Maps

9,439 maps found.

1946, North Thoresby Ref. NPO793985
1947, North Togston Ref. NPO793999
1946, North Town Ref. NPO794005
1940, North Town Ref. NPO794007
1940, North Weirs Ref. NPO794060
1947, North Weston Ref. NPO794070
1947, North Wheatley Ref. NPO794073
1946, North Witham Ref. NPO794088
1945, North Wootton Ref. NPO794123
1947, Llandaff North Ref. NPO758600
1898, North Huish Ref. RNE793552
1898, North Hylton Ref. RNE793556
1895, North Kingston Ref. RNE793591
1895, North Leigh Ref. RNE793628
1898, North Lopham Ref. RNE793664
1895, North Marden Ref. RNE793697
1896, North Marston Ref. RNE793699
1898, North Newbald Ref. RNE793770
1899, North Ormsby Ref. RNE793790
1898, North Rigton Ref. RNE793861

Books

39 books found. Showing results 913 to 936.

Memories

1,548 memories found. Showing results 381 to 390.

Memories Of Thornley

Having read Kenneth Ortons' memories, it brought back visions in my mind of the good times growing up in the loveliest little village I know. When I was born in 1947 my mam and dad lived with my grandma at 60 Thornlaw North ...Read more

A memory of Thornley in 1947 by David Thompson

St. George's Preparatory School For Girls. North Foreland.

Unfortunately the FCJ convent doesn't exist any more but my memory goes back to those happy years from 1959 till 1964 as a little girl studying as a boarder and always waiting for my late ...Read more

A memory of Kingsgate in 1959

17th Century Murder Replayed At Church Norton.

The more I think back on this incident, the more bizzare and terryfying it seems. In 2001, around Oct/Nov, myself and a friend drove to the car park at Church Norton church at about 11:00pm. We were ...Read more

A memory of Sidlesham in 2001 by Jon Clatworthy

Basket Weaving

In the early 60s I went to a works in Thornton Heath where they made willow baskets. There were huge vats of water for soaking large bundles of stripped willow to make them supple prior to being woven into things like ...Read more

A memory of Thornton Heath by Mr Sosgez

My Memories Of Dibden Purlieu

I lived in Talbot Road back then with my foster sisters and our wonderful Foster Mum Mrs. Jones. I can remember attending Orchard Road Junior School durring the Queens Silver Jubilee and getting a coin with the ...Read more

A memory of Dibden Purlieu in 1977 by Andrew Price

Re The Buffs

The Royal order of Buffalos..... Next door but one to the nurses home (as was), now a nursing home. I was born in Highfield hospital, Mill Lane, lived in Wallasey until I was 62 and now live in the north of Scotland. When I was a ...Read more

A memory of Wallasey in 1993 by Linda Holland

Early Times In Colindale

I was born after the war and lived in Sheaveshill Avenue until I was married in 1971. I lived in a house that which had the dubious distinction of being directly opposite to the Titanine paint factory on the other side ...Read more

A memory of Colindale in 1956 by Ken Hunter

Morris Dancing At The Union Inn Denbury

It was a stormy July evening with heavy showers bucketing down so the Union Inn on the village green at Denbury was absolutely bursting with people crowded around the bars. We should all have been outside ...Read more

A memory of Denbury in 2010 by John Howard Norfolk

The Days Seem To Go On Forever

I was brought up in Pode Hole from 1967, my mother Joan is still alive but now living in Spalding, sadly my Dad Ken died in the Fishermans Arms pub on Sept 23 1977. I have a brother Nigel and a sister Susan. We ...Read more

A memory of Pode Hole in 1967 by Stephen Cropley

Evacuation

I was evacuated to Kibworth three times; in 1939 I came probably from my school, Newington Green in North London. i stayed with Mr. and Mrs. Dinkley. After a few months, a bomb fell in Kibworth, probably on the way to ...Read more

A memory of Kibworth Beauchamp in 1930 by Dorothy Beth

Captions

2,676 captions found. Showing results 913 to 936.

Caption For Dublin, Christchurch Cathedral, Nave 1897

On the north side the walls are about two feet out of true because of subsidence and the collapse of the south walls in 1569.

Caption For Clevedon, Walton Castle 1913

The castle stands to the north-east of Clevedon. It is not in fact a castle, but an early example of a folly, and it was probably built as a ruin to start with.

Caption For Clapham, Maritime House C1960

The houses of Clapham Common North Side, part of the busy A3 London to Portsmouth Road, are visible through the trees.

Caption For Polesworth, River 1958

Polesworth has developed on both sides of the River Anker, with the original Saxon settlement on the north bank.

Caption For Whitford, Church C1935

While the church was largely rebuilt in the 1840s, the arcade and north aisle roof are 16th-century.

Caption For Milnthorpe, Cross Roads C1955

The crossroads at Milnthorpe was well known to motorists travelling to Scotland or the Lake District on the A6 before the advent of the M6 motorway.

Caption For Kings Norton, Old Saracen's Head 1949

The clerestory was added in the 17th century and the north aisle remodelled in the 1870s.

Caption For Great Wakering, High Street C1950

Great Wakering is an attractive village, just a few miles to the north of Shoeburyness in the remote old marshlands of the south east of Essex.

Caption For Wainfleet, The River C1955

This is the Steeping river flowing towards the Wash and the North Sea. Earlier in its life it had more publicity, as it is also known as Tennyson's brook.

Caption For Horningsea, Lock Gates River Cam C1955

North-east of Cambridge, the River Cam quickly becomes wooded on either side, setting an attractive scene here at Baits Bite Lock.

Caption For Okehampton, Meldon Viaduct 1906

The London and South Western Railway built their Exeter to Plymouth line to the north of Dartmoor through Okehampton.

Caption For Tiverton, Castle Street 1920

Castle Street runs north from the town centre. Two boys are using the drainage dyke to sail their toy yacht. The town was once a significant cloth-producing centre, renowned for its kersey.

Caption For Oxford, Hertford College Bridge 1922

Another of Oxford's much-loved landmarks is the Hertford College Bridge, or the Bridge of Sighs as it is otherwise known.

Caption For Horningsea, Lock Gates River Cam C1955

North-east of Cambridge, the River Cam quickly becomes wooded on either side, setting an attractive scene here at Baits Bite Lock.

Caption For London, Cheapside C1905

At the junction with Paternoster Row, Cheapside swings from the north in an arc and heads east towards the Bank.

Caption For Padstow, The Abbey House 1906

This 15th-century slate-hung house is on the North Quay and was once the Guild House of Padstow's merchants.

Caption For High Ham, The Village C1965

The King's Head still stands beside the road, which drops north from the village to the moors below. A cottage on the left was once home to the blacksmith; his forge stood beyond the pub.

Caption For Fulwood, The Methodist Church C1965

Here we see the main road leading north from Preston and the Methodist Church.

Caption For York, The Cavalry Barracks 1886

Tower Street has displays of medals, uniforms and weapons, and models showing the battles that both this and other Yorkshire regiments fought in many parts of the world, including Egypt, Europe and the North-West

Caption For Storrington, High Street C1955

Situated at the foot of the South Downs, where the River Stor flows north-west to its confluence with the Arun, Storrington is the only downland settlement that became a small market town.

Caption For Brimington, Ringwood Road And Church C1965

The name of Ringwood Road refers to the early 19th-century mansion of Ringwood House, home of the Markham family, which stands to the north east.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Harbour 1925

This is the inner pool of the Cobb Harbour; we are looking north-westwards to High Cliff, prominent on the wooded hilltop (left).

Caption For Anston, Crowgate C1960

His estates included North Anston, Greasbrough, Wickersley, Ecclesfield, Laughton-en-le-Morthen and Mexborough.

Caption For Crummock Water, From Loweswater 1889

A picnic party in a meadow in the hamlet of Loweswater are enjoying the splendid view north up Crummock Water.The lower slopes of Grasmoor are prominent on the left, and the skyline is filled by