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Places
14 places found.
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- 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
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Maps
88 maps found.
Books
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Memories
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High Benthamlooking For Info On Relatives
Julie CoatesRoyal Palm Beach, Florida, USA I am trying to find some information about my great gradfather. He was the postman in High Bentham for many years. His last name was Coates. I don't know his first name.He had a son (William Dabbot Coates) and three daughters Annie, Ethel and Gertie.
A memory of High Bentham in 1900 by
High Spring Tide Lyme Regis Cobb 10th March 2008
I stood at the end of the Cobb on the day of the worst storm this winter and both saw and felt the sea spray as the waves hit the top of the sea wall. It was just as exciting as shown in this ...Read more
A memory of Lyme Regis in 2008 by
The Slate Islands Easdale
THE SLATE ISLANDS By Walter Deas Some 24k (15 miles) south and west of Oban lies an area with interesting old ...Read more
A memory of Easdale in 2005 by
Lawrence And Peggy Berg
My uncle Lawrence married Peggy Smurthwaite in about 1935 and took over the Hinchley Wood Hotel. It was already well-known to him and his brother, Ellis, because he was a partner in the building firm E & L Berg ...Read more
A memory of Hinchley Wood in 1930 by
Favourite Outing
My family and I often walked to the River Usk, going down Pentre Road and crossing the Brecon Road. We used to have picnics on the side nearest St. Mary's church in Llanwenarth, and look in the water for tiny fish and insects. ...Read more
A memory of Abergavenny in 1949 by
Aboretum
I was born just around the corner from this photo, in Ward Stree, it's now a car park. This junction is going through yet another re vamp. As a teenager I would visit the Aboretum with friends and race the boats across the pond and get ...Read more
A memory of Walsall in 1966 by
Childhood Holidays
We spent three years in perfect holidaying mood in Mrs Greig's caravan, the first time ever having a jelly mould, 1955!!!. Caravan site run by the Philps, had Yates round salted butter every day on our rolls, had fruit in our ...Read more
A memory of Lower Largo in 1955 by
Power Boats
The wooden clinker built boat, painted white in the lower right of the picture, was one of a pair of fast boats that the late Arthur Shippey and Tom Louis ran from coffee house end steps. They would call loudly ""half hour trips round ...Read more
A memory of Whitby in 1953 by
The Majestic Cinema
Between the tree and the cinema you can see the roof and top floor of one of the blocks of flats in Armfield Crescent so we did not live far from the cinema. When we were small we were given a shilling to go to the Saturday ...Read more
A memory of Mitcham in 1963 by
Fishing With Billy
Billy was a hero to we boys. In the daytime you could go crabbing with him; at night, out drifting. He drove an old open jeep and at times you would see five, six or even seven boys clinging to parts of this ex-US vehicle as it ...Read more
A memory of Downderry in 1955 by
Captions
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In the foreground is a crumbling wall of the medieval Outer Ward, and on the headland behind is the monstrous hotel built by the London & South Western Railway Co at the end of the 19th
This early photograph of the 15th-century Cromford Bridge shows a shadowy black-coated figure in the foreground fishing in the River Derwent.
The bay-windowed and porticoed Londesborough Arms on the left, complete with fine hanging sign showing a coat of arms, commemorates a prominent local landowning family.
The side against the High Street has the Duke's coat of arms in the pediment. Opposite is the 16th-century Wagon and Horses, in whose yard the livestock market used to be held.
The house is named after the Leche family; their coat of arms can still be seen on a fireplace in one of the first floor rooms.
Built of red brick, the Shire Hall was designed by local architects H Barnes and F E Coates, and was completed in 1898.
Founded by Henry VII's mother, Margaret Beaufort (as was St John's), the impressive gateway depicts her coat of arms, with a statue of her above.
The main differences are the telegraph and electricity supply poles and cables, the Western National bus timetable and the inn's sign, now a coat of arms.
The photograph depicts the school's magnificent vaulted roof, which consists of four arches and is beautifully decorated with figures and coats of arms.
The interior, re-ordered by a later John Hutton c1830, contains his memorial with its fulsome epitaph, the Hutton family pew, and a Victorian royal coat of arms dated 1850.
The interior, re-ordered by a later John Hutton c1830, contains his memorial with its fulsome epitaph, the Hutton family pew, and a Victorian royal coat of arms dated 1850.
The arch is ribbed and bears the coat of arms of Thomas Ferris of Hull, and was formerly known as Ferris's Bridge.
Look at the depressing differences in the first building on the left, which has gained a coat of cement render and lost its original windows.
In 1907, a room at the Hop Pole cost 4s a night, and dinner would set you back 3s 6d.
After the 1930s the next blow to the Woollen District came in the 1960s with the import of cheap Italian heavy-woollen skirtings and coatings.
The Roughton Memorial gates are decorated with a coat of arms on the left-hand pillar and a brief history of the family's connection with Kettering on the right-hand pillar.
Ten years before this photograph was taken, the school had amalgamated with the famous old Blue Coat School, which had itself been founded in 1670 to prepare boys for the Grammar School.
The old Wheal Coates mine, perched on the steep cliffs of St Agnes Head, has been frequently photographed over the years.
Notice that the gates are decorated with the town's coat of arms. This part of the park was detached when the modern Queen Victoria Road was built.
Seats were provided for clergy during High Mass, under the abbot's coat of arms.
The children from the Blue Coat School loved it. In 1965 the boys blacked their faces and the girls enjoyed dressing up. The parents got very thirsty!
There is a striking coat of arms high up on the wall of Mitre House.
The stockman`s sturdy coats on offer here would havecost an agricultural labourer more than a week`s wages to buy.
The Buttercross was built in 1744 at a cost of £1,000. The ground floor served as a butter market, hence the name.
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