Places

6 places found.

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Maps

22 maps found.

1899, Blackheath Ref. RNE642550
1945, Blackheath Ref. NPO642551
1920, Blackheath Ref. POP642554
1921, Blackheath Ref. POP642551
1902, Blackheath Ref. RNC642550
1896, Blackheath Ref. RNE642551
1898-1899, Blackheath Ref. RNC642551
1921, Blackheath Ref. POP642550
1946, Blackheath Ref. NPO642550
1946, Blackheath Ref. NPO642554
1896, Blackheath Ref. RNE642554
1895, Blackheath Ref. HOSM38033
1895 - 1896, Blackheath Ref. HOSM37956
1897-1902, Blackheath Park Ref. RNC642559
1946, Wenhaston Black Heath Ref. NPO863340
1920, Blackheath Park Ref. POP642559
1897-1902, Blackheath Ref. RNC642554
1946, Blackheath Park Ref. NPO642559
1896, Blackheath Park Ref. RNE642559
1898, Wenhaston Black Heath Ref. RNE863340

Books

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Memories

19 memories found. Showing results 1 to 10.

Sunday Mornings

My mother in law, then Marie Elizabeth Burston born 1921 in Wales, whilst in service at Hartlebury House used to go to church every Sunday morning. The postman played the big organ. Every morning she had to give him and the gardener ...Read more

A memory of Painswick in 1930 by Peter Royal

Family Shop

My Nan and Grandad often took myself and my twin sister to visit his mother and brother in Blackheath (Lamb Lane) and to their local shop. Wow, sweets galore! Lovely smelling cooked meats, it was great! I always remember the walk ...Read more

A memory of Blackheath by Margaret Young

Calceby My Soul Mate

Calceby... I came to live here in 1947, not a country girl by birth, having lived in Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, for the first fourteen years of my life. This hamlet was to become my home for the next three years, isolated and ...Read more

A memory of Calceby in 1947 by Barbara Johnson

Roan Boy Finally Gets To Braithwaite

All through the lower forms at the Roan School in Blackheath, London SE3, I was aware of the existence of Braithwaite Camp. It had been started in 1930 by a former headmaster of the school, Mr Arthur Hope, on ...Read more

A memory of Braithwaite by Chris Martyn

By Gone Times

I was born in London in 1933 and later, when the Ideal Homes Estates were constructed, my parents with me, moved to Howard avenue at Bexley. Danson Park was the place to go to. Everything happened there. Firework displays viewed ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath by jbba20508

Mr Atlee Garfield Road

Mr Atlee, or as he was when I knew him, Old Mr Atlee, lived on the corner of Cowper and Garfield Roads. Garfield Road was a long road starting at the balloon factory, passing the primary school and the Rec and ending at the ...Read more

A memory of Wimbledon in 1953 by David Aubrey

Pub

My gran owned the pub at Blackheath which was called the Forest King, it was on the edge of the cricket pitch. There was also another pub called the Volunteer on the next road. Does anybody remember them?

A memory of Blackheath in 1951 by Ian Risbridger

Lewisham Hospital 1942

I was looking for pictures of Lewisham hospital about 1942, that was the year I got taken there, it get bombed not all of it. as this is the 70th year of NHS there must be one some where. We lived at Eliot Park the top of Lewisham Hill going up on to the Blackheath.

A memory of Lewisham

Life At Southborough As An Evacuee In 1939

I was sent to Southborough from London in September 1939 and was billeted with a lovely couple, Mr and Mrs Brown who lived at Holden Corner. I was with another girl evacuee named Audrey and she and l ...Read more

A memory of Southborough in 1930 by Irene Clegg

Old Document

I don't really have a memory- rather some antiquities associated with Whaplode. What I have are two medieval documents that refer to someone dying - probably of the black death that arrived in England & the area at the time the ...Read more

A memory of Whaplode by John Hansen

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Captions

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Caption For Blackheath, The Volunteer Arms C1955

To the west of Farley Heath and Blackheath, the hamlet of Blackheath grew up in Victorian times.

Caption For Blackheath, 1921

In 1929, the Dublin-born crime writer Freeman Wills Crofts came to live in Blackheath.

Caption For Blackheath, The Volunteer 1927

This small pub on the outskirts of the isolated hamlet of Blackheath, with its shaded canopy and planted tubs, has undergone a name change, and now bears the uninspired title The Villagers.

Caption For Sutton Valence, The Weald C1960

The village school's most famous old boy is Sydney Wooderson, a Blackheath Harrier, who in 1937 ran a mile in just four minutes and 6.4 seconds.

Caption For Porthpean, Cliffs And Blackhead C1884

Although the photograph was originally captioned 'Porthpean Cliffs & Blackhead', the distant headland is in fact Gerrans Point, which obscures Black Head from this viewpoint.

Caption For Nantwich, Parish Church 1898

Much of the structure dates from the 14th century, although it is thought that building work was probably interrupted by the Black Death and only resumed much later that same century.

Caption For Brinklow, Broad Street C1955

Brinklow was one of 400 new towns deliberately created between 1066 and 1349, when the Black Death brought an end to the practice.

Caption For Ramsbury, Burdett Street 1906

In the garden of No 2, on the bottom left of the picture, a plague pit was found with the remains of five skeletons, a legacy of the Black Death in 1348- 9.

Caption For Kings Lynn, The Walks, Old Town Wall 1891

During the Black Death, it was locked at night in an attempt to keep out unwanted criminals or those who it was thought might be carrying the plague.

Caption For Ashwell, The Church Of St Mary The Virgin C1951

When the Black Death raged through Europe, Ashwell was not spared, and a desperate villager scratched on the wall of the church: '1350 - miserable wild distracted the dregs of the people alone survive

Caption For Patrington, North Side C1955

The majestic 14th-century St Patrick's Church was not completed until after the Black Death, which wiped out half the village's population.

Caption For Ashwell, High Street 1951

It also recalls the tragedy wreaked on the countryside by the Black Death and plague in the form of a graffito, '1350, wretched, fierce, violent - the dregs of the people survive to tell the tale'.

Caption For Walkern, The Church Of St Mary The Virgin C1960

Seven years later, the Black Death reached England, and many local people lie buried in the churchyard, victims of this tragic plague.

Caption For Loughborough, All Saints Parish Church C1950

Disease, specifically bubonic plague - the Black Death, carried by the fleas on black rats - killed between a third and a half of the population of England in the 14th century.