Places

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Photos

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Maps

28 maps found.

1919, Mark Hall South Ref. POP774653
1946, Mark Hall North Ref. NPO774652
1946, Mark Hall South Ref. NPO774653
1923, Park Hill Ref. POP800994
1895, Park Hill Ref. RNE801006
1898, Park Hill Ref. RNC801006
1940, Park Hill Ref. NPO801006
1920, Rise Park Ref. POP817139

Books

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Memories

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Heston Middlesex 1950s

It was good to see people's memories of Heston, as I spent much of my childhood there. My father was manager of a branch of grocers called Platts Stores Ltd, Norwood Green, although we were on the corner of Fern Lane Heston and ...Read more

A memory of Heston by Rita Burgess

The Plantations

Well not just for the 1930's but for twenty years after as well.  Memories come flooding back - not just for this picture but for Wigan itself.  I was born there in 1931 - in my grandparents home 38, Dicconson Street - a section no ...Read more

A memory of Wigan in 1930 by Thelma Hurly

Memories Of Sutton Lodge, In Sutton Lane—Just South Of The Great West Road, Heston/Hounslow

Recorded by Nicholas Reid, Canberra, Australia. I was christened in the Anglican church at Heston in 1959, though for obvious reason I don’t have any memories ...Read more

A memory of Heston by Nicholas Reid

Llannerch Hall Zoo Was Actualy Called Llannerch Deer Park.

I lived there with my parents and my father Douglas Petrie he was the curator and the person who set it up. He and I are in some of these pictures. Jeremy Petrie. born 1965 Thank you for this correction. As you can see, our database has now been updated. Many thanks Ed.

A memory of Llannerch Hall by Jeremy Petrie

John Adshead Exercising The Dogs

It was a common site to see John Adshead cycling to work from Gawsworth New Hall to the Lonsdale & Adshead brewery on Park Green Macclesfield. There was a driver and car available at the house, but it was ...Read more

A memory of Gawsworth by Maurice Adshead

St Joseph's Convent School

I note that a couple of people have mentioned St Joseph's Convent School. Having attended that school from 1960 to 1966, I can confirm that the location was opposite Hoadley's and the building did indeed curve alongside ...Read more

A memory of Burgess Hill

Ardwyn, High Road

My Great Aunt (Grandmothers sister) lived here immediately on the LEFT of this photo at "Ardwyn" in the High Road, opposite the entrance to the Village Hall car park in 1950s/1960s. Her husband was Fred Bowey and one of their ...Read more

A memory of Byfleet by Chevvy Eaton

Brushing The Cobwebs Off

My mother, Mrs Pat Bishop, was Headmistress of Boddington C of E School from November 1949 until sometime in 1962. In the beginning there were only about 9 children in the school, 5yrs to 11, no mains water or ...Read more

A memory of Upper Boddington by Peter Bishop

Hatch End Shops In The 1960''s

I lived in Hatch End from 1956 until I went up to Manchester in 1966, so I got to know my local shops both as a helpful schoolboy running errands for my mum to MacPhails the greengrocer and later as a teenager buying ...Read more

A memory of Hatch End in 1960 by John Howard Norfolk

When We Played In The Road

Gipsy Road in Welling where I lived as a child in the 1950's was a long one. It stretched from Okehampton Crescent near Bostall heath and woods at its north end, down to the Welling/Bexleyheath mainline railway and a ...Read more

A memory of Wellings, The

Captions

196 captions found. Showing results 25 to 48.

Caption For Leicester, De Montfort Hall, Regent Road C1955

A surprisingly spry 85-year-old building, the De Montfort Hall shows little sign of ageing.

Caption For Bradford, Lister Park Bandstand 1923

The park occupies the original site of Manningham Hall, which was demolished; the land was given to the city by its owner, Samuel Cunliffe Lister.

Caption For Bebington, Teehey Lane 1950

The town owes much to the Victorian jeweller Joseph Mayer, who gave his home village a little library in Mayer Hall in 1866.

