Photos

49 photos found. Showing results 61 to 49.

Maps

88 maps found.

1900, Coad's Green Ref. RNC672528
1897, Upper Boat Ref. RNE857065
1899-1900, Sellack Boat Ref. RNC827517
1896, Bottom Boat Ref. RNE646661
1947, Upper Boat Ref. NPO857065
1896, Chat Hill Ref. RNE667049
1903, Chat Hill Ref. RNC667049
1903, Bottom Boat Ref. RNC646661
1919, Sellack Boat Ref. POP827517
1947, Sellack Boat Ref. NPO827517
1902-1903, Coal Aston Ref. RNC672532
1902, Coal Pool Ref. RNC672561
1947, Coal Aston Ref. NPO672532
1921, Coal Pool Ref. POP672561
1899-1900, Upper Boat Ref. RNC857065
1896, Coal Aston Ref. RNE672532
1898, Coal Bank Ref. RNE672533
1947, Chat Hill Ref. NPO667049
1896, Sellack Boat Ref. RNE827517
1898, Upper Boat Ref. HOSM62921

Books

1 books found. Showing results 73 to 1.

Memories

1,483 memories found. Showing results 31 to 40.

When I Was Growing Up

I remember being very happy growing up as a child in Paisley. One of my happiest memories was being given a golliwog outfit from the Robertson's jam factory. A certain amount was given out every year at Halloween by the ...Read more

A memory of Paisley in 1960 by Patricia Chalmers

John Adshead Exercising The Dogs

It was a common site to see John Adshead cycling to work from Gawsworth New Hall to the Lonsdale & Adshead brewery on Park Green Macclesfield. There was a driver and car available at the house, but it was ...Read more

A memory of Gawsworth by Maurice Adshead

Growing Up In Hornsey

I was born in Hornsey in 1923, and spent the first 10 years of my life living with my parents in the top flat at 257 Wightman Road. The ground floor was occupied by Mr and Mrs Dan Costigan. Mr Costigan was a bus driver, and ...Read more

A memory of Hornsey in 1920 by Arthur Astrop

Long Hot Summers

MANY HAPPY SUMMERS WERE SPENT AT LEPE. i WAS LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE A GRANDPARENT THAT LIVED IN TH ECOAST GUARD COTTAGES FROM THE 60'S TO THE 80'S. THERE WAS A RAFT NEAR THE BOAT HOUSE WHICH WAS GREAT FUN. NO CONCRETE, FREE PARKING ON ...Read more

A memory of Lepe in 1968 by Julie Payne

Island Cottage

My nanna and grandad Noden lived at Island Cottage. Grandad was a bridgekeeper along with Jack Powell and Syd Bebbington at Acton swing bridge from 1945-1960. There was an enormous flood in 1946 when my grandparents were the ...Read more

A memory of Acton Bridge in 1955 by Christine Ruskin

Visits To Aunty May's

I loved to visit my Aunty May’s house in Rhonnda Terrace, Ferndale. She was my grandfather’s sister, a lovely jolly person always happy, and she loved us kids coming to visit. We had to do a good bit of traveling to get there, ...Read more

A memory of Ferndale in 1958 by Jackie Haynes

The Cross Family. Percy Main.

My father, Alex cross, and his siblings grew up in brunton street, he said it curved around and theirs had an old boat in the garden/yard. I am going back to the 1930s. I cannot find any photos of brunton street, has ...Read more

A memory of Percy Main by Amanda Nicholson

Shopping With Mum

The girl in the foreground could easily be me with one of my brothers in his pram. It was usual to be left outside the shop to look after one or all of my brothers - and of course very safe to do so - when my mum went inside to ...Read more

A memory of Kidderminster

Family Connections.

This is my grandfather standing in his whelk house looking at the boats as they unload. He died after a motor car accident on Beach Road in 1934.

A memory of Wells-Next-The-Sea by Claire Allen

Fair And Lake Wandle Park, Croydon

A travelling fair each summer here was both a delight and a way to earn a few shillings when the fair ended. I would help dismantle the rides and stalls, working hard from morning to evening for about five ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1947 by Philip Harfleet

Captions

1,648 captions found. Showing results 73 to 96.

