Places
18 places found.
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- Hythe, Kent
- Hythe, Hampshire
- Small Hythe, Kent
- Bablock Hythe, Oxfordshire
- Methwold Hythe, Norfolk
- Hythe, Somerset
- Hythe, Surrey
- Hythe End, Berkshire
- The Hythe, Essex
- Egham Hythe, Surrey
- West Hythe, Kent
- New Hythe, Kent
- Broad Street, Kent (near Hythe)
- Horn Street, Kent (near Hythe)
- Newbarn, Kent (near Hythe)
- Newington, Kent (near Hythe)
- Broad Street, Kent (near Hythe)
- Stone Hill, Kent (near Hythe)
Photos
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Maps
101 maps found.
Books
10 books found. Showing results 505 to 10.
Memories
4,406 memories found. Showing results 211 to 220.
A Holiday Of Note
I can't pinpoint the year exactly, but it was definitely a year or two before 1953 which was the year I left the UK. I and three friends, student nurses at a hospital in Essex, decided on a holiday in Scotland. We chose Dollarbeg ...Read more
A memory of Dollar in 1951 by
Berwick Road C Of E School
I started at Berwick Road C of E School in 1957 together with some of the people referred to in the other memories ie: Heather Wallis, Christopher Bennior, Lorraine Staton. There were others obviously such as Margot ...Read more
A memory of Little Sutton in 1957 by
Kingsley Pond By The Church
In the long hot summer, and drought, of 1976 I remember being able to walk across the pond floor. It was just a mass of dried, cracked earth. That summer was so, so hot
A memory of Kingsley by
Rothamsted
Much of the Farm Management Course I studied in Devon in the early 1970s was based on work done at Rothamsted. I felt very lucky to land a job here in 1975 and gradually to meet and even work with the authors of text books I had studied. ...Read more
A memory of Harpenden by
Those Were The Days.
i am the Tony Williams that used to live in Hatherop road, Infant, Junior, Senior Schools Hampton. i moved to Bristol in 1953, i now live in Frome Somerset. I had lots of good happy memories of Hampton especially going fishing ...Read more
A memory of Hampton by
Happy Days
I, Allen Rix, was born and grew up in Jersey Marine from 1933 to 1951 when I left to join the RAF. Living through World War 2 was hard for a lot of people but for us it was a gat time, even though we had to endure the bombing of ...Read more
A memory of Jersey Marine by
From The Pews Of The Church In Kilinian To Pioneers In Colonial Australia. The Patterson Clan.
The Church at Kilinian during the 18th and 19th century, if not earlier, was a Celtic Presbyterian Church where my ancestors, the Patterson and McClean ...Read more
A memory of Kilninian by
Sugar Bowl Carefree Time Of My Life.
I learnt to swim in the pool at the Sugar Bowl. My dad worked here as a part time gardener/odd job man.There was a Spanish chef working here in the late 50s who showed me how to pick up a Lobster properly he was ...Read more
A memory of Burgh Heath by
America Woods
I lived in the house called Abbotsford in about 1934 which to this day, stands by the side of the America Woods. Once a year, the scouts would camp in the field at the back of the house. I spent many happy times playing in those ...Read more
A memory of Shanklin by
A Claim To Fame!
My paternal grandparents, by the name of Goodliffe, lived in a house called The Robins, on Old House Road, Balsham. (Both of which are still there, although the house has been extended somewhat and modernised. Mind you, it ...Read more
A memory of Balsham in 1962 by
Captions
4,899 captions found. Showing results 505 to 528.
Leinster House, flanked by the National Library and National Museum. Home of the Irish Parliament since 1922, the building was designed by Richard Cassels in 1745 for the Duke of Leinster.
By the time this photograph was taken, the building to the left of the picture had been painted and deprived of its bay window.
The premises of W V Dunn's East Cornwall Grocery Stores (left) are now occupied by the Paxman Pharmacy, but the spot is still known as Dunn's Corner.
By the 1960s, chain stores had become established, even in fashionable Cheltenham. Happily, many individual shops of fine character selling a wide variety of goods have survived.
The Phoenix Park Murders, the murder by the 'Invincibles' of the Chief Secretary, Lord Frederick Cavendish, and the Under-Secretary, Thomas Burke, took place near here in broad daylight in May 1882.
A rowing boat is drawn up in the foreground, and a group of people linger by the edge of the lake.
They could be hired by the hour from the likes of John White in Shakespeare Street, or from the hydropathic establishments.
By the mid 1950s, Halsey's had taken over all the premises in the row, with the exception of a jewellers, James Walker. The billboard that was above the shop has been removed.
‘They [the fairs] were frequented by the younger members of the town. Early in the afternoon of Easter Monday, the road was thronged with groups making their way to the Punchbowl Fair’.
Although the railways were well established by the start of the First World War, barges such as these still did plenty of trade carrying grain and other goods along the Fenland waterways.
Some time during the second half of the 19th century, Bracknell became a town, helped by the coming of the railway in 1856 and the development of market gardening and brick-making.
This view remains almost unchanged, save that the horse and cart have been replaced by the motor car. The arched walk under the Town Hall is known as the Butterwalk.
Here the 'camp' title is well justified by the neatly erected tents, with two people folding ground sheets (left).
There are at least three children peering from the bushes by the water.
This is Park Street in the days before the top end was dominated by the Gothic tower of the university, designed by Sir George Oatley.
Old Sarum was one of a number of ancient sites refortified by the Normans; others included Thetford (Norfolk), Rochester (Kent) and Carisbrooke (Isle of Wight).
On the western shore stands the regency style house built in 1827 by the actor Edmund Kean.
Roundhay Park was purchased by the council in 1872. It comprised 775 acres, including woodlands, lakes and a manor house, part of which was turned into refreshment rooms.
There is just room to draw up a few boats at this remote fishing cove down by the granite cliffs of Gwennap Head at the south-west corner of the Land's End peninsula.
Plodding cows head for the milking parlour, guided by the farmer on his wobbly upright bicycle.
The merging of the village into the borough of Reading was strongly resisted by the residents of Caversham.
In 1797 a committee of seven was appointed by the trustees to negotiate with the proprietors of the newly formed Grand Junction Canal Company who required land for the extension of their canal.
The lower promenade, with the North Euston Hotel, owned by the London & North Western Railway, in the background. Also featured is the landing-stage for the ferry to Knott End-on-Sea.
Sutton's church was started in 1366 by Bishop Barnett of Ely, and the octagon - in fact, two octagons, one on top of the other - was doubtless inspired by the octagon adorning Ely Cathedral.
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