Places
15 places found.
Those places high-lighted have photos. All locations may have maps, books and memories.
- Burrow, Somerset (near Minehead)
- Burrow, Devon (near Broadclyst)
- Burrow, Somerset (near Ilminster)
- Burrow, Devon (near Sidmouth)
- Lower Burrow, Somerset
- Nether Burrows, Derbyshire
- Burrows Cross, Surrey
- Nether Burrow, Lancashire
- The Burrows, Dyfed
- Higher Burrow, Somerset
- Over Burrow, Lancashire
- Over Burrows, Derbyshire
- Three Burrows, Cornwall
- Two Burrows, Cornwall
- Burrows, The, Dyfed (near St Davids)
Photos
32 photos found. Showing results 41 to 32.
Maps
238 maps found.
Books
2 books found. Showing results 49 to 2.
Memories
284 memories found. Showing results 21 to 30.
Cooksons Leadworks Part 2
1965. During my time working here I carried out a number of different jobs, one was to make Zinc ingots, my shift would start with my furnace fired up and there next to it would be my "charge" this would be a pile of old ...Read more
A memory of Newburn in 1965 by
School Days
I remember moving from a one up one down back to back house in Hunslet at the age of approx 4 years to a brand new council house in Newhall Road, Belle Isle. I had a great time, my father borrowed a pony and trap, and we went back ...Read more
A memory of Belle Isle by
Yr Gof Cynwyl Around 1960
Yr Gof Cynwyl. (I’m no verra guid at the Welsh I doubt) It would be around 1960 that I used to get jobs done at the Cynwyl blacksmith shop. Mr Jones was a good man although crabby at haymaking time. I went there ...Read more
A memory of Cynwyl Elfed in 1960 by
Denham Court
I was placed in Denham Court on 20th February 1953 at the age of 12 years (just five days before my thirteenth birthday, which I recall was not even acknowledged by anyone) when it was a Children's Home. The Matron and her husband were ...Read more
A memory of Denham in 1953 by
Grandfathers Memories
My grandfather was born in Cobham on Painshill. My memory is that it was on a slight hill with a slight bend, the Greenline bus used to stop near the old home, it was a cottage with a porch and had a very thick door with big ...Read more
A memory of Cobham in 1946 by
1946
My name is John Lewis. I was born in Blackmill in 1946 in a cottage on the mountain, lived in the village later, played soccer with my friends and in the early 1950s we all went and watched children's TV in Lloyds Farm. It was a very ...Read more
A memory of Blackmill in 1946
Early Years In Park Road
Born in 1947 to Ted & Cred Fowles, I lived in 3 Park Road until 1955 when I moved down the hill to Southsea. I started Tanyfron primary school in 1951 and went on to Penygelli Secondary school, Coedpoeth, in 1958. ...Read more
A memory of Tanyfron by
Licensed Game Butcher
Our gt uncle Edward Cope Statham, born in Barrow in Furness, was a licensed game butcher in Longton. He is on the 1901 census, aged 24, as lodging in Trentham Road so don't know if the shop was there too but we do have a ...Read more
A memory of Longton in 1900 by
Holidays In Saham Hills
Just after the war we visited Saham Hills quite regular from Hull. We stayed with an aunt and uncle of my father's by the name of Smith. He was called Charlie, his wife was Pat and they had a son who was called young ...Read more
A memory of Saham Hills in 1950 by
Brooksby Hall Agricultural College, Leicestershire,England
Like Gwilym Evans I was enlisted into HM Forces in 1944, along with my twin brother. We were born in May 1926. Served with RASC as drivers first in Wiltshire, England, driving 3 ton ...Read more
A memory of Nantgwynant in 1949 by
Captions
124 captions found. Showing results 49 to 72.
Barrow-in-Furness street lighting was provided by gas light in the 19th century, and many of these gas lights continued in use into the middle of the 20th century.
It was to come to Widecombe Fair that Uncle Tom Cobley borrowed Tom Pearce's grey mare.
Templand is the farm to the upper right in this view, which was taken from Wart Barrow. Lane End is the crossroads in the centre of the picture.
Protected by the enclosing reef of Walney Island, Barrow flourished as a major shipbuilding centre in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The young man holding the wheelbarrow worked for a local grocer and used the barrow for delivering goods, or, as can be seen here, for giving a local youngster a jaunt.
Carlisle and Sons' delivery van waits at the level crossing near Silecroft Station on the west coast route between Barrow and Workington, which opened to traffic in 1848.
Running north to south with closely built houses of all ages, the High Street of this quaintly composed village is set in a large parish rich in vernacular architecture, ancient burial barrows
This is still a distinct village, with lanes winding uphill, although the wall on the right has now been replaced by a 1970s close, Titan Barrow, the name perpetuating a house of 1748 by Wood the Elder
Here, trams are passing at the Barrow Island end of High Level Bridge on Michaelson Avenue. The upper decks are open to the elements.
To the left is Wart Barrow Lane, whilst the road to the right is Green Lane, which leads towards Boarbank Hall.
The greengrocer still sellls from his barrow in almost the same spot today.
In June 1920 four Southport Californians were sold to Barrow-in-Furness Corporation Tramways as a stop-gap measure until new cars ordered from Brush were delivered.
It is a monument to John Barrow, one-time Secretary of the Admiralty and a great traveller, who founded the Royal Geographical Society in 1830.
Nearby is one of the smallest Neolithic long barrows in Sussex. In the picture the Stores has a sign offering 'Morning coffee and light refreshments, Teas'. There is still a very good tea garden here.
Piel is one of three islands off the coast at Barrow, and is crowned by the ruined remains of 14th-century Piel Castle, which boasts the largest medieval keep in the north-west of England.
Built from the bricks for which the town is famous, it cost £13,000, of which the Corporation borrowed £10,000.
It is possible that bodies were left here on funerary platforms - in the watchful presence of priests - to decompose, before a skeletal burial was carried out later in one of the many long barrows that
The High Level Bridge spans part of the dock area; it links Barrow Island, which was a separate island, with the mainland.
Carlisle and Sons' delivery van waits at the level crossing near Silecroft Station on the west coast route between Barrow and Workington, which opened to traffic in 1848.
Barrow boys, porters and carters do their best to earn a few shillings. Note the large pair of spectacles above the optician's shop.
Two cars are on the road to the right, part of the main road to Barrow-in-Furness.
George Borrow, author of Wild Wales, stayed here in 1857.
once home to what must have been one of the earliest lending libraries in England: in 1492 Geoffrey Downes lent his books to the church, with specific intstructions that gentlemen should be allowed to borrow
The church tower presides over the east end of Fore Street, where two prams and a barrow are the only wheeled traffic on a sunny day.
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