Places

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Photos

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Maps

29 maps found.

1904, Bowhill Ref. RNC647270
1903-1908, Bowhill Ref. RNC647269
1895, Cowhill Ref. RNE679471
1897, Cowhill Ref. RNE679472
1921, Cowhill Ref. POP679471
1919, Cowhill Ref. POP679472
1946, Cowhill Ref. NPO679471
1902, Cowhill Ref. RNC679471
1899, Cowhill Ref. RNC679472
1946, Cowhill Ref. NPO679472
1905-1907, Bonhill Ref. RNC645803
1940, Box Hill Ref. NPO647444
1947, Cow Hill Ref. NPO679283
1946, Box Hill Ref. NPO647443
1921, Low Hill Ref. POP768211
1902, Low Hill Ref. RNC768211
1899, Box Hill Ref. RNC647443
1896, Cow Hill Ref. RNE679283
1898, Box Hill Ref. RNE647443
1924, Cow Hill Ref. POP679283

Books

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Memories

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St Nicholas (Later Box Hill) School & Remembering The Misses Garrard

I attended St Nicholas school (later Box Hill School) between approx 1957 and 1962. The school was co-educational and catered to children aged from about age 4 to 18. My brother was 4 and I was 7 when we started at the ...Read more

A memory of Mickleham by gouran.mina

Harold Hill Memories

Hi people, Just wanted to share a few memories of living in Harold Hill. My family moved from Bow to Hilldene Ave in 1962, I was 7 so I went to Bosworth junior school which was only across the road from where I lived. I was ...Read more

A memory of Harold Hill by Vanessa Jefferson

Growing Up In Mitcham

I was born Leslie Dennis Crutch in Grove Road 1948. My brother Ken was born 9 months after dad (Ronald Kenneth) had gone to Normandy as part of the landings - I was born 9 months after he was demobbed (funny that) to mum Winifred ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham by Les Saunders

King's Oven

In the 1960s I took my parents to stay in a bungalow a short distance from the Warren House Inn. The bungalow was called The King's Oven, and we rented it for a week. It had been used as accomodation for the tin mine inspector when he ...Read more

A memory of Dartmoor by Rosemary Bennett

Beanz Dreamz...

Our family moved to Friars Road in the summer of 66, from a damp house in Boothen Green, which looked over toward the Michelin Factory. I was 5 years old. My father Graham was a former art student at Burslem College of Art under the ...Read more

A memory of Abbey Hulton by Marc Thorley

Whitehill In The 60s And 70s

My husband Vic moved into the brand new council estate in 1968 with his parents and sister - Champney Close. His house backed onto the common and MOD training land. He’d stand up on the embankment watching the trains pass ...Read more

A memory of Whitehill by D Toovey

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

James Joseph Irvine (Autobiography) 1911 1990

Stretching over about a mile on the A68 road to Edinburgh from Darlington, lies the small mining town of Tow Law. Approaching it from Elm Park Road Ends, on a clear day, as you pass the various openings in ...Read more

A memory of Tow Law in 1930 by James Irvine

Billy Gray

Hi Marion,met your dad in the Laughing Fox pub in Alexandria when he came for holiday, I knew who he was for years but didn't know him to talk to, I knew his brother Eric better as he was more my age. I actually knew them from when they ...Read more

A memory of Renton in 2000 by Bernard Boyle

Pit Village In My Youth

My name is Ken Orton and I lived in Thornley from 1947 until 1974, the year I married. I was born in Shadforth but my parents moved from there to Thornley when I was about one month old. We lived at 72, Thornlaw North until ...Read more

A memory of Thornley by Kenneth Orton

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Captions

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Caption For West Marden, Village C1955

This sizeable hamlet on the Downs south of Harting has no church, but boasts some attractive flint cottages and fine scenery.There is plenty of history here: Bow Hill was a great Stone Age centre

Caption For Bedford, The Park, Putnoe C1960

The fields of Putnoe Farm were developed in the 1950s: here we look north-west from the shopping parade towards Braeside across Bowhill and the park, here in its infancy but now well treed and attractive

Caption For West Marden, Village C1955

There is plenty of history here: Bow Hill was a great Stone Age centre on the Downs and there is the site of a Roman villa nearby.

Caption For Lincoln, Steep Hill C1965

This view looks down Steep Hill from nearer Castle Hill, with the jettied and timber-framed Spinning Wheel Restaurant on the far left, its later Georgian bow windows tucking under the jetty.

Caption For Lincoln, Steep Hill C1955

This view looks down Steep Hill from nearer Castle Hill, with the jettied and timber-framed Spinning Wheel Restaurant on the far left, its later Georgian bow windows tucking under the jetty.

Caption For Lincoln, Steep Hill C1955

This view looks down Steep Hill from nearer Castle Hill, with the jettied and timber-framed Spinning Wheel Restaurant on the far left, its later Georgian bow windows tucking under the jetty.

Caption For Lincoln, Steep Hill C1965

This view looks down Steep Hill from nearer Castle Hill, with the jettied and timber-framed Spinning Wheel Restaurant on the far left, its later Georgian bow windows tucking under the jetty.

Caption For Lewes, School Hill 1921

On School Hill, several houses on the left, including the bow window, are clad in mathematical tiles, hanging tiles that simulate brick.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Broad Street 1900

Middle Row juts out (bottom left), and the raised pavement leads to Bell Cliff (bottom left).

Caption For Dorking, Pixham Mill 1931

George VI, then Duke of York, honeymooned here with Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, later the Queen Mother.

Caption For West Humble, The Village 1906

Here the River Mole cuts into the steep slope of Box Hill near the Burford Bridge Hotel.

Caption For Brockham, Old School Lane 1958

Further down Tanner's Hill, the lane becomes Old School Lane; this view looks north past these pairs of tile-hung former estate cottages, which are all now in private hands and extended by a bay at

Caption For Dorking, High Street 1905

Street has changed out of all recognition - though the 15th-century White Horse, a famous coaching inn in the centre of the picture, still stands, and the view is still terminated by the green baulk of Box Hill

Caption For Dorking, Castle Mill 1909

Box Hill School has become one of the dominant features of the village; it was erected by Edward Gardener in 1870, and was then named Dalewood.

Caption For Dorking, Boxhill, The Wimpy Bar C1965

When I was a teenager I remember riding out on my BSA Bantam to the Wimpy Bar on Box Hill. I

Caption For Brockham, The Green 1906

Overlooked by the slopes of Box Hill and the sweep of the North Downs, this delightful village acquired its name from the badgers whose setts were by the River Mole.

Caption For Box Hill, The Slopes 1906

The Lookout at the summit of Box Hill is due to the generosity of Mr Leopold Salomons of Norbury Park.

Caption For Dorking, From The Nower 1936

The sandstone hills have their highest point in Leith Hill, 965ft above sea level, about five miles south-west of Dorking.

Caption For Box Hill, Hotel And Garden 1931

This hotel nestles at the foot of Box Hill, alongside the rushing traffic of the main London to Dorking road.