Places
36 places found.
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- Poole, Dorset
- Canford Magna, Dorset
- Broadstone, Dorset
- Sandbanks, Dorset
- South Pool, Devon
- Pool, Cornwall
- Longfleet, Dorset
- Dozmary Pool, Cornwall
- Canford Cliffs, Dorset
- Rossmore, Dorset
- Merley, Dorset
- Waterloo, Dorset
- Branksome, Dorset
- Branksome Park, Dorset
- Canford School, Dorset
- Knighton, Dorset (near Wimborne Minster)
- Sterte, Dorset
- Hamworthy, Dorset
- Oakdale, Dorset
- Alderney, Dorset
- Bearwood, Dorset
- Lake, Dorset
- Stanley Green, Dorset
- Hillbourne, Dorset
- Newtown, Dorset (near Poole)
- Turlin Moor, Dorset
- Wallisdown, Dorset
- Ashington, Dorset
- Canford Heath, Dorset (near Poole)
- Oakley, Dorset
- Turbary Common, Dorset
- Bourne Valley, Dorset
- Creekmoor, Dorset
- Lilliput, Dorset
- Lower Hamworthy, Dorset
- Talbot Heath, Dorset
Photos
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Maps
304 maps found.
Books
3 books found. Showing results 313 to 3.
Memories
1,638 memories found. Showing results 131 to 140.
Welfords Corner Shop
Rose (my mother) used to work in Wellford's coner shop. I was born in the 'Potter Street' Perry springs in the 1960s, wow how Harlow has changed from my day. I remember Wellford's coner shop also Wright's Dairy... and it ...Read more
A memory of Potter Street by
Lymington In The 1940s
My maternal grandmother and mother were both born in Lymington, my mother attending the grammar school in Brockenhurst (I remember as a small boy her pointing it out to me from the train) In 1944, when the V1 'doodlebugs' ...Read more
A memory of Lymington in 1944 by
A Great Place To Live
Having been born and brought up in Buckhusrt Hill in the 1960s and 1970s and 1980s and now living in Kent, it reminds me what a unique place it once was. My immediate memories are of Lords Bushes and living in Forest ...Read more
A memory of Buckhurst Hill by
Happy Times
I lived not very far from Beaumont park and as a child I used to go there along with friends, my sister or my brother, I remember the huge slide that was there and the long metal rocking horse that was on the field. The park was ...Read more
A memory of Huddersfield in 1973 by
Orange Hill Girls Grammar School
After passing the 11+ at St Johns School, Milton Road, West Hendon, I attended Orange Hill from 1947. I had quite a journey, having to take the trolleybus along the Edgware Road then a walk down the Watling Avenue ...Read more
A memory of Burnt Oak by
Swimming Pool
Any of you remember the swimming pool that was built by the kids who where there, Mr Cliff was the instructor while that was being built, I got there just at the very end of it being built. After I was there for awhile I joined Mr ...Read more
A memory of Tiffield in 1952 by
Those Were The Days 2
It didn't change until the sixties when the station was rebuilt and opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth 11 in 1961. I watched the whole building project from start to finish from the comfort of my bedroom window. When it ...Read more
A memory of Barking in 1950 by
Circa 1950s
I was born in 1939 and remember the war years vividily. However, I was draughted into the army in 1948 and because of my knowledge and interest in explosives, became an Ammunition Examiner. During this period, I knew I liked music but ...Read more
A memory of Sheffield in 1948 by
Puppets!
Can remember paddling in the little paddling pool behind the chalets (always seemed kind of mirky around my feet) and going to watch the puppet show. Absolutely fabulous memories of staying in a Guest House (Mum, Dad, Grandma and 5 kids!) ...Read more
A memory of Fleetwood in 1962 by
The Wherry Dyke
The 'Wherry Dyke', Somerleyton, was the home of 'Ripplecraft Co' which built and hired out the Broads Cruisers that the picture shows. It had been owned by Sir Francis Cockeral, inventer of the Hovercraft, who tested his original ...Read more
A memory of Somerleyton in 1960 by
Captions
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To its left is Kings Meadow with its 1902 swimming pool peeping through the trees, and further left is the weir by-passed by Caversham Lock.
A further extension to the park, created in 1930, included the tennis courts seen here on the left, as well as a paddling pool and a children's playground.
Brayford Pool, a busy inland port that connected Lincoln both to the River Trent via the Roman Foss Dyke and to the sea via the Witham, is much changed now; its warehouses are mostly replaced by offices
A group of children pose around a rock pool, with varying degrees of stiffness.
In the background is the chimney for the boiler house which was used to heat the pool water and the slipper baths.
The pool is now of clear water, and incorporates three fountains.
The town also has winter gardens, a swimming pool, dancing, and golf, to name only a few of the attractions in this pleasant resort.
Here we look east along the River Witham, flowing out of Brayford Pool, with the High Street reached by steps from each bank.
An incredibly low ebb- tide, which would also have coincided with one of the highest tides of the century, has exposed the rock pools on Lucy's Ledge.
In addition to the rose garden, there was a sunken Italian garden, with an ornamental pool in its centre.
Here we see crowds flocking around the pier with its swimming pool and theatre.
In this 1950s view it has become an exclusive antique shop but in Victorian times it was a rather dingy emporium owned by H Poole, a jobbing stationer.
The open-air bathing pool was a new attraction, opened in time for the long hot summer of 1914.
In 1932, the local County High School left the Barton Peveril farmhouse (which gave it its name), and shortly afterwards this open air swimming pool was built in the grounds.
East Mill and its mill pool, looking eastwards from the north bank of the River Asker towards houses beside East Road (centre).
The lake extended to thirty-two acres, and once incorporated a swimming-pool.
Model sailing boats ply back and forth across the pool.
The pool is now of clear water, and incorporates three fountains.
He had the swimming pool cut into the rocks (lower centre left) so that his boys could still have their daily dip - stripped naked - when conditions were too rough for jumping into the sea.
The Blue Pool at Furzebrook, the best known of Purbeck's former heathland claypits was dug by Watts, Hatherley and Burns of Newton Abbot, in 1846.
Pwllheli (the name means 'saltwater pool') was granted its charter in 1355.
This outdoor pool opened in 1923 and was modernised in 1939.
When this view was taken, it was nearly 20 years after the opening of the pool in Bishop's Road.
The sunny summers of the 1950s filled this pool, which had excellent amenities – a café, changing rooms, diving boards, and sunbathing and spectator areas.
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