Maps

1,944 maps found.

1946, Misterton Ref. NPO781624
1946, Thornton Ref. NPO847290
1946, Stoughton Ref. NPO840980
1898, Misterton Ref. RNE781624
1895, Wilson Ref. RNE870769
1898, Walton Ref. RNE860179
1899, Woodthorpe Ref. RNE874106
1902-1903, Muston Ref. RNC786276
1901-1902, Misterton Ref. RNC781624
1902-1903, Cossington Ref. RNC678268
1901-1902, Burbage Ref. RNC655543
1901-1903, Cadeby Ref. RNC658405
1946, Owston Ref. NPO799006
1899, Littlethorpe Ref. RNE758321
1899, Muston Ref. RNE786276
1946, Woodhouse Ref. NPO873398
1899, Cossington Ref. RNE678268
1899, Halstead Ref. RNE725772
1899, Rolleston Ref. RNE819478
1899, Stoughton Ref. RNE840980

Books

12 books found. Showing results 25 to 12.

Memories

23 memories found. Showing results 11 to 20.

My Great Grandfather Was Born In Newtown Linford 1879

Daniel Gretton : Born: abt 1854 Newtown Linford, Leicestershire, England   Died: 1913 Resided in Village Street, Newtown Linford, Leicestershire, England   Daniel was dis - owned by his ...Read more

A memory of Newtown Linford in 1860 by Leigh Gretton

One Nights Stay

My name is Pamela Ross, I live in Leicestershire, 40 years ago, i went hiking around the area of Taunton, with my future husband and his friend, after getting off the train, and walking for some time, it was getting dusk and we ...Read more

A memory of West Monkton in 1974 by Pamela Ross

Re Salford In The 1950s

I remember my childhood in Salford very well. We lived on Clarendon Road and I went to Liverpool Street Girls' School. The headmistress was a Mrs Chrighton and the music teacher was a Miss Jones. We used to walk to school and ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1950 by Anne Atkin

Happy Days In Barmouth

My mother Jennie Richards was born in Barmouth in 1917' her parents were Jack and Gwendoline Richards of Gorllwyn Fawr on the Panorama Road. My father was stationed at Ty Craig Castle in 1942, They met and eventually married in ...Read more

A memory of Barmouth by jeanking47

Happy Hebburn Memories

we used to live in a terraced house at 30 South street before we moved into 2,Byron Avenue.on the corner.Dad worked in Swan Hunters shipyard and Mum worked in the Co-op on the Black road.Dad drank in the Clock pub.Mums family lived ...Read more

A memory of Hebburn by vernon.bruce

My Beautiful Grandmother

My beautiful grandmother was just that and hailed from Woodhouse Eaves or so I think. I am trying to find history regarding my family and found this site which may be useful. I remember Grandma talking of her past, ...Read more

A memory of Woodhouse Eaves in 1947 by Doreen Stone

Stone's Map Ten Mile Round Banbury

I recently acquired an old map entitled Stone's Map Ten Miles Round Banbury - it looks like it is over 100 years old. Not sure if it is the original 1855 map. It is on some kind of canvas material. Someone has stamped ...Read more

A memory of Banbury by tmcsorley

The Irving Farming Family

My family go back many generations as farmers in Wetheral up until the 1930s. My Great Grandfather Richard Irving was at The Croft Farm and The Green Farm. My Grandfather Thomas Watson Irving first lived at Pleasant View where ...Read more

A memory of Wetheral by robertirving

Billesdon, Leicestershire. 1977 1990

My dad moved his family into 3 Knights Close, Billesdon, when I was 7 years old. Our family consisted of my dad Terry, my mum Jytte, my brother Steven and myself Dionne. Our neighbours were the Townsend’s at No 1, ...Read more

A memory of Billesdon by Dionne Møller

Braunstone Memories

My dad, Ken, was born 13 May 1938 in the front bedroom of 5 Gallards Hill - he was the youngest son to Sidney and Gladys Taylor. My grandad spent almost all his life in the Leicestershire Regiment. During ww2 my grandad was ...Read more

A memory of Braunstone Town by Caroline Taylor

Captions

47 captions found. Showing results 25 to 48.

