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Memories

29 memories found. Showing results 11 to 20.

Our Home

We currently live in this house, or to be correct the two cottages on the left which have been knocked through and made one, and luckily now with Central heating is quite warm and cosy. Like Mike and Rachael next door whom have also posted ...Read more

A memory of Farningham by Russell Berryman

Old Bridge On Canal Through Wisborough Green

ERROR! This is NOT "Wye etc" It is the Wey & Arun Canal.... as in it joined the river Wey in Surrey with the River Arun in west Sussex.

A memory of Wisborough Green

A Lovely Devon Village

We moved to No. 6 Tipton Vale in 1950. Maureen a baby, myself (Valerie) and parents Eric and Joan White fom Fenny Bridges. The house was a new council house, pink and blue. Dad dug out a bank at the rear and we found ...Read more

A memory of Tipton St John in 1950 by Valerie Jordan

My Childhood In Braunton

I've put this date for want of something better. I was born in Ilfracombe in 1955 and lived with my parents, Charles and Marjorie Thomas, until I left to come and live in Spain in 1973. Our home was a house called Cherry ...Read more

A memory of Braunton in 1965 by Anne Louise Thomas

Memory Lane

My family moved to Waltham Cross in 1955 when I was 4 years old and I have many fond memories of the place . As a child I used to go to a little sweet shop that was between Aspland's on the corner of Park Lane and The Castle ...Read more

A memory of Waltham Cross in 1955 by Sandra Norris

Happy Childhood 1950 Onwards

I lived in Hillbrow Cottages on the Eastbourne Road from 1950 to 1970s. My father, George Mison, worked in the sand quarry in Bletchingley and mum, Elsie, was a housewife. There are only 12 cottages at Hillbrow and ...Read more

A memory of Godstone in 1950 by Ruth Bradbury Nee Mison

Old Cotton Mills Where I Live

I have lived on cedar street in ashton under lyne from being born to getting married and moving on the street opposite cedar street , Alderley street , my mum being still on Cedar street now , I remember where my ...Read more

A memory of Ashton-Under-Lyne by ultimatechez

The Dell

My childhood memories of Edmundbyers have been with me all my life really. My mum & dad, aunty, uncle and cousin used to holiday in a tiny caravan on farmer Edon Sanderson's field. This was before the Derwent Reservoir was built. ...Read more

A memory of Edmundbyers in 1952 by Carol Bennett

Teenage Years

Hot dog stall, Lewisham, Wooly's Saturday afternoon, Saturday morning pictures, Cheismans, Elvis, rock and roll, Chislehurst caves, jazz Saturday nights, chasing girls to get candle back, being chased by Deptford boys in Bedford ...Read more

A memory of Lewisham in 1958 by Martin Hawkins

The Green – 1952 53 Seven Years Old

I come from an RAF family that travelled across the globe until, in 1964 we ended up in Australia. Though english by birth, I am now an Australian, but I have fond memories of some parts of England where I grew ...Read more

A memory of The Green in 1952 by Michael Coley

Captions

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Caption For Littlehampton, High Street 1892

A port at the mouth of the Arun, and once a Tudor royal shipyard, the old town runs east from the river bank.

Caption For Houghton, The George And Dragon C1960

Houghton is a hamlet with a long stone bridge across the tidal River Arun.

Caption For Broadbridge Heath, Portsmouth And Guildford Roads 1924

Broadbridge Mill is an ancient mill site by the River Arun.

Caption For Chichester, The View From The Canal 1898

This tiny stretch, less than a mile long, is all that is left of the grandiose Portsmouth & Arundel Canal, which linked Ford on the River Arun with Chichester and Portsmouth Harbour.

Caption For Chichester, The View From The Canal 1898

This tiny stretch, less than a mile long, is all that is left of the grandiose Portsmouth and Arundel Canal, which linked Ford on the River Arun with Chichester and Portsmouth Harbour.

Caption For Bury, Church From The River 1898

We are on the navigable and tidal River Arun.

Caption For Pulborough, St Mary's Church 1939

A Roman settlement on Stane Street and the navigable River Arun.

Caption For Fittleworth, The Village 1908

Across the Arun we head north to Fittleworth, a village running north from the River Rother up to the Petworth to Pulborough road, now the A283.

Caption For Matlock Bath, Derwent Terrace C1864

Derwent Terrace, now the A6, runs alongside the river, faced by shops and with other houses spreading up the steep hillside.

Caption For Lynmouth, East And West Lyn 1911

Lynmouth's twin rivers run fast and furious, and no more so than in 1952, when it suffered a terrible tragedy.

Caption For Burnley, Town Hall 1895

Standing beside a bridge across the River Brun, from which the town takes its name, is Burnley Town Hall.

Caption For Stourport On Severn, The Weir C1965

An excursion craft passes the weir close to Lincomb Lock, now the most northern on the river.

Caption For Norwich, Riverside Road And River Wensum 1901

The river runs along a neat channel here, but perhaps the greatest interest is alongside on the road.

Caption For Bakewell, Dorothy Vernon's Bridge, Haddon Hall C1955

South of Bakewell, the river runs through elegant parkland that forms the grounds of Haddon Hall.

Caption For Ewyas Harold, The Village C1960

It is so called because the river running through the valley was known originally as the Dwr, an old British word simply meaning 'water'.

Caption For Burnley, Manchester Road 1895

Burnley means 'the place by the river Brun'; the town snuggles in a valley between the rivers Calder and Brun.

Caption For Middle Wallop, The Cross Roads C1955

In the middle of Over and Nether Wallop, the river runs beside the road.

Caption For Carlisle, The Lake District Mountains 2005

Only the narrow Eden Valley offers an opening, running south-east to Stainmoor and lowland England.