Maps

1,153 maps found.

1898-1899, Bridge Ref. RNC649808
1920, Bridge Ref. POP649808
1896, Bridge Ref. HOSM38920
1895, Bridge Ref. RNE649808
1904-1906, Bridgeness Ref. RNC650114
1947, Bridge Ref. NPO649808
1882, Bridges Ref. HOSM38903
1921, Bridges Ref. POP650119
1900, Bridge Ref. RNC649807
1945, Bridge Ref. NPO649805
1946, Bridge Ref. NPO649807
1895, Bridge Ref. RNE649807
1896, Bridge Ref. RNE649806
1895, Bridges Ref. RNE650120
1906, Bridge Ref. HOSM48409
1919, Bridge Ref. POP649806
1919, Bridges Ref. POP650120
1919, Bridge Ref. POP649805
1919, Bridge Ref. POP649807
1946, Bridge Ref. NPO649806

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Memories

2,047 memories found. Showing results 1 to 10.

Barbers

I had many a dodgy haircut, and a few good ones, at De Sallas (?) In Darkes Lane. And my father and mother used to love the Embassy Club. My father used to take me wrestling at the Ritz. I saw Mick McManus, Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks, Kendo ...Read more

A memory of Potters Bar by Stephen Walker

Francis Frith Murderer Of Eyam

I am astonished that this collection is Francis Frith and I am assuming it is a coincidence that I found it when looking up Francis Frith of Eyam. Francis Frith was a resident of Eyam in Derbsyhire. He and his wife were ...Read more

A memory of Eyam by Lesley Beeley

The Hump

Just on the other side of the bridge you can see the footpath leading up and over a mound. This mound was built up in preparation for a projected relief road from the Midland Railway station to the Sheepmarket (on the other side of the ...Read more

A memory of Stamford by John Riley

Matthews Opticians

To the left of this photo, the first shop you can see was Reg Matthews opticians. You can just make out the entrance and the window above which is a V shape. As a trainee dispensing optician working there around 1971, I used to sit ...Read more

A memory of Worksop in 1971 by Sue Houghton

The 50s At School

I remember starting school at the 'old' school and then after 3 years moving to the new school - it seemed huge and daunting and many of us got lost in the first few weeks. Pyrford was great to grow up in then - we had fields to roam ...Read more

A memory of Pyrford in 1959 by Ron Hardie

Australians On The Cut 1975

Having left Australia on an open-ended working holiday to England in January, 1974 with my girlfriend, it was hard to imagine that within six weeks of arriving in London we'd be living on a leaky old narrow boat in ...Read more

A memory of Leighton Buzzard in 1975 by Ross Barnard

Harry Street

My gran lived on Harry Street in the 1960's and early 70's. I remember playing near the Trafford swing bridge and the excitement when it was opened.  Old terraced houses slums by then. Corner shops and the horrible smell from the canal. ...Read more

A memory of Salford by Debra Edwards

Queen Elizabeth

Seeing this beautiful liner reminds me that my father used to work on both. These ships would cross the Atlantic within 3 miles of each other. He took a photo of the Queen Mary as they were in the height of a severe storm. The bridge of The Mary was under water, the props exposed.

A memory of Hythe by rlbicker

Through The Kitchen Window

I was born in my Grandparents house - "Wimbourne" - in the valley below the Mill. Many pleasant hours have I spent sitting in the kitchen with my grandmother shelling peas that granddad had grown in the garden. The Mill could ...Read more

A memory of Barham in 1959 by Mark Whitaker

Mitcham

I lived in Manor Road in the late fifties and then Lymington Close until the end of the sixties, it was a great place to live then. We played on Mitcham common going to the seven island ponds on our bicycles and the old gun site. Mr ...Read more

A memory of Norbury

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Captions

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Caption For Barrow In Furness, High Level Bridge 1895

The High Level Bridge spans part of the dock area; it links Barrow Island, which was a separate island, with the mainland.

Caption For Kendal, Noble's Yard, 96, Off Stricklandgate 1914

Here we see the lower or Nether Bridge across the River Kent.

Caption For Runcorn, The Railway Viaduct 1900

When digging foundations for the footings on the far side of the railway bridge the Victorian engineers discovered the remains of a Saxon fortification built in AD 915 by Queen Ethelfleda

Caption For Warwick, The Old Bridge 1922

Constant repairs were needed to the medieval Great Bridge.

Caption For Lancaster, From The Bridge 1891

The River Lune and the town of Lancaster are viewed from the New Bridge, or the Skerton Bridge as it is now called.

Caption For Widnes, Runcorn Widnes Bridge C1961

The bridge was opened by Princess Alexandra on 21 July 1961.

Caption For Rochester, The Bridge C1955

The River Medway traditionally separates the Men of Kent on its east side from the Kentish Men on the west, but bridges such as this one unite the two 'tribes'.

Caption For Pangbourne, Whitchurch Bridge 1890

This view looks downstream from the riverside garden of Waterside House towards Whitchurch Bridge.

Caption For Poulton Le Fylde, Shard Bridge C1955

The two townships of Poulton-le-Fylde and Hambleton, linked by the bridge, were villages when the bridge was first built to serve agricultural communities.

Caption For Caversham, Bridge Street 1908

Taken on the old Caversham bridge, this view looks into Caversham's Bridge Street with on the left the double gabled Taylor's Hotel of 1891; by 1908 it had been renamed the Thames Valley Hotel.

Caption For Kendal, Nether Bridge 1914

Here we see the lower or Nether Bridge across the River Kent.

Caption For Lowestoft, The Bridge And The Harbour C1925

It is always a sight worth watching, as the bridge swings open to allow the passage of a paddle steamer.

Caption For Barnstaple, Bridge 1890

A superb study of the Long Bridge, taken at low tide.

Caption For Burton On Trent, Ferry Bridge C1960

The River Trent at Burton is now crossed by three bridges: Burton Bridge, built in 1864, the iron Angelsey Bridge and the Stapenhill Viaduct, which is in fact a footbridge.

Caption For Queensferry, The Bridge C1960

This is the old Queen Victoria Jubilee Bridge.

Caption For Sharpness, The Severn Railway Bridge C1955

Constructed of wrought iron and completed in 1879, the Severn Bridge was the longest tied-arch, bowstring truss bridge on the British railway network.

Caption For Launceston, Greystone Bridge C1875

Greystone Bridge is 'the fairest bridge in the two shires it links together', according to Charles Henderson and Henry Coates in 'Old Cornish Bridges and Streams'.

Caption For Launceston, Greystone Bridge C1875

Greystone Bridge is 'the fairest bridge in the two shires it links together', according to Charles Henderson and Henry Coates in 'Old Cornish Bridges and Streams'.

Caption For Ludlow, Dinham Bridge 1892

At this time in its history the Dinham Bridge was probably still known locally as the New Bridge.

Caption For Horrabridge, The Bridge 1898

There has been a bridge over the Walkham here since the 11th century.

Caption For Wetherby, The Bridge 1909

The first bridge, built in 1235, was eleven feet wide.

Caption For Runcorn, The Railway Viaduct 1900

The Widnes-Runcorn railway bridge is seen from the West Bank Docks, Widnes.

Caption For Bedford, The River Ouse 1929

This view is taken from the Prebend Street Bridge on the south side of the tree-covered eyot in the middle of the river.

Caption For Port Sunlight, Bridge Inn C1965

The Bridge Inn is named after Victoria Bridge, built to span a tidal creek that ran across the line of Bolton Road; the bridge thus linked Bolton Road to the New Chester Road (the creek was eventually