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Playing On The Canal

I spent many happy days here with my brother and sister. Playing in home-made boats made from corrugated tin, catching tadpoles and skating on very thin ice in the winter. I lived in Woodview Road and my grandparents lived in Mount Pleasant.

A memory of Risca by Virginia Kidd

Laleham

Well a first visit to camp by the river and walk to the Lock and so on was really in 1962 with Guides, then a schoolfriend. Later my first 'serious' boyfriend and fiance came from there. I wonder if any of you recall not only the Abbey but ...Read more

A memory of Laleham in 1964 by Olivia R S

Walks In Aberdare Park

I remember Aberdare Park. When our daughter was a baby my husband Ian and I use to walk round the park pushing the pram on a Sunday afternoon. In the 1950s that was the venue for walks with my parents, also on a Sunday ...Read more

A memory of Aberdare in 1965 by beryl.allinson9

Happy Memories Of Chapel St L Leonards

I have fond memories of our family holidays in Chapel St Leonards in the 1950s, it was also where some of my relatives lived and worked. I remember the giant fish that was washed up on the beach and ...Read more

A memory of Chapel St Leonards in 1950 by Maureen Burdett

Netherwood School For Boys And Girls

I used to live on the London Road, two doors from St. Bernard's Convent, across the side road, in Mead Cottage. It was painted white. From 1945 to 1951 I attended Netherwood further down the London Road ...Read more

A memory of High Wycombe by Zoe Hodgins

17th Century Murder Replayed At Church Norton.

The more I think back on this incident, the more bizzare and terryfying it seems. In 2001, around Oct/Nov, myself and a friend drove to the car park at Church Norton church at about 11:00pm. We were ...Read more

A memory of Sidlesham in 2001 by Jon Clatworthy

Joppa House

I was there at the time Theresa writes about, and my 4 children were too. I remember you and your brother playing in the hall, and nearly getting killed when you knocked the grandfather clock down. Your mom and I would walk to the ...Read more

A memory of Innellan in 1963 by Doris Wickerd

Cosy Corner Cafe

My grandparents (Mr and Mrs Riches) owned the cosy corner cafe on the Brighton Road and we lived at 93 Brighton Road. I've been told it is now a Costa Coffee or something like that. The last time I went there is was a Happy Eater ...Read more

A memory of Hooley in 1950 by Diane Nye

I Am Not A Beach Boy

I am not a beach boy, even though we share a name. (I have not worked out how to create paragraphs,so bear with me.) My parents moved to the Beach when I was about 11 years old (around 1953) to Beach Road. We lived in the ...Read more

A memory of Severn Beach in 1953 by Brian Wilson

Lords Saddle And Harness Makers.

I recently come across small metal badge thing as as metal detector find. It looks like gun metal, with a coating of brass or gold laquer. It has inscribed on it/ LORD maker Thrapston. It is a very interesting ...Read more

A memory of Thrapston in 1860 by David Risbrough

Captions

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Caption For Ramsey, Harbour 1893

Sunlight, calm low water, boats, and a temporarily discarded mooring rope hanging from a stone jetty, exemplify that kind of minutiae which contribute towards the ideal picturesque photograph.

Caption For Blakeney, The Blakeney Hotel 1925

A number of small boats, including a motor cabin cruiser, are left high and dry as the sun reflects on moist mudflats, indicating an ebbing tide.

Caption For Clifton Hampden, The Barley Mow Inn 1890

east bank, beyond the bridge, this medieval inn is noted for its 'cruck' construction, the large curved timbers in the gable wall, and for the fact that Jerome K Jerome commends it in 'Three Men in a Boat

Caption For Abingdon, Stert Street 1893

Rather unkindly, Jerome K Jerome of 'Three Men in a Boat' fame, and our constant companion along the river from Oxford to Kingston, described Abingdon as 'quiet, eminently respectable, clean and desperately

Caption For The Broads, St Benet's Abbey 1934

The Bishop of Norwich is still Abbot of St Benet's and holds a service at the abbey each August, arriving in a procession of boats.

Caption For Southend On Sea, Marine Parade 1898

Pleasure boats have lined up to collect trippers for the obligatory sail down the estuary.

Caption For Grange Over Sands, The Beach 1896

The anchor to the right would hold the boat in the foreground in place when the next tide came in.

Caption For Margate, C1955

We are looking back towards the Parade and Marine Terrace from the Harbour Pier, with fishing boats and pleasure craft afloat on the rippling water.

Caption For Freckleton, Lower Lane C1965

Sail cloth weaving, boat building and corn milling flourished here until the 1920s.

Caption For Fleetwood, The Harbour 1894

Berthed at the landing stage is a paddle steamer and around it are clustered some of the small boats that made up the town's famous fishing fleet, which at one time employed over 4,000 men and boys.

Caption For Southport, The Pier 1902

Southport has the country's longest pleasure pier, which runs for 1,211 yards over the marine boating lake and sands to the sea with attractions that included shows and amusement arcades, as well as a

Caption For Fairhaven, The Lake 1923

Sleek craft such as these, or the sailing dinghy behind, have all but disappeared from today's municipal boating lakes, where pedalos and electric motorboats are now more the fashion.

Caption For Pin Mill, The River Orwell 1909

Esther Garrard, one of three boat builders, has her yard over on the left.

Caption For Holywell, Village 1914

Seen here from the other side is the thatched Ferry Boat inn.

Caption For Bembridge, The Slipway C1955

Its harbour has always been a place to pass a lazy afternoon and eat snacks as you watch the boats.

Caption For Hoveton, The Village C1955

Roy's family store has grown out of a grocer's shop started at the beginning of the 20th century to cater for the needs of 'Yachting and Boating Parties'.

Caption For Streatley, The Village 1904

Here the characters in Jerome K Jerome's 'Three Men in a Boat' lunched, accompanied by their dog.

Caption For Oxford, 'the Eights' 1922

Here, we are on the tow path along the west bank, looking north towards Christchurch Meadow; it is the end of May, and the annual Eights Week, when the college boats race each other, is in full swing.

Caption For Maidstone, Allington Lock 1898

Along this stretch of the river, the tan-sailed barges carrying cargoes of paper and timber, and the 'stumpies', or narrow boats, used to convey bricks from the kilns down river, were once a familiar

Caption For Stokesby, A Wherry On The River C1935

The wide-hulled, shallow-draught boat was ideal for transporting goods up from Yarmouth.

Caption For Penarth, The Pier 1896

Those taking to the sea do so in rowing boats.

Caption For Bude, Canal From The Bridge 1890

In the foreground are examples of the tub boats mentioned earlier.

Caption For Streatley, The Village 1904

This is now the busy A329, and the B4009 Newbury road is between the Bull at Streatley pub on the left, where the Three Men in a Boat lunched, and the Georgian Elm House beyond.

Caption For Great Yarmouth, Regent Road 1896

In the hazy distance are the sails of boats.