Photos

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Maps

4,410 maps found.

1895, Crays Hill Ref. HOSM42298
1899, Lees Hill Ref. HOSM51027
1899, Scarrow Hill Ref. HOSM58659
1909, Pound Hill Ref. HOSM57053
1899, Stert Ref. HOSM54013
1895, Hett Hills Ref. HOSM48237
1895, Tan Hills Ref. HOSM61197
1895, Kip Hill Ref. HOSM50303
1901, Heath Hill Ref. HOSM47995
1881, Bayston Hill Ref. HOSM37262
1896, Tyler Hill Ref. HOSM62771
1899, Corby Hill Ref. HOSM41772
1895, Carr Hill Ref. HOSM40158
1913, Okewood Hill Ref. HOSM55587
1886, South Petherton Ref. HOSM50449
1887, Weston Hills Ref. HOSM64154
1907, Menwith Hill Ref. HOSM53504
1898, Gun Hill Ref. HOSM47235
1902, Windmill Hill Ref. HOSM57260
1895, Toot Hill Ref. HOSM62092

Books

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Memories

3,572 memories found. Showing results 131 to 140.

Lightning Strikes

This is August 1953, I was 10. We were playing cricket on the clay field with some older lads, the stumps were iron and came from Spencers steel works which was nearby and stuff like this was easily got. Anyway I remember it was ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1953 by Jimmy Burrows

Looking Back To The Early Days

I was born in rented 'rooms' at Wordsworth Road in 1936 and came to move with my parents to five different addresses at Easington before I moved away from the area, when I married in 1963. But although my ...Read more

A memory of Easington Colliery in 1900 by Harold(Harry) Barnes

My Uncles Grave

This isnt really a memory as such but I'm after some help if anyone can. My uncle died before I was born and he was buried in Worfield. I know from my aunty that he isn't buried in the main graveyard but further up the hill, in a ...Read more

A memory of Worfield in 1960 by Benjamin Barlow

Pinehurst Childrens Home Park Rd Camberley

Memories of Camberley come from my childhood days as an orphan residing at 'Pinehurst', a Surrey County Child Welfare Home 1949-1953. I was put there as a 9-year-old and recall spending a very happy ...Read more

A memory of Pinehurst in 1949 by David Share

Hare Park Terrace

My uncle and aunt, Frank and Lilian Simpson (nee Wilson)used to live over looking the Spen Valley in a terraced house on a hill at the bottom of which was Rawfolds Mill. Is the photo H199022 this road and is the wall on left ...Read more

A memory of Rawfolds in 1920 by Eunice Wilson

Happy Days

My father bought a horse and gypsy caravan in the summer of 1946.He borrowed another horse from his brother and was able to take the caravan to Shoebury Hall camp site. He painted 'Happy Days' on the caravan door. We had the ...Read more

A memory of Shoeburyness in 1946

Lymington In The 1940s

My maternal grandmother and mother were both born in Lymington, my mother attending the grammar school in Brockenhurst (I remember as a small boy her pointing it out to me from the train) In 1944, when the V1 'doodlebugs' ...Read more

A memory of Lymington in 1944 by Brian Veall

A Great Place To Live

Having been born and brought up in Buckhusrt Hill in the 1960s and 1970s and 1980s and now living in Kent, it reminds me what a unique place it once was. My immediate memories are of Lords Bushes and living in Forest ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill by Andrew Evans

Growing Up In A Small Village

My parents moved to Twycross from London in the early 1960s. We lived on Sheepy Road next door to Mr Charlie Brooks and Louie Jones. On the opposite side were Stan and Ilma Jones and Len Gibbs and his daughter Joan. ...Read more

A memory of Twycross by Tracy Wright

Cherished Memories

Finding this site has brought many wonderful memories back to me. I was born in St Mary's Hospital, Croydon. My maiden name was Chappell. I lived in Purley Road, South Croydon not far from the Red Deer until 1957. Every Saturday ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1953 by Linda Crossley

Captions

1,749 captions found. Showing results 313 to 336.

