Maps

240 maps found.

1924, Afon-Wen Ref. POP620475
1947, Afon Eitha Ref. NPO620187
1897, Afon Eitha Ref. RNE620187
1903, Afon Wen Ref. RNC620443
1899, Afon Wen Ref. RNE620443
1947, Afon Wen Ref. NPO620443
1896, Afon-Wen Ref. RNE620475
1921, Afon Eitha Ref. POP620187
1922, Afon Wen Ref. POP620443
1947, Afon-Wen Ref. NPO620475
1902, Afon Eitha Ref. RNC620187
1922, Glan-Yr-Afon Ref. POP714407
1924, Glan-Yr-Afon Ref. POP714410
1947, Glan-Yr-Afon Ref. NPO714402
1899, Glan-Yr-Afon Ref. RNE714402
1896, Glan-Yr-Afon Ref. RNE714410
1898, Glan-Yr-Afon Ref. RNE714407
1897, Glan-Yr-Afon Ref. RNE714413
1910, Afon-Wen Ref. HOSM35603
1888, Afon Merch Ref. HOSM70791

Books

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Memories

30 memories found. Showing results 1 to 10.

The Good Old Days At Betws Yn Rhos

Seeing this picture brings back many memories of helping my father to serve Petrol at our small village shop, called Min Afon Stores. Not too sure if that is not me, in the picture, as we actually went out to ...Read more

A memory of Betws-yn-Rhos by Bryn Jones

Happiness

Hi in the seventies every summer my late husband, myself and our three children stayed in an old caravan on Plas Hen farm,and they were the happiest of times. We could walk down Lon Geod to go to Afon Wen beach,and a more lovelier walk is ...Read more

A memory of Chwilog by Kathleen Pyke

Surveying At Newry

In the early 1950s Mining undergraduates at the University of Birmingham practised land surveying at Llanfairfechan. They lodged for most of June at Newry Cottages, now Plas Heulog. The task was to traverse the area south of ...Read more

A memory of Llanfairfechan by Phil Rwad

Newcomer Road

That must have been just before we moved in to number 57 newcome I was actually born in the prefabs at the bottom of newcomer road . We did move next door to you & I do remember Mr & Mrs cote and I do remember you .My mother was ...Read more

A memory of Shenley by happysalcombe

Prefabs In Ripple Road Dagenham 1947 To 1959

I was born in Upney hospital in July 1947 and lived in a prefab at 703 Ripple Road. Opposite was a bone/scrap yard and along the road the Ship & Shovel pub. I went to Campbell and Dawson schools and ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham by Maureen Morris

1861 Leese Hall, Near Leeming Area

Hi, does anyone know of a Leese Hall, I presume on the Leese Road (which is still present running along the A1 on google maps). My relative, through marriage to my great aunt; I'm helping trace his family - the ...Read more

A memory of Pickhill by Hayley Forsyth

A Fondly Remembered Childhood

I was born in 1942 and and spent my childhood in Walthamstow, which up to the time I left in 1967 was predominantly a white working class area in north-east London; I went to Chapel End Infants and Junior Schools ...Read more

A memory of Walthamstow by Roy Beiley

The Plough Inn, Kibblesworth

This is for Margaret Elliot, I am from Kent but my adopted Grandad, Fred (Frederick Joseph) Johnson was the landlord of the Plough Inn during and after the Second World War and my mother and I were evacuated there and ...Read more

A memory of Kibblesworth by elstonevans

Penhill

Born in 1951, I lived in Lechlade,Ledbury, Highworth, Oldtown, Cunningham Road and I lived on Penhill Drive in the late 1950s, I went to the infants and junior school. In the infants we learned to count by using small stones kept in a tobacco ...Read more

A memory of Swindon by Paul Everitt

Plaistow In The 1940s & 50s

I was born in Sutton Road, Plaistow (Plaster to us locals) in 1944 and from the age of 4 I was free to roam. Things were different then! Barking Road for all the shops, and the pubs. Rathbone Street market on a Saturday, ...Read more

A memory of East Ham by George Davidge

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Captions

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Caption For Maesteg, General View C1955

Llantwit Major stands on the Afon Colhugh, and the place is said to have once been a port.

Caption For Machynlleth, The Corris Railway 1899

Corris, which gave its name to the Welsh narrow-gauge railway line, is a slate-quarrying village in the valley of the Afon Dulas.

Caption For Llantwit Major, Nash Point Lighthouse C1920

Llantwit Major stands on the Afon Colhugh, and the place is said to have once been a port.

Caption For Llantwit Major, Nash Point Lighthouse C1920

Llantwit Major stands on the Afon Colhugh, and the place is said to have once been a port.

Caption For Blaenau Ffestiniog, General View 1903

This finely-composed study shows the Afon Bowydd, the road bridge, the railway bridge, the ranks of terraces of Blaenau, and the mountains beyond.

Caption For Llanrwst, Y Bont Fawr Bridge And The Victoria Hotel 1892

This beautifully proportioned stone bridge (Y Bont Fawr means 'the big bridge'), built over the Afon Conwy in 1636, has been a well-known beauty spot and subject for artists for centuries.

Caption For Pwllheli, General View 1891

Set on the south coast of the Lleyn peninsula, at the mouth of the Penrhos river, it was once a thriving commercial port; but the sea threw a sandbank across the mouth of the Afon Erch, causing the maritime

Caption For Ashford, High Street 1901

Centre left of the picture we can see a Bon Marché shop; the Bingo Hall now stands on this site.

Caption For Stanion, The Church C1960

Inside the church is a bone: according to legend, it is a rib from a cow that provided all the milk for the village!

Caption For Rochdale, Carr Wood Waterfall 1895

Later the race served a bone mill and a small woollen and cotton mill nearby.

Caption For Quorn, High Street C1965

The village sits astride the A6, only two miles north of Mountsorrel, and although deeply embedded in granite country, the buildings in the photograph lack any of that hard-edged quality.