Places
36 places found.
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- Shanklin, Isle of Wight
- Ventnor, Isle of Wight
- Ryde, Isle of Wight
- Cowes, Isle of Wight
- Sandown, Isle of Wight
- Port of Ness, Western Isles
- London, Greater London
- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
- Dublin, Republic of Ireland
- Killarney, Republic of Ireland
- Douglas, Isle of Man
- Plymouth, Devon
- Newport, Isle of Wight
- Southwold, Suffolk
- Bristol, Avon
- Lowestoft, Suffolk
- Edinburgh, Lothian
- Cromer, Norfolk
- Maldon, Essex
- Clacton-On-Sea, Essex
- Norwich, Norfolk
- Felixstowe, Suffolk
- Hitchin, Hertfordshire
- Stevenage, Hertfordshire
- Colchester, Essex
- Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
- Bedford, Bedfordshire
- Aldeburgh, Suffolk
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
- St Albans, Hertfordshire
- Chelmsford, Essex
- Hunstanton, Norfolk
- Glengarriff, Republic of Ireland
- Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
- Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
- Brentwood, Essex
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Memories
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Happy Island
I remember playing at Happy Island with my brothers and sister, and friends, having a picnic, and watching the trains pulling out of the station. Happy days. Now I have eight grandchildren and I want them to see life as I grew up in Bridport.
A memory of Bridport in 1960 by
A Wartime Child
I was born in 1935 at 25 Cambridge Road, maiden name Lee. There were six of us, parents, 2 older sisters, Beryl and Gwen, and grandmother. I remember many of the shops from the late 30's to the early 50's when we moved to ...Read more
A memory of North Harrow in 1930 by
Mr Laidlaw
I read a post from STEVEN LAIDLAW asking if I/we remember his grandfather who owned a building company. Yes, Steven, I remember it well and I believe the entrance to his yard is still there in St. Albans Road, but I'm not sure. Mr ...Read more
A memory of High Barnet by
Pontrhydyrun Avondale Road
I am Roger Davies of 11 Avondale Road, DOB 19.09.43. Went to Sebastopol Infants school 1948 and then to Griffithstown Junior Mixed - Bryn Jones prior to 11+ ! West Mon 1954. - Harrison, Garnet, et al. Recall ...Read more
A memory of Pontrhydyrun in 1948 by
The Roxy
Saturday mornings at The Roxy, Barkerend Road, Bradford were a magical event in the lives of 8 year olds plus in the 1950's. The film breaking down which it did every week to the sounds of a hundred kids stamping and yelling and ...Read more
A memory of Bradford in 1953 by
Grocers Shop In Middleham
I used to stay with a friend in the 1950's in Middleham. Her parents had a grocers shop in the square and her father also had a mobile shop which he went round rural areas with. They also had a few hens and cows. Her ...Read more
A memory of Middleham in 1956 by
Binstead In The Big Freeze 1962 63
I was born in Newnham Road Binstead in 1955 and have happy memories of the freedom of living there. Being able to walk to Binstead school and walking alone to my godmother's farm (Newnham Farm) looking for ...Read more
A memory of Binstead in 1963 by
Memories Of Shakespeare Street In Sinfin 1958 1964
We moved from Derby to the new estate in 1958. My son Paul went to the local school for a short time before we moved south to Hertfordshire - my home county. Amongst his many friends I remember ...Read more
A memory of Sinfin by
Childhood Memories
I was born at Hill View Lamberts Castle in the 1940s. Mum use to run a small tea rooms and I remember a hiking organisation called the Holiday Fellowship calling their once a week. No mains water, electricity or gas ...Read more
A memory of Lambert's Castle in 1940 by
Memories Of Caldecott
I was born in Caldecotte on 26,09,58, a great little village. I came from a family of 5 children, times were hard moneywise, but we always got by. We used to grow all our veg and kept chickens and ducks for meat. Dad was ...Read more
A memory of Caldecott in 1967 by
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The tiny settlement of Bantham, with its passenger ferry and boat-houses, clings to the eastern bank of the Avon where the river makes one last sweeping curve before meeting the sea.
This old Round House was built for the use of the canal lengthmen, who maintained certain sections, or lengths, of the Thames and Severn canal, which started near Inglesham, close to Lechlade.
‘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’.
This view of the Heights of Abraham above Matlock Bath shows the Prospect, or Victoria, Tower.
Kilmington sprawls across the hillside along the line of a Roman road to Exeter.
Here we see pleasant examples of 18th- century domestic architecture, but it looks in need of some re pointing.
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.
Howth Abbey church, although ruined for many years, contains a number of fine monuments. The best known is the tomb of the thirteenth Earl of Howth.
Completely overlooked by the towering limestone cliffs of Middleton Dale, the village church of Stoney Middleton is one of the few completely octagonal churches in England.
This photograph was taken on 10 September 1961, the last day of passenger services on the former Midland & South Western Junction Railway line that connected Andoversford (near Cheltenham
of the road.
supplies of various kinds to the London market.'
Pigot and Co's National Commercial Directory, published in 1830, gives an interesting snapshot of the town just before its rapid decline (the building of the Great Western Railway killed both the
This was in the early phase of its transformation, mainly by the medium of brick.
The Market is still very much a part of modern life, and fulfils its prime function on six days of every week.
The Cross, the junction of the High Street, Cambridge Street, Huntingdon Street and Church Street, marks the original site of the centre of town, and was a planned medieval market place.
Undoubtedly Bedford's most famous son - if only because of his imprisonment as the result of religious intolerance - John Bunyan was born into a tinker's family and lived something of the high life before
The former seat of the Earl of Ellesmere, Worsley Old Hall dates from the 16th century. It was here that James Brindley lived while working on the Bridgewater Canal.
In Anglo-Saxon times a church dedicated to St Werburgh stood on part of the site now occupied by the cathedral. St Werburgh was a daughter of King Wulfhere of Mercia.
Founded in 1798, with the aim of providing an education to the children of members of the Masonic Order, the school moved to its new buildings at Bushey in 1902.
One casualty of the increasing maturity of the population can be seen in Wilmslow Opera's recent problems.
One casualty of the increasing maturity of the population can be seen in Wilmslow Opera's recent problems.
The vaguely Art Deco style of Shirley House (left) contrasts with the Gothic look of the Baptist church, but Stratford Road today is a much more eclectic mix than it was in the 1960s.
This set of 16 locks is part of the famous flight of 29 at Caen Hill.
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