Maps

22 maps found.

1898-1901, Wootton Bourne End Ref. RNC874452
1882 - 1899, Bourne End Ref. HOSM38427

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Memories

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Childhood Memories

Knutsford holds a special place in my heart as I was born there in 1956 and spent nearly eight years of my childhood growing up in this then safe and close community. I have very strong memories of family, home, school and ...Read more

A memory of Knutsford in 1962 by Julie Nunn

Maes Y Llan Where I First Lived

These houses are in Maes-y-llan.My father Den and mother Hilda Wildblood with my sister Anne were the first to live in Number 6 when the houses were built in 1948 I believe.I was born in 1954 and it was my first home ...Read more

A memory of Meifod in 1955 by Larry W

My Early Years

On the 2nd September 1952 I was born at Manor Farm. I lived there with my parents, my maternal grandfather and two older brothers. I know my grandmother was alive when I was born but, unfortunately died soon after. My ...Read more

A memory of Yealand Conyers in 1952 by Sue Tomlinson

Living At The Cloch

I was a lighthouse keeper at the Cloch lighthouse from 1967 until 1972. I lived there with my wife Edna and our two children Andrew and Karen who should have been born there but she was overdue and so had to be born at the ...Read more

A memory of River Clyde in 1967 by jemargyll

Sunday Mornings

My mother in law, then Marie Elizabeth Burston born 1921 in Wales, whilst in service at Hartlebury House used to go to church every Sunday morning. The postman played the big organ. Every morning she had to give him and the ...Read more

A memory of Painswick in 1930 by Peter Royal

Stepping Back In Time

It started when my mother was dying, when we asked her about the family history, and she gave us names and dates. Her family came from France in late 1500. They were Hugenots and they were Puritans, and were chased out of ...Read more

A memory of Cinderford in 1995 by Brenda Mccartie

Coopers And Booths

My Great, Great Great Grandfather, William Booth, used to push a cart up and down the streets of Clayton le Moors with his son John Booth, selling shellfish. He was known as 'Muscle Bill' and his son, 'Oyster Jack'. (This ...Read more

A memory of Clayton-Le-Moors in 1890 by Donna Cooper

"Anne's Cafe"

I was born in Annes Cafe, Boroughbridge in 1940 (we were lodging there). Dad used to have a few beers in the Crown and the Three Greyhounds during WW2. Mum and Dad told me they used to go "skinny dipping" in the "fish ladders?" ...Read more

A memory of Boroughbridge in 1940 by James Tannock

Bush Hotel

My great granduncle and aunt managed the Bush Hotel - certainly in 1901. He was James Price, born in Ifton (Ilton?) Monmouthshire c. 1862 and his wife, Mary Pearce born in the same place C 1865.

A memory of Chepstow in 1900 by Margaret Chapman

Torpoint Memories

I was born in Tor House Torpoint in 1933.  Tor House was purchased by my Grandfather R S G Norgate, Royal Navy, in the early 1900s.  My Uncle Dr Robert Norgate inherited the property in 1934.  My Brother Joseph and I lived with my ...Read more

A memory of Torpoint in 1943 by Jessie Sichter

Captions

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Caption For Ewell, The Pond 1903

The pond is in central Ewell; the wall separates it from the grounds of Bourne Hall on the right.

Caption For Bournemouth, The Square 1904

The Square stands at the very heart of the town, astride the River Bourne.

Caption For Biddulph, Mow Cop Castle C1955

Mow Cop could be said to be the birthplace of the Primitive Methodist movement, for it was here in 1807 that Hugh Bourne (1772-1852) and William Clowes (1780-1851) held their first meetings.

Caption For Eastbourne, High Street, Old Town 1890

This view captures well the qualities of old East Bourn, now called the Old Town.

Caption For Bournemouth, From West Cliff 1897

Bournemouth pier stands above the original mouth of the River Bourne. Its construction marked the town's commitment to its role as a resort.

Caption For Market Deeping, Church Street C1955

This view looks north along the A15 towards the church of St Guthlac and Bourne.

Caption For Biddulph, Mow Cop Castle C1955

Mow Cop could be said to be the birthplace of the Primitive Methodist movement, for it was here in 1807 that Hugh Bourne (1772-1852) and William Clowes (1780-1851) held their first meetings.

Caption For Cardiff, Roath Park Lake 1902

The lake is now restricted to boaters; they may take out a skiff, but no private motor boats or any such thing noisy and anti-social.

Caption For Gomshall, The Tilling Bourne 1917

The Tilling Bourne quietly adds its own liquid note to this peaceful scene as its flows past The Compasses, one of two pubs in this small village on the main Guildford to Dorking road.

Caption For Market Deeping, Market Place C1955

This is the A15 road coming in from Bourne, which makes the traffic island a very busy place - it is now much smaller than it is in the picture.

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.

Caption For Bournemouth, From The Pier C1871

Bournemouth's Pier stands above the original mouth of the Bourne Stream. Its construction marked the town's commitment to its role as a resort.

Caption For Coulsdon, Public Library C1955

The Library and adjacent buildings on the left are of more recent date than those on the right because there was a regular problem with flooding on this side of the road, caused by the local Bourne stream

Caption For Margate, The Sands 1906

In the eighties and nineties of the 19th century the most famous Margate 'negro', his face blackened by burnt cork, was 'Uncle Bones'—actually Alfred Bourne, a native of Margate.

Caption For Bournemouth, On The Bourne 1900

The Pleasure Gardens with their scented pines and attractively laid out grounds were popular with people of all ages, at a time when fashion and social mores decreed that the human form should remain

Caption For Market Deeping, Market Place C1955

This is the A15 road coming in from Bourne, which makes the traffic island a very busy place - it is now much smaller than it is in the picture.

Caption For Bournemouth, The Pier 1897

From the ever-green valley of the Bourne (whence arose the nucleus of this resort) Bournemouth stretches for miles in either direction upon the sandy cliffs and pine-clad table-land of a gently curving

Caption For Bournemouth, The Pier 1908

Bournemouth Pier stands above the original mouth of the River Bourne. Its construction marked the town's commitment to its role as a resort.

Caption For Epsom, West Hill 1923

But most of all, Edwards remembered Clay Hill - West Hill as it is now - where he enjoyed the hospitality of Colonel Dennis O'Kelly, and was taken to view his stables.

Caption For Ware, Crib Street C1955

With the wrought iron gate and lantern frame in front of us, we look northwards towards Bourne Close and eventually, by a footpath across the fields, to Moles Farm and the Sow and Pigs public house at

Caption For Ewell, The Pond 1903

The pond is situated at the junction of the London and Chessington Roads.

Caption For Hurstbourne Tarrant, Village C1955

It is also the meeting point for two of Hampshire's smaller, lesser-known waterways - the Bourne rivulet and the River Swift.

Caption For Friday Street, The Stephan Langton 1921

Another of the small iron-working hamlets in the valley of the Tilling Bourne, Friday Street probably derives its name from the Scandinavian goddess Frigga; it still enjoys its peaceful setting above a

Caption For Guisborough, Priory Gardens 1899

see the priory ruins viewed from the south as in the view of 1885; but by the time of this photograph, Margaret, later first Lady Gisborough, along with her head gardener, Kew-trained James Bourne