Places
11 places found.
Those places high-lighted have photos. All locations may have maps, books and memories.
- Seaton Burn, Tyne and Wear (near Ponteland)
- Burn's Green, Hertfordshire
- Burn, Yorkshire
- Burn Bridge, Yorkshire
- Luggate Burn, Lothian
- Burn Naze, Lancashire
- Remony Burn, Tayside
- Barrow Burn, Northumberland (near Shillmoor)
- Blaydon Burn, Tyne and Wear
- Denton Burn, Tyne and Wear
- Burn of Cambus, Central Scotland
Photos
97 photos found. Showing results 41 to 60.
Maps
405 maps found.
Books
2 books found. Showing results 49 to 2.
Memories
764 memories found. Showing results 21 to 30.
Graces Road
My Mother was born in Graces Road in Aug 1893 in her parents house with her eight Bros/Sisters until she married my father in 1918, on leave from France. In 1920 they moved to Green Lane, Thornton Heath. I was Born in 1930. On special ...Read more
A memory of Camberwell by
Growing Up At Tombuie Cottage
My name is Drew Ramsay and my father retired from Calcutta India back home to Dundee in 1963 when I was 13 years old. He leased Tombuie Cottage for 5 years as a holiday home which came complete with a little over ...Read more
A memory of Tombuie Cottage by
Ashhurst Way Memories
I was brought up from the age of two living in 63 Ashhurst Way and what lovely memories I have got. I was brought up in a large family. A lot of people I can remember are no longer with us and the friends I had Tony ...Read more
A memory of Rose Hill by
Family Of Ewj Moloney, Lancing Solicitor D 1978
I was part of the St James the Less Players, the Parish church drama group, which started my career on the boards. The Downs,The Manor, The Park, The Clump, The Chalkpit..The Woods The Beach..were ...Read more
A memory of Lancing by
Nick Bowyer
I joined the BARN THEATRE SOCIETY in 1970 and we put on several performances of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas in the new (1972) building opposite the Campus
A memory of Welwyn Garden City by
My Youth In Farnham Common By Peter Harrison
I spent my youth in Farnham Common and have nothing but happy memories. We lived in an old house called Glenwood in Templewood Lane. In those days (The 1950's and 1960's) there were very few houses. ...Read more
A memory of Farnham Common by
Bordon County Junior School Budds Lane
Teachers in the 1970s Mr Pearson - an elderly man whose dentures moved around in his mouth when he spoke. He was great fun and shared his family cinefilms with us during the lessons. It was great fun when he ...Read more
A memory of Bordon by
Grand Living At Moresdale Hall, Lambrigg
We came to a deserted Moresdale Hall in the 1980s and spent several years refurbishing it. Because it had 2 front doors and 2 staircases we were able to divide it and share it with my brother's family. ...Read more
A memory of Moresdale Hall
Memories Of Bedford Lane.
This cottage is in Bedford Lane. I lived in the house called Connemara which is still in Bedford Lane. My father Samuel Frederick Richardson and his brother George were both bricklayers. Both were demolishing the ...Read more
A memory of Frimley Green by
Early Years
I was born at 37, Ravenshill Road in 1955. I can remember a man on a bike sharpening knives and scissors on a grinding wheel attached to the front, also a man with a pony and trap would take you for a ride round the block for a ...Read more
A memory of West Denton by
Captions
276 captions found. Showing results 49 to 72.
Most of the stone was used for building, and as a convenient source of limestone for burning and spreading on the fields of Castle Farm as fertiliser.
The men standing at the door on the left are customers of the Lion Inn, which burned down on 8 November 1908 and was never rebuilt.
After Tennyson's death in 1892 Burne Jones designed a window in Haslemere's St Bartholomew's Church as a memorial to the poet.
The novelist John Galt was born in the town in 1779, but Irvine is more famous as the place where Robert Burns eked out a living as a flax-dresser between 1781 and 1783.
Further up the road is the Victorian parish church, which replaced one of 1791 which itself replaced the medieval one, apparently burned down in the Civil War.
To the right of Balliol College is the famous Martyrs' Memorial, commemorating the 16th-century Protestant martyrs Latimer, Ridley and Cranmer, who were burned at the stake in nearby Broad Street.
For many years ancient forest crafts were practised, including the making of charcoal from green sticks, which were burned slowly under controlled conditions in great heaps.Two are shown here ready
The small village of Burnt Yates in Nidderdale is graced by this neat little Victorian sandstone church.
In 1698 the traveller Celia Fiennes noted that there was a considerable industry of cutting and burning the bracken on Cannock Chase.
It has no direct Scandinavian connection, other than the fact that the name comes from the Norse 'svithinn', which means 'land cleared by burning'.
The Victorian chapel was designed by Sir Gilbert Scott, and includes various tapestries by Burne-Jones and William Morris.
The church was burned down in the blitz, but restoration started in 1949 and the church was finally reconsecrated in 1957.
This bustling view of Church Road with its bicycles and horse-drawn vehicles is dominated by the sadly- lamented old Town Hall, which burned down in 1966.
It has no direct Scandinavian connection, other than the fact that the name comes from the Norse 'svithinn' and means 'land cleared by burning'.
On the extreme right is the former gaol, outside which the Protestant martyr Richard Snell was burned at the stake in 1558.
After Tennyson's death in 1892, Burne Jones designed a window in Haslemere's St Bartholomew's church as a memorial to the poet.
Originally oil burning, it was modified to electricity in 1940, about the time that this photo was taken.
Local lore says that they are a good luck charm, and that having a piece in your house will prevent it burning down.
Admittedly, these are replicas dating from 1880 – the originals burned down in 1711.
The notorious Judge Jeffries condemned her to be burned at the stake, but this sentence was commuted to beheading.
Another well-known multi-national dominates this view; the branch has been here since about 1930, though the left-hand extension is a post-War development on the site of the Cinema de Luxe, which burned
Secondly, a local farmer called Thomas Higbed was burned at the stake in 1555, on a charge of heresy.
Its west window was designed by the pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones.
During the 1830s this pretty village was the scene of a major uprising among farm labourers, with angry mobs burning hayricks and destroying machinery.
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