Places

3 places found.

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Maps

56 maps found.

1925, Bank End Ref. POP632257
1947, Bank End Ref. NPO632259
1897, Bank End Ref. RNE632257
1947, Bankend Ref. NPO632452
1925, Bankend Ref. POP632452
1947, Bank End Ref. NPO632257
1897, Bank End Ref. RNE632259
1925, Bank End Ref. POP632259
1901-1905, Bankend Ref. RNC632452
1903-1904, Bank End Ref. RNC632259
1901-1905, Bank End Ref. RNC632257
1911 - 1912, Bank End Ref. HOSM36956
1920, Fair Cross Ref. POP702666
1897-1898, Chadwell Heath Ref. RNC666020
1896, Becontree Ref. RNE636184
1896, Creekmouth Ref. RNE682952
1896, Marks Gate Ref. RNE774737
1905, Banks Ref. RNC632575
1894 - 1895, Dagenham Ref. HOSM34402
1897-1902, Dagenham Ref. RNC687483

Books

15 books found. Showing results 1 to 15.

Memories

6,336 memories found. Showing results 1 to 10.

Summer Of '63

Hello. Although I spent all of my early life - that is up to the age of 21 - in Penge, South London, I also spent some time(s) in Ash (Kent) during August to December, 1963. I have already written about my early life in ...Read more

A memory of Ash by Anthony Godly

Memories Of Gateshead By Derek Rutherford

When I was married at 18 we managed to inhabit a flat in NEWALL TERRACE TEAMS and our neighbour was a character called Curly Smith who was well known ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead by derekarat

Tosh And I And Easy Pickings

Tosh and I and easy pickings Hi everyone, It's me again with the continuation of my wee story. I was taken by surprise how many people liked and responded to the ...Read more

A memory of Newarthill by Peter Laird

Alfred Patchetts Butchers

My gandfather was Alfred Patchett and he was a successful butcher in the making when he opened his butchers shop in Chapel Street, Bingley. I believe it is the road which runs off to the right in this photograph. I have a ...Read more

A memory of Bingley in 1930 by Linda Strong

Childhood Memories Of Twycross

I remember moving to Twycross with Mum and Dad (Leslie and Louie Jones) and it was in the middle of the war.  Dad had to go into the RAF and I remember going to Atherstone Station to meet him one day when he came home ...Read more

A memory of Twycross in 1941 by Cecily Hart

Early Accommodation For Leveringtons Fruit Pickers

It was after World War 1 that strawberry growing became important around the Wisbech area and as strawberry prices continued to rise so more and more strawberries were planted. Eventually, local ...Read more

A memory of Leverington in 1920 by Susan Robb

Gisborough Hall Nursing Home

This photo rings back memories of delivering meat to nursing home on a bi weekly basis, In the 1960’s this hall was used as a nursing home and my dad supplied the meat. My memories were of the heat from the kitchen, ...Read more

A memory of Guisborough by Robert Pallister

Growing Up In Cockethurst Ave

I remember going down Snakes Lane to the airport as children and playing in the shelter by the bridge. Later in my early twenties when my husband was working at the airport and we had a frogeye sprite which he ...Read more

A memory of Southend Airport by Corinne Fisher Nee Reynolds

Growing Up In Wandsworth

As a young schoolboy I lived in Wandle House off Garrett Lane which was owned by Peabody estates at that time. So, taking a walk from there, I can remember the rag and bone carts passing on their way home to the other end ...Read more

A memory of Wandsworth in 1960 by Brian Parkinson

Holy Trinity Church 1891 Margate

The Margate cliffs were chalk. An extremely tall church named The Holy Trinity Church sat in the middle of Trinity Square about 800m from the sea. During the war, the roof had collapsed leaving the outer walls, tower ...Read more

A memory of Margate by Dave Harris

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Captions

2,042 captions found. Showing results 1 to 24.

Caption For Wilmslow, Bank Square Gardens C1955

At the other end of Grove Street, Bank Square took its name from the Union Bank of Manchester, with its fine clock and cupola.

Caption For Twickenham, King Street 1909

This view of King Street looks east towards the grand Portland stone bank at its end.

Caption For Marnham, The Ferry 1913

This view, from the end of a path leading past the Brownlow Arms to the west bank of the Trent, looks across the tidal river from Nottinghamshire to South Clifton in Lincolnshire.

Caption For Ipswich, The Power Station C1955

A 20th-century means of producing power shares the banks of the Orwell with vessels which harness one of the oldest forms of power.

Caption For Bury St Edmunds, Buttermarket C1955

The buildings from the High Spot to the Suffolk were damaged by the Zeppelin raid in 1915, and the timbered Freeman, Hardy and Willis is a 1920s replacement.

Caption For Ipswich, The Power Station C1955

A 20th-century means of pro- ducing power shares the banks of the Orwell with vessels which harness one of the oldest forms of power.

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 Daventry, High Street C1948

The gable- ended house at the centre of the picture at the end of the High Street was demol- ished when Tavern Lane was widened in about 1955.

Caption For Nantwich, The Square C1965

This photograph shows the western end of the Square.

Caption For Twickenham, London Road C1955

The railway station at Twickenham was opened in 1848, and the shopping district quickly developed nearby; it was gradually being improved with new shops in the late Victorian and early Edwardian

Caption For Minehead, The Parade 1892

The building in the centre of the row, at the end of Bancks Street, was all that remained of the older buildings.

Caption For Debenham, Market Green And High Street C1955

At this end was Mark Ellis the tailor, later Fleming's Antiques; at the other end Barclays Bank.

Caption For Widnes, West Bank 1923

We are looking at West Bank and the Victoria Promenade.

Caption For St Austell, Church Street 1898

A street cleaner works below the church wall, while a boy seems interested in William Box's grocery, wine and spirit shop; two ladies approach Russell and Co's drapery shop next door.

Caption For Malmesbury, Looking Towards The High Street C1955

The unsurfaced roads and thickly wooded banks climb down the steep slopes at the end of the Vale of Pewsey.

Caption For Devizes, Hartmoor 1899

The unsurfaced roads and thickly wooded banks climb down the steep slopes at the end of the Vale of Pewsey.

Caption For Braintree, High Street C1960

The Bank Street/Great Square corner was rebuilt in the 1930s with a building capped by a stylish cupola (centre, at the end of the street).

Caption For Braintree, High Street C1960

The Bank Street/Great Square corner was rebuilt in the 1930s with a building capped by a stylish cupola (centre, at the end of the street).

Caption For Ten Mile Bank, The Village C1955

The village's name derives from a long bank along the river Ouse, on the right of the photograph, defending the low-lying land from flooding.

Caption For Morecambe, The Promenade 1899

This lovely view of the Promenade looks north towards Hest Bank, with the Central Pier in the background.

Caption For Bedford, Newnham Bridge 1897

Further east along The Embankment, Newnham Bridge crosses the north branch of the River Ouse at the south end of Tennyson Road.

Caption For Potter Heigham, The Broads C1926

Here we see sailing boats and dinghies alongside the River Thurne, with G Applegate's boatbuilding sheds on the west bank.

Caption For Devizes, Hartmoor 1899

The unsurfaced roads and thickly wooded banks climb down the steep slopes at the end of the Vale of Pewsey.

Caption For Meifod, The Village C1955

There is everything you could want in one terrace of highly disparate buildings here in the centre of the village, from the whitewashed Midland Bank at the far end to some 'Players Please' at Rowland's