Maps

62 maps found.

1946, Brandon Ref. NPO648715
1920, Brandon Ref. POP648716
1920, Brandon Ref. POP648717
1946, Brandon Ref. NPO648716
1946, Brandon Ref. NPO648717
1898, Brandon Ref. RNE648714
1898, Brandon Ref. RNE648717
1921, Brandon Ref. POP648715
1895, Brandon Ref. RNE648715
1920, Brandon Bank Ref. POP648718
1886, Brandon Ref. HOSM38694
1895, Brandon Ref. HOSM38695
1947, Brandon Ref. NPO648714
1925, Brandon Ref. POP648714
1898, Brandon Bank Ref. RNE648718
1899, Brandon Ref. RNE648716
1901, Brandon Ref. RNC648717
1902-1903, Brandon Ref. RNC648715
1946, Brandon Parva Ref. NPO648732
1898, Brandon Creek Ref. RNE648722

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Memories

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A Wonderful Time

My family and I lived at 157 Wilmslow Road, it had just been built so all of us who lived on the road moved in around the same time, and it was a wonderful. My parents George and Thelma Goddard, had the three of us then, Georgina, ...Read more

A memory of Handforth in 1955 by Felicity Grant

Graham Kinnear Memories Of Brandon High School From Australia

Brandon High School, Motherwell, Scotland. Reminiscences by Graham Kinnear May 2023. Living in Australia since 1980. I was so fascinated by fun and games and adventures, that ...Read more

A memory of Motherwell by thebeild

Family Connections.

The gentleman in the foreground of the Quadrant in the dark suit is my father Albert (Bert) Brandon a local business man. He opened a fruit and flower shop at 12 Albion Street which was previously his mother's shop and sold ...Read more

A memory of Dunstable by Claire Allen

An Old Mans Memories

I was born in 1922 in the village of Mundford.  My Father was the village policeman. The village was then a self-contained society and provided all the necessities of life, including a doctor, blacksmith, carpenter and general ...Read more

A memory of Mundford in 1920 by Ralph Woodgate

Evacuee Memory

My brother Bryan and I were evacuated to St. Day in 1940 and I spent three happy years there before reluctantly returning to London in 1943. We lived with Mr. and Mrs. Batty who ran a hardware shop on the corner of Fore Street. Mr Batty ...Read more

A memory of St Day in 1940 by Gerard Mos

Boyhood

I was born in 1922 in Mundford where my Father was the village policeman. We had no motor car, indeed in those days there were not many people who could afford this luxury. The village was small, however it was self-contained and provided all ...Read more

A memory of Mundford in 1920 by Ralph Woodgate

My Esh Winning Childhood

I lived in Brandon Road in the house next door to the Majestic Cinema from about 1940 to 1946. The house in those days was called Dent Dale which was written on the glass panel above the door. I used to go to the school ...Read more

A memory of Esh Winning by James Wigmore

Oddington 1946 1959

I was born in Moreton in Marsh and lived the first 13 years of my life in Oddington. My father was a farmer and we lived at Green Farm right in the middle of the village. We used to have the village bonfire (November ...Read more

A memory of Lower Oddington by Tim Gaskell

Tales Of College Green

This shows College Green and its grand posh upmarket shops, at a time in the past when parking wasn't a problem. Many famous people lived round the Green over the years including Mary Robinson; actress and mistress of the ...Read more

A memory of Bristol by Paul Townsend

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

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Captions

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Caption For Aylesbury, County Asylum, Stone 1897

This view looks towards the main entrance ranges, which were altered and added to by Brandon in the 1860s and 1870s.

Caption For Chesham, Blucher Street C1950

Brandon's on the right is now Brandon House, and Broadway Court beyond lost its shopfronts in the 1980s.

Caption For Brandon, The Flint Knappers, Market Hill Corner C1955

Brandon was famous for its flint knapping industry, which supplied gunflints throughout the world.

Caption For Little Dalby, The Church C1955

This rather ponderous Victorian Gothic building, designed by Raphael Brandon (1817-77), is faced in ironstone, with a heavy spire and tower.

Caption For Little Dalby, The Church C1955

This rather ponderous Victorian Gothic building, designed by Raphael Brandon (1817-77), is faced in ironstone, with a heavy spire and tower.

Caption For Brandon, River Ouse 1925

Barges once travelled up the Little Ouse as far as Brandon and Thetford, although here it is much more the province of pleasure boaters.

Caption For Chesham, Christchurch 1903

Taken from the footbridge over the river, the towerless Christchurch was designed by Raphael Brandon and dates from the 1860s.

Caption For Chesham, The Broadway And The War Memorial C1955

On the left is the white render of the former Brandon's department store, a somewhat overpowering building, and to the right of The Cock Tavern is the 1950s neo-Georgian Barclays Bank,

Caption For Benenden, Church 1901

Struck by lightning in 1672, it was restored in 1862 by the architect David Brandon.

Caption For Bristol, From Brandon Hill 1896

As Bristolians had enjoyed free access rights to Brandon Hill since the 16th century, the Radicals simply held their meetings there, attracting large crowds; they were almost impossible to police.

Caption For Sompting, West Street C1955

The picture shows Sompting General Supply Stores with a sign fixed to the shopfront advertising Players Weights cigarettes, a popular budget brand. On

Caption For Benenden, Church 1901

Struck by lightning in 1672, it was restored in 1862 by the architect David Brandon.

Caption For Aylesbury, Market Square 1921

To the left of the Clocktower and the County Hall is the Jacobean-style Town Hall and Corn Exchange building by Brandon, dated 1865.

Caption For Aylesbury, County Asylum, Stone 1897

The County Lunatic Asylum was built at Stone, three miles west of Aylesbury, in the early 1850s by the architects Thomas Wyatt and David Brandon.

Caption For Aylesbury, Walton Street 1901

The church is Holy Trinity by David Brandon, built in the 1840s in flint pebbles and stone, with further Victorian additions in brick and stone.

Caption For Taverham, The Hall C1960

This attractive three-storey building is in the Jacobean and Tudor style much favoured by its builder, David Brandon.

Caption For Whiteparish, The Church C1955

The church was built in 1841-45 by Thomas Henry Wyatt and D Brandon for the Rt Hon Sir Sidney Herbert, Secretary of War, a member of the Earl of Pembroke's family.

Caption For Aylesbury, Bucks County Infirmary 1897

David Brandon rebuilt the hospital in 1859 to 1862 in a similar style to the earlier one; it had been a Georgian country house, with wings added in 1832.

Caption For Sompting, West Street C1955

The picture shows Sompting General Supply Stores with a sign fixed to the shopfront advertising Players Weights cigarettes, a popular budget brand. On

Caption For Chesham, Town Square C1965

Brandon's department store with its classical pilasters concealing its steel frame is now shops and offices.

Caption For Chesham, The Broadway 1903

Looking towards Blucher Street the old and admittedly somewhat run down cottages survived until Brandon's store replaced them in the 1930s, a three-storey white painted block at odds with everything

Caption For Brancepeth, The Village 1914

At the end of the broad drive leading to the castle grounds are the fine entrance gates, beyond which is the 12th-century church of St Brandon.

Caption For Thaxted, Newbiggen Street C1955

It also evidently stocked Daren bread - a popular Hovis-like brand in its day.

Caption For St Columb, Fore Street 1906

Trebilcock's shop is displaying the well-known brand of K shoes and boots.