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Photos

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Maps

9 maps found.

Books

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Memories

463 memories found. Showing results 141 to 150.

Wartime Evacuees

I was evacuated to Cadwith along with my three brothers. Two stayed in the farm near the Devil's Frying Pan and the other two with Mr and Mrs Broad in a house near the top of the village. We went to school in Ruan Minor which ...Read more

A memory of Ruan Minor in 1940 by Roderick Pike

This Is The Road I Lived In With My Parents In The Sixties

This is the street where I lived with my parents, Bert and Muriel Palmer. We lived in number 63. Mawney Road School was over the back of our garden.

A memory of Romford in 1965 by Victor Palmer

Childhood Memories

I had a wonderful childhood in Lower Willingdon - we lived, my brother and I, in a bungalow in St Annes Road and went to the village school in Upper Willingdon where Mr Morrell was the headmaster. I remember in the playground ...Read more

A memory of Willingdon in 1950 by Maureen Wheeler

Sutton Flats And Pendleton High School.

I was born in 1946 and went to live on Sutton Flats when I was 5. We lived there in various flats until I was 21! By then, each block was known by a name rather than just a number and we lived at the top of ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1958 by Norma Rowles

At My Nannies Near The Allotments

My nannie lived on East Street, which had a break in the street to go through the allottments. My nannie was called Hilda Lee, nee Marsh. I have fond memories too of Grandad Lee who passed away when I was around ...Read more

A memory of Darfield by Vicky Ogden

Trying To Remember The Road I Lived On

Am trying to piece together my life while in England. I was sent to some kind of institution when I was a few months old, probably in 1945/46. I believe that place was in the North of England. Then my mother ...Read more

A memory of Heston in 1949 by Paul Langseth

A Memory Of Westbury Village 1

The two principal grocery shops in Westbury village, as it was still usually called, in the late 1950s and early 1960s were the Co-operative grocery by the corner of Church Road -- the Co-operative butcher ...Read more

A memory of Westbury on Trym in 1957 by Timothy Purnell

Memory Lane /Am I Getting Old?

So nice to read all the great reminders of my childhood.I too went to Rokesley Infants,Crouch End Juniors and Crouch End Secondary School.1945/1955.One establishment that seems to have been forgotten is the 'Bread an' ...Read more

A memory of Crouch End by Alan Carter

Memory Lane

My name is Alan Mudge, cousin of Valerie Mudge, her father Doll (Arthur) was one of my Dad's brothers.I was born on 15th. Sept. 1940 at The Shant, Grain Road, Lower Stoke, later, in 1948 moving to 12 Windmill Cottages. I went to school ...Read more

A memory of Lower Stoke by Alan Mudge

Sharpenhoe Clappers & Sundon Hills Bedfordshire

In the post war years, as families rebuilt their lives again, Sundays really were special leisure days and those who were able, bought a small car and enjoyed their afternoon going for rides on quiet ...Read more

A memory of Tralee by ducatee

Captions

460 captions found. Showing results 337 to 360.

Caption For Lyme Regis, The Square C1955

The seaward end of Broad Street was once the hub of Lyme Regis with its old Custom House, until a devastating fire in 1844.

Caption For Troutbeck, Kirkstone Pass C1870

His carriage has stopped near the summit of one of the most famous of the Lake District passes. It connects Troutbeck with Patterdale.

Caption For London, Old Waterloo Bridge 1902

This panorama of the river through broad lawns and lofty trees reveals the bridge’s graceful character.

Caption For Dover, Beach 1908

During the summer months there is a good service of steamboats between this interesting watering-place and London. Shakespeare's Cliff commands a broad view of the shores of France.

Caption For Langton Green, Village Green C1950

This leafy suburb of Tunbridge Wells boasts a broad and spacious green, fringed by cottages and trees.

Caption For Broad Hinton, The White Horse C1955

This hill figure cut in the chalk lies on the face of Hackpen Hill, to the right of the road from Wootton Bassett to Marlborough, where it zigzags to climb the hill.

Caption For Bodiam, The Castle 1890

Bodiam is dominated by one of the most picturesque castles in England, set within a broad moat filled with golden carp.

Caption For Leeds, The Headrow C1965

This street scene is dominated by the façade of Lewis's store, with its broad plate glass windows and imitation rusticated pillars. It must have appeared very modern when it opened in September 1932.

Caption For Horning, A Wherry On The Broads 1902

The Norfolk wherry was designed to sail exceptionally close to the wind, as tacking can be a hazardous if not impossible job in these narrow waterways.

Caption For Lyme Regis, The Smithy 1909

Amid displaced stairs and other paraphernalia, Samuel Govier (1855-1934) shoes a horse at the forge in Broad Street, where in 1895 he had been immortalised by the American artist James

Caption For Leeds, The Headrow C1965

This street scene is dominated by the façade of Lewis's store, with its broad plate glass windows and imitation rusticated pillars. It must have appeared very modern when it opened in September 1932.

Caption For Bourton On The Water, By The Windrush 1956

The River Windrush threads through Bourton, carpeted on either bank by broad greens.

Caption For Leeds, The Headrow C1965

This street scene is dominated by the façade of Lewis's store, with its broad plate glass windows and imitation rusticated pillars.

Caption For Kidlington, Cross Roads C1955

Corn Market 1951 This classic market town is famous for its broad streets and many inns - The Black Horse can be seen on the left in the picture.

Caption For Southwold, From The Pier 1906

With its broad greens, its sandy beach, the lighthouse on North Green, and its picturesque buildings, Southwold has long been popular.

Caption For Navenby, High Street C1965

South of Lincoln a string of villages grew up along the western edge of the limestone ridge, mostly along the spring line.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Marine Parade 1930

Beyond the Bay Private Hotel and Madeira Cottages (left centre) are Hardown Hill, Stonebarrow Hill (centre) and Golden Cap (right). Seaward are a series of ledges.

Caption For Machynlleth, Penrallt Street 1899

This town, known to its inhabitants as 'Mach', is situated at the far north-west corner of Powys, so distant that it is also in the Snowdonia National Park and just ten miles from the sea.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Old Walls 1922

Cobb Gate Jetty is in the foreground, dating in its present state from 1850; it is on the site of Lyme's first early medieval harbour, which was washed away on 11 November 1377 with the

Caption For Teddington, Broad Street C1955

Teddington remained a rural farming area until the arrival of the railway in 1863. New housing and shopping facilities near the station were soon erected.

Caption For Tenterden, High Street 1900

Tenterden is a beautiful old Kentish town close to the Rother Levels. It grew fat in the Middle Ages on sheep, wool and weaving, and later became a market town.

Caption For Portland, Chesil Beach 1890

This is a spectacular view from the top of Portland, with the expanse of the Chesil Bank on the left, stretching 16 miles along the Dorset coast to Barton Cliff, and the broad expanse of Portland Harbour

Caption For Chipping Campden, High Street 1952

Presiding over the town's broad High Street is the 120 feet high, pinnacle-topped tower of St James', which dates from the 15th century.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Old Sea Walls C1960

This is a historic lost view of Lyme's eastern cliffs before they were entombed and extended in 1984, by sea defence works which incorporated and hid sewage disposal facilities.