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Maps

42 maps found.

1903-1904, Bland Hill Ref. RNC643792
1947, Bland Hill Ref. NPO643792
1925, Bland Hill Ref. POP643792
1898, Bland Hill Ref. RNE643792
1907, Bland Hill Ref. HOSM55432
1910-1912, Blandy Ref. RNC643803
1946, The Brand Ref. NPO846304
1921, The Brand Ref. POP846304
1945, Brands Hill Ref. NPO648752
1947, Byland Abbey Ref. NPO658178
1946, Brand End Ref. NPO648675
1947, Old Byland Ref. NPO796278
1898, Brand End Ref. RNE648675
1902-1903, The Brand Ref. RNC846304
1901-1902, Brand End Ref. RNC648675
1899, The Brand Ref. RNE846304
1922, Brand End Ref. POP648675
1920, Brands Hill Ref. POP648752
1919, Brand Green Ref. POP648677
1898, Brand Green Ref. RNE648678

Books

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Memories

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Ye Olde Six Bells

We moved to Horley in 1952, when I was 10. (Dad worked for Mr Coutts repairing radio's & TV's.) Mum, Dad, & 2 brothers, Robin & Colin. A third brother Crispin Allan (after pub owner) was born there in 1953, after we found him ...Read more

A memory of Horley by annjack69

Worcester Arms

Hello, I am after information about my maternal grandmother, who I have been told was a land lady in the early 1960's at this pub, she then moved on to the Prince of Wales burnt oak. She was known as Helen Holt and Helen McColm and she ...Read more

A memory of Tewkesbury by clarey_clare.phillips

Wembley High Street

i remember a tea rooms before you got to Blands called Mitchell's which had wood paneling and blue check tablecloths around the 1950 period. My husband lived in the flat above the butchers shop on the corner of Ealing road. Next ...Read more

A memory of Wembley

Wembley Happy Days!

I was born in park royal hospital in 1955 and lived in Douglas avenue alperton until 1980. I remember going to Saturday matinee at the regal cinema, ice cream in demarcos who also did great coffee. Henry coopers fruit & veg stall ...Read more

A memory of Wembley

War Years

Although very young at the time, about three, I spent several years during the war in Great Oxendon, living at The Cot which was owned by a Mrs Bland, opposite the village school where my aunt, Miss M Pressley was one of the two school ...Read more

A memory of Great Dalby in 1944 by Janet Turner

Visiting Fona

Most Saturdays my sister Anita and I used to travel on the bus from Bordon to the bus stop in this picture, (at 8 years old I thought I was very grown up) where we would get off the bus to visit our Godmother, Fona, in a little ...Read more

A memory of Headley Down in 1968 by Barbara Ingarfield

Upper Tooting

I grew up in Park Hill Court, Beeches Road in the sixties and seventies; my father was the caretaker. He used to be in charge of the bonfire on firework night, up on one of the drying grounds. The girls stood one side and the boys stood ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1969 by Dawn Sampson

Trenchers Restaraunt

On Saturday evening, I set off for Whitby on the bus and arrived there for 6;30 pm. On arriving, I thought of asking the bus driver what was the last bus back to Middlsbro, but then thought there was not much point as I was only ...Read more

A memory of Whitby in 2012 by Roland Mitchell

Trams, Markets And Bright Yellow Trolly Buses

With big hugs from waiting family on one of the many platforms that was Central Station, we hurried though the noise and clouds of steam towards the station exit and into the sunlight...my eyes ...Read more

A memory of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1940 by Raymond Hay

Third World Conditions In The English Countryside

It is all too easy to look back to the past and remember an idyllic picture of country life and forget how it was in reality, I often think back to when I was growing up in Claverley in the 1950s ...Read more

A memory of Claverley in 1961 by Philip Westwood

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Captions

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Caption For Luton, Williamson Street C1965

Carnegie's magnificent public library has already gone, replaced by a bland modern structure that has now also been removed.

