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Places
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Photos
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Maps
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Books
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Memories
143 memories found. Showing results 11 to 20.
The Orchid Ballroom Purley
Ah yes, I remember it well. It was magical to go there and dance the evening away. So many great bands in the 50's. The floor was great, the music super. I learned to dance at a place called Quinns dance school near ...Read more
A memory of Croydon in 1950 by
Growing Up
North Somercotes played a large part in my growing up, I lived with my parents, sister and brother on the Lakeside Lido in St Annes Avenue, next to my friend Cherry Mayfield. I particularly remember when we both had chickenpox ...Read more
A memory of North Somercotes in 1968 by
Chivenor 1949
I was 19 years old, in the R.A.F. at Chivenor from October, 1948 to June, 1949 and was at the dance-hall in Barnstaple one of those nights in April, 1949. Across the room was the loveliest girl I had ever seen, brown wavy hair to ...Read more
A memory of Barnstaple in 1949 by
1946 1951 Age 2 Years To 7 Years
I was in St Claire's Orphanage with my two sisters after my father died in 1945. The Rev Mother Sister Phillomina had been a childhood friend of my mother's. This fact did not give us any added privileges. I ...Read more
A memory of Pantasaph in 1948 by
Crown Hill And Other Memories
In about 1952 appeared in the scouts gang show at Civic Hall organised by Ralph Reader. In 54 attended my final year prize giving before I left Croydon Sec Tech. Still have picture of this event which appeared in the ...Read more
A memory of Croydon in 1953 by
Lower Broughton
I remember so well every Saturday going with my Mum down Lower Broughton Rd to do the shopping. We used to live on Elton Street which was across from Lower Broughton Road at one end. My Grandparents lived on Edward Street. There ...Read more
A memory of Salford in 1961 by
Heeley
I am trying to find Photographs, Drawings, or Paintings of the houses and if possible the Old Farm Cottages opposite the Heeley Parish Church on Gleadless Rd. Heeley. They consisted of a block of 4 bay windowed terraced houses, numbered from ...Read more
A memory of Heeley in 1956 by
Unkown Past
Gwernol,1 Penybryn Terrace.I remember it well. used to play rugby/football round the back of Penybryn with Roger Thomas and Gerald Davies,well tried to anyway!! Rogers father Les ,i seem to remember went to play for Oldham rugby ...Read more
A memory of Penrhiwceiber in 1942
Waller St
i too used the waller st. youth club and went to the grand theatre also.i spent hours in the victory cafe,does anyone remember ann callaghan who worked there?we walked miles walking the coffee bar circuit in the 50`s. Kenny Allen now of Norwich
A memory of Luton by
Joynson Street, Off Lower Broughton Road
Born in May 1949 at no. 98 Joynson Street, two up two down,as they all were in them days. Tin bath in the back yard. Open fire in the front room where mam made us toast when we had enough bread. Dad was a ...Read more
A memory of Salford by
Captions
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The cliff walk and the Gynn tram stop. The Gynn was a busy junction in the heyday of the tramway system.
The story behind the bravery of these men is detailed elsewhere in this book.
A Blackpool-bound tram pulls into the Market Square.
The 1921 edition of the Dunlop book recommended three St Anne's hotels as being suitable for those on motoring holidays.
A later view of St Ann's Gate, with motor cars in evidence in the street scene - now, the gate can be used by pedestrians only.
St Anne's church, consecrated in 1833, was built on a slope above the village near the site of the old church of the same name which had been attached to St Germans Priory.
St Anne's has been described as 'a town built on golf', and this is epitomised in this splendid building.
The timber-framed Guild House stands next to Knowle's magnificent church, and was completed in 1412.
St Luke`s Church was consecrated in October 1862 with seating for 1,000 and it dominates Heywood`s centre.
The asymmetrical frontage of the palace was designed by Sir Jeffry Wyattville, who later went on to work on the re-construction of Windsor Castle (for which he was knighted), and the Pantheon and St Anne's
St Ann's Square, named after its lovely early 18th-century church, once overlooked green fields, but within a century had been absorbed within the city's commercial heart.
The parish church interior enshrines much of Warrington's history through its memorials.
St Anne's has been described as 'a town built on golf', and this is epitomised in this splendid building.
At Fairhaven, visitors could take their exercise pulling on the oars of a rowing boat or playing 18 holes on the local golf course.
Midhurst is a town of contrasts, with an early medieval core around the church, west of the Norman castle earthworks on St Anne's Hill, and the wide North Street, a later medieval planned market place.
St Peter's was dedicated in 1318 by Bishop Stapledon; by 1860 it had fallen into a ruinous state, with bulging walls and sinking roofs. It was restored by Sir George Gilbert Scott in 1866-82.
The timber-framed Guild House stands next to Knowle's magnificent church, and was completed in 1412.
This photograph shows part of the Low Green, with its war memorial and the Bay Horse Inn in the background, and the tower of the parish church of St Anne beyond.
St Ann's chapel was known as the 'Chapel in the Sands' and measured a mere 14 feet 6 inches by 12 feet.
Looming on the skyline is the back of the Streonshalh Hotel; one can appreciate the extensive view that the hotel guests would have had.
In the 1890s there were several tramway schemes to link Southport to Lytham St Anne's, though the real fly in the ointment was bridging the River Ribble.
Against a backdrop provided by the pier pavilion and landing stage, St Anne's boatmen are doing a brisk trade taking holiday-makers out for a trip around the bay.
Built in 1331, St Anne's Gate links the Close with St John's Street and Exeter Street. The chapel above the gate, built into the Close wall, was used for concerts.
The Imperial Hydro had a prime position. The size of these hotels shows how busy and popular the resort of St Anne's was in those days.
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