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A Proposal In The Churchyard...
My paternal grandfather, Ernest Charles Chamberlain, proposed to my grandmother Annie Brooks, in the churchyard here. He brought her in his pony and trap, in about 1907. He had an agricultural business, ...Read more
A memory of Acton in 1900 by
A Recollection Of My Fond Childhood Memories At North Somercotes
North Somercotes during the 50s (1953-1960) My mother, Gwen's side of the family were from North Somercotes. They were called Humberstone. She had 5 siblings, Donald, ...Read more
A memory of North Somercotes in 1953 by
A Very Unusual Bank Building In Style
The bank's origins relate to Blackburn, Lancashire, then moved to Manchester where a later generation of the Cunliffe Brooks became a very wealthy local landowner. Opened an Altrincham branch on 7th April ...Read more
A memory of Manchester in 1870 by
Abercarn Fach Cwmcrn
My parents, Les and Lorna Hodges and my sister, Jean, moved into 22 Abercarn Fach in approx. October 1954 just after I was born. My family were the first family to move into the newly built 2 storey flats. We lived above Bill ...Read more
A memory of Cwmcarn
Accrington As I Recall
We moved to Accrington fom Whalley 10th December 1941. I remember it because Syd Ashmeed and his band was broadcasting that day and Ronnie Brooks was the drummer and I wanted to listen to the broadcast but as we were ...Read more
A memory of Accrington in 1941 by
Ah Well, I S'pose That's Progress!!
Loved your reminiscences Patricia. I came to Welshpool in 1965 or thereabouts after ten years in the Merchant Navy, and have loved the area and the folk since then. I worked in the post office at Welshpool, times ...Read more
A memory of Welshpool in 1965 by
All Youngsters
What a wonderful site. I came across it while researching an accompanying book for my sister's planned 90 birthday Tour of Brentford in June this year. We lived in Brentford from around 1930 until 1976 when our mother died. They ...Read more
A memory of Brentford by
An Idyllic Childhood
I moved to Boot in 1952 when I was one. My father, John Heap, was the manager of the Burnmoor Inn, which was owned in partnership by his mother, Ruth Hargreaves, and Sid Cross. They also owned The Old Dungeon Ghyll in Langdale. I ...Read more
A memory of Boot in 1956 by
An Idyllic Childhood In New Haw
I wanted to add my own memories of growing up in New Haw from 1965 until moving again in 1973. The family moved from Richmond (then in Middlesex) to 187 New Haw Road, a detached 3-bedroom house with 1/3 acre of ...Read more
A memory of New Haw in 1966 by
An Exciting Place For A 5 Year Old
I used to love Gilda Brook Road when I was little! I lived in Snowdon Road and we would walk in to The Village ( Eccles) via Clarendon Crescent and Clarendon Road. The corner where Clarendon Road met Gilda Brook ...Read more
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Children sit astride the Beer Brook outside the vast, sprawling Shepherd's Cottage.
Ann or Anna was originally the name for the shining stream now known as the Pillhill Brook, a tributary of the River Anton.
The poet Rupert Brooke died in the Dardanelles in 1915.
The village of Cound is split in two by the Coundmoor Brook - this photograph was taken in Upper Cound, which is separated from the earlier part of the village (where the church stands).
The Fighting Cocks Inn can be seen on our left, but the Hero of Inkerman was demolished to make way for the new by-pass, and was re- built further to the left.
Cosby brook runs through the centre of this pleasant village, which is a doorstep to the city; the village was the first in the county to have a conservation area.
Apart from the electricity poles, the only clues to this scene being in the 20th century are the ubiquitous signs for Walls, Brooke Bond Tea and Woodbines, which probably now stir many an early memory
Abbotts Ann takes its name from the Pillhill brook, originally the Anna or Ann stream.
The openness of the village is readily apparent in this photograph: it ranges along a brook, criss-crossed by modest Urban District Council railed footbridges.
A feature of several East Devon villages is a brook running alongside a main street.
Enamel signs for Brooke Bond Tea on the village shop, a hostelry called the Bee and a small cottage displaying signs for the Aberconwy Institute 1915 and Llyfrgell y Sir or County Library suggest localised
Tiny brooks fill the air with the sound of running water.
The Town Hall was built in 1618, the gift of Sir Fulke Greville, first Baron Brooke, a friend of Sir Philip Sidney.
Soham is the largest parish outside the Isle of Ely, and is surrounded by fenland.
The Dawlish Water and its high tributary the Smallacombe Brook rise on the wooded heathland of Little Haldon Hill, which rises eight hundred feet at the back of the town.
The post office at Cadnam certainly has plenty of stock and a variety of advertisements.
The Village 1906.
Running above the course of the Flete brook, this broad street, now one of Torquay's premiere shopping malls, was constructed in 1865 to replace the narrow lane of slums and fishermen's cottages that originally
Running above the course of the Flete brook, this broad street, now one of Torquay's premiere shopping malls, was constructed in 1865 to replace the narrow lane of slums and fishermen's cottages that originally
Built after the First World War as part of the village's memorial to the men who fought in the conflict, standing above the Mobberley Brook and the main road through the village, the
One of the many streams that cascade off the moor - this is the beginning of Mill Ghyll, which flows down Wells Road and then underneath Brook Street.
The Dawlish Water and its high tributary the Smallacombe Brook rise on the wooded heathland of Little Haldon Hill, which rises eight hundred feet at the back of the town.
The Dawlish Water and its high tributary the Smallacombe Brook rise on the wooded heathland of Little Haldon Hill, which rises 800 feet at the back of the town.
Low Brook was built in the middle of the 20th century as an overspill housing estate just to the south-east of Rockbeare village.
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