Places

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Memories

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Beginnings

My parents moved from Pentire to Crantock when I was about 3 and Crantock is certainly ingrained in my memory as being my first home. My mother had taken a position as housekeeper to a Dr Nicholas and with it came Rose Cottage. My ...Read more

A memory of Crantock by Dianne Christopher

Burtons Corner.

A foundation stone laid by Arnold James Burton in 1933 is to be found on the extreme right of this shop, just off the picture.  I'm sure this foundation stone used to be at the other end of the building.  The possible reason for its move ...Read more

A memory of Crewe

Shopping Memories.

On the left hand side of the photograph next to the zebra crossing is Eastwells, a greengrocers and fruiterers. My father Harold Besent who is in the window in a white coat was a partner and also the managing director from 1940 ...Read more

A memory of High Barnet in 1955 by Claire Allen

My Days In Northwich

I was born in Northwich in 1966, however I moved here to Lancashire in 1980 but I still consider time in Northwich as being the best days of my life. I moved here when I was 14, I lived in Greenhall Road and my best friend ...Read more

A memory of Northwich in 1970 by Vicky Wood

Coke Street

I remember living on Coke Street when we first came to live in Woodhouse from Sheffield. I remember going to Annie shop on the end of our street. The Rocks as we called it. Going to paling coal yard in the corner getting ...Read more

A memory of Mansfield Woodhouse by Carole Anne Cantrell

Railway Info.

The building on the left is a carriage shed, used for holding spare passenger vehicles under cover. It is from the North Devon Railway in the 1850s and still appears to have broad gauge track (7ft gauge - not removed until 1877) laid ...Read more

A memory of Barnstaple in 1870

Graham & Fishers

The building nearest the camera on the right is (was) Graham and Fishers - founded by my great-grandfather Tom. His sons Alg (my grandfather) and Spencer worked in the business all their lives, and my father Douglas worked there ...Read more

A memory of Chatteris in 1954 by Ian Graham

Memories Remembered

Memories Remembered After reading Brian Keighley’s story of his memories in Lifton, my memories came flooding back and has prompted me to recall a few of my own. I was born in Lifton 18 months after my sister Jean in 1927 at ...Read more

A memory of Lifton by geoffbailey29

Alma Friston Nee Oldfield

I was born in Smeeton on April 23rd 1935. I remember staying with a Mr and Mrs Webb. As you approached Smeeton there were cottages on the left hand side, we stayed in the last one next to a lane. The cows came up ...Read more

A memory of Smeeton Westerby in 1945 by Alma Friston

The Old Co Op.

I was born in Market Street in 1939. Later, because of the war, my mum left me in Millom for my grandad and grandma Kirby to look after me. Mum went back to be with my dad in heavily bombed Manchester. I spent the war years here and ...Read more

A memory of Millom in 1940 by Ian Jordison

Captions

442 captions found. Showing results 49 to 72.

Caption For Eype, Ships Light's Shop C1955

The view is northwards, inland from the drive into Eype HOuse Caravan Park, just 200 yards from the sea at Eype Mouth.

Caption For Lytham, Clifton Street 1907

The only section to be built was a 1,100-yard single line from the terminus at Lytham to East Beach.

Caption For Hitchin, Hermitage Road C1955

Barker's timber yard occupies the low range of buildings on the right.

Caption For Blisworth, The Grand Union Canal C1955

The tunnel, 3057 yards long, is the longest currently open to all boats.

Caption For Loders, The Village C1955

Perhaps its master is a few yards away in Loders' public house, the Farmers Arms?

Caption For Pangbourne, Village 1910

This photograph shows W H Smith & Son on the left of the picture, a few yards from the road bridge crossing the River Pang in the centre of the village.

Caption For Henley On Thames, The Regatta 1890

The course is one mile and 450 yards long, rowing upstream.

Caption For Cambridge, 1914

With houses crowded together, yards like this were not uncommon in Cambridge.

Caption For Staithes, 1932

Yards or passages lead to many of the houses; they seem to have been put wherever they would fit, a little like a wrongly-completed jigsaw.

Caption For London, Chelsea, Cheyne Walk C1890

This boat-hire yard was alongside the upstream side of Battersea Bridge.

Caption For Wokingham, Town Hall 1906

Opened in June 1860, the Town Hall cost £3,505 to build, and provided space for the County Police Station, with cells and an exercise yard, a courtroom and council offices.

Caption For Cambridge, 1914

With houses crowded together, yards like this were not uncommon in Cambridge.

Caption For Porth, The Beach C1955

Behind the wall to the left of the telephone box was once Stephen's yard, used for storing cargoes.

Caption For Exmouth, The Cricket And Sports Ground 1906

A crowd has gathered and awaits the start of a match at Exmouth's cricket ground, a few hundred yards from the sea front.

Caption For Nuneaton, The Stable, Arbury Hall C1960

A few hundred yards from the hall stands South Farm, where Mary Ann Evans was born in 1819.

Caption For Whitby, Arguments Yard 1913

We can clearly see the derelict state of this particular yard in Church Street.

Caption For Lymm, The Bridgewater Canal C1960

A few yards from the site of photograph L122026, a pair of loaded boats head south towards the Trent & Mersey Canal.

Caption For Bourne End, The Marina And Boatyard 1899

The boat yard on the far bank - now under different ownership - offers 'Launches and Boats Built to Order'.

Caption For Bagshot, Viaduct 1901

Children idly watch the photographer - and each other - from either side of the road, and wagons stand under one of the arches in Kemp and Sons' yard.

Caption For Lancaster, Market Street C1950

The road coming in 100 yards down on the right is King Street.

Caption For Nuneaton, The Stable, Arbury Hall C1960

A few hundred yards from the hall stands South Farm, where Mary Ann Evans was born in 1819.

Caption For Swindon, Men Leaving G.W.R. 1913

Here we see workers leaving the Great Western Railway yard, which, at one time, employed 12,000 people.

Caption For Deerhurst, The Saxon Chapel 1901

Lying two hundred yards south-west of St Mary's the chapel is a small church built by Earl Odda and dedicated to the Holy Trinity in April 1056.

Caption For Newtown, Broad Street C1950

In bygone times the hotel had a back yard in which strolling minstrels and poets would entertain.