Places
Sorry, no places were found that related to your search.
Photos
Sorry, no photos were found that related to your search.
Maps
Sorry, no maps were found that related to your search.
Books
Sorry, no books were found that related to your search.
Memories
647 memories found. Showing results 81 to 90.
Little Sutton In 1950s And 1960s
What memories your comments conjure. How I loved the 'rec' as a child. We started on the 'baby swings' and progressed to the 'big swings' and see-saw and round-a-bout. The old shelter there was a favourite ...Read more
A memory of Little Sutton in 1960 by
Evacuee During World War 2
I was privately evacuated to Croxton Kerrial with my sister in 1940, we were billeted in a cottage named Woodbine Cottage, this was next to the Bakery. We attended the village school, I still remember some of the ...Read more
A memory of Croxton Kerrial in 1940 by
Newmarket Hospital
I worked in racing stables in Exeter Road. In the spring of 1960 I was injured when a yearling I was exercising suddenly reared and I 'went out the back door', narrowly missing the edge of the pavement, but hitting my ...Read more
A memory of Newmarket in 1960 by
Best Guinness In Town!
The little white building in the middle is the Lamb & Flag. I spent many a happy lunchtime & evening there in the '80's. It was a Marstons pub, run then by Don & Sheila Jones, an Irish couple who I think had been ...Read more
A memory of Worcester by
My Childhood In Wolverhampton 1946 1955
I played in the standing corn stooks behind our house, had my first pony/horse ride at Dixon's farm where my horse went berserk in a potato field, so I was put onto and stayed on a horse lead. I flew my ...Read more
A memory of Wolverhampton by
Fairdene School
I was a pupil at Fairdene School from 1960-1965. I had lived in New York until I was 6, so being a girl with a Yankee accent in a school for young ladies was quite a challenge! The two female headmistresses, Miss Turner and Miss ...Read more
A memory of Chipstead by
Happy Days Growing Up In Barnes
The picture of Church Road where it ran parallel with The Crescent with all those familiar shops brings memories flooding back. I started life at 33 Glebe Road in 1944 and spent 5 happy years there before moving to ...Read more
A memory of Barnes by
Doon The Den
I stayed in Denhead and used to play down the den almost every day. We used to go to school via the gap either next to Ciff Bells house or the gap next to smiths shop. We used to go along the cliffs behind the scrappiest then straight ...Read more
A memory of Kennoway by
Bramcote Children's Hospital
I was placed in Bramcote 1983 at the age of 9 for a year. I liked it a bit but only as I was getting physically abused by my step mum at home daily,it was a break from the beatings for a week,we would all go ...Read more
A memory of Bramcote by
Stiperstones Poem
THE STIPERSTONES T’was long ago the Ludlow people vexed the Devil very sore He vowed to stone their homes and steeples until they were no more On Cranberries Hill he then collected his apron full of rocks and stones With ...Read more
A memory of Stiperstones by
Captions
405 captions found. Showing results 193 to 216.
This handsome terrace of Victorian houses, built in distinctive white 'Pease' brick overlook the Coronation Park.
The mill was a Lincolnshire-style brick tower with an onion-shaped cap.
Sitting in the delightful Kennet valley a couple of miles east of Marlborough is Mildenhall - known locally as 'Minal'.
Being so close to the English border, indeed partly on the border, this town was and is the natural entry point into Wales for travellers and tourists.
The beach is an area of outstanding natural beauty, and the dunes form a National Nature Reserve.
The Stiffkey Anti-Aircraft training camp was erected as a satellite to the larger AA camp at Weybourne in the late 1930s.
The church of St Peter, in North Street, has a superb Norman doorway, possibly the best in the county (so the experts say), and the church has further Norman architecture inside.
The drainpipe (right) marks the division between the timber-framed building of 1694 to the left and a Victorian brick extension nearer to us.
The Church of St Mary stands at the top of the hill above the old Cluniac Priory of Prittlewell.
This scene is characteristic of the North Norfolk coast: the walls and houses are built of whole flints found in the fields or on the nearby beach.
There are a number of lovely timber-framed buildings in this village, and many more that were once of timber, until a brick façade was added at a later date.
This imposing brick gateway, surmounted by a clock tower, was built 1860-62.
Past the Georgian remains of Sea Houses, at the junction of Royal Parade with Seaside, is the flamboyant Albion Hotel, now renamed the Carlton Hotel, its red brick all colour- washed.
Like St John's Abbey, St Botolph's Priory lay outside the town walls.
This massive medieval structure, formed of flint and ruddy Dutch bricks, squats close by the river, near Bishop Bridge.
The Clayton Windmills were built in the 19th century.
A No 82 bus stands outside the Victorian red brick Town Hall.
Again we see the village centre, with another of the special seaside shops that sold everything needed for a seaside holiday.
It was dismantled in 1959 and the parts were taken to County Oak, near Gatwick Airport, but have not been reassembled.
The garlands from the formal opening are still evident in this view, in which visitors admire the pristine stone and brick of the Clock Tower.
This view looks east along the main street.
Windmill Hill leads up from the site of the old West Gate, demolished at the start of the 19th century but remembered in the pub of the same name.
The Church of St Mary stands at the top of the hill above the old Cluniac Priory of Prittlewell.
These two views of the steep high street as it winds up the hill towards Canterbury show some of the rich assortment of buildings built of brick or black-and-white half timbering.
Places (0)
Photos (0)
Memories (647)
Books (0)
Maps (0)