Maps

786 maps found.

1947, Cat Bank Ref. NPO664386
1899, Sandy Bank Ref. RNE825275
1897, Sodylt Bank Ref. RNE833913
1898, South Bank Ref. RNE834372
1896, Stacey Bank Ref. RNE837618
1898, River Bank Ref. RNE817349
1895, Pishill Bank Ref. RNE806566
1896, Warton Bank Ref. RNE861219
1896, Weld Bank Ref. RNE862832
1897, West Bank Ref. RNE863677
1895, Tompset's Bank Ref. RNE849849
1898, Wrangle Bank Ref. RNE874827
1897, Western Bank Ref. RNE865776
1899, Wall Bank Ref. RNE859806
1924, Rough Bank Ref. POP820483
1925, South Bank Ref. POP834371
1924, South Bank Ref. POP834372
1924, Sunny Bank Ref. POP842885
1919, Tattle Bank Ref. POP845465
1919, The Banks Ref. POP846290

Books

15 books found. Showing results 313 to 15.

Memories

6,677 memories found. Showing results 131 to 140.

Happy Memories

My goodness, some of the articles brought back so many good memories. I lived at Riverside Place and went to Lord Knyvitts School around 1957. The milk that iced up in the morning at school and the newspaper I was required to tear up ...Read more

A memory of Stanwell by Sue Pharo

Little Waltham

I was born in Little Waltham and lived there until 1967. I only left because I got married and the cost of housing in the village, even then, was way out of our reach, so we had to move 20 miles north to Sible Hedingham. I had a ...Read more

A memory of Little Waltham by Richard Mansfield

Hot Summer Days

The group of three boys on their bicyles reminds me of hot summer days riding back from the Forest school to my home in Wokingham. We would often stop here - outside the hardware shop (Husseys?) and have a last chat before going our ...Read more

A memory of Wokingham in 1959 by John Buck

A Walk For A Pint

I can remember vividly walking from Trafford Road in Salford, all the way up Eccles new Rd with my new wife. Why did we walk? because we had nowt, as we said then. We walked all the way, talking and planning our future. When we got to ...Read more

A memory of Eccles in 1970 by David Timperley

Joan The Wad

I have bought Joan the Wad Cornish pickles at the Abbey and caught a trout in the river that runs in front of it. I was evacuated to the village in the war to Church Town Farm with Mr and Mrs Greenway and there was a large monkey puzzle ...Read more

A memory of Lanivet in 1950 by John Angus

My Hometown

Brynmawr is a quiet little town on the edge of the valley roads. These photos bring back memories of all the hills I climbed, picnics on the mountain, paddling in the pond across from our house in Warwick Road. Snow 6ft deep in Winter. I ...Read more

A memory of Brynmawr by Jackie Haynes

Home

My memory goes back to the time my mother and father lived in Ponti and it was a very happy time. My father passed away in 1956, killed in Bristol and my father asked my mother to marry him in the bandstand in Ponti Park and they had a good ...Read more

A memory of Pontypridd in 1940 by William Watkins

My Family In Woolston

My Grandparents lived in Oakbank Road, My Aunt lived in Laurel Road. I can remember going to work with my Nan in the evenings. She used to be a cleaner for Knaptons Bookies and Malizias Bookies (Bridge Road). My Aunt worked at ...Read more

A memory of Woolston in 1959 by Jan Wills

Growing Up In Motspur Park

I lived in Motspur Park from 1968 till 1989, everyone I knew friendly place, the local pub was clean and friendly, used to go courting there with my late husband. Been back a few times and have noticed a dramatic decline ...Read more

A memory of Motspur Park in 1984 by Catherine Goldby

Mersea Island Primary School 1950s

Born on Mersea island- what a haven we school children had to live and grow in. Endless poppy fields and bluebell woods, golden beaches and primrose banks flanked the leafy lanes. Greedy land grabbers have ...Read more

A memory of West Mersea in 1956 by Kay Quigley

Captions

2,423 captions found. Showing results 313 to 336.

