Maps

2,499 maps found.

1898, South Tidworth Ref. RNE835319
1895, South Town Ref. RNE835326
1898, South Town Ref. RNE835327
1895, South View Ref. RNE835343
1899, South Wheatley Ref. RNE835391
1895, South Willesborough Ref. RNE835404
1896, South Wimbledon Ref. RNE835406
1898, South Wraxall Ref. RNE835443
1896, Athersley South Ref. RNE628309
1946, South Chingford Ref. NPO1188995
1945, South Acton Ref. NPO834323
1940, South Ambersham Ref. NPO834334
1947, South Beach Ref. NPO834398
1945, South Benfleet Ref. NPO834411
1946, South Bishop Ref. NPO834419
1945, South Bowood Ref. NPO834434
1947, South Bramwith Ref. NPO834440
1947, South Carlton Ref. NPO834485
1945, South Chard Ref. NPO834507
1945, South Cheriton Ref. NPO834513

Books

23 books found. Showing results 937 to 23.

Memories

1,577 memories found. Showing results 391 to 400.

Transporter Bridge

As a child brought up in Yorkshire, we spent holidays visiting family across the Pennines; mother's family in Liverpool and father's in Runcorn. Although he had done well, now a country doctor, father always seemed to think he ...Read more

A memory of Runcorn by Rob Oldfield

Deal Railway Station

I moved to Deal when I was 3. We lived in a house owned by the railway in the station approach. My father was linesman on the railway. I went to the parochial school on London Road. The Headmaster was Mr Scholl and my teacher, Mr ...Read more

A memory of Deal in 1947 by Lilian Maxwell

Bracklesham Lane, Bracklesham Bay

I lived and worked in the area for 20 years from 1966 and this was a time of slow change starting for Bracklesham. The lane is now called Sea Lane, the flowing tamarisk bushes have gone and both side of the ...Read more

A memory of Bracklesham Bay in 1966 by P Phillips

Easter Hols

We used to come over from Conisbrough near Doncaster with my mam and dad, Raymond Dawson, who came from Buglawton, William Street if I remember, and every year we would watch the carnival and also walk up The Cloud. Does anyone ...Read more

A memory of Congleton by securityshaun

Born In Burnt Oak

I was born in Burnt Oak in July 1956 in North Road - the same house that my mother was born in.  My grandparents lived in North Road for many years until North Road, South Road and East Road were compulsory purchased by Barnet ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak in 1956 by Sandra Gibney

Finsbay Lodge

I have enjoyed visiting Harris ever since 1970. I was fascinated to learn that there had been a large and charismatic fishing lodge/hotel at Finsbay; even more odd was the fact that its origin and history were hardly known. I delved ...Read more

A memory of Finsbay in 1900 by Michael L.G. Gardner

Marine Crescent

I recall as a child in the 1950s, being taken on outings from my grandparents' home in Litherland via Seaforth/ South Road stations to the beach at Marine Crescent, Waterloo. On a recent nostalgic trip there I was surprised ...Read more

A memory of Waterloo in 1956 by First Name Last Name

Magna Carta Island

I have several photographs of the house on Magna Carta Island taken during the 1910s and early 1920s. The house was owned by my grandfather during this period, John Francis Mc Gregor (a stockbroker) who was married to my ...Read more

A memory of Runnymede in 1920 by Christopher Robinson

Tarrymount Farm South Of Clochan

Tarrymount is/was a farm of about 75 acres, situated in the Braes of Enzie. My grandfather, Robert Urquhart, was Grieve on the farm. In April 1941 a German aircraft dropped a bomb which exploded  on the farmland. A ...Read more

A memory of Clochan in 1930 by R Urquhart

Growing Up

I was born in Eltringham Street in 1946, we lived with my grandparents Mr & Mrs Wilson. My gran died when I was about four. I can remember the coffin being in the front room - well that was the only room downstairs except ...Read more

A memory of Blackhill by Doris Forsey

Captions

2,476 captions found. Showing results 937 to 960.

