Maps

357 maps found.

1924, Free Town Ref. POP709201
1924, Halfway Houses Ref. POP725022
1924, Fairfield Ref. POP702745
1924, Fishpool Ref. POP706231
1896, Besses O' Th' Barn Ref. RNE639292
1896, Black Lane Ref. RNE641864
1896, Blackford Bridge Ref. RNE642476
1896, Ainsworth Ref. RNE620611
1947, Redvales Ref. NPO815073
1896, Bolholt Ref. RNE645565
1896, Bradley Fold Ref. RNE647924
1896, Oak Bank Ref. RNE795165
1896, Holcombe Brook Ref. RNE737659
1896, Hollins Ref. RNE738152
1896, Tottington Ref. RNE850809
1896, Starling Ref. RNE838769
1891, Prestwich Ref. HOSM57234
1891, Summerseat Ref. HOSM60921
1891, Unsworth Ref. HOSM62873
1891, Walmersley Ref. HOSM63303

Books

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Memories

964 memories found. Showing results 91 to 100.

Raf Honnington Bury St Edmunds

Hello, we lived at R.AF Honnington, from 1956-1963, before moving to Aden, we loved going to town each Saturday on the bus, visiting the park, shops and "Purdy's" cafe. I have such lovely memories from living there, ...Read more

A memory of Lawshall in 1956 by Hazel Dunn

Hopton Hill

My family were from this area and my grandfather Edward Gough Jones and grandmother Rosa Jones brought up 7 children Joan, Nora, twins Eileen and Beryl, Ron (who still lived in a bungalow at the Crescent Nesscliffe until this year ...Read more

A memory of Nesscliffe in 1910 by Yvonne Dixon

Lament On A London Landing

. When I was a gusty young airman So many seesaw sunny days Were spent with blue girls on Marlborough Downs Our only access, a path both straight and narrow, Thinnest and steepest in its final assent.   Emotions of ...Read more

A memory of Burderop Park in 1964 by Ed Schussler

Ancestral Home

With my newly obtained lawyer´s degree and after joining a British bank based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, I was sent to London, to follow an international training course of one year, along with my wife Rosemarie and our one year ...Read more

A memory of Car Colston in 1972 by Enrique Martin

Visiting Graves Of Grandparents And Great Grandparents

My grandparents Mary (Westbrook) Howard and John Howard rest in the Hanwell cemetery, along with Mary's parents, buried in the row ahead. It took me one and a half hours to find them, as ...Read more

A memory of Hanwell in 2005 by Andrea Stanley

Wellock

My great great great grandmother Margaret Wellock was born in this village in 1811. She married Mathew Edward Bywell from Middleham and lived most of her life in West Witton. She later lived in Aysgarth were she died and is buried in ...Read more

A memory of West Burton by Jackie Bowkett

Happy Days In Latimer

It was only two years or so, from 1959-61, aged 6-8, but it still seems as if the happiest period of my childhood in Latimer was one long, endless, glorious summer. My dad was in the army, in the King's Own Scottish Borderers, ...Read more

A memory of Latimer in 1959 by John Sayer

The Railway Inn

My Gran - Katherine Thomas - ran the Railway Inn (the Tap) for many years. My grandfather Thomas died shortly after I was born. My mother Hilda Jeffery (nee Thomas), my father William Jeffery and myself lived there. My mum died ...Read more

A memory of Llansamlet by Barbara Fossella

Hanmer Family

My grandmother, Sarah Jane Hanmer, was born a twin in Eyton in 1910, her mother, also Sarah Jane Hanmer, is buried there. They were a large family, and my great-grandfather was a farmer. All the children went ...Read more

A memory of Eyton in 1910 by Christine Adams[Nee ,Murray]

Where I Was Born

I was born on New Road, Crickhowell in the very early 1930s. My mother was born in Bridge Street, number 28, where my grandparents lived. My grandfather worked on Glanusk Estate for the then Lord Glanusk until he died. The estate ...Read more

A memory of Crickhowell by George Evans

Captions

367 captions found. Showing results 217 to 240.

