Maps

181 maps found.

1896, Carr Cross Ref. RNE662759
1896, Carr Vale Ref. RNE662863
1895, West Carr Ref. RNE863846
1898, Barnbow Carr Ref. RNE633531
1895, Huggin Carr Ref. RNE741831
1895, Island Carr Ref. RNE744439
1903, Broad Carr Ref. RNC650646
1903, Carr Green Ref. RNC662789
1903, Batley Carr Ref. RNC634727
1895, Haxey Carr Ref. RNE729110
1896, Emmett Carr Ref. RNE701262
1947, Harlow Carr Ref. NPO727405
1947, Carr Vale Ref. NPO662863
1895, West Carr Ref. RNE863847
1947, Barnbow Carr Ref. NPO633531
1924, Carr Cross Ref. POP662759
1925, Barnbow Carr Ref. POP633531
1923, Crich Carr Ref. POP683166
1947, Hunslet Carr Ref. NPO742273
1947, Island Carr Ref. NPO744439

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Memories

152 memories found. Showing results 11 to 20.

Caddys

My grandma lived in Batley Carr and we lived in Leeds. I can remember visiting Dewsbury as a little girl with Mum and Dad. There was a market in Dewsbury on a Saturday and I can remember visiting an ice cream parlour. I was delighted to be ...Read more

A memory of Dewsbury

Growing Up In Greenford In The 1960s And 1970s

Here are some random memories: Lists Bakeries on Greenford Broadway.  Lovely aroma, tasty bread. The paper bags all used to have the slogan 'Good Flavour Always Finds Favour'. The covered market near ...Read more

A memory of Greenford by Danny Robinson

Mother's Memory

My mother remembered being looked after by Olive and Jack Carr of Chester-le Street during her teenage years. Kitty, my mother, attended 'Chester-le-Street Secondary School' where she won a prize in 1932-33: the Theodore ...Read more

A memory of Chester-Le-Street in 1930 by Jenny Lister

Wonderful Times In Cheriton Fitzpaine

I grew up in Cheriton Fitzpaine, I lived at 1 Wordland Cross and went to the local primary school before going to the Shelley School in Crediton. I loved living in that village, I remember lots of ...Read more

A memory of Cheriton Fitzpaine in 1972 by Russell Kenneford

Ormskirk

I was born in Ormskirk 1959, My parents were John & June Carr of Sephton Drive, we lived at number 21. I have five brothers. We attended West End, and Crosshall High School, My Grandfather Thomas Gabbitas lived near the Gas works in ...Read more

A memory of Ormskirk by Sandra Lee

Help Needed

I'm looking for a man called David from Great Barr who used to drive an ice-cream van with his brother in the 1970s. He is believed to be married with two boys, possibly in his 60s or 70s now. Any information, however small, would be gratefully accepted. Thanks.

A memory of Great Barr

Mr John White, Principal Lighthouse Keeper

My great-grandfather, John White, was Principal Lighthouse Keeper, from 1883 onwards. John, with his family, a wife, and three sons, travelled from Wales where he was a Lighthouse Keeper at South Bishop ...Read more

A memory of Cromer in 1880 by Jillian Carr

Abridge In The 1950's

I moved to Abridge in 1950 when I was ten years old. My parents bought the white cottage on the London Road, which had a wooden building next to it. This very soon became The Poplar Cafe, my mother’s dream of riches! I attended ...Read more

A memory of Abridge in 1955 by Helena Rogers

Snowing And Floating

Can't be too specific about the year, just know I was young. Perhaps we'd not been long in our house on Carr Lane, having lived in Dronfield before. What a treasure this house was, running water, separate bedrooms and ...Read more

A memory of Dronfield Woodhouse in 1956 by Raymond Gee

Cragg Farm

This photo shows Cragg Farm painted white and Sweetbriar Cottage attached. My mother was Margaret Jane Carr and was born and raised at Cragg Farm. She was 16 years old in 1926 when this photo was taken. She married Roland Calverley at ...Read more

A memory of Starbotton by Joyce Billingsley

Captions

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Caption For Boston Spa, Thorp Arch Hall 1908

The designer, John Carr, later went on to be the architect of the magnificent Harewood House.