Caption For Cardiff, City Hall And Law Courts 1906

Admired by a lady sitting in the area later to be occupied by the National Museum stands the City Hall, a year after the bestowal of Cardiff's city status.

Caption For Bletchley, Central Gardens C1955

Central Park ran from Queensway to the back of Western Road, whose c1900 houses can be seen in the distance.

Caption For Bretby, The Hall C1955

Bretby Hall, or Bretby Park, which stands in its own 600-acre park near Burton on Trent, is a mock-Gothic, castellated pile built in 1813 by Sir Jeffrey Wyatville; it is now used as a hospital.

Caption For Gidea Park, The Golf Course C1955

The Romford Golf Club, when it was founded, leased 90 acres of land from the Gidea Hall Estate.

Caption For Thorpe Market, The Tower Gunton Park C1955

The whole of Gunton village is included in the park and grounds of Gunton Hall.

Caption For Stratford Upon Avon, Lucy's Mill 1892

The Lucy family had lived at Charlcote Hall since the 12th century. It was in their Deer Park that Shakespeare is said to have been arrested for poaching.

Caption For Luton, George Street C1950

Once the site of Corn Market House, where weekly markets were held for the sales of corn and straw plait, Market Hill underwent a major refurbishment in the 1860s, culminating in the joint opening of the

Caption For Nottingham, University, Hugh Stewart Hall C1955

Nottingham University College achieved independent university status in 1948; by then it stood in a park expanded from its original 60 acres to nearer 180 acres.

Caption For Stourbridge, Market Street C1965

Notice the sign for the car park for the Bell Hotel (left) - the car park sits on what was once advertised as 'the finest and best kept bowling green in the Midlands'.

Caption For Leicester, Town Hall Gardens C1965

In 1965 the birds still sang in the Town Hall gardens, and although relatively noisy, it was an extremely pleasant place to sit and mull over the fortunes of the day.

Caption For Bradford, Lister Park Bandstand 1923

The park is named after Cunliffe Lister, Lord Masham, and includes a boating lake, a scented garden for the blind and the Cartwright Memorial Hall, which was opened in 1904.

Caption For Bradford, Lister Park Bandstand 1923

The park is named after Cunliffe Lister, Lord Masham, and includes a boating lake, a scented garden for the blind and the Cartwright Memorial Hall, which was opened in 1904.

Caption For Botley, The Square C1955

There is a car park to the right, and traffic lights with a pedestrian crossing where the buses are in this photograph. Next to the Dolphin Hotel (left) is the pedimented market hall.

Caption For Shipley, Crowghyll Park 1903

Crowghyll Park was opened to the residents on 31 May 1890 following a civic ceremony led by Mrs Titus Salt.

Caption For Accrington, Composite C1960

The Rock Gardens at Oak Hill Park, Broadway, with its new Arndale Centre, the bus station and St James' Chruch are all proudly portrayed here, with the Market Hall in the centre.

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Caption For Bradford, Lister Park Lake 1921

The park occupies the original site of Manningham Hall, which was demolished; the land was given to the city by its owner, Samuel Cunliffe Lister.

Caption For Chipping Norton, High Street C1945

The Town Hall, on the left, dates from 1842; its imposing stone portico faces onto the High Street rather than the Market Square - which, as has become common in the modern age, is being used

Caption For Chipping Norton, High Street C1945

The Town Hall, on the left, dates from 1842; its imposing stone portico faces onto the High Street rather than the Market Square - which, as has become common in the modern age, is being used

Caption For Holkham, The Village Stores C1955

The village stands at the edge of the park of Holkham Hall, the palatial 18th-century home of Thomas Coke, later Earl of Leicester.

Caption For Leeds, The Town Hall 1894

The architect of the Town Hall, Cuthbert Brodrick, was also responsible for other buildings, including the Corn Exchange (1860), the Mechanics' Institute (1860), the Oriental Baths (1866) and shops on

Caption For Cobham, The Hall 1899

By far the most impressive building in the parish, the Tudor mansion, with its octagonal wing turrets and a 50 acre park landscaped by Humphrey Repton in 1790, was the result of the redevelopment of