Places

3 places found.

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Maps

56 maps found.

1925, Bank End Ref. POP632257
1947, Bank End Ref. NPO632259
1897, Bank End Ref. RNE632257
1947, Bankend Ref. NPO632452
1925, Bankend Ref. POP632452
1947, Bank End Ref. NPO632257
1897, Bank End Ref. RNE632259
1925, Bank End Ref. POP632259
1901-1905, Bankend Ref. RNC632452
1903-1904, Bank End Ref. RNC632259
1901-1905, Bank End Ref. RNC632257
1911 - 1912, Bank End Ref. HOSM36956
1920, Fair Cross Ref. POP702666
1897-1898, Chadwell Heath Ref. RNC666020
1896, Becontree Ref. RNE636184
1896, Creekmouth Ref. RNE682952
1896, Marks Gate Ref. RNE774737
1905, Banks Ref. RNC632575
1894 - 1895, Dagenham Ref. HOSM34402
1897-1902, Dagenham Ref. RNC687483

Books

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Memories

6,333 memories found. Showing results 1 to 10.

A Memory Of Heswall Children's Hospital

Anybody remember me in Heswall Children’s Hospital. My name then was Veronica Roberts I had a RTA on the way home from school beginning of summer 1957.I had a broken leg, concussion and a broken nose. I had my 5th ...Read more

A memory of Heswall by Veronica Kelly

Timber

I lived in Malvern Road and remember the winter of '47 when we had six weeks of snow and wonderful tobogganing on the slopes. My dad was the manager of Park&Brown Jeffery Street and a skilled wood man who was able to build me an excellent ...Read more

A memory of Gillingham by Michael Barton

Harrow Driving School Rayners Lane 1985 1986 Approx

Memories of getting the tube from Arnos Grove to Rayners Lane and then the long walk up Imperial Drive - until reaching the driving centre. The set up included traffic lights, zebra crossings, ...Read more

A memory of Harrow by John Walmisley

Larner And Mustoe Families

I am very interested in Northleach because my family connections, the Mustoes and Larners, go back several hundred years there and certainly in the case of the Larners back to the 1600's. Both families were shepherds and ...Read more

A memory of Northleach by Gary Hargreaves

Caravan Holiday In 50s

My parents had a caravan at The Old Coastguards close to Seasalter Sailing Club from 50s to 70s. It had only 3 caravans on it. I regularly got up early as a child to accompany the site owner, a super guy, while he followed the ...Read more

A memory of Seasalter by Andrew Henderson

A Holiday From Glasgow

I went to fornethy residential school twice in my childhood, each time my mum was having a child. 1960 and 1962. I spent 6 weeks each time. I have read thru most of the comments here, and I’m so glad for me I ...Read more

A memory of Fornethy Residential School by Letitia Latt

Lord Mayor Treloar Hospital Sandy Point

At the age of 12 I was a patient at Treloars in Alton, having been diagnosed as having TB knee - a clout with a cricket ball was a little more serious than just a swollen knee, and I was sent to Treloars ...Read more

A memory of Hayling Island in 1953 by Heather Tierney

Post War Harlesden.

I was born in Tredegar, South Wales in April 1941. My mother had been evacuated to that small welsh town when she fell pregnant with me in 1940. We lived with her parents. My dad was away doing War things. We moved back to London ...Read more

A memory of Harlesden by John Howley

Shops

I suspect this is a little earlier than 1960 (but after 1956) the first building on the right was the offices of "Waugh Brummell and Barron" later Waugh & Co Solicitors and still going strong. The original Waughs were prominent in the ...Read more

A memory of Haywards Heath

Family Connections.

The couple on the right pavement are my grandparents George Gray and his wife Elizabeth (nee Phippen) of Thornford. The photo would have been taken on a Thursday because after his retirement they always travelled to Sherborne on ...Read more

A memory of Sherborne by Claire Allen

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Captions

2,042 captions found. Showing results 1 to 24.

