Photos

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Maps

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Books

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Memories

9,938 memories found. Showing results 321 to 330.

It's Not How It Was Back Then... Some Nostalgia For The Fifties And Early Sixties.

My parents ran a shop on the Broadway from the late nineteen forties until the early fifties, I think. It was a general store and – as far as I know – a seed ...Read more

A memory of Broadstone by Robert Milne

My Childhood In Hogsthorpe

I was born in 1951 and in April 1953 our family moved to Hogsthorpe. My parents were worried as that was the year of the floods and they had put furniture in our new home. Although the police would not let them through ...Read more

A memory of Hogsthorpe by Christine Parr Nee Shaw

Annual Visit

My parents, Fred & Marjorie La Touche, always took us to visit our great aunt & uncle Curtis,who lived at Cottage of Content in Harris Barton.At one time this was a pub, (perhaps someone has a photo of it ) but then it ...Read more

A memory of Frampton Cotterell in 1945 by Rose Perry

Top End Of High Street

The shop at the top left (now the Kebab Shop) was, I think, Wards the Greengrocers, the second shop down was Graingers a card and toy shop, later a pet shop (now Pendley Estate Agents).  (Thanks to Rodney Grainger for the ...Read more

A memory of Bovingdon by Anne Broomhead

Police House.

I was born in the new police house in 1959 on Garfield Avenue. My father was Constable Hind,the sergeant next door was called Dethick. I have memories of the street and playing in it.My brother and father made a swing for ...Read more

A memory of Draycott by Deborah Bell

Baglan A Wartime Paradise

My Dad did his army training adjacent to Baglan during WW2. The hastily built barracks did not have enough bathroom facilities and asked local residents for permission for soldiers to have a bath in their houses. A super-kind ...Read more

A memory of Baglan

S T Joseph's Salesian School Burwash

I was a boarder at St joseph's from 1947 to 1951. We lived in Lincolnshire. My father was an OLD BOY of the Salesian School at Battersea and this was my start to follow him there. We traveled in special compartments ...Read more

A memory of Burwash by Mick Bray

St Joseph's Convent School

I note that a couple of people have mentioned St Joseph's Convent School. Having attended that school from 1960 to 1966, I can confirm that the location was opposite Hoadley's and the building did indeed curve alongside ...Read more

A memory of Burgess Hill

Delamere

My best friend was sent here in the 1980s and the mental/physical abuse he suffered was profound. He was sent because his mother had a disability not him. He became successful but was never able to make sense of any close relationship and ...Read more

A memory of Delamere by Cassie Roberts

Southlands School, Harrow On The Hill

While sorting through some old photographs from the 1950s when I was in England and Europe with two girlfriends from Western Australia, some of the Southlands school were among them. So we did an ...Read more

A memory of Harrow on the Hill by Lynette Cornish

Captions

2,019 captions found. Showing results 769 to 792.

Caption For Winchester, Great Hall And The Round Table 1912

Considered to be the best medieval hall in the country after Westminster Hall, the Great Hall dates back to the early 13th century and includes fine arcade piers of Purbeck marble.

Caption For Wickham, Chesapeake Mill C1965

Chesapeake Mill dates back to 1820 and was built by John Prior, a miller, partly of woodwork from an American warship of that name, captured by the much smaller British HMS 'Shannon' off Boston Harbour

Caption For Penrith, St Andrew's Church, The Giant's Grave 1893

The so-called Giant's Grave in the churchyard of St Andrew's is actually a pair of tall Norse-influenced Saxon crosses with two hog-backed grave slabs in between.

Caption For Ashburton, East Street And Bull Ring 1922

There are records of bull bait- ing in Ashburton as far back as 1174.

Caption For Normanton, Market Place C1955

Young's drapery shop next to it is now a bank.

Caption For Camber, Holiday Cottages C1955

village, camp and caravan site with associated amuse- ment arcades that have grown from the glorious expanse of Camber sands, where the tide goes out for over half a mile, leaving a wide sandy beach backed

Caption For Southend On Sea, Westcliff Parade 1898

This photograph looks back at the same houses as those shown in 41386 and 41387.The well-laid out public gardens give a tropical air to the scene.The Lees Hotel was one of the many hotels to be found

Caption For Grinton, The Bridge C1960

This view shows the sturdy, buttressed bridge over the Swale at Grinton, which is situated on the south bank of the River Swale nine miles west of Richmond.

Caption For Havant, East Street C1955

The National Provincial Bank, a familiar sight in most High Streets until the company's closure in the 1960s, can be seen further down the street (centre left).

Caption For Haddenham, The Green C1950

The green now boasts a locally crafted village sign, and no parking is allowed!

Caption For Barton Upon Humber, Whitecross Street C1950

Nestling on the south bank of the Humber, the wide boulevard of Whitecross Street has changed little.

Caption For Plymouth, Pier 1892

Further back, to the right of the triangular buttress, is the site of the Royal Plymouth Corinthian Yacht Club and beyond that, the Cattewater.

Caption For Wargrave, High Street 1950

The village of Wargrave has an Edwardian feel to it, but its origins date back many centuries.

Caption For Maiden Newton, The Mill 1906

There are records of settlements here dating back to the Roman occupation.

Caption For Mousehole, 1931

Boot and shoe repairs are undertaken in these premises in one of the back yards in the cramped village of Mousehole.

Caption For Sunderland, The Park C1900

This is Mowbray Park, created in the 1850s out of Bildon Hill and the old quarries on its north face.

Caption For Sunderland, The Park C1900

This is Mowbray Park, created in the 1850s out of Bildon Hill and the old quarries on its north face.

Caption For St Ives, The Quay C1955

Note the identical fold-back roofs fitted to each boat.

Caption For Henley On Thames, Hart Street C1960

Although the foundations of the church date back to the 13th century, the flint tower was only built in the 16th century.

Caption For Sileby, The Memorial Gardens C1960

Regimented pollard trees do little to provide a backdrop screen which will mask out the endless row of unattractive house backs, against which the memorial tends to be lost.

Caption For Sandsend, 1925

I wonder how the two children are to get their little boat back without wading into the water!

Caption For Charing, High Street 1901

At the junction of the road leading to Lenham is the grander Pierce House, set back from the road.

Caption For Ickham, The Church 1903

This fine Early English church, set back from the village and behind a narrow green, boasts a raised 13th-century chancel and a tapering, shingled broach spire.

Caption For Sileby, The Memorial Gardens C1960

Regimented pollard trees do little to provide a backdrop screen which will mask out the endless row of unattractive house backs, against which the memorial tends to be lost.