Places
36 places found.
Those places high-lighted have photos. All locations may have maps, books and memories.
- Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
- Marlow, Buckinghamshire
- Chesham, Buckinghamshire
- High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
- Amersham, Buckinghamshire
- Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire
- Buckingham, Buckinghamshire
- Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire
- Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire
- Wendover, Buckinghamshire
- Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
- Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire
- Lower Winchendon, Buckinghamshire
- Nether Winchendon, Buckinghamshire
- Wolverton, Buckinghamshire
- Burnham, Buckinghamshire
- Bletchley, Buckinghamshire
- Woburn Sands, Buckinghamshire
- Bourne End, Buckinghamshire
- Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire
- Whitchurch, Buckinghamshire
- Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire
- Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire
- West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
- Chenies, Buckinghamshire
- Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire
- Cliveden, Buckinghamshire
- Stony Stratford, Buckinghamshire
- Wooburn Green, Buckinghamshire
- Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire
- Oakley, Buckinghamshire
- Haddenham, Buckinghamshire
- Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire
- Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire
- Farnham Common, Buckinghamshire
- Winslow, Buckinghamshire
Photos
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Maps
2,127 maps found.
Books
10 books found. Showing results 1 to 10.
Memories
36 memories found. Showing results 1 to 10.
96 Melody Road Staplehurst Family
I was born at St Teresa's Hospital in Wimbledon in December 1949 and taken home to our prefab in Melody Road. My dad was called Ernie, my mum Phyllis, and two older brothers Bill and Ted. Bill was 12 years older ...Read more
A memory of Wandsworth by
A Child's View.
I moved to Woldingham with my Mother (she worked for Sir James and Lady Marshall at Whistlers Wood) when I was five years old (1951). I remember my Mother ordering food from Saffins and this I believe was delivered. Also remember ...Read more
A memory of Woldingham by
At The Beginning Of The Blitz.
I remember leaving Ilford with my parents September1940 as my father thought serious raids would begin soon. We were not able to find any accommodation until we arrived at Bacombe Lodge on the London Road in Wendover and my ...Read more
A memory of Wendover
Battersea
I was born and raise in Battersea from 1948 till late 1960. My father David Beardall owned a second hand shop in Plough Road also he was a totter drove a horse an cart. During the time I worked in a soft drink factory in st. John hill if ...Read more
A memory of Battersea by
Blacksmith's Yard
My paternal grandmother Annie Cowell came from Stanford and I have always been led to believe that the space on the left of the house in the foreground, where the trees are, was the site of her father's blacksmith's ...Read more
A memory of Stanford-le-Hope in 1940 by
Born And Raised Here
I remember this hospital, being born here. My mother told me it was a lovely summer's day until the day was drawing on and it turned windy and cloudy and a nasty thunderstorm. My mother had not a clue what to call me so the nurse ...Read more
A memory of Taplow in 1956 by
Going To School
I was evacuated to Fenny Stratford, Bletchley, Buckinghamshire to be with my aunt. Whilst there I sat an exam called "the 11 plus" which I passed and on the basis of which I was awarded a scholarship to Mitcham County Grammar School ...Read more
A memory of Mitcham in 1941 by
Growing Up British
Since my birth coincided exactly with the outbreak of World War II in the September of 1939, my mum must have felt that childbirth was synonymous with calamity; I was Mum's 'war effort'. Home was a semi-detached two-storey house ...Read more
A memory of Burnt Oak in 1945 by
Hairdressers Banstead High Street 1969 1973
I worked as a Saturday girl at the hairdressers opposite the church in Banstead High Street when I was 15 in 1969. It was called Nicolette then and I worked for Margaret and her mother Mrs Anscombe. ...Read more
A memory of Banstead in 1969 by
Kango Ammers
Yeah I worked there in 1963. I think everbody in Morden (unskilled) worked there at one time or another; if it wasn't there it would be Foster's transformers, or Triang. All on minimum wage or less, I got the equivalent of 28pence an hour ...Read more
A memory of Morden in 1963
Captions
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117Southern England BUCKINGHAMSHIRE WADDESDON, Waddesdon Manor,
The celebrated village of Cookham, a mile or so south of Bourne End, is seen here from the boatyard on the Buckinghamshire bank, although curiously until 1992 a strip of about 30 feet along
This view is from the Buckinghamshire bank, looking north from the A4 Bath Road immediately east of the bridge.
In the distance is the Five Arrows Hotel; the five arrows symbolise the five Rothschild brothers - the badge is seen on houses and cottages all over central Buckinghamshire.
It was built in 1712 for William Lowndes, Secretary to the Treasury, who came from Winslow in central Buckinghamshire where in 1700 he had built Winslow Hall.
The Brocas is the name given to Eton's riverside meadows on the former Buckinghamshire bank.
It is a church that should be visited, and one of my favourite ones in Buckinghamshire.
The large parish church is mostly 13th- century, but it was heavily restored by the great architect Sir George Gilbert Scott, a native of Buckinghamshire, between 1849 and 1869.
In 1960 there were fine views from here across north Buckinghamshire; now trees obscure this completely in summer, but in winter we can look north-west over the new city of Milton Keynes, and
This view of the Mill House, further north along the Buckinghamshire bank, captures wonderfully the curious formality of late Victorian leisure activity as the fishermen sit stiffly in
In the 1700s coaches left here for Chester, Highworth in Wiltshire and Wendover in Buckinghamshire.
On the Buckinghamshire bank (since 1974 in Berkshire) Henry VI's great foundation, Eton College, has rendered this another 'company town'.
This is the furthest north part of Buckinghamshire, beyond the stone-built market town of Olney, and not far from the Northamptonshire border.
Close to the county boundary with Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire, the unusually-named village of Bozeat was at the heart of a thriving weaving industry 600 years ago; the Weavers' Guild donated a rich
This village was an enclave of Hertfordshire, being transferred to Buckinghamshire in 1832, and there are many good 16th and 17th century timber-framed farmhouses and cottages within the parish.
Buckinghamshire's County Lunatic Asylum was built at Stone, three miles west of Aylesbury, in the early 1850s.
Until 1966, Linslade was a small, mainly Victorian town located in Buckinghamshire.
The photographer has now moved west down the High Street, a superb long and wide street lined by timber-framed and brick houses - one of the best historic townscapes in Buckinghamshire.
We now move away from boot and shoe country into the south of Northamptonshire close to the border with Buckinghamshire.
Tring is in Hertfordshire, a market town at the base of a salient of the county that projects into Buckinghamshire from the Chilterns along the valley of the River Bulbourne.
On the right is the Buckinghamshire County Museum housed in Ceely House, the house with the porch on the right, and in the old Grammar School beyond.
Middlesex University, the whole has taken on a care-worn air, which even extends to the early 18th-century garden statues by John van Nost, which were brought to the house by Sir Philip Sassoon from Stowe in Buckinghamshire
On one of Stony Stratford's first bridges over the River Great Ouse, Grilkes Inn had been operating since 1317, possibly the oldest alehouse in Buckinghamshire; and the Cross Keys (1475) and the
Elected a town councillor and alderman in 1870, he was elected to Buckinghamshire County Council at its inception in 1889 and appointed a magistrate for the county in 1895.
