Maps

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Books

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Memories

498 memories found. Showing results 221 to 230.

Post War Memories

I was raised in Mountsorrel in the Soar valley near Leicester. It was a Norman village that lay alongside the river Soar under Castle Hill. The hill got its name from the mote and bailey type 12c castle built by the Beaumonts – ...Read more

A memory of Mountsorrel by Janet Brookes

A Very Dangerous Route In The 1950's.

It was the late 1950's and we were travelling in a motorbike and sidecar. Mum and dad were on the bike and the two children (my brother and I) in the sidecar. We started to descend slowly down the hill, all ...Read more

A memory of Countisbury by johndavison10

Taff`s Well School

My memory of Taff`s Well School was that I lived in fear of most of the teachers except our headmaster Mr. D Harris and Miss Hall, they were the only two that stood out with having any real love of teaching children. If some ...Read more

A memory of Taffs Well in 1948 by Mary Jones

Trimpley Reservoir

The picture is of Trimpley reservoir taken from the yacht club slipway looking towards the south-eastern end of the reservoir somewhere around 1969 as in 1965 the contractors were still moving the soil to create the ...Read more

A memory of Kidderminster by Ian Edinborough

Christmas 1950's

I lived in the valley until the very early 60's and can remember Christmas very well. As a treat I was taken to Lewises in Manchester to meet Father Christmas. I can recall queuing up some stairs to visit his Grotto. ...Read more

A memory of Rossendale Valley by Stewart Entwistle

Village On A Hill

In 1941, shortly before my sixth birthday, I arrived at what was then a large branch of the National Children's Home & Orphanage, at Old Bramhope. To get there I had enjoyed an exciting (for me) train journey from Kings Cross ...Read more

A memory of Bramhope in 1930 by Peter John Ashman

Mountain Ash Remembered Between 1970 And 2008

Now as a baby of the swinging sixties (1966 to be exact) we didn't see the Beatles or Elvis Presley but we did have the lads coming home from the local pubs singing their hearts out. The pubs ...Read more

A memory of Mountain Ash by Clive Francis

Wilson Of Braidwood

My brother and I were packed off to Scotland from London each summer to visit our ancestral homeland, whence we would visit our Aunt Daisy and Uncle Adam at their place next to the old Braidwood school near the bottom of the ...Read more

A memory of Braidwood in 1967 by kwilson_57

The Norfolk Family Move To Tiverton

Tiverton is an attractive market town in mid-Devon but I have to confess I had never heard of it until the first of the family moved here in 2005! Elizabeth and I were spending a weekend in Exeter with our son ...Read more

A memory of Tiverton in 2005 by John Howard Norfolk

Happy Horsey Holidays

I have the fondest memories of childhood holidays spent in Ennerdale and a deep and lasting love of the valley, brought about not only by the remote beauty but also the many, very happy times that I have spent there ...Read more

A memory of Ennerdale Bridge in 1975 by Jackie Lambert

Captions

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Caption For Llwynhendy, 1936

As we look across toward the village, we can see that the land is rough scrubland, nothing like the fertile valleys which the visitor will come to know.

Caption For Malton, Yorkersgate C1960

Malton stands at the junction of roads above the Derwent Valley south of the North York Moors, and has been an important market centre since the Middle Ages.

Caption For Yateley, The Common 1924

From its depot in Reading, having stopped at Shinfield, Arborfield, Eversley and Yateley, a Thorneycroft J Type bus operated by the Thames Valley Traction Company has yet to make a pick up in Derby Green

Caption For Binbrook, Market Place C1955

Binbrook, on the side of a valley of the rolling western part of The Wolds north of Ludford, was once a prosperous small market town with two parish churches.

Caption For West Ayton, The Forge Valley Hotel C1965

The Forge Valley is a delightful winding drive through the forest.

Caption For Little Haven, 1898

This end of a narrow valley at the foot of a steep hill has been a popular seaside resort for many years.

Caption For Woolsthorpe, The Village C1955

Newton's Woolsthorpe, but the village west of Grantham in rolling countryside right on the Leicestershire border; it has fine views of Belvoir Castle a mile away on its hill on the other side of the valley

Caption For Old Sarum, From The South 1913

Castle Road (part of the A345 to Amesbury) is on the right, and the Avon Valley is just out of the picture to the left.

Caption For St Asaph, Cefn Caves 1890

The caves at Cefn are amongst a number in the Elwy Valley; they were already famous in the 1530s, when John Leland mentioned them in his famous Itinerary of 1536-39.

Caption For Welshpool, Broad Street C1955

Lying in the valley of the Severn, the town does not seem particularly Welsh.

Caption For Temple Sowerby, Kings Arms Hotel C1955

A66, the King's Arms with its stables and courtyard to the rear was once a coaching- house serving travellers on the Penrith to Darlington turnpike, a route linking the Lakes, the Eden Valley

Caption For North Curry, The Square C1955

Continuing south-west, the route reaches North Curry, a village on the low ridge that separates West Sedge Moor from the Tone valley.

Caption For Gunnislake, Fore Street C1950

Motorists heading out of Cornwall from Callington must descend a steep hill through the old mining village of Gunnislake, which is situated in the Tamar valley close to the Devon border.

Caption For Woolsthorpe, The Village C1955

Newton's Woolsthorpe, but the village west of Grantham in rolling countryside right on the Leicestershire border; it has fine views of Belvoir Castle a mile away on its hill on the other side of the valley

Caption For Salisbury, Fisherton Mill From Longbridge C1955

Castle Road (part of the A360 to Amesbury) is on the right, and the Avon Valley is just out of the picture to the left.

Caption For Machynlleth, The Corris Railway 1899

Corris, which gave its name to the Welsh narrow-gauge railway line, is a slate-quarrying village in the valley of the Afon Dulas.

Caption For Caversham, Bridge Street 1908

Caversham, Bridge Street 1908 59962 The Thames Valley Hotel on the left was built in 1891 and is now flats, while the Crown Hotel on the right was rebuilt when the present bridge was constructed.

Caption For Risca, Dan Y Graig Road C1955

Situated north-west of Newport, Risca is a typical valley community.

Caption For Winsford, Village 1892

Climbing up from Dulverton the road crosses typical sheep-grazed Exmoor moorland, bright with yellow gorse flowers and heather, before descending into Winsford in the upper Exe valley.

Caption For Buriton, High Street C1960

Buriton is set in a wide valley.

Caption For Fountains, C1960

A rucksack-clad rambler (left) admires Abbot Huby's magnificent north tower at Fountains Abbey, in the valley of the River Skell near Ripon.

Caption For Preston, Avenham Park 1903

This photograph, showing the pond, looks over what was known as the Valley.

Caption For Belfast, View On The Lagan 1936

It makes its way along the lovely Lagan valley; some of the most beautiful stretches are within a short distance of Molly Ward's Lock.

Caption For Elham, The Square C1960

The church is built of flint, and is known as 'the capital church of the Elham Valley'.