Places
36 places found.
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- Poole, Dorset
- Canford Magna, Dorset
- Broadstone, Dorset
- Sandbanks, Dorset
- South Pool, Devon
- Pool, Cornwall
- Longfleet, Dorset
- Dozmary Pool, Cornwall
- Canford Cliffs, Dorset
- Rossmore, Dorset
- Merley, Dorset
- Waterloo, Dorset
- Branksome, Dorset
- Branksome Park, Dorset
- Canford School, Dorset
- Knighton, Dorset (near Wimborne Minster)
- Sterte, Dorset
- Hamworthy, Dorset
- Oakdale, Dorset
- Alderney, Dorset
- Bearwood, Dorset
- Lake, Dorset
- Stanley Green, Dorset
- Hillbourne, Dorset
- Newtown, Dorset (near Poole)
- Turlin Moor, Dorset
- Wallisdown, Dorset
- Ashington, Dorset
- Canford Heath, Dorset (near Poole)
- Oakley, Dorset
- Turbary Common, Dorset
- Bourne Valley, Dorset
- Creekmoor, Dorset
- Lilliput, Dorset
- Lower Hamworthy, Dorset
- Talbot Heath, Dorset
Photos
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Maps
304 maps found.
Books
3 books found. Showing results 361 to 3.
Memories
1,640 memories found. Showing results 151 to 160.
Great Haseley
I was five when I moved to Great Haseley from Newington, near Stadhampton, with my mother, father and brother. The year was 1957 and Horse Close Cottages was a new housing estate - we were thrilled to have a bathroom and an ...Read more
A memory of Great Haseley by
St Albans Summer Holidays In The 1950s
A child from Thanet taking annual last week of August holidays with an adored great aunt at Chiswell Green, travelling by train to Victoria Station, London, taking the Greenline to ...Read more
A memory of Frogmore in 1953 by
The Brook
Wonderful memories! It was awonderful place to have grown up. I learned to swim in the brook, aged about 11 years. I wonder who wrote the following which I was taught in school. Very appropriate! "Little stream flowing ...Read more
A memory of Gayton by
Living On Pool Bank New Road
We moved to Pool in 1943 as my father had a job as an aircraft inspector at the factory at what is now Leeds & Bradford Airport. We lived in a house one corner up from the notorious Furze Hill Corner which was a ...Read more
A memory of Pool in 1945 by
Cooksons Leadworks Part 2
1965. During my time working here I carried out a number of different jobs, one was to make Zinc ingots, my shift would start with my furnace fired up and there next to it would be my "charge" this would be a pile of old ...Read more
A memory of Newburn in 1965 by
Leven In The 1950s
I was five and lived on Links Road where my father had a grocer's shop. I was able to run down the burn path to the beach to swim in the sea or play in paddling pool. We would go to the summer shows in the Beach pavillion ...Read more
A memory of Leven in 1957 by
Warners
As a young child I can remember several holidays taken at the Warners holiday camp at Seaton. The serious business of 'motoring down to Devon' was never taken lightly, lunch was prepared the night before to be eaten at Stonehenge, where ...Read more
A memory of Seaton in 1965 by
The Orchid Ballroom Purley
Ah yes, I remember it well. It was magical to go there and dance the evening away. So many great bands in the 50's. The floor was great, the music super. I learned to dance at a place called Quinns dance school near ...Read more
A memory of Croydon in 1950 by
The Stone Family Of Margate
What wonderful memories I have of my childhood holidays in Margate. Reading others memories bring them all racing back. The children born just after the war were so lucky. Although we really had nothing as regards money ...Read more
A memory of Margate in 1880 by
A Wartime Child
I was born in 1935 at 25 Cambridge Road, maiden name Lee. There were six of us, parents, 2 older sisters, Beryl and Gwen, and grandmother. I remember many of the shops from the late 30's to the early 50's when we moved to ...Read more
A memory of North Harrow in 1930 by
Captions
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On the beach there was a children's boating pool, and the Pier had a bar and an amusement palace on it.
Quarrymen - who created this scenic spot - cut out a swimming pool so that the boys could still take their daily dip when the sea was too choppy.
The beaches, caves and rock pools around Castle Hill and especially St Catherine's Island have been a favourite haunt of the serious and amateur naturalist for gen- erations.
The Super Swimming Stadium had opened in 1936; as a promotion for the pool, a Miss Great Britain competition was started in Morecambe in 1945.
The lake was formed from the old Otter Pool, which was reputedly the source of eels for the monks who lived in the area of the township.
This is the Roman canal from the Brayford Pool in Lincoln to the river Trent at Torksey, and it is the oldest canal in England.
This is the Roman canal from the Brayford Pool in Lincoln to the river Trent at Torksey, and it is the oldest canal in England.
Sandbanks The Haven Hotel 46102 Standing on the slim, sandy peninsula jutting out from Poole Head, and facing the castle on Brownsea Island, this isolated hotel must have lived up to its
was originally on the main Leicester/Melton Mowbray road until 1810, when Edward Parsons, who also put in the turnpike at Kibworth, built what amounts to a two-mile bypass from Rotherby to Chalk Pool
For those who made the short sail out from Belfast, the charms of this piece of coast were obvious: a bay lined with low, craggy rocks and sands providing picturesque bathing pools.
Canford House is Poole's manor house, which dates from 1450.
Canford House is Poole's manor house, which dates from 1450.
In Victoria Park there are now facilities for BMX bikers, roller-bladers and skateboarders, complementing the existing children's paddling pool and tennis courts as well as the occasional fixture
The swan looks lonely; usually there are dozens on the river and the Brayford Pool, which is under the bridge.
The swan looks lonely; usually there are dozens on the river and the Brayford Pool, which is under the bridge.
With the boats and quays in the background, this open-air swimming pool has a definite industrial maritime feel to it, but that did not prevent it from being very popular.
Towns such as Weymouth and Poole have grown up around shipping and fishing, their seamen going out to brave the rough tides and wild seas of the English Channel.
After the baths closed in 1981, officially for refurbishment, the council decided that the demand for a new pool could not justify the cost of extensive repair or replacement, and a search began
Today there are 34 listed buildings in the Basildon area, including the raised pool with Mother and Child Statue and Brooke House in the Town Square; both of these are listed Grade II.
After a period of unprecedentedly wet weather in November 2000 some parts of the town were submerged, notably the Lammascote area near the King's Pool, and much of Victoria Park.
Whenever a problem existed they would often pool their resources, with whole families working together to provide such things as footpaths or stepping-stones on the unmade roads.
To the east of the town are similar marshes at the King's Pool, off North Walls.
To the east of the town are similar marshes at the King's Pool, off North Walls.
remaining out-of-work men were employed on special projects; these included the making of a new road following the coast to link Ulverston and Barrow, and the construction of a public swimming pool
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