Places
36 places found.
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- Muir Woods, USA
- Wood Green, Greater London
- Paddock Wood, Kent
- Ashurst Wood, Sussex
- Petts Wood, Greater London (near Orpington)
- Hinchley Wood, Surrey
- Bishop's Wood, Hereford & Worcester (near Ross-on-Wye)
- Cousley Wood, Sussex
- Wood's Green, Sussex
- Cannock Wood, Staffordshire
- The Wood, Shropshire (near Wem)
- Wood's Corner, Sussex
- Wood, Dyfed
- Wood, Somerset
- Bishops Wood, Staffordshire
- Booth Wood, Yorkshire
- Baker's Wood, Buckinghamshire
- Codsall Wood, Staffordshire
- Gipton Wood, Yorkshire
- Higham Wood, Kent
- Holt Wood, Dorset
- Harold Wood, Essex
- Renshaw Wood, Shropshire
- Radmore Wood, Staffordshire
- Prees Wood, Shropshire
- Ticket Wood, Devon
- Wollerton Wood, Shropshire
- Wood End, Hertfordshire
- Wood Green, Norfolk
- Wood Lane, Shropshire
- Wood Norton, Norfolk
- Wood Bevington, Warwickshire
- Binley Woods, Warwickshire
- Boyatt Wood, Hampshire
- Edzell Woods, Grampian
- Leigh Woods, Avon (near Bristol)
Photos
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Maps
789 maps found.
Books
4 books found. Showing results 601 to 4.
Memories
2,403 memories found. Showing results 251 to 260.
Peartree Close
I was born in Burgess Hill in 1955 and lived at 18 Peartree Close. There was a rough track behind the house with rear access to garages, and we spent loads of time playing up and down this track and in the woods beyond. I ...Read more
A memory of Burgess Hill in 1955 by
Love That Place!
Born at Petersfield in 1940, my first home was Berry Cottage, down Sandy Lane, opposite Sibley's farm. Berry cottage had only 4 rooms (2 up and 2 down), no running water, only a well and later a tap down in the lane. I remember ...Read more
A memory of Rake Firs in 1940 by
Vine Cottage And Blacksmith Shop
William Wright lived in Vine Cottage, Aston, there was a blacksmith shop beside the house, across the road was the orchard with many fruit trees and all the animals. I used to spend time there in the ...Read more
A memory of Aston in 1950 by
Magical
Hi, Val and Sid Newman live in Lancing now. My nan and grandad lived in Sands Lane and I loved going there and helping Charlie in the woods cutting bean sticks. It was magical. A lot of the old characters have gone now but in the 1970s and 1980s the Fishes, Grettons and Wellsteads ruled the roost.
A memory of Small Dole by
Moving Away
I was born in Redhill hospital in 1948 and lived in Shirley Avenue. I went to Downland School which was a stone cottage called Pound Cottage just before Stanley Close. There was Cherry Tree Cottage about 3 doors up, they used to ...Read more
A memory of Old Coulsdon by
My Home Area
Although I was born in Princetown I spent endless hours and days in Tafarnaubach. I was brought up in the area and my closest friends all lived in Princetown or Tafaneu. Friends like Ken Woods, Graham Davies, Denis Francis, Alun ...Read more
A memory of Tafarnaubach in 1948 by
Nash Court
I too was a member of St Matthew's church choir in Stretford, Manchester. I remember going to Nash yearly for some years in the 1960s. Some of the choir men also went but I think the organiser was the choirmaster Mr Ronald Frost, who was ...Read more
A memory of Nash in 1965 by
Jim Iles
My husband Jime Iles was at Holmesdale School from 1956 to 1960. He won many awards for his metalwork and wood work with Mr Dodds. He lived in Tomlins Cottages in Snodland which have now been demolished. He worked at Holborough Cement ...Read more
A memory of Snodland in 1960 by
A Day At The Seaside Littlehampton C 1955
I cannot remember how old I was when we started going to the south coast of England for a Sunday trip, but it was when my father sold his Norton motorbike and bought a Golden Flash with a sidecar ...Read more
A memory of Littlehampton in 1955 by
Childhood In The 1950s In Caerau
I was born at 87 Victoria Street in 1945. My father was a miner and worked all his life in Caerau colliery. My mother came from London with her brothers and sisters, they were evacuated to Caerau after their house ...Read more
A memory of Caerau in 1953 by
Captions
663 captions found. Showing results 601 to 624.
