Places
36 places found.
Those places high-lighted have photos. All locations may have maps, books and memories.
- Salisbury, Wiltshire
- Trowbridge, Wiltshire
- Marlborough, Wiltshire
- Swindon, Wiltshire
- Bradford-On-Avon, Wiltshire
- Chippenham, Wiltshire
- Calne, Wiltshire
- Malmesbury, Wiltshire
- Wilton, Wiltshire
- Devizes, Wiltshire
- Mere, Wiltshire
- Westbury, Wiltshire
- Royal Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire
- Warminster, Wiltshire
- Highworth, Wiltshire
- Melksham, Wiltshire
- Cricklade, Wiltshire
- Corsham, Wiltshire
- Pewsey, Wiltshire
- Castle Combe, Wiltshire
- Ramsbury, Wiltshire
- Stonehenge, Wiltshire
- Avebury, Wiltshire
- Amesbury, Wiltshire
- Tilshead, Wiltshire
- Longleat, Wiltshire
- Lacock, Wiltshire
- Box, Wiltshire
- Fovant, Wiltshire
- Ludgershall, Wiltshire
- Old Sarum, Wiltshire
- Burbage, Wiltshire
- Savernake Forest, Wiltshire
- Netheravon, Wiltshire
- Freshford, Wiltshire
- Zeals, Wiltshire
Photos
4,843 photos found. Showing results 21 to 40.
Maps
3,664 maps found.
Books
16 books found. Showing results 25 to 16.
Memories
113 memories found. Showing results 11 to 20.
Box Fieds Hawthorn
My parents met at a place called Thornypits and married during the war years.They were George and Pam Edwards, he was a local barber and came from Killarney, Southern Ireland, she came from Ditcheat, near Shepton ...Read more
A memory of Hawthorn in 1942 by
Brooksby Hall Agricultural College, Leicestershire,England
Like Gwilym Evans I was enlisted into HM Forces in 1944, along with my twin brother. We were born in May 1926. Served with RASC as drivers first in Wiltshire, England, driving 3 ton ...Read more
A memory of Nantgwynant in 1949 by
Brother Of Christine Brown Brooks See Previous Memory
I was born in Mayday Hospital in 1938 and was brought up in Clarendon Road, West Croydon. I went to the Croydon Parish Church, Waddon Secondary Modern and Stanley Technical Schools. I would ...Read more
A memory of Croydon by
Burrows Family Circa 1952 To 1960
My grandparents lived in Ditcheat; Sarah and Hubert Burrows. They had three daughters, Elisabeth (Bessie), Gertrude (Gertie), Pamela and also a son Mettford (Mett) Burrows. My mother Pamela, like her siblings, ...Read more
A memory of Ditcheat in 1952 by
Bussing To The Grammar
I fondly recall my days as a late 1950's pupil at the Grammar School on its hill. A bus service was used to ferry pupils like me from the more distant parts of the county. We had a mixed attendance and the headmaster ...Read more
A memory of Chippenham in 1959 by
Charlton Park Camp
I was one of a family of Seven children(two girls and five boys) born to Louise and George Tawn. We first lived at Pinkney park where my father was employed as a farm bailif. Due to his affair with the farmers wife we were ...Read more
A memory of Malmesbury by
Childhood
I did get the privilege to revisit Mitcham again this year. The fair green has changed little, there is now a main road running striaght to Tooting Broadway opposite the fair green, where the Bucks Head pub was there is a paved off area ...Read more
A memory of Mitcham in 1964 by
Childhood Memories
These memories have been contributed by Myra Greer. In 1947, when I was 7, my mother and I moved from Salisbury in Wiltshire where my father was stationed at RAF Boscombe Down, to near Llanfarian, where my grandparents had ...Read more
A memory of Llanfarian in 1947
Childhood Memories
My mum Ruby Osbourne born in 1913 and her brothers and sisters grew up in Lowestoft. She married my dad a sailor in the Royal Navy and was then Ruby Pearce. She later moved to Wiltshire with my two brothers due to the Second ...Read more
A memory of Lowestoft by
Court Hall Remembered
From 1946 until 1949 I was a boarder at Court Hall. At the time I was there Lady Poultimor lived in a cottage in the grounds and kept parrots. There were stables at the rear of the house and a full pack of hounds was ...Read more
A memory of North Molton in 1946 by
Captions
77 captions found. Showing results 25 to 48.
Situated to the west of Romsey, Sherfield English lies close to the county boundary with Wiltshire.
This small Wiltshire market town has a long, roughly north-south High Street, seen here looking north from the junction with Bath Road.
This Wiltshire village grew up on three roughly parallel terraces on the steep and well-wooded Avon valley side, with the parish church at the south end.
This earlier view of the Strand shows the Wiltshire & Dorset Bank on the left and the Commercial and Temperance Hotel in the far distance.
This miniature model of Stonehenge in far-off Wiltshire was erected by William Danby of Swinton Hall, Ilton, near Masham in around 1820 as a folly to interest and impress visitors to his estate.
Home brewed Wiltshire Ales can be obtained at the New Inn, and Ushers Ales are still brewed today in the town.
It is amateurish in design, and the least impressive of all the Wiltshire horses.
Near the Wiltshire border, St Peter's contains a tablet which recalls a chorister's dedicated service in this church.
It is amateurish in design, and the least impressive of all the Wiltshire horses.
At No 23 is Rosa Lewis Cole, confectioner, and next door at No 24 is Wiltshire & Sons, butchers; their grocer's shop is opposite (left) at No 22.
Westbury Avenue, to the right, was named because of its view to Westbury White Horse in Wiltshire.
The school friends Brian Gregg, Rod Goodway, Roger Hartley, Bob Duke and Andy Rickell were discovered by pop impresario Micky Most, who lived in Wiltshire at the time.
Wharves and warehouses were built alongside the river to accommodate the trade in cheeses from all parts of Gloucestershire and North Wiltshire.
This church was built as part of the 'suburban' church movement for dealing with the expanding industrial towns of Wiltshire.
The business was founded by Joseph's father, who had come to Bristol from Wiltshire.
Hever is intimately associated with Anne Boleyn, who spent her childhood here in the company of her father Sir Thomas Bullen, the Earl of Wiltshire, whose tomb is at the little church of St Peter.
On the wall of the nave is 'one of the loveliest fragments of sculpture in Wiltshire, the portrait of a 13th-century lady, with curls in her hair, and hands clasped'.
This Wiltshire village is known locally as the village of four crosses, all medieval.
The petrol station opposite, once owned by Frank C Harcombe, according to Kelly's Directory of Wiltshire 1939, is now a parking area.
Wiltshire & Sons (left of photograph) opened their first supermarket in the 1960s, which later became Gateway in 1973.
South Tidworth is situated in the Test Valley, but in the 1974 boundary changes it ended up in Wiltshire.
This building opened as the Wiltshire & Dorset Bank in 1885 and is now used as offices and as a hairdresser's salon.
Trowbridge is the county town of Wiltshire, chosen in 1888 for reasons of communication.
The last tour heads west from the Wiltshire border to Devonshire; we are never far from Dorset to the south.
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