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Memories

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Acton Bridge

Hello Laurie My dad had the boat 'Jan' - I still see Roger & Jean from time to time. We still have a boat on the Weaver at AB, and she is called 'Triton'. I have a brother called Peter and my parents were called Peter ...Read more

A memory of Acton Bridge in 1960

Mevagissey Museum

I have many childhood memories of Mevagissey. My parents bought a cottage in Cliff Street, Mevagissey during the late 1950s. We used it as a holiday home until 1965 when my father retired from designing Colt Houses (all timber ...Read more

A memory of Mevagissey in 1969 by John Hilder

A Year Away From The Colonies

I lived in Ilford in 1963. My father had won a scholarship to study chest disease in London, so he and Mom packed us up and carted us off to England. Ilford offered the cheapest acceptable lodgings close to London for ...Read more

A memory of Ilford in 1963 by Glenna Jenkins

Brought Up In Tongue End

I, like my brothers, sisters and father went to the primary school in Tongue End, at the time I started Mrs Vantol was Headmistess but was later replaced by Mr and Mrs Gore, the school had around 30 children. Meals were ...Read more

A memory of Tongue End by Garry Baker

Boat House

These are the years when the boat house was flooded, 1771 1832, 1850. They are still marked outside of the boat house. And in 1798 George Stephenson worked at the Water Row colliery.

A memory of Newburn by David Tooke

Childhood Memories

Being born in a house opposite the Angel pub in 1952, and having a family history going back over 300 hundred years in the village, I think we were a local family. Those memories of the school holiday times will last a ...Read more

A memory of Stanton by Colin Fordham

Penton Park Caravan Ppark

My memory of Laleham is of when my father would come and collect us for weekend visits, he would come and collect us on a Saturday, and take me and my brother to the caravan park where he lived at the time, now known as ...Read more

A memory of Laleham in 1960 by Linda Stock

Down Memory Lane

I was born in Nottingham and came to live in Gateshead when I was 4 years old. My mother was in the W.R.A.C and met my father when she was stationed down there. He was a Waiter in the Crown Hotel in Bawtry and was originally ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead by Pauline Thompson

Campsite

As a family we used to go camping at Laleham every weekend, spring to autumn. This was from about 1950 until the mid 1960s. It was an amazing time, like most childhood memories. My nan and grandad were the Greenland family and they had ...Read more

A memory of Laleham in 1955 by Anthony Weatherley

Marton Boarding School

I was at Marton Boarding School (if memory serves me well) from 1966 to 1968. What a place, when I arrived I was petrified, the oddball kid from Africa. I remember Taylor telling me to go back to Africa and play with my ...Read more

A memory of Whitegate in 1966 by Nicholas Day

Captions

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Caption For Woodbridge, The Beach 1898

Children are playing at the water's edge and on Ferry Dock; boats rest in the channel; a yacht is being painted; and people relax in the ornate shelter.

Caption For Bursledon, The River Hamble C1960

Boat owners can still moor up and hop ashore for a pint at the Jolly Sailor.

Caption For Thorpeness, Festival Singing On The Meare C1955

The 65-acre Meare (the correct spelling at fantasy Thorpeness) was dug out of marshland to provide a boating lake for children.

Caption For Walberswick, The River C1960

The river could be crossed by a rowing boat ferry, which replaced a Victorian steam ferry, after the Second World War.

Caption For Liverpool, The Ferry Boats C1965

The Mersey's plucky little boats saw action in both World Wars, and the original 'Iris' and 'Daffodil' were awarded their title 'Royal' for their gallant service at Zeebrugge in 1918.

Caption For Egham, Boating 1907

A conglomeration of craft are passing through the lock on a warm summer's day, with not a motor boat in sight.

Caption For Dartmouth, Regatta, Gent No Sail 1886

Dartmouth regatta is still held in August; but rarely can the river have been as busy or the boats as decorated as here in late Victorian times, when attendance at the regatta was highly chic and drew

Caption For Newhaven, Harbour 1897

Then there were the much smaller double-ended open boats known as fifie yawls, which were employed for haddock lining in winter and spring.

Caption For Wells Next The Sea, The Beach House 1929

The Beach House soon became a refreshment rooms, and even had swing boats erected beside it.

Caption For Wimborne, Canford Bridge 1904

A boatyard adjoined the bridge from Victorian times until the 1970s, and leisure boating has since been revived through the Dreamboats millennium project.

Caption For Arnside, From The Beach 1894

Here a little Victorian girl poses among the rowing boats laid up on the beach.

Caption For Newport, The River Medina C1955

The sign on the large warehouse advertises a daily cargo boat to and from the mainland.

Caption For Broadstairs, Thames Barge And The Beach 1897

This small harbour shelters visiting boats, as well as having its own share of resident owners.

Caption For Runswick, Bay 1927

Even when they were not fishing, fishermen always had work to do, repairing nets and maintaining the boats.

Caption For Bedford, The Weir 1921

Beyond the boats is the north bank of the river, and behind the trees is the large Russell Park, laid out in the late 1880s.

Caption For Southwold, The Beach 1896

Double-ended clinker-built boats with twin lugsails, they were capable of sailing at speed, an essential prerequisite for the job.

Caption For Wroxham, King's Head Staithe C1940

The variety of boats and number of boatsheds indicate the importance of Wroxham as a centre for holidaymakers.

Caption For Runswick, Bay 1927

Even when they were not fishing, fishermen always had work to do, repairing nets and maintaining the boats.

Caption For Emsworth, The Old Mill C1955

The Suffolk boat builder took out 56 patents on the design and the first experimental hover- craft crossed the English Channel in

Caption For Tresaith, From The Cliff Walk C1955

This is another small bay with good shelter and fine sands - here only two boats were built.

Caption For South Benfleet, The Parade C1955

In fact, a navigable creek once brought boats right up to where we are standing (near the entrance to the playing fields).

Caption For Cowes, Victoria Pier 1923

Steam boats at the boarding point by the Pier give some idea of the popularity of these vessels during the summer months.

Caption For Porthleven, Outer Harbour 1911

The attention of the lady in the fore ground is riveted by the crew in the fishing boats as they adjust their sails in preparation for leaving harbour.

Caption For Colchester, Castle Park 1892

The wall beyond the boating pool is part of the north defensive wall of the Roman town.