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Places
33 places found.
Those places high-lighted have photos. All locations may have maps, books and memories.
- Hetton-Le-Hole, Tyne and Wear
- Hutton-le-Hole, Yorkshire
- Wookey Hole, Somerset
- Beck Hole, Yorkshire
- Hole's Hole, Devon
- Hole, Yorkshire
- Hole, Devon (near Woolfardisworthy)
- Chaceley Hole, Gloucestershire
- Three Holes, Norfolk
- Hole Street, Sussex
- Crew's Hole, Avon
- Fox Holes, Wiltshire
- Gobley Hole, Hampshire
- Hoo Hole, Yorkshire
- South Hole, Devon
- Pode Hole, Lincolnshire
- Sand Hole, Yorkshire
- Ousel Hole, Yorkshire
- Brandy Hole, Essex
- Otham Hole, Kent
- Lye Hole, Avon
- Sots Hole, Lincolnshire
- Hermit Hole, Yorkshire
- Pole's Hole, Wiltshire
- Darwell Hole, Sussex
- Gravel Hole, Shropshire
- Fox Hole, West Glamorgan
- Dove Holes, Derbyshire (near Buxton)
- Hole Bottom, Yorkshire (near Todmorden)
- Flukes Hole, Shetland Islands
- Gravel Hole, Greater Manchester
- Three Holes Cross, Cornwall
- Hole-in-the Wall, Hereford & Worcester
Photos
181 photos found. Showing results 1 to 20.
Maps
321 maps found.
Books
2 books found. Showing results 1 to 2.
Memories
638 memories found. Showing results 1 to 10.
Tithby Or Tythby
I used to live in the village of TYTHBY, spelled with a Y and not an I. I did not even know that there was another village close by with a similar name. But I have checked on the computer and there it is, not too far away in the ...Read more
A memory of Tithby in 1944 by
Personal Reflections
I was born in Sandleaze, Worton in 1957. I was brought up at 1 Mill Road near the Marston boundary. I remember many things about the village especially the Rose and Crown Pub and the Mill. I remember with pride the ...Read more
A memory of Worton by
Happy Childhood
I lived with my grandma Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bignell at No 10 Ten Cottages from 1943 to around 1948. The houses were Estate owned (and still are) and my grandad Robert Bignell worked at the manor house first as a shepherd and ...Read more
A memory of Wormleighton in 1946 by
Chudleigh Knighton Cider Memories
I lived in Chudleigh Knighton when I was 11 years old until I was 15. That was 1932 till 1936. I was taught at the lovely school there. The head mistress was Miss Gill and her assistants Miss Bray and ...Read more
A memory of Chudleigh Knighton in 1930 by
Combe Florey Primary School
The village school in Combe Florey closed in about 1958 I believe, it exists as a private house now, but I can still remember the mile long walk to and from it, through the lanes every morning and afternoon. Mum ...Read more
A memory of Combe Florey in 1958 by
The Abbey Moor Park The Ghost Of Jonathan Swift
I went to Farnham art school in 1968-1971, and at that time, Moor Park was used as a conference centre, available for hire, and inclusive of staff and an elderly chaplain called Dr Bird. As ...Read more
A memory of Waverley Abbey Ho in 1969 by
Hilly Fields
Situated at the top of our road, as young children Hilly Fields was something quite magical. During winter time we would trek our home made sledges over to toboggan hill and hurtle down to the brook at the bottom of the hill at ...Read more
A memory of Enfield in 1950 by
Jamaica Planter
I have been told some information about the Jamaica Planter which was sunk off the Port of Barry, but cannot remember all the details. Is anyone able to help me? My father-in-law was aboard her on the two occasions she came in to ...Read more
A memory of Barry Dock in 1940 by
Mixed Feelings
I first arrived in Llanegryn at the latter end of 1939 along with my younger sister and a lot of other kids from my school (St Johns)in Birkenhead. I was eight years old at the time and my sister was six. We were all put into the ...Read more
A memory of Llanegryn in 1930 by
Days Gone By
I lived in Fleetwood from around 1948 - 1952. My dad was in the army and we lived in the Drill Hall in (Ithink) Preston Street. I can remember going to the library nearby and playing on the beach near some piers. There was a young ...Read more
A memory of Fleetwood by
Captions
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The newsagent's to the left of the picture is Billy Hole's. The family still live and trade in the town.
Men an Tol means 'stone of the hole'; this most famous of Cornish landmarks probably belongs to the Neolithic period.
Men an Tol means 'stone of the hole'; this most famous of Cornish landmarks may belong to the Neolithic or the Bronze Age period.
Men an Tol means 'stone of the hole'; this most famous of Cornish landmarks may belong to the Neolithic or the Bronze Age period.
In the 1970s, a large 18-hole golf course was built to replace a small 9-hole course, and part of the house became a golf club.
Billy Hole, whose newsagent's, stationer's and tobacconist's shop we see on the left, was an interesting character.
By the early 1920s Bishop Auckland was one of only a handful of 18-hole courses in County Durham; many, such as Barnard Castle, Felling, Ravensworth, Fence Houses (Lambton Collieries), and Durham City
The village of Hutton-le-Hole lies about one mile west of Lastingham.
The route then heads east back to the Mendips to visit another celebrated tourist attraction, Wookey Hole.
Legend relates that the lord of the manor of Tetbury was sailing across the Irish Sea when his ship was holed and began to sink.
For instance, the hole at the top of the tower was left to allow a clock to be fitted.
this was the church- builders` watering-hole of choice. The Co-op (left) was formerly Tanner`s grocery and drapery shop.
These children are clearly delighting in making sand castles, digging holes in the beach for the sea to fill, or just engaging in a spot of amateur beachcombing.
There is some activity around the base of the statue - are the two ladies selling flowers and button-holes?
Inside the church is a Jacobean pulpit, which is pierced by two bullet holes, remnants of the Civil War.
This ancient four-hole cross was restored and placed at the edge of the churchyard in 1881. While Mylor claims the tallest cross in Cornwall, Quethiock's has more stone visible above ground.
Miniature golf was another attraction, with a round of eighteen holes costing the princely sum of 9d.
The rocky cliff faces are scored and pitted by wind and waves, causing sizeable blowing holes and fissures.
Kingswinford has an interesting Roman Catholic connection in Holbeche House, the home in 1605 of Stephen Lyttelton, a friend of Robert Catesby of Gunpowder Plot fame.
The nearby medieval vicarage has a priest hole, often used during the Catholic persecution that followed the Reformation, as this, like many other villages in Lancashire doggedly clung onto the Old Faith
The gas lamp that lit the entrance is now gone, but the holes for its bracket are still visible.
The gas lamp that lit the entrance is now gone, but the holes for its bracket are still visible.
In 1811 Sir Walter Scott purchased the Cartley Hole estate on the banks of the Tweed and changed its name to Abbotsford.
Hiding in the tree by day, he hid in a priest's hole in Boscobel House at night until the Roundheads abandoned their search and he was able to make his way to safety.
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