Places
36 places found.
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- Salisbury, Wiltshire
- Trowbridge, Wiltshire
- Marlborough, Wiltshire
- Swindon, Wiltshire
- Bradford-On-Avon, Wiltshire
- Chippenham, Wiltshire
- Calne, Wiltshire
- Malmesbury, Wiltshire
- Wilton, Wiltshire
- Devizes, Wiltshire
- Mere, Wiltshire
- Westbury, Wiltshire
- Royal Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire
- Warminster, Wiltshire
- Highworth, Wiltshire
- Melksham, Wiltshire
- Cricklade, Wiltshire
- Corsham, Wiltshire
- Pewsey, Wiltshire
- Castle Combe, Wiltshire
- Ramsbury, Wiltshire
- Stonehenge, Wiltshire
- Avebury, Wiltshire
- Amesbury, Wiltshire
- Tilshead, Wiltshire
- Longleat, Wiltshire
- Lacock, Wiltshire
- Box, Wiltshire
- Fovant, Wiltshire
- Ludgershall, Wiltshire
- Old Sarum, Wiltshire
- Burbage, Wiltshire
- Savernake Forest, Wiltshire
- Netheravon, Wiltshire
- Freshford, Wiltshire
- Zeals, Wiltshire
Photos
4,843 photos found. Showing results 41 to 60.
Maps
3,664 maps found.
Books
16 books found. Showing results 49 to 16.
Memories
113 memories found. Showing results 21 to 30.
Daviss & Suttling Family
I have very fond memories of growing up in Aveley. I was born in a prefab in 1947 at 4 East Walk, my dad worked at Thames Board Mills clocking up over 30 years of service (he died in Field Road in 1970), like everyone born ...Read more
A memory of Aveley by
Denise Davies Nee Smith
I started at Rosary Priory in 1953 when I was 8 and left at 18. I was so happy there that our 2 daughters attended the senior school until we moved to Wiltshire. When I first started at RP the only building was the ...Read more
A memory of Bushey Heath in 1953 by
Dennis Walker
I was born in 7 Hill Street, Garden City in 1930. I attended Hendreforgan school from 1934-1944, as did my three sisters and three brothers. Mr.Lewis was the Headmaster. On leaving school at 14 I worked for 3 years in the ...Read more
A memory of Gilfach Goch in 1930 by
Derry Hill Wiltshire
I did not live in Derry Hill, but rented a cottage there, Primrose Cottage, in 1990. I was introduced to Wiltshire in the 1980s by my husband's mother who had been based near Pewsey in the Land Army during the Second World ...Read more
A memory of Derry Hill in 1990
Dysart Old Toll House And Harbour
I have many great memories of Dysart with my Gran Jane (Jean Allan and John (Big Jock) Allan. Last address together was 13 The Braes Dysart. On the hill on the road to Meickles Coalmine. We used to collect coal on ...Read more
A memory of Dysart in 1950 by
Elaine Clark
During the course of converting Warnham Court in 2002/3, the original floorboards were lifted in what is now the library but was the dining room in the days when it was a school. When the floorboards were lifted an ...Read more
A memory of Warnham Court School by
Evacuee During Ww11
My brother and I were evacuated to Wiltshire during the middle of WW2 - he staying with two very dear old ladies, and me with my aunt and her two children whilst her husband was away in the Air Force. They were from Harrow and we ...Read more
A memory of Oare in 1940 by
Family Weddings
My parents were married In St James Church, Christmas Day 1935. Both my mother's sisters & her brother were also married there, as was myself, two sisters, a cousin & nephew. He being the last, in June 1990. Before I ...Read more
A memory of Friern Barnet in 1930 by
Feltham Hill School
I started at Feltham Hill School in 1950 at the age of five. I was the youngest of four children Jackie, Betty and Bobby - Mr Shattock was the Headmaster. We moved from Feltham to Ashford, Middlesex and I attended Echelford ...Read more
A memory of Feltham in 1950 by
Figheldean Manor
In 1945, just before VJ day, I moved from Scotland with my mother, to Figheldean Manor, to join my father who was then based at RAF Netheravon. I had never seen houses with flint walls and thatched roofs before, moreover, I had ...Read more
A memory of Figheldean by
Captions
77 captions found. Showing results 49 to 72.
