Maps

181,031 maps found.

1880, Tredethy Ref. HOSM62266
1880, Trequite Ref. HOSM62402
1880, Washaway Ref. HOSM63469
1899, Hermon Ref. HOSM71270
1909, Pagham Ref. HOSM56088
1892, Blackrod Ref. HOSM38063
1892, Walker Fold Ref. HOSM59487
1892, Westhoughton Ref. HOSM64189
1904, Abercych Ref. HOSM56864
1909, Lindford Ref. HOSM51338
1909, Whitehill Ref. HOSM64384
1904, Glanwern Ref. HOSM46281
1887, Miningsby Ref. HOSM53843
1887, Wigtoft Ref. HOSM64591
1886, Bourne Ref. HOSM34195
1907, Southbourne Ref. HOSM59866
1883, Helmdon Ref. HOSM48085
1898, Mixbury Ref. HOSM53882
1922, Great Ashley Ref. HOSM45794
1902, Avoncliff Ref. HOSM70565

Books

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Memories

29,034 memories found. Showing results 2,011 to 2,020.

How Times Have Changed

Looking back at old photographs Harwich & Dovercourt has certainly changed, the Phoenix Hotel is no longer, it has been replaced by luxury flats, the train ferry service has closed, the High Street seems like a ghost ...Read more

A memory of Dovercourt by Steve Delves

Happy Days

Born in Paxton in 1948, I have many happy memories as a child in the country. I never tired of messing about in the local rivers, the Whiteadder and the Tweed. Best described as messing about because at times I didn't catch very ...Read more

A memory of Paxton by Dave Carr

Memories Of Mile Oak And Fazeley

I remember those golden years as a youngster bathing in the mill at Fazeley and Bourne brook at Mile Oak. The weather always seem so warm. We had our own circle of friends, and as youngsters we did get into ...Read more

A memory of Fazeley by Roy Allsopp

Dalelands

The car in this picture is parked outside my old home. I wonder, was it my Dad's car? Not many of us had cars then. I spent many hours under the lamp-post as it got dark, before I got called in. We were pretty safe to play out ...Read more

A memory of Market Drayton in 1960 by Dianne Lam

Distant Memories

I had returned to UK from Queensland to visit my mother who was ill and waiting at the platform entrance at Waterloo station when a former colleague from Post Office Overseas Telegraph came up to me and we began a ...Read more

A memory of Frimley Green in 1978 by John Scott

White Tomkins & Courage

In the 1960s I used to hurry down Nutley Lane each morning to my job as telephonist at WTC, which was situated a few road away at the distal end of Nutley Lane and has long since disappeared. WTC was a thriving, example of ...Read more

A memory of Reigate in 1963

The River

The River Avon dominated most of the kids' lives in the village! I remember swimming 'down the mill' and at Gunville where my Great Grandmother (Sarah Marks) lived. We used to scrounge used inner tyre tubes from Mr Stansfield (who ...Read more

A memory of Figheldean in 1957 by Denise Hope Nee Morgan

The Shakey Bridge

My mother left Yorkshire with me in 1945 when I was four years old. She worked for a Mrs Curzon at Arrochar house in Rothiemay as a cook and general help. I think the owners were titled people. I remember ...Read more

A memory of Rothiemay Crossroads in 1945 by Lucie Nee; Roberts

The Fish Family

My grandfather was Albert Fish. He lived in Small Dole all of his life. He ran a haulage business with his brother Jim. He had eight children, one of whom (JIM) was killed in Italy in the war. My mother, brother and I walked ...Read more

A memory of Small Dole in 1940 by Colin Robinson

A Happy Time

I was born in 1965 at Cliveden and lived in Grubwood Lane near the entrance to Quarry Woods with my parents for 16 years. I remember walking to Cookham Dean Primary School where the headmaster Mr Turner made my life a misery! I ...Read more

A memory of Cookham Dean in 1965

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Captions

29,395 captions found. Showing results 4,825 to 4,848.

Caption For Eynesbury, Church Of St Mary The Virgin 1897

The parish church of St Mary is built of local cobbles, with a fine tower that was rebuilt in 1688 using 13th-century materials.

