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Places

5 places found.

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Maps

573 maps found.

1919, Yate Ref. POP875679
1898, Yate Ref. RNE875679
1881, Yate Ref. HOSM65481
1946, Yate Ref. NPO875679
1898-1899, Yate Ref. RNC875679
1919, Bridge Yate Ref. POP650008
1898, Burnt Yates Ref. RNE656763
1946, Yate Rocks Ref. NPO875682
1899, Bridge Yate Ref. RNC650008
1919, Yate Rocks Ref. POP875682
1946, Bridge Yate Ref. NPO650008
1907, Burnt Yates Ref. HOSM39648
1925, Burnt Yates Ref. POP656763
1947, Burnt Yates Ref. NPO656763
1898, Yate Rocks Ref. RNE875682
1898, Bridge Yate Ref. RNE650008
1903-1904, Burnt Yates Ref. RNC656763
1898-1899, Yate Rocks Ref. RNC875682
1897, West End Ref. RNE864057
1898-1899, West End Ref. RNC864057

Books

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Memories

679 memories found. Showing results 1 to 10.

Brigham Church

Brigham is a village a couple of miles west of Cockermouth. Much of the church at Brigham is Norman, dating to 1080 and has connections to the Wordsworth family. At the time the church was built Cockermouth was ...Read more

A memory of Brigham by Alan Doggart

The Llandudno & Colwyn Bay Tramway In Old Colwyn

What an interesting photograph of a grey painted tram heading for the 'Queens Hotel' terminus which was just over half of a mile away. It would take just over five minutes and three tramstops to ...Read more

A memory of Old Colwyn in 1920 by John Owen

My Ancestral Home

I'm American and live in Northern California. This is my first trip to England and I'm hoping to visit Bicknor. My great-great-grandfather was the Vicar of Bicknor. His last name was Seager; I never knew his first name. I have a ...Read more

A memory of Bicknor in 1860 by Sarah Kauffman

Family History Dated 1781 Kings Somborne.

Please could any one in Kings Somborne let me know who to contact regarding my family history. I have a family tree that dates back to 1781. My decendents were from Kings Somborne. I have names from ...Read more

A memory of King's Somborne by First Name Last Name

Greengrocers 1899 1934 East Street: Mark & Annie Crouch

My Great Grandfather Mark Crouch ran a greengrocers shop from the front room of his thatched cottage in East Street from 1899-1934 and then after he died his wife Annie continued as a ...Read more

A memory of Westbourne in 1890 by Ruth Hooper

Station Road

The railway is now behind the photographer, who is looking down High Street at the height of its Victorian expansion with the street dominated by tall telegraph poles. Thorley’s, the cattle feed merchants, has gone, to be replaced by ...Read more

A memory of Horley

The Hut Grounds

Seeing this photograph reminded me of the name by which we used to know this site, namely 'The Hut Grounds'. Nowadays it is mostly referred to as 'Bradda Glen Cafe', but in my childhood it was 'The Hut Grounds'! In the height of ...Read more

A memory of Port Erin in 1962 by Anthony Archibald

The Slate Islands Easdale

                                                  THE SLATE ISLANDS                                                         By Walter Deas Some 24k (15 miles) south and west of Oban lies an area with interesting old ...Read more

A memory of Easdale in 2005 by Walter Deas

Model Shop

Does anyone remember a model shop that use to be near the Wembley Triangle area, around late sixties to mid seventies There was an amazing train layout with a model cable car in the window. Vague notion of it being a combined sports and ...Read more

A memory of Wembley in 1972 by andi.submarine

Childhood Holidays

We spent three years in perfect holidaying mood in Mrs Greig's caravan, the first time ever having a jelly mould, 1955!!!. Caravan site run by the Philps, had Yates round salted butter every day on our rolls, had fruit in our ...Read more

A memory of Lower Largo in 1955 by Isobel Laing

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Captions

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Caption For Chorley, Market Street C1965

Bleasdale's furniture shop and Yates's Wine Lodge are on the left, and Mangnells and E R Booth are on the right.

