Places
26 places found.
Those places high-lighted have photos. All locations may have maps, books and memories.
- Nook, Cumbria (near Kirkby Lonsdale)
- Barrow Nook, Lancashire
- Moss Nook, Merseyside
- Agar Nook, Leicestershire
- Pickering Nook, Durham
- Heads Nook, Cumbria
- Wornish Nook, Cheshire
- Salendine Nook, Yorkshire
- Sour Nook, Cumbria
- Urlay Nook, Cleveland
- Wall Nook, Durham
- Acres Nook, Staffordshire
- Donna Nook, Lincolnshire
- Hale Nook, Lancashire
- Windy Nook, Tyne and Wear
- Daisy Nook, Greater Manchester
- Nimble Nook, Greater Manchester
- Pocket Nook, Greater Manchester
- Pudding Pie Nook, Lancashire
- Water's Nook, Greater Manchester
- Greetland Wall Nook, Yorkshire
- Moss Nook, Greater Manchester
- Water Garth Nook, Cumbria
- The Nook, Shropshire (near Prees)
- The Nook, Shropshire (near Childs Ercall)
- Bleak Hey Nook, Greater Manchester
Photos
39 photos found. Showing results 81 to 39.
Maps
247 maps found.
Books
707 books found. Showing results 97 to 120.
Memories
2,374 memories found. Showing results 41 to 50.
Teenage Memories
Cove was a special place, a place where I was born, at 11 Sydney Smith Close...now stands Beverly Crec.... My grandad Matthew Smith lived at 39 Holly Rd, and worked on the railway as a plate layer. Growing up we lived in Hazel ...Read more
A memory of Cove in 1958 by
Trolley Buses
I remember there used to be trolley buses through the high street, this would have been in the 1940s or 50s, and there was a lending library on the high street that you paid to take a book out. Also a grocers called Williams Brothers ...Read more
A memory of High Barnet by
Eastry Childrens Home
I had a wonderful upbringing ‘up the hill’ from Buttshole pond… 1958 - 1966 I was raised in one of the seven cottages- mine was Lime Cottage. My matron was Mrs. Aunty Betty Harris- who had a daughter, ...Read more
A memory of Eastry by
Summer Holidays At Tyn Y Morfa
In the early 60s we used to travel to Talacre for a fortnight holiday in a caravan. One year my parents didn't pre-book but we travelled from Liverpool on the off chance we would find a place. I remember my father ...Read more
A memory of Tyn-y-Morfa by
Perranporth In The War
In WW2 the father of my uncle Ken Edwards was the "Billeting officer" Mr Sydney Edwards, who was an ex police inspector with a ...Read more
A memory of Perranporth by
An Evacuee
I remember a sunny day in 1940 a 10 year old London kid alone nervous scared alone except for a bunch of other kids, We had been scurried away from war torn London having gone through the Battle of Britain German airraids. The British ...Read more
A memory of Daventry by
Oh To Be Sweet Sixteen Again!
I believe the girl walking in the photo with the shopping bag is myself at the age of 16 - 17 judging by my hair style at that time. I recognise the skirt as one I had made myself and my walk also. I also remember ...Read more
A memory of Darlington in 1964 by
Memories Of My Dad
Hi if anyone has any memories of Roy Grinsted, 5 The Avenue, Arden Park, bredbury. I would love to here them. He was born 1945. His dad was Thomas Grinsted and I only remember my step grandma Mary as my gran died in the 60's i ...Read more
A memory of Bredbury by
Alma Friston Nee Oldfield
I was born in Smeeton on April 23rd 1935. I remember staying with a Mr and Mrs Webb. As you approached Smeeton there were cottages on the left hand side, we stayed in the last one next to a lane. The cows came up ...Read more
A memory of Smeeton Westerby in 1945 by
The Old Co Op.
I was born in Market Street in 1939. Later, because of the war, my mum left me in Millom for my grandad and grandma Kirby to look after me. Mum went back to be with my dad in heavily bombed Manchester. I spent the war years here and ...Read more
A memory of Millom in 1940 by
Captions
517 captions found. Showing results 97 to 120.
Looking over the village pond we see on the right a building with a black door and shutter.
According to Domesday Book, Ringwood's mill was quite profitable, paying 22s in revenue.
Mary Ann is better known to us as the writer George Eliot; in many of her books she wrote about the rural and industrialised Midlands.
Council's Commemorative Plaques Attached to a number of buildings in the town are circular Westmoreland green slate plaques erected by the council; they are carved by the nationally renowned Martin Cook
The 1921 edition of the Dunlop book recommended three St Anne's hotels as being suitable for those on motoring holidays.
Illuminated manuscripts, including the Book of Kells, are on display in the Colonade.
In 1183 the Boldon Book refers to 'coalsmiths' at Sedgefield and Bishopwearmouth and to colliers at Escomb.
It was carried in 20lb bundles up the steep cliffside and taken home to be cooked with vinegar and bacon. Laver is still served in local cafes today.
When W H N Nithersdale wrote his book on the Highlands of Staffordshire, he was impressed by the number of public houses in the village, all of which did a roaring trade during the summer months and
Cheap rail fares and discounts at digs for block bookings boosted the holiday trade at both Blackpool and Southport.
Described in 1972 by Maxwell Fraser in his book, 'Welsh Border Country' as 'one of those perfect English towns which are unsurpassable in their friendly atmosphere and old-world charm', Ross is beautifully
Domesday Book describes Fawley as Falalie or Falegia and says that Walkelin, Bishop of Winchester, held as abbey lands 'one hyde and three yardlands'.
Charlotte's novel 'Jane Eyre' is set around the area, Hathersage appearing in the book under the name of Morton.
University books were printed here in the 17th century.
On the right-hand corner with Dalton Road is Saxone Shoes, now Thomas Cook.
At one time straddling the county boundary with Huntingdonshire, Everton was listed as Euretone in the Domesday Book.
The 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.
John Shore's shored-up grocery-store is here advertising Spratt's Dog & Bird Foods, Player's, Nevill's Bread, and Oxo ('For Cooking & Drinking').
The village and countryside around inspired his most famous book, 'Cider with Rosie'. Upon visiting, one can easily see the reason for such inspirational writing.
The historic Swan Inn, left of centre, was mentioned in the Frome Rate Book of 1663. The decorative lamp in the foreground on the right has now gone.
This 210ft long room houses about 200,000 antiquarian books. The room was altered in 1857, with first and second floors thrown together under a timber barrel-vaulted roof.
According to Nikolaus Pevsner in his book 'The Buildings of England - Berkshire', St Mary's is 'reached along a regrettable bungalowscape'.
Rather like King's Norton, Moseley appears in Domesday Book as a berewick of the Royal Manor of Bromsgrove.
Askrigg was already prosperous when the Domesday Book was being compiled.
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