystoys And Other Pastimes 1930s
bill.haylor@btinternet.com Resident in and around Smallfield for 81 yrs A large number of our toys were made from wood, dependant on what tools were available in fathers shed, if it was unlocked! The ...Read more
A memory of Smallfield in 1930 by
Captions
1,648 captions found. Showing results 289 to 312.
Motor boats can be seen in the foreground but the pool was split in two.
Villagers wait with their baskets for the boats to come in with their catches of herring.
A fisherman and two boys scull their boats around the pier of the inner harbour.
Gone too are the once numerous pilot boats and boat yards.
Although still labelled Dunton's, the ferry and boat-building business now belongs to the Davy family.
By the mid 1960s the boat hire business has boomed, judging from this photograph.
Many of the boats in the foreground would have been for hire.
As well as the ever- popular ball games, picnics and simply watching the boats go by, the Strand at Gillingham also offered a paddling pool, a boating pool, a children's playground, miniature
The delightful steam boat is the 'Maid of Athens'.
Exmouth's long beach offers safe bathing, and its gently shelving sands allow easy access for boats.
A pair of boats prepares to enter a lock.
Some 30 years after No 31158, above, many of the fishing boats are now powered by motors.
Paglesham once relied on three things: agriculture, boat-building and oysters.
Here we see a pair of loaded working boats on the Aylesbury Arm near Broughton on the edge of town.
Villagers wait with their baskets for the boats to come in with their catches of herring.
The Rising Sun public house is ideally situated to refresh visitors who moor their boats alongside the well-kept common.
The flags are flying and a throng of holidaymakers waits to board a fleet of row boats for a trip along the coast.
Trip boats cruise above, pleasure boats below: and ne'er the twain shall meet.
Whilst most of the boats appear to be pleasure craft, 'Rose' - nearest to the camera - was probably a fishing boat.
The flags are flying and a throng of holidaymakers waits to board a fleet of row boats for a trip along the coast.
Jobson's business included boat building and boat hire.
The wind-rippled water sets the craft pitching and rolling gently as the man in the nearest lower foreground boat attends to its moorings, with one eye anticipating its motion.
Many were used as pleasure craft, but these were working boats, used as tugs and pilot boats.
All boats and boatmen had to be licensed, and the boats were carefully inspected before the licenses were granted.
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