Photos

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Maps

1,296 maps found.

1912, Ham Ref. RNC725877
1911-1912, Kincardine Ref. RNC747597
1908-1912, Westhill Ref. RNC866082
1911-1912, Windhill Ref. RNC870994
1908-1912, Daviot Ref. RNC688936
1909, Eyre Ref. RNC702511
1906-1909, Waterloo Ref. RNC861818
1908-1909, Shieldaig Ref. RNC830067
1911-1912, Tradespark Ref. RNC851342
1906-1909, Broadford Ref. RNC650913
1906-1908, Cliff Ref. RNC670507
1908-1912, Rosehall Ref. RNC820068
1906-1908, Moss Ref. RNC784129
1910-1912, Rockfield Ref. RNC819107
1911-1912, Spittal Ref. RNC836426
1911-1912, Springfield Ref. RNC836854
1911-1912, Westerdale Ref. RNC865737
1909-1911, Bay Ref. RNC634952
1908-1912, Beechwood Ref. RNC636487
1906-1908, Salen Ref. RNC824409

Books

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Memories

609 memories found. Showing results 41 to 50.

Cheadle In The Second World War

I think that we must have moved to Cheadle around 1938, because I was born in Newcastle under Lyme, but my younger sister was born in Cheadle in 1939. At that time we lived on Leek Road. We had various ...Read more

A memory of Cheadle in 1930 by Terry Brooks

Old School

If you head down Lampits Hill and carry on past Giffords Cross road on your right, you then enter Church Road, the next road on your left is Fobbing Road. Opposite this junction is a building called the Old School House, this was the ...Read more

A memory of Corringham in 1960 by Dave Coombes

Drayton Jottings

Drayton Jottings. Auntie Alice, in Kings Avenue, regularly seen, out on her front doorstep, she kept it clean, the 'raddled' red stone was buffed to a shine, 'Old fashioned traditions', here continued,so fine. one day, from ...Read more

A memory of Market Drayton by Allen Warrender

St Vincent Road

I lived at the bottom of St. Vincent Road, near to Temple Hill Estate and Bow Arrow Lane. We used to play in the fields and I remember Temple Hill Estate being built. I remember the air raids in the war and the bomb falling in ...Read more

A memory of Dartford in 1945 by Phyllis Gregory

Where I Was Born

My Beginning, at Sole Street near Cobham Kent. (9th March 1946 - 2nd January 1951) I was born on Saturday March 9th 1946 at 3.29pm at Temperley, The Street, Sole Street, Kent. I was delivered at home by the ...Read more

A memory of Sole Street in 1946

Air Raids

These memories are as fresh in my mind as if they happened last week. Boston had its share of air raids, the first one was on a rainy Monday, it was July, the first day of our summer school holidays. It would be about 7.15 am when we heard a ...Read more

A memory of Boston in 1940 by Bob Marriott

Bramley In The Years 1935 To 1941

Now 80 years of age I used to live with my Mum and Dad and brother Michael in Lincroft Crescent just above the Sandford estate. The houses were new and rather small though we were so happy there ...Read more

A memory of Bramley in 1930 by Lynden Flint

St John's Gate Broad Street

St John's Gate in Broad Street in Bristol is the only surviving medieval city gateway, at one one time there were seven gates into the old city. Fortified gateways pierced the town wall at intervals. St John's Gateway, ...Read more

A memory of Bristol by Paul Townsend

Wonderful Memories Growing Up In Bassaleg

I lived in Bassaleg from the age of 3, (1955), when Church Crescent and surrounding area was being developed. I lived in Church Crescent with my family until I left for Manchester in 1976. I went to the ...Read more

A memory of Bassaleg in 1966 by Linda Sullivan

Ww2 Fearnana Refuge In The Storm

A hush lies over Fearnan now except for the songbirds.  No cockerels greet the morning. The once abundant fields are barren; many of the cottages are used only for vacations and are shuttered in winter.   The 100 ...Read more

A memory of Fearnan by Alastair Barnett

Captions

157 captions found. Showing results 97 to 120.

Caption For Whitchurch, High Street C1955

At the south end of the High Street Frith's photographer looks northwards beside the turning on the right into Hawleys Lane.