Caption For Milford On Sea, C1955

Not long after this photograph was taken, flats became popular, and today there are unsightly blocks of flats on the outskirts of this village.

Caption For Nottingham, Ye Olde Trip To Jerusalem Inn 1949

It incorporates cellars cut into the sandstone of Castle Hill.

Caption For Borth, St Matthew's Church C1950

St Matthew's Church was built on a hillock a few hundred yards inland from Borth.

Caption For Chester, Watergate Row 1949

Of Chester's main streets, Watergate Street is the least changed and retains a natural charm.

Caption For Deal, The Castle C1955

This was the largest of three fortresses built by Henry VIII in 1538 to protect this stretch of Kent coast against the threat of invasion by Francois I of France.

Caption For Woodford Halse, Moravian Church And Parsons Street C1965

As a result there are numerous terraces of workers' cottages, all in brick and mainly attached to the west side of the village.

Caption For Clee Hill, Cornbrook Bridge 1911

Standing 533 metres above sea level, this hill is made up of a stone known as dhustone (from the Welsh word 'dhu', meaning black).

Caption For Goodmanham, Church C1965

Goodmanham lies around 2 miles north-east of Market Weighton, and its history dates back to the Stone Age.

Caption For London, Houses Of Parliament 1908

By the time of this photograph, the old wharves along the river had been cleared away to create Victoria Embankment Garden, a more fitting context for the Mother of Parliaments, which was rebuilt in Gothic

Caption For London, Houses Of Parliament 1908

By the time of this photograph, the old wharves along the river had been cleared away to create Victoria Embankment Garden, a more fitting context for the Mother of Parliaments, which was rebuilt in Gothic

Caption For Pontypool, The Grotto C1955

The grotto in Pontypool park was believed to have been the home of an old hermit, and is considered by academics to be the most important example in Wales.

Caption For Penarth, The Bay C1955

This striking view across the bay was taken from the grounds of The Kymin. The house is one of the very few left that are 'pre Esplanade', itself occupying the site of an earlier farm.

Caption For Bridport, W.Frost Shop Front 1909

This is a detail of the frontage of 34 West Street, which was the 'Bridport News' office and West Dorset Printing Works in 1909.

Caption For Henley In Arden, The Town 1959

The town was once under the control of the powerful de Montfort family. At Evesham on 4 August 1265, Simon de Montfort led the barons against the forces of Henry III.

Caption For Netley, St.Edward's Church C1955

The church of St Edward the Confessor contains a medieval effigy of a crusader monk, which was found in the wall of nearby Netley Castle and probably came from Netley Abbey.

Caption For Maidstone, Zoo Park C1955

One of Maidstone Zoo's zebras. The grounds of Cobtree Manor, at Sandling, close to Maidstone, now house the Museum of Kent Life, Cobtree Manor Golf Course and a 250 acre park.

Caption For Netley, Victoria Road C1955

The church of St Edward the Confessor contains a medieval effigy of a crusader monk, which was found in the wall of nearby Netley Castle and probably came from Netley Abbey.

Caption For Killarney, Tunnel On The Kenmare Road 1897

A photograph of the well-known landmark of Killarney, the road tunnel on the Killarney to Kenmare road. The tunnel is beneath Cromaglan mountain, near the shore of the Upper Lake.

Caption For Wisbech, Market Place C1955

The Ship Hotel, on the right of the photograph, was one of the eight inns and taverns that at one time or another stood along this side of the Market Place.

Caption For Swaffham, Market Place 1891

They take place around the Palladian-style market cross which is in the centre of five main roads.

Caption For Blakeney, The Blakeney Hotel 1925

Trading from its port ended in 1922, and this heralded the start of Blakeney as a tourist centre, specialising in boating, fishing, walking, painting, bird-watching and nature study.

Caption For Hest Bank, The Canal C1955

Hest was part of Bolton-le-Sands, and was a hamlet near Morecambe Bay. Hest Bank was the seaward side of the village, right at the southern side of the mouth of the River Kent.

Caption For Lindfield, High Street 1965

On the extreme left is Lloyds Bank, whilst next door is the Stand Up Inn, so called because of the lack of seating - this ensured that any lunchtime customers were not late back to their