Caption For Richmond, Aske Hall South Front 1893

The coats of arms relate to D'Arcy.

Caption For Holme, St Giles' Church 1909

In about 1485 it was enlarged to its present size by John Barton, a local wool merchant whose coats of arms adorn the doorway.

Caption For Caldey Island, The Abbey C1960

The monastery was designed by the architect Coates Carter and completed between 1910 and 1913.

Caption For Stamford, High Street 1922

The gabled Grant's butcher's shop has been removed to the Kirkgate Museum in York, Singer's has lost its elegant shopfronts and has been texture-coated, and Star Stores opposite was rebuilt in rough replica

Caption For Turvey, The Three Cranes Hotel C1950

Birds figure strongly in the coats of arms for many landed Bedfordshire families, and it is likely that the cranes of the hotel's sign were borrowed from one of them.

Caption For Warton, The Village 1897

The Washington coat-of-arms, three mullets and two bars, can be found in the church and the stars and stripes are flown from the tower on Independence Day.

Caption For Downholme, The Church 1913

Inside the quaint little church of St Michael and All Angels is a George III coat of arms dated 1784, signed by the Richmond painter Robert Coatsworth; he helped to paint the scenery for the opening

Caption For Uttoxeter, The Old Talbot Inn C1955

The coat of arms on the inn sign depicts its name: a talbot, or hound, was the crest of the Talbots, Earls of Shrewsbury.

Caption For York, Bootham Bar 1911

The coats of arms are the Stuart Royal Arms and the City Arms; these were renewed in 1969.

Caption For St Annes, St Anne's Road West 1929

The free informality of the boating pool is repeated here, with almost everybody dressed in a more-or-less casual manner.

Caption For Hinxton, High Street C1960

The nearest cottages need to be re-thatched; longstraw thatch needs to be patched regularly and re-coated every fifteen years.

Caption For Beadnell, Craster Arms And Church C1955

It features the coat of arms of the Craster family.

Caption For Devizes, St Mary's Church, Interior 1898

The coat of arms that is displayed on the chancel arch today bears the arms of George III and was restored in 1963.

Caption For Richmond, Aske Hall South Front 1893

The coats of arms relate to D'Arcy.

Caption For Stamford, High Street 1922

The gabled Grant's butcher's shop has been removed to the Kirkgate Museum in York, Singer's has lost its elegant shopfronts and has been texture-coated, and Star Stores opposite was rebuilt in rough replica

Caption For Coventry, The Choir, Holy Trinity Church C1965

It is currently undergoing restoration, a hugely difficult task made even harder by well-meaning 'restorers' who coated it with varnish in 1831.

Caption For Sonning, Lock 1890

To the right are the grounds of the Reading Blue Coat School which moved here in 1946.

Caption For Wimborne, The Coach And Horses 1936

The pub has acquired a new porch, a coat of paint, a brewer's sign and a little hut on wheels in the intervening 28 years since No 60637 (above) was taken, but otherwise its appearance has

Caption For York, Bootham Bar 1911

The figures that now look down are Nicholas Langton, a Lord Mayor, a mason holding a model of the bar and a medieval knight.The coats of arms are the Stuart Royal Arms and the City Arms; these were

Caption For Hailsham, Recreation Ground C1965

The verandahed building is the pavilion, which opened in 1909 and cost £300 to build.

Caption For Tealby, Bayons Manor C1955

Uncle Charles was determined to underline the family's lineage and added the name 'D'Eyncourt' to Tennyson and built himself a medieval castle in the 1830s, vulgarly bedecked with coats of arms and heraldic

Caption For Sledmere, The Triton Inn And Post Office C1960

Triton is a sea god depicted on the Sykes' family coat of arms, symbolising the family's earlier period as sea merchants.

Caption For Hipswell, The Hall 1913

Hipswell Hall is a 15th-century fortified manor house built for the Fulthorpe family, whose coat of arms is carved on the bay window to the right.

Caption For Kibworth Harcourt, Main Street C1955

The Parker coat of arms ornaments the broken scrolled pediment.