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All Coming Back To Me Now!
Hi from New Zealand, so good to see this site, found quite by accident. I was born in Oldchurch Hospital in 1946 and spend my childhood living at Laburnum Walk, Elm Park. Ayloff School was my first memory, crossing ...Read more
A memory of Hornchurch in 1946 by
Bell Bain And Scott Lairs Necropolis
In the Necropolis, Section Omega are a number of family lairs containing the following family lines. The Bell Family Lair has the following inscription, James Bell, Printer, 1806 to 1883( James Bell, my Great, ...Read more
A memory of Glasgow in 1890 by
Bikes At Baines Corner
I really do remember Baines Bros bike shop - good memories. I bought my BSA there and met all the boys on our bikes at seven thirty every night there - then we looked at the bikes and went to the grotto at Knaresbrough, ...Read more
A memory of Harrogate in 1963 by
Brockenhurst Grammar School
I spent eight years of my school life as a Day-boy at Brockenhurst between 1955 to 1963. Being a somewhat shy individual at that time, my presence at the school was hardly recognized. I was known as 'Twink' until ...Read more
A memory of Brockenhurst in 1955 by
Butchers Shop
Browsing Ampthill, for the first time, I came across the above photo. On the left just above the logo is a shop blind that used to protect the meat in the window display from sunshine (when it appeared). That blind was the bain of ...Read more
A memory of Ampthill in 1952 by
Empsons Garage My Years
I left Sandye school in 1970. We lived in Potton and I started work at Empsons garage as a trained mechanic. They also repaired lorrys there too - mainly Commer. It was owned and run by Bill Empson and Steve Whitbread ...Read more
A memory of Gamlingay in 1970 by
Ex St Roberts Catholic School Harrogate
Born in Waterloo Street, Harrogate, in early 1940s. Attended above school until left in 1956. Started work at J.S.Driver, grocers on Beulah Street, Stan Wood manager. Remember 'Syncopated Sandy,' playing ...Read more
A memory of Harrogate by
From Australia To New Galloway
I grew up with the story of my great-grandfather Thomas Handley coming back from India and living at Kenmuir Castle with his wife Agnes Gordon Handley (nee Bain). In 2005 my sister and I came to Scotland with ...Read more
A memory of New Galloway in 2005 by
Holidays In Gorton
I am Kenneth Overend Edwards from LLandudno, north Wales, and my story about Gorton is surprising because from an early age I was sent by my mother Ellen Edwards (nee Overend) to stay with my grandad, Eric Theodore Overend, who ...Read more
A memory of Gorton in 1952 by
Captions
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The River Bain flows out of Semerwater, the largest lake in the old North Riding, and into the Ure.
Howard's fine shop front on the left, now demolished, is now Baines Walk, leading to the 1990s Chesham Town Hall, named in honour of Arnold Baines, a councillor but also an eclectic local historian noted
This view shows the most striking, the Park Avenue Methodist church, a typical design by George Baines and Son, which dates from 1924.
On the extreme left is J F White's tobacconist's shop next door to the branch of Lloyds Bank, while across the road is the entrance to Cheam Station Approach, with the offices of Morgan, Baines & Clark's
Writing in 1822, Edward Baines said of the area that 'on the whole, Saddleworth is an interesting, though an uninviting part of the country, and the Mountaineers of this region, like those of Switzerland
In the words of Edward Baines Leeds was 'a slower town and our neighbourhood is quieter'.
Heading north-west roughly parallel to the River Witham, we reach two small towns on either side of the River Bain, which meets the Witham a mile away at Dogdyke.
In 1824, Baines said that the hall was 'plain, comfortable and commodious', and that the exterior had recently been renovated with a coat of Roman cement.
In the words of Edward Baines Leeds was 'a slower town and our neighbourhood is quieter'.
In the words of Edward Baines Leeds was “a slower town and our neighbourhood is quieter”.
The Bain is just 6 miles in length and reputed to be the shortest river in England.
In this picture, Baines`s (in the distance, left) was still flourishing.
Ludford is a now a single-street village on the Louth to Gainsborough road at the head of the River Bain, which flows south through the Wolds to join the River Witham.
When our cameraman visited Newton Aycliffe, it was still very much a new town and was still being developed by the Grenfell Baines Group.
It is drained by England's shortest river, the Bain, which runs into Wensleydale at Bainbridge.
Another was Birkenhead Farm, where James Baines, woollen draper and benefactor to education in the Fylde, was born.
Like Baines Charity School in Poulton, the children held a barring-out day once a year when by tradition the master was locked out.
The Bain is just 6 miles in length and reputed to be the shortest river in England.
Across the Bain, Tattershall is altogether less ravaged by 1960s and later rebuilding.
Across the Bain, Tattershall is altogether less ravaged by 1960s and later rebuilding.
It was designed in 1905 by Albert Edward Lambert in standard red brick Gothic style, as opposed to the Art Nouveau of his contemporary George Baines.
Ludford is a now a single-street village on the Louth to Gainsborough road at the head of the River Bain, which flows south through the Wolds to join the River Witham.
Water flows through the village from Semerwater 2 miles away, via the country's shortest river, the Bain.
Heading north-west roughly parallel to the River Witham, we reach two small towns on either side of the River Bain, which meets the Witham a mile away at Dogdyke.
