Maps

9,439 maps found.

1898, Lyngate Ref. RNE771130
1897, Low Gate Ref. RNE768114
1946, Upper Town Ref. NPO857883
1895, Grange Ref. RNE718683
1898, Thorpe Underwood Ref. RNE847553
1898, South Hill Ref. RNE834886
1898, Shaw Green Ref. RNE829085
1924, Barton Hill Ref. POP634359
1898, Long Marston Ref. RNE766543
1898, Langford Green Ref. RNE752430
1898, Green End Ref. RNE720798
1897, Royal Oak Ref. RNE821377
1898, Pockthorpe Ref. RNE807812
1947, Thorpe Underwood Ref. NPO847553
1899, Thurlby Ref. RNE848014
1895, West Field Ref. RNE864144
1903-1904, Shaw Green Ref. RNC829085
1924, West Field Ref. POP864144
1925, Thorpe Underwood Ref. POP847553
1946, Grange Ref. NPO718683

Books

39 books found. Showing results 2,425 to 2,448.

Memories

1,544 memories found. Showing results 1,011 to 1,020.

The Changing Joys Of Tenby.

I was born in the Flat above Lloyds Bank, Tudor Square, Tenby, Feb 1950 and recall being raised there. I recall the amazing views of the changing colours of the harbour and recall the church bells and chimes of the ...Read more

A memory of Tenby in 1950 by Garfield Smith

Ashley Memories From About 1947

I was born 1944 in Ashley, Cheshire at Birkin Farm. My granddad, Harold Lanceley was head of forestry for Clibrans Nusery, Hale, Cheshire. Found out a lot about his WW1 history. Harry Lanceley, sailed ...Read more

A memory of Ashley in 1947 by Susan Sant

Blissful Times

My Mother and I arrived in 1974, from a divorced Warrington and the dilapidation of the north-west. Merrily drinking tea and eating custard tarts in the bare miners' cottage living room, sitting in a deck chair and eating from a ...Read more

A memory of Gwespyr in 1977 by James Harrison

Lake Farm Cottage East Jarrow

My memories of a happy childhood: living in the farm house and the horses, goats, hens, geese, dogs that my father bred for the police, and the wonderful summers and freezing winters..and my dad self employed selling ...Read more

A memory of Jarrow in 1950 by Pauline Galbraith

Middle Rainton A Lost Villiage Part 1

MEMORIES OF A LOST VILLAGE Middle Rainton Introduction My name is John Harvey and this is an account of my memories of being brought up in Middle Rainton between the years 1940 to 1958. As this ...Read more

A memory of Middle Rainton in 1940 by John Harvey

Growing Up In North Cheam.

I lived at no 22 Farm Way, North cheam. I remember my father going off to rejoin the R.A.F when the war broke out. I was 7 years old. My mother went to work in a munitions factory. After spending a few years on a ...Read more

A memory of North Cheam in 1920 by Heather Dunkin

Xmas 1955

They let all the local English kids go home for Xmas and us north of the border nuts were allowed to sleep aboard the Vindi, where we got into a pillow fight!! and I finished my last 3 weeks in 'Jankers'. Cheers Joe from Scotland.

A memory of Sharpness by Joe Docherty

Growing Up In Queensbury 50' To 60's

I was happily transported back to my childhood reading some of the memories on this page and thought I would share some of my own. I was born in 1951 in a tiny one up, one down house in Laneside, Yews Green. ...Read more

A memory of Queensbury in 1951 by Anne Clarke

Felsted School

I entered the Prep (Junior) School in 1956, passing to the Senior School in 1960, finally leaving in 1965, the year after the then Queen Mother joined in the 400 year celebrations. My memories are of a school run by the prefects, ...Read more

A memory of Felsted in 1960 by Andrew Dudley Smith

My Family

Newbiggin was the place I was brought up and spent many happy years on the sands and in the sea until I was 18. Life then took me to London to train to be a teacher. My parents had a house in Windsor Terrace where dad still lives ...Read more

A memory of Newbiggin in 1970 by Mary Heynes

Captions

2,676 captions found. Showing results 2,425 to 2,448.

Caption For Eastleigh, The Airport C1960

It was originally on the fields of North Stoneham Farm where Eric Moon landed a light aircraft in 1910.

Caption For Market Rasen, Queen Street C1960

This view looks north towards the Market Place and captures well the character of this market town, most of whose 19th- and late 18th-century buildings still line the streets.

Caption For Hampstead Norreys, The Village From Folly Hill C1950

Perhaps the south-west quoin of the nave is Saxon, and the south doorway is certainly reminiscent of the 1200s, as is the north doorway.

Caption For Muker, Village 1896

Apparently one of these stones still exists and can be seen on the north side of Ivelet Bridge.

Caption For Stamford, Red Lion Square 1922

before tarmac, the roads around Stamford were topped with limestone that made them dangerously slippery for cyclists; indeed, cycle guides of the late 19th century wrote off this stretch of the Great North

Caption For Tring, Marsworth Locks C1960

Half a mile north of New Mill is a complex of reservoirs; they were built by the Grand Junction Canal in the 1830s to store water for the Marsworth Flight of locks, whereby the canal descends from the

Caption For Liverpool, Adelphi Hotel 1870

This is the original Adelphi Hotel: it was built in c1840 on the site of Adelphi Gardens by the Midland Railway Company, and was in direct competition with the London North Western Railway Hotel, which

Caption For Torrisholme, A Waggonette At The George Hotel C1965

Torrisholme was once a hamlet two miles north-west of Lancaster, and was one of the three villages which combined with Bare and Poulton-le-Sands to make up Morecambe around 130 years ago.

Caption For Lyme Regis, The Promenade C1960

The view looks north-eastwards from between Langmoor Gardens and the former bathing-machine steps to the Bay Hotel (centre).

Caption For Stanmore, St John's Church 1906

Close to the buttress nearest the camera, W S Gilbert, of Gilbert and Sullivan fame, sleeps under the widespread wings of a white angel; Gilbert lived at Grimsdyke, a house by Norman Shaw, to the north

Caption For Empingham, Crocket Lane C1960

The large very attractive Saxon village on the road from Oakham to Stamford now overlooks the modern dam on the north-east angle of Rutland Water formed in the valley of the River Gwash,

Caption For Burton Joyce, River Trent C1965

Along Padleys Lane, which curves north out of the village amid 1950s and later estate houses, we pass Burton Joyce Primary School.

Caption For Worksop, Canch Walk C1955

Along the north bank of the Canch is a footpath that leads east to Priorswell Road, with the Memorial Gardens on the right bank behind the trees that line it.

Caption For Swanage, Old Harry Rocks 1890

Chalk stacks off Handfast Point, the north-eastern extremity of the Purbeck Hills, display the dynamics of coastal erosion.

Caption For Sandbanks, Haven Hotel 1900

The remarkable features of this shot, north-eastwards from a timber jetty, actually stand between the buildings - the Haven Hotel (centre right), an 1898-built villa (left) in an acre of land that was

Caption For Compton, The Village C1955

North-west of Godalming, Compton is famed for the Watts Gallery and Chapel, commemorating the Victorian painter George Frederick Watts.

Caption For Hooley, Shopping Centre C1965

It was long known to motorists on the A23 London to Brighton road for the major hold-ups at its traffic light junction with Star Lane, just out of view to the left.

Caption For Sutton Courtenay, Above The Mill 1890

The River Thames curves eastward north of the village and then converges towards Church Street, some of whose gardens have a water frontage.

Caption For Settle, Castlebergh Wells And Steps 1924

Two railways touched the town: the North West line was followed by the famous Settle-Carlisle line in 1876.

Caption For Langport, Bow Street C1955

From North Curry, we skirt the south edge of West Sedge Moor to the town of Langport on the east bank of the River Parrett.

Caption For Hampstead Norreys, Church Street C1950

To the north of Newbury, on the edge of the downs, lies Hampstead Norris, surrounded by hills and woodland.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Sherborne Lane 1907

The picture is north- eastwards to the gable ends of the Cedars and Garston (centre right).

Caption For Caversham, Church Street 1908

Much of the village lies on the north bank of the Thames, in the vicinity of the Henley road.

Caption For Drayton, Church Lane C1960

Church Lane runs north from the High Street towards its eastern end, with St Peter's Church a short way along it.