Places

5 places found.

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Maps

31 maps found.

1947, Brooklands Ref. NPO652119
1896, Brooklands Ref. RNE652123
1895, Brooklands Ref. HOSM39145
1940, Brookland Ref. NPO652116
1947, Brooklands Ref. NPO652123
1898, Brookland Ref. RNC652116
1902, Brooklands Ref. RNC652121
1921, Brooklands Ref. POP652121
1920, Brooklands Ref. POP652131
1921, Brookland Ref. POP652116
1903, Brooklands Ref. RNC652123
1947, Brooklands Ref. NPO652121
1895, Brookland Ref. RNE652116
1896, Brooklands Ref. RNE652131
1898, Brooklands Ref. RNE652119
1897, Brooklands Ref. RNE652121
1925, Brooklands Ref. POP652119
1923, Brooklands Ref. POP652123
1940, Brooklands Ref. NPO652131
1897-1909, Brooklands Ref. RNC652131

Books

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Memories

65 memories found. Showing results 1 to 10.

Lancing In The Fifties And Sixties

My family moved to Lancing when I was six months old, living first in Orchard Avenue and then Tower Road, which had a bad reputation - totally undeserved! I liked the fact that there were always children to play with, ...Read more

A memory of Lancing by Avril Boyd

Suntrap School. 1956 To 1961.

My name is Terry Hendy. I attended Suntrap school from 1956to 1961. I have very happy memories of the school and although away from home I was very well looked after and fed well. 1 saw the photo of Mr Brooks and Mr Campbell ...Read more

A memory of Ledbury by Terry Hendy

Happy Motoring

I believe the white building to the centre left in picture is the Thompson & Taylor garage. I worked there briefly (about 1 year), the manager then was a Huw Edwards? I think, but the name of T & T was very well known in motor ...Read more

A memory of Cobham in 1967 by Vee Williams

Growing Up In Slaugham 1961

I was born in Slaugham at No1 Carpenters Arms in 1961.  It was the very last house on the right hand side before the White Gate.  What a great time all of us kids had and I hope they share fond memories like I do.  The ...Read more

A memory of Slaugham in 1960 by Lena Schriever

Perhaps A Year Or Two Early

I'm not absolutely sure the garden was as spick and span as this at the turn of the sixties, but it wasn't that long before it became this way. It had been a ruin until the early fifties when a brutalist electricity sub ...Read more

A memory of Timperley by jsbrennan.125

Happy Days

I was just reading 'Formative years in Kirn'. Yes they were good. I used to fish off Kirn pier for cat fish for Mrs Drovandi's cat and in exchange she would give me an ice cube. I remember Reggie Brooks and the boats - We used to live in ...Read more

A memory of Kirn in 1950 by Elizabeth Lewis

Growing Up In A Small Village

My parents moved to Twycross from London in the early 1960s. We lived on Sheepy Road next door to Mr Charlie Brooks and Louie Jones. On the opposite side were Stan and Ilma Jones and Len Gibbs and his daughter Joan. I ...Read more

A memory of Twycross by Tracy Wright

A Happy, Friendly Place For A Boy To Grow Up ...

Born in Woking in 1945 I lived in New Haw from 1947 to 1964, firstly at Warren Road and then from 1949 in Braeside. I remember Mrs Crab at West Byfleet Primary who taught me to read; I remember Mr Bean at ...Read more

A memory of New Haw in 1947 by David Imisson

My First Job

Just before I was due to leave Peel Brow I was called into Mr (Dinky) Booth's office and told that Turnbull & Stockdale were looking for an Office Boy and that he thought I would fit the bill. I attended an interview with Mr W ...Read more

A memory of Edenfield in 1945 by Derek Holt

An Idyllic Childhood In New Haw

I wanted to add my own memories of growing up in New Haw from 1965 until moving again in 1973. The family moved from Richmond (then in Middlesex) to 187 New Haw Road, a detached 3-bedroom house with 1/3 acre of ...Read more

A memory of New Haw in 1966 by Andrew Taylor

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Captions

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Caption For Byfleet, High Road C1955

Close by is Brooklands, where there was once a famous motor-racing circuit, an airfield and aviation factories.

