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Photos

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Maps

247 maps found.

1902-1903, Moss Nook Ref. RNC784252
1896, Greetland Wall Nook Ref. RNE722010
1903, Daisy Nook Ref. RNC687634
1947, Hale Nook Ref. NPO724878
1946, Donna Nook Ref. NPO692028
1925, Sour Nook Ref. POP834264
1925, Wall Nook Ref. POP859835
1923, Donna Nook Ref. POP692028
1924, Hale Nook Ref. POP724878
1947, Pickering Nook Ref. NPO805748
1947, Urlay Nook Ref. NPO858219
1947, Wall Nook Ref. NPO859835
1899, Donna Nook Ref. RNE692028
1896, Hale Nook Ref. RNE724878
1897, The Nook Ref. RNE846478
1896, Pocket Nook Ref. RNE807795
1897, Wornish Nook Ref. RNE874653
1947, Pocket Nook Ref. NPO807795
1947, The Nook Ref. NPO846478
1947, Wornish Nook Ref. NPO874653

Memories

2,382 memories found. Showing results 21 to 30.

Honeymoon

We spent our honeymoon (1951) in Guernsey, and we had a lovely time. Even though it was only six years since the end of the war and the Islanders had suffered badly from the German occupation, we had as much butter and milk as we wanted, ...Read more

A memory of Guernsey in 1951 by June Jackson

Stanley Road, South Harrow

I lived with my foster family in Stanley Road South Harrow, during the war. Our house backed on to the gas works and I always wanted to climb the gasometer which I did eventually with a friend from across the road. At ...Read more

A memory of South Harrow in 1940 by Paul Howard

The Abbey Moor Park The Ghost Of Jonathan Swift

I went to Farnham art school in 1968-1971, and at that time, Moor Park was used as a conference centre, available for hire, and inclusive of staff and an elderly chaplain called Dr Bird.  As ...Read more

A memory of Waverley Abbey Ho in 1969 by sbushell

My Time With The Army At Honiton 1968 1969

From 1968-1969 I was posted to Honiton with the Royal Welch Fusiliers. I was an army cook aged just 19 at the time. I thought that it was a lovely place,  posted to Hong Kong. I also remember an old ...Read more

A memory of Honiton in 1968 by Robert Fuller

I Was Born In The Shop On Left Hand Side, White Fuller (Kent)

The shop on left hand side is White Fuller (Kent) Ltd, 68 High Street, Deal. My father, Cecil Prime, was the owner. Our mother, Phyllis, my brother John Prime and myself lived there. John and ...Read more

A memory of Deal in 1947 by Francesca Wellard

Calceby My Soul Mate

Calceby... I came to live here in 1947, not a country girl by birth, having lived in Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, for the first fourteen years of my life. This hamlet was to become my home for the next three years, isolated ...Read more

A memory of Calceby in 1947 by Barbara Johnson

Barmaid Marylin

We used to rent the bottom cottage down from the Co-op and the top house pub. My younger brother had a massive crush on the barmaid of the middle house. She was called Marylin (he is called Ben). Is she still there? I ...Read more

A memory of St John's Chapel in 1985 by Paul Simpson

Family Holidays

My dad always ensured that we had a "fortnight's"  family holiday each year. A fortnight was 2 weeks - ie fourteen nights. These holidays started in 1949, when I was seven  and continued to up to 1958 when I was 16. In 1949 and ...Read more

A memory of Bournemouth in 1949 by Roy Beiley

Village Life

My first visit to the village of Llanferres was in the mid 1970s visiting relatives. Walking to 'Fairy Glen' and surrounding fields, hills, woods and farmland, I was in heaven and still am after 30+ years living in the beautiful ...Read more

A memory of Llanferres in 1950 by Ian Robinson

Evacuation Ww2

I recall being evacuated to Llansaint from London as a child of 7. I lived in a small sweet shop in the the village with a family named Phillips, or Philips. I am now 74 so my memories are not too sharp with regards to names and ...Read more

A memory of Llansaint in 1941 by James Hepting

Captions

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Caption For Loughborough, C1955

For generations, children in every corner of the globe have seen the words 'Ladybird Books, Loughborough, England' on the brightly coloured books which helped to shape their lives.

