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My Young Life At Rilla Mill
I was born at Rilla Mill on the 1st of September 1934 in what was, in those days, the Police Station. This house was opposite the Manor Inn. My father was the local policeman, and he was called Ewart Pearce. His ...Read more
A memory of Rilla Mill in 1930 by
Sea Of Weeds
We sailed a ship on concrete oceans. Well over forty years ago. Imagination fuelled the voyages, To far flung places we would go. These days she's firmly anchored, Surplus to childrens needs. So sad to see her list to port, Amongst a sea of weeds.
A memory of Wallsend by
Holidays In Whitstable
I first came to Whitstable by steam train in 1952 with my mother and grandparents, and we stayed in a boarding house in Cromwell Road, I think. After that we came to Whitstable every year for two weeks in September, ...Read more
A memory of Whitstable in 1954 by
Moving To The West Midlands
We moved from The Medway Towns in South-east of England in the early nineties to the West Midlands to go narrow boating on the canals. I worked for premier narrow boat builders Les Allen and Sons at Velencia Wharf ...Read more
A memory of Cradley Heath in 1992
The Happiest Days Of My Life
My maternal grandfather, Archie Greatorex, was the licensee of the Anchor Inn from 1957 until his death in September 1974. Most of my family holidays, until the age of 10, were spent with him. My parents used to pack ...Read more
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Crown And Anchor, Trimingham
My nan, Florence Watts, owned the hotel before I was born. I remember playing in the garden with my great gran, Emma Smith.
A memory of Trimingham in 1952
The Grange
I also remember the Grange Hotel mentioned on Little Bookham memories. In the late 1950s or early 1960s it must have been, I recall Sandy who worked behnd the bar. Leslie the boss used to get a bit miffed with some of us ...Read more
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Hope And Anchor Inn
My first visit to South Devon was in 1950 as a teenager. We lived in London but my parents had discovered Salcombe and a boarding house in Devon Road and that is where we spent several consecutive summer holidays. From ...Read more
A memory of Hope Cove by
Sundays
This is the view which I use to see on Sunday mornings when my father and I would walk from the top of Maneauge Street along Bullock Lane to the back entrance of the Blue Anchor. I was allowed to play skittles with the landlord's sons ...Read more
A memory of Helston in 1949 by
Whit Walks
I lived in Skegby and at Whitsuntide we would do the Whit walks. The first I can remember I was quite young and sat on a dray cart pulled by horses and decorated up with ribbons, and the older children walked behind the banner of ...Read more
A memory of Mansfield in 1958 by
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Between the underground station and the parish church, this is a wonderful neo-Tudor pub of 1936 by A E Sewell; he also designed the Crown and Anchor in High Street, Chipping Barnet, and the Goat near
Because of Plymouth's exposure to the weather, the fleet often anchored here for long periods during the Napoleonic wars; officers built villas for their families, thus starting the growth of the town.
Shingle and mud provide excellent holding ground for the anchor of this solitary trading ketch, which is also made fast with an after mooring.
The Anchor Inn is around the corner and a range of 17th-century cottages are opposite. Bramble Cottage, below the telegraph pole (left), has a `For Sale` sign in the window.
The Anchor Inn is around the corner and a range of 17th-century cottages are opposite. Bramble Cottage, below the telegraph pole (left), has a `For Sale` sign in the window.
Graffiti on the bells from 1595 include an anchor and shop's mitre. The clock on the tower dates from 1846. The picture is from the south, towards the ivy-clad frontage of Court Hall Farm (right).
The butchers, with its joints of meat displayed open to the street, was built on the site of the old Crown and Anchor Inn.
A former warship, the 'Empress', rides at anchor off Gareloch, where she was stationed for many years as an Industrial Training Ship for homeless and destitute boys.
Two sand barges of 300 tons dragged their anchors, drifted and cut the pier in half. The pier was destroyed by fire in 1928, and by 1955 demolition was inevitable.
We can also see her handspike-operated winch, an aid to raising anchor in tidal waters.
We see HMS 'Bellisle' riding at anchor like a 'floating metal fortress' in the River Mersey as part of that same Royal Navy visit.
During the mackerel season, Newlyn bustled with freelance boatmen who earned their living ferrying the catch in clinker- built rowing boats known as bummers' gigs from fishing boats anchored offshore
As a collector of pub signs, the first thing I notice here is the wonderful anchor sign, today replaced by a standard picture sign.
The works at Winlanton forged light tools, while that at Swalwell went in for heavier items, including cannon, anchors and chains.
Of the long terrace of 17th-century cottages on the right, only the former Anchor Inn remains, dated 1637 and now a private house.
Mrs Maria Heathcote, 1768, is resting in peace in the south transept; she is represented as Britannia seated, one hand holding an anchor, the other a medallion with her portrait.
On the left, along West Street, stood the Crown and Anchor public house next door to the shop selling 'home-made pork pies and sandwiches'.
The hotel on the left is the Blue Anchor Hotel; the name reminds us how near the sea is, only half a mile behind Wild Duck Farm. There has been an inn on this spot since 1706.
Both The Crown and Anchor and the house beside it remain.
Seatown hamlet consists of the Anchor Inn (seawards) and a coastguard station, comprising a watch house (facing the sea), Guard House Cottages, and the boathouse.
By 1950, the last of the ornamental cannons had been deposited here along with some anchors from old sailing ships.
In the centre of this picture is the Time Ball Tower, used for supplying the correct time to the anchored vessels.
The vessels weighed anchor at three o'clock and set off for Plymouth. This view is north-eastwards to Black Ven (top left), Charmouth and Cain's Folly (centre right).
This swing bridge was built at the turn of the 19th century, when the village possessed twelve pubs with nautical names such as The Jolly Sailor, The Anchor and The Ferry.
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