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Places

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Memories

489 memories found. Showing results 181 to 190.

Bredbury 1960s

i went to highfield secondary school in 1960 and most of the teachers mentioned were still there then including mr edwards headmaster i remember doing all the things you stated including going down star fields on pieces of cardboard ...Read more

A memory of Bredbury by horticare

The Cangle Was Where I Started School.

We were an American family. My father was an airman stationed at Weather's Field and my first day of school was a walk down the hill from Stephens Close. Mrs. Gellespie was my first teacher. She was the one who ...Read more

A memory of Haverhill by pam_wmarks

Potted Early Years In Sale

My father was on his way home after his shift at metrovicks in Trafford park when saw the fire in the town hall. He stood on the bridge over the canal and watched it burn until the clock tower collapsed. I was born in sale ...Read more

A memory of Sale by ken

Boarding School In Woking

When I was Five we lived in Byfleet and often visited the Woking Lido in Summer. I nearly killed myself by sliding down the slide unsupervised. Fortunately my father saw me and dragged me out. When I was Six my sister and I ...Read more

A memory of Woking by dgbirks

Hill Street Pontnewydd

Hi. My name is Iris Elliott (nee ) Poole. I was born in Hill Street Pontnewydd in 1930 to Daisy and Tom Poole. I had a brother Mervin. Everyone knew my father Tom who was quite a character. He was a very big man and worked in ...Read more

A memory of Pontnewydd by janet.elliott

Semons Home

I also was born there in April 1943. I have memories of my father telling me of him walking along a canal bank so he could visit my mother, when he was on leave! Would like to know exactly where it was siituated, so I could visit the area. Always tell my family I was born on Ilkey moors!

A memory of Ilkley by durkinjoan0

The Happy Times

My name is Peter Russell was born at 61 Woodlands Road 1937 and enjoyed all my young life in Southall until I moved to Waterlooville near Portsmouth in 1961, I went to Beaconsfield Rd I/J school and then onto Featherstone Rd ...Read more

A memory of Southall by rusky1937

Fishing In The Stort Neil Riley

I was 6 years old when I first went fishing at Sawbridgeworth. We lived in Sayesbury Road from 1948 to 1960 and at the back of our house was Chalk Farm, where I spent a lot of time playing football with the ...Read more

A memory of Sawbridgeworth by neilhriley

Good Times

I lived at 14 oak street Chapel of Ease. I can remember the two estates being built and the bridge in the photo is also the way I went to school at the west end primary school. The red phone box is still there I believe, in the photo the ...Read more

A memory of Abercarn by John Weeks

A Lifetime In Bredbury And Woodley

I have so enjoyed reading all the memories of Woodley and Bredbury. I lived on George Lane from 1939 to 1964, and went to St Mark's School in Bredbury. My Dad, Jack Hallsworth, worked at Livingstone's ...Read more

A memory of Woodley by Elizabeth Thompson

Captions

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Caption For Leighton Buzzard, The Grand Union Canal C1955

Loaded narrow boats head north on the Grand Union Canal, their cargo concealed from both weather and prying eyes by careful sheeting.

Caption For Runcorn, Big Pool 1923

Once linked to the Bridgewater Canal, this view was taken near to Heath Road. The pool was subsequently drained and filled in prior to the development of the later road system around Runcorn.

Caption For North Warnborough, King John's Castle 1903

The construction of the Basingstoke Canal in 1794 cut through the castle's outer defences to the south.

Caption For Conisbrough, The Castle From The River 1895

When the Sheffield & South Yorkshire Canal was modernised in the early 1980s, several locks were re-sited and enlarged, and this was one of them.

Caption For Wheaton Aston, The Lock 1952

The Shropshire Union canal was owned by a railway, the LMS, and was formed in 1864. It runs between Wolverhampton and Ellesmere Port.

Caption For Leeds, Boar Lane C1965

Just a few minutes walk from here, the Leeds & Liverpool Canal links up with the River Aire and the Aire & Calder Navigation, providing Leeds with an inland waterway from the Mersey to the Humber.

Caption For Stourbridge, High Street C1965

Its column was cast at Stourbridge Ironworks (just a short walk away, by the canal) in 1857.

Caption For Disley, Market Street C1965

When the canal was built and linked the town with Manchester, new industries soon followed.

Caption For Romford, Raphael Park 1908

Black's Canal was at the western extreme of the Gidea Hall Estate.

Caption For Llangollen, On The Canal 1913

One of its principal attractions has been its canal, especially where it spans the Dee using Thomas Telford's marvellous 121ft-high Froncysyllte Aqueduct, built in 1805.

Caption For Lymm, The Post Office C1950

Taken from the canal bridge, this photograph shows Bridgewater Street, looking towards Eagle Brow.

Caption For Brimscombe, Walls Quarry 1901

On the left is the main London railway line and, still further to the left, the Thames and Severn Canal.

Caption For Worsley, Bridgewater Canal, The Packet House 1889

The Packet House was a scheduled stop for passenger boats plying the Bridgewater Canal.

Caption For Kidderminster, The Church And Canal 1931

This is the Staffs and Worcester Canal. St Mary and All Saints church looks delightful, and is built from local red sandstone.

Caption For Sandwich, The Barbican 1924

Many of its buildings are influenced by 17th-century Dutch architecture, including the bridge, which was passed under by many boatmen using the canal.

Caption For Bilsborrow, Roebuck Hotel C1960

Nearby is the Lancaster canal, a cut dug out by navvies (the term comes from navigator) in 1797. A poster (right) advertises a farm auction sale.

Caption For Bilsborrow, The Roebuck Hotel C1955

Sited beside the main north road, the pub has always been a busy place, with the canal and, later, the railway also bringing their trade. The former nearby station took the name of Roebuck.

Caption For Euxton, M6 Motorway From Runshaw Lane C1965

Other sections soon followed, with the Lancaster bypass opening in 1960 and the Thelwall Viaduct, which takes the road high above the River Mersey and the Manchester Ship Canal, being completed in

Caption For Torrington, Castle Hill 1890

The river Torridge is to the left, and the straight line just to the right of it is the old course of the Rolle (or Great Torrington) canal.

Caption For Monkton Combe, The Mill C1955

At the end of Mill Lane, across the course of the old Somerset Coal Canal (1794-1898) and past a small 17th-century stone lock-up, is the former water mill.

Caption For Lymm, The Bridge C1955

A delivery vehicle waits outside Henry Milling & Co's shop in this view from Lymm Cross towards the Bridgewater Canal.

Caption For Wheaton Aston, The Lock 1952

The Shropshire Union Canal was owned by a railway, the LMS, and was formed in 1864. It runs between Wolverhampton and Ellesmere Port.

Caption For Southampton, No5 (Prince Of Wales) Dry Dock 1908

A ditch ran alongside the building until the 1850s, intended to link Southampton with the Andover Canal and the River Test.

Caption For Savernake, Savernake Forest Hotel 1907

This famous Edwardian county hotel was built on the edge of Savernake Forest, where the Great Western Railway and the Kennet and Avon Canal enter the Vale of Pewsey.