Places

5 places found.

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Photos

18 photos found. Showing results 541 to 18.

Maps

573 maps found.

1898-1899, Barnard Gate Ref. RNC633509
1903-1904, Bay Gate Ref. RNC634959
1892, Lately Common Ref. HOSM52399
1883 - 1902, Kenn Moor Gate Ref. HOSM52526
1879, Baldwin's Gate Ref. HOSM36774
1885, Three Gates Ref. HOSM61737
1903-1904, Low Gate Ref. RNC768114
1898-1899, White Gate Ref. RNC867746
1921, Barton Gate Ref. POP634343
1903-1904, Cross Gates Ref. RNC684277
1897-1899, Forest Gate Ref. RNC707877
1898, Friar's Gate Ref. RNC709385
1945, Abbey Gate Ref. NPO618369
1946, Baldwin's Gate Ref. NPO630841
1946, Barton Gate Ref. NPO634343
1947, Low Gate Ref. NPO768113
1897, Baldwin's Gate Ref. RNE630841
1898, Barton Gate Ref. RNE634345
1947, Park Gate Ref. NPO800921
1947, Park Gate Ref. NPO800927

Books

1 books found. Showing results 649 to 1.

Memories

676 memories found. Showing results 271 to 280.

Lost Memories Of Childhood

I was a patient at the RLCH Heswall in the 1940s . Although my family came from Liverpool I was sent to the hospital with what we knew as a diseaesed hip bone which I later heard referred to as Perthe's Disease. I guess ...Read more

A memory of Heswall in 1940 by Fred Gott

Netherthong Public Houses Part 1

This chapter is a work in progress and as it is more than the 1000 words allowed in this memory, I have split it into 2 sections. The current title is : Public House, inn, alehouse, tavern, pothouse, beer ...Read more

A memory of Netherthong by Michael Meitiner

Netherthong Public Houses Part 2

This is the second part of my ongoing research into the public houses in Netherthong. There is reference to two inns in Thongsbridge in 1853 - the Rose & Crown publican Hiram Earnshaw, and the Royal Oak ...Read more

A memory of Netherthong by Michael Meitiner

Wartime Memories Of Hay Part Three Final

Wartime Memories of Hay: Part Three. (Continued) Apart from Ration Books and the coupon implications for restricted purchase of food and clothing, my own recollections of life in Hay during World War ...Read more

A memory of Hay-on-Wye in 1940 by John S. Batts

Little Tudor 1900s To Present

Little Tudor was the cottage that my grandmother resided in when she was a young girl. It is located on The Green in Holyport, Maidenhead. She and her brothers and sisters grew up here in the 1900s. I visited it last ...Read more

A memory of Holyport in 1941 by Wendy Hoffman

Birth.

I was born in Crystal Place Road Dulwich in July 1930. I did not know the full address until a few months ago. My family moved to Grove Park when I was six months old and my mother died in March 1932. My father died when I was thirteen. I ...Read more

A memory of Dulwich in 1930 by James Tait

Summer Of 1990

I was lucky enough to go abroad for our family holiday every year. Towards the end of the 1980s my second holiday around August time would be to go to Treyarnon Bay with my best friend Becci and her parents, and I fell in love ...Read more

A memory of St Merryn in 1990 by Debbie Turner

Guard Of Honour

Seventy years ago, I was stationed at RAF Upper Heyford and was selected to be included in the Guard of Honour when King George Vl visited in either April, May or June (memory not what it was at 88!) 1940. I ...Read more

A memory of Upper Heyford in 1940 by Jack Rhodes

Hammer Cottage

I left Coolham 1n 1957 to go to sea to become a Salvage Diver. I was very fortunate to have achieved my ambition and became the senior diver within Admiralty Salvage. My family lived and owned Hammer Cottage, together with Saddlers ...Read more

A memory of Coolham in 1957 by Shaun Gandy

Pay Up On The Nail

'Cash on the Nail' the man said. . . and a century or so ago in Bristol he really meant it. For the deal would have been clinched on one of Bristol's four famous nails standing outside the Corn Exchange on Corn Street or, from ...Read more

A memory of Bristol by Paul Townsend

Captions

1,440 captions found. Showing results 649 to 672.

Caption For London, The Oxford Arms, Warwick Lane C1875

This coaching inn, which dated from Tudor times, was rebuilt in 1676 following the Great Fire of London in 1666.

Caption For Henbury, The Church 1897

St Thomas's dates from the 1840s, and was designed by Richard Lane.

Caption For Corfe Castle, The Village And Castle C1955

Originally the site of a Saxon hunting lodge, much of the present Corfe Castle, which gives its name to the stone-built village beneath, dates back to the troubled reign of King Stephen.

Caption For Langham, Old Vicarage C1950

This building is dated 1790, and is a little distance from the church.

Caption For Great Easton, St Andrew's Church C1960

On the east side of the village, overlooking the Welland Valley, the church for the most part dates from the 13th and 14th centuries, including the tower and its broach spire.

Caption For Barrow In Furness, Ramsden Square And Library 1924

It is dated 1915, and it replaced the original library, which was housed in the Town Hall.

Caption For Felsted, The Mill C1960

The current building here dates from 1858, its predecessor having burned down.

Caption For Thaxted, Clarence House C1960

The house was built in 1715 - or that, at least, is the date on the rainwater heads.

Caption For Bodfari, The Dinorben Arms And St Stephen's Church C1960

The church of St Stephen is thought to date originally from the 7th century; it is certainly recorded in a taxation document of 1254 as the church of 'Bottewara'.

Caption For Coventry, The Lady Godiva Clock C1965

The event is further commemorated in Broadgate by a puppet clock which dates from Coventry's post-war reconstruction.

Caption For Dorridge, The Village C1965

The block in the background dates from the middle of the 20th century.

Caption For Sutton Coldfield, Penns Hall Hotel, The Interior C1965

It looks horribly dated now, but this was state-of-the-art opulence in 1965.

Caption For Chatburn, Bridge Road C1955

Beyond Martin's Bank and the shops is the Black Bull Inn, which carries a date stone of 1855.

Caption For Crowland, Broadway C1965

The stump of the windmill now has no chimney and is incorporated into the house next door, which is named Mill Terrace and dated 1860.

Caption For Minchinhampton, The Church, The Rose Window 1901

The arched tombs beneath the window date from the 14th century.

Caption For Belton, Belton House 1904

North of Grantham, set in its seven hundred acre landscaped deer park, Belton House was begun in 1685; it is architecturally conservative for that date with its cupola and balustraded flat roof.

Caption For Fulbourn, Apthorpe Street C1950

St Martin's Cottage (right) has the date 1661 over the porch.

Caption For Old Weston, The Village C1955

There is a plaque dated 1622 on the chimney-stack.

Caption For Stratford Upon Avon, Chapel Street 1922

At the corner with Sheep Street stands the town hall, which dates from 1767; on this building is a statue of the Bard presented by David Garrick.

Caption For Basingstoke, Market Place C1955

Basingstoke's role as an important market centre dates back to medieval times; it was established as a borough in 1622 when James I granted the town a charter giving it a weekly market and a twice-yearly

Caption For North Weald, The Kings Head C1955

Parts of this beautiful old building date back to the middle years of the 16th century.

Caption For Halesworth, Bridge Street C1955

The shop with the clock, at this date called The Shoe People, still sells shoes.

Caption For Bolton By Bowland, The Church 1921

The church of St Peter and St Paul dates from the 13th century, but the magnificent tower was rebuilt in 1852.

Caption For Newmarket, High Street 1929

Further on are the Jockey Club and a large shop, now Palmer's, dated 1832.