Caption For Bradford On Avon, River Avon 1914

The round house on the north bank of the river was a popular bathing spot.

Caption For Cropredy, The Lock C1960

The village lies on the banks of the Oxford Canal and the river Cherwell.

Caption For Oxford, Cornmarket Street C1950

The premises of Barclays Bank can be seen on the right, next door to Morris Garages.

Caption For Wye, Bridge Street 1903

The Mill 1901 Now absorbed into the expanding suburbs of Ashford to the south, this small village once boasted its own imposing windmill on the banks of the Great Stour.

Caption For Barrow Upon Soar, The Bridge And River C1965

By 1086 the Soar Valley was well settled, and although the Domesday village of Barhou offers little to delight the visitor, the river has a watery magnetism which draws families from Leicester to its banks

Caption For Burnt Oak, Watling Avenue C1955

Apart from a sign of the times - the bank building on the left has given way to an amusement arcade - little has physically changed.

Caption For Cleckheaton, The Green C1965

This photograph of The Green shows the mock-Gothic Martin's Bank in the centre of the town.

Caption For Canford Magna, Canford Bridge 1899

The Portland stone bridge, built in 1813, carries the main road from Poole to Wimborne on the far bank of the River Stour.

Caption For Avebury, The Circle C1955

The entire complex comprises an outer circular bank with an inner ditch.

Caption For Wareham, The River Frome C1960

Wareham is seen here from South Bridge, looking westwards to the banks of the Anglo-Saxon Town Walls and Castle Close (centre right), built by Edward Seymer Clark on the footings of a Norman fortress

Caption For Pershore, Lower Newlands 1931

Pershore is an old market town of considerable charm on the right bank of the River Avon.

Caption For Abergavenny, River Usk And Sugarloaf 1898

In this idyllic scene much loved by artists and photographers, the River Usk wends its way through wooded banks away from Abergavenny and flows on to join the Severn beyond Newport.

Caption For Abergavenny, River Usk And Sugarloaf 1898

In this idyllic scene much loved by artists and photographers, the River Usk wends its way through wooded banks away from Abergavenny and flows on to join the Severn beyond Newport.

Caption For Belfast, Ulster Bank, Waring Street 1897

A fine view of one of Belfast's many imposing buildings, the Ulster Bank in Waring Street.

Caption For Horning, The Reach C1965

It is said that this point on the River Bure has seen various means of crossing from one bank to the other for the last thousand years.

Caption For Bodmin, Mount Folly Square 1894

The building across the square behind the fountain is now Barclays Bank.

Caption For Bournemouth, From The Square 1900

The Square was created on its banks.

Caption For Darlington, Victoria Road 1903

This photograph shows Victoria Road and the approach to Bank Top railway station.

Caption For Huntingdon, The Bridge From Castle Hill 1898

The sturdy building on the opposite bank of the river was put up in the 1850s as a flour mill; later it was used for textiles.

Caption For Exmouth, The Pier 1896

A ferry crosses the Exe from here to the village of Starcross on the opposite bank.

Caption For Bantham, 1926

The tiny settlement of Bantham, with its passenger ferry and boat-houses, clings to the eastern bank of the Avon where the river makes one last sweeping curve before meeting the sea.

Caption For Richmond, From West 1908

Taken from Billy Banks Wood south of the Swale, this distant view shows the defensive site of Richmond Castle, and the town clinging precariously - and picturesquely - to the hillside

Caption For Helston, Coinagehall Street 1931

What was the Cornish Bank (designed by W J Winn, who also built the Methodist Chapel) is now Lloyd's.

Caption For Oxford, 'the Eights' 1922

One of the most colourful events on the Thames, Eights Week takes place in May: it is then that the college barges and the river banks rapidly fill up with riverside spectators and those who simply enjoy