Maps

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Memories

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Broken Nose

i remember having my broken nose attended to in the chemist by the park after my sister pushed me too high on the swing. That was 1960. My auntie worked at Bowyers and my mother was a cinema attendant. We lived near the old bus ...Read more

A memory of Trowbridge by Freda Garcia Vilar

Childhood Adventure

I'm not prepared to reveal my real name online, however I was a child during the 70's the duration of which was spent in Warnham. This house belonged to some old dear I met only a couple of times, she was housebound ...Read more

A memory of Warnham Court School in 1977 by Canis Fortunatus

Burgh Heath

My grandparents always considered that Burgh Heath was the best village to live in. At one time, it had two swimming pools, two tea rooms and pubs for locals to meet. One pub had a projection room and offered children a free Saturday ...Read more

A memory of Burgh Heath

Rosewood Avenue

Hi all I moved to Elm Park in 1950 and moved into a newly constructed house at 75 rosewood avenue. My dad Bert worked at Ford Dagenham, my mum Doreen was a dinner lady at my school Ayloff. It has only recently become evident that my ...Read more

A memory of Elm Park by Eric Bausor

Portsmouth Guildhall

Visiting the website I discovered a photograph of Portsmouth Guildhall which brought back sad memories. On 10th January 1941 the city was heavily bombed by the Luftwaffe including incendiaries on the Guildhall. On the ...Read more

A memory of Portsmouth in 1941 by Eddie Harding

The Old Thatch

Ah, The Old Thatch. I remember it well, for this is where I grew up from the early 1940s until 1956. By today's standards it was grim: no heating, no running water, no flush loo - nothing. Yet it was a wonderful place in which ...Read more

A memory of Nether Wallop in 1940 by Brian Rivas

The Hersham Flood – September 1968

During the 60s I lived in Surbiton and worked in Hersham. As I was getting ready to leave for work one morning in 1968, a radio broadcast warned of severe flooding along the Mole valley following heavy rains, and ...Read more

A memory of Hersham by Tony Newman

Walking In The River

From the concrete slab bridge by the watercress beds to the park near Scots Hill we would wade in the river with bare feet, I was only nine years old then. The river bed was a fine golden grit that was easy to walk on. ...Read more

A memory of Rickmansworth in 1948 by Leon Moore

Entertaining The Tring Christmas Shoppers With Morris Dancing

Tring hosts a lovely Christmas shopping evening each year when the High Street is decorated, the shop windows have illuminated Christmas displays and stay open late and the place is ...Read more

A memory of Tring in 2004 by John Howard Norfolk

Captions

4,899 captions found. Showing results 361 to 384.

Caption For Sevenoaks, Recreation Ground 1895

One suspects that these groups of children, with one accompanying nursemaid, seated on the benches and the steps of the canopied bandstand, have been induced to pose by the photographer, to complement

Caption For Zoological Gardens, Camel 1913

Founded by the Zoological Society of London in grounds laid out by the architect Decimus Burton, the Regent's Park Zoo opened its doors to the public in 1828.

Caption For Zoological Gardens, Camel 1913

Founded by the Zoological Society of London in grounds laid out by the architect Decimus Burton, the Regent's Park Zoo opened its doors to the public in 1828.

Caption For Launceston, Castle Entrance C1955

Today the wooden gates are gone, and so is the fountain in the road, erected by the Hender family in memory of their son Leonard, who drowned near Land's End in 1894.

Caption For Alloway, Robert Burns's Birthplace 1897

The cottage, a 'but and ben' or two-room clay cottage, was built by the poet's father, a gardener from Kincardineshire. It later became an inn. Burns's verses are famous the world over.

Caption For Wetherby, River Wharfe 1909

Behind the houses was Raby Park, an imposing housing development stimulated by the arrival of the railway.

Caption For Fair Oak, The Square C1965

Formerly there was an annual fair supported by the landlord of the ancient Old George Inn (centre). The present tree was planted in 1843, an earlier one having rotted.

Caption For Feckenham, Alcester Road 1967

It was delightfully but fancifully described by the 17th-century historian Habington as `invironed with highe and mighty trees and able to terrifye a far-off ignorant enimy with a deceitful showe of

Caption For Houghton Conquest, Houghton House 1897

It was occupied from 1767 by the Earl of Upper Ossory, who had provided Ampthill with the obelisk water pump. Sad to say, the house was largely dismantled by the Duke of Bedford in 1794.

Caption For Swindon, The Railway Museum, Faringdon Road C1965

This building was originally built by the Great Western Railway as a lodging house for single men in 1846, and was called the Barracks.

Caption For Abingdon, St Helen's Church 1900

The bridge on the left beyond the barge is a cast-iron one dated 1824 and built by the Wilts & Berks Canal Company - the ironwork was cast at Acramans of Bristol.

Caption For Cheam, The Crossways C1950

Road, by now renamed Station Way, shows that while the local branches of W H Smith and Boots the Chemists still occupy their premises below the flats of Cheam Court, the corner shop previously occupied by the

Caption For Ewell, Castle School C1955

The site of the banqueting hall of Nonsuch Palace lay within the castle grounds until the parkland was divided by the construction of the Ewell by-pass in the mid 1930s.

Caption For Newton, The Village 1921

Because of its obscurity, this hamlet by the river Hodder was chosen by the Quakers as the site for their Friends' Meeting House, which was also used as a school in 1767 (right, with the tall belfry).

Caption For Tenby, On The Beach 1890

Tenby was described thus in a Victorian guidebook of 1895: 'Tenby stands on a tongue of limestone rock, ending in a green promontory, which is crowned by the ruins of the old castle, and is now pleasantly

Caption For Tenby, On The Beach 1890

Tenby was described thus in a Victorian guidebook of 1895: 'Tenby stands on a tongue of limestone rock, ending in a green promontory, which is crowned by the ruins of the old castle, and is now pleasantly

Caption For Kettering, Market 1922

The stalls were provided by the stall holders until the 1930s, when uniform stalls were supplied by the Borough Council.

Caption For Broadbridge Heath, Portsmouth And Guildford Roads 1924

Broadbridge Mill is an ancient mill site by the River Arun.

Caption For Doncaster, Station Road 1903

By the date this picture was taken, Doncaster had been a racing centre for nearly three hundred years and had been the home of the oldest classic race, the St Leger, since its first running in 1778

Caption For Whalley, Moreton Hall 1897

It was demolished in the 1950s after wartime occupation by the army and later by the Polish Resettlement Unit.

Caption For Cheam, The Crossways C1955

In its substantial size, it is clearly out of scale with the Tudor-styled buildings erected by the Onyx Property Investment Company in the 1930s.

Caption For Henley On Thames, Bridge And Vicarage 1893

Both views show the Angel Hotel by the bridge and the Rectory to its left - one shows a top-hatted coachman driving past.

Caption For Eastbourne, The Pier 1925

By the 1880s Eastbourne had become 'The Empress of Watering Places', set against the backdrop of Beachy Head.

Caption For Loch Leven, The Castle C1890

Mary, Queen of Scots was imprisoned here by the lords of the Congregation in 1567 and compelled to abdicate in favour of her son James VI.