Maps

172 maps found.

1895, Wall Ref. HOSM63378
1947, Wall Ref. NPO859802
1901-1903, Wall Ref. RNC859802
1911-1912, Walls Ref. RNC859979
1897, Wall Ref. RNE859802
1925, Wall Ref. POP859802
1921, Wall Ref. POP859803
1900, Wall Ref. RNC859805
1883, Wall Ref. HOSM63279
1902, Wall Ref. RNC859803
1919, Wall Ref. POP859805
1946, Wall Ref. NPO859803
1946, Wall Ref. NPO859805
1898, Wall Ref. RNE859803
1896, Wall Ref. RNE859805
1920, Wall End Ref. POP859817
1919, Wall Mead Ref. POP859834
1947, East Wall Ref. NPO697973
1896, Wall Hill Ref. RNE859826
1921, East Wall Ref. POP697973

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Memories

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Post War Harlesden.

I was born in Tredegar, South Wales in April 1941. My mother had been evacuated to that small welsh town when she fell pregnant with me in 1940. We lived with her parents. My dad was away doing War things. We moved back to London ...Read more

A memory of Harlesden by John Howley

Cricketing Memories At Broadmoor.

A fine cricket ground was included within the walls where Bracknell CC played each year. There was a concert party formed from among the inmates that used to give performances in the villages around Crowthorne: the ...Read more

A memory of Crowthorne by Claire Allen

Moving Of The War Memorial

Note in this photo that the war memorial has been moved back and the wall lowered. Flats have been built on the Banstead house site. You could always see the green houses over the high wall from the top of the 164a bus. The ...Read more

A memory of Banstead in 1956 by Heather Lee

Childhood Memories

Knutsford holds a special place in my heart as I was born there in 1956 and spent nearly eight years of my childhood growing up in this then safe and close community. I have very strong memories of family, home, school and friends ...Read more

A memory of Knutsford in 1962 by Julie Nunn

Village School

To the left of where the photographer was standing was the junior's playground of the old village school (St Mary and St Margaret's.) In 1963-4 we would have vacated the old buildings and moved into a new building in Southfield ...Read more

A memory of Castle Bromwich in 1965 by Helen Kerr

Family Day Out Clerkenwell To Caterham 1925

The above photo depicts Dorothy Connor (nee Step) aged 10, with her late Mother Elizabeth Step (aged 46) and her Sister, Florence Step (aged 21) having alighted from the 159a Bus which brought them from their ...Read more

A memory of Caterham by Elisabeth Connor

Happy Times

During the last war my father served in the Merchant Navy and saw Aberdaron from the sea, that was to be the beginning of many trips and a life-long love of the village. I started going to Aberdaron at about the age of six and have been ...Read more

A memory of Aberdaron by Susan Bailey

"Hoylake Baths"

I recall happy memories of the Bathing Pool. It had two fountains spurting over fake rocks. We used to climb on these to cool off. In those days the Summers seemed to go on forever. The baths used to attract large attendances in those ...Read more

A memory of Hoylake in 1957 by Ron Mcshane

The Sompting General Supply Stores.

I have a photocopy of a photograph of the General Supply Stores, Sompting, dated around 1913, showing the owners, J and A White, proudly standing outside, one with a little dog at his feet, the other holding his ...Read more

A memory of Sompting in 1910 by Sally Goodenough

Nefyn Beach

The beach cafe shown in the photo entitled 'the anchorage' was owned and run by my aunts, the Misses Miriam and Evelyn Wales, whose father moved to Morfa Nefyn in the late 1800s to take charge of the cable station linked to Ireland. Also my ...Read more

A memory of Nefyn in 1940 by Pamela Stunt

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Captions

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Caption For Gilsland, Roman Wall 1924

Gilsland Wall is in fact part of Hadrian's Wall.

Caption For Gilsland, Roman Wall 1924

Gilsland Wall is in fact part of Hadrian's Wall.

Caption For Ferring, Greystoke Manor Hotel C1960

This hotel near the sea front has brick walls with flint gables and garden walling.

Caption For Southampton, The Old Town Walls 1892

Southampton's walls and defences were built from stone brought across from the Isle of Wight.This must have been a huge operation, considering that there were one and a quarter miles of walls, seven

Caption For York, Monk Bar C1955

Monk Bar is one of the finest gates in the city walls and the closest to the Minster on Goodramgate.

Caption For York, The Station And The Hotel 1907

To the left of York's city wall stands the station opened by the North Eastern Railway in 1877.

Caption For Lytham, The Northern Lantern Hotel C1960

The hotel was built on Clifton Estate land, partly surrounded with stretches of the traditional Fylde cobbled walls of which Lytham still possesses some fine examples.

Caption For Conwy, The Smallest House In Great Britain 1933

This curious little extension to one of the town wall towers is even more interesting because of the modern and incongruous-looking brick wall that looks as if it has just been built.

Caption For York, Monk Bar C1955

Monk Bar on Goodramgate is one of the finest gates in the York city walls, and the closest to York Minster.

Caption For Bakewell, The Square C1955

The trained creeper on the hotel wall, only partly grown in photograph number B6003, has now developed along the front wall.

Caption For Old Sarum, Garderobe Pits And Great Tower Foundations 1913

The garderobe pits—the medieval toilets—are shown on the foreground, with the stone and flint walls of the tower behind.

Caption For Southampton, Above Bar 1900

There were originally seven gates into Southampton's old walled town.

Caption For Southampton, Above Bar 1900

This picture shows Bargate facing south.There were once seven gates into Southampton's old walled town.Walk the walls today and only five can be seen.

Caption For Old Sarum, Castle

The garderobe pits - the medieval toilets - are shown on the foreground, with the stone and flint walls of the tower behind.

Caption For Hawkshead, Village Post Office 1896

The grey slate walls of the buildings and cobbled streets are typical of many Lakeland villages.

Caption For Buckden, Old Forge And George Hotel C1950

We can just see the forge bellows inside the low brick wall.

Caption For Chester, King Charles I Tower 1888

Built of red sandstone, the city walls form a circuit of two miles around the old city.

Caption For York, Station And Hotel 1909

When the second station was constructed, new openings had to be made in the walls to give better access, because it was just outside the city walls.

Caption For Caernarfon, Town Walls 1906

Simultaneous construction of the castle and town wall began in the summer of 1283.

Caption For Flint, Castle C1950

The south-east tower, or donjon, had walls 23 ft thick and was separated from the wall of the inner ward by its own moat and drawbridge.

Caption For Botley, Mill Hill C1960

It has a varied brick pattern for the walls, mullion windows and a tiled roof.

Caption For Chepstow, The Castle From The Bridge 1893

Fitz Osbern built a long rectangular fortified hall (the Great Tower) on the narrowest part of the ridge.

Caption For Colchester, Scheregate 1908

This closer view shows the steps under the gateway, with the Roman wall incorporated in the house.

Caption For Devizes, The Crammer And St James' Church C1960

In 1967 the Crammer was walled in, but the wall was soon removed as a result of public protest.