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Maps
65 maps found.
Books
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Memories
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Overstrand, The Beach From The Clifffs C1955
The image shown in this picture is so familiar to me. I lived for 13 years of my early days (3-16 years of age), about 150 yards from where this picture was taken. During very high tides we would, as ...Read more
A memory of Overstrand by
Evacuation
I was evacuated about 1943. I can remember a field, I think of cauliflowers, opposite, and a bluebell wood somewhere at the bottom of the road. The people next door were called Ackridge(I don't know if that's spelt right), they had ...Read more
A memory of Cudworth in 1943 by
My Memories Of Kirkheaton
Kirkheaton was such a great place to live, I went to infant school at the bottom of Fields Way (I lived on Fields Way till I was 19 years old), I also went to Kirkheaton C of E School and can remember most of the ...Read more
A memory of Kirkheaton in 1956 by
Our First Home
Jenny and I moved to the High Street in 1989, this tiny vilage was a wonderful home for us both, we loved the walks and the local pub, with this quite vilage in a town came the regatta which stoped us taking the car out and ...Read more
A memory of Leigh-on-Sea by
Drayton Jottings
Drayton Jottings. Auntie Alice, in Kings Avenue, regularly seen, out on her front doorstep, she kept it clean, the 'raddled' red stone was buffed to a shine, 'Old fashioned traditions', here continued,so fine. one day, ...Read more
A memory of Market Drayton by
Holidays
I can remember coming into Diss station (1953 onwards) as if it was yesterday. I and my family came up from West Ewell, Surrey to stay with my aunt and uncle at Redgrave every year for our school summer holiday. My cousins and my sister ...Read more
A memory of Diss by
A Year To Remember
How well I remember arriving at Wells-next-the-Sea from Leicester as a new bride. My husband was a former high school pen-friend who was now in England serving in the U.S Air Force, having been in the country from his ...Read more
A memory of Wells-Next-The-Sea in 1951 by
Days Gone By
My memories of Greyabbey date back to 1940 just after the Blitz when Mum and her 3 sisters plus one sister-in-law with a bunch of kids relocated to Cardy, a small community appox. 3 miles from Greyabbey. I was 8 years of age at the ...Read more
A memory of Greyabbey in 1940 by
Portwrinkle Beach
My parents used to take me there after school sometimes on their half day off from Menheniot C0-Op in the 1950s and early 1960s when I was a child. It was a steep climb down to the beach from the road but worth the effort. ...Read more
A memory of Portwrinkle by
Where I Was Born
My Beginning, at Sole Street near Cobham Kent. (9th March 1946 - 2nd January 1951) I was born on Saturday March 9th 1946 at 3.29pm at Temperley, The Street, Sole Street, Kent. I was delivered at home by the ...Read more
A memory of Sole Street in 1946
Captions
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Fishermen came from elsewhere around the coast, and soon Brixham trawlers became a common sight in the harbour.
Boston Corporation came into existence on 14 May 1545.
Over the years there have been a variety of spellings of the name Hemel Hempstead.
Then when the 'Right to Buy' scheme came into being, many tenants purchased their homes. A lot of people consequently established 'roots' in the area and have retired here.
MANY MORE people know the name of Loughborough than know the town itself, or even where it is. That name is read, said and rings out across the world. Loughborough is unique.
Thomas Hope (of the Hope Diamond fame), the son of a wealthy Amsterdam merchant, took possession of the mansion in 1808. He spared no expense in improving the structure, interior and grounds.
Laindon, Langdon Hills, Dunton, Basildon, Pitsea, Vange and North Benfleet came together to form the New Town; beneath the modern buildings lie fascinating episodes from Basildon's past, from
great and so momentous that the twentieth century will A Momentous Meeting at Laindon School On a bleak night in October 1948, the Rt Hon Lewis Silkin, Minister for Town and Country Planning, came
built seven years later in the early Tudor style with eighteen tills, and up to 90 staff when it was working at full stretch; they were needed during race weeks when newspaper correspondents came
Later came Sizewell B, the PWR reactor, proudly state-of-the-art; today the giant white dome stands rather incongruously where smugglers once plied a profitable trade.
Within 20 years, well-to-do commuter communities had sprung up along the lines; indeed, Alderley Edge village itself did not exist before the trains came - it is a Victorian creation dating from
His first real profits came from uniforms, supplied complete and correct in every detail within 36 hours, for the University & Public Schools Brigade.
Later, the Norsemen came calling (and pil- laging). During the time that the Castle was in use, several sieges were laid over the cen- turies.
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