Photos

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Maps

88 maps found.

1925, Chat Hill Ref. POP667049
1925, Bottom Boat Ref. POP646661
1897, Boat Museum Ref. HOSM70745
1947, Bottom Boat Ref. NPO646661
1919, Upper Boat Ref. POP857065
1908-1911, Boat Of Garten Ref. RNC644733
1947, Forest Coal Pit Ref. NPO707834
1886 - 1903, Forest Coal Pit Ref. HOSM45635

Books

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Memories

1,483 memories found. Showing results 41 to 50.

Bailey Bridge Pontoon Canal Cruisers.

I built the boat shown on the right hand side of the photograph.   Bailey Bridge pontoon MKVI N0.19053 was manufactured by Gee Walker & Slater Ltd, Uttoxeter Road, Derby and sent to Engineers Stores, US ...Read more

A memory of Great Haywood in 0 by Claire Allen

Along Row From Home

I n 1965 my parents retired to Saltash and my father built himself a small boat. As it was moored off the end of the garden. He looked around for a dingy to get to and fro and eventually found one in Gunnislake. Guess who got ...Read more

A memory of Gunnislake by Chris Scott

Boyhood Memories Of Lymington

My parents, Edward (Jack) and Mavis Byard and myself and German Shepherd Dog Julie, moved from Poole, in Dorset, to live in a de-commissioned British Power Boat Motor Torpedo Boat, 451, in November 1947. My father ...Read more

A memory of Lymington by Michael Byard

St Mark’s Primary School, Mitcham

I grew up in Mitcham in the 1960s. Born in 1962, we lived in Tonstall Road, close to the level crossing by Eastfields school. I went to St Mark’s Primary School from 1967 to 1971. I remember most of my teachers: Miss ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham by Karl Schneider

This Used To Be The Highlight Of Our Day Out.

As a child in the early 1950's I can remember that the best part of our day out was the boat rides on this lake. I can still remember the smell from the engines. I grew up in Hornchurch and if I ...Read more

A memory of Southend-on-Sea in 1952 by Robert Graham

My Boyhood Memories. With My Grandad

I hope that anyone left of my family can read this, as now being 72 , I lost all track of coming to Kent. My home town was Lytham St Annes where my mother lived and dad was in the RAF and met my mother there. My ...Read more

A memory of Faversham by Peter Manuel

The Bank Of England

The "Bank" has occupied this site since the late seventeenth century. Although you cannot see from either this view or indeed from the street, there is an exquisite garden and lawn in the centre! The Bank underwent an extensive ...Read more

A memory of London in 1963 by John Howard Norfolk

The Hersham Flood – September 1968

During the 60s I lived in Surbiton and worked in Hersham. As I was getting ready to leave for work one morning in 1968, a radio broadcast warned of severe flooding along the Mole valley following heavy rains, and ...Read more

A memory of Hersham by Tony Newman

The Boats We Looked After

While my family lived in the lock house 1950 - 1961, my father rented  the rowing boats out and also the fishing permits. This is only one place where they were moored. At various times they were both sides of the bridge and ...Read more

A memory of Harlow in 1950 by Eddie Tait

Brushing The Cobwebs Off

My mother, Mrs Pat Bishop, was Headmistress of Boddington C of E School from November 1949 until sometime in 1962. In the beginning there were only about 9 children in the school, 5yrs to 11, no mains water or ...Read more

A memory of Upper Boddington by Peter Bishop

Captions

1,648 captions found. Showing results 97 to 120.

Caption For Preston, Fishergate C1955

The duffle-coats and beat- niks, the anti-war protests and folk clubs that started then are just a year or so away, and now only a memory.

Caption For Kibworth Harcourt, Main Street C1955

The Parker coat of arms ornaments the broken scrolled pediment.

Caption For Aylesbury, Ye Olde King's Head Hotel C1955

After years as a pub and hotel, the King's Head underwent major and scholarly restoration in the 1990s, and the front is now coated overall with yellow ochre limewash.

Caption For Leasowe, Castle C1965

The original entrance and coat of arms, a mounting stone for horsemen and the winding staircase to the old tower are still intact.

Caption For Allhallows, The Beach C1955

Is the woman on the shingle the owner of what looks like a coat atop the concrete pyramid, right?

Caption For Coventry, The Choir, Holy Trinity Church C1965

It is currently undergoing restoration, a hugely difficult task made even harder by well-meaning 'restorers' who coated it with varnish in 1831.

Caption For Henbury, The Post Office C1955

The Blaise Inn receives a pre-summer season coat of paint.

Caption For Hipswell, The Hall 1913

Hipswell Hall is a 15th-century fortified manor house built for the Fulthorpe family, whose coat of arms is carved on the bay window to the right.

Caption For Widnes, The Transporter Bridge C1955

To counteract this all the cables used in the structure were coated with bitumen and then wrapped in sail-cloth which had itself also been saturated in bitumen.

Caption For Downholme, The Church 1913

Inside the quaint little church of St Michael and All Angels is a George III coat of arms dated 1784, signed by the Richmond painter Robert Coatsworth; he helped to paint the scenery for the opening

Caption For Penarth, All Saints Church 1896

Conceived in a typically robust style by John Coates Carter, the Victoria Road church is seen here in the first decade of its existence.

Caption For Welford On Avon, Tenpenny Cottage And The Church C1960

The cottage has acquired new windows and a coat of paint on the chimney stack since this photograph was taken, but remains otherwise unchanged.

Caption For Corby, Church Of The Epiphany C1960

The Church of the Epiphany and St John in Elizabeth Street stands 105ft high; its design is superb, with a star-shaped roof and an aluminium-coated steel- framed spire surmounted with a combined

Caption For Silchester, The Clock C1965

It is stuccoed - a fine plaster has been used for coating the walls.

Caption For Rhyl, The Pavilion 1954

The coats and the empty pool reveal few takers for its delights – it must be a cold day.

Caption For Preston, The Harris Institute C1955

The duffle-coats and beat- niks, the anti-war protests and folk clubs that started then are just a year or so away, and now only a memory.

Caption For Blackburn, Corporation Park, The Entrance 1923

The Borough coat of arms and its motto, 'Arte et Labore', is cut into the stone, along with the name of the park over the entrance arch.

Caption For Moreton In Marsh, The Redesdale Hall C1955

The clock turret of Moreton's most prominent building displays the date of its construction as 1887, and on the south wall is the coat of arms of the Redesdale family of Batsford Park who

Caption For Southport, Lord Street C1955

The wearing of white coats was introduced in some towns during the Second World War; it gave the policeman at least a sporting chance of not being run down during the blackout.

Caption For Leicester, Bandstand, Abbey Park C1955

they to be found in use, but nevertheless they seem to generate vivid images of Victorian England at peace with itself, nannies with prams exercising in the park, and lovers sitting entranced by red-coated

Caption For Blackburn, Corporation Park, The Entrance 1923

No expense was spared in the making of the park and its lodge.The Borough coat of arms and its motto,'Arte et Labore', is cut into the stone, along with the name of the park over the entrance arch

Caption For Thrapston, Chancery Lane C1955

The church contains a tablet showing the coat of arms from which the Stars and Stripes originate.

Caption For Southport, Lord Street C1955

The wearing of white coats was introduced in some towns during the Second World War; it gave the policeman at least a sporting chance of not being run down during the blackout.

Caption For Watton, Town Sign And Clock Tower C1955

The coat of arms of Watton is a hare and a barrel: they can be seen above the clock and again on the weather vane.