Places
36 places found.
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- Shanklin, Isle of Wight
- Ventnor, Isle of Wight
- Ryde, Isle of Wight
- Cowes, Isle of Wight
- Sandown, Isle of Wight
- Port of Ness, Western Isles
- London, Greater London
- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
- Dublin, Republic of Ireland
- Killarney, Republic of Ireland
- Douglas, Isle of Man
- Plymouth, Devon
- Newport, Isle of Wight
- Southwold, Suffolk
- Bristol, Avon
- Lowestoft, Suffolk
- Cromer, Norfolk
- Edinburgh, Lothian
- Maldon, Essex
- Clacton-On-Sea, Essex
- Felixstowe, Suffolk
- Norwich, Norfolk
- Hitchin, Hertfordshire
- Stevenage, Hertfordshire
- Colchester, Essex
- Bedford, Bedfordshire
- Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
- Aldeburgh, Suffolk
- St Albans, Hertfordshire
- Hunstanton, Norfolk
- Chelmsford, Essex
- Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
- Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
- Brentwood, Essex
- Glengarriff, Republic of Ireland
Photos
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Maps
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Memories
29,016 memories found. Showing results 1,691 to 1,700.
A Happy Childhood
I lived in Jubilee Cottages in Nethercote with mum and dad. My dad, Charlie Wilson, collected milk from the farms in the area, his lorry being based at Swepstone Dairy. Mum, Florence, worked in the dairy making Stilton ...Read more
A memory of Newton Burgoland in 1955 by
More Of Enfield
Swimming at the open air pool was so compulsory at George Spicer and then Kingsmead schools but then we grew a little and in the holidays worked at Pearsons and danced at the Court above Burtons in the market square. Those days it ...Read more
A memory of Enfield in 1970 by
Bicycles And A Happy Hunting Ground.
Being the offspring of parents otherwise engaged, and only partially supervised by a succession of Nannies, whose only concern was that we should be clean and respectably dressed when we got up to mischief, ...Read more
A memory of New Milton in 1950 by
Hazel Slade House Racing Stables
I was an apprentice jockey with master Robert Charles Ward from 1954 to 1960, then I went in the Forces, then I emigrated to Australia and now live in Victoria, in Langwarrin. With reference to Mrs Gillian ...Read more
A memory of Hednesford in 1954 by
Royal Liverpool Childrens Hospital
I lived in Heswall from 1952 until 1966. In the spring of 1964, myself and number of my chums were asked to convert an old ship's lifeboat, which had been placed in the garden to the rear of the hospital, into a ...Read more
A memory of Heswall by
Boddington School Maureen Simpson.
I attended the school from 1946-1951. The teacher at first was Miss Semper, who I do not remember too well. After her came Mrs. Pat Bishop, who was a lovely lady, she and her husband lived in the school ...Read more
A memory of Upper Boddington in 1946 by
Waterman's Almhouses
As a small child, I lived in Beckenham, and we used visit my grandmother who lived in a flat in Queen Adelaide Court. From her lounge window we could see the Almshouses. At that age I did not have any real understanding of what ...Read more
A memory of Penge in 1965 by
Pig Sty Peache Road
I'm not sure of the year, but a pig sty used to stand where there are now flats on the left hand side of Peache Road on the corner going towards Downend. I used to hear the pigs squealing when I was quite ...Read more
A memory of Downend by
Terrible Place
I lived and went to school in Shotton Colliery, and hated the place. Luckily I realised that living there was not for me, so at the age of 16 I joined the RAF and was posted to Wiltshire, clean air, beautiful rolling downs, ...Read more
A memory of Shotton Colliery in 1950 by
I Lived Opposite When Fort House Was Bombed
I remember seeing the house before and after the bomb struck. The front of the house was demolished leaving just the front of the ground and first floor hanging there. At the time I lived opposite and the upper floors of our home collapsed as well.
A memory of Gravesend in 1945 by
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It is three years after World War I, and a packet of ten Wills cigarettes can be bought in this tobacconists for 3d (three old pence).
Contemporary reports of Bishop Hooper's execution refer to his tongue sticking out of his mouth after his forty-five minutes of agony, as if he was still trying to speak just one last word.
Serving both a rural area round about, and hundreds of overseas ports by way of trade, Plymouth reached its mercantile heyday in Victorian times.
The church was built in 1841-45 by Thomas Henry Wyatt and D Brandon for the Rt Hon Sir Sidney Herbert, Secretary of War, a member of the Earl of Pembroke's family.
This crowded region south of the river was once the heart of London cockney life.
This panoramic vista of the City and St Paul's was probably taken from the southern tip of Southwark Bridge.
This wharf on the lower slopes of the Blorenge is one of the most photographed places on the Brecknock & Abergavenny Canal.
The most striking building amid the shops is the rough-hewn late Anglo-Saxon tower of St Michael's Church, with its two tiers of paired belfry windows.
A retired steelman looks across the industrial landscape of Stocksbridge, the steel-making town in the valley of the River Don between Sheffield and Penistone, on the edge of the Pennine moors.
The bank on the left of this photograph became an insurance office, and the adjoining dental surgery is also the premises of an insurance company.
The object of Eights Week is for each crew to move up one place in a complex table of positions maintained from year to year.
The parish church lies east of the Almshouses, which can be seen beyond the chancel.
A large proportion of the settlers were young themselves—look at the number of children and pushchairs here.
This panoramic vista of the City and St Paul’s was probably taken from the southern tip of Southwark Bridge.
Altrincham is situated only 8 miles south-south-west of Manchester, and its popularity as a residential area for business people grew with the opening of the Manchester South Junction & Altrincham Railway
In the mid-1950s Sheffield was one of only a handful of cities that still had faith in its tramway system.
St German's was begun by Bishop Symon of Argyll in c1230 as the cathedral church of the Sudreys, built on the site of the old parish church of Kirk German.
Wasdale and Wastwater can be said to have seen the birth of the sport of rock climbing, and climbers from all over Britain stayed at local hostelries such as the Victoria Hotel.
As every schoolchild knows (or used to), the tidal Thames finishes at Teddington. The main river is crossed by this spindly-looking suspension bridge of 1888, seen here from the lock island.
This is a truly historic photograph, which shows the lowest crossing of the river Thames (except for the new Dartford motorway bridge) on the day it opened in 1894.
The village of Seabrook has now merged with the town of Hythe, but at the time of this photograph was quite separate.
The main part of Dullingham village lies along the southern edge of the grounds of the early 18th-century Dullingham House, hence the picturesque thatched estate cottages.
Howth Abbey church, although ruined for many years, contains a number of fine monuments. The best known is the tomb of the thirteenth Earl of Howth.
Completely overlooked by the towering limestone cliffs of Middleton Dale, the village church of Stoney Middleton is one of the few completely octagonal churches in England.
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