Caption For Rugby, Clifton Road 1922

Rugby was originally a hamlet within the parish of Clifton-on-Dunsmore; but by the time the Domesday Book was compiled, it was treated separately.

Caption For Warminster, Bell Hill C1965

In his book 'The Inns and Taverns of Warminster', Reg Cundick writes: 'It used to have its own brewhouse.

Caption For Ipswich, Ancient House 1893

When this photograph was taken, the richly pargetted Ancient House, which dates back to medieval times, was occupied by Fred Pawsey, selling books and stationery.

Caption For Leeds, The Engineering Building C1960

university's architecturally more interesting buildings is the Brotherton Library, paid for by Lord Brotherton and containing over 500,000 volumes, including its benefactor's private collection of rare books

Caption For Leeds, The Engineering Building C1960

university's architecturally more interesting buildings is the Brotherton Library, paid for by Lord Brotherton and containing over 500,000 volumes, including its benefactor's private collection of rare books

Caption For Luton, Wardown Park 2002

(The club still honours one of its former (Robert Cook) (Robert Cook) Martyn Coote conducts a live radio show at Bute Street Hat Museum.

Caption For Ipswich, Ancient House 1893

When this photograph was taken, the richly pargetted Ancient House, which dates back to medieval times, was occupied by Fred Pawsey, selling books and stationery.

Caption For Fakenham, The War Memorial 1921

Eighteenth-century architects, usually local men, worked from standard pattern books, yet managed to achieve townscapes of individual character and harmony.

Caption For Rugeley, Market Place 1951

The only mention that Rugeley gets in the 1920 Dunlop Book is for the twelve-bed Shrewsbury Arms, which could also provide garaging for eight automobiles.

Caption For Leeds, The Engineering Building C1960

university's architecturally more interesting buildings is the Brotherton Library, paid for by Lord Brotherton and containing over 500,000 volumes, including its benefactor's private collection of rare books

Caption For Godrevy Island, The Lighthouse 1922

This dramatic lighthouse, although not named in the book as Godrevy, is said to have been the inspiration for Virginia Woolf's famous novel 'To the Lighthouse', which she wrote while staying in St Ives

Caption For Lewes, High Street 1898

Hardy Tobacconists are now Caburn secondhand books, while the buildings on the left - now divested of hung tiles - are the secondhand and antiquarian booksellers Bow Windows Bookshop.

Caption For Melbury Osmond, Post Office C1955

Melbury Osmond is mentioned in the Domesday Book as belonging to the Arundell family. It stayed in their possession until about a century ago.

Caption For Basingstoke, Winchester Street C1955

Next door are the premises of a pastry cook and confectioner.

Caption For Burley, Flying G Ranch C1955

The popularity of Western books, films and television programmes in the 1950s and 1960s lured many would-be cowboys to this Wild West of the New Forest.

Caption For West Knighton, Recreation Ground C1960

It is interesting to consider that these happy children are now middle-aged and perhaps reading this book! But what a lovely place to play as they grew up.

Caption For Basingstoke, Winchester Street C1955

Next door are the premises of a pastry cook and confectioner.

Caption For Norwich, Cathedral C1874

This view, one of the earliest in the book, shows the east end of the cathedral with no east chapel, only ragged masonry. The Lady Chapel became ruinous in the 16th century and was pulled down.

Caption For Church Stretton, High Street 1910

A delightful gravestone survives in the town's churchyard commemorating Ann Cook who died in 1814: 'On a Thursday she was born, On a Thursday made a bride, On a Thursday broke her leg, And on a Thursday

Caption For Abergavenny, Llanwenarth Church Interior 1898

Note the orders of service and hymn books out ready for the service.

Caption For Launceston, Broad Street And Square C1960

The merry-go-round of high street names continues into the sixties: Hepworths is now David Parrish, men's outfitters, while next door Oliver's is now a book shop, although it retains its golden boot outside

Caption For Norwich, Cathedral C1874

This view, one of the earliest in the book, shows the east end of the cathedral with no east chapel, only ragged masonry. The Lady Chapel became ruinous in the 16th century and was pulled down.

Caption For Warminster, Market Place C1965

Reg Cundick gives an interesting history of it in his book. On Barclays Bank, left, is a sign for the Warminster Journal, which is still produced by Coates and Parker next door.