Caption For Ibstock, Main Street C1965

The village grew up in the Leicestershire coalfields, along with its neighbours Coalville, Ellistown and Bagworth.

Caption For Ibstock, Main Street C1965

The village grew up in the Leicestershire coalfields, along with its neighbours Coalville, Ellistown and Bagworth.

Caption For Skillington, The Village C1965

Moving south from Grantham, out into the oolitic limestone country towards the Leicestershire border, we reach Skillington; it has a good range of stone houses, and a parish church with some Anglo-Saxon

Caption For Ibstock, Crown Inn C1965

The road rises up from the south, past the parish church, to enter Ibstock, gateway to industrial north-west Leicestershire.

Caption For Skillington, The Village C1965

Moving south from Grantham, out into the oolitic limestone country towards the Leicestershire border, we reach Skillington; it has a good range of stone houses, and a parish church with some Anglo-Saxon

Caption For Kilby, Main Street C1965

This view looks at what amounts to 19th-century small-scale development along the Fleckney Road; the whole adds up to a very cordial rural scene, common over southern Leicestershire.

Caption For Saxby, The Church C1955

George Richardson in 1789 (for Robert Sherrard, 4th Earl of Harborough) in the Classical manner that Pevsner describes as 'an attempt at combining the tradition of Hawksmoor churches of London with Leicestershire

Caption For Woolsthorpe, The Village C1955

This is not Isaac Newton's Woolsthorpe, but the village west of Grantham in rolling countryside right on the Leicestershire border; it has fine views of Belvoir Castle a mile away on its hill on the other

Caption For Welford, High Street C1965

We are now in the Lias clay country along the Leicestershire boundary.

Caption For Saxby, The Church C1955

George Richardson in 1789 (for Robert Sherrard, 4th Earl of Harborough) in the Classical manner that Pevsner describes as 'an attempt at combining the tradition of Hawksmoor churches of London with Leicestershire

Caption For Bitteswell, White Cottage And St Mary's Church C1960

He also designed the Leicestershire and Rutland Lunatic Asylum (1837), now part of the Leicester University campus.

Caption For Stanford On Avon, Stanford Hall And The Lake C1965

We are in the extreme southern tip of the county: whilst Stanford Hall is in Leicestershire, the parish church and the village are in Northamptonshire.

Caption For Bitteswell, White Cottage And St Mary's Church C1960

He also designed the Leicestershire and Rutland Lunatic Asylum (1837), now part of the Leicester University campus.

Caption For Kilby, Main Street C1965

This view looks at what amounts to 19th-century small-scale development along the Fleckney Road; the whole adds up to a very cordial rural scene, common over southern Leicestershire.

Caption For Woodhouse Eaves, The Church C1960

His finest work in Leicestershire was Beaumanor Park (1845), but his best known work is Nelson's Column.

Caption For Woodhouse Eaves, The Church C1960

His finest work in Leicestershire was Beaumanor Park (1845), but his best known work is Nelson's Column.

Caption For Kibworth Harcourt, Main Street C1960

This is red brick village Leicestershire at its best: nothing ostentatious in either the well- designed row of cottages (right) terminated by the Three Horseshoes pub, small and welcoming,

Caption For Stanford On Avon, Stanford Hall And The Lake C1965

We are in the extreme southern tip of the county: whilst Stanford Hall is in Leicestershire, the parish church and the village are in Northamptonshire.

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

Situated just outside the Inner Ring Road on the north side of the city, St Margaret's, one of Leicestershire's fin- est mainly 15th-century churches, can hardly be said to be enhanced by its factory

Caption For Kibworth, The Grammar School C1955

This was one of the finest grammar schools in Leicestershire.

Caption For Cosby, Croft Road From The Nook C1965

Cosby presents a most unusual configuration for a Leicestershire village, which with care and attention over the years could have been described as picturesque.

Caption For Loughborough, Town Centre C1965

Consequently, the police only came to Loughborough eight years after most of the rest of Leicestershire.

Caption For Loughborough, C1955

Did the Romans ever find their way to this corner of Leicestershire?