Caption For Wilmslow, Bank Square Gardens C1955

At the other end of Grove Street, Bank Square took its name from the Union Bank of Manchester, with its fine clock and cupola.

Caption For Twickenham, King Street 1909

This view of King Street looks east towards the grand Portland stone bank at its end.

Caption For Marnham, The Ferry 1913

This view, from the end of a path leading past the Brownlow Arms to the west bank of the Trent, looks across the tidal river from Nottinghamshire to South Clifton in Lincolnshire.

Caption For Ipswich, The Power Station C1955

A 20th-century means of producing power shares the banks of the Orwell with vessels which harness one of the oldest forms of power.

Caption For Bury St Edmunds, Buttermarket C1955

The buildings from the High Spot to the Suffolk were damaged by the Zeppelin raid in 1915, and the timbered Freeman, Hardy and Willis is a 1920s replacement.

Caption For Ipswich, The Power Station C1955

A 20th-century means of pro- ducing power shares the banks of the Orwell with vessels which harness one of the oldest forms of power.

Caption For Warwick, Bridge End 1922

Bridge End is on the south bank of the Avon, where all the roads from the south previously met to cross into Warwick.

Caption For Daventry, High Street C1948

The gable- ended house at the centre of the picture at the end of the High Street was demol- ished when Tavern Lane was widened in about 1955.

Caption For Nantwich, The Square C1965

This photograph shows the western end of the Square.

Caption For Twickenham, London Road C1955

The railway station at Twickenham was opened in 1848, and the shopping district quickly developed nearby; it was gradually being improved with new shops in the late Victorian and early Edwardian

Caption For Minehead, The Parade 1892

The building in the centre of the row, at the end of Bancks Street, was all that remained of the older buildings.

Caption For Debenham, Market Green And High Street C1955

At this end was Mark Ellis the tailor, later Fleming's Antiques; at the other end Barclays Bank.

Caption For Widnes, West Bank 1923

We are looking at West Bank and the Victoria Promenade.

Caption For St Austell, Church Street 1898

A street cleaner works below the church wall, while a boy seems interested in William Box's grocery, wine and spirit shop; two ladies approach Russell and Co's drapery shop next door.

Caption For Malmesbury, Looking Towards The High Street C1955

The unsurfaced roads and thickly wooded banks climb down the steep slopes at the end of the Vale of Pewsey.

Caption For Devizes, Hartmoor 1899

The unsurfaced roads and thickly wooded banks climb down the steep slopes at the end of the Vale of Pewsey.

Caption For Braintree, High Street C1960

The Bank Street/Great Square corner was rebuilt in the 1930s with a building capped by a stylish cupola (centre, at the end of the street).

Caption For Braintree, High Street C1960

The Bank Street/Great Square corner was rebuilt in the 1930s with a building capped by a stylish cupola (centre, at the end of the street).

Caption For Ten Mile Bank, The Village C1955

The village's name derives from a long bank along the river Ouse, on the right of the photograph, defending the low-lying land from flooding.

Caption For Morecambe, The Promenade 1899

This lovely view of the Promenade looks north towards Hest Bank, with the Central Pier in the background.

Caption For Bedford, Newnham Bridge 1897

Further east along The Embankment, Newnham Bridge crosses the north branch of the River Ouse at the south end of Tennyson Road.

Caption For Potter Heigham, The Broads C1926

Here we see sailing boats and dinghies alongside the River Thurne, with G Applegate's boatbuilding sheds on the west bank.

Caption For Devizes, Hartmoor 1899

The unsurfaced roads and thickly wooded banks climb down the steep slopes at the end of the Vale of Pewsey.

Caption For Meifod, The Village C1955

There is everything you could want in one terrace of highly disparate buildings here in the centre of the village, from the whitewashed Midland Bank at the far end to some 'Players Please' at Rowland's