Maps

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Memories

2,508 memories found. Showing results 461 to 470.

Early Years

Where do start?! I (then Aidan Jackson) moved to Burnhope at the age of 3 in 1944. I lived at 1 Jaw Blades (now demolished) with my grandparents, uncles and mother. I started school at the old infant/junior school in October 1946. ...Read more

A memory of Burnhope in 1946 by Aidan Tasker

The Village Policeman 1979 To 1989

I remember well pushing my police bicycle around Kempston, covering Spring Road across to St Johns Avenue and over to the chantry factory estate. I was the last of the resident beat officers living and working ...Read more

A memory of Kempston in 1979 by Donald Underwood

Almondsbury South Gloucester

Where do I start ? Living in Monmouth House on the top of Almondsbury Hill. going to Almondsbury village school sitting next to Tony Evans, head of the Patchway gang & a brilliant football goalkeeper. Gaffer ...Read more

A memory of Almondsbury in 1940 by Tex ( Adrian ) Woodward

Shelfield Junior And Infants School And St Mark's Church

I went to Shelfield Junior School and have strong memories of the combined smell of bread being baked, fish and chips being cooked and the smell of horses kept in the stables - all ...Read more

A memory of Shelfield in 1941 by Sylvia Taylor

19 C Ancestors At Cleugh Head Farm Low Row

I have been researching my name which is very rare and found that a Scottish family of that name were farm workers at Cleugh Head Farm in the 1851 Census. I cannot find any subsequent ...Read more

A memory of Low Row by John Minelly

Winchcombe, Toddington, Didbrook

My father was born at 2 Hailes Cottages in 1931. My family live in and around Toddington, Didbrook and Winchcombe. My father was born Leslie Frederick Vallender and adopted by his mother's sister Olive Richings ...Read more

A memory of Cleeve Hill by Lesley Yeadon

Memories Of Sandy

I lived in Sandy between about 1963 and 1979 and have seen changes even in that short time. It was a fairly quiet village when we first came in spite of the adjacent A1. I went to St Swithuns school in St Neots Road, then Sandy ...Read more

A memory of Sandy by Sue Horne

Aged 0 Almost 8 Years

Spent wonderful times in this pool prior to June 1955. Dad, Lewis Nutton, who was engineer at Firbeck Main Colliery, engineered the diving stage in the lake. We lived at The Villas, Costhorpe, (Roselea) Randalls lived next ...Read more

A memory of Langold by Alison Jones (Nutton)

St. Paul's R.C. School

I remember walking along Station Road to school after getting the bus from Haringey. I can remember there was a swimming pool not far from the school where we used to go for lessons. I can also remember the Barrett Sweet ...Read more

A memory of Wood Green in 1952

Captions

1,136 captions found. Showing results 1,105 to 1,128.

Caption For Loughor, The Bridge 1936

In the background is the industrialised shoreline leading to Llanelli.

Caption For Harborne, Grove Park C1965

is famous for being a good place to catch newts and minnows is not recorded, but it was famous as a place for growing gooseberries; the annual dinner of the Gooseberry Growers' Society was first held

Caption For Winlaton, The Village C1955

Crowley was ahead of his time; he built cottages for his workers and the community had the serv- ices of a doctor, schoolmaster and a parson.

Caption For Peterborough, Long Causeway 1904

Looking at Car No 3 arriving at the Long Causeway Terminus, we can see the entrance to Narrow Street directly ahead.

Caption For Bridport, West Allington 1912

Both pubs had landladies. Mrs Susannah Osborne was publican at the White Lion and Mrs Frances Biles at the Old Inn. The cart is outside the shop of butchers Robert JohnBalson and William Balson.

Caption For Esher, High Street 1910

The imposing building (centre left) which juts out at the crossroads of Church Street and Claremont Lane ahead, is now occupied by the National Westminster Bank.

Caption For Cheam, The Broadway C1950

Ahead, the window display of the branch of United Dairies features pyramids of assorted groceries, while in front two gentlemen take the air seated on a bench which stands above the subterranean cellars

Caption For Whalley, Accrington Road 1901

The T-junction and church are just ahead. St Mary and All Saints has ancient crosses in the churchyard and a thousand years of history.

Caption For Sabden, Whalley Road C1955

A steep road from Sabden leads to the well-known pass of Nick o' Pendle.

Caption For Tetbury, Long Street Corner C1955

'Chipping' is the Anglo-Saxon word for 'market', and the fairs were once 'mops', at which farm and domestic servants sold their labour to an employer for the year ahead.

Caption For Sudbury, Gainsborough House 1932

Ahead in the distance is the Stone in Stour Street.

Caption For Parham, East Lodge 1894

Just west of Cootham, the main road curves away north-west to by-pass the Parham estate, whose east drive continues straight ahead.

Caption For Troutbeck, Kirkstone Pass C1870

In the late 19th century it was obviously just a narrow rough track, dominated by the bulk of Red Screes to the left, with Caudale Moor rising above the lonely Kirkstone Inn, just visible ahead.

Caption For Whalley, Accrington Road 1901

The T-junction and the church are just ahead. Whalley had an abbey once, and that fact distracts from the importance of the church here.

Caption For Newent, Broad Street C1965

This is pre- dated by the white building with jetties directly ahead on the corner - beneath the render it is almost certainly half-timbered.

Caption For Carrickfergus, Fisherman's Quay 1897

A safely loaded rowing boat is pushed away from the stone quay of the commercial harbour leading out into Belfast Lough.

Caption For Abergavenny, The Blorenge 1893

In 1894 the Gas Committee of the Improvement Commissioners debated the introduction of electricity to supplement the gas supply, but it was 1932 before public electricity was to be added to the

Caption For Abergavenny, The Blorenge 1893

In 1894 the Gas Committee of the Improvement Commissioners debated the introduction of electricity to supplement the gas supply, but it was 1932 before public electricity was to be added to

Caption For Rickmansworth, High Street 1921

Although the horse-drawn trap shows that motor traffic has yet to dominate, there are intimations of what lies ahead in the vehicles parked further on.

Caption For Howth, The Harbour 1897

A safely loaded rowing boat is pushed away from the stone quay of the commercial harbour leading out into Belfast Lough.

Caption For Hartford, The Village 1907

Only the Barley Mow (ahead), built using the stone from the spire of St Benedict`s Church at Huntingdon, survives; it is now a bustling and busy roadhouse full of the sound of piped music and merry

Caption For Oxwich, The Castle 1910

Sir George intended to hold an inquiry to access ownership of the spoils, and sent two retainers ahead to secure the cargo. They had no warrant, so Sir Rhys's tenants refused to hand anything over.

Caption For Kingsclere, Market Place C1960

The cottages straight ahead were built in the 1860s. On the left is the Crown Inn, where a gruesome event took place in 1944.

Caption For Salford, Peel Park, Peel Statue 1889

In 1850, Salford decided it wanted a tribute to Sir 'Bobbie' Peel, and the statue was unveiled on 8 May 1852, two years ahead of Manchester's tribute to Robert Peel.