Places

2 places found.

Those places high-lighted have photos. All locations may have maps, books and memories.

Photos

Sorry, no photos were found that related to your search.

Maps

9 maps found.

Books

Sorry, no books were found that related to your search.

Memories

372 memories found. Showing results 11 to 20.

Land Mine

Hello, my dad told me about that landmine and when he had to carry his little brother, Owen, downstairs when a bomb went off nearby. The family were the Ansons. Mother, Violet, dad, Lawrence Augustus and by the ...Read more

A memory of North End in 1930 by Kathryn Anson

Holidays In The 40's & 50's

My Mum had a brother living at 'South View', Stoke Fleming and we spent many holidays with his family. There was an outside row of toilets with long wooden seats and you had to get a pail of water from the well next ...Read more

A memory of Stoke Fleming by Sheila Ayling

Holidays

I came to Soulby for a holiday when I was 8 with my mother and sister. We stayed in a caravan the other side of this shallow river - by the local shop. The caravan was owned by a local farmer who was either a family friend or distant ...Read more

A memory of Soulby in 1961 by Jean Berry

Formidable Mrs Hill And Mr Threpleton

I attended Lower Wortley P.S and was terrified of the above 2 teachers. Threpleton hit the upper thigh with a navy blue plymsol and always had an obvious favourite girl student . VERY ...Read more

A memory of Lower Town in 1954

Bachpann

I remember as a child flattening out card boards boxes, as we lived on Great Arthur Street, Smethwick, the gardens led onto the canal banks and my brother and my cousins used to slide down to the bottom - what a thrill - and trying to ...Read more

A memory of Smethwick in 1968

Youth Club And Cadets

I have had some wonderful memories brought back to me durting the last few days. I attended St George's Youth Club for a number of years and had great fun at Christmas when we produced a pantomime in the Church Hall. I ...Read more

A memory of Boscombe in 1966 by Graham Francis

X Miner

I was born in Fatfield and moved to Chester-le-Street in 1961 after I was married. My early memories of Chester-le Street was of the choice of the local Picture houses namely the Queens, the Empire, the Palace and the Savoy. We ...Read more

A memory of Chester-Le-Street in 1960 by Andy Carroll

Working Memories.

I was the main weekday driver of the launch photographed during the student holiday periods of 1955-1958.  When I drove it, the name was 'Silver Stream'.  It was the largest of a set of three electric launches which carried paying ...Read more

A memory of Bedford in 1955 by Claire Allen

Working In Warsash In The 1960s

My earliest memories of Warsash was when I was 15 years old and being driven from Southampton, by my father, to look at a factory he had recently bought on Warsash Road. The 'factory' turned out to be an old ...Read more

A memory of Warsash in 1960 by Richard Barron

Woolwich, Powis Street

I remember Woolwich town centre in the 1960's when I was a kid. In this picture I believe you can just see Garrets department store on the left which was a big rival to Cuffs department store a bit further back (out of ...Read more

A memory of Woolwich in 1962 by Mark Stacey

Captions

118 captions found. Showing results 25 to 48.

Caption For Salisbury, The Poultry Cross And Silver Street 1928

This view of the Poultry Cross and Silver Street clearly shows a sign over Olivers' shoe shop.The County Hotel is in the background.

Caption For Salisbury, The Poultry Cross And Silver Street 1928

This view of the Poultry Cross and Silver Street clearly shows a sign over Olivers' shoe shop.The County Hotel is in the background.

Caption For Port Erin, Sunset Off Bradda Head 1903

The mine was at the foot of the cliff, and in 1656 Captain Edward Christian found Bradda contained 'lead ore with much silver'. In 1699 the mine's output was 164 tonnes.

Caption For Hinckley, Castle Street 1964

The presence of ladies in hats, and of skirts below the knee, point unmistakably to a date in the mid-1960s, reinforced by the presence of a Silver Cross pram.

Caption For Warwick, The Lord Leycester Hospital 1892

They were required to wear a blue gown and the silver badge of the Bear and Ragged Staff of the Warwick earldom.

Caption For Haywards Heath, The Park C1960

Some parts of Victoria Park were left as woodland, and bracken, silver birch and oak thrive. It would be difficult to guess from the photograph that this was in the centre of a town.

Caption For Nether Stowey, Post Office And Clock Tower 1929

The village lock-up and a medieval market cross and bell tower once stood here at the junction.

Caption For Kingston St Mary, The Village C1960

The village lock-up and a medieval market cross and bell tower once stood here at the junction.

Caption For Cromer, The Lifeboat 1922

Henry Blogg, coxswain of the 'Louisa Heartwell', pictured here, was the most decorated lifeboatman in Britain, earning three gold and four silver medals, the George Cross and the British Empire medal for

Caption For Cambridge, Trumpington Street C1955

We have moved away from the river, and are looking down one of the main city streets; the scene nowadays has changed little.

Caption For Kettering, Silver Street C1950

It would have been necessary to stand in the road to capture this view of Silver Street looking down towards the junction with Gold Street, Newland Street and Montagu Street.

Caption For London, The Princess Beatrice Hospital C1950

This building in Earl's Court's Old Brompton Road was partly designed by Sir Aston Webb, and opened in 1930.

Caption For Windermere, 1886

The wooden gates and fences in the photograph are typical of this southern, less-mountainous part of the Lake District, and the slightly-blurred leaves of the silver birch trees are caused by wind movement

Caption For Cromer, The Lifeboat 1922

Henry Blogg, coxswain of the 'Louisa Heartwell', pictured here, was the most decorated lifeboatman in Britain, earning three gold and four silver medals, the George Cross and the British Empire medal

Caption For Wellingborough, Silver Street C1950

This photograph was taken at the junction of Silver Street and Oxford Street. The first building on the right is now a cafe, but its overall appearance is much the same.

Caption For Tiverton, Old Cottages, Little Silver 1920

These houses in the Little Silver area would be worth a fortune today. Nestling at the foor of St Andrew Street, they were demolished after the last war when slum clearance was the watchword.

Caption For Salisbury, Silver Street C1955

Another view of Silver Street from the corner of the High Street.

Caption For Lincoln, School Of Art 1890

Whites Mineral Waters was rebuilt in 1994 as a county library, but the battlemented and towered former Drill Hall of 1890 survives.

Caption For Lincoln, Broadgate C1950

Whites Mineral Waters was rebuilt in 1994 as a county library, but the battlemented and towered former Drill Hall of 1890 survives.

Caption For Wallingford, Market Place And Church 1893

The building rests on pillars; it contains portraits by Lawrence and Gainsborough, as well as a silver mace and the 15th-century town seal.

Caption For Bury, Fleet Street 1895

The town's other coaching inns were the Grey Mare Inn in the Market Place for services to Leeds, York, Liverpool, Manchester and Clitheroe; the Eagle & Child in Silver Street for Manchester and Skipton

Caption For Warwick, The Lord Leycester Hospital 1892

They were required to wear a blue gown and the silver badge of the Bear and Ragged Staff of the Warwick earldom.

Caption For Kettering, Gold Street 1922

This photograph shows the junction of Gold Street and Silver Street.

Caption For Kingsland, The Village C1955

These are the local breed, Hereford cattle, distinguishable by their white faces and the ridge of white extending along their backs.