Books

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Memories

498 memories found. Showing results 171 to 180.

Leaving Old Coulsdon

I was born at 52 The Glade in 1960 and can remember a happy childhood, although my mum was a single mother (unusual then) and we struggled with money. I remember the parade of shops near me up the hill and especially the ...Read more

A memory of Old Coulsdon in 1974 by Gillian Battersby

Land Of My Fathers

I loved growing up in the 'cape' as we called it. In the hot summer of 1977 I remember going up the mountain behind Villiers Road to go picking whinberries with my uncle Peter Morris, and I insisted on carrying them back down ...Read more

A memory of Abergwynfi in 1977 by Warren Jewell

Working For The Ministry

I started working for the ministry (ancient monuments) in 1969 at South Wingfield Manor. At the time it was owned by two brothers, Sam and Bill Critchlow, who ran a dairy farm situated at the side of the manor, in ...Read more

A memory of South Wingfield in 1969 by Stuart Chambers

The Horse Racing Years

My father purchased Waygateshaw House, the Gatehouse, and 27 acres from Mr Campbell in 1989 for an equestrian pursuit, namely training racehorses. We were called Silverbell Racing. We had many visitors from the racing ...Read more

A memory of Crossford in 1989 by Catherine Ratter Scott

The Village

I left the village in 1960. I attended the local junior and infant school. The teachers I recall were Miss Whitehead, Miss Jenkins, Miss James, Granny Chancellor (she was a lovely lady who taught most of our parents also, those that ...Read more

A memory of Waun Lwyd by Ian Calloway

The Place Of My Ancestors

I found out that my great-grandmother was born at Tintern, she came with her parents to Warrington in 1870. Warrington was a big name in Wire and so was Tintern, that is the link. We first visited Tintern in 2003 and ...Read more

A memory of Tintern by Madelaine Kirk

My Gran Grandad

My grandparents lived in Mountain Ash at 37 Allen Street, the name of Richard and Ada Parsons. After the harvest had finished in Surrey, we, as children, were always taken to Wales for wonderful holiday. We could climb up the ...Read more

A memory of Mountain Ash in 1940 by Pamela Storey

Brown Lees Village

I was born in Brook Street, Brown Lees, within the civil parish of Biddulph. The village is situated about half a mile north of the site of the former Biddulph Valley Ironworks and the Brown Lees and Victoria Collieries, ...Read more

A memory of Brown Lees in 1940 by George M. Bennison

Hubert Terrace

I often wondered who Hubert was. Other road names around were obvious. Bank Street was on a bank; School street had a school at the end of it. But Hubert Terrace? One side of my street was brick and the other was stone; something ...Read more

A memory of Bensham in 1964 by Susan Green

The War Years In Consett

I was born in Consett at 11 Newmarket Street in June 1933, though my parents were living in Norfolk and later on in Middlesex. I was sent back to live with aunts when the Blitz really got going. I went to the CofE ...Read more

A memory of Consett in 1940 by Malcolm Hutton

Captions

753 captions found. Showing results 409 to 432.

Caption For Bingley, Boating On The Aire 1923

The River Aire cuts a winding course through broad pastures, stony valleys and bustling industrial areas on its way to join the Ouse and the open sea at Asselby Island.

Caption For Sabden, Old Bull Bridge C1955

Thought to have been used since the Bronze Age, the track through the valley was one of several routes followed by packhorse drivers, who carried goods across the moorland hills between Lancashire

Caption For Brighton, Old Steine 1902

The Old Steine (pronounced 'steen') is the traditional centre of Brighton - in earlier times it was a broad grassy valley where fishermen dried their nets.

Caption For Litton Mill, The Mill C1955

This early cotton mill in the valley of the River Wye was the scene, if the propaganda is to be believed, of some of the worst horrors of the exploitation of child labour in the 19th century.

Caption For Kingsbury, The Boating Pool C1955

What is now called Kingsbury Water Park contains 30 pools like this, set in 600 acres of the Tame Valley.

Caption For Lincoln, School Of Art 1890

Here Broadgate starts to climb out of the valley.

Caption For Warminster, High Street From St Lawrence's C1965

Warminster, on the A36 at the head of the Wylye valley, was an important market town and communication centre.

Caption For Seaton, The Sands 1920

The valley of the River Seaton runs inland from the beach to Hessenford.

Caption For Matlock Moor, 1892

This view from the west shows John Smedley's massive Hydro on the opposite side of the valley, which brought spa town prosperity to the town after its erection in 1853.

Caption For Bamford, The Reservoir, Ladybower C1960

The Ladybower Reservoir, the last in the series of three which flooded the Upper Derwent Valley, was built to provide water for Sheffield and the East Midlands.

Caption For Cranham, The Village C1965

Cranham has not suffered too much at the hands of unsympathetic development over the years, partly because it is situated in a steep valley and surrounded by dense woodland.

Caption For Chirk, Aqueduct And Viaduct, Ceiriog Valley 1939

Here we are looking north across the valley, along Telford's 70ft-high aqueduct of 1801, which carries the Ellesmere Canal.

Caption For Carbis Bay, General View 1901

The railway viaduct crosses the little valley behind the beach, and the station platform is just beyond.

Caption For Chop Gate, The Village C1960

Across the valley is the Bilsdale transmitter mast for Tyne Tees Television.

Caption For Clun, View From The Mowdens C1960

We can see the village of Clun in the valley, with the keep of its old castle standing guard.

Caption For Kings Somborne, Village C1955

This village is close to the Test Valley.

Caption For South Tidworth, Old Cottages C1962

South Tidworth is situated in the Test Valley, but in the 1974 boundary changes it ended up in Wiltshire.

Caption For Chartham, Paper Mills & Hatch 1906

A splendid panoramic view, taken early in the year, of the Stour Valley looking across to the Julliberrie Downs, with the 14th-century tower of Chartham church rising above the trees.

Caption For Cardiff, The Docks 1893

There was simply too much coal coming down the valleys from Merthyr for the wharves to cope with.

Caption For Congleton, The Cloud And Timbersbrook C1950

The works are hidden in a little valley.

Caption For Osmington, The Bay, Chalet Centre C1960

Increasingly wooded these days, the valley also hides the old coastguard cottages and the replacement coastguard cottages.

Caption For Woodmansterne, Pine Walk C1955

At the end of the road is Woodmansterne Baptist Church, which moved here from Chipstead Valley Road, Coulsdon.

Caption For Waddesdon, The Five Arrows Hotel 1901

In the valley he built Waddesdon, an estate village.

Caption For Chalford, On The Canal 1910

Along the crest of the hill are the homes of the mill owners, while the workers' houses and the mills themselves were positioned in the valley bottom.