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Places
14 places found.
Those places high-lighted have photos. All locations may have maps, books and memories.
- Coates, Lancashire
- Coate, Wiltshire (near Swindon)
- Coates, Lincolnshire
- Coat, Somerset
- Coates, Gloucestershire
- Coates, Nottinghamshire
- Coates, Cambridgeshire
- Coates, Sussex
- Coates, Lothian (near Penicuik)
- Coate, Wiltshire (near Devizes)
- Great Coates, Humberside
- Salt Coates, Cumbria
- Little Coates, Humberside
- North Coates Airfield, Lincolnshire
Photos
49 photos found. Showing results 921 to 49.
Maps
88 maps found.
Books
1 books found. Showing results 1,105 to 1.
Memories
1,490 memories found. Showing results 461 to 470.
Binsted School
I can still remember the day I started school. My Mum walked me from Isington to Binsted, I didn't know exactly where I was going and when we got to the school we had to go up these steps that were overhung with trees, it reminded me ...Read more
A memory of Isington in 1958 by
School Days
As far back that I can remember, it was the summer of 1934 when I first started school at St Mary's Roman Catholic School in Calcutta Road. I sat next to a friend that I had made (John Toole) Who later in life emigrated to Canada and was ...Read more
A memory of Tilbury in 1930 by
College Road
Whilst staying with my Grandparents (Weekes) of College Road, I liked to play down the bottom of the road with my friends (I was about 8 years of age at this time) - playing steppy stones in the mud of the river - a very dangerous ...Read more
A memory of Northfleet in 1950 by
Old Blokes In White Coats!
Sometimes on the way to the Green we would watch the men walking up and down the Bowling Green. They really took things seriously! The Green was mown to precision and I'm sure the bloke that cut it measured the length of ...Read more
A memory of Camberwell in 1967 by
Fleetwood Ferry
My great-grandfather, Thomas Newton Croft, a member of the family that founded the Fleetwood to Knott End ferry, managed it for the local council from c.1896 to his death in 1915. I am told that my grandmother, Alice, used to do ...Read more
A memory of Fleetwood in 1890 by
Chester In The 1960s And 1970s
Chester for me, in the 1960s, was, first, the Museum. It was a full day out. The C4 or C3 bus from Overpool or the C6 from Rivacre, small pack of sandwiches and some orange squash in my school haversack and I could ...Read more
A memory of Chester in 1964 by
Boyhood Memories Of The Fish And Eels.
I had great times at the pub boatyard and the surrounding area. In the summer months I would work in the little shop in the boatyard selling fizzy drinks and hiring out the boats and canoes. In between jobs ...Read more
A memory of Hoddesdon in 1967
Boating On The Lake
I spent many happy hours in Horton Park in the late 1940's and early 1950's, particularly when the lake had paddle boats on it. During many winters the lake froze over and we went sliding on it. One winter I learned a valuable ...Read more
A memory of Bradford by
North Greenford In The Late 40s And 50s
I was born in Perivale Maternity Hospital in 1943. Like so many of your writers growing up then was a magical time; the freedom we had to wander the fields, play and fish in the canal (in homemade boats ...Read more
A memory of Greenford by
Born On Estate
My birth certificate 1938 says Roseneath; father was a gardner on the estate and have photos of the estate cottage. Also pictures of reputedly oldest trees in Scotland called Adam and Eve, probably long chopped down as castle. ...Read more
A memory of Rosneath in 1930 by
Captions
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An assortment of small fishing and rowing boats has been hauled safely above the high water mark in this picture of the eastern end of the Marine Parade; the famous white cliffs are visible beyond the
The Boat Inn stands beside the bridge.
Coal was exported downriver from here - in 1756, 87 boats were registered in Broseley to transport coal.
The boating lake was an original feature from 1868, and was placed at the east end of the main avenue through the park.
In late summer the pilchard shoals would arrive and the town was a bustle of small boats. During other months the fishermen caught lobsters and crabs.
Eights such as this one start off some one and a half lengths behind one another, and each boat has to catch up with the one in front, thus “bumping' it.
The Suffolk boat builder took out 56 patents on the design and the first experimental hovercraft crossed the English Channel in 1959.
Eights such as this one start off about one and a half lengths behind one another, and each boat has to catch up with the one in front, thus 'bumping' it.
At Hickling, where the Broadland waters fan into expansive shallows, there is a pleasing jumble of red tiled and thatched buildings clustering around the old Pleasure Boat Inn.
Today, the only boats you will see are recreational ones. The George (the pub on the right) still exists, and is a popular local watering-hole.
This area, partially redeveloped, is now home to The Boat Museum.
Here we see part of the town's waterfront, with a boat yard on the left, and Caffa Mill Pill, an inlet since reclaimed for a car park and a new slipway for the ferry.
This photograph, taken from the bridge at Clare House Pier, shows a busy scene, with eight boats of varying sizes gathered around.
At Fairhaven, visitors could take their exercise pulling on the oars of a rowing boat or playing 18 holes on the local golf course.
The lady is using the rope over the gate to take the last forward movement off the butty boat. Note that the top gate on the second chamber is already open, ready for them.
A family group of children enjoy a boating trip on the River Leven at Newby Bridge, at the southern end of Lake Windermere.
The length of the boat is fairly substantial compared to the head of the jetty, so she requires delicate and careful manoeuvring if she is to be handled safely.
The length of the boat is fairly substantial compared to the head of the jetty, so she requires delicate and careful manoeuvring if she is to be handled safely.
The deserted pier with its lifeboat station on the opposite side, and the unmanned boats in the foreground, each make their own contribution towards a scene of undisturbed tranquillity, whilst in the
The letters BH on the fishing boat indicate Brixham registry.
A clutter of boat equipment and fishing gear lie in casually haphazard fashion at the end of the stone jetty. Boscastle
A Lowestoft-registered fishing boat slips out to sea unnoticed by the anglers on the harbour. In the background is the imposing, if somewhat overpowering, edifice of the Grand Hotel.
Pilchard fishing was also carried on, and a few boats are drawn up on the beach.
A wheeled jetty facilitates embarkation for a leisurely sail, whilst the more energetic take their exercise in a rowing boat.
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