Maps

247 maps found.

1946, New Town Ref. NPO790391
1898, New Town Ref. RNE790391
1898, Highridge Ref. RNE734665
1946, Tyning Ref. NPO855833
1946, Highridge Ref. NPO734665
1919, Highridge Ref. POP734666
1899, Lansdown Ref. RNC752878
1883 - 1902, Lansdown Ref. HOSM50777
1919, Lansdown Ref. POP752877
1919, Lansdown Ref. POP752878
1946, Bloomfield Ref. NPO644362
1899, Tyning Ref. RNC855833
1899, Highridge Ref. RNC734666
1899, Lansdown Ref. RNC752877
1899-1900, Blackmoor Ref. RNC642753
1898, Bloomfield Ref. RNE644362
1898, Highridge Ref. RNE734666
1898, Lansdown Ref. RNE752877
1919, Blackmoor Ref. POP642753
1919, Bloomfield Ref. POP644362

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Memories

89 memories found. Showing results 41 to 50.

Leaving School

So! Back to 11 Woburn Place, back to school on Hope Chapel Hill back to Hotwells golden mile with its 15 pubs. The War was still going on but there was only limited bombing and some daylight raids, the city was in a dreadful state ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1945 by Arthur Cottrell

My Fourteenth Birthday Year

Our journey to Mickleton started when we arrived at Chipping Campdon, there was no one to meet us, we, my mother, an aunt and I were taken to the local police station where we stayed the night.  Next morning we boarded a ...Read more

A memory of Mickleton in 1944 by Mavis Upchurch

Templemeads Station

My father was working on Templemeads Station around the time it was bombed, I have the feeling it was a Saturday night in the summer of 1942.  I was about four years old and we were lodging in a house by the Avon with a cellar and ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1940 by Anne Cross

Camping Holiday

As a young teenager with fond memories of Evesham and surrounding areas, I enjoyed with two of my male friends, camping  at  Weir Camping Meadow, which was located by the River Avon down in the lower part of the town. The camping ...Read more

A memory of Evesham in 1940 by Arthur Forty

Growing Up

I was born on the 24th of July 1929 above a shop next to a pub called the Rose of Denmark, in Hotwells, Bristol, very convenient for Father to wet his whistle and my head at the same time. Father was born in 1893, Mother in 1895. They ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1930 by Arthur Cottrell

Tennis Courts Portway Bristol

These Clifton Tennis Courts alongside Bristol's Portway road were built just after the road was opened. The new built Portway from Bristol to Avonmouth a very modern road in its day. The wide A4 Portway trunk road passes ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1930 by Paul Townsend

Memory Of Soudley

Steam to Stratford, in the early 20's James Joiner (a contractor from Soudley) assembled his convoy of Traction Engines en Route to Stratford Upon Avon to start the new Sewer Contract which was awarded to Joiners for £57,000. He ...Read more

A memory of Upper Soudley in 1920 by James Bevan

Colerne From 1916

My grandparents lived in Colerne, my mother Minnie Louise Rowe was born there around the 1880s and my father William Simpkins lived in Colerne with the Aust family from when he was a baby. I was born in Bath in Kingsmead Road in a ...Read more

A memory of Colerne in 1920 by Edgar Simpkins

Willcoxs And Bennets And A Jones

Is there anyone out there who can help me with a family that I believe lived in Old Sodbury House at the 1901 census? At this time William Charles Willcox 52, lived with Mary J Jones 40, who later became Willcox. ...Read more

A memory of Old Sodbury in 1910 by Sue Hodges

Bathhampton Mill

This is the old mill on the banks of the River Avon at Bathampton. It may have been operational at this time but by 1930 it was labelled as disused.

A memory of Bathampton in 1900 by First Name Last Name

Captions

171 captions found. Showing results 97 to 120.

Caption For Salisbury, Church House And Crane Bridge 1906

Crane Bridge carries the road over the River Avon.

Caption For Christchurch, Blackwater Ferry 1900

Christchurch stands on two rivers, the Stour and the Avon, and gets its old name of Twyneham from the Anglo Saxon, meaning 'the town between the rivers'.

Caption For Cropthorne, Mill 1910

Situated on the Avon, Cropthorne Mill has often attracted the attentions of artists and photographers.

Caption For Devizes, The Caen Hill Flight 1898

Few canal sights in Britain match the splendour of the Caen Hill flight of 29 locks which raises the Kennet and Avon canal 230 feet over a two mile stretch.

Caption For Malmesbury, The Abbey 1924

The impressive and imposing ruins of Malmesbury Abbey look down on the river Avon 60 feet below.

Caption For Cropthorne, Mill 1910

Situated on the Avon, Cropthorne Mill has often attracted the attentions of artists and photographers.

Caption For Cropthorne, Mill 1910

Situated on the Avon, Cropthorne Mill has often attracted the attentions of artists and photographers.

Caption For Great Comberton, The Village C1960

The old parish of Great Comberton runs from the river Avon to the summit of Bredon Hill.

Caption For Malmesbury, The View From Daniel's Well C1955

Beyond the trees is the River Avon, and the houses in the distance are in Bristol Street and part of Burnivale.

Caption For Warwick, Bridge End 1922

Bridge End is on the south bank of the Avon, where all the roads from the south previously met to cross into Warwick.

Caption For Bristol, The Entrance To The Floating Harbour C1935

The project cost about £600,000, and involved diverting the Avon to the south from Totterdown and round the city to link up with its old course.

Caption For Great Somerford, The Church Of St Peter And St Paul C1955

This village's name means 'a ford only available in summer'; the church stands above the Bristol Avon.

Caption For Bristol, The Docks C1950

For the mid 13th century, it represented a major feat of civil engineering that involved diverting the course of the River Frome from its ancient junction with the Avon.

Caption For Bath, Roman Baths 1901

The Roman town of Aquae Sulis, now Bath, grew up at the point where the Fosse Way crossed the river Avon.

Caption For Salisbury, Fisherton Street 1906

The spire is of the Congregational (now United Reformed) church, with the Victorian clock tower opposite on the bridge over the Avon.

Caption For Salisbury, Fisherton Mill From Longbridge C1955

Castle Road (part of the A360 to Amesbury) is on the right, and the Avon Valley is just out of the picture to the left.

Caption For Limpley Stoke, The Village C1955

This Wiltshire village grew up on three roughly parallel terraces on the steep and well-wooded Avon valley side, with the parish church at the south end.

Caption For Ringwood, The Millstream 1900

This turn of the century photograph shows a thatcher busy at work on the roof of a picturesque cottage on the banks of the River Avon, which flows serenely through Ringwood on its way to Christchurch

Caption For Braunston, The Green C1955

From here you can travel to London, Birmingham, Leicester, Oxford and Stratford upon Avon by canal.

Caption For Salisbury, The Cathedral From The River 1887

The tranquil surface of the River Avon gently reflects the majesty of the cathedral and its incomparably magnificent 404-foot spire, the tallest in England.

Caption For Tewkesbury, Mythe Bridge 1891

This is Thomas Telford's iron bridge, crossing the River Severn at its junction with the River Avon.

Caption For Bath, Old Bridge 1887

Beyond Southgate, on Broad Quays, the 1966 Churchill Bridge over the River Avon replaced the Old Bridge we see in this view.

Caption For Bathampton, The Weir And Mill 1907

This view looks from the north bank of the Avon, near the toll bridge.

Caption For Monkton Combe, The Post Office C1955

Back across the river, via the Batheaston toll bridge, follow the Avon south before turning right to Monkton Combe, a delightful village nestling in the valley of the Midford Brook.