Maps

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Books

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Memories

826 memories found. Showing results 781 to 790.

Ludgershall Disappointment

My Dad, Thomas Edmund Miller was born at 7 Bell Street, Ludgershall. Dad died at our home in Willingdon, East Sussex in 1956 aged 50). Until I had some family research done, I always thought he was a Londoner. ...Read more

A memory of Ludgershall in 2001 by Jeff Miller

Maesteg 1953 1971

I was born in Ivy House - first on the right in Talbot Terrace. My sister Sally now lives in the same street. I don't remember much before four and half years of age. I lived in that house with my grandfather, Demetrie ...Read more

A memory of Maesteg in 1953 by Frances Cambettie Davies

Nursery School

I went to nursery school in the castle. We lived only 50 yards up the road in Loaning Road in the Munrospun factory. Number 3 Loaning Road belonged to Munrospun and my dad was the electrician and the house came with the job. There ...Read more

A memory of Edinburgh in 1963 by Gordon Smithson

Evacuees

With my sister, who is 3 years older than me, I was evacuated from London to Kidwelly and we stayed with a Mr & Mrs Charles at 7 Bridge Street. We had many enjoyable, and probably dangerous, hours playing in Kidwelly Castle. Now you ...Read more

A memory of Kidwelly in 1940 by Douglas Taylor

Moonfleet

I have great memories of Weymouth, we used to stay just outside Weymouth at Moonfleet Manor. My parents first stayed there just after the 2nd world war, it was a complimentary holiday after a double booking at blackpool. The owners had ...Read more

A memory of Weymouth by Fay Cooper

The Castle Inn At Lulworth

I worked as the kitchen porter at The Castle Inn, Lulworth in 1966. I was nineteen years old and thought it would be good to spend the summer by the coast. As I thought of myself as a bit of an artist I would have ...Read more

A memory of Lulworth Camp in 1966 by Barry Hawgood

Memories Of Blaise

During the fifties my friends and I spent many an hour in the woods and playing around the castle, during our school holidays we would be up there from dawn till dusk a few sandwiches and a bottle of water, those were the days. ...Read more

A memory of Henbury by David Baber

Lunch Time From Romilly School

Fish & chips from Harveys in Vale Street and a walk to Barry castle with the "girls", long time memories of Romilly Boys School.

A memory of Barry in 1960 by Haydn Ebbs

Childhood Memories

I was brought up in Ecclefechan and attended Hoddom Primary School between 1968 and 1975. Teachers I recall were Mrs Dodds, Mrs McPherson, Mrs Davidson, Miss Kirkpatrick (Mrs Wilson), Mrs McBride, Miss Gibson (Mrs Redpath) ...Read more

A memory of Ecclefechan in 1975 by Douglas Murray

Flying G Western Riding Ranch

How lovely to find some photographs of The Flying G, but I am surprised that there are no other comments when so many people went there. I went there twice, once in 1966 and again in 1967. The first time I was ...Read more

A memory of Ringwood in 1966 by Penelope Welch

Captions

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Caption For Luton, Wesleyan Chapel 1897

For centuries, the church had preached that God approved the hierarchy of 'the rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate', but that teaching, too, would change.

Caption For Ruislip, Bury Street C1955

A motte and bailey castle, complete with its outer bailey and extensive village outworks, define the origins of the settlement.

Caption For Sheffield, The Lyceum Theatre, Tudor Square 2005

on the corner of Surrey Street and Pinstone Street, where an area of old housing had been demolished to make way for the new structure which was replacing the old town hall on the corner of Castle

Caption For Belfast, Royal Avenue 1897

Forster Green clearly thought the length of the street was the right distance from his Castle Place headquarters to site another branch.

Caption For Hemel Hempstead, High Street 2005

The stags are the insignia of Tring, and the crown in the crest is a reference to Berkhamsted Castle.

Caption For Dunnottar, Castle C1900

The tower house is of the L-plan type and dates from the same period as that at Craigmillar Castle. The tower is separated from the rest of the fortress by a deep ditch, wall and gatehouse.

Caption For Glasgow, Crookston Castle 1897

Farther east, at Balcastle (from the Gaelic 'baile chaisteil', meaning 'castle town') are the remains of a Pictish fort.

Caption For Inverlochy, Castle C1890

Auchinbreck's musketeers, who had been positioned on the ramparts of the castle, were happy enough to surrender on terms.

Caption For Belfast, Castle Place 1897

All parts could be reached from this corner, and its popular name of Castle Junction had become fixed. The 114 cars and 1,000 horses were the property of the Belfast Street Tramway Company.

Caption For High Wycombe, The Rupert Gates On Marlow Hill 1906

the 2nd Earl of Shelburne in the 1750s, was entirely cased in Denner Hill stone, a very hard silicaceous stone dug a mile or so north of the town, and also used by Wyatt in his work at Windsor Castle

Caption For Richmond, Willance's Leap And The Monuments C1965

Frith shows shops in Frenchgate, Castle Hill and New Road.

Caption For Berkhamsted, School C1960

Older residents still refer to the Castle Street and Kings Road campuses as the Boys' and Girls' Schools.

Caption For New Brighton, Lighthouse 1892

These were also the days when building sand castles, watching Punch and Judy shows, searching for strange shells and swimming in the sea added up to the perfect holiday.

Caption For Richmond, Willance's Leap And The Monuments C1965

Frith shows shops in Frenchgate, Castle Hill and New Road.

Caption For Tenby, The Harbour 1898

The 200-foot Royal Victoria Pier (left) was built out from Castle Hill at Butlers Horse, and was erected to coincide with Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1897.

Caption For Weymouth, Jersey Boat 1898

Her sister ship, 'Reindeer' (1193 grt), entered service on 3 August 1897, and one month later, whilst entering Weymouth, she succeeded in ramming the Bournemouth & South Coast SPCo's 'Brodick Castle

Caption For High Wycombe, The Old Cane And Rush Works, Desborough Street 2005

A Roman Catholic church was built in Castle Street in 1900, but it was replaced by the present St Augustine's on Amersham Hill in 1955.

Caption For Fareham, The Quay C1950

Some of the prisoners fared better because they were held in the relatively healthier environment of Portchester Castle.

Caption For Sutton Coldfield, Plaques In The Lychgate, Coleshill Street 2005

Her boyfriend, Abraham Thornton of Castle Bromwich, was arrested and charged with her murder, having been seen with her You may recognise the family name Riland and recall that Plantsbrook School

Caption For Waltham, The Mill C1960

(The stone he threw still lies within the walls of Lincoln Castle). Havelock gains the reputation of being the strongest man in England.

Caption For Dorking, From The Nower 1936

'With the assistance of a telescope Windsor Castle, Frant Church, St Paul's Cathedral, Dunstable Downs, Ditchling Beacon and the spires and towers of forty-one churches can be seen.'

Caption For High Wycombe, The Little Market House, Cornmarket 2005

century, but until 1900 on the south side of Paul's Row, the High Street, and Easton Street the burgage plots ran down to the banks of the River Wye, while to the other side they ran north to Castle