Besides having good window displays, the shop would place blackboards outside: 'Danish prize dairy butter, Lancashire and Cheddar cheese, noted teas and coffees and unequalled Wiltshire and Danish bacon
Formerly a teacher training college for school mistresses, since 1980 Kings House has been the Salisbury and Wiltshire museum.
Hever is intimately associated with Anne Boleyn, who spent her childhood here in the company of her father Sir Thomas Bullen, the Earl of Wiltshire, whose tomb is at the little church of St Peter.
In the 1700s coaches left here for Chester, Highworth in Wiltshire and Wendover in Buckinghamshire.
Formerly a theological training college, since 1980 Kings House has been the Salisbury and Wiltshire museum.
In June 2001, The Wiltshire Times described it as 'one of the town's hidden treasures'.
; the style had become fashionable thanks to Horace Walpole, who had used it to great effect at his own house, Strawberry Hill, and the amateur architect Sanderson Miller had used it at Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire
It originally belonged to Great Bedwyn church in Wiltshire before the churchwardens consigned it to a scrap heap.
The Avebury Stone Circle in Wiltshire is unique: modern village life and ancient stones live side by side in a common and mutual existence where the past is indelibly a living part of the present.
It was paralleled 79 years later with the opening of the Wiltshire, Somerset & Weymouth railway line, and its branch line from here to Bridport and West Bay.
Copied by James Gibbs from the one at Wilton House in Wiltshire, this bridge from 1738 crosses the end of the Octagon Lake in the grounds of Stowe.
The Avebury Stone Circle in Wiltshire is unique: modern village life and ancient stones live side by side in a common and mutual existence where the past is indelibly a living part of the present.
According to the Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office, about 50 private houses were built in Bryans Close Road in the angle of North Street and Oxford Road in 1930.
The daughter of King Edgar the Peaceful and Lady Wulfrith, Edith was born in the village in 961, but lived most of her short life at Wilton Abbey in Wiltshire.
Devil's Den, near Marlborough in Wiltshire, is an example of how the ravages of the plough is nothing more than intentional vandalism.
Stephen of Tisbury, archdeacon of Wiltshire, founded a Trinitarian friary here in 1245 to serve as a hostel for poor travellers.
A new grammar school was built on the site at Wessington in 1957, the first in the county of Wiltshire, with 360 places for boys and girls.
Devil's Den, near Marlborough in Wiltshire, is an example of how the ravages of the plough is nothing more than intentional vandalism.
An example of the activities there was reported in The Wiltshire Gazette of 3 August 1950: 'For the less energetic a whist drive was held on Friday when 14 tables were occupied … Mr Drew was
This view across to St Mary's Church clearly shows a variety of architectural styles, including the unusual curved rear of the Town Hall on the left, the ornate gabled roof the Wiltshire Friendly Society
Swindon - 'swine down' or 'pig hill' - is Wiltshire's largest settlement; it grew from the two villages of Old and New Swindon of about 2,000 inhabitants in 1900 to its present size of about
FOR MANY YEARS, after the decline of the weaving industry, the manufacture of rubber linked the two West Wiltshire towns of Bradford on Avon and Melksham.
Situated on the edge of the Cherhill Downs, just below the earthworks known as Oldbury Castle, this is the second oldest of the Wiltshire white horses.
IN HIS 'Round About Wiltshire' (1901), A G Bradley wrote about Warminster: 'its situation is the most striking feature, for that is beautiful, though there is nothing in the aspect of the town unworthy
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