Caption For Willesborough, The Lees 1909

The year this picture was taken a cruel winter was about to strike, leaving many new owners of a motor car relying on horses to pull them free from snow-laden roads.

Caption For Richmond, Aske Hall West Front 1893

Georgian additions on the left, since reduced in size, were designed by the York architect John Carr for Sir Lawrence Dundas.

Caption For Richmond, Aske Hall West Front 1893

Georgian additions on the left, since reduced in size, were designed by the York architect John Carr for Sir Lawrence Dundas.

Caption For Richmond, The Castle And The Bridge 1893

We are looking past John Carr's Green Bridge towards the magnificent castle - a true picture of medieval England.

Caption For Doncaster, The Racecourse C1955

Rockingham commissioned the building of the grandstand in 1778; it was a copy of John Carr's original stand at the York Knavesmire course.

Caption For Rochdale, Carr Wood Waterfall 1895

Just downstream of Carr Wood waterfall is this smaller weir, whose race carried water via a flagstone channel under fields to the left to the Ashworth Estate corn mill.

Caption For East Ayton, Derwent Café C1965

Not far from the cafe is the four-arch sandstone bridge over the Derwent, built in 1775 by York architect John Carr.

Caption For Richmond, The Castle And The Bridge 1893

The Green Bridge, named because of its proximity to the Green, was built 1788-89 to a design by the North Riding bridgemaster, York architect John Carr, after its medieval predecessor

Caption For Horbury, Cluntergate C1955

If we walk along Cluntergate towards the town centre past John Carr's birthplace in the tidy cottage built by his father in 1739, we see the Cricketers Arms pub (1898) on the left.

Caption For Lincoln, The Cathedral C1965

At the left is the corner of John Carr of York’s Georgian County Gaol of 1787: no attempt here to match the castle’s Gothic architecture.

Caption For Lincoln, Castle Grounds C1955

At the left is the corner of John Carr of York's Georgian County Gaol of 1787: no attempt here to match the castle's Gothic architecture.

Caption For Lincoln, The Cathedral C1965

At the left is the corner of John Carr of York's Georgian County Gaol of 1787: no attempt here to match the castle's Gothic architecture.

Caption For Ilkley, Denton Park From The Cow And Calf Rocks 1914

After a fire in 1734 it was rebuilt by John Carr in a fine Georgian style.

Caption For Inskip, Main Road C1950

Many of the thatched cottages on the winding lanes remained the same except for the replacement of their wheat straw roofs by corrugated metal sheets; an instance is the old Reading Room between Carr's

Caption For Ferrybridge, The Bridge C1955

It is hard to believe that the arched bridge, built in 1797 by John Carr of York, used to carry all the main Great North road traffic.

Caption For Richmond, The Castle And Bridge 1892

We are looking past John Carr's Green Bridge towards the magnificent castle - a true picture of medieval England.

Caption For Boston Spa, Thorp Arch Hall 1895

He commissioned the designs from the fashionable architect of the time, John Carr of York.

Caption For Horbury, Cluntergate C1955

Cluntergate is one of the main roads leading out from the centre of Horbury, whose main claim to fame is that it was the birthplace of the famous 18th-century architect always, but erroneously, known as 'John Carr

Caption For Inskip, Carrs Green C1950

Local girls worked at the model dairy and cows grazed on Carrs Green, once common land.

Caption For Misterton, The Church 1960

It is situated in the drained fenland and carrs (copses) to the west of the River Trent, through which meanders the River Idle on its way to meet the river at West Stockwith.

Caption For Bainbridge, The Village 1924

The bridge over the Ure was widened by John Carr in 1785.

Caption For Doncaster, The Racecourse C1955

Rockingham commissioned the building of the grandstand in 1778; it was a copy of John Carr's original stand at the York Knavesmire course.

Caption For Wilmslow, Carrs Path C1955

The Carrs are part of the meadow land along the River Bollin that once provided pasture land for Wilmslow`s residents.