Caption For Lanteglos, The Church 1901

Note the unbuttressed west tower and the roof of the south aisle in poor condition, just three years before restoration.

Caption For Dorchester, Cornhill 1903

Just south of the town is the amphitheatre of Maumbury Rings, which was to Dorchester 'what the Coliseum was to Rome', according to Hardy.

Caption For Zennor, Village C1955

This granite settlement stands in a treeless hollow, five miles south of St Ives. Though itself unspectacular, the coastline about is rugged and sublime.

Caption For Bingley, From Ferncliff 1894

The Leeds/Liverpool Canal and the railway both increased access to new markets across the Pennines and down to the south.

Caption For Porthpean, 1890

Its mild climate was considered almost equal to the south of France!

Caption For Horam, Main Road C1955

The village of Horam, two miles south of Heathfield, is famous for its Merrydown vintage cider.

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 Northleach, The Stocks C1955

Northleach stands on the road from South Wales to London, and so it became an important coaching town where inns such as the half-timbered Kings Head on the left provided shelter and accommodation to passengers

Caption For Carew, The Celtic Cross C1960

An inscription on the west face of Carew's Celtic cross commemorates Maredudd ap Edwin, joint ruler of the kingdom of Deheubarth in south west Wales, who died two years into his reign

Caption For Torquay, Abbey Sands 1924

This crowded scene looks south along Torbay towards Paignton. Changing tents have replaced the earlier bathing machines.

Caption For South Ockendon, The Windmill C1955

South Ockendon's smock mill - seen here across the moat of a long-vanished hall - was built c1829. It may have stood on the site of an ancient watermill.

Caption For Anston, Crowgate C1960

One powerful Norman lord in South Yorkshire was Roger de Bully. His estates included North Anston, Greasbrough, Wickersley, Ecclesfield, Laughton-en-le-Morthen and Mexborough.

Caption For Fairford, The Market Place C1960

Besides being a market centre and wool town, Fairford was on an important coaching route in the days of horse-drawn travel, as it straddled the road from London to the south-west.

Caption For Cove Hithe, Church C1960

This unusual view is taken through the east window of the south aisle, with the chancel to the right.

Caption For Horbury, High Street C1955

Horbury, three miles south-west of Wakefield, was once one of the busiest railway junctions in the country; hence, perhaps, the absence of any form of traffic in the High Street in this photograph.

Caption For Eastbourne, Convalescent Home 1891

Immediately south of her All Saints Hospital, the Reverend Mother Harriet built this imposing convalescent home, also in the Victorian Gothic style.

Caption For Totton, By Pass C1965

South of the bypass are late 19th- and 20th-century housing and a large industrial area leading down to Eling creek. Nearby is the brick church of St Winifred, built in 1937.

Caption For Doncaster, Frenchgate 1903

This view looks south. On the left we have Porter & Sons, wholesale glass and china merchants, and the imposing bulk of the Guildhall with its porticoed entrance supported on Corinthian columns.

Caption For Oxford, Eights 1906

This view, taken from Folly Bridge at the south end of St Aldate's Street, is of an earlier Eights Week with the Christchurch Meadow bank lined with the College Barges.

Caption For Hythe, Cricket Ground 1899

Who their opponents were on this occasion has long been forgotten, but it could have been a formidable foe, since the club was one of the most prestigious on the south coast.

Caption For Upton, Thermopylae Pass C1950

This picture is taken from Bidston Hill looking south.

Caption For Odiham, Almshouses 1903

Situated next to the Pest House and south of the church, this single-storey block of ten houses ranges on three sides of a courtyard.

Caption For Newby Bridge, General View 1914

Two lads enjoy the view from the hillside above Newby Bridge, the small village at the southern end of Windermere, with the low south Lakeland hills in the background.

Caption For Ormskirk, Market Place 1895

Until the Dissolution members of the family were interred at Burscough Priory; then Edward, the 3rd Earl, had a vault built at the south-east end of Ormskirk church.