Places
14 places found.
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- Coates, Lancashire
- Coate, Wiltshire (near Swindon)
- Coates, Lincolnshire
- Coat, Somerset
- Coates, Gloucestershire
- Coates, Nottinghamshire
- Coates, Cambridgeshire
- Coates, Sussex
- Coates, Lothian (near Penicuik)
- Coate, Wiltshire (near Devizes)
- Great Coates, Humberside
- Salt Coates, Cumbria
- Little Coates, Humberside
- North Coates Airfield, Lincolnshire
Photos
49 photos found. Showing results 481 to 49.
Maps
88 maps found.
Books
1 books found. Showing results 577 to 1.
Memories
1,483 memories found. Showing results 241 to 250.
Ashtead Swimming Pool
My Grandfather Henry Weller ran his rose nursery here and brought up his eight children. As a young boy in the 1940’s I used to go and fish in the lake and play in the brickworks behind the house. The path leading to the house I ...Read more
A memory of Ashtead by
Memories Of Plymouth Were I Was Born.
I was born at number 8 Castle Street, the Barbican Plymouth 1942 my mum was a daughter of the Higgins family. G G Grandad use to run his boat from the Barbican across to Jenny cliff / Cawsands / Kingsands ...Read more
A memory of Plymouth by
Manor Road Sidcup
I was born in Farnborough hospital in June 1956. My mother is Austrailian and my father grew up in and around Bridgwater in Somerset. From the period of 1956 -1960 we lived in the top flat at 12 Manor Road (now sadly gone), the ...Read more
A memory of Sidcup in 1956 by
Childhood Memories Of Lower Cwmtwrch
Sometime in the late 1940s my family moved from Upper Cwmtwrch to the Gurnos Council Estate in Lower Cwmtwrch and lived there for the next nine years. I have many memories of the place. The main ...Read more
A memory of Lower Cwm-twrch in 1940 by
Growing Up In Cadishead
I was born in 1943 in Bankfield Avenue, Cadishead. When I was 5 we moved to a brand new council house in Devon Road, on the same day I started school which was 2 minutes away round the corner. There were 6 in our ...Read more
A memory of Cadishead in 1940 by
Happy Days
Ferniegair is very dear to my heart. Being fortunate to have two sets of relatives who lived there we spent many happy times visiting them. As soon as we arrived at one Aunt's house it was off with the coats and across the road to ...Read more
A memory of Ferniegair
Hayle Coppersmiths
The Cornish side of my family (Penberthy's) came from Hayle and were mostly all coppersmiths and engineers, apprenticed in Ventonleague I believe, but like many of the Cornish, they had to leave for a better life elsewhere at the ...Read more
A memory of Hayle in 1890 by
Christmas
I always think of East Ham at Christmas, going to the Co-op to see Father Christmas, it seemed like magic how they did it. Then when older I remember my dad sat down our shed at 61 Stokes Road plucking chickens, he kept chickens in our ...Read more
A memory of East Ham by
My Chatham
Born and bred in Grove Road off Luton Road, went to the schools of All Saints and Fort Luton. I found Chatham to be a friendly town with memories of seeing Arther English at the Empire, seaside at the Strand, being a 19th Medway west ...Read more
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The Back House
I was born in Sedgefield and lived in North Bitchburn until I was 7 years old, me and my twin sister Elizabeth and my mam amd dad who worked at the pipe yard. We lived in no 1a Constantine Terrace, it was the back half of ...Read more
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Captions
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Once inside the gate, we can see the main building across the boating lake.
It is used today mostly for leisure boating.
Horse-drawn coaches wait patiently to take passengers from the boats at Waterhead, near Ambleside on Windermere.
During Regatta week the Boat Float doubled as a venue for swimming races.
Until the 1950s, Hythe was the maintenance base for Southampton's flying boats.
This is the same yachtsman as in photograph No 61998, clearly there to add an extra dynamic to the photographs (note that he is looking underneath the boom, and the boat is actually moored).
Note the signs on the right to the Petrifying Wells, to the boats on the River Derwent, and to The Royal Museum, no longer there.
Dark sails of fishing boats are seen in the harbour.
Again, a plethora of trip boats can be seen.
The 'Snow Goose' ferry leaves the Quay, still busy with fishing boats.
Boats are drawn up on the beach under the walls of the fishing township, and their nets are drying on the rails beside the slipways.
Leisure boating is completely absent in this photograph.
Sumptuous Victorian houseboats line the River Thames on 'Boat House Reach', close to the bridge.
To enable boats to trade further inland, in 1823-4 Lord Rolle dug a canal five miles to Torrington, but it eventually fell into disuse and was filled in.
A footpath for ramblers leads around the coastline to Keyhaven, and the estuary provides a good introduction to the delights of boating.
Fishing boats, still all sailing craft at this date, are moored in the shelter of the two piers.
A few small boats can be launched from trolleys at the slipway beside the beach shop and Cove Café, which satisfy the needs of the holidaymakers.
Boating and punting on the Cam has long been a popular pastime, and it is no different now from when this photograph was taken.
Boats of the Solent Yacht Club often set out from here, and vessels of all descriptions seek shelter from the channel gales.
The waterways around are ideal for fishing, boating or just lazing.
It would appear that there is a queue of people waiting to buy tickets for a ride on the pleasure boat.
A family group of children enjoy a boating trip on the River Leven at Newby Bridge, at the southern end of Windermere.
A busy scene of Bangor, showing the piers and sailing boats.
Moored pleasure boats swing easily to a strong tide as weak sunlight dapples rippled waves along the river bay.
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