Maps

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Memories

21 memories found. Showing results 11 to 20.

How Well I Remember The Buses On The Cornhill

I was born in 1956 and used to go to the town with my mum on the buses to town. She called them trolley buses but I can remember them stopping on the Cornhill ready to take us home again before they ...Read more

A memory of Ipswich in 1960 by Christine Burrows

The Mill Between Chartham And Shalmsford Street

This mill on the river Stour was known locally not as the "Old Mill" but as the "Corn Mill".

A memory of Chartham by Jonathan Cremer

Memories Of Stockland, Bristol

My mother's father and mother Mr & Mrs Tom Dibble lived in the Cooperage, Stockland. Thomas's parents Thomas snr and Jane (nee) Palmer had children Sam, George from the Old Oak pub on the Cornhill, Mary + Mrs ...Read more

A memory of Woolavington in 1930 by Audrey Spearing

Boat On Canal At Mill Bridge

The boat was an old mine sweeper that the owner or manager of the corn mill had navigated from Liverpool on the canal. The owners name was a Mr. Bramall. My pals and I used to play on the boat and row its dingy. The ...Read more

A memory of Skipton by Malcolm Mounteer

My House

I purchased Outlands in 1987 for £70,000, it was and still is my dream home with so much potential, we are still on generator and spring water, the river Camel with salmon and trout fishing is on one boundary and a stream on another ...Read more

A memory of Bodmin in 1987 by David Newton

Properties & People

I, Ray Murphy, came across your site, re Shaw Mills, Yorkshire, U.K., as I was looking into events of my past life, for the benefit of my son’s Australian family, at the time of my 84th birthday, 19/9/35. I am the Patriarch of ...Read more

A memory of Shaw Mills by raymurphy1935

Pateley Bridge, 1955

This view shows the old North Eastern Railway Station at Pateley Bridge, this line from Harrogate, opened in May 1862 and closed to passengers in March 1951, just three years before we went to live in Pateley Bridge, ...Read more

A memory of Pateley Bridge by Robert Goulding

Great Memories.1950s.

Hi. I was born in Urmston, the usual place, the cottage hospital, in 1944. I lived in Davyhulme until about 1963. I lived in Pangbourne Avenue which is off Abingdon Road. In the Davyhulme, Lostock Road pic it shows my ...Read more

A memory of Davyhulme by Keith Roberts

Eudon Mill

At the end of 1995 my family moved to Eudon Mill at Eudon George near Bridgnorth. The old timber framed house dating from the sixteenth century had been the original water powered corn mill and in the large grounds there was the ...Read more

A memory of Eudon George

Old Reminders

My parents moved to Coffee Hall from London in 1977, there was me, my sister Emma and my mum and dad. Recently after 33 years on the estate they moved. I left it a while then went back to see what the old house looked like and it ...Read more

A memory of Coffee Hall in 1977 by Stuart Holden

Captions

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Caption For Bolton By Bowland, Yew Tree Cottages C1955

Hatters, shoemakers and corn millers, along with stonemasons, joiners and blacksmiths, kept the village well supplied in the 19th century.

Caption For Barnard Castle, Main Mill 1914

Barnard Castle had a fulling mill by 1316, which suggests that there was a local cloth industry, and there were three corn mills operating in the 1390s.

Caption For Ulverston, Newlands 1895

Newlands, at the foot of the valley, formerly had a corn mill and an iron furnace.

Caption For Rochdale, Carr Wood Waterfall 1895

Just downstream of Carr Wood waterfall is this smaller weir, whose race carried water via a flagstone channel under fields to the left to the Ashworth Estate corn mill.

Caption For Godstone, Ivy Mill 1898

Ivy Mill, on the left, with the pond embankment behind, was mentioned in Domesday and was always an important corn-milling site.

Caption For Accrington, Town Hall C1965

The shops on the right are on the site of the Piccadilly shops built by Edmund Hepple using the compensation for loss of use of his corn mill during the building of the railway viaduct

Caption For Camelford, From Outground Mill 1894

The corn miller at the time was John Harris.

Caption For Backbarrow, The Village C1965

Originally, it was a corn mill, and then a paper mill, before becoming a cotton mill.

Caption For Emsworth, The Harbour And South Street C1955

During the 18th and 19th centuries Emsworth was an important port along this stretch of coast, and it became successful mainly through corn milling, boat building, fishing and a flourishing oyster industry

Caption For Loose, The Valley 1898

It drove several paper and corn mills in Victorian times.

Caption For Haworth, General View C1955

Over to the right are the railway station and the old corn mill.

Caption For Lower Slaughter, The Mill And Pond C1950

As though to admire its own reflection, the tall brick chimney of the former corn mill (with its water wheel still in situ) has attracted photographers since the pioneering days of Francis

Caption For Pembroke, Castle 1890

To the left is the Pembroke Corn Mill, a tidal mill, destroyed by fire in the 1950s.

Caption For West Witton, The Duck Pond 1911

The stream ran down from Pen Hill through this pond to provide motive power for the corn mill over the road and below the Heifer Inn.

Caption For Middleton, The Gardens C1960

Opened in 1934 on the site of the former Middleton Hall corn mill, these gardens became another focal point for the town and a much-loved asset.

Caption For Polperro, The Old Mill 1908

Corn milling by water power is an ancient industry.

Caption For Castle Donington, King's Mill C1955

Originally for corn milling, the mills in their later life were given over to a variety of industrial uses.

Caption For Liskeard, Lamellion 1907

The corn mill is on the extreme left, while out of shot is a large wool combing mill which brought prosperity for a while.

Caption For Bourton On The Water, The Village C1955

The oldest dates from 1754 and stands in front of the old Corn Mill, which opened in 1978 as the Cotswold Motor Museum.

Caption For Dronfield, Sheffield Road C1965

ironfounders, spade, shovel and spindle manufacturers; George Ward & Co, who were spindle manufacturers for the worsted, cotton, flax and silk industries; scythe and sickle makers; a chemical works and a corn mill

Caption For Bromborough, Raby Mere C1955

By damming the River Dibbins, this man-made mill pool was created to provide water for the corn mill that once stood nearby.

Caption For Lytham, The Windmill And Lifeboat House 1907

Sited to take full advantage of the winds blowing off the Irish Sea, it was built as a corn mill in about 1805.

Caption For Lower Slaughter, The Mill And Pond C1950

A water mill has stood here since Norman times, but this red brick corn mill dates from the early 1800s.

Caption For Uplyme, The Old Mill C1900

There has been a corn mill on this site from Anglo-Saxon times, as part of a manor that belonged to Glastonbury Abbey.