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Memories

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Beautiful Beaches

My parents lived in Ennors Road in Newquay during the early 70s. They were an RAF family. I was newly-married & lived in Kent, but I used to love visiting them & spending holidays in beautiful Newquay. My new husband ...Read more

A memory of Newquay in 1972 by Margaret Geoge

Reach For The Sunshine One And All

My name, way back in 1957, was Iris Finley. My overriding memory of Delamere was the feeling of being in a very old fashioned environment. I always felt that the way we were taught and the strict regime was from ...Read more

A memory of Delamere in 1957 by Iris David

Childhood

I lived at No 3 Llanfaes Estate from being 6 weeks of age. Our home was one of thirty prefabs built after WW2 for workers at the Saunders Roe factory that was built during the war to service and modify flying boats. As a child I remember ...Read more

A memory of Llanfaes by David Mills

Snow In Moonlight

It was that cold, cold winter of 43/44 during the war that I remember so well. Please forgive me for I was not a Fair Oak boy but my memory is from there. I lived in Bishopstoke as a lad before, during and ...Read more

A memory of Fair Oak in 1943 by Frederick Cannock

My Childhood Memories Of New Quay

My memories of New Quay begin in the 1950s I suppose. I was born in Cnwc y Lily in my grandmother's smallholding and lived the first 3 years of my lfe in Gilfachrheda before moving a few miles to Cross Inn. Every ...Read more

A memory of New Quay in 1950 by Buddug Hollett

Cattle On The Street

To the right of the Jaguar car was a farm yard set behind a large brown wooden gate. As a child I recall seeing an old man dressed in black coat and hat riding very slowly on a black bike driving his black cattle through the ...Read more

A memory of Beaumaris in 1955 by David Mills

Benfleet Yacht Club

The building shown on the right of this photo was Benfleet Yacht Club's boatshed. The clubship is the large, dark boat moored near it. When I was a child, we used to swim in the Creek from the slipway at the Yacht Club. ...Read more

A memory of South Benfleet in 1968 by Margaret Ward

Merched Y Bryniau

Another Pentraeth Memory. by Ross Davies Just about 38 years ago, I was approached by some of my former pupils, who were now mostly married and with children of their own, with the idea of forming a Pentraeth based ...Read more

A memory of Pentraeth in 1969 by James Griffiths

Bank Street School

This is the year when the school finally closed.  It was worn out but much loved.  The roof leaked, the knots in the floorboards stood high while the wood was highly polished with years of wear.  The teachers had large baby ...Read more

A memory of Tonbridge in 1965 by Jenny Saggers

1942 1949

I was born at Danbury Palace in Danbury and lived at Marks Farm bungalow in Rettendon. I remember getting frightened of the storms on the way home from Rettendon School. I remember walking home from school up Chalk Street. My ...Read more

A memory of Rettendon in 1942 by Margaret Dennis

Captions

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Caption For Fleetwood, From The Lighthouse 1898

The Isle of Man boats could be boarded from here, there were ships to Scotland and Ireland, and trains left for all parts of the country.

Caption For Devizes, St John's Church, Interior 1898

Five people who had been out in a boat enjoying themselves on Sunday June 30 1751 are recorded on an obelisk in the churchyard with inscriptions, one of which reads: 'Remember the Sabbath to

Caption For Thorpe St Andrew, High Street C1955

Thorpe Green lies to the left of the picture: a boat can be seen on the river through the trees.

Caption For Lydstep, Cliffs 1890

excursion to experience the coastal splendour first hand would have been a common activity for those interested in the natural world, and various modes of transport would have been employed to get there: boat

Caption For Teignmouth, Whale Bones 1922

Small fish rejected by Icelanders were brought to Teignmouth in Pike Ward`s boat Elise.

Caption For Padstow, The Quay 1910

A large power-driven coaster lies at the jetty served by the corn store, and the letters PW on the port bow of the moored craft are the registration letters assigned to fishing boats in this

Caption For Runcorn, Top Locks C1955

Top Locks was named thus because if its location at the top of a large set of locks which opened in about 1780; they brought boats from the River Mersey and Liverpool up to the Bridgewater Canal.

Caption For Luton, Wardown Park 2002

At least boating is still legal!

Caption For Southampton, No5 (Prince Of Wales) Dry Dock 1908

It was also from the Empress that the Cape Line mail boats for South America and the West Indies departed.

Caption For Clitheroe, Brungerley Bridge 1895

Here, a solitary oarsman on the river and a short line of boats drawn up but not in use indicate a less busy time, perhaps early autumn; the pleasant walk alongside the river could be enjoyed

Caption For Salcombe, The Quayside 1896

In 1811 the local boat builder at Salcombe completed the ketch 'Ceres' for Capt William Lewis of Bude for trading with north Spanish ports, though for much of 1813 and 1814 she was employed carrying

Caption For Henley On Thames, Temple Island 1899

By the 1890s the leisure boathouses and boat builders had taken over, interspersed with inns and hotels catering for the visitors who flocked to the river in and out of the Regatta season.

Caption For Manchester, View From Victoria Hotel 1889

She wanted it here on the banks of the Irwell because Thomas had saved her life here when her father's boat, the 'Emma', capsized on its launch.

Caption For Lincoln, High Street C1955

It is an unusual and different sensation to be sitting and eating in the upstairs of the restaurant and see a boat go underneath.

Caption For Lincoln, High Street C1955

It is an unusual and different sensation to be sitting and eating in the upstairs of the restaurant and see a boat go underneath.

Caption For Milton Keynes, The Pennyland Boat Basin 2005

(Marion Hill) The Pennyland Boat Basin.

Caption For Teddington, The Anglers Hotel And The River 1890

It is the site of the first lock on the Thames, which has been rebuilt in masonry, with a subsidiary lock for the passage of pleasure boats.

Caption For Belfast, The Isle Of Man Steamer, Fenella 1897

Passengers on a Douglas boat take in the sights, sounds and smells of Belfast Harbour.

Caption For Glasgow, Dragon Boat Race On The Clyde, Chinese New Year 2005

(James Mackay) The Chinese community celebrate the Lunar New Year with a dragon boat race on the Clyde.

Caption For Portland, Chesil Beach 1890

This is a spectacular view from the top of Portland, with the expanse of the Chesil Bank on the left, stretching 16 miles along the Dorset coast to Barton Cliff, and the broad expanse of Portland Harbour

Caption For Stourport On Severn, River Severn And Bridge C1955

If he happened to be on leave in wartime, Peter took the nurses across by rowing boat or by shire horse and cart, together with a churn of fresh milk!

Caption For Hemel Hempstead, St Mary's Church, Apsley End 2005

Papermaking supplies grew scarce due to U-boat blockade and pulp was rationed.

Caption For Stourport On Severn, River Severn C1965

The canal bridges are scored and worn by the ropes of the horses that used to pull the narrow boats.

Caption For Thames Ditton, The Swan Hotel C1955

The Swan is well known to boating people, and especially anglers.