Caption For Uley, From Uley Bury 1900

Uley Bury, from where this view was photographed, is acclaimed the most spectacular Iron Age hill- fort in the Cotswolds.

Caption For South Luffenham, St Mary's Church C1955

A tablet records that in 1794 a gypsy girl, Rose Boswell, was buried in the church despite prevailing objections.

Caption For Hemel Hempstead, View From Adeyfield Road C1960

At one time the High Street stretched to the west, to the south of Gadebridge Park, when the land there formed the grounds of the Bury.

Caption For Lenham, Faversham Road C1960

Workmen in the Square found the skeletons of two men and a woman; both men had been buried with a sword and shield.

Caption For The Broads, St Benet's Abbey Ruins C1945

A yacht in full sail races past a well-known landmark on the lower Bure, pulling its dinghy behind.

Caption For Odiham, The Stocks 1903

They are shown here against the northern wall of the Bridewell in The Bury, which was purpose-built in 1743 as a prison or house of correction; by 1847 it had become a police station.

Caption For Hambleton, The Creek And Wardley's Hotel C1955

In Hambleton churchyard is buried the body of an unknown sailor washed up by the River Wyre.

Caption For Torquay, Tormohun Church Interior 1889

'for his Religious and Charitable disposition was esteemed in life and lamented in death'; and one of the peal of six bells hung in 1911 was given by Col Lucius Cary in memory of the many Carys buried

Caption For Llanover, The Church 1898

She is buried with her husband Sir Benjamin Hall (after whom Big Ben was named) in Llanover churchyard, to the left of the path.

Caption For Welford, West Street C1965

Michael Ventris, the great archaeologist and decipherer of Minoan 'Linear B' script, is buried in the church yard at the end.

Caption For Corby, The Church Of St John The Baptist C1965

Built of local limestone, it faces what is a now a busy dual carriageway.

Caption For Hampton Court, C1955

The stone drawbridge entrance to the Great Gatehouse to the palace was buried when Charles II had the moat filled in.

Caption For Thrapston, Chancery Lane C1955

Sir John Washington, who was knighted by Charles I and was buried in the local churchyard, was the brother of Lawrence Washington, whose son John emigrated to America and became the great-grandfather of

Caption For Rochdale, Carr Wood Waterfall 1895

The family are buried at Ashworth Chapel.

Caption For Alfold, The Village C1950

Jean Carre, one of the last of the French glassmakers to work in these parts, is said to be buried in Alfold churchyard.

Caption For Rickinghall, St Mary's Church C1965

The author's in-laws, Dorothy and Harry Goddard, are buried east of the chancel.

Caption For Alloway, The Kirk 1897

Robert Burns played in this churchyard as a boy, and the popular legends about hauntings and the ghostly atmosphere of the roofless ruin affected him deeply.

Caption For Lyndhurst, High Street 1897

Alice Liddell, (the original for Alice in Wonderland), is buried here.

Caption For Ludlow, St Lawrence's Parish Church 1949

He died in 1936, and his ashes are buried in the church wall just to the right of this tree.

Caption For Bury St Edmunds, St Peter's Church 1895

In the distance is the Thingoe Union workhouse of 1836, which also served Bury after 1884.

Caption For Over, The Square C1965

There is a bury roundabout on this site today.

Caption For East Barsham, Sheep On The Fakenham Road 1929

The Asshetons, who first became squires here in 1559, have been keen to keep Downham's appearance unspoiled, and in more recent times have had the electric cables buried underground.

Caption For Wilmslow, Romany's Caravan C1955

After he died in 1943, Mrs Evens gave the van to Wilmslow, and Raq, who died in 1947, is buried beside it.

Caption For Amberley, The Village 1901

P C Wren, the author of 'Beau Geste', is buried in Holy Trinity's churchyard, and the 18th-century Rose Cottage was the home of the Victorian novelist Dinah Mulock (Mrs Craik) while she wrote