Places

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Photos

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Maps

69 maps found.

Books

1 books found. Showing results 337 to 1.

Memories

3,878 memories found. Showing results 141 to 150.

Baglan A Wartime Paradise

My Dad did his army training adjacent to Baglan during WW2. The hastily built barracks did not have enough bathroom facilities and asked local residents for permission for soldiers to have a bath in their houses. A super-kind ...Read more

A memory of Baglan

S T Joseph's Salesian School Burwash

I was a boarder at St joseph's from 1947 to 1951. We lived in Lincolnshire. My father was an OLD BOY of the Salesian School at Battersea and this was my start to follow him there. We traveled in special compartments ...Read more

A memory of Burwash by Mick Bray

Boyhood Memories Of Lymington

My parents, Edward (Jack) and Mavis Byard and myself and German Shepherd Dog Julie, moved from Poole, in Dorset, to live in a de-commissioned British Power Boat Motor Torpedo Boat, 451, in November 1947. My father ...Read more

A memory of Lymington by Michael Byard

Russells And Dowdings

My mother, Edith Lucy 'Dot' Jeffery, was born in Penge in 1927, to a Lucy Russell, nee Dowding. She married in 1949 and moved into Queen Adelaide flats, and had me in 1950, before moving to Sidcup in 1955. Since that time, she lost ...Read more

A memory of Penge by Kevin Jeffery

Childhood In Withyham

We moved to 2 Bower Cotts Balls Green about 1950. My dad was employed by the owner of Duckings, the farm situated opposite the entrance to station road. Nos. 1 and2 Bower Cotts were up on the bank almost opposite the school ...Read more

A memory of Withyham by iobs

Grouse Beating

As a student I spent 3 seasons working as a beater on Lord Sopwiths estate. I first worked a few days during a holiday with family friends called Rita and Albert Sparks who had holidayed in Arkengarthdale for many years. The ...Read more

A memory of Arkengarthdale in 1960 by Roy Loudon

Winter At The Hall

As a boy I remember the big open fireplace in the main hall, and the times the large glass sheet above the fireplace falling down - this was to be a yearly thing if I recall correctly. Other memories - making our own snow skis; ...Read more

A memory of Grassington in 1959 by Peter Fitzakerley

Ice Skating On The Port

In the very cold winter of 1963 the canal port (known as the polly basin) froze over we were able to go iceskating , Brimscombe Hill had deep snow drifts and was shutdown but we still got the papers delivered !!! I was a paper boy at the time aged 11 yrs

A memory of Brimscombe in 1963 by Stuart Baker

Golden Memories Of Childhood Days

Central Hall I believe used to house the big Saturday market!, Tooting was a Saturday trip out as a boy from Mitcham, I can vaguely remember many special days, going to the pictures, and the joke shop on the Mitcham ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1963 by David Buettner Banks

The Lock

I was looking through the photes of Beverley, the man in the picture of the Lock, in the flat cap and shirt sleeves must be Mr Block. He used to come round to my house when I was a boy selling mushrooms that he collected on Figham.

A memory of Beverley in 1960 by Tony Foster

Captions

516 captions found. Showing results 337 to 360.

Caption For Bewdley, Welch Gate C1955

This boy died of consumption when he was aged only 17. His mother was Betty Blount.

Caption For Fordwich, The River C1960

Just as they do today, the boys who lived in this historic town - Fordwich is the smallest town in Britain - enjoyed boating on the River Stour which ebbed and flowed between Canterbury and the sea.

Caption For Woodhall Spa, Golf Hotel C1965

The building was formerly the Clevedon House Preparatory School and a boarding school for boys. Almost next door to this attractive hotel is the English National Golf Centre.

Caption For Barnstaple, The Square 1912

A small boy plays on the posts.

Caption For Abbots Bromley, The Annual Horn Dance C1955

No one knows how old the dance is; it could easily predate the Norman Conquest, and its meaning is also lost to us. Ten dancers take part accompanied by two musicians.

Caption For Prestatyn, High Street 1895

Shopkeepers stand at their doors at the little parade of shops; prams are parked outside, and a boy gazes longingly at the display of hoops.

Caption For Bonsall, Via Gellia, Pig Of Lead Inn 1892

The people in the photograph are interesting, from the horse and cart and man carrying a basket and harness on the left, to the two boys, one dressed in a sailor suit, and a man who may be their father

Caption For St Asaph, Cefn Caves 1890

A boy appears to be sitting for the photographer, perhaps wanting to lead him in to reveal some of the caves' secrets.

Caption For Southwold, Gun Hill 1896

On the balcony of Gunhill Place two ladies are taking tea (left), while nearest to us, a lady with a parasol and a young boy sit as far apart as possible.

Caption For Bourn, Bourne Mill C1955

In 1741 the mill was blown down in a storm killing a man and a boy - perhaps because the sails were 'back winded'. The mill has been in the care of the Cambridgeshire Preservation Trust since 1932.

Caption For Leeds, The Post Office And Revenue Office 1897

Delivery boys gather outside the main doors, carrying parcels to and from the city's shops and businesses.

Caption For Newby Bridge, Nickle Landing Stage 1914

A short distance downstream from Fell Foot, a young boy watches for fish in the shallow, reed-grown water by the shore, apparently in charge of a large rowing boat.

Caption For Woodmansterne, The Street C1955

Two girls seem unimpressed by a boy playing leapfrog on a summer`s day fifty years ago.

Caption For St Ives, On The Beach 1890

The exception is the young boy perched somewhat precariously upon the small boat; he appears to be wearing sea boots and a fishing smock.

Caption For Treherbert, Station Road C1955

Note the two boys on the left of the picture.

Caption For Skegness, The Figure Eight 1910

No doubt it looks tame to the present generation reared on the terrors of Alton Towers, but to a boy in the 1950s it was quite scary enough.

Caption For Beaumaris, West End 1904

In this view, two old salts and a boy look out across the pier and the Menai Strait to the mountains of Snowdonia.

Caption For Sawbridgeworth, The River 1903

village watering hole on the road to neighbouring Widford prided itself on being 'the world's most exclusive pub', as evidenced by the signs proclaiming 'No teenager groups served or Teddy Boys

Caption For Buckingham, Parish Church C1965

The chancel is the work of the local boy made good, the great Victorian architect Sir George Gilbert Scott, whose father was vicar of nearby Gawcott.

Caption For Bowness On Windermere, The Boat Station 1896

The two boys in the foreground seem to be more interested in setting up an oar than in the comings or goings of the steamer.

Caption For Bowness On Windermere, Ferry Hotel 1925

From it the camera-wary boy is dangling his line in the water, probably hoping to catch the perch which have generally been plentiful in Windermere.

Caption For Paignton, The Harbour 1922

The young teenage boy accompanied probably by his mother, with bathing suit in hand and towel draped nonchalantly over his left shoulder, add a note of gentle charm to this otherwise active

Caption For Launceston, Boys' College 1890

It was here that Plymouth Argyle played their first game in September 1885 — the club had been founded by five Dunheved College Old Boys.

Caption For Launceston, Boys' College 1890

It was here that Plymouth Argyle played their first game in September 1885 — the club had been founded by five Dunheved College Old Boys.