Maps

440 maps found.

1921, Broom's Barn Ref. POP652585
1901, Broom's Green Ref. HOSM39180
1925, Broom Ref. POP652208
1921, Broome Ref. POP652340
1921, Broome Ref. POP652342
1947, Broome Ref. NPO652341
1902, Broome Ref. RNC652340
1898, Broom Ref. RNE652212
1899, Broome Ref. RNE652341
1947, Broom's Green Ref. NPO652589
1899-1901, Broom's Barn Ref. RNC652585
1899-1900, Broom's Green Ref. RNC652589
1898, Broom's Barn Ref. RNE652585
1946, Broom's Barn Ref. NPO652585
1919, Broom's Green Ref. POP652589
1896, Broom's Green Ref. RNE652589
1897, Broom Ref. RNE652208
1901, Broom Ref. RNC652210
1919, Broom Hill Ref. POP652270
1921, Broom Hill Ref. POP652279

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Memories

146 memories found. Showing results 1 to 10.

When I Was A Girl

When I was about five years old my parents used to take us kids on a Sunday walk. Always remember it was to Stambridge mills. Back then the roads leading to the mill were not more then a country track. On the way to the mills dad ...Read more

A memory of Rochford in 1955 by Mary Jones

Watching Brentford Playing Football 60years Ago.

I have only just found this site for sharing your memories of days long gone by, I used to live at No 30 Coningsby Rd South Ealing W5, we lived in 3 rooms upstairs in this house until my dad was given a ...Read more

A memory of Brentford by wrgbuck69

The Hart Lane Gang

i was born in 1947 in welbeck rd, but my parents moved to hart lane, when my family grew to 7 six boys and a girl, we did'nt have a lot but we got by all the kids round hart lane derwent rd and brooms rd, we used to play football on the ...Read more

A memory of Luton

The Brook In Bull Lane

I remember a narrow brook in Bull Lane running along the bottom of the houses left hand side walking from the high street. My schoolfriend and I used to jump over it and try to push each other in. I sometimes think this is something I ...Read more

A memory of Rayleigh by lamolossi

The Brook In Bull Lane

I remember a narrow brook in Bull Lane running along the bottom of the houses left hand side walking from the high street. My schoolfriend and I used to jump over it and try to push each other in. I sometimes think this is ...Read more

A memory of Rayleigh by lamolossi

Staying At My Grans & The Last Trolley

I remember staying with my gran, late 50's to mid 60's. She lived on Bohemia Road,106 I think the number was, sadly its no longer there. It was knocked down in the 70's. During the summer holidays I spent many ...Read more

A memory of Hastings by David Power

Portskewett 1940 1950's

My name is David Jenkins. The photo of the village green 1931 is taken from the front of the house in which I lived. First time was during the world war 2. My father was working on constuction of a railway line from the ...Read more

A memory of Portskewett by David Jekins

Mellow Street Wash Brook Chadderton

I grew up in chadderton born in 1945 mellow street then moves to Leslie ave bus driver with Oldham Corp then to Canada played drums in a oldham band in the 60s toured with the Hollies Kinks Moody Blues as a ...Read more

A memory of Shaw by Kevin Clarke

Home At Last

I am Paul Percy Robinson who always felt I did not belong in a town and perused with interest the origins of my family it took years, but eventually found a wee place called the broom house just up the bank at Eglingham and traced my ...Read more

A memory of Eglingham in 2000 by Paul Robinson

Hanney Camp

Hi, I remember living on the old Hanney Camp as a little boy; my family, mum, dad and I moved there from Wales when I was just 3 months old. That was in '46, a year later my brother John was born. I think we lived there until '52 ...Read more

A memory of Steventon in 1940 by Ronald Owens

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Captions

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Caption For Broom, The Village 1901

Situated to the south of Alcester on the Midland Railway line, Broom railway station was the interchange for a cross-country route linking up with the Midland main line from Rugby to Bedford.

Caption For York, Low Petergate 1892

The large broom hanging over the doorway is now in the Castle Museum.

Caption For Broom, The Village 1901

There are a number of 16th- and 17th-century half-timbered cottages in this photograph, but judging by the state of some of them the village was living up to the 'Beggarly Broom' image given to it by

Caption For Bidford On Avon, The River And The Nest 1950

The others were Bidford itself, Bidford Grange, and the outlying hamlets of Broom, Barton and Marlcliff.

Caption For Bidford On Avon, High Street 1899

The rhyme goes: 'Piping Pepworth, Dancing Marston, Haunted Hillborough, Hungry Grafton, Dodging Exhall, Papist Wixford, Beggarly Broom, Drunken Bidford'.

Caption For Abinger, Abinger Bottom 1924

The element 'Hurt' in Hurtwood comes from the Old English word 'ceart', meaning a rough common of bracken, gorse and broom.

Caption For Kidderminster, The Church And Canal 1931

Pearsall took advantage of the new handlooms developed by John Broom, a local entrepreneur.

Caption For Castle Bromwich, The Green C1965

The name referred to the wild broom which grew here.

Caption For Castle Bromwich, The Green C1965

The name referred to the wild broom which grew here.

Caption For Bidford On Avon, High Street 1899

The rhyme attributed to him goes: 'Piping Pepworth, Dancing Marston, Haunted Hillborough, Hungry Grafton, Dodging Exhall, Papist Wixford, Beggarly Broom, Drunken Bidford'.