Maps

2,499 maps found.

1886 - 1901, South Perrott Ref. HOSM59725
1885 - 1886, South Carlton Ref. HOSM59628
1888 - 1905, South Cockerington Ref. HOSM59640
1887 - 1888, South Ormsby Ref. HOSM59720
1887 - 1888, South Reston Ref. HOSM59735
1887 - 1905, South Somercotes Ref. HOSM59741
1886 - 1887, South Elkington Ref. HOSM61679
1888 - 1891, South Crosland Ref. HOSM59646
1905 - 1906, South Killingholme Ref. HOSM59691
1894 - 1895, South Harrow Ref. HOSM59770
1895 - 1907, South Baddesley Ref. HOSM59613
1898 - 1908, South Heighton Ref. HOSM59680
1891 - 1892, South Otterington Ref. HOSM59722
1881 - 1884, South Walsham Ref. HOSM59848
1895 - 1935, South Mimms Ref. HOSM59805
1899 - 1909, South Tidworth Ref. HOSM71063
1865 - 1905, South Pill Ref. HOSM55274
1894 - 1911, South Croydon Ref. HOSM59649
1895 - 1914, South Hylton Ref. HOSM59689
1899 - 1910, South Marston Ref. HOSM59709

Books

23 books found. Showing results 1,033 to 23.

Memories

1,577 memories found. Showing results 431 to 440.

Claywood And The Teem Valley Home 1949 To 1969

How wonderful to hear of one of my dear friend's memories of 1960s Menith Wood. Although I was actually born at "Eardiston" Farm called Moor Farm, in one of the converted barns in 1949, I spent ...Read more

A memory of Menithwood in 1960 by Nicolas Fumarola

Wombwell 1949 1960

Born in York Street, moved to Rimmington Road. I had friends at Barnley Road Primary, St Johns Junior and Barnley Road Methodist and the Brownies there. Remember Joyce Brooks, Sharon Guest, John Mason, Linda Lapinsky, Pat ...Read more

A memory of Wombwell in 1953 by Lynne Ward

Morden I Loved

I lived in Polar Road, South Merton, but at the end of this road was Morden. I went to school in Morden and my Headmaster was Mr How. I went on to Willows High School for girls. I later went back in the '90s and how much it had ...Read more

A memory of Morden in 1973

Esh Winning

I left Esh Winning with my family in 1963 when I was 5 or 6 for a new life in Staffordshire. We initially lived at North Terrace, which is no longer there and later 4 South Terrace. Like Ruth Hill, my father worked at Esh Winning ...Read more

A memory of Esh Winning by Ray Beecham

First Families

We moved to The Gore, in about 1962. My brother was born here. Our family lived at number 83, and up until 2000, no other family had ever lived there. We moved in when the other end of the road was still being finished. I went to ...Read more

A memory of Basildon by Jess Pearce

Arthur Smith Was 12 When This Picture Was Taken

My dad was born Headcorn in 1891, grew up in the village. He served in the First World War and, later, moved to other areas in the south. He ceased travelling after arriving in Bedfordshire with my ...Read more

A memory of Headcorn by pashburner

Happy Days In Forest Hall

I was born and lived in Forest Hall, 1952-1968. I have very happy memories of living in Forest Hall,as a child. I was born and lived in my grandparents' house, in Firtree Avenue, until I was 2 years old, then I lived ...Read more

A memory of Forest Hall by Brenda Glover Nee Malone

Snowed In

If my memory is correct it was the winter of 1940/41 when I was a teenager, working for a long distance transport company from the midlands. