Maps

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Books

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Memories

439 memories found. Showing results 181 to 190.

Beach Warriors And The Secret Army

Running down from Barton Common is a small river called Becton Bunny. This occupied the local gang of unsupervised children caled the Secret Army for many summer days, building substantial dams, which ...Read more

A memory of New Milton in 1952 by Roger Williams

Walking Home From School

I remember walking to Brierley Hill Grammar school and back home to Pensnett most days, sometimes alone, sometimes with friends. We walked up Mill Street then down the High Street, with Chattin and Hortons, Woolworths to ...Read more

A memory of Pensnett in 1952 by Edna Stephens

Birchington, Epple Bay And Minnis Bay

Birchington with two bays and a village atmosphere 'in town'. A rail station with the most wonderful ice cream parlour opposite - wicker chairs on those old fashioned curved steel bases and circular wicker ...Read more

A memory of Birchington in 1955 by Sandra Dudley

Mature Student Nurse.

During 1981 and 1982 I was, as indicated by the memory title, a mature student. My memories are, first and foremost, of a very rewarding time as a small cog in a caring environment. Making many friends of both staff and ...Read more

A memory of Langho in 1980 by Cliff Andrews

Butlins Staff 1976 `77

I had lost my son in a road accident and my marriage broke up. I was a qualified nurse and applied for the post of nurse at Butlins in 1976 (it was very hot that summer). I was the night nurse for two seasons. I met my ...Read more

A memory of Skegness by Clifford Charlesworth

Kenton; 1950s

From 1952-1963 my family lived on Kenton Rd. in a house backing onto the Kenton Tennis Club (now Rufford Close). I was five in 1956. Memories of sunny Sunday afternoons in the back garden with the soundtrack of good-natured tennis ...Read more

A memory of Kenton by David Sangwine

My Many Walks To And From Abbotsham 1957

At the side of the Post Office is a single track lane that leads to the cliffs, half a mile along the lane past the farm was a large thatched cottage named "Rixlade". In 1957 our father Major William ...Read more

A memory of Abbotsham in 1957 by Raymond Hay

Family Memories

Through my parents' eyes I am remembering life in Rhossili when they worked and met at the Worms Head Hotel. As a child I was taken many times here and fell in love with this beautifull coastline, and as I became older I would sit ...Read more

A memory of Rhossili in 1920 by Shirley Hamilton

Prestwich Memories

Well I suppose my memories of Prestwich go back to early 1940s when I started school at Park View Primary with Mr Rigby as Headmaster. He wasn't reluctant to cane the boys for any misdemeanour even at the ages of 5 to 11. ...Read more

A memory of Prestwich in 1947 by Fred Plant

Childhood Memories

My whole childhood, teenage years and early adulthood was spent in Brotton. I lived at the 'top end' between the Green Tree and Chemist Corner. I have many happy memories of life in Brotton - attending the infant/junior school ...Read more

A memory of Brotton in 1957 by Kay Grainger

Captions

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Caption For St Margarets Bay, South Foreland Lowerlight 1898

It was built in 1843; for a further ninety years after this photograph was taken, it offered both a warning and guidance for ships passing north along the white cliffs, and for those heading

Caption For Hunstanton, The Bathing Beach 1921

The coast was particularly attractive with its striped chalk and carrstone cliffs, which rise to 60 feet. They are the seaward end of a ridge extending across the whole county.

Caption For Penarth, The Esplanade 1896

Alighting at the railway station, it was now possible to travel comfortably by carriage down Beach Road, admire the Esplanade, and return up Cliff Hill back to your train via Marine Parade and Plymouth

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Caption For Cromer, 1933

They appear to be deciding which way to go, as there is a choice of two esplanades: one is virtually on the beach, where dogs have total freedom, and the other is along the top of the cliffs, where

Caption For Mullion, Poldhu Hotel 1899

This very austere hotel is seen in the year it was opened, out on the cliff top just south of Poldhu Cove.

Caption For Alum Bay, The Beach C1955

The coloured cliffs of Alum Bay are one of the most enduring sights on the Isle of Wight as far as visitors are concerned.

Caption For Praa Sands, 1927

He ran the cove as his own fiefdom, and even mounted a battery of guns on the cliffs.

Caption For Southend On Sea, Undercliff Gardens C1955

The Cliffs Shelter, shown here, was fitted with Vita-Glass.

Caption For Burton Bradstock, C1955

The cliff line of Dorset breaks to give access to a small cove and the village of Burton Bradstock, with the River Bride gurgling away to the end of Chesil Beach.

Caption For Dumpton Gap, 1894

To the east of Margate, and south of Foreness Point, Kingsgate Bay is marked by this gap in the cliffs.

Caption For Runswick, 1927

The steep, winding stairs and the difference in levels of the houses show how the buildings cling to the steep cliff, the summit of which rises high above.

Caption For Scratby, The Steps C1955

The east coast has always been open to the threat of enemy invasion, as the concrete pill-box further along the cliff indicates.

Caption For Bridport, From Allington Hill C1960

Here there is a sliver of sea (right of centre) and the plateau of the Golf Links on East Cliff.

Caption For Windsor, The Castle From The River 1895

Frith's photographer could not resist one of the most photographed views along the Thames: Windsor Castle on its cliff-top towering above the town and river.

Caption For Lands End, Penwith House 1908

A few visitors are making the best of their visit to the bleak and windswept cliff top.

Caption For East Runton, The Beach Entrance 1921

A leisured stroll on the cliff-top path leads to Cromer - otherwise rest awhile on the benches and admire the scenery and beach activities.

Caption For Overstrand, The Cliff Café C1965

The Cliff Café is a fine example, photographed shortly after its refurbishment.

Caption For St Austell, Crinnis Beach C1955

The old cliff line is protected by a wide expanse of sand, and the highest tides barely surround Crinnis Island.

Caption For Dover, Marine Parade 1892

An assortment of small fishing and rowing boats has been hauled safely above the high water mark in this picture of the eastern end of the Marine Parade; the famous white cliffs are visible beyond the

Caption For Scarborough, The South Cliff Tramway 1890

Here we see the Cliff Railway in its entirety. Opened only five years before this picture was taken, the fare was 1d, the old penny being worth about .4 of a post-decimalisation one.

Caption For Chepstow, Horseshoe Bend 1950

The woods on the left continue along the top of Piercefield Cliffs.

Caption For Boscastle, The Harbour 1894

The natural setting of this small port between cliff faces is idyllic. This picture shows how effectively it provides safe shelter for the limited number of craft it can hold.

Caption For Cheltenham, Devil's Chimney 1901

This is not a natural rock formation, but one carved out deliberately by the quarrymen extracting building stone, used for the construction of Cheltenham, from this precipitous cliff face.

Caption For Tintagel, King Arthur's Castle 1894

Perched on rocky cliffs five miles north-west of Camelford, Tintagel probably owes its survival to its association with the Arthurian legends.