Books

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Memories

288 memories found. Showing results 71 to 80.

Is This The Watch Tower

I wonder if anyone can tell me if the tall black object in the distance in this photo is the coastguard watch tower which was at the top of Sea Lane throught the war and into the sixties or seventies. My grandfather was an ...Read more

A memory of Saltfleet by Janice Edwards

Kennegy Cove

Looking from Prussia Cove (Prussia Cove is the area, not an actual cove) towards Kennegy. Tin mine workings exposed on beach and on cliffs above. Kerrier DC (it's just on the border of Kerrier and Penwith DCs) have replaced the rope ...Read more

A memory of Rosudgeon by Dave Hill

Caravan Holidays

Ahhh, glorious Penmaenmawr where I have spent some lovely holidays.  The sunsets over the bay to Puffin are really something to see, the Fairy Glen and Dwygyfylchi pubs to stay awhile and drink in the atmosphere.  The walks ...Read more

A memory of Penmaenmawr by Susan Jones

Family And Friends 1942 To 1961

I was born Cramlington 1942, my sister 1940. l have some happy memories of Blyth, lived with mam and dad and sister Betty in Cowpen Row. Dad was in the army so did not see much of him then, when he came ...Read more

A memory of Blyth in 1964 by Anne Hayes

1 Pine Street

My grandfather Thomas Harrison lived there until early 1953. I visited last month but the street no longer exists - was wondering when it was redeveloped. Sandie Urquhart Edinburgh

A memory of Perkinsville in 1953 by Sandie Urquhart

Paradise

Trevone is one of the most beautiful places in England. It has two beaches one sandy & one rocky, I prefer the rocky. My mother first took me to Trevone 62 years ago & it hasn't changed, my father was born in Padstow. What a place to live, you lucky people.

A memory of Trevone in 1991 by Peter Thomas

Beautiful In All Seasons

This road, as the word Brook Street most clearly implies, leads down from the Cross in the distance at the top of the hill down through this avenue of trees to the Lynch. On the left are some beautiful houses with lawns and ...Read more

A memory of Eastry by Michael Mitchell

Seaton, Cornwall (Keveral Lane)

It was nice to read of some familiar names that lived in Seaton at the same time as me, Jon Sandy for one. I often think of Jane Sandy and where she is now. I came to live in Seaton when I was 2 years old in ...Read more

A memory of Seaton in 1958 by Lynda Collins

Church Hill

In 1958 when I was 3 year old, we moved from a small flat on the London Road, near the bank where my father was branch manager (TSB), to Belton Road off Church Hill. I watched our new house being built on a sloping plot of land. My ...Read more

A memory of Camberley in 1958 by Janet Halls (Nee Pibworth)

Dream Come True

My parents had long been visitors to Norfolk during the second world war. My mother now in her eighties visited Great Yarmouth many times as a child and my father being older than mum did his basic RAF training in Norfolk. My family ...Read more

A memory of Scratby by mouse.3rings

Captions

186 captions found. Showing results 169 to 192.

Caption For Bagshot, High Street C1961

To the north are the sandy heaths on the geological strata known as Bagshot Sands.

Caption For Aberdovey, The Front 1895

This small seaside town on the west coast overlooks the wide sandy expanse of the Dyfi estuary.

Caption For Aberdovey, The Front 1895

This small seaside town on the west coast overlooks the wide sandy expanse of the Dyfi estuary.

Caption For Frimley, Frimley Street C1955

East of Camberley, the route moves on to the villages between Bagshot and Guildford along the A322 on the east side of the sandy heathland of the Bagshot Sands; on the map we see army firing

Caption For Hunstanton, Green And Pier 1907

Then building began in earnest as visitors flocked to enjoy its safe, sandy beach and bracing cliff-top walks.

Caption For Westgate On Sea, Hotels And Beach 1890

been attracting hordes of trippers from London from 1753 onwards, Westgate remained a more sedate and favoured place for families throughout the late Victorian and Edwardian era, with its broad sandy

Caption For Colwyn Bay, On The Sands 1898

This popular seaside resort sits in a wide sweep of bay on the north coast, with wooded hills behind the promenade, which fronts miles of safe sandy beach.

Caption For Gorleston, The Sands 1896

A lone tent sits on the empty sands.

Caption For West Bay, Village And Beach 1922

Beyond are vertical sandy strata, forming East Cliff and Burton Cliff.

Caption For Worthing, The Beach 1890

Pebbles now cover the upper part of the formerly sandy beach, described by John Evans in the town's first guidebook, published in 1804, as being 'as smooth as a carpet and level as a lawn'.

Caption For Formby, The Old Lifeboat Cottage C1965

Lying north from Liverpool were continuous golden sandy beaches.

Caption For Wells Next The Sea, The Quay C1955

The sandy beach is about a mile from the quay, but if you are loaded down with picnic hampers and children, there is a small single-track steam train that will take you almost to the water's edge.

Caption For Poole, High Street, Beech Hurst 1904

Sandbanks The Haven Hotel 46102 Standing on the slim, sandy peninsula jutting out from Poole Head, and facing the castle on Brownsea Island, this isolated hotel must have lived up to its

Caption For Teddington, Houses In The Grove 2005

Houses were built on most of the remaining available land - this was mainly between Park Road and Sandy Lane; to the north and south of the High Street; and along Fairfax Road.

Caption For Leith Hill, 1906

A local labourer and his dog obligingly pose for the camera on the sandy path leading from the summit of Leith Hill, at 967ft the highest point in the south-eastern counties.

Caption For Lyme Regis, The Harbour 1892

AS YOU JOURNEY eastwards from the sedate and literary little town of Lyme Regis towards the sandy beaches and urban sprawl of Bournemouth, you become aware that this beautiful Dorset coast has been

Caption For Teddington, From The Bridge 1899

A major Bronze Age barrow was excavated in 1854 where Sandy Lane comes close to the railway.

Caption For Littleham, Cottages 1890

Beyond is Sandy Bay, Littleham's own beach, once a smugglers' cove but now the setting for one of England's largest caravan sites, often echoing with gunfire from the Royal Marines training range