Maps

223 maps found.

1947, Tower Hill Ref. NPO850917
1895, Tower Hill Ref. RNE850926
1899, Warmley Tower Ref. RNC860828
1901-1902, Tower End Ref. RNC850896
1924, Turton Tower Ref. POP854591
1897-1902, Bow Ref. RNC647024
1920, Poplar Ref. POP808922
1920, Shadwell Ref. POP828673
1946, Mile End Ref. NPO779841
1946, Spitalfields Ref. NPO836401
1946, Stepney Ref. NPO839237
1946, St George In The East Ref. NPO823830
1946, Shadwell Ref. NPO828673
1896, Mile End Ref. RNE779841
1896, Millwall Ref. RNE781015
1896, Blackwall Ref. RNE642989
1896, Stratford Marsh Ref. RNE841280
1897-1902, Mile End Ref. RNC779841
1897-1902, South Bromley Ref. RNC834451
1897-1902, Spitalfields Ref. RNC836401

Books

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Memories

637 memories found. Showing results 11 to 20.

My Childhood Years In Stebbing

My Grandparents, Harry and Hannah Young lived in the first cottage on the left as you enter the village. I spent most of my school holidays there with them and my Mother and I were evacuated to live with them during ...Read more

A memory of Stebbing in 1940 by Vera Webster

Where I Grew Up

I lived most of my life in Sible Hedingham, as a family we moved there from London in 1962.  I was just 2 years old at the time. My father Robert Farren, "Bob" as he was best known and my mother Ivy, took over the licence of ...Read more

A memory of Sible Hedingham in 1962 by Anne Elder

Childhood Holidays

I was evacuated during the war for a time to Whitwell and spent it with my Grandfather Walter Williams who lived almost opposite the Bull PH. My elder brother born 1938 was just about old enough to attend the local ...Read more

A memory of Whitwell by m-jones21

Carnforth Lodge Lancaster Road

As a child in the 1960’s and 70’s I went several times with my family to visit Mrs Esther Pomfret (Auntie Ettie to us; she was a relation of my father's) at Carnforth Lodge, Lancaster Road.  I don't think this is shown ...Read more

A memory of Carnforth by Isabel Yeo

The Bower

I moved to the Bower in 1945 with my parents and two brothers. We lived there until 1952 when we imigrated to Canada. The road takes a fairly sharp turn to the right just in front of the house and on Guy Fox night we used to turn off all the ...Read more

A memory of Hever in 1945 by Ian Balding

Bathing In The River

Montague terrace was home to many children. I remember the Allen's, John, June, Barry, Hazel, Ivan & Valerie. The White's, Maurice and Barbara, The William,s and Smith,s, Joan, Roy, Margaret, Jeffrey, and at least three ...Read more

A memory of Bishopstoke in 1949 by Barbara R Bryan

Busk Crescent

Late in 1945 my parents moved to 25 Busk Crescent, in Cove. The house was on top of a hill and overlooked the Farnborough airfield. From the front bedroom you could see aircraft landing on the runway. The house was one of a string of ...Read more

A memory of Cove in 1945 by Alan Hickman

Gourock My Home Always

I was born in Gourock in 1960 and lived there until I married and moved to the States. I love living here but my heart belongs to Gourock and seeing these pictures brings me home again. My life growing up there is the happiest ...Read more

A memory of Gourock in 1960 by First Name Last Name

Manchester Road

Born in Ryan Street. I remember walking all the way down Manchester Road to St Joseph's Infant School, which at that time was on Grafton Street and part of the Girls School, it seemed to take ages, we walked past all the pubs and ...Read more

A memory of Bradford in 1955

School Holidays At Abington Park

I was born in 1951 in Lutterworth Road, Northampton just a 5 minutes' walk from one of the most beautiful parks in the country - Abington Park. Originally part of the Wantage family estate, it boasted a museum ...Read more

A memory of Little Billing in 1959 by Andrew Beardsmore

Captions

3,036 captions found. Showing results 25 to 48.