Caption For Kippax, Westfield Lane C1965

Bought by the Bland family in 1595, it was greatly extended: its frontage measured 600ft, only slightly less than Wentworth Woodhouse near Elsecar, thereby losing a wager made with the Marquis of Rockingham

Caption For Farnborough, Queensmead Shopping Centre C1965

Farnborough is home to much modern architecture; some might say it was bland and characterless.

Caption For Bath, High Street And Municipal Building 1904

This view, taken from the Abbey's aisle roof, again shows the Guildhall to the right; much of the left hand side has now been rebuilt, including the Christopher Hotel, in 1960s bland and cheap neo-Georgian

Caption For Leominster, Corn Square C1955

Notice the old Town Hall on the right hand side of the photograph – now sadly destroyed and replaced by an extremely bland 1960s building.

Caption For Dunstable, Broad Walk C1965

The fashion for pedestrianisation can seem bland, but styles have improved since these early days.

Caption For Colchester, Cups Hotel And Corn Exchange 1892

The hotel, with its six gables and ponder- ous style, replaced a stuccoed 18th-century building, but it has now gone, to be replaced by the bland misjudgement of 1970s Greytown House.

Caption For Kibworth, Church Road C1955

This view, taken from the north-west angle of St Wistan's churchyard, shows an uncomfortable blend of small scale 18th- and 19th-century cottages with the more angular, bland 20th-century buildings.

Caption For Shifnal, Market Place 1898

Shifnal is thought to have been the model for P G Wodehouse's 'Market Blandings'.

Caption For Harrow, Station Road C1960

The neo-Georgian North Thames Gas Board showroom is a bland intrusion.

Caption For East Ham, High Street C1965

On the left the taller Victorian brick buildings were demolished in the 1970s and replaced by bland flat roofed ones.

Caption For Castleford, Queens Park C1965

Two local landowners, the Earl of Crewe (of Fryston Hall) and John Davison Bland (of Kippax Park) donated the area, which was laid out to offer recreation and splendid views over the township

Caption For Pinner, Bridge Street C1955

drops down towards Pinner Underground Station, under the railway bridge and on towards Harrow-on-the-Hill, there is little to herald the wonderful surprise of turning into the High Street just beyond the bland

Caption For Manchester, St Ann's Square And Church 1886

The church was paid for by Lady Ann Bland, the last of the Mosley family.

Caption For Manchester, St Ann's Square And Church 1886

In 1709 the foundation stone of St Ann's was laid; the church was a gift to the town from Lady Ann Bland.

Caption For Leicester, St Margaret's Church, St Margaret's Way C1955

There are some unattributed monuments, and modest glass, but all is just a fraction too bland.

Caption For Sutton, Cheam Road C1955

Out of sight on the left, behind the old telephone kiosk, was the Cheam Road Cinema of 1911, a stylish and grand building whose frontage block was removed in the 1970s and replaced by a bland blank

Caption For Leominster, Corn Square C1955

Notice the old Town Hall on the right hand side of the photograph – now sadly destroyed and replaced by an extremely bland 1960s building.

Caption For Nottingham, Old Market Square C1950

Some of the buildings on the left were replaced by the ten-storey office block Market Square House of 1967, whose bland glazed facades dominate the left side of the market place.

Caption For Hornsey, The Town Hall C1965

The superb building, enhanced by attention to detail both outside and inside, stands proud behind a somewhat bland grassed forecourt.

Caption For Mardale, Castle Crag 1893

Here the Penrith-born artist Jacob Thompson had often stayed with the Blands while on his painting trips to the area.

Caption For Cosby, Main Street C1965

Instead, little has happened since 1965, except that the spindly trees on the right have matured and The Huntsman pub (previously The New Inn) has been rebuilt in a bland red brick.

Caption For Loughborough, Pinfold Gate C1965

The changes did not, fortunately, lead to a bland uniformity in the way in which the town appeared.

Caption For Aldeburgh, The Fishing Boats C1955

Something really fascinates a crowd of very curious beach-goers - not just a landing of fish.