Maps

241 maps found.

1898, Cwmdu Ref. RNE687015

Books

7 books found. Showing results 289 to 7.

Memories

499 memories found. Showing results 121 to 130.

Growing Up In Aberkenfig

Growing up and the family - Part 1 My grandfather William Morgan Cockram (son of Lewis Cockram) and grandmother (Mary Cockram) (granny and grandpa Cockram) took over the ironmongers after the death of John Richards. ...Read more

A memory of Aberkenfig by Catherine Delahay

Beautiful Quiet Abercych.

I was born in Abercych in 1930 but went to Swansea in 1934. When I qualified as a pharmacist in 1952 I went abroad to work, in Central Africa (N. Rhodesia and then Nyasaland) then the Gilbert & Ellice Islads in the ...Read more

A memory of Parrog in 1930 by Thomas Davies

Mitcham May Queen

I took part in the Mitcham May Queen Festival for years while I lived in Mitcham, and even after we moved to Streatham, I was still allowed to take part. It was fun, I put on a nice dress and paraded around Mitcham carrying paper ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1980 by Tania Rahman

Childhood

I lived in Old Coulsdon for many years, I used to do a paperound for Mr Cook who ran the paper shop on the Brighton road in Old Coulsdon. I spent many my summer holidays exploring Happy Valley and Devils Dyke and I used to be albe ...Read more

A memory of Old Coulsdon by Vanessa Thorne

Youth Club In Loughton Way / Valley Hill

There used to be a youth club held inside the Brook Secondary School of an evening & live bands on Friday nights. It was fun going there & 'being in school' when not being in school.. if you know ...Read more

A memory of Loughton by Rosemary Collisson

Redbricks 50s

I was born and bred in Tunnel Road, Galley Common in the Pit houses (belonging to Haunchwood Colliery). One of my early memories of which there are many was of the tip which was waste slag from the mine and was always on fire ...Read more

A memory of Galley Common

Land Of My Fathers

I loved growing up in the 'cape' as we called it. In the hot summer of 1977 I remember going up the mountain behind Villiers Road to go picking whinberries with my uncle Peter Morris, and I insisted on carrying them back down ...Read more

A memory of Abergwynfi in 1977 by Warren Jewell

Working For The Ministry

I started working for the ministry (ancient monuments) in 1969 at South Wingfield Manor. At the time it was owned by two brothers, Sam and Bill Critchlow, who ran a dairy farm situated at the side of the manor, in ...Read more

A memory of South Wingfield in 1969 by Stuart Chambers

The Horse Racing Years

My father purchased Waygateshaw House, the Gatehouse, and 27 acres from Mr Campbell in 1989 for an equestrian pursuit, namely training racehorses. We were called Silverbell Racing. We had many visitors from the racing ...Read more

A memory of Crossford in 1989 by Catherine Ratter Scott

Peterlee In The 50s Early 60s

I was 2 or 3 months old in 1954 when the family moved from Wheatley Hill into a newly built council house on Kirkstone Road at the Horden end. My earliest memory is of sitting on the door step waiting for my brother ...Read more

A memory of Peterlee by Paul Dunn

Captions

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Caption For Branscombe, Ye Old Mason's Arms 1931

Branscombe is strung out down a deep valley running from the Devon downlands to the sea at Branscombe Mouth.

Caption For Berrynarbor, General View C1960

Berrynarbor sits on the side of the Sterridge valley. St Peter's Church is the main landmark. It is mainly a 15th-century building, with the sandstone tower dated to 1480.

Caption For Rottingdean, The Village C1965

Rottingdean has a long history; it is named after the valley - 'dene' - which runs down to the sea. The view has not changed substantially in the past 30 years.

Caption For Clowne, Harlesthorpe Dam C1950

To the east is Markland Grips, an Iron Age hillfort on an outcrop above a craggy limestone valley.

Caption For Trebarwith, The Valley And Gull Rock 1935

The narrow Trebarwith valley emerges at the north Cornish coast; here Trebarwith Strand presents a good beach of golden sand, but all vanishes at high tide.

Caption For St Blazey, Luxulyan Valley 1893

The wooded and beautiful Luxulyan valley is a magnet for lovers of industrial archeology, with its 1839 Treffry viaduct and aqueduct linking the mining and china clay industries with the coastal ports.

Caption For Winster, The Valley C1960

The unchanging beauty of the Winster Valley, with its meadows, rolling hillsides, dry stone walls and scattered dwellings, is entirely typical of the soft countryside of the southern fringe of the Lake

Caption For Whitworth, From The East C1955

Mills can be seen in the valley on the left, but the rural beauty of Whitworth is evident in this scene which was taken from Hopwood Barn Farm, sometimes known as Upwood Barn.

Caption For Barbon, The Village 1901

The pretty little village of Barbon, near Kirkby Lonsdale, lies in the hills above the Lune Valley beneath Thorn Moor, on the minor road through Barbondale to Dent.

Caption For Cropton, The Green C1955

Cropton stands high on the edge of Fell Rigg above the valley of the River Seven near its junction with Sutherland Beck.

Caption For Bromley, Shortlands Church 1899

The view looks from Martin`s Hill across the valley of the Ravensbourne River. Ahead we can see the pumping station chimney.

Caption For Penrith, Ennerdale From Green Gable 1889

Much of this lovely valley is now cloaked under a blanket of conifers, as are so many of the Lake District dales.

Caption For Llansamlet, Heol Las 1938

This parish is within Swansea's industrial catch- ment area; it overlooks the Tawe valley. It was built principally on its tin-plate and spelter works.

Caption For Cawthorne, Taylor Hill C1955

Cawthorne is a village on the edge of the Pennines west of Barnsley on the Holmfirth road in the valley of the River Dearne.

Caption For Winscombe, Sandford Hill C1965

Despite modern development, much remains of the old Winscombe immortalised in Theodore Compton's 'A Mendip Valley' of 1892.

Caption For Brockweir, The Village C1955

The little hamlet of Brockweir, straggling along the floor of the Wye Valley and with a utilitarian bridge spanning the river itself, lies on the county border with Gwent.

Caption For Fremington, The Cross Roads C1965

The three-arched buttressed bridge at Fremington has spanned the rushing waters of the Swale for centuries, and it still carries the main B6270 valley road today.

Caption For Hubberholme, St Michael And All Angels Church C1960

The squat tower of Hubberholme's parish church of St Michael and All Angels occupies a lovely setting in the valley of Wharfedale, where it turns into Langstrothdale in its upper reaches.

Caption For Great Houghton, High Street C1965

Great Houghton is only a couple of miles from the centre of Northampton, on the southern slopes of the Nene valley.

Caption For Charminster, The Church 1922

The 15th-century tower of Charminster's church dominates the valley of the River Cerne, and was built under the direction of Sir Thomas Trenchard. Parts of the building date back to the 12th century.

Caption For Northfield, Bristol Road South 1949

Northfield was founded by Saxon settlers in the fertile valley of the River Rea.

Caption For Upper Arley, Victoria Bridge And River Severn C1939

Victoria Bridge, on the Severn Valley railway line from Bewdley to Bridgnorth, has a span of 200 feet; when it was built in 1862, it was considered the largest cast iron single arch bridge in the world

Caption For Holywell, High Street 1959

Much of the prosperity of the town derived from the nearby Greenfield Valley.

Caption For Peaslake, The Village Green C1955

It lies along the slopes of a narrow valley at the head of a stream that flows towards the Tilling Bourne.