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Places

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Photos

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Maps

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Books

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Memories

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Witnessing The Last Throes Of Strict Bathing Segregation Laws

The caption in the Francis Frith book 'Paignton', by Peggy Parnell (p.46), reads: 'With his powerful business aptitude, Mr Dendy quickly installed the most important tourist commodity, ...Read more

A memory of Paignton by robert_slack5

Born In Aldershot In 1946

I was born in Aldershot in June 1946. I believe the event was at the General Hospital at the top end of St.Georges Road. For the first year or so I lived with my parents and older brother at the bottom end of Victoria Road. ...Read more

A memory of Aldershot by geoffroberts994

Hill Street Pontnewydd

Hi. My name is Iris Elliott (nee ) Poole. I was born in Hill Street Pontnewydd in 1930 to Daisy and Tom Poole. I had a brother Mervin. Everyone knew my father Tom who was quite a character. He was a very big man and worked in ...Read more

A memory of Pontnewydd by janet.elliott

Further Memories Of Potters Bar

My name is Colin Dickins and I stumbled on this recollection by Arthur Brown and thought I would add some of my memories. While I don't recall the name we must be about the same age. I lived in Coningsby Drive and ...Read more

A memory of Potters Bar by cvdickins

Ironmongers On The High Street

Does anyone remember the name of the ironmomger shop on the High Street ? During the war we did not have electricity in Beaumont Terrace and our Wireless was run from an accumulator (later called a battery) that I used ...Read more

A memory of Gosforth by donandmyrtle

Childhood Memories Of Barnes. 1956 1963

I was born in Cleveland Gardens In April 1956 and went to Westfield Infants until just before my eighth birthday and then we moved to Surrey. I have one particular memory when it was my fifth birthday. I decided ...Read more

A memory of Barnes by alisonchilton

Date 2/01/20

Hi looking at the photo the extension was completed just prior to Christmas 1965 Hopefully just a little detail that may be of use Jeremy Many thanks for this information - our archivist will make an update, Ed.

A memory of Chobham by jeremy.carter30

Harts Hill House, 87 Sarsfeld Road, Balham, London

My Great Aunt Alice Yates bought a house here at the end of the 1890s. It may have been newly built then. It is I believe still standing but whether it is still called Harts Hill House is another matter. ...Read more

A memory of Balham by Constance Phillips

The Temporary Chapel, Bede College Durham

This photograph of 1929 is of special interest to me because of the long, white building in the top left-hand corner of the image. This was the temporary chapel at the College and served in that capacity from ...Read more

A memory of Durham by keith.i.bulley

Wonderful Days

We spent all our warm summer holidays at Westgate. We lived in South London. My Grandmother lived in Quex Road and we had a caravan on St Crispens caravan site. I loved getting fish heads from the fish monger to go ...Read more

A memory of Westgate on Sea by grahamleeper1

Captions

1,440 captions found. Showing results 961 to 984.

Caption For Saltfleet, Manor House C1955

It is said that Oliver Cromwell slept here after a Civil War skirmish at Winceby, so it would have to date from before the 1640s.

Caption For Bibury, Bibury Court Hotel C1960

Dating from the 16th century, this fine Tudor country house was planned around three sides of a quadrangle with a protruding porch at the entrance.

Caption For Chipping Campden, High Street 1952

Just beyond the Market Hall behind the war memorial is the Town Hall, which dates back to the 14th century.

Caption For Oswestry, Llwyd Mansion C1960

The town therefore has few really old buildings - Llwyd Mansion is one of these, dating from 1604. Today the building is called the Heritage Gallery, and houses a gift shop.

Caption For Sproughton, The Stores C1965

Lower House (right) and the former shop date from 1520-50. The late 19th-century shop front is inserted under the jetty. The Branks family ran the shop, which shut in 1992.

Caption For Stafford, Gaolgate Street C1955

However, restoration work was carried out between 1854 and 1875, saving the Norman nave and chancel arch.The Norman-style font actually dates from 1856 and the reredos from 1910.

Caption For Birmingham, Aston Hall Park And Church 1896

The parish church of St Peter and St Paul is the only church within city limits to be mentioned in the Domesday Book.The west tower and the spire date from the 15th century, though the latter was

Caption For Downholme, The Church 1913

Inside the quaint little church of St Michael and All Angels is a George III coat of arms dated 1784, signed by the Richmond painter Robert Coatsworth; he helped to paint the scenery for the opening

Caption For Stockton On Tees, High Street 1951

On the right can be seen the parish church, which dates from 1712. Other 18th-century buildings were the Town House (1735) and the Customs House (1730).

Caption For Martlesham, The Hill C1955

The Red Lion (right) dates from c1580, and has an oriel window similar to those on the Ancient House in Ipswich. The pub figurehead gave rise to the phrase 'As red as a Martlesham lion'.

Caption For Ayr, High Street 1900

Little survives of the old town, although parts of the former Greyfriars church of St John, where Robert the Bruce held a Parliament in 1315, are thought to date back to its origins.

Caption For Penarth, View From Windsor Gardens 1896

By this date the area had expanded southwards, no longer impeded by the dingle, with a bridge facilitating an extension of the parkland towards Cliff Road.

Caption For Heckington, The Church C1960

Hope Cottage near the church is dated 1888, and at No 16 Church Street a tall tree has replaced what looks like a broken-off post (right).

Caption For East Grinstead, Queen Victoria Cottage Hospital 1935

If this picture is correctly dated it must have been taken very shortly before opening, possibly in December.

Caption For Leeds, Parish Church 1891

There are no medieval churches in central Leeds, though several date from the 17th and 18th centuries.

Caption For Selby, Old Toll Bridge 1918

In the background is the abbey church, dating from around 1100.

Caption For Bosham, The Village 1902

The V Richardson shop is still a shop, but the next but one beyond, dated 1886, is now a house, the Old Bakery. On the right are the flint walls to the grounds of the Manor House.

Caption For Blackheath, The Volunteer Arms C1955

The pub dates from about 1840, and used to have a later elaborate arched canopy, now long gone. The pub is now called the Villagers.

Caption For Coldharbour, Main Street 1957

Behind the pub and the house rears the wooded slopes of Anstiebury Camp, one of Surrey's finest Iron Age hillforts, dating from the second century BC; its ramparts enclose over 11 acres.

Caption For Cranleigh, The Village Hall C1960

It is dated 1935, and is a large timber-framed building of some quality, convincingly done. Village Way now passes to its left to the Leisure Centre and its car parks.

Caption For Guisborough, The De Brus Cenotaph 1899

The cenotaph was presented to the priory by Margaret Tudor, daughter of Henry VII; it can be dated by the carving second from right, which shows a cock on a reel , a rebus for James Cockerill, penultimate

Caption For Preston, War Memorial 1926

The original unveiling date in May 1926 had to be postponed because of the General Strike. There had been a Boer War memorial on this site before this, but it was moved to Avenham Park.

Caption For Govilon, The Drawbridge 1936

The date 1960 is inscribed on the side of the bridge, which is now a fixed bridge with rolled steel joists and a wooden deck.

Caption For Keswick, Castlerigg Stone Circle 1889

In fact, this impressive stone circle dates from the Neolithic or early Bronze Age period, and predates the Celtic Druids by many centuries.