Maps

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Books

26 books found. Showing results 913 to 936.

Memories

4,713 memories found. Showing results 381 to 390.

A Year To Remember

How well I remember arriving at Wells-next-the-Sea from Leicester as a new bride. My husband was a former high school pen-friend who was now in England serving in the U.S Air Force, having been in the country from his ...Read more

A memory of Wells-Next-The-Sea in 1951 by Janet Ramsey

Memories Of Swithland

My first memory of Swithland Village goes way back to the days when I was very young. The war was over and we had become accustomed to Holidays at Home instead of going to the sea-side. My parents bought a chalet in what we ...Read more

A memory of Swithland in 1947 by Janet Ramsey

Sylvia Pearse

I remember your grandparents and Sylvia. They used to visit Central Villas a lot. Sylvia was a friend of Florence and Walter Bennett (sister and brother). My parents Rex and Gwen Harris lived next door. I was wondering what had ...Read more

A memory of Menheniot by Noreen Keenleyside

A Walk From Shotgate Baptist Church To The Nevendon Road Part 2 See Part 1 And 2 Below

Continued from Part 2 On the south side of the fire station were a few houses and then a footpath that led to the other entrance to the recreational ground. ...Read more

A memory of Wickford by Kevin Mears

Where I Was Born

My Beginning, at Sole Street near Cobham Kent. (9th March 1946 - 2nd January 1951) I was born on Saturday March 9th 1946 at 3.29pm at Temperley, The Street, Sole Street, Kent. I was delivered at home by the ...Read more

A memory of Sole Street in 1946

Percy Main Village

I was born in 1947, and lived at number 14, Blyth Street, Percy Main village, my maiden name was Bell. My mam was called Ethel, dad was Bob, and my sister was Iris. When I was a child my granda Joe Bell, his daughter Phemie and ...Read more

A memory of Percy Main by Sylvia Walker

Oddington 1946 1959

I was born in Moreton in Marsh and lived the first 13 years of my life in Oddington. My father was a farmer and we lived at Green Farm right in the middle of the village. We used to have the village bonfire (November ...Read more

A memory of Lower Oddington by Tim Gaskell

Managers House

Because of my friendship with Helen Jones, the manager's daughter, I also went to play with her at her house, for me it was something very special because I had never been in such a big house before. It seemed so big, especially ...Read more

A memory of Abertysswg in 1956 by Elaine Russell

Potts Ancestry Kibblesworth

My father Edward Potts was born in Kibblesworth in 1900 his brothers were William Potts, Noble Potts and his sister was Hilda Potts. All the brothers were miners in Kibblesworth. When dad married we moved to Birtley ...Read more

A memory of Kibblesworth in 1900 by Catherine Cowing

A Boscastle Family

Relating to the two little girls standing in the street, the one on the right is Nellie Davy, my aunt. She was the eldest child of Harry and Mary Ann Davy (nee Ferrett). Nellie and three other siblings were born at Butts but ...Read more

A memory of Boscastle in 1900 by Kay Davy

Captions

5,033 captions found. Showing results 913 to 936.

Caption For Churchill, The Village And The Church C1960

Just south of Chipping Norton is the handsome church tower of the appropriately-named village of Churchill; the tower is a copy of the tower at Magdalen College, Oxford.

Caption For Stanion, The Village C1960

This view from the fields south-east of Stanion shows the small Northamptonshire village centred on the medieval church, with its fine 15th-century tower with broach spire.

Caption For Madingley, The Church 1909

The parish church of St Mary Magdalene is all that remains from the original village centre.

Caption For Goodworth Clatford, The Village C1965

This is another picturesque Hampshire village, home to a good selection of perfect whitewashed thatched cottages.

Caption For Selborne, High Street 1967

When Selborne is seen from Selborne Hanger on a summer's day it looks absolutely spectacular, a typical Hampshire village.

Caption For Ingoldmells, High Street C1965

The road is still the A52, with a few bends in the village centre. Skegness is to the right.

Caption For Woodmansterne, The Original Oak, Chipstead Way C1955

The old village of Woodmansterne is behind the photographer, who is looking towards the Chipstead valley via the switchback road of Chipstead Way.

Caption For Waddington, High Street C1960

Waddington is now noted more for its large Royal Air Force station to the east of the village, but it grew up on a diversion of Ermine Street to the western scarp of the limestone ridge.

Caption For Halsall, The Church 1900

The village of Halsall is situated near to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. The village once had its own grammar school; the building is now the choir vestry of St Cuthbert's.

Caption For Rimington, Newby C1955

Francis Duckworth in the 19th century wrote a hymn that became so famous it was named after his village, and commemorated in a plaque. Rimington, along with Stopper Lane, was known for lead mining.

Caption For Stilton, The Bell Hotel C1955

This famous coaching inn was one of 14 inns or ale-houses in the village in the 19th century.

Caption For Nafferton, Main Road C1960

The village was established around the manor and three large estates; much of the land was owned by the Lennox family.

Caption For Finchingfield, The Village C1955

This much-photographed picture-book village rises above a green and a pond, which is fed by a stream - a tributary of the River Pant. On the right is the war memorial.

Caption For Taxal, The Church C1955

Taxal is a small village south of Whaley Bridge, lying in a cul-de-sac overlooking the lovely Goyt Valley.

Caption For Aldbrough, Cross Street C1955

This street, in one of the largest of the Holderness coastal villages, used to be called Poskett Lane.

Caption For Ightham, The Village And Memorial Cross C1960

This village was anciently known as Eightham, and was once a market town, with a Whit-Wednesday fair called Cockscomb Fair.

Caption For Chigwell, The Meadow C1965

The meadow behind the present rectory, now over-run with rabbits, shows how well the village has been preserved, with most of the developments to the south and west.

Caption For High Legh, The School C1955

The village of High Legh probably gets its name because it was an early settlement in a forest clearing sitting on high land.

Caption For Feckenham, High Street C1967

In fact, Feckenham was virtually a town when Redditch was barely even a village.

Caption For Eythorne, The Colliery C1955

Villagers also found work at nearby Snowdown and Tilmanstone. By the 1980s the Conservative government had closed Britain's coal mining industry following a series of crippling strikes.

Caption For Thurgoland, The Brow C1955

This farming village is not far from Silkstone. Most of the cottages were built in stone from the Greenmoor Quarry.

Caption For Cockerham, Main Street C1960

As the village was destroyed by fire in the 17th century, the village we see today was rebuilt after the fire some distance from the church.

Caption For Broomedge, The Post Office C1955

The post office and general store were essential parts of village life, so not surprisingly they feature on many of Frith's postcards; these were later sold at the post office counter and the village store