Caption For Morcombelake, C1960

Morcombelake, not far from Charmouth, originated in the early years of the 20th century as a retirement place for the elderly.

Caption For Ampleforth, The Village C1955

Judging from the many children around the coach in the background, there appears to be a school outing going on. Ampleforth lies on the southern edge of the Hambledon Hills.

Caption For Lyme Regis, The Smithy 1909

Visitors approaching from Devon descend this steep hill to the sea at Lyme.

Caption For Bakewell, Church 1923

This view of this delightful building was taken from South Church Street at its junction with Church Hill, the lane to the left. Note that both road and footpath surfaces leave much to be desired.

Caption For Little Haven, 1898

Strawberry Hill, above the village, was the site of an Iron Age fort. A boat is being beached to the right beyond the slipway and other boats in the centre.

Caption For Great Witley, Hundred House C1965

This red-brick Georgian coaching inn stands at the centre of Great Witley. The village is situated in a pleasant spot just below the Abberley Hills, an outcrop of the Malverns.

Caption For Liskeard, Cheesewring 1908

The granite stone of Bodmin Moor supports a natural oddity, the impressive outcrop known as the Cheesewring.

Caption For Shaftesbury, Gold Hill C1955

The hilltop town of Shaftesbury became important when King Alfred founded an abbey here, and installed his daughter as abbess.

Caption For Winchester, From St Giles Hill 1886

The historic heart of old Winchester, once the capital of the Saxon kingdom of Wessex, is seen here from the heights of St Giles hill.

Caption For Leith Hill, 1906

A local labourer and his dog obligingly pose for the camera on the sandy path leading from the summit of Leith Hill, at 967ft the highest point in the south-eastern counties.

Caption For Conistone, The Village C1960

It has a history of mining. The limestone from the hills is used to build the farm cottages of this peaceful part of Yorkshire.

Caption For Cleeve Hill, The Golf Course 1907

The golf course was a great success, attracting a membership of over 100 in the first year.

Caption For Chideock, Post Office Corner C1955

Chideock's main street is part of the old London to Exeter stagecoach route. This steep hill was always a challenge to even the best team of horses.

Caption For Offwell, The Lower Village C1960

Offwell hides in the hills to the south-west of Honiton, half-forgotten by time and well off the tourist trail.

Caption For St Ives, Fore Street 1922

Compared with the photograph of Fore Street in 1906, the gas lamp is still in place, but the corner is now plastered with adverts for the cinema on Barnoon Hill.

Caption For Cleator Moor, The Square C1955

A group of residents wait patiently for the bus on the wide, rectangular Square.

Caption For Skelton, Church Lane C1965

Another view of Skelton taken from 'the hills', showing the distinctive white façade of the Methodist Church on Green Road.

Caption For Grindleford, The Village C1960

Grindleford's war memorial (left) at the foot of Sir William Hill in the upper part of the village is based on the design of Eyam's Saxon preaching cross, and so it repeats the strange truncated appearance

Caption For Aldeburgh, The Steps 1906

The main area of activity in Aldeburgh is the High Street, and from here the Town Steps lead off up a steep hill. Here, grand houses enjoyed a superb view overlooking the town and coastline below.

Caption For Thurstaston, View Of The Welsh Uplands C1960

Thurstaston Common is one of the highest points on the Wirral Peninsula, and an ideal vantage point to view the hills of Snowdonia across Caldy golf course and the Dee Estuary.

Caption For Moreton, The School C1955

Lawrence of Arabia rests in the little cemetery at Moreton, for his cottage of Clouds Hill is within the parish. He died in 1935 in a motorcycle accident on the road leading north from Bovington Camp.

Caption For Caversham, St Peter's Hill 1908

St Peter's Hill climbs out of the village towards Caversham's striking parish church of St Peter, which occupies a pleasant setting above the Thames.

Caption For Hunmanby, The Cross C1950

The name of the village comes from 'Hudemanebi', a Scandinavian word meaning 'the farm of dog keepers'.

Caption For Caversham, Bridge 1904

St Peter's Hill climbs out of the village towards Caversham's striking parish church of St Peter, which occupies a pleasant setting above the Thames.