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Maps

321 maps found.

1902, Gravel Hole Ref. RNC719420
1947, Gravel Hole Ref. NPO719420
1947, Hermit Hole Ref. NPO731698
1940, Hole Street Ref. NPO737838
1940, Otham Hole Ref. NPO798227
1947, Ousel Hole Ref. NPO798396
1898, Pode Hole Ref. RNE807821
1898, Sand Hole Ref. RNE824840
1898, Ousel Hole Ref. RNE798396
1903, Hoo Hole Ref. RNC739845
1946, Crew's Hole Ref. NPO683122
1947, Dove Holes Ref. NPO692370
1895, Gobley Hole Ref. RNE717010
1896, Hoo Hole Ref. RNE739845
1946, Wookey Hole Ref. NPO874180
1898, Wookey Hole Ref. RNE874180
1899, Sots Hole Ref. RNE834157
1898, Three Holes Ref. RNE847698
1879, Dove Holes Ref. HOSM43434
1903-1904, Ousel Hole Ref. RNC798396

Books

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Memories

638 memories found. Showing results 41 to 50.

Bookham Grange

Like many of my student friends from the area, we all worked at Booham Grange under the watchful eye of Jimmy Sale and his wife Valma, then later on the hotel was managed by his nephew Mike and his wife Jan. We worked on ...Read more

A memory of Little Bookham in 1972 by sue.rainer

Help Please

Hello can any one help me please? This is not specifically to Minehead but in April 1960 I stayed at a wooden chaleted holiday camp on the north Somerset coast to the east of Minehead, I think. All I can remember is that I stayed at ...Read more

A memory of Minehead in 1960 by Pat Horton

Fairfields Infants

I went to Fairfields Infants in the years 1951-53, and can remember hearing of the death of King George VI in February 1952. My sister (a year older) was there too. We each received the book "Elizabeth Our Queen" soon after ...Read more

A memory of Basingstoke in 1952 by Kenneth Smallbone

Bombing Of Morland Avenue

Written by my mother when she was 70. She lived in Swaisland Road I think one of the things you would have noticed was the number of barrage balloons all around, high in the sky. The first sound of guns which we heard ...Read more

A memory of Dartford in 1945

The Bathing Hole

The stream in front of the war memorial ran down to the Browney river a few hundred yards below the Dean, where half of the Witton school kids learned to swim in deep pools created by dams made by Harry Bell and Davy ...Read more

A memory of Witton Gilbert in 1954 by David Leckenby

Childhood Memories

My granny used to live in Hole House, Lane Little Leigh, her name was Ellen Frances Hough, and I remember she used to live next door to Mr and Mrs Astbury. My dad used to take me there on a Friday night and pick me up on a ...Read more

A memory of Little Leigh in 1961 by Jacqueline Murphy

Our History In Brief

Although I had visited Hightown on many many occasions before this date to visit my Grandparents etc I particularly remember the days when myself and friends from Waterloo would visit Altcar Rifle Range to mark the ...Read more

A memory of Hightown in 1957 by Ron Baybut

During The Second World War

This story is a memory during the Second World War. My father Samuel Fredrick Richardson was the air-raid warden. There was a brick shelter, built on the village green. Most of the village used to use it. One ...Read more

A memory of Frimley Green in 1940 by The Frith Memory Archivist

''the Grapevine'' And Others!

My uncle, the late William John Wilcox, was the proprietor of the 'Grapevine' from the mid 1930s through to the early 1960s. I remember it as a truly old fashioned 'pub' complete with a 'games room' with darts, shove ...Read more

A memory of Meare in 1940 by Barrie R Collins

Earith Was In Huntingdonshire And Still Is

I was born in St Ives in 1939 but lived in Earith at what is now number 43. Next door was my Grandad's grocer's shop - Bert Russell. I moved to Peterborough in 1958 where I still live in Werrington ...Read more

A memory of Earith in 1940 by Lawrence Wright

Captions

137 captions found. Showing results 97 to 120.

Caption For Washington, The Post Office C1960

The large door of the outbuilding has a cat hole.

Caption For East Harling, High Street C1965

Petty Sessions were held in the Swan Hotel, and the public house on the right has been a popular watering-hole since the early 1800s.

Caption For Wookey Hole, Car Park And Restaurant C1939

It was built by the same family who built the church, the school, Wookey Hole Club and many houses for their employees. The previous mill had been built by 1656.

Caption For Goathland, Beck Hole C1960

Some distance away from the village is charming Beck Hole, today a magnet for tourists in search of locations from the TV series Heartbeat.

Caption For Penzance, The Harbour 1890

On the jetty, the capstan, with holes for manually- operated turning bars, would assist ships entering dock by helping warp them round the knuckle to the entrance.

Caption For Lulworth, 1903

We are looking towards Stair Hole, where the downlands of Dorset meet the sea, is hollowed out by vast caverns, many used by smugglers for centuries.The South West Way Coastal Footpath, once an old

Caption For Waddington, Wheatsheaf Inn C1960

It was a very popular 'watering hole' for aircrews from the nearby aerodrome, and has numerous old and new photographs to remember those days.

Caption For Glentham, Main Street 1953

The Hole's Ales advertising sign on the wall has gone, and the beer being advertised on the hanging sign is now Carling.

Caption For Waddington, Wheatsheaf Inn C1960

It was a very popular 'watering hole' for aircrews from the nearby aerodrome, and has numerous old and new photographs to remember those days.

Caption For Sheringham, Fishermen 1893

The hull was shaped to allow the boat to ride through the breakers to the shore; the crew then used the oars protruding from orruck holes to carry the boat up the beach.

Caption For Caernarfon, Castle Grand Entrance 1890

The passageway of the King's Gate was protected by five doors, six portcullises, arrow loops, and murder holes in the vaulted ceiling. The upper floor was used as a chapel.

Caption For Walmer, Castle 1892

The gatehouse was equipped with a portcullis and drawbridge, and close defence was provided by murder-holes.

Caption For Newport, Commercial Street C1899

It has since been demolished to make way for the British Home Stores. We can also see Newman & Sons piano warehouse on the left, with the Lipton Market, a grocery store, further along.

Caption For Tonbridge, The Castle 1951

Gatehouse defences included a drawbridge and two main portcullises; there were others protecting doorways off the entrance passageway, and a number of murder holes were also incorporated into the design

Caption For Fareham, The Quay C1950

At No 72 High Street, which was owned by the family building firm of Croad, there is a small hole in the quarter-inch-thick pane of the bay window facing north.

Caption For Aylesbury, Cambridge Street C1955

More survives on the right as far as the middle distance, where the rear yard of Marks and Spencer's has punched a substantial hole in the street frontage.

Caption For Witton Gilbert, The War Memorial From The Woods C1955

This photograph shows Witton Gilbert's war memorial in its original position on part of the dene on a popular and well used walk down to a bathing hole where people used to swim, and where parents brought

Caption For Beachy Head, 1912

This cave became known as Darby's Hole.

Caption For Bradpole, And The Knapp 1907

The village of Bradpole is shown here from the north-east, looking south-west from above Hole House Farm and the valley of the Mangerton River across to Holy Trinity Parish Church (right) and the fields

Caption For Blakedown, Harborough Hall C1960

There was a hiding place in the garret, and later in the 19th century a second priest hole was found. One daughter married the minor poet William Shenstone.

Caption For Odiham, All Saints Church Interior 1924

During the Second World War it was stored for safe keeping in Wookey Hole caves, Somerset.

Caption For Calne, The Old Alms Houses (1682) C1955

The grille- covered peep-holes are unusual.

Caption For Exmouth, A Cockle Woman 1906

She is watching for the tell-tale pair of small holes which betray the cockle's presence an inch or so below the surface.

Caption For Tenby, Harbour C1925

The town developed as a Victorian watering hole for the well-to-do, especially after the railway came in 1863, but in post-war years it has been the destination for mass-tourism, mainly from the south