Caption For Romford, Como Street 1908

This picture was taken from the Brooklands Road, Olive Street junction.

Caption For Beyton, Jeavons Nurseries C1955

The house, built in 1950 and called Brooklands, remains, now surrounded by a housing development called The Garden, Field House Close and Fallowfield.

Caption For East Grinstead, General View 1890

There is a substantial amount of Victorian development seen in this view of the town from the west, looking across Brooklands Park and the new cemetery on Queens Road with its chapel.

Caption For Weybridge, The Parish Church C1955

The churchyard was full by the 1870s, so additional cemetery space was bought and chapels erected in Brooklands Lane in 1876.

Caption For East Keswick, General View C1960

Brooklands, the imposing houses to the right, were built in 1900 to cater for the many Leeds commuters using nearby Bardsey station (open from 1876 to 1964).

Caption For Manchester, Brooks Bank C1873

These are the premises of the bank run as Cunliffe Brooks & Co, one of Manchester's private banks.

Caption For Droxford, The Mill C1960

Izaak Walton fished here in the Meon, reflecting that the valley 'exceeds all England for swift, shallow, clear, pleasant brooks and store of trout'.

Caption For Bristol, St Mary Redcliffe Church 1887

In front of the high altar is a brass to John Brooke and his wife Johanna.

Caption For Glastonbury, High Street 1909

Since 1909, Brooks and Sons and the house to its left have been demolished, and the Arches Way road formed.

Caption For Glastonbury, High Street 1909

Then, the tall building belonging to Brooks & Sons the Drapers, who boast of being established in 1831, has been replaced by the Post Office, which has a datestone GR 1938.

Caption For Mobberley, The Victory Hall C1955

Built after the First World War as part of the village's memorial to the men who fought in the conflict, standing above the Mobberley Brook and the main road through the village, the

Caption For Amberley, Castle Courtyard 1896

It looks north over the wide, flat, formerly marshy valley of the River Arun and the Amberley Wild Brooks, and west to the narrowing valley as the river cuts through the South Downs.

Caption For Chorley, Astley Hall C1960

The Hall belonged to the Charnock, the Brooke and the Parker families before Reginald Tatton gave it to the town as part of a memorial to the local men who gave their lives in the First World War

Caption For Droxford, The Village C1960

Izaak Walton fished here in the Meon, reflecting that the valley 'exceeds all England for swift, shallow, clear, pleasant brooks and store of trout.'

Caption For Bishop's Waltham, C1955

The Mill C1960 Izaak Walton fished here in the Meon, reflecting that the valley 'exceeds all England for swift, shallow, clear, pleasant brooks and store of trout'.

Caption For Kenilworth, Abbey Fields Swimming Pool C1965

Abbey Fields is dissected by Finham Brook and Inchford Brook.

Caption For Bowdon, The Polygon, Stamford Road 1907

Retailers listed as having businesses here in 1907 are Brook & Son, grocers and agents for W & A Gilbey Ltd, wine and spirit merchants; Goulden Bros, fruiterers and florists; Alfred Pickering, confectioner

Caption For Chorley, Astley Hall C1960

The Hall belonged to the Charnock, the Brooke and the Parker families before Reginald Tatton gave it to the town as part of a memorial to the local men who gave their lives in the First World War.

Caption For Amberley, The Gatehouse 1898

It looks north over the wide, flat, formerly marshy valley of the River Arun and the Amberley Wild Brooks, and west to the narrowing valley as the river cuts through the South Downs.

Caption For Bottesford, St Mary's Church, The Earl Of Rutland's Monument 1890

Approach from the south, over a brook and through trees, to the 15th-century tower and slender recessed crocketed spire of St Mary's, standing over 200 feet high.

Caption For Bottesford, St Mary's Church, The Earl Of Rutland's Monument 1890

Approach from the south, over a brook and through trees, to the 15th-century tower and slender recessed crocketed spire of St Mary's, standing over 200 feet high.