Stafford Almshouse, now privately owned, was originally the home of a priest until 1548, when it became an almshouse for 'two poor widows to be given 20s for wood and 20s for clothing every year'.
The view has altered dramatically in one hundred years - a mass of buildings has sprung up on the facing hill slope, and the Heath has become literally a wooded park with lakes.
We always built a hut in the woods — and would like to have slept there, but weren't allowed to.
Located in a remote region north of Petworth, the village was originally formed in a clearing in the woods. The local wealden clay district is remarkable for large oak trees.
The wire was used, among other things, to make brushes for carding in the wool industry.
It is rumoured that the timbers supporting the belfry came from ships of the Armada, but they are more likely to have grown in the nearby woods. The chancel and south aisle were added later.
The medieval stone screen dividing the nave from the choir was demolished some time in the 16th century and replaced in about 1665 by one of richly carved wood.
Fittleworth is a picturesque village of fine old houses, commons and fir woods. On the left of the picture is the Swan, a 14th-century coaching inn with a sign spanning the main road.
A monument near the south porch in the churchyard has a simple inscribed slab of 1930 to Christopher Wood, the painter who lived in nearby Reddish House, which has since been the home of Cecil
Having curved from the woods on Shapwick Hill (top right) and around Combpyne Hill (centre), the new six-mile railway line from Axminster to Lyme Regis crossed the deep-cut valley at Cannington
In this photograph we can see wood stacked for seasoning within the dock area. Frequent visitors here were the Russian ships bringing in hardwoods.
As early as 1869 he called a public meeting to win support for the acquisition of the Greenhead estate, including Gledholt Glen (now known as T P Woods after former owner, T P Crosland), to prevent
In 1672, following the Declaration of Indulgence, licences to preach in Dorking were issued to James Fisher and John Wood, who formed the Independent Congregational Church.
In this photograph we can see wood stacked for seasoning within the dock area. Frequent visitors here were the Russian ships bringing in hardwoods.
We always built a hut in the woods — and would like to have slept there, but weren't allowed to.
The spring at Whittle le Woods was known to have healing properties, and when it was made into beer and stout it was said to be good for arthritis and other ailments.
Thousands of pieces of new wood had to be let into the elaborate canopies of the choir stalls seen here. Most of these stalls had been put here by Sir James Stanley in 1513.
Thousands of pieces of new wood had to be let into the elaborate canopies of the choir stalls seen here. Most of these stalls had been put here by Sir James Stanley in 1513.
Wood and parts of the ship soon sank into the sand, but the bales of cotton did not. Then grass started to grow on the cotton bales, and this held firm in the sand.
During race week the firm of Barnards put up temporary stands of wood and canvas along the course to the right, and on the left there was a smaller stand built for the Prince Regent.
All this can be seen at Styal, which nestles in the steep sided wooded valley of the River Bollin, now welcoming hordes of visitors, especially school children, who come to experience what it was
Silver Street lives up to its medieval Latin name - 'silva', meaning a wood - as it rises through trees on the western skyline (top left).
Kippax Colliery near Owl Wood flourished between 1858 and 1904, but it was the nearby pits of Allerton Bywater (1875-1992) and Ledston Luck (1909-1987) that transformed the village into the town
Wood Green Farm still cultivates acres of pasture on the north bank of the Severn as far as Burlish Top, but changes came about after World War II.
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