Photos
55 photos found. Showing results 21 to 40.
Maps
14 maps found.
Books
Sorry, no books were found that related to your search.
Memories
99 memories found. Showing results 11 to 20.
Fish And Chip Shop Smart's Fish Saloon
Ref: Smarts Fish Saloon, Bishopstoke - it was as a boy in the early forties that we visited this shop to buy fish and chips and more often to buy a pennyworth of scraps which sometimes had a few chips in ...Read more
A memory of Bishopstoke in 1943 by
Salmon Fishing And Greenaway Street, Handbridge
I remember my Grandma telling me that our ancestors used to make garments for the salmon fishers of the Dee. My Grandfather was born at no 11 Handbridge in 187? and he and his sons and grandsons were ...Read more
A memory of Chester by
My Early Days
I was born in Abercych and lived there until I was 10 in 1947. I returned every year in the summer for over 20 years. My grandfather and his brother used to make coracles and did a lot of salmon fishing, and frequented the Nags Head ...Read more
A memory of Abercych in 1947
Ealing 1962 Onwards
I moved to Windsor Road in Ealing in 1962 when I was 11. I remember the Grove with fond memories. All the shops! The tailor's shop and the barbers. The sweet shop which always had a bowl of water for the dogs outside in the ...Read more
A memory of Ealing in 1962
Boyhood Memories
As a child I lived in a lovely house called Glanafon next to the old County Stores bakery in St Clears with my mother Anglea and step-dad Malcolm, and my 2 sisters, Rosemarie and Teresa. Unfortunately Teresa passed away over 20 ...Read more
A memory of St Clears in 1976 by
Memories Of My Childhood
I was born in 1956, in Wiltshire, but my first memories are of Pawlett, where we moved, when I was very small. It was a smaller, quiter village than it is even now. I went to the village school, on the village green, next ...Read more
A memory of Pawlett in 1961 by
Does Does Anyone Remember Me? I Lived On Alta Road
We used to live at number 20 (next to the junior school), there was myself, Geoff, Geraldine, Liz my siblings and my mum and dad, my dad was called Kenneth Douglas and was a WW2 warrant officer, my ...Read more
A memory of Deepcut in 1955 by
Carrog Memory, As A Ww2 Evacuee.
I first visited Carrog in 1939 as an evacuee, at the start of World War 2. I was accompanied by my two sisters, having travelled by train from Birkenhead on the Wirral. All the evacuees were escorted to the Church ...Read more
A memory of Carrog in 1940 by
Memories
As a boy i would wander through fields and in water, go fishing, make swings was happy with things: Would roam with the dog slip on Algae green log, smell rain on the grass polish Grans brass: Climb dykes, collect conkers leap ...Read more
A memory of Blairgowrie in 1974 by
Ashby Aint Like It Used To Be
I was born and bred in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, the eldest of three children. My memories of Ashby itself are snapshots from a time which now seems so old-fashioned that it as nostalgic as a Herriot novel. As a ...Read more
A memory of Ashby-de-la-Zouch in 1970
Captions
50 captions found. Showing results 25 to 48.
Close to the junction of Nine Mile Ride, New Wokingham Road and Honey Hill, we can see Chappell's Store, clearly the local retailer for Salmon's Teas but also providing the facility of
In the 19th century, vast numbers were in use on this stretch of the river in summer time for salmon fishing.
It included local salmon, trout, eggs, and mutton chops.
Though still in essence a fishing port, there are only a dozen or so boats today, engaging in salmon-netting and deep-sea fishing.
An audience watches from the old bridge as two coracle fishermen cast their nets for salmon or sea-trout.
It was the home of Nathaniel Salmon, one of the earliest Hertfordshire historians.
Sometimes salmon nets or baulks were fixed, but only by licence.
In those days the River Wyre had a good supply of salmon, which was usually on the menu at Robinson's.
The salmon pool underneath is alluded to by Byron in his poem 'Don Juan'.
Cenarth, on the Teifi, is set in a spectacular gorge with a number of waterfalls, and is famous as one of the last places in Britain where licensed coracles were used, both for salmon fishing and (as we
Cenarth, on the Teifi, is set in a spectacular gorge with a number of waterfalls, and is famous as one of the last places in Britain where licensed coracles were used, both for salmon fishing and (as we
At St Michael's church one privilege the vicar had was to collect salmon from the baulk on the River Cocker on the first tide after the full moon.
William Salmon, 1826, is remembered by a Grecian youth standing by a column, by Baily.
The kit was salmon pink initially.
A vanished Irish scene: crates of fine young pigs for sale on a sunny market day in Headford.
St Osyth (generally pronounced 'Toosey') recognised the benefits of tourism early on, as witnessed by the rack of picture-postcards for sale on the left.
Note the unmarked and unmade road, the baby high chairs on sale on the right, the coffe tavern beyond it and Olivers, the boot and shoe chain, further down the street on the right.
The Newlyn School numbered among its luminaries Henry Scott Tuke, Edwin Harris and William Wainwright, but the leading light was undoubtedly Stanhope Forbes, whose masterpiece 'Fish Sale on Newlyn Beach
No more saffron cakes are for sale on the right: the premises have now been taken over by a gift shop with a firm of accountants occupying the upper storey.
Further down the road a lot of people are gathered outside Woolworth's store - perhaps they had a sale on.
Note the unmarked and unmade road, the baby high chairs on sale on the right, the coffee tavern beyond it and Olivers, the boot and shoe chain, further down the street on the right.
Looking towards the Castle at the end of the street, note the agricultural implements on sale on the left, the Lion Hotel further down the street, and on the right-hand side the arched
It was rebuilt in 1870, and judging from what might well be postcards for sale on the entrance, was probably open to visitors.
From 1998 the old buildings were converted to private flats, and by 2001 a large number of private houses and flats had been built for sale on the rest of the site.
Places (1)
Photos (55)
Memories (99)
Books (0)
Maps (14)
