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Photos

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Maps

51 maps found.

1897-1900, Halfway Bridge Ref. RNC724989
1897-1898, Halfway Houses Ref. RNC725026
1906, Halfway Houses Ref. HOSM53856
1898 - 1910, Halfway Ref. HOSM47385
1881 - 1901, Halfway House Ref. HOSM47389
1888 - 1899, Sling Ref. HOSM47388
1878 - 1906, Edgcumbe Ref. HOSM47391
1946, Halsway Ref. NPO725789
1919, Halsway Ref. POP725789
1898, Halsway Ref. RNE725789
1898-1900, Halsway Ref. RNC725789

Books

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Memories

384 memories found. Showing results 21 to 30.

The Gables Boys Home.1960s.

I was at the Gables Boys Home for approx a year and a half, from 1966 to half way through 1967, I was taken there because I was always bunking off school, and the little tin god authorities in those days decided that was ...Read more

A memory of Maldon in 1966 by Lewis Underwood

Sutton At Hone

My sister attended Sutton at Hone school, catching the bus from Hawley or walking through the fields with friends. Such a quiet village . I used to cycle from Hawley to the paper shop and collect my papers to do 'my round' ...Read more

A memory of Sutton at Hone in 1959 by Kathleen Pittock

Growing Up In Pembridge

I was born in 1960 at Glanarrow Cottages, Bridge St. All my early memories are of a happy childhood. I can remember the deep snow of 1963, when I opened the back door it seemed that the snow was halfway up it!!! I can ...Read more

A memory of Pembridge by Gordon Hargest

Lost Village Of East Holywell

I was born in East Holywell in 1946 and lived at 24 North Row. By then there were only 2 rows of houses left. We lived with my grandmother, Eva Barnfather, who had been there since the turn of the century. Like ...Read more

A memory of East Holywell in 1950 by Maureen Thurlow

Part 16

Conclusion On my last visit it was hard to see where the village was. The small triangular field is now a park but it looks so small. The place I remember seemed so much larger than Small Park that is now there. Having been raised ...Read more

A memory of Middle Rainton in 1945 by John Harvey

My Place Of Birth

I was born in one of those prefabs halfway down on the righthand side, number twenty three in fact. My mum and dad must have thought they`d gone to heaven, moving from a blitzed east end tenemant with a shared outside ...Read more

A memory of South Ockendon by Glenn Spicer

The War Years

I was born in Ryde in 1938 and when war broke out, my mother and myself moved in with my grandparents, Laurence and Lucy Stroud (nee Meecham) into what is now Wellwood Grange but in those days was just Wellwood. It was the home of ...Read more

A memory of Binstead by John Stroud

South Ockendon

We too lived on this street, half-way down on the left in fact. I remember the Spicers, I used to babysit Christopher.

A memory of South Ockendon by Glennis Wainwright Johnson

Chelmsford, Shire Hall 1895.

Many years ago the Shire Hall was where the Quarter Sessions trials were held. This would be the same as the Crown Court trials of to-day. The magistrates court was held in an old building which can still be seen in ...Read more

A memory of Chelmsford by John Crouch

Sainsburys And Hudsons

I also remember going into Sainsburys as a child in the 1960s when it was halfway up the High Street on the left, it had metal racks on the front of the counters to rest shopping bags on. The marble effect floors were a ...Read more

A memory of Ashford in 1974 by Richard Lee

Captions

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Caption For Petersfield, Lavant Street 2004

One early change was the construction of the large building halfway along on the right which is one of the town's two fish- and-chip shops.

Caption For Eastbourne, The Pier 1910

The saloons visible here halfway along the decking were added in 1901, the same year that work on the new pavilion was completed.

Caption For Wollaston, Bridgnorth Road 1968

Several streets in Wollaston are named after politicians: halfway along on the right is Cobden Street, after Richard Cobden (1804-65), Liberal MP for Stockport.

Caption For Hayle, Towans And The Paddling Pool 1925

Holiday bungalows and chalets line the skyline, and the Cove Café is perched on a shelf halfway down the cliff (centre).

Caption For Wollaston, Bridgnorth Road 1968

Several streets in Wollaston are named after politicians: halfway along on the right is Cobden Street, after Richard Cobden (1804-65), Liberal MP for Stockport.

Caption For Birkenhead, Storeton Road And Halfway House Hotel 1954

The Half Way House Hotel is on the corner of Storeton Road and Woodchurch Road out towards Prenton.

Caption For Arundel, Castle And Town From The Air C1955

Halfway along the castle, Henry II's shell keep on the Norman Motte or mound divides the two baileys, the right-hand one filled with the massive Victorian rebuild.

Caption For Little Baddow, Paper Mill Lock, River Chelmer C1960

Of the 11 locks on the Chelmer & Blackwater Navigation, this is something of a halfway house. It stands just upstream of the road to Hatfield Peverel, in an area sometimes known as World's End.

Caption For Eastleigh, Market Street C1965

This photograph was taken about half-way along Market Street; it shows many shop premises, most of which have changed hands several times in the intervening years.

Caption For Chepstow, High Street 1925

The Bush Hotel, about halfway up the High Street on the left and just below the garage, had to be demolished because of woodworm, sad to say.

Caption For Doune, Castle, Retainers Hall 1899

Situated to the right of the keep-gatehouse is the retainers' hall, a long building with a solid semi-circular bastion halfway along its length. The bastion serves several purposes.

Caption For Loose, Village 1898

The shingle spire of All Saints Church rises above the surrounding houses, while halfway up the hill is the Tudor timbered Old Wool House, in which the fleeces of sheep were washed.

Caption For Preston, Avenham Park And The Park Hotel 1893

At that time, around 1860, it was considered bad for your health to attempt the whole journey without an overnight stop half-way, which happened to be at Preston.

Caption For Abergavenny, From Near The Station 1893

The stone half way down the other side of the road marked the entry to Mill Lane which led to Mill Street, the main entry road to the town for many centuries.

Caption For Bury St Edmunds, Cornhill C1950

On the left, half way along, are the Art Deco Burtons of 1933 and Boot's mock-Tudor shop of 1913.

Caption For Coxwold, The Village C1955

Halfway down the village street on the left we can see the white-painted Fauconberg Arms.

Caption For Godalming, Bridge Street C1955

Architecturally it also descends from the heights of the High Street, except for the timber-framed building on the left half way down.

Caption For Davenham, The Village C1965

Davenham gets its name from the River Dane (a 'trickling stream'), although it sits just about halfway between it and the River Weaver.

Caption For Sutton, High Street C1960

This 1960s view is a taken a little further north from the station, with the entrance to Grove Road half-way along on the left.

Caption For Greatham, Sappers Corner C1955

The ancient settlement of Greatham lies halfway between Wolviston and Hartlepool. The large building on the right, at the entrance to the village, has always been known as Sappers Corner.

Caption For Dunham Massey, St Margaret's Church C1955

St Margaret's sits halfway between Altrincham and the estate of Dunham Massey (now maintained by the National Trust), hence the title given by Frith's to this photograph.

Caption For Rusper, The Village 1909

The village store is on the right halfway down the road.The scene is similar today.

Caption For Thirsk, Market Day C1955

It is Market Day in the busy little town of Thirsk, standing at the foot of the Hambleton Hills, halfway between York and Darlington.

Caption For Thirsk, Market Day C1955

It is Market Day in the busy little town of Thirsk, which stands at the foot of the Hambleton Hills, halfway between York and Darlington.