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Memories
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Where We'd Spend Our Tuck Money
As a child aged 7 in 1955, I used to holiday with the Shaftesbury Society at a camp, just round the corner. The camp had several dormitories, each accommodating about 10 children. The fortnight I'd be there would be ...Read more
A memory of Seasalter by
The Shore Of Wood And Glass
Eynort shore is not the prettyist in the west, but it's washed up some odd things from time to time, Both myself and my brother have found messages in a bottle, and a least half a dozen bombs or old test missiles which all ...Read more
A memory of Eynort
Growing Up
My Father was the farm manager for Mr Oakes at the park farm. I spent a very happy childhood growing up there. Two brothers and one sister.What a childhood we have my dad loved that farm .My old mum would invite every trader in for a cup of ...Read more
A memory of Riddings by
Ledsham Court, St Leonards, Sussex ...Great Memories! By John Franks, (Ex Rascal Boarder).
Well, I would like to bring a little history of our wonderful school in St Leonards back to life with the real colour and warmth of the time when I was there in the early ...Read more
A memory of Great Parndon by
Saving The Shipwrecked Sailors
Robert and Donald Mapleston and were excellent swimmers. (Their sister, my Great Grandmother, Anne Mapleston Jackson, passed away in 1944.) They lit bonfires to warn the ships, but when a ship wrecked they used a ...Read more
A memory of Land's End in 1870 by
Summers Holidays Were Invented For Fishing
I remember as a small kid growing up in England I couldn't wait for the summer holidays to arrive. As the days drew closer I could hardly sleep at night knowing that any day now we would be packing our ...Read more
A memory of Pickmere in 1972 by
The Rhondda Fawr And Me!
My mother was born in Blaenrhondda at the top of the Rhondda Fawr in 1914 and was one of four sisters but she was the only one to leave the Rhondda at the age of fourteen to go into service in England. During WW2 when my father ...Read more
A memory of Treherbert by
Speeton Cliffs With Cafe In Foreground
The road down to the shore was built for gravel extraction with the washing plant on the level ground just below where this shot was taken from. The building shown was a cafe. On the other side of the road ...Read more
A memory of Reighton in 1955 by
Barnett Family
Hi, just trying to find out more information on my family - mother was Edna Barnett, who was the youngest child of Fred and Catherine (Cass) Barnett who lived on Trealaw Road. Mum was the youngest of 9 surviving children with her eldest ...Read more
A memory of Trealaw by
Southall Memories
My parents, who came to England from India in 1955, when I was 3 months old, moved to Southall in 1959, from Whitton, when I was 4. I remember Southall Broadway at that time-there was actually a saddlery business there! C. Quinion, ...Read more
A memory of Southall by
Captions
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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').
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').
This tranquil scene shows a rowing boat moored on the northern shore of Wastwater.
Racing boats are drawn up outside the establishment of Mr C Shore - an appropriate name that was much punned upon by his contemporaries.
A crowded rowing boat makes its way to the muddy shore.
This path descends onto Thurstaston Sands alongside Shore Cottage.
The photograph was taken from Eel Pie Island, facing towards the parish church and C Shore's boathouse and Island Ferry.
North Shore, or more correctly Sea View, is hardly recognisable in this photograph.
This tranquil scene shows a rowing boat moored on the northern shore of Wastwater.
The North Shore of Skegness was slow to develop, but it now has lots of attractions for visitors, including an AstroGlide slide for children.
A car emerges from Victoria Avenue on to Shore Road (lower right).
This fine sweep of buildings enhanced South Shore, where on 9 June 1923 the South Shore open air baths opened.
The North Shore of Skegness was slow to develop, but it now has lots of attractions for visitors, including an AstroGlide slide for children.
There are overgrown sandpits above the junction of Victoria Road (centre left), and Beach Road (centre) which has since been re-named Shore Road.
Charlie Shore's Regatta Local waterman Charlie Shore founded the Boys and Girls Regatta in 1894.
The picturesque village of Kippford is set close to the mouth of the River Urr downstream from Dalbeattie, on the eastern shore of the estuary.
The south front of St Donat's overlooks the Bristol Channel, and a series of terraced gardens lead down to the shore.
The cliff walk along the North Shore.
The transporter bridge connected Runcorn with Widnes on the north shore.
Lying five miles from Tenby, Amroth has a pebble shore but sand is revealed at low tide.
Another view of the pool, this time looking the other way, showing the rocky shore with the town in the background.
Ponies graze on the wide open spaces around Bucklers Hard, a reminder that the New Forest and its surrounding heathlands are never far away from the shores and estuaries of the south coast.
These castles commanded the southern shore of the Mersey estuary and controlled vital river crossing points at Runcorn and Hale.
The buildings on the sea shore indicate that the transformation from fishing village to seaside resort is now complete.
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