Places
36 places found.
Those places high-lighted have photos. All locations may have maps, books and memories.
- Swindon, Wiltshire
- Highworth, Wiltshire
- Wanborough, Wiltshire
- Chiseldon, Wiltshire
- Kingsdown, Wiltshire (near Swindon)
- Penhill, Wiltshire
- Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire
- Wroughton, Wiltshire
- Lower Blunsdon, Wiltshire
- Blunsdon St Andrew, Wiltshire
- Hodson, Wiltshire
- Inglesham, Wiltshire
- Badbury, Wiltshire
- Pinehurst, Wiltshire
- Swindon, Gloucestershire
- Swindon, Staffordshire
- Even Swindon, Wiltshire
- Haresfield, Wiltshire
- Overtown, Wiltshire
- Nythe, Wiltshire
- Hampton, Wiltshire
- Park, Wiltshire
- Rodbourne, Wiltshire (near Swindon)
- Coate, Wiltshire (near Swindon)
- Shaw, Wiltshire (near Swindon)
- Elcombe, Wiltshire
- Greenmeadow, Wiltshire
- Redlands, Wiltshire
- Roughmoor, Wiltshire
- Haydon, Wiltshire
- Sevenhampton, Wiltshire
- Westlea, Wiltshire
- Toothill, Wiltshire
- Walcot, Wiltshire
- Kingshill, Wiltshire
- Hannington, Wiltshire
Photos
174 photos found. Showing results 21 to 40.
Maps
373 maps found.
Books
2 books found. Showing results 25 to 2.
Memories
77 memories found. Showing results 11 to 20.
Beck Worth House Lindfield
I have a personal interest in Lindfield as my great grandparents lived in Beckworth Lodge on the Beckworth estate my great grandfather was the head game keeper and my Mother lived in Beckworth Lodge for the first six ...Read more
A memory of Cuckfield in 1910 by
Heytesbury The Mill
I was born at 119 Park Street, Heytesbury in 1942; this was/is the last cottage on the right-hand side of the old A36 as you leave the village travelling towards Knook. I believe No119 and the adjoining No118 have long since ...Read more
A memory of Heytesbury in 1955 by
Park South
I can remember 1963 very well. I lived in Kingsway Close. My father was an insurance agent named Reg Dady and later became an assistant manager. I attended Swindon College and then joined my father as an insurance agent for United ...Read more
A memory of Swindon in 1963 by
Gorton Girl
I was born in Brook house flats in 1940, then moved to Millwall and then Swindon close Gorton,where I lived with my mum Molly and two sisters known as the Nolan sisters.I loved Belle Vue for dancing and speedway. one of my strongest memories ...Read more
A memory of Gorton by
Wroughton From 1954ish
My parents moved from East London to Swindon and then to Wroughton in 1954. My parents were Pat and Geoff Leach. I am Janet (Leach - now Ford) and my sister penny was born in the maternity hospital in Swindon in 1958. My ...Read more
A memory of Wroughton
Haven Green Trainspotting In The Fifties
I remember seeing CITY OF TRURO come through one evening. It had been taken out of Swindon museum and restored. I also remember seeing the BROWN BOVERI GAS TURBINE on several occassions. It had been ordered by ...Read more
A memory of Ealing by
Deal By Deafault!
My wife spent many happy summers in Deal and Walmer with cousins/aunties/uncles/gran/gran-dad when on holiday from Swindon. She never stops talking about the Glen and mimicking her Welsh gran-dad saying he was going for a walk down ...Read more
A memory of Deal by
My Home Town
I'm a Pinehurst boy infants' juniors and seniors before moving on to Headlands as the first of the Comprehensive pupils. But firstly I'm from Pinehurst and proud of it. I lived with my Mum and Gran in Hawthorne Avenue until my dad ...Read more
A memory of Swindon in 1965 by
My Link To Cherry Willingham
I feel connected through family,whom I have never met. My plan to visit and connect in person will depend on whether I can trace my relative. Does anyone recall Stan (Clark?) and his daughter Linda? Linda's ...Read more
A memory of Cherry Willingham by
Staying In Trinant
I am 46 and my nan lived in Trinant. Me and my sister used to visit her throughout the year but every summer for 2 week we stayed with her in her flat. We had working parents and to have a stay-at-home adult was bliss. ...Read more
A memory of Llanhilleth by
Captions
41 captions found. Showing results 25 to 48.
Looking North-West This part of the village is known as Lower Wanborough, and lies 3 miles east of Swindon.
Looking North The Swindon and North Wilts Technical Institute building (now known as the College) is on the left.
Next to these premises, by the bus stop, stands the sports shop of Harold Fleming, the famous footballer who played for Swindon Town from 1907-24; he was capped for England eleven times.
A large crowd has gathered in Newport Street, part of the Old Town of Swindon.
As railway services contracted, a major rationalisation in the 1980s saw the unthinkable happen - the Swindon works closed.
Today, the crossroads is the site of one of Swindon's busiest mini-roundabout systems.
The bus queue to Swindon is forming by the two lime trees outside Ashman's butchers shop, today a private house.
On the right, Davis the jeweller's and watchmaker's displays its wares, while on the opposite side of the street are advertising hoardings promoting a football match between Swindon and Port
It served for some years as Swindon's first arts centre and as the children's library.
The first Woolworth's store was built on the site of Swindon's first permanent cinema, the County Electric Pavilion, in the 1920s.
Many election results were announced to the citizens of Swindon from the balcony over the doorway.
The Diamond stone sits alongside the Devizes to Swindon main road that goes through the village.
Adjacent to the public house was the range of New Swindon Co-operative Society shops, comprising menswear, footwear, shoe repairs, drapery, confectionery and grocery stores.
In 1951 the Borough of Swindon purchased Penhill Farm, which lay in the parish of Stratton St Margaret, just outside the borough boundary north of the town, for housing.
The road to Swindon from Beckhampton pass- es through Avebury village and the Neolithic stone circle and henge (bank and ditch).
This was the second of Swindon's major stores for many years (with McIlroy's) and was owned by the Morse family of Old Town.
Today the site of the station is the Central Trading Estate, with light industrial units, and the route of the line between the station and west Swindon is a pleasant cycle and pedestrian
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