Maps

171 maps found.

1921, Bowers Ref. POP647221
1902, Bowers Ref. RNC647221
1897, Bowers Ref. RNE647221
1903, Sunny Bower Ref. RNC842896
1919, East Bower Ref. POP696947
1947, Hall Bower Ref. NPO725073
1898, Bowers Gifford Ref. RNC647224
1896, Gay Bowers Ref. RNE712500
1896, Hall Bower Ref. RNE725073
1946, Bowers Ref. NPO647221
1898, Mountain Bower Ref. RNE785103
1899, Queen's Bower Ref. RNC812279
1896, Bower Heath Ref. RNE647190
1919, Mountain Bower Ref. POP785103
1919, Queen's Bower Ref. POP812279
1945, Bower Hinton Ref. NPO647193
1919, Bower Ashton Ref. POP647174
1946, Bower Ashton Ref. NPO647174
1945, Bowers Gifford Ref. NPO647224
1947, Sunny Bower Ref. NPO842896

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Memories

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Happy Days

My name is Brian Newman and I was born in Barking in 1942. My old man was a grocer and his shop was Newman Stores in Ripple Road by the Harrow, or as we called it, the "arrer". There was a long row of shops either side of Ripple Road. I could ...Read more

A memory of Barking by Brian Newman

Childhood In Withyham

We moved to 2 Bower Cotts Balls Green about 1950. My dad was employed by the owner of Duckings, the farm situated opposite the entrance to station road. Nos. 1 and2 Bower Cotts were up on the bank almost opposite the school which ...Read more

A memory of Withyham by iobs

Old Teacher At Martock C Of E Primary Scool

Hullo, Martock and Bower Hintoners of 1962! My name is Richard James. Currently I am 86 and still ‘ with it’ , I like to think. The happiest teaching year of my whole life was at Martock, and I was the ...Read more

A memory of Bower Hinton by Richard James

100 Years Ago

My aunt Elizabeth Lloyd Griffiths Jones was born in Blaenau Ffestinog on Feb. 12, 1906. She is the daughter of the late William and Annie Griffiths. She came to America in around 1920. While living in Wales she lived with ...Read more

A memory of Blaenau Ffestiniog by Wendy Griffith Bowers

Fondest Memories Of Gt Oakley 1938 To 1961

That was when I was born along with a bunch of other kids who grew up  with  me and with whom I played during the WW2 years and eventually went to C of E school together.  Mr Porter was a teacher there, he ...Read more

A memory of Great Oakley by Shirley Reading

Patricia Close

off Bower Way (handy for me!) Think my wife lived down here for a while, she was nanny to 2 kids whose parents worked at US base at Ruislip moved to Denham before we married

A memory of Cippenham by Dave Hill

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

Netherthong In The First World War Part 2

Throughout the course of the First World War many local organizations raised money to send parcels to local soldiers. This was particularly relevant at Christmas and the presents included shirts, socks, ...Read more

A memory of Netherthong by Michael Meitiner

The Bower

I moved to the Bower in 1945 with my parents and two brothers. We lived there until 1952 when we imigrated to Canada. The road takes a fairly sharp turn to the right just in front of the house and on Guy Fox night we used to turn off all the ...Read more

A memory of Hever in 1945 by Ian Balding

Growing Up In The 1950s

Dad was the village policeman, PC 39. Our family name was Moss. We lived outside the village near the T junction to Little Waldingfield (two farm houses, we lived in one of them).  Dad, mum and my 4 sisiters.  We all ...Read more

A memory of Great Waldingfield in 1951

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Captions

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Caption For New Forest, Queens Bower 1908

Nobody knows for sure why this delightful corner of the Forest is called Queen's Bower.

Caption For Pitsea, London Road C1955

Pitsea lies to the north of Bowers Marshes.

Caption For Boxford, Church Street C1955

Walter Bowers is driving the carrier's cart.

Caption For Linlithgow, Palace, Queen Margaret's Bower 1897

Queen Margaret's Bower is where her majesty kept vigil while James IV fought at Flodden.

Caption For Cuckfield, Cuckfield Park C1960

Cuckfield Park was built by Henry Bower, a wealthy ironmaster, who died in 1588 and was buried in Holy Trinity church.

Caption For Baslow, Thatch End C1955

Chatsworth is then reached by way of Queen Mary's Bower.

Caption For Pitsea, Gun Hill C1955

Gun Hill takes its name from the Gun Inn, further up London Road at Bowers Gifford.

Caption For Havering Atte Bower, The Stocks And Whipping Post 1908

There is still a stocks and whipping post at Havering-atte-Bower, and there has been since at least the 17th century, when they were destroyed by a mob.

Caption For Boxford, Church Street C1955

Walter Bowers is driving the carrier's cart.

Caption For Havering Atte Bower, Ford Marketing Institute

When this photograph was taken, Bower House was the home of the Ford Marketing Institute.

Caption For Alderley Edge, The Hough 1896

The barns of Finlow Bower farm, so called after Richard Finlow, a tenant in the 18th century, can be seen on the right.

Caption For Basildon, Development Corporation C1960

'I must admit I have often cast lustful eyes on Bowers Gifford's acres which I can see from my office window', said General Manager Charles Boniface.

Caption For Haughmond Hill, 1891

This castle, since demolished, sits on Queen Eleanor's Bower.

Caption For Pitsea, Gun Hill C1955

Gun Hill takes its name from the Gun Inn, further up London Road at Bowers Gifford.

Caption For Havering Atte Bower, The Orange Tree 1908

This pub on the road to Havering-atte-Bower has retained much of its shape, although it is now brightly painted.

Caption For Lindfield, Bower House And Church 1957

The Bower House is a timber-framed hall house with a kingpost roof.The Tiger public house was once Church House—behind the brick façade it has a king post roof and a 15th-century hall.

Caption For Lindfield, Bower House And Church 1957

The Bower House on the left is quintessentially a Sussex- style house with its attractive tile-hung upper elevation and small dormer windows in the roof space.

Caption For Basildon, Development Corporation C1960

'I must admit I have often cast lustful eyes on Bowers Gifford's acres which I can see from my office window', said General Manager Charles Boniface.

Caption For Lindfield, Bower House And Church 1957

The Bower House is a timber-framed hall house with a kingpost roof.

Caption For Basildon, Development Corporation C1960

Gifford House, used as its offices by the BDC, was built in 1924 for the rector of Bowers Gifford, who used it as a college for coaching students for the universities.

Caption For Pitsea, Railway Hotel And London Road C1955

Mr Howard died in March 1961, and is buried in the family's enclosure at St Margaret's Church, Bowers Gifford.

Caption For Ringwood, Southampton Street 1913

One local gardener, a certain Mr Blower, was renowned for his ability to drink sixteen pints of the local ale in a day.

Caption For Stourbridge, High Street 1931

The old industrial town of Stourbridge owes some of its fortunes to the European glass- blowers who settled here in Elizabethan times, founding an industry which has endured.

Caption For Duston, Main Road C1960

Over 12,000 pieces of worked flints including arrow-heads, scrapers, saws, borers and hammers were discovered here, indicating the existence of a New Stone Age settlement in the area.