Caption For Burton Joyce, The New School C1965

Along Padleys Lane, which curves north out of the village amid 1950s and later estate houses, we pass Burton Joyce Primary School.

Caption For High Wycombe, The Abbey 1906

To the north of the town, Crendon Lane was gated near where the station now is, and a track wended its way towards Amersham over Wycombe Heath, an area infested by highwaymen.

Caption For Walsall, The Cenotaph, Bradford Place 2005

During the inter-war years the council tried to alleviate the high rate of unemployment and set up a number of public works schemes.

Caption For Bushey, The Pond And Coronation Arch 1953

Between the Conservative Club building and the stuccoed, wisteria-clad cottages at the Falconer Road end of the High Street, rises the Coronation Arch marking the accession of Queen Elizabeth II to the

Caption For Wilmington, The Old Yew Tree C1960

This very pretty village with its flint and brick houses and cottages runs south from the main road to its parish church of St Mary and St Peter, which is set high above the lane with the ruins of Wilmington

Caption For Horbury, Queen Street C1955

Off the High Street is Queen Street, taking us up towards St Peter's Church.

Caption For Caldecott, High Street C1955

Roman remains are extant at Caldecott, but it is the later thatched and slated farmhouses, and rows of cottages (some with date panels) fronting onto the High Street which present a unified entity

Caption For Culham, The Green C1955

We are looking from the start of the High Street towards the green.

Caption For Colchester, High Street 1891

The main axis of the principal roads consists of the Roman east-west artery, now the High Street, and one of the Roman north-south roads, now North Hill and Head Street.

Caption For Caldecott, High Street C1955

Roman remains are extant at Caldecott, but it is the later thatched and slated farmhouses, and rows of cottages (some with date panels) fronting onto the High Street which present a unified entity

Caption For Leeds, Duncan Street C1955

As part of the redevelopment of the central section of Leeds, the Leeds Estates Company embarked on an ambitious scheme to transform the squalor between Vicar Lane and Briggate.

Caption For Burton Bradstock, The Village 1902

This photograph looks northwards up the High Street to Donkey Lane and the 17th-century thatched Dormouse Cottage on the corner (centre).

Caption For Kettering, High Street C1950

Only a few steps further along the High Street brings us to some of the multiple stores.

Caption For Burwash, High Street C1960

On the left is Shadwell Row: although greatly modified over the years, it incorporates two original houses dating from the late medieval period.

Caption For Kettering, High Street C1950

Only a few steps further along the High Street brings us to some of the multiple stores.

Caption For Pinner, High Street C1955

The church of St John The Baptist, whose tower dominates the rising High Street, appears to date from the 13th century.

Caption For Coulsdon, The Recreation Ground C1960

Woodmansterne Station, situated in Coulsdon, did not arrive until 1932 and, although some distance from the old village, it was an impor- tant factor in the development of new roads off Rectory Lane as

Caption For Chelmsford, The Cathedral, The Interior 1919

Both Back Lane and the High Street were well supplied with inns: the Blue Bell, the White Hart, the Talbot, the Three Arrows, the Dolphin, the Rose.

Caption For Teddington, From The Bridge 1899

, and referred to the small village in the area close to the river covering what is now Teddington Lock, the nearby church buildings of St Mary and St Alban, and the river end of Teddington High

Caption For Petersfield, Path From Workhouse To Town 2005

Their path lay across the meadow which is now crossed by Tor Way, then alongside the Tilmore Brook, turning sharp right where there is still a footbridge, and finally down Folly Lane to the High

Caption For High Wycombe, The Rupert Gates On Marlow Hill 1906

These included the lodges which were built on the High Street at the end of the carriage drive (their sites are now the Library Gardens), by 1901 re-erected half way up Marlow Hill, and the lodge

Caption For Pitsea, Railway Hotel And London Road C1955

The first Tudor building was the Railway Hotel, built on his own land, which he sold to a brewery.

Caption For Chelmsford, Children, High Street 1898

The members of the Board took steps to get the entire town properly drained, and to restrict animals wandering the High Street too freely on market-day.