Maps

786 maps found.

1947, Cat Bank Ref. NPO664386
1899, Sandy Bank Ref. RNE825275
1897, Sodylt Bank Ref. RNE833913
1898, South Bank Ref. RNE834372
1896, Stacey Bank Ref. RNE837618
1898, River Bank Ref. RNE817349
1895, Pishill Bank Ref. RNE806566
1896, Warton Bank Ref. RNE861219
1896, Weld Bank Ref. RNE862832
1897, West Bank Ref. RNE863677
1895, Tompset's Bank Ref. RNE849849
1898, Wrangle Bank Ref. RNE874827
1897, Western Bank Ref. RNE865776
1899, Wall Bank Ref. RNE859806
1924, Rough Bank Ref. POP820483
1925, South Bank Ref. POP834371
1924, South Bank Ref. POP834372
1924, Sunny Bank Ref. POP842885
1919, Tattle Bank Ref. POP845465
1919, The Banks Ref. POP846290

Books

15 books found. Showing results 313 to 15.

Memories

6,700 memories found. Showing results 131 to 140.

Those Were The Days

I moved to Ireland Wood from Portsmouth when I was 4 years old with my Mum and dad who was in the navy. We lived at 42 Raynel Way. The house was built by the Council. Most of the houses like ours were made of prefabricated concrete ...Read more

A memory of Cookridge by Robert Morris

Eastern Electricity Board Training Centre Harold Hill

I started at Harold hill in September 1966 as An apprentice electrical fitter. My lodgings were in Clock house Lane and I went to college at Hornchurch where I spent many a happy hour in the ...Read more

A memory of Harold Hill by Ricyard Luxford

Driftbridge Stables

I was too young in the 1950’s to use the Hotel and pub but I learnt to ride at the Driftbridge Stables, that used the land, stables and coach houses from when the hotel had been a Coaching Inn. Having learnt to ride on Nutmeg, I ...Read more

A memory of Drift Bridge by Rita Westlake

Noddy's Shop

I moved to Elm Park in 1960 when I was 4 years old with my mum and dad, from Hackney, East London. My dad owned and ran the Newsagents in Station Parade and we lived in the flat above the shop. I remember it was next to the green grocers, ...Read more

A memory of Elm Park by Chrissy Robinson

Ice Cream Heaven In Gipsy Road

Ice cream was a special treat in our house back in the 1950's. The brand we had was always Lyons Maid, vanilla or strawberry, considered superior to Walls. But for those special occasions, especially during summer, we ...Read more

A memory of Welling by Bernard Schofield

My Fenny Stratford Childhood

Having recently by chance spoken with someone who knew Fenny Stratford I was prompted to start looking on the internet and came across this site and for what it’s worth decided to record my memories. I was born in ...Read more

A memory of Fenny Stratford by Dawn Cousins

Mining My Archive

At the age of ten, my father moved me and the rest of the family from Low Fell to Esh Winning, without consulting any of us, including my mother. He had bought a tumble-down holiday cottage, situated between the pit-heap and the ...Read more

A memory of Esh Winning by David Woodhead

Streatham 1955 1982

I lived in Becmead Avenue, my maiden name was Montgomery. My sister and I went to St. Leonards School from 1955, Mr Stewart was headmaster, and I remember Mrs Morrison and Mr. Keeling. Streatham had Saturday morning pictures and ...Read more

A memory of Streatham by Jeanette Simmonds

Collingwood School

I attended Collingwood from 1957 - 1960 and yes, the discipline was severe. I once looked out of the window as a fire engine went by and was punished with 6 of the best! Mr Kirby Birt was an odd character with a viscious ...Read more

A memory of Wallington by Phillip Stringer

Air Conditioning

I worked in Rolls-Royce installing the air conditioning unit, taking the car out on the road to test the system worked correctly. I worked with Maurice Ashwin, my foreman was Jack Gadd. The senior bosses were always known by their ...Read more

A memory of Crewe in 1960 by Ken Wood

Captions

2,423 captions found. Showing results 313 to 336.