Caption For Chorley, Chapel Street C1965

Bleasdale's furniture shop and Yates's Wine Lodge are on the left, and Mangnells and E R Booth are on the right.

Caption For Penny Bridge, The Village 1921

Yates's map of 1786 shows that there was a toll booth between the road junctions.

Caption For Nottingham, Market Street 1890

In 1929, Yates Wine Lodges bought the Talbot and it still remains a great attraction.

Caption For Whitby, Robert And Jane Peart 1891

Here we see Robert Peart and his sister Jennie, who was six, on the rocks below their home on Tate Hill Pier.

Caption For Burnt Yates, The Church And Village C1960

The small village of Burnt Yates in Nidderdale is graced by this neat little Victorian sandstone church.

Caption For Whitby, The Peart Children 1891

Michael Yates's wife Marion tells us that Amelia later married Tom Eglon, one of her relatives.

Caption For Chorley, Market Street C1965

Bleasdale's furniture shop and Yates's Wine Lodge are on the left, and Mangnells and E R Booth are on the right.

Caption For Reading, Friar Street 1924

It is now a Yates Wine Lodge. Across the cobbled street only the building for the then Reading Gas Company survives, central Reading's only World War II bomb having hit the area beyond.

Caption For Rochdale, Town Hall Square 1913

On the left the new building is inscribed Rochdale Vintners Co Ltd 1911 and it extends through to Yorkshire Street as Yates` Wine Lodge. It has listed building status.

Caption For Rochdale, The Walk C1910

This was described as an ancient common way in 1702, when it led to Lower Yates, New House and orchards or walks.

Caption For Sutton, Manor Park 1932

According to a bronze plaque, the fountain was given to the town in 1925 by Councillor Charles Yates, the then Chairman of the Urban District Council,.

Caption For Egerton, The Street C1960

At this time H E Bates - author of 'The Darling Buds of May' - lived in nearby Little Chart Forstal.

Caption For Pluckley, The Village Square C1950

Recently Pluckley has become well-known and much-visited for another reason: the H E Bates story 'The Darling Buds of May' was filmed in the village.

Caption For Launceston, The Chain Bridge 1906

Mr Cecil Cole, talking of his childhood in the early years of the 20th century, quoted in Arthur Bate Venning and Arthur Wills' book 'Yesterday's Town'.

Caption For Chester, St Werburgh Street 1929

Built of red sandstone, Chester cathedral was founded in 1092 as a Benedictine abbey on the site of an earlier Saxon church dedi- cated to St Werburgh.

Caption For Dartmouth, St Saviour's Church, The Old Door 1896

Despite the prominent date of 1631 in the centre of this door, the glorious ironwork depicting lions and trees is thought to date from the 13th century; the later date is probably that of a repair.

Caption For Fleet, Fleet Road Bank 1907

The Capital and Counties Bank on the right of the photograph bears the date of 1834 which, however, refers to the founding of the bank rather than the date of the building which occurred

Caption For Harwich, Church Street 1954

A view looking south towards St Nicholas' church of 1821 and the adjoining Three Cups Hotel, part of which dates from the early 16th century.Admiral Nelson and Lady Hamilton stayed there.

Caption For Harborne, St Peter's Church C1965

The red sandstone tower dates from the 15th century, and may itself have been a rebuild on the base of an earlier structure.

Caption For Swainswick, The Church C1965

The church of St Mary the Virgin at Upper Swainswick dates from Norman times.

Caption For Castle Donington, Key House C1955

Dating from the turn of the 17th century, the Key House is probably the best of Castle Donington's vernacular buildings.

Caption For Dublin, Christchurch Cathedral 1897

It dates back to 1030, but the current building dates from a thorough restoration between 1871 and 1878.

Caption For Chipping Norton, Church Street C1955

The present church of St Mary's dates back to the 14th and 15th centuries, with some earlier Norman features.