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Vimy Lines, June 1954 Royal Signals

The 1st week of June - Richmond House - Vimy lines. 20 Troop, D.I Sgt Major Geough, Cpl Joness, l/cpl Peter Tiltman, Sgt Geough, 20 Troop won drill for 3rd time - so he keeps the cup. Over my dead body if ...Read more

A memory of Catterick in 1954 by Ken Moore

Easthampstead, Bracknell

We moved to Easthampstead in 1962 and moved away in 1968. Bracknell town did have the Crossways but I do remember the rest of the town which was still beautiful and old. When we returned in 1969 I was horrified as an 11 ...Read more

A memory of Bracknell in 1962

Heswall, Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital

I,ve lived in Irby in my early years in a prefab, temp housing after the war. I had a accident and went to Heswall hospital by milk float as we had no car or phone in those days. My memory was the open ...Read more

A memory of Heswall in 1967

National Service And Finding My Wife!

On 3rd of June 1953 I arrived at West Kirby by steam train with a good many other RAF recruits who had been brought to the town to do their recruit training at Royal Air Force Recruit Training School West ...Read more

A memory of West Kirby by Albert Wm Gosnall

Horsley Hall Pioneer Army Camp

Hi can anyone help me am looking for a photo of the royal pioneers army camp at Horsley hall in the 1955 if any one as got a photo please my i have a copy.

A memory of Gresford in 1955 by Harry Booth

Rip Thomas Glazebrook

In memory of my great uncle Pte. Thomas Glazebrook of the 10th. Royal Hussars, stationed here in 1911, who was injured at the 2nd. Battle of Ypres and KIA 1918.

A memory of South Tidworth in 1910 by Reg Povey

Royal Observer Corps.

This was the view we enjoyed as members of the ROC which used the church tower as its look-out post. On exercises we would man the post round the clock. Formed to assist in the tracking of enemy aircraft in ...Read more

A memory of Headley in 1953 by Denis Payne

Pickmere Boating Lake

My wife came across John Baylies memories of Jack Spence. I was the little lad who also helped bring water from the spring. I only lived over the fields and was always down the lake, I remember the rowing boats blue & ...Read more

A memory of Pickmere in 1958 by Daniel Lees

Huts

i was 5 wen we came back from germany and were put into the nissan huts used during the war by royal artillery the guns were still there and me and my sister jenny used to play on them and turn the wheel and make them turn we left there and moved ...Read more

A memory of Barking

Salford Royal Hospital

Re: Hilda Smith and Salford Royal Hospital. I was a patient in Salford Royal Hospital in January 1963 and remember a lovely nurse called " Staff Nurse Ramsbottom". I expect she went on to be a Sister. Maybe you remember her if ...Read more

A memory of Salford by Ann Harding

Captions

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Caption For Basildon, C1955

In the Middle Ages, the Basildon area formed part of the Royal Forest, and throughout the following centuries it remained a rural backwater.

Caption For Barrow In Furness, Biggar Bank Swimming Pool 1934

early doubts, by the outbreak of the First World War Britain had the largest and most advanced submarine fleet in the world, and Vickers were responsible for building 69 of the 74 submarines in the Royal

Caption For Belfast, Royal Avenue 1897

The councillors were right to name it Royal Avenue. The photograph shows the Provincial Bank, which had in fact been in 'Hercules Place', now absorbed.

Caption For Dorking, Rose Hill 1906

Malthouse (formerly the Rising Sun), the Spotted Dog, the Cricketers Arms, the Queen's Head, the Pilgrim (formerly the Station Hotel), the Bush, the Windmill (now closed), the Stepping Stones, the Royal

Caption For Haywards Heath, Burrell Road 2005

They have also performed at the Royal Albert Hall, and are often heard at various charitable events.

Caption For Henley On Thames, Elizabethan Houses

wharves, depicted in Ward's 1835 painting 'A View of Henley Bridge', was transformed by the fashionable rowing fraternity and by an event that became a key event in the social calendar: the Henley Royal

Caption For Liverpool, Ss City Of Paris 1890

By the time Inman's 'City of Paris' was built at J & G Thompsons (later John Brown & Co), passenger comfort on the transatlantic route had come a long way since the pioneering days of the 'Royal William

Caption For Scarborough, Castle From The East Pier C1958

Royal visitors were quite frequent, as it was first choice for the Court when on tour.

Caption For Accrington, Accrington Pals Memorial 2004

The East Lancashire Regiment, together with the South Lancashire Regiment and the Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire), is the forebear of the Queen's Lancashire Regiment.

Caption For Devizes, St John's Church, Interior 1898

The colours of the Devizes Loyal Volunteers hang above the chancel.

Caption For Newport, The Village C1960

The curious tall thin building behind the telegraph pole is the 1872 Loyal Gaskill Lodge of Oddfellows.

Caption For Bamburgh, The Village And Castle 1954

Bamburgh holds the distinction of being the first castle to be breached by gunfire, when forces loyal to Edward IV deployed two large cannon.

Caption For Barnard Castle, From The River 1892

In November 1569, during the Rising in the North, it was held by Sir George Bowes, a loyal servant of Queen Elizabeth I, against a force led by Charles Neville, Sixth Earl of Westmoreland, and Thomas Percy