Caption For London, The Tower Of London, Martin Tower C1930

This tower is on the north-east corner of the fortress's inner wall. The D-shaped tower was much rebuilt in Charles II's reign, when it was made the Jewel Tower.

Caption For New Brighton, Tower And Sands 1900

An Eiffel Tower at New Brighton was part of the original dream of James Atherton as he planned his new holiday resort. It was started in 1896 and opened in 1898.

Caption For Conwy, Castle C1955

In this picture we see most of Conwy's drum-towers, each of which is almost identical in size and plan.

Caption For Skegness, The Clock Tower 1910

The small parking strip adjoining the Clock Tower contains two motor taxis, a pony trap, a landau and an open omnibus drawn by two horses happily munching away in their nosebags.

Caption For New Brighton, The Tower 1898

The New Brighton Tower was completed in 1898, about eight years after the Blackpool Tower.

Caption For Chepstow, The Castle From The Bridge 1893

Marten's Tower and its flanking turrets was erected between 1285 and 1293 by Roger Bigod III.

Caption For Warwick, The Castle Entrance 1892

The great gatehouse sits astride the curtain wall between Caesar's Tower and Guy's Tower.

Caption For Raglan, The Castle 1906

These features included a tower-keep separated from the rest of the castle by its own moat, multiangular towers, and ornate machiolations of the type seen here adorning the tops of the hexagonal corner

Caption For Richmond, Grey Friars Tower 1929

The Franciscans came to Richmond in 1258, and built a small church befitting their commitment to poverty, but this elegant belfry tower was slotted into the crossing of the church between the nave, choir

Caption For Blackpool, The Aquarium 1890

A pre-Tower picture. Featured here are Dr W H Cocker's aquarium, menagerie and aviary, which occupied the site where the Tower now stands.

Caption For Chester, Water Tower 1891

This tower was built in 1322 as an outwork to the tower on the north-west corner of the wall.

Caption For Pembroke, The Castle C1955

In shape it would form an irregular hexagon, with a tower at each of the angles.

Caption For Haverfordwest, St Mary's Church C1955

The tower was capped by a timber spire until 1802, when it was removed at the behest of Lady Kensington who feared that it would fall on her nearby house.

Caption For Nether Stowey, The Village C1955

The present tower, built in 1897 for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, stands on the site of the covered market, which also had a clock tower.

Caption For Churchill, The Village And The Church C1960

Just south of Chipping Norton is the handsome church tower of the appropriately-named village of Churchill; the tower is a copy of the tower at Magdalen College, Oxford.

Caption For Hammersmith, The Bridge C1960

We meet Bazalgette later at the Embankment in central London; seen here from the Barnes bank towpath, his suspension bridge has a 420-foot main span, and the towers are finished with French-style pavilion

Caption For Reculver, Towers 1892

Known as 'The Sisters', the towers are all that remain of St Mary's Church - it was blown up in 1809 to stop it falling into the sea.

Caption For Wells, Cathedral, West Front 1923

Above are the grand 14th-century west towers, and beyond soars the great central tower, 'outstanding even in Somerset, a county famed for the splendour of its church towers' (Alec Clifton-Taylor).

Caption For Tidenham, Church 1906

These features included a tower-keep separated from the rest of the castle by its own moat, multiangular towers, and ornate machicolations of the type seen here adorning the tops of the hexagonal corner

Caption For Huddersfield, Castle Hill 1957

The commanding view of the town led to number of schemes to erect a monument: the first was to have been the Victoria Prospect Tower in 1849.

Caption For Wallasey, St Hilary's Church And The Tower C1873

There are not many churches dedicated to this saint, and this church is also unique because of its two towers. There has been a church on this site for over a thousand years.

Caption For Balsham, The Church 1959

Local legend says that the only survivor of the massacre hid in the tower of the parish church of Holy Trinity.

Caption For Long Melford, Church 1904

The magnificence of the church was rather spoilt by the 18th-century red brick tower with classical blank arches and windows (see photograph 35493), built after much of the medieval tower

Caption For Loftus, Arlington Street C1960

Next to the Arlington Hotel is the Methodist chapel, with the tower of the Catholic church beyond.