Maps

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Books

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Memories

271 memories found. Showing results 111 to 120.

Camping In Normands Bay

My brother and I went to a camp organised by The Childrens Country Holiday Fund for boy's living in South East London from poor backgrounds in the 1950's. The camp was run by a priest and volunteers who organised ...Read more

A memory of Norman's Bay in 1958 by John Spreadbury

Patons Of Greenock

My mother Jean was born in Greenock in 1916. She married an Englishman and I was born in England in 1941 but spent my holidays with my grandparents, aunts and cousins in Greenock. My grandparents lived in an old tenement in ...Read more

A memory of Greenock in 1940 by Judy Macdonald

Memories Of Bedhampton

We lived at 'Pantiles', Penhurst Rd, Bedhampton from approx the mid fifties until the mid sixties. I went first to the Priory school on Hayling Island, when Miss Rapley was Head teacher, until a Mr Neilsen-Carrigan took ...Read more

A memory of Bedhampton in 1956

Old Salt Sundays 1950's Wells Next The Sea

"As quick as you can, jump in dad's van - we are going to Wells-Next-The-Sea". With seaside sandwiches along, favourite egg n tomato ones plus the Primus for a nice cup of tea. Sing songs on ...Read more

A memory of Wells-Next-The-Sea in 1953 by Sheila Parker

Fearnan, The Story Of A Highland Village Of Northern Perthshire.

For anyone remembering Fearnan: At last! A masterfully crafted short history of the beautiful hamlet of Fearnan in the Perthshire Highlands, has been recorded for posterity by Ian ...Read more

A memory of Pitlochry by Alastair Barnett

The Freedom We Shared, Memories That Never Leave Us.

Our playground was everywhere, such was the wonders of growing up in the area. Hanney Road was lengthy and as is mentioned by others... what joy we had! I collected frogs from the pond with the ...Read more

A memory of Steventon in 1949 by Lewis Holmar

Beach Road

I have very happy memories of my early years in Litherland. We lived at number 14 Beach Road until July 1971 when we moved (due to demolition) out to Warrington. I met my best friend (of 51 years) there Barbara from number 4 and we ...Read more

A memory of Litherland in 1971

Grand Stand Demo

Lived in Doncaster Gardens - No.43 in the flats then No.49 in the three storey houses which are still there, before they filled the green in where we played football, with houses. Used to help run the Oriel Youth Club from its ...Read more

A memory of Northolt in 1960 by Rob Macormac

Shrimps

I remember my mother asking me to go Manner's Lane to the big house by the shore to buy a pint of shrimps - not many left by the time I got back! The smell of the mound of shrimp shells on the beach waiting for the tide to take them away.

A memory of Heswall in 1962 by Vivien Brearey

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

Captions

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Caption For Tal Y Llyn, Lake 1937

On the right-hand shore the B4405 snakes along towards Cross Foxes and Dolgellau.

Caption For Heysham, Main Street 1947

This charming view looks up Main Street from the shore.

Caption For Portchester, The Castle 1898

The original Norman fort at Porchester was merely a corner of the old 3rd-century Roman Saxon Shore fort defended on the two open sides by the building of a wooden palisade.

Caption For Deal, From The Pier 1899

days when sail reigned supreme, this was once the main harbour town in south-east England, servicing ships moored in the shallow waters of the Downs, between the treacherous Goodwin Sands and the shore

Caption For Stourhead, Pleasure Gardens C1965

The lake was created in 1744, with the intention that a walk around its shores would be an allegory of Aeneas's voyage after the fall of Troy.

Caption For Deal, From The Pier 1899

days when sail reigned supreme, this was once the main harbour town in south-east England, servicing ships moored in the shallow waters of the Downs, between the treacherous Goodwin Sands and the shore

Caption For Twickenham, The Ferry 1899

Twickenham had two ferry crossings - the Island Ferry over to Eel Pie Island, and Twickenham Ferry itself, plying from the foot of Ferry Road, the slipway on the right, over to Ham on the Surrey shore

Caption For Glasgow, A View On The Kelvin 1897

Its chief landmark is the Kibble Palace, which originally stood in the grounds of John Kibble's country mansion on the shores of Loch Long.

Caption For Langstone, Old Cottages C1955

provided just such resources for early man in the Portsmouth area and while there is not a lot of evidence of settlement, flints have been identified, washed out by the scour from the brick-earth shores

Caption For Lulworth, 1894

Nothing moved in sky, land, or sea, except a frill of milk-white foam along the nearer angles of the shore, shreds of which licked the contiguous stones like tongues.

Caption For Chatham, Buckmore Park, Scouting C1965

Basic housekeeping is a requirement of any well-organised camp, and these boys carry out their chores under watchful adult eyes.

Caption For Newquay, On The Sands 1912

The rocky cliff faces are scored and pitted by wind and waves, causing sizeable blowing holes and fissures.

Caption For Northwich, Bull Ring 1903

Within a few years the Bull Ring became one of those places where pedestrians took their lives in their hands, having to dodge scores of ICI workers as they freewheeled four, five, even six abreast down

Caption For Great Yarmouth, Haven Bridge 1896

Here are the wharves where scores of vessels tied up to unload their catches.

Caption For Gilfach Goch, Childrens Playing Ground C1955

The lines of washing though would point to the traditional Monday chore on this older estate.

Caption For Chatham, Buckmore Park Camp Activities C1965

Here, some of the boys write their journals or letters home, while others go about the housekeeping chores.

Caption For Woolston, Portsmouth Road C1960

Until comparatively recently every town had at least one cinema, and cities the size of Southampton often had scores of them.

Caption For Lowestoft, The Lighthouse And Cottages 1887

Between the High Street and the Beach village, where the fishing community lived, were 12 narrow alleys, known as Scores.

Caption For Margate, The Sands 1906

There are busy vendors of refreshments and knick-knacks; family parties, encamped with umbrellas and novels; eager children, sprawling babies and their nurses, and scores of adventurous youngsters seriously

Caption For Deal, The Castle C1955

Although its defences were never tested by a foreign invader, during the Second World War the Germans succeeded in scoring a direct hit on the structure.

Caption For Cambridge, Hobbs Pavilion 1931

Between 1905 and 1934 he played in 61 test matches and scored a record 61,237 runs.

Caption For Cambridge, Hobbs Pavilion 1931

Between 1905 and 1934 he played in 61 test matches and scored a record 61,237 runs.

Caption For Woolston, Portsmouth Road C1960

Until comparatively recently every town had at least one cinema, and cities the size of Southampton often had scores of them.

Caption For Whitby, Abbey Arches 1913

The west front largely collapsed in 1914 after a raid by German battle cruisers, which shelled Whitby and scored a hit on the abbey. The façade has since been partially rebuilt.