Maps

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Memories

11,058 memories found. Showing results 361 to 370.

Phil Munton

Hi - I have just discovered this site and was interested by memories of Selsdon - particularly from Jaqueline Cook remembering Littleheath Woods! I spent the first eighteen years of my life living in Ingham Road -the other side of the ...Read more

A memory of Selsdon by philmunton48

Childhood In Elmsleigh Road

I lived at number 42 Elmsleigh Road from 1947 until about 1963.My pals and I played in the street in safety as there were few cars. We played "tin can tommy" and "cannon" otherwise we were on Wandsworth Common climbing ...Read more

A memory of Wandsworth by notreavenir

Burgh Heath

My grandparents always considered that Burgh Heath was the best village to live in. At one time, it had two swimming pools, two tea rooms and pubs for locals to meet. One pub had a projection room and offered children a free Saturday ...Read more

A memory of Burgh Heath

Eric Galley

My father, a post office engineer, was transferred from Stoke Newington to the Larkswood exchange in 1936. I was seven years old when we moved to 49, Malvern Avenue. I first attended Thorpe Hall school, then later Selwyn Avenue ...Read more

A memory of Highams Park by Frank Cann

An Annual Visit To The Grass Verge Near Oakhanger Farm

As a child in the 60s/70s I would often travel with my parents in the car from Oakhanger towards Bordon to help my parents tend their allotment at Cranes. We would often pass an ...Read more

A memory of Oakhanger by D Toovey

Elm Cottage

My family used to stay at Elm Cottage on Trewoon Road in Mullion for many of our summer holidays during the 1970's. The cottage belonged to a Mrs Kent, known to us affectionately as Aunty Ellie, who at that time lived in Caerleon in Wales ...Read more

A memory of Mullion

The Old Thatch

Ah, The Old Thatch. I remember it well, for this is where I grew up from the early 1940s until 1956. By today's standards it was grim: no heating, no running water, no flush loo - nothing. Yet it was a wonderful place in which ...Read more

A memory of Nether Wallop in 1940 by Brian Rivas

When I Was A Girl

When I was about five years old my parents used to take us kids on a Sunday walk. Always remember it was to Stambridge mills. Back then the roads leading to the mill were not more then a country track. On the way to the mills dad ...Read more

A memory of Rochford in 1955 by Mary Jones

Bagpuss

A section of this photograph was used by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate for one of the opening sequences in the programme Bagpuss. This was confirmed in 1978 when a Horrabridge resident wrote to the Bagpuss programme and received a ...Read more

A memory of Horrabridge by Sharon Riggs

Oakhanger , Hampshire Names Of Areas Of Land

The Roughs- behind Oak Farm on the Bordon to Oakhanger Road Cranes - land around Oak Farm - named, it’s believed, as a family called Cranes worked/owned the land Monkey Island - an area of land ...Read more

A memory of Oakhanger by D Toovey

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Captions

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Caption For Kettering, Sheep Street 1922

This busy junction, uniting five roads, including Northampton Road and Sheep Street, was lit by a single, central lamp post.

Caption For Kegworth, St Andrew's Church C1965

Dragwell, adjacent to A R Tarlton's chemist's shop (left), runs between Derby Road and Nottingham Road on the north side of the church, which stands prominently above the River Soar.

Caption For Kidderminster, The Ring Road C1970

This view of the main road (known here simply as 'The Ringway') shows St George's Park just to the left of the dual carriageway.

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 Cardiff, City Hall 1925

Today's motorists can but marvel at the wide expanse of road on offer here.

Caption For Epsom, Market, High Street 2005

It was May 1998, and the town was experiencing its first road protest - a bit of a learning experience for all concerned.

Caption For Hackbridge, The Triangle C1955

The Hackbridge Road junction is on the left, and the tree, now gone, is in the waste ground between Hackbridge Junior School and the road.

Caption For Amersham, Chesham Road C1955

The oak trees at the junction with Chesham Road have survived while Rectory Hill becomes Sycamore Road to the right of the junction.

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

It stands just upstream of the road to Hatfield Peverel, in an area sometimes known as World's End.

Caption For Boston, The Windmill C1965

Battle your way across or round the inner relief road that did so much damage to the town's historic fabric and cross the Maud Foster Drain into Willoughby Road, where Boston's celebrated Maud Foster Mill

Caption For Epsom, High Street 1902

This view of the unpaved main crossroads at High Street and Waterloo Road gives a clear impression of the original narrowness of the eastern section of the thoroughfare, with the old coaching inn, The

Caption For Boston, The Windmill C1965

Battle your way across or round the inner relief road that did so much damage to the town's historic fabric and cross the Maud Foster Drain into Willoughby Road, where Boston's celebrated Maud Foster Mill

Caption For East Grinstead, London Road 1910

London Road is part of the medieval route through East Grinstead. By 1910 the latest mode of transport, the motor car, could be seen on this and many other roads.

Caption For Grayshott, Headley Road C1960

Most cars on our roads used to be British; the first one, just visible on the left here is a Morris Minor, and the second is a Rover 75.

Caption For Kendal, Stricklandgate 1888

The name means 'the road leading to the stirk land', and was often referred to as the Drover's Road, where cattle were driven along from the north.

Caption For Aynho, The Green C1955

This quiet lane, now the B4100, was a teeming main road until the M40 relieved it of traffic in the early 1990s. Now it is relatively peaceful again.

Caption For Penarth, Windsor Road 1896

A fine illustration of the commercialisation of Windsor Road – but the buildings on the extreme left and right are apparently still residential.

Caption For Dinas Powys, Mill Road C1960

A product of the increasing urbanisation of Dinas Powis at the close of the 19th century, Mill Road preserves the name of the nearby Mill Farm.

Caption For Bolney, Post Office 1957

Bolney is a quiet village, located just off the main London to Brighton trunk road.

Caption For Harworth, The Game Cock, Bawtry Road C1968

An entire colliery village was laid out east of the Tickhill to Blyth road after 1922, and named Bircotes.

Caption For Llanarth, Llanina Hotel C1955

This hotel was probably first built at the end of the 18th century, when the Turnpike Trusts began to improve the county's roads.

Caption For Warlingham, The Village 1903

The turning for Glebe Road is by the double-fronted house in the centre, and the National Provincial Bank was later built on the opposite corner.

Caption For Surbiton, King Charles Road 1907

Villiers Road and King Charles Road were named after this battle.

Caption For Worcester, Battenhall Road 1907

Battenhall lies off London Road and was first recorded in Norman times, when the Poer family held the manor for the annual rent of one lamprey.