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Places

2 places found.

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Maps

44 maps found.

1899, Russell's Hall Ref. RNE823039
1897, Maiden's Hall Ref. RNE772019
1902, Russell's Hall Ref. RNC823039
1947, Maiden's Hall Ref. NPO772019

Books

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Memories

334 memories found. Showing results 21 to 30.

Alice Bacon

Was my teacher at school 1940 (ish), was MP and in the Labour government hierarchy. She lived on Castleford Road near Greens newsagents on the corner; a very strict teacher but had time for pupils. Her father was Ben Bacon who was ...Read more

A memory of Normanton by Eddie Downing

Completely Changed!!

My father took my mother and I on holiday to Woolacombe every year in the 1950's. At that time, in the height of the Summer months we would be the only family on the main beach (as well as the Barracane Beach where we ...Read more

A memory of Woolacombe in 1950 by June Miller

Air Raids

These memories are as fresh in my mind as if they happened last week. Boston had its share of air raids, the first one was on a rainy Monday, it was July, the first day of our summer school holidays. It would be about 7.15 am when we ...Read more

A memory of Boston in 1940 by Bob Marriott

The War Years

I was born in Ryde in 1938 and when war broke out, my mother and myself moved in with my grandparents, Laurence and Lucy Stroud (nee Meecham) into what is now Wellwood Grange but in those days was just Wellwood. It was the home of ...Read more

A memory of Binstead by John Stroud

My First Visit To England

We travelled down with a large group of Scottish NABC members from Edinburgh and the Lothian areas. My particulal journey commenced by coach to Liverpool where we continued by train to Hereford. On our arrival we were ...Read more

A memory of Nash in 1953 by Ian Harding

Aberbargoed

I was born in Pill, Newport, Mon, in 1938 and with my grandmother Charlotte Selina Jane Rossiter used to visit relatives in Aberbargoed. As in other memories, I shall never forget passing beneath the endless drums in the air ...Read more

A memory of Aberbargoed in 1940 by Ernest Stephens

The Happiest Days Of Your Life

Brambletye school, well set between the beautiful Ashdown Forest and thriving town of East Grinstead on the Sussex/Surrey border was a paradise on Earth for any schoolboy with an aesthetically romantic (!) ...Read more

A memory of Brambletye House in 1959 by Giles Daubney

Pilmuir

My father was gardener at Pilmuir in about 1939- 40 and we lived in the lodge house.A wire-haired fox terrier dog seemed to go with the house. I remember seeing a German airplane being shot down almost over our house and I collected ...Read more

A memory of Haddington in 1940 by Bruce Blackadder

Somewhere In Buckland

Round about 1840 my widowed great, great grandmother Hannah, and her son Joseph were brewers in Buckland. But unless any Buckland resident knows of the history of the village I shall never know where exactly. The ...Read more

A memory of Buckland by Barry W J Chandler

Memories Of War Years 1939 45 Newport

Memories of War years 1939 -1945. By John Beal. Little did I realise that I would be involved in the army when war broke out in 1939. I was attending Hatherleigh Central School in Newport at the time and as ...Read more

A memory of Newport in 1940 by John Beal

Captions

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Caption For Bath, Abbey 1925

This area is now somewhat traffic-plagued, so that this peaceful scene is no more; the obelisk to the Prince of Orange, erected by Beau Nash in 1734 (restored in 1872), now occupies a railing-less traffic

Caption For Brockworth, Coopers Hill And Stroud Road C1955

The roundabout now houses a large public house and a Shell garage. The old Roman road, Ermin Street, is a right turn off this roundabout.

Caption For Llangollen, Castell Dinas Bran 1901

The ruins include a large shell keep within a rectangular ward, a twin-towered gatehouse, a large D-shaped tower, and traces of a hall.

Caption For Panfield, The Church Of St Mary And St Christopher 1906

It was a Tudor building inside a later shell: those chimney-stacks betray its true vintage.

Caption For Hartlepool, Park Road And Gardens C1965

A Shell petrol station can be seen on the left. Two of the older properties here - Lloyds Bank and the building beyond it (centre right) - still stand.

Caption For Arundel, Castle 1906

Seen here from the south-west, the sheer enormity of the late Victorian work is clear: the left-hand section is the much-restored medieval shell keep built for Henry II in the 12th century.

Caption For Gwithian, Pendarves Arms C1960

Gwithian Towans, the three-mile stretch of sandhills in which the village stands, was from 1889-1920 the home of the National Explosives works, which produced much of the cordite used in artillery shells

Caption For Wollaston, The Square And Nag's Head Hotel C1955

The Shell garage on the right has been rebuilt, now for UK Petroleum.

Caption For Crewe, Christ Church C1950

On seeing the ruined shell of this church today, the visitor may well get the immediate impression that it must have suffered from bombing during the war; but in fact the nave was demolished in 1977

Caption For Tyneham, Rectory 1972

Gutted by fire in 1966, and since reduced to a single- storey shell, the Rectory in Tyneham village was built in 1853 for Rev Nathaniel Bond of Creech Grange.

Caption For Restormel, Castle Front 1891

This photograph shows the ivy-smothered shell keep and gatehouse of Restormel Castle at a time when the ruin was still a titular possession of the Prince of Wales.

Caption For Stourbridge, Market Street C1965

Today the Town Hall, beyond, could be described as a shell fronting the new Crown Centre shopping arcade, which was built in the 1980s.

Caption For Stamford, St Paul's Street C1960

The Shell garage is now a car wash.

Caption For Tamworth, Castle, Main Entrance C1955

The Normans built a wooden motte and bailey castle at Tamworth soon after the conquest on the site of the Mercian fortifications of 913, but this was replaced by the shell-keep and tower that still stand

Caption For South Wigston, Crow Mill C1960

The photograph shows a probably 18th-century brick shell in a setting of hawthorns and reedy water.

Caption For Tamworth, Castle 1949

This was replaced by the shell-keep and tower, which still stand.

Caption For Tamworth, The Town Hall C1950

Soon after the Conquest, the Normans built a wooden motte and bailey castle at Tamworth on the site of the Mercian fortifications of 913.This was replaced by the shell-keep and tower, which still

Caption For Alnwick, The Gatehouse C1955

The shell keep was rebuilt by Henry de Percy, and the second Earl is thought to have built the barbican and gatehouse around 1440.

Caption For Hanslope, High Street C1955

The Shell garage on the right has given way to a close of 1980s houses. Beyond are several good 18th- and early 19th-century houses.

Caption For Alnwick, The Gatehouse C1955

The shell keep was rebuilt by Henry de Percy, and the second Earl is thought to have built the barbican and gatehouse around 1440.

Caption For New Brighton, Pier 1900

They would try to peddle such things as rock, drinks, postcards, paper windmills, shells, beads and flowers. A group of such ladies can be seen here seated on the promenade (left).

Caption For Arundel, Castle And Bridge 1902

Seen here from the south-west, the sheer enormity of the late Victorian work is clear: the left-hand section is the much-restored medieval shell keep built for Henry II in the 12th century.

Caption For Uckfield, 1902

Much has changed in this view looking downhill northwards towards the station and the High Street, with the house on the left replaced by a Shell garage.

Caption For Albury, The Village C1960

The Shell garage beyond has gone since the 1950s.