Places

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Photos

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Books

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Memories

677 memories found. Showing results 291 to 300.

Nursing In Angus 1923 1958

This is what I know about my late aunt, Miss Margaret J.A. Urquhart,( 1898 -1977). Miss Urquhart spent 39 years nursing. When she retired, Miss Urquhart was Superintendent in the Domiciliary Service of the National ...Read more

A memory of Carnoustie by R Urquhart

West Horsley Previously Under Ockham

The Barley Mow, we went up there for my sister's hen night, and ended up at the caravan park down Green Lane. I have just visited it, well last year actually, and didn't realize it was such a lovely park, ...Read more

A memory of West Horsley in 1970 by Loraine Roles

Visits To Rusper

My grand parents lived in Rusper for many years and their house was next to the butchers' shop on the same side of the road as the church. I can remember visiting my grandparents, as a school boy and my grandfather was a local ...Read more

A memory of Rusper in 1940 by Peter Foster

School Holidays In Wartime Shutford Nr Banbury Oxon

My earliest memories of Shutford date back to around 1944, when as an eleven year old schoolboy I spent summer holidays with my grandfather Fred Turner (son of plush weaver Amos ...Read more

A memory of Shutford in 1944 by Brian Grainge

Growing Up In Dovercourt

I have been trying to remember the exact dates when we lived in Dovercourt but I think it was something like 1953-57, while my father worked for the railway at Parkeston Quay. We first rented a place in Shaftesbury ...Read more

A memory of Dovercourt in 1955 by Robert Dingwall

Moss Hall, Gresford

I am just remembering Moss Hall and Mr and Mrs Yaylor and their son Stan who lived in a cottage near the copse, and how at a night time you would stand outside and listen to badgers crying, it was really such an amazing place, ...Read more

A memory of Gresford in 1965 by Philip Kersey Smith

Ring Of Bells

I have a will dated 1865 for Robert Rood "of the Grape Vine Inn known by the ancient name of Brakeland". He bequeathed the property to his wife Mary Rood and it suggests the property was owned and bequeathed to him by his father Thomas ...Read more

A memory of Meare by Andrew Plumbly

German Aircraft

In the early 1940s my father was a coastguard stationed at Barry Island. I was about 5 years old and I vividly remember that one day I was sat on my 3-wheeled bike at the top of the hill and a German aircraft flew over at a ...Read more

A memory of Barry Island in 1940 by Derek Cousins

Grammar School And All That!

I remember the Grammar School well - I got transferred from Mexborough Tech because I had failed my 11+ Then I actually got to TEACH at the Grammar School whena student when the music teacher was ill for a ...Read more

A memory of Wath Upon Dearne in 1956 by Terry Ladlow

Trace Old Inhabitants Of Tonyrefail

Please excuse me for contacting you this way. Whilst renovating an old house, we came across an interesting legal document. It is dated 1881. Basically it relates to an agreement between Hopkins Rowlands, ...Read more

A memory of Tonyrefail in 1880 by Gerry Bedford

Captions

1,440 captions found. Showing results 697 to 720.

Caption For Knowle, High Street C1965

It is the oldest existing building on the High Street, the earliest part of it dating from around 1400. In its time it has been a farm, a carrier's business and an antique shop.

Caption For Worston, The Village 1921

The building on the left was a non-conformist chapel and bears the date 1668, whilst hidden at the end is the Calf's Head.

Caption For Bath, Roman Bath, King's Bath, Main Spring 1907

The King's Bath, seen here, dates from 1597, but little survives of the original.

Caption For Southampton, Tudor House 1908

Westgate, dating back to the 14th century, provides access to the south-west corner of the old walled town.

Caption For Windsor, The Castle, East Terrace 1895

The East Terrace dates from Wyatville's remodelling of 1843.

Caption For London, The Embankment From Temple Pier 1890

The Embankment, with its dolphin lampposts dated 1870, is by Bazalgette; in fact it hides the great sewers he built to collect London's effluent and take it further east to rid the city of its appalling

Caption For Belford, St Mary's Church C1955

Though St Mary's contains a Norman chancel arch, much of the building dates from John Dobson's restoration of 1828-29.

Caption For Felton, The Old Bridge C1955

The bridge, complete with pedestrian refuges, is thought to be 15th-century: some of the houses facing the bridge date from the early 17th to early 19th centuries.

Caption For New Brighton, The Beach 1887

Though the photographers' stalls were harmless enough, the beach by this date had acquired a reputation for cheap and tacky sideshows, gambling, brawling and drunkenness.

Caption For Sunbury On Thames, The Magpie Hotel 1890

Sunbury-on-Thames was only incorporated into Surrey in the administrative changes which took place in 1965, but the village dates back to Anglo-Saxon times.

Caption For Hatfield Peverel, The Green C1960

The white building at the end of this row is Ann Cottage, which bears the date 1580.

Caption For Bidborough, Church 1896

Built of sandstone and dating back to Saxon times, although with a Norman nave and chancel, it still has a number of small pews for children installed in 1790 at the beginning of the Sunday School

Caption For Caister On Sea, The Lifeboat C1955

Holy Trinity Church, built in the Early English and Perpendicular styles, has a register dating back to 1563. After falling into disrepair, it was restored in 1894.

Caption For Brent Eleigh, Street Farm C1960

The building dates from c1480, and originally comprised a central hall and the jettied wing to the left.

Caption For Raglan, High Street 1914

There is documentary evi- dence that the Ship Inn on the left dates from at least 1600, and its cobbled court- yard remains today thanks to a preservation order.

Caption For Greystoke, The Church 1893

Greystoke Church dates from the 13th century. Chantries were added to the original structure by the 14th Baron Greystoke, who built the first Greystoke Castle.

Caption For Willesborough, The Windmill 1909

Dated 1869, it worked to 1938. It is now restored to full working order and is open to visitors.

Caption For Southport, The Pier 1891

At this date Southport had the longest pier in the country.

Caption For Bitteswell, C1960

On the extreme right is St Mary's Church of 13th-century date with its stumpy recessed steeple.

Caption For Milton Malsor, Post Office C1960

Most of Milton Malsor's buildings date from the 17th and 18th centuries. Opposite the post office is a classic Morris estate car, a familiar sight in the 1950s and 60s.

Caption For Conwy, Aberconwy, The Oldest House C1955

For long described as 'the oldest house in Wales', and dating from the 1300s, this medieval merchant's house has attracted visitors since the early years of the last century.

Caption For Harlow, Mulberry Green C1955

It dates from the 16th century. Once a coaching-inn, it lost out when the London- Newmarket road was re-routed in the 1850s.

Caption For Walsham Le Willows, Summer Road C1960

This pair are dated 1890, and the gable ends have inscriptions which read: 'Turn fortune turn thy wheel; with smile or frown; our hoard is little; but our hearts are great: Except the Lord build the House

Caption For Redditch, County High School C1955

The first school in Redditch was built in 1820 on land donated by a local landowner, the Earl of Plymouth, at the junction of Unicorn Hill and Bates Hill.