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Places
14 places found.
Those places high-lighted have photos. All locations may have maps, books and memories.
- Coates, Lancashire
- Coate, Wiltshire (near Swindon)
- Coates, Lincolnshire
- Coat, Somerset
- Coates, Gloucestershire
- Coates, Nottinghamshire
- Coates, Cambridgeshire
- Coates, Sussex
- Coates, Lothian (near Penicuik)
- Coate, Wiltshire (near Devizes)
- Great Coates, Humberside
- Salt Coates, Cumbria
- Little Coates, Humberside
- North Coates Airfield, Lincolnshire
Photos
49 photos found. Showing results 421 to 49.
Maps
88 maps found.
Books
1 books found. Showing results 505 to 1.
Memories
1,490 memories found. Showing results 211 to 220.
Vindiin Winter
I remember it was freezing most of the time - we had short blue jackets. I can remember taking the slops to the waste - my hands froze to the rope handles. We had no sheets, just blue covers and blankets. I remember fighting ...Read more
A memory of Sharpness in 1957 by
Memories Of St Peters And Broadstairs
I was born at 19 Church St, St Peters, where my grandfather owned the butchers shop. My first memory is of playing on the lino floor just inside the front door. My father, who served in the RAF during the ...Read more
A memory of Broadstairs in 1950 by
'down Yer 'wey'.
Moved to Farncombe in 1942 from Datchet, but evacuated originally from Barking, London. I remember arriving at my new home at 1 Tudor Circle. My Step-father was a fireman in the AFS, who's ...Read more
A memory of Godalming in 1942 by
Peter Marshall 58 To 65
I'm as sure as I can be, that the little boy in the picture with the black coat is me. I would have been three to four years old (depending what time of year the picture was taken). I was the youngest at the home at that ...Read more
A memory of Glenfield in 1960 by
Padnell Avenue Etc.
We were the first family to move into the newly built Padnell Avenue Council Estate, moving there in around 1947, our house was one of a pair on the corner of Winscombe Avenue. Where the Council flats are now situated was ...Read more
A memory of Cowplain by
Shrimp Boats
I remember when a very young kid, walking down Banks Road with my mother to the slipway and buying fresh shrimps from the Evans boys. The shrimps were caught in the Dee and cooked on board the boats on the way back to the slip. The fishing was a thriving industry in those days.
A memory of Heswall in 1955
Trevelyan Road Tooting
I was born on 8th May 1945 (the day the war ended) at 61 Trevelyan Road Tooting. My mum told me that there was a heatwave on the 8th May and whilst she was trying to get some rest there was a street party going n which she ...Read more
A memory of Tooting in 1945 by
Early Days In Bargoed
I was born, in 1945, in the front room of my parent's rented house in Bristol Terrace, Bargoed. Open the front and you were on the pavement!!. We had no central heating, no double glazing, no indoor bathroom (tin bath ...Read more
A memory of Bargoed in 1952 by
Kenzie Thorpe
While wild-fowling on Frampton Marsh in the winter of 1954, I met McKenzie a well known Poacher. He showed me a curlew he had shot, he had it in a poachers pocket inside his coat, a jovial sort of fellow. He became a well known ...Read more
A memory of Boston by
Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital
I spent two years and three months on Florence Gibson ward (1950-1952) and was hoping to visit the hospital when I returned to visit Liverpool. I'm sorry to know that it has closed. The first half of the ward ...Read more
A memory of Heswall in 1950
Captions
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Datchet is mentioned in Shakespeare's 'Merry Wives of Windsor' and Jerome K Jerome's 'Three Men in a Boat'.
This view also shows the old towpath, with moored barges, prior to the improvements for pleasure boating.
For centuries small boats journeyed up-river to unload at the town's dock.
Fishing boats still bob at anchor on the high tide, but tourism is now the dominant industry.
This view over Victoria Pier gives a good idea of the variety of ships and smaller boats that could be seen sailing off Cowes on an average day between the wars.
This view also shows the old towpath, with moored barges, prior to the improvements for pleasure boating.
The park is named after Cunliffe Lister, Lord Masham, and includes a boating lake, a scented garden for the blind and the Cartwright Memorial Hall, which was opened in 1904.
The park is named after Cunliffe Lister, Lord Masham, and includes a boating lake, a scented garden for the blind and the Cartwright Memorial Hall, which was opened in 1904.
In the foreground a proud father and his children enjoy the boating lake.
The lakeside railway makes a circuit of the boating lake and the paddling pool. Most of the park was devoted to children's amusements, but there was one backwater for swans.
The profusion of lily pads suggests that its role as a boating lake has not yet been realised.
A barge loads at the quay, pleasure boats take trippers for a cruise.
The recreational river: this view shows the bustling Undercliff Walk, with rowing boats for hire. A trip on the river was particularly popular at this time.
This 32-foot 'Surf' class lifeboat was the first RNLI boat to be propelled by Hotchkiss Cone engines. These worked on the ', she cost £2,919, and served Wells between 1936 and 1945.
From here boats would arrive and depart on a daily basis to the mainland at Southsea.
All is quiet, with rowing boats and a yacht moored in the small bay. Note the car at the entrance to the quayside.
A rather beautiful boat is drawn up on the rocky foreshore.
Here we see an almost deserted Queen's Park, with just one customer for a rowing boat on the park's lake. The park opened on 20 June 1887 in Queen Victoria's Jubilee year.
A sail-powered fishing boat returns to port, ready to unload its catch. Note the smoke stack of a paddle steamer tied to the Lighthouse Pier.
The boating lake covered 30 acres. The smaller lake, for younger children, was separated from the larger one by a hump-backed bridge (K13007, pages 76-77).
It was built originally as a landing stage for local boats and ships.
This hotel serves the tourists who come to this popular boating centre.
However, most trips from the harbour were pleasure trips, for which the fishing boats had been converted.
However, the pleasure boats no longer anchor here, and youngsters do not play in the tidal mud: far too risky these days.
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