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Maps

88 maps found.

1898, Coates Ref. RNE672654
1886, Coat Ref. HOSM41364
1897-1899, Coate Ref. RNC672639
1923, Little Coates Ref. POP757069
1897, Salt Coates Ref. RNE824514
1919, Coat Ref. POP672629
1919, Coate Ref. POP672638
1919, Coate Ref. POP672639
1920, Coates Ref. POP672653
1940, Coate Ref. NPO672638
1947, Coate Ref. NPO672639
1947, Coates Ref. NPO672649
1947, Coates Ref. NPO672652
1946, Coates Ref. NPO672654
1898, Coat Ref. RNE672629
1895, Coates Ref. RNE672653
1885 - 1898, Coates Ref. HOSM41370
1901-1904, Salt Coates Ref. RNC824514
1898-1900, Coat Ref. RNC672629
1903-1904, Coates Ref. RNC672646

Books

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Memories

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High Benthamlooking For Info On Relatives

Julie CoatesRoyal Palm Beach, Florida, USA I am trying to find some information about my great gradfather. He was the postman in High Bentham for many years. His last name was Coates. I don't know his first name.He had a son (William Dabbot Coates) and three daughters Annie, Ethel and Gertie.

A memory of High Bentham in 1900 by Julie Coates

High Spring Tide Lyme Regis Cobb 10th March 2008

I stood at the end of the Cobb on the day of the worst storm this winter and both saw and felt the sea spray as the waves hit the top of the sea wall. It was just as exciting as shown in this ...Read more

A memory of Lyme Regis in 2008 by John Howard Norfolk

The Slate Islands Easdale

                                                  THE SLATE ISLANDS                                                         By Walter Deas Some 24k (15 miles) south and west of Oban lies an area with interesting old ...Read more

A memory of Easdale in 2005 by Walter Deas

Lawrence And Peggy Berg

My uncle Lawrence married Peggy Smurthwaite in about 1935 and took over the Hinchley Wood Hotel. It was already well-known to him and his brother, Ellis, because he was a partner in the building firm E & L Berg ...Read more

A memory of Hinchley Wood in 1930 by Ellis Berg

Favourite Outing

My family and I often walked to the River Usk, going down Pentre Road and crossing the Brecon Road. We used to have picnics on the side nearest St. Mary's church in Llanwenarth, and look in the water for tiny fish and insects. ...Read more

A memory of Abergavenny in 1949 by Diana Dioszeghy

Aboretum

I was born just around the corner from this photo, in Ward Stree, it's now a car park. This junction is going through yet another re vamp. As a teenager I would visit the Aboretum with friends and race the boats across the pond and get ...Read more

A memory of Walsall in 1966 by Roger Murphy

Childhood Holidays

We spent three years in perfect holidaying mood in Mrs Greig's caravan, the first time ever having a jelly mould, 1955!!!. Caravan site run by the Philps, had Yates round salted butter every day on our rolls, had fruit in our ...Read more

A memory of Lower Largo in 1955 by Isobel Laing

Power Boats

The wooden clinker built boat, painted white in the lower right of the picture, was one of a pair of fast boats that the late Arthur Shippey and Tom Louis ran from coffee house end steps. They would call loudly ""half hour trips round ...Read more

A memory of Whitby in 1953 by Jim Evans

The Majestic Cinema

Between the tree and the cinema you can see the roof and top floor of one of the blocks of flats in Armfield Crescent so we did not live far from the cinema. When we were small we were given a shilling to go to the Saturday ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1963 by Carole Baldwin

Fishing With Billy

Billy was a hero to we boys. In the daytime you could go crabbing with him; at night, out drifting. He drove an old open jeep and at times you would see five, six or even seven boys clinging to parts of this ex-US vehicle as it ...Read more

A memory of Downderry in 1955 by D'arcy Blank

Captions

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Caption For Tintagel, Fore Street C1950

In the foreground is a crumbling wall of the medieval Outer Ward, and on the headland behind is the monstrous hotel built by the London & South Western Railway Co at the end of the 19th

Caption For Cromford, The Bridge 1886

This early photograph of the 15th-century Cromford Bridge shows a shadowy black-coated figure in the foreground fishing in the River Derwent.

