Maps

304 maps found.

1895, Newsholme Ref. RNE791530
1924, Skelton Ref. POP831939
1924, Newsholme Ref. POP791530
1895, Skelton Ref. RNE831939

Books

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Memories

1,643 memories found. Showing results 151 to 160.

More Of Enfield

Swimming at the open air pool was so compulsory at George Spicer and then Kingsmead schools but then we grew a little and in the holidays worked at Pearsons and danced at the Court above Burtons in the market square. Those days it ...Read more

A memory of Enfield in 1970 by Gordon Thompson

Woodlands Holiday Camp Swimming Pool

I was brought up in Kemsing at the foot of the Downs and we children would walk up to Woodlands Holiday Camp to swim for a shilling or so. On a fine weekend you could take your swimming things and some ...Read more

A memory of Sevenoaks in 1960 by Philip Dew

How Good Barking Was In The 1950s

I was born in Shirley Gardens in 1935, right opposite Barking Park where I spent most of my childhood at Barking open air lido. What a magnificent place that was! My father was a policeman in Barking so we always ...Read more

A memory of Barking by Shirley Bates

Great Haseley

I was five when I moved to Great Haseley from Newington, near Stadhampton, with my mother, father and brother. The year was 1957 and Horse Close Cottages was a new housing estate - we were thrilled to have a bathroom and an ...Read more

A memory of Great Haseley by Linda Twibill (Nee Ring)

St Albans Summer Holidays In The 1950s

A child from Thanet taking annual last week of August holidays with an adored great aunt at Chiswell Green, travelling by train to Victoria Station, London, taking the Greenline to ...Read more

A memory of Frogmore in 1953 by Sandra Dudley

The Brook

Wonderful memories! It was awonderful place to have grown up. I learned to swim in the brook, aged about 11 years. I wonder who wrote the following which I was taught in school. Very appropriate! "Little stream flowing ...Read more

A memory of Gayton by Sylvia Pugh

Living On Pool Bank New Road

We moved to Pool in 1943 as my father had a job as an aircraft inspector at the factory at what is now Leeds & Bradford Airport. We lived in a house one corner up from the notorious Furze Hill Corner which was a ...Read more

A memory of Pool in 1945 by Ian Scott

Cooksons Leadworks Part 2

1965. During my time working here I carried out a number of different jobs, one was to make Zinc ingots, my shift would start with my furnace fired up and there next to it would be my "charge" this would be a pile of old ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1965 by Jimmy Burrows

Leven In The 1950s

I was five and lived on Links Road where my father had a grocer's shop. I was able to run down the burn path to the beach to swim in the sea or play in paddling pool. We would go to the summer shows in the Beach pavillion ...Read more

A memory of Leven in 1957 by Dorothy Millar

Warners

As a young child I can remember several holidays taken at the Warners holiday camp at Seaton. The serious business of 'motoring down to Devon' was never taken lightly, lunch was prepared the night before to be eaten at Stonehenge, where ...Read more

A memory of Seaton in 1965 by Michael Gough

Captions

404 captions found. Showing results 361 to 384.

Caption For New Brighton, Beach And Pier C1960

On the beach there was a children's boating pool, and the Pier had a bar and an amusement palace on it. The Pier was built to accommodate the crowds, and was really two piers next to each other.

Caption For Langton Matravers, Dancing Ledge C1960

Quarrymen - who created this scenic spot - cut out a swimming pool so that the boys could still take their daily dip when the sea was too choppy.

Caption For Tenby, The Harbour C1960

The beaches, caves and rock pools around Castle Hill and especially St Catherine's Island have been a favourite haunt of the serious and amateur naturalist for gen- erations.

Caption For Morecambe, Pier Head, West End Pier C1955

The Super Swimming Stadium had opened in 1936; as a promotion for the pool, a Miss Great Britain competition was started in Morecambe in 1945.

Caption For Churchtown, Entrance To Botanical Gardens C1965

The lake was formed from the old Otter Pool, which was reputedly the source of eels for the monks who lived in the area of the township.

Caption For Saxilby, Foss Dyke C1965

This is the Roman canal from the Brayford Pool in Lincoln to the river Trent at Torksey, and it is the oldest canal in England.

Caption For Saxilby, Foss Dyke C1965

This is the Roman canal from the Brayford Pool in Lincoln to the river Trent at Torksey, and it is the oldest canal in England.

Caption For Poole, High Street, Beech Hurst 1904

Sandbanks The Haven Hotel 46102 Standing on the slim, sandy peninsula jutting out from Poole Head, and facing the castle on Brownsea Island, this isolated hotel must have lived up to its

Caption For Frisby On The Wreake, Church Of St Thomas Of Canterbury C1955

was originally on the main Leicester/Melton Mowbray road until 1810, when Edward Parsons, who also put in the turnpike at Kibworth, built what amounts to a two-mile bypass from Rotherby to Chalk Pool

Caption For Bangor, The Front 1897

For those who made the short sail out from Belfast, the charms of this piece of coast were obvious: a bay lined with low, craggy rocks and sands providing picturesque bathing pools.

Caption For Canford Magna, The Manor C1886

Canford House is Poole's manor house, which dates from 1450. In the early 19th century this was the home of William Ponsonby, brother of Byron's lover Lady Caroline Lamb.

Caption For Canford Magna, Village 1904

Canford House is Poole's manor house, which dates from 1450. In the early 19th century this was the home of William Ponsonby, brother of Byron's lover Lady Caroline Lamb.

Caption For Haywards Heath, Victoria Park C1960

In Victoria Park there are now facilities for BMX bikers, roller-bladers and skateboarders, complementing the existing children's paddling pool and tennis courts as well as the occasional fixture

Caption For Lincoln, High Bridge C1955

The swan looks lonely; usually there are dozens on the river and the Brayford Pool, which is under the bridge.

Caption For Lincoln, High Bridge C1955

The swan looks lonely; usually there are dozens on the river and the Brayford Pool, which is under the bridge.

Caption For Milford Haven, The Swimming Pool C1955

With the boats and quays in the background, this open-air swimming pool has a definite industrial maritime feel to it, but that did not prevent it from being very popular.

Caption For Lyme Regis, The Harbour 1892

Towns such as Weymouth and Poole have grown up around shipping and fishing, their seamen going out to brave the rough tides and wild seas of the English Channel.

Caption For Twickenham, The Riverside C1965

After the baths closed in 1981, officially for refurbishment, the council decided that the demand for a new pool could not justify the cost of extensive repair or replacement, and a search began

Caption For Pitsea, View From Church C1955

Today there are 34 listed buildings in the Basildon area, including the raised pool with Mother and Child Statue and Brooke House in the Town Square; both of these are listed Grade II.

Caption For Stafford, Victoria Park 2005

After a period of unprecedentedly wet weather in November 2000 some parts of the town were submerged, notably the Lammascote area near the King's Pool, and much of Victoria Park.

Caption For Pitsea, Pitsea Road C1955

Whenever a problem existed they would often pool their resources, with whole families working together to provide such things as footpaths or stepping-stones on the unmade roads.

Caption For Stafford, The Windmill, Broad Eye 2005

To the east of the town are similar marshes at the King's Pool, off North Walls.

Caption For Stafford, Former Library, Grapes Corner 2005

To the east of the town are similar marshes at the King's Pool, off North Walls.

Caption For Barrow In Furness, Biggar Bank Swimming Pool 1934

remaining out-of-work men were employed on special projects; these included the making of a new road following the coast to link Ulverston and Barrow, and the construction of a public swimming pool