Caption For Bradford On Avon, River Avon 1914

The round house on the north bank of the river was a popular bathing spot.

Caption For Cropredy, The Lock C1960

The village lies on the banks of the Oxford Canal and the river Cherwell.

Caption For Oxford, Cornmarket Street C1950

The premises of Barclays Bank can be seen on the right, next door to Morris Garages.

Caption For Wye, Bridge Street 1903

The Mill 1901 Now absorbed into the expanding suburbs of Ashford to the south, this small village once boasted its own imposing windmill on the banks of the Great Stour.

Caption For Barrow Upon Soar, The Bridge And River C1965

By 1086 the Soar Valley was well settled, and although the Domesday village of Barhou offers little to delight the visitor, the river has a watery magnetism which draws families from Leicester to its banks

Caption For Burnt Oak, Watling Avenue C1955

Apart from a sign of the times - the bank building on the left has given way to an amusement arcade - little has physically changed.

Caption For Cleckheaton, The Green C1965

This photograph of The Green shows the mock-Gothic Martin's Bank in the centre of the town.

Caption For Canford Magna, Canford Bridge 1899

The Portland stone bridge, built in 1813, carries the main road from Poole to Wimborne on the far bank of the River Stour.

Caption For Avebury, The Circle C1955

The entire complex comprises an outer circular bank with an inner ditch.

Caption For Wareham, The River Frome C1960

Wareham is seen here from South Bridge, looking westwards to the banks of the Anglo-Saxon Town Walls and Castle Close (centre right), built by Edward Seymer Clark on the footings of a Norman fortress

Caption For Pershore, Lower Newlands 1931

Pershore is an old market town of considerable charm on the right bank of the River Avon.

Caption For Abergavenny, River Usk And Sugarloaf 1898

In this idyllic scene much loved by artists and photographers, the River Usk wends its way through wooded banks away from Abergavenny and flows on to join the Severn beyond Newport.

Caption For Abergavenny, River Usk And Sugarloaf 1898

In this idyllic scene much loved by artists and photographers, the River Usk wends its way through wooded banks away from Abergavenny and flows on to join the Severn beyond Newport.

Caption For Belfast, Ulster Bank, Waring Street 1897

A fine view of one of Belfast's many imposing buildings, the Ulster Bank in Waring Street.

Caption For Horning, The Reach C1965

It is said that this point on the River Bure has seen various means of crossing from one bank to the other for the last thousand years.

Caption For Bodmin, Mount Folly Square 1894

The building across the square behind the fountain is now Barclays Bank.

Caption For Bournemouth, From The Square 1900

The Square was created on its banks.

Caption For Darlington, Victoria Road 1903

This photograph shows Victoria Road and the approach to Bank Top railway station.

Caption For Huntingdon, The Bridge From Castle Hill 1898

The sturdy building on the opposite bank of the river was put up in the 1850s as a flour mill; later it was used for textiles.

Caption For Exmouth, The Pier 1896

A ferry crosses the Exe from here to the village of Starcross on the opposite bank.

Caption For Bantham, 1926

The tiny settlement of Bantham, with its passenger ferry and boat-houses, clings to the eastern bank of the Avon where the river makes one last sweeping curve before meeting the sea.

Caption For Richmond, From West 1908

Taken from Billy Banks Wood south of the Swale, this distant view shows the defensive site of Richmond Castle, and the town clinging precariously - and picturesquely - to the hillside

Caption For Helston, Coinagehall Street 1931

What was the Cornish Bank (designed by W J Winn, who also built the Methodist Chapel) is now Lloyd's.

Caption For Oxford, 'the Eights' 1922

One of the most colourful events on the Thames, Eights Week takes place in May: it is then that the college barges and the river banks rapidly fill up with riverside spectators and those who simply enjoy