Maps

671 maps found.

1940, Newton Ref. NPO791710
1946, Newton Ref. NPO791720
1946, Newton Ref. NPO791723
1946, Newton Ref. NPO791724
1895, Newton Ref. RNE791673
1896, Newton Ref. RNE791685
1896, Newton Ref. RNE791694
1899, Newton Ref. RNE791700
1898, Newton Ref. RNE791707
1897, Newton Ref. RNE791708
1895, Newton Ref. RNE791712
1898, Newton Ref. RNE791721
1896, Newton Ref. RNE791723
1897, Newton Ref. RNE791666
1897, Newton Ref. RNE791669
1896, Newton Ref. RNE791670
1897, Newton Ref. RNE791680
1896, Newton Ref. RNE791692
1898, Newton Ref. RNE791697
1898, Newton Ref. RNE791702

Books

1 books found. Showing results 73 to 1.

Memories

218 memories found. Showing results 31 to 40.

St Brendan's Church

This is the Church that Father Daniel Cronin worked long and hard to have built. From being very young, I can remember the fund raising that went on to build a new Catholic Church to serve the ever growing numbers arriving in Corby. We ...Read more

A memory of Corby by Moira Jones

Richard Alexander

Richard Alexander was born in Old Newton 1780. He is my great great great grandfather. He was married to Mary Sharman, don't know where she was born but she died in Bacton 1852. I am coming to Earl Stoneham for a week in April ...Read more

A memory of Old Newton by regknowles

Summer Days Beside The Cam

From 1947 to 1956 we lived at Hardwick and drove into Cambridge once a month I enjoyed it on hot summer Saturdays, when we would have a picnic on the backs overlooking Kings College. I remember seeing the sad sight of ...Read more

A memory of Cambridge by Martin Newell

Kettering Tyres Ltd

I joined Kettering Tyres in Newton Road in the late sixties, as assistant to the late Cedric "Tiny" Guilford - "Tiny" was a larger than life character in every way - twenty-odd stone and with a personality to match. The Socialist ...Read more

A memory of Rushden in 1967 by Adrian Speakman

My Life In 1955 In The Manor House Coln St Aldwyns

In 1955, my mother was hired as a housekeeper for Mrs Pam Spanogh, a polio victim in a wheelchair. It was for me, a five year old, the most idyllic time of my life and my memories of this ...Read more

A memory of Coln St Aldwyns in 1955 by Caroline Newton

Playing In Salford

I was born in Salford in 1954, except for a brief spell of 4 years in Newton Heath in the late fifties, I have lived there ever since. When I was 11 years old my friend and I were playing digging on the old nursery croft on ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1964 by Tommy Loomes

Policeman's Daughter

My dad Harry Newbon, became the village bobby in 1956. We lived in the police house in Wellfield Road until 1964 - the happiest days of my young life. Attending the village school where the head was Mr Hayton. Does anyone ...Read more

A memory of Alrewas by Christine Burton

Growing Up

Remembering my childhood memories in Cossall, what fun we had. I lived on The Glebe from 1953 for 50 years. I remember the cold winters, waking up in the mornings with ice on the inside of the bedroom windows, going to Top School and ...Read more

A memory of Awsworth in 1953 by Janet Basri

Wee Andy's Tuck Shop

I remember when I was at Newton Academy School there was a wee tuck shop across the road called Wee Andys. It was the front room of their house and they sold sweets and Iron Bru drinks. The size of the drinks depended on how much ...Read more

A memory of Ayr in 1950 by Andrew Plain

Goodrington

I was born in 1948 in Wallasy Cheshire, now Merseyside. As my maternal grandparents lived in Plympton, we used to spend two or three weeks with them every year. A day out to Goodrington was very popular, travelling by train from Plympton ...Read more

A memory of Paignton by Edward Godfrey

Captions

108 captions found. Showing results 73 to 96.

Caption For Fleckney, Wistow Hall C1960

With the parish church, the Hall stands on the deserted medieval village of Wistow, about half a mile to the south of Newton Harcourt.

Caption For Penrith, St Andrews's Church, The Giant's Thumb 1893

Newton's brewery formerly stood adjacent, but by 1911 it had been replaced by the Alhambra entertainment hall, now a cinema.

Caption For Fleckney, The Grand Union Canal C1965

The canal bypasses Fleckney on its eastern side; the photograph looks north east across Second Lock, towards Kibworth bridge and Bridge House, as the waterway winds towards Newton Harcourt

Caption For Trough Of Bowland, Sykes Farm 1921

The Quakers favoured this remote area, and founded a Meeting House at Newton-in-Bowland.

Caption For Sudbury, Police Station 1906

This was built in 1901 at the junction of Newton Road, King Street and Cornard Road.

Caption For Ferryhill, Darlington Road 1959

With the colliery came rows of miners' housing, such as those in Stephenson Street, Bessemer Street, Rennie Street, Davy Street, and Newton Street.

Caption For Fleckney, The Grand Union Canal C1965

The canal bypasses Fleckney on its eastern side; the photograph looks north east across Second Lock, towards Kibworth bridge and Bridge House, as the waterway winds towards Newton Harcourt

Caption For Newton Green, 1907

The Newton Green Sudbury Golf Course was established in 1907, and it had its headquarters at the Saracen's Head, visible in the distance.

Caption For Leicester, Eastgates And Clock Tower C1950

canopied Clock Tower, designed by Joseph Goddard in 1868, dominates the forefront of the photograph, while its four stoney local worthies, Simon de Montfort, William Wyggeston, Alderman Gabriel Newton

Caption For Sudbury, Cemetery 1900

The Sudbury and Ballingdon Cemetery was opened in 1859 in Newton Road.

Caption For Penrith, Middlesgate C1955

Newton's brewery formerly stood adjacent, but by 1911 it had been replaced by the Alhambra entertainment hall, now a cinema.

Caption For Wareham, The Blue Pool C1955

The Blue Pool at Furzebrook, the best known of Purbeck's former heathland claypits was dug by Watts, Hatherley and Burns of Newton Abbot, in 1846.

Caption For Grantham, St Wulfram's Church, The Chained Library 1889

The Old School, now used as the school library, dates back to the very early 16th century, and among its pupils were Sir Isaac Newton and William Cecil, later Lord Burghley, the great advisor to

Caption For Woolsthorpe, The Village C1955

This one nestles under the shadow of Belvoir Castle; the other is the one with the Sir Isaac Newton connections, and is situated near Colsterworth.

Caption For Woolsthorpe, The Village C1955

This one nestles under the shadow of Belvoir Castle; the other is the one with the Sir Isaac Newton connections, and is situated near Colsterworth.

Caption For Sudbury, Bathing Place And Common 1934

Owing to health problems the complex closed in 1936, to be replaced by Newton Road Baths in 1939.

Caption For Okeford Fitzpaine, C1960

The village, seen from Okeford Hill with Piddles Wood beyond (left), was estate-owned until April 1966, when it was auctioned by Sturminster Newton estate agent Arthur Richards.

Caption For Whitwell, High Street C1955

An attractive village, Whitwell was home to Alan Sillitoe, the novelist, Robert Newton, the actor and Sir Francis Camps, the forensic pathologist.

Caption For Billesdon, Market Place C1955

Oblong in plan, with the church at its southern end and the A47 to the north, the village is entered by long-abandoned medieval roads from Cold Newton to the north, itself a shrunken village, and from

Caption For Newton Le Willows, High Street C1965

This may be due to the time of day or the fact that Newton's High Street was already losing its importance to the local economy, even in 1955.

Caption For Sheffield, Nether Edge Hospital C1955

Perhaps most beautiful of all these buildings is the Mappin Art Gallery, built in 1885-87 to a design by Flockton and Gibbs from money left in his will by a wealthy brewer, John Newton Mappin.

Caption For Glasgow, Dragon Boat Race On The Clyde, Chinese New Year 2005

As they became more affluent, they moved out to Giffnock, Whitecraigs and Newton Mearns on the southern outskirts of the city.

Caption For Neston, High Street 1939

We are looking south-east along Neston's main shopping street, with the wall of St Mary and St Helen's church on the immediate right.

Caption For Willaston, The Village C1965

We are looking along Neston Road from outside Christ Church, with the entrance to the Green Lantern café on the left.