Places
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Photos
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Maps
23 maps found.
Books
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Memories
690 memories found. Showing results 61 to 70.
Pav's Tea Gardens, Westgate
Pav's Tea Gardens in St Mildred's Bay was a place where I spent my youth, owned by Herbert Smith the famous film producer, the cafe was full of stills from the films he had worked on, there must have been over ...Read more
A memory of Westgate on Sea by
Cock Tavern East Ham High Street
I used to go out with the daughter of the landlord of the Cock Tavern in the High Street, we would spend hours looking over the back yard from her bedroom. I wonder what ever happened to her?
A memory of East Ham in 1973 by
Circa 1950s
I was born in 1939 and remember the war years vividily. However, I was draughted into the army in 1948 and because of my knowledge and interest in explosives, became an Ammunition Examiner. During this period, I knew I liked music ...Read more
A memory of Sheffield in 1948 by
Childhood Days
As I have lived all my life in Childer Thornton I have so many memories. I would just like to record some from my childhood. The village was a wonderful place to grow up in. There was no traffic to disturb our street play ...Read more
A memory of Childer Thornton in 1950 by
Childhood
In the 1960s I lived in Ogilvie Terrace and spent lots of days wandering happy and safe in Deri. I remember the nut wood, picking whinberries, Doreen's shop, the gas pipes where we balanced and luckily did not come to harm, the horse-shoe ...Read more
A memory of Deri in 1960 by
The Rock.
I was a resident of St Boniface Home, Sampford Peverell, from 1943 to 1946. Our Scout and Cubscout group used 'the Rock' (although we had a different name for it) for many of our scouting activities. The large mound to the west ...Read more
A memory of Sampford Peverell in 1945 by
Where I Was Born
My Beginning, at Sole Street near Cobham Kent. (9th March 1946 - 2nd January 1951) I was born on Saturday March 9th 1946 at 3.29pm at Temperley, The Street, Sole Street, Kent. I was delivered at home by the ...Read more
A memory of Sole Street in 1946
Abc Minors,Trolley Buses, Lonesome School, Oakleigh Way
I have just found this page and what memories it rekindles. I was a minor at the ABC, I even got a road safety prize from Coco the Clown. Thorpes record shop accross the road, there I bought my ...Read more
A memory of Mitcham in 1955 by
Bicycles And A Happy Hunting Ground.
Being the offspring of parents otherwise engaged, and only partially supervised by a succession of Nannies, whose only concern was that we should be clean and respectably dressed when we got up to mischief, ...Read more
A memory of New Milton in 1950 by
Boyhood Days
My aunts and uncles lived in East Howle and I was a regular visitor around and before 1950. The two families lived opposite one another in what I think may have been "railway cottages" and my cousins totalled 9. In those days you ...Read more
A memory of East Howle
Captions
442 captions found. Showing results 145 to 168.
This is a river-side view of the huge, crescent-shaped weir constructed above Arkwright's Masson Mill on the River Derwent, with the tree-topped tor of Willersley Rocks filling the background
Winster Rocks, also known as Wyns Tor, is an outcrop of Dolomitic limestone to the south of the village, on what is now a long distance footpath known as the Limestone Way.
Winster Rocks, also known as Wyns Tor, is an outcrop of Dolomitic limestone to the south of the village, on what is now a long distance footpath known as the Limestone Way.
Hayle Bay, with its lines of evenly-breaking surf and golden sand, is now a mecca for surfers and tourists, and New Polzeath has grown along the low cliffs on the opposite side of the beach.
The character of Antrim's coast is nowhere better expressed than where it is possible to see the black basalt overlying the white chalk rocks, as here at the Wishing Arch.
The strange colours, white and red, of the cliffs around Seaton give a striking effect when the sun falls upon them. They are notoriously crumbly, and rock falls are common.
Blackstone Rock, a great outcrop of sandstone rising sheer from the river, is shrouded with trees.
All four bars still have their portcullises, but this is the only one that still works. The statues on the parapet are holding rocks or boulders, and are ready to throw them at any invader.
Smith produced the first geological map showing England's rock structure, and he is considered to be the father of modern geology.
Situated to the south of Peel on what is now the A27 road to Colby via Round Table, Glen Maye opens to the sea. It is a great place for those who like to scramble over rocks and paddle in pools.
These cottages are built from local limestone quarried at Chudleigh Rock and the adjacent Palace Quarry, now closed.
Towards the north-west lies the mound of Beacon Hill. The earliest origins of Loughborough may be here.
Essex lacks natural rock so skills in the use of wood and brick-making have been well developed over the centuries.
Taken close to Junction station, this photograph shows the North Devon Infirmary, the white building below the church tower.
This shows the view from the Cobb hamlet to the original eastern cube-like core of the Bay Private Hotel (centre). Beyond are Madeira Cottage and the Assembly Rooms (centre right).
The Village 1959 At the west end of the village, at the junction of Gainsborough Road with the A30, is this former school of the 1880s, built in rock-faced rubble stone and ashlar dressings.
Across the Witham, Avenue Road becomes Beacon Lane and passes the old barracks of 1858 and 1872 of the Royal South Lincolnshire Militia, now occupied by an auctioneers and valuers.
The sea wall leads to the Parson and Clerk rocks, with the railway - surely one of the loveliest stretches of line in the country - running alongside.
Japanese plants and shrubs were planted, and at the time it was said that Oak Hill Park had one of the finest rock gardens anywhere in the country.
Winster Rocks, also known as Wyns Tor, are an outcrop of Dolomitic limestone to the south of the village, on what is now a long distance footpath known as the Limestone Way.
The City of Plymouth has given its name to some forty other Plymouths around the English-speaking world.
The Black Rock had long been a hazard to navigation for ships entering or leaving Liverpool.
Not far away from the village are local quarries where a kind of gravel called Burley Rock was excavated in earlier times.
A delivery cart from Hine Brothers, butchers in Beaminster, is seen here in the main street at Melplash.
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