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Places
14 places found.
Those places high-lighted have photos. All locations may have maps, books and memories.
- Coates, Lancashire
- Coate, Wiltshire (near Swindon)
- Coates, Lincolnshire
- Coat, Somerset
- Coates, Gloucestershire
- Coates, Nottinghamshire
- Coates, Cambridgeshire
- Coates, Sussex
- Coates, Lothian (near Penicuik)
- Coate, Wiltshire (near Devizes)
- Great Coates, Humberside
- Salt Coates, Cumbria
- Little Coates, Humberside
- North Coates Airfield, Lincolnshire
Photos
49 photos found. Showing results 281 to 49.
Maps
88 maps found.
Books
1 books found. Showing results 337 to 1.
Memories
1,490 memories found. Showing results 141 to 150.
Pear Tree Cottage Greenway
We used to visit my grandparents on Sundays. Quite often during the Spring we would drive through the flooded levels and see boats on the water. I remember wanting desperately to go for a ride in one! It didn't ...Read more
A memory of North Curry in 1946 by
Australians On The Cut 1975
Having left Australia on an open-ended working holiday to England in January, 1974 with my girlfriend, it was hard to imagine that within six weeks of arriving in London we'd be living on a leaky old narrow boat ...Read more
A memory of Leighton Buzzard in 1975 by
My Grandfather
My grandfather, John Wilson, is entered as being Captain of Steam Boat Ferry in the 1901 census of Fleetwood. Although the ferry boat pictured does not appear to be steam, this sight must have been very familiar to him and his family who lived in nearby Pharos Street.
A memory of Fleetwood by
First Memory Of Durham
My first memories of Durham is being taken be my aunty Audrey and uncle Alan. They had instructions to buy my sister and I a tartan skirt from the market. I remember having a boat ride on the river Wear. Durham is my 'Tara', the place where I need to return to to get my inner peace restored.
A memory of Durham in 1956 by
Grandfather Hatcher
My grandfather, Frederick John Scott Hatcher, married a Guernsey girl, Alice Bougourd. There are Bougourds buried in the Churchyard at Haselbury. I believe the family lived in Haselbury Plucknett, and I know that ...Read more
A memory of Haselbury Plucknett in 1860 by
Happy Thoughts Of Bay
I believe I am the girl sitting on the grass looking towards the sea in this photograph. My name then was Susan Groves and my dad was a fisherman. We owned a shop down the bank called The Shell Shop where dad sold many ...Read more
A memory of Robin Hood's Bay in 1960 by
Where I Was Brought Up
I was 2 years old when we moved in, in 1950. My dad was the Lock Keeper, Alan Mclean Tait, my mum Florence (Always called Elsie)my sister Christina (Chris), me, Eddie & our spaniel Judy. We also had chickens and a cockrel. ...Read more
A memory of Harlow in 1950 by
This Is How The Lock Looked Like When My Family Lived In Lock Cottage 1950 1961
This is where I spent my life from 2 years old till I was 13 years old. Fishing, rowing boats, paddling canoes and riding Kitty the horse in the field behind our cottage ...Read more
A memory of Harlow in 1950 by
The Towpath Where The Boats Were Moored Later On
There used to be a very large weeping willow there that used hang over the river. We used to cast underneath it as fish used to congregate under it. This is the bank where I did most of my fishing ...Read more
A memory of Harlow in 1949 by
Ye Olde Gate House
This picture is of the Old Gate House, taken from the West Street side. The sign over the front door was "Ye Olde Gate House". It was a very old house and is shown on some of the old maps of Wilton. It had two addresses - The ...Read more
A memory of Wilton in 1920 by
Captions
1,649 captions found. Showing results 337 to 360.
A pair of Horsfield's craft are carrying coal, the once horse-drawn butty (the 'Marjorie') towed by the motorised narrow boat.
A pair of Horsfield's craft are carrying coal, the once horse-drawn butty (the 'Marjorie') towed by the motorised narrow boat.
The man and group of boys in front of the centre ground boat are typical of visitors to any sea shore, and form the kind of scene that has not changed over the years.
The 1960s was a turning point for the canals as the working boats' cargoes were switched to the roads, particularly the new M1 motorway.
A safely loaded rowing boat is pushed away from the stone quay of the commercial harbour leading out into Belfast Lough.
A fisherman and two boys scull their boats around the pier of the inner harbour.
Boating has long been a popular pursuit for visitors to Stratford, and for many residents too.
This small and delightful riverside town has a bustling quayside with a mix of pleasure boats and commerce in the shape of boat builders and repairers.
It was used for boating in pre-Second World War days, but after this it slowly ceased to be used for this purpose. A former boat house was demolished before this picture was taken.
Beer remains a fishing village, if not quite on the scale of yesteryear, and there are still a number of family-owned boats.
The 'Silver Queen' and the 'Silver Spray' (right) were among the first propeller-driven passenger boats to appear on the Island, and gradually replaced the numerous rowing boats that plied for hire in
They were small open boats of either carvel or clinker build, usually between 16ft and 20ft in length; but as with most things nautical, there were always exceptions, all with a good carrying capacity
The boating lake and nearby bathing pool were always popular attractions for holidaymakers and locals alike.
In 1926 the boating was leased to Mr Fred Falkingham, who maintained a trim fleet of rowing-boats for visitors, as well a motor-launch.
Next to it, the yacht has a deep hull, indicating that it is a sea-going boat not primarily intended for use on the broads. The small boats on the right are old punts, the kind used by wild fowlers.
Taken a few years after photograph 34748, this splendid view shows both flight and boats. The furthest boat is a steam-powered tug, which will move the immaculate coal-laden barge.
A small fishing boat sails out into the calm waters of St Austell Bay, while larger boats remain packed into the inner harbour.
The two men in the rowing boat on the left-hand side prepare their craft for leaving the quay.
Paglesham once relied on three things: agriculture, boat-building and oysters. In the 1870s there were up to 100 boats and 200 people engaged in the oyster- fishery here.
Some 30 years after No 31158, above, many of the fishing boats are now powered by motors. The days of sail were really over, and the boats were either converted or replaced with new craft.
A pair of boats prepares to enter a lock. The left-hand one – the 'Stafford' – sports its Fellows, Morton & Clayton livery, a company that stopped trading when the canals were nationalised in 1948.
This picture is full of life, bursting with boats for excursions, fishing boats, rows of bathing machines, holidaymakers, entertainers - one of the famous pierrots can be seen bottom right -
Villagers wait for the herring boats to come in with their catches.
A boat trip from Llangollen Wharf to the Horseshoe Falls is as popular today as it has ever been. This is probably the longest-lived operational horse-drawn trip boat on the canal system.
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