Maps

381 maps found.

1946, Broad Street Ref. NPO650819
1940, Broad Street Ref. NPO650820
1947, Broad Street Ref. NPO650822
1947, Broad, The Ref. NPO650827
1896, Broad Green Ref. RNE650682
1898, Broad Green Ref. RNE650689
1897, Broad Heath Ref. RNE650708
1899, Broad Heath Ref. RNE650709
1896, Broad Oak Ref. RNE650766
1895, Broad Oak Ref. RNE650773
1896, Broad Street Ref. RNE650817
1898, Broad Town Ref. RNE650829
1919, Broad Green Ref. POP650685
1921, Broad Green Ref. POP650689
1922, Broad Haven Ref. POP650698
1921, Broad Heath Ref. POP650708
1920, Broad Heath Ref. POP650709
1920, Broad Hill Ref. POP650717
1919, Broad Layings Ref. POP650738
1921, Broad Oak Ref. POP650769

Books

4 books found. Showing results 49 to 4.

Memories

586 memories found. Showing results 21 to 30.

Gregory Road 1950 60

I lived in Gregory road from1953-1071 well remember the greyhound track and norward farm diaries. Used to come out of George tomlinsons school and dash into the woodyarc and grab as much wood as be could grab before we got caught.

A memory of Southall by Lyn Brooks

Top End Of Station Road

Has not changed much over time - apart from the loss of the old oak tree.

A memory of Wilburton by Sandra Shaw

Bomb Crater At The Bottom Of Ramillies Road

We moved to 52 Worcester Crescent, Mill Hill early in 1939 not long before the outbreak of the war. I am now 83 but I can clearly remember the bomb crater at the bottom of Ramillies Road. If you come ...Read more

A memory of Mill Hill by Ron Sargeant

Graces Road

My Mother was born in Graces Road in Aug 1893 in her parents house with her eight Bros/Sisters until she married my father in 1918, on leave from France. In 1920 they moved to Green Lane, Thornton Heath. I was Born in 1930. On special ...Read more

A memory of Camberwell by Brian Shiers

Wembley High Road

I grew up in Wembley, late 60’s to early 80’s. used to hang around the high road a lot . Who remembers a trendy shop called Screws ,it had like a coffee/cafeteria downstairs anc a record booth that you could listen to before you ...Read more

A memory of Wembley by e.tyndale

Wightman Road

I was born in England and lived at 399 Wightman Road for seven years of my life from 1961 t0 1968. My parents were poor immigrants from Jamaica, W.I. Our family consisted of myself, my sister, my brother and my parents. I remember our ...Read more

A memory of Hornsey in 1961 by Ava Watson

The Wonder Shops Of Plumstead Road

When I was a teenager back in the late 1950's I loved travelling by trollybus to explore Woolwich. At the time I lived at home in Welling but Woolwich always had much more of interest to offer. There was the endless ...Read more

A memory of Woolwich by Bernard Schofield

Berwick Road C Of E School

I started at Berwick Road C of E School in 1957 together with some of the people referred to in the other memories ie: Heather Wallis, Christopher Bennior, Lorraine Staton.  There were others obviously such as Margot ...Read more

A memory of Little Sutton in 1957 by Kathleen Green

Ilderton Road

I became a Bermondsey boy after moving from a prefab where I was born in the big snow in 1947. We lived at 14 Caulfield Road, Peckham, just around the corner from Jordans Dairy in Lugard Road s.e.15. (The last dairy farm in London). ...Read more

A memory of Bermondsey by Terry Baker

Davidson Road School

Does anyone remember Davidson Road Secondary Modern School? This was late 1950's pre co-education days so although housed in the same building, girls were upstairs and boys downstairs. Seperate playgrounds and 'never the twain ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1958 by Francis Beck

Captions

453 captions found. Showing results 49 to 72.

Caption For Salhouse, Boats On Salhouse Broad C1940

Woodland surrounds many of the broads in the upper stretches of the Bure, providing shelter and seclusion for these early cabin cruisers.

Caption For Hastings, The Beach 1925

To the east are clear views to the broad peninsula of Dungeness.

Caption For Sidmouth, Sid Vale Dairy 1906

Sidmouth nestles in a broad valley where the pastoral countryside of East Devon sweeps down to the sea.

Caption For Bellerby, Village 1929

Here the stream runs through the broad green in the centre.

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Caption For Brasted, C1955

Its broad, spacious street is fringed with brick and weatherboarded cottages in the Wealden style.

Caption For Horsforth, The Green C1965

The broad signboards still squats awkwardly over the first-floor bay windows.

Caption For St Helens, The Green C1955

Many come to admire the broad village green, the leafy lanes and nearby woodland.

Caption For Wroxham, Cross Roads C1940

Arnold Roy spotted the need for provisioning the Broads tourist industry early, and his story is a classic errand boy to shopping magnate story.

Caption For Wroxham, Broad 1934

Below Wroxham, the River Bure flows between several broads that form wonderful boating lakes.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Broad Street C1905

Broad Street is the town's most fashionable shopping street, though the busy traffic of today prevents dogs lying down in the road!

Caption For Norwich, The Wensum And Prince Of Wales Bridge 1935

A sailing barge, once a common sight on the Broads and Norfolk rivers, is moored opposite the pleasure boats below the yacht station.

Caption For Wroxham, On The Bure 1921

Wroxham is at the western gateway to the Broads, and profited greatly from the late 19th-century boom in 'messing about in boats'.

Caption For Teignmouth, From Torquay Road 1890

Teignmouth is the second-oldest seaside resort in Devon; it has attracted visitors from the middle of the 18th century.

Caption For Teignmouth, From Torquay Road 1890

Teignmouth is the second-oldest seaside resort in Devon; it has attracted visitors from the middle of the 18th century.

Caption For Torquay, Fleet Street 1906

Running above the course of the Flete brook, this broad street, now one of Torquay's premiere shopping malls, was constructed in 1865 to replace the narrow lane of slums and fishermen's cottages that originally

Caption For Harleston, The Thoroughfare C1955

The Georgian coaching-inn, the Swan Hotel, dominates the street.

Caption For Horsforth, The Green C1965

Note how the dark ashlar is picked out by severe white mortaring.The broad signboards still squats awkwardly over the first-floor bay windows.

Caption For Somerton, Broad Street C1960

Somerton was once a thriving medieval town with fairs, markets, trade and inns.

Caption For Horsforth, The Green C1965

The broad signboards still squats awkwardly over the first-floor bay windows.

Caption For Wroxham, Cross Roads C1940

Arnold Roy spotted the need for provisioning the Broads tourist industry early, and his story is a classic errand boy to shopping magnate story.

Caption For Wroxham, Broad 1934

Below Wroxham, the River Bure flows between several broads that form wonderful boating lakes.

Caption For Tenterden, High Street 1903

Across the broad expanse of the High Street is the portico of the Town Hall, which was rebuilt in 1790.

Caption For London, The County Hall C1955

This colossal building, once home of the controversial Greater London Council, was designed by Ralph Knott and begun in 1912.

Caption For Hickling, The Pleasure Boat Inn C1955

The young coxswain in the skiff has misjudged her three-point turn, and is wedged between the quayside and the cruiser.