Caption For Tadcaster, High Street C1955

The bay-windowed and porticoed Londesborough Arms on the left, complete with fine hanging sign showing a coat of arms, commemorates a prominent local landowning family.

Caption For Newmarket, High Street C1955

The side against the High Street has the Duke's coat of arms in the pediment. Opposite is the 16th-century Wagon and Horses, in whose yard the livestock market used to be held.

Caption For Chester, Watergate Street 1888

The house is named after the Leche family; their coat of arms can still be seen on a fireplace in one of the first floor rooms.

Caption For Durham, Shire Hall 1921

Built of red brick, the Shire Hall was designed by local architects H Barnes and F E Coates, and was completed in 1898.

Caption For Cambridge, Christ's College 1908

Founded by Henry VII's mother, Margaret Beaufort (as was St John's), the impressive gateway depicts her coat of arms, with a statue of her above.

Caption For St Mawgan, Village C1955

The main differences are the telegraph and electricity supply poles and cables, the Western National bus timetable and the inn's sign, now a coat of arms.

Caption For Oxford, Divinity School 1907

The photograph depicts the school's magnificent vaulted roof, which consists of four arches and is beautifully decorated with figures and coats of arms.

Caption For Marske, The Church 1913

The interior, re-ordered by a later John Hutton c1830, contains his memorial with its fulsome epitaph, the Hutton family pew, and a Victorian royal coat of arms dated 1850.

Caption For Marske, The Church 1913

The interior, re-ordered by a later John Hutton c1830, contains his memorial with its fulsome epitaph, the Hutton family pew, and a Victorian royal coat of arms dated 1850.

Caption For Glaisdale, Beggars Bridge C1965

The arch is ribbed and bears the coat of arms of Thomas Ferris of Hull, and was formerly known as Ferris's Bridge.

Caption For Old Swinford, Hagley Road C1960

Look at the depressing differences in the first building on the left, which has gained a coat of cement render and lost its original windows.

Caption For Tewkesbury, Church Street 1907

In 1907, a room at the Hop Pole cost 4s a night, and dinner would set you back 3s 6d.

Caption For Morley, Queens Street C1965

After the 1930s the next blow to the Woollen District came in the 1960s with the import of cheap Italian heavy-woollen skirtings and coatings.

Caption For Kettering, Parish Church C1960

The Roughton Memorial gates are decorated with a coat of arms on the left-hand pillar and a brief history of the family's connection with Kettering on the right-hand pillar.

Caption For Kendal, Sleddall Almshouses 1896

Ten years before this photograph was taken, the school had amalgamated with the famous old Blue Coat School, which had itself been founded in 1670 to prepare boys for the Grammar School.

Caption For St Agnes, Cliffs At Chapel Porth C1955

The old Wheal Coates mine, perched on the steep cliffs of St Agnes Head, has been frequently photographed over the years.

Caption For Burnley, Queen's Park Entrance 1895

Notice that the gates are decorated with the town's coat of arms. This part of the park was detached when the modern Queen Victoria Road was built.

Caption For Luton, St Mary's Church Chancel 1897

Seats were provided for clergy during High Mass, under the abbot's coat of arms.

Caption For Newton, Newton Hall Holiday Centre, The Club House Bar C1960

The children from the Blue Coat School loved it. In 1965 the boys blacked their faces and the girls enjoyed dressing up. The parents got very thirsty!

Caption For Salisbury, High Street C1955

There is a striking coat of arms high up on the wall of Mitre House.

Caption For Sherborne, Horse And Cart 1904

The stockman`s sturdy coats on offer here would havecost an agricultural labourer more than a week`s wages to buy.

Caption For Ludlow, Butter Cross And Broad Street 1949

The Buttercross was built in 1744 at a cost of £1,000. The ground floor served as a butter market, hence the name.