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Memories

992 memories found. Showing results 301 to 310.

1950s Belmont

I was born in Epsom and lived in Belmont all my childhood. I attended Cotswold Road Primary School and also the Sunday School that was there on a Sunday. The building was knocked down in the 1980s, it was opened in the 1890s and I ...Read more

A memory of Belmont by Catherine Johnston

National Service

I did my national service in the Royal Army Medical Corps at the Connaught Military Hospital during 1957 and 1958. I worked in the pathology dept., ending up as Corporal. I remember the Gurkha patients coming, I think in the ...Read more

A memory of Hindhead in 1957 by Philip Reid

Childhood To Marriage

MY first memory of"LLan"was driving down the hill from Swffryyd, to my new home at No.6 High Street. My father Thomas Hughes, with my mother Eileen, had purchased Barttlets Grocery Store,a long held wish of my fathers to ...Read more

A memory of Llanhilleth by Derek Hughes

Arthur Towle Lucan Old Mother Riley

Arthur Towle, (born Sibsey 1885) who became the actor Arthur Lucan, lived in a house in an alley called Woodyard near Craythorne Lane until he left Boston around 1901. His career began when he was about ten, ...Read more

A memory of Boston in 1900 by Robert Kenny

St Peter Ad Vincula

Not a memory obviously but a fact discovered when doing family research. My Great Grandfather's eldest sister was married to a Grenadier Guard in The Chapel Royal at the Tower. Her husband Giles was stationed there at the time. The date was 1860.

A memory of London in 1860 by Beryl Chandler

I Was Born In Caerphilly In 1938

I left Caerphilly in 1955 to join the Royal Airforce. Prior to this I worked for AJ Marshall Wholesale Confectioners in Castle Street. I went to school at The Twyn Secondary Modern as it was then known. I ...Read more

A memory of Caerphilly in 1955

Hop Picking During The War

I hated hop picking. We started in 1938 to help pay for my sister's uniforms when she went to Ashford County School. At first my mother was slightly ashamed but soon entered ino the spirit and competition as to who ...Read more

A memory of Staplehurst by Doug Allen

The Good Life

I was born in 1926 at no 2 The Terrace. My dad was Taity Ponsford and I had 5 brothers and 2 sisters my sister Ida and Cis, who was killed in a motor cycle accident in 1933, at the time she was with Bill Murrant a local golf pro. ...Read more

A memory of Sunninghill in 1920 by Ronald Ponsford

The Hunts

Dear Susan, I think that I was great friends with your mum and dad, I was with him when he met your mum at the Old Leathern Bottle at Warfield, she was in the Land Army and he had just been discharged from the Navy, we joined together. We ...Read more

A memory of Ascot in 1942 by Ronald Ponsford

Memories Of Point Clear Bay Near St Osyth In The Mid 1950s& 60s

My family and I used to spend our holidays at Point Clear almost every year during the late 1940s, 50s and 60s, and often met the same families each time we went down there. I ...Read more

A memory of St Osyth in 1956 by Robert Munn

Captions

973 captions found. Showing results 721 to 744.

Caption For Sudbury, Ballingdon Bridge 1934

After a period of monitoring and a competition inaugurated by the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2000, this bridge was in turn replaced and opened in July 2003.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Broad Street 1930

There is a glimpse of the Great House - visited by the earl of Chatham with 15-year-old William Pitt the Younger - before Star Supply Stores and the Royal Lion Hotel (centre).

Caption For Knaresborough, The Castle 1892

Baron Serlo de Burg built the first castle at Knaresborough, and during the reign of King John the fortress was also a royal arsenal for the manufacture of crossbow quarrels.

Caption For Dunstable, High Street C1955

It was from here that Henry VIII's legal team announced the annulment of the Royal marriage to Katherine of Aragon in 1533.

Caption For Cromer, The Sands 1906

Personalities like Oscar Wilde, Shackleton, Einstein, Winston Churchill and members of European royal families came here, to name but a few.

Caption For Pentraeth, The Village C1965

Charles Dickens stayed here when reporting on the shipwreck of the 'Royal Charter' in 1859.

Caption For Clitheroe, The View From The Castle 1921

The Swan & Royal Hotel stands out on the right of the street, one of the many eating and drinking places on Castle Street.

Caption For Liverpool, Dale Street 1895

Royal Insurance, Liverpool, London & Globe, and Prudential Insurance were among those who had their headquarters here on this street.

Caption For Easton Royal, Holy Trinity Church C1955

Easton Royal, near Pewsey, is a tiny vale village with a huge history.

Caption For St Neots, High Street 1925

On the south side, whilst a touring charabanc waits for its customers outside the Royal Oak public house, a handcart makes a delivery to Fraser`s, piano sellers and household outfitters.

Caption For Chatham, View From Great Lines C1955

Beginning with a series of ditches and bastions known as the Cumberland Lines in 1756, the Royal dockyard defences were extended later in the century.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Harbour 1912

Lyme was granted its Royal Charter by Edward I in 1284, and it has remained popular as a resort.

Caption For Fortrose, 1880

Fortrose was originally called Chanonry and was made a royal burgh in 1592.

Caption For Grimsby, The Royal Dock C1955

The first fish dock opened in 1856, and the Royal Dock was built between 1849 and 1852.

Caption For Whitby, Royal Hotel 1925

By this date the Royal Hotel has a new glassed-in porch, and now guests can enjoy the fresh sea air without the north-east wind's assistance.

Caption For Maidstone, High Street C1953

The soldier marching smartly across the road is almost certainly a member of the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment, garrisoned here.

Caption For Kingston Upon Thames, Canbury Gardens 1906

It opened in 1875, covering 16 acres of land; it was the central depot for the East Surrey Regiment, later renamed the Queen's Royal Surreys. The barracks closed in 1959.

Caption For Liphook, Royal Anchor Hotel 1924

Standing in the shadow of a chestnut tree, the Royal Anchor Hotel, once a posting and coaching house, dates from the time of Samuel Pepys, who found 'good, honest people' there.

Caption For Dolgellau, Upper Smithfield Street 1908

Dolgellau was the county town of the old county of Merioneth, and is set amid the mountains which are famous for Welsh gold—the mines here provided gold for Royal wedding rings.

Caption For Ammanford, Quay Street 1937

The mass of Union Jacks indicates another Royal celebration: this was for the accession of George VI, who was crowned in 1937.

Caption For Blackpool, From The Sands 1896

Facing the sands were (from the left) the Prince of Wales Theatre, the Winter Gardens, the Tower, the Royal Hotel, the New Inn, the Big Wheel, and the Coffee Palace.

Caption For London, Kiddies Boating Lake, Regents Park C1965

Nash's great early 19th century urban scheme, his 'Royal Mile', led north to terminate in Regents Park.

Caption For Norwich, Post Office And Prince Of Wales Road 1896

At the Royal Hotel on the left the author first sampled samphire, a Norfolk delicacy found growing in salt marshes around the coast. This has become so popular that you need a licence to pick it.

Caption For Kingsclere, Market Square C1955

By the 13th century, as a result of visits by various kings to nearby Freemantle, where King Henry II built a royal hunting lodge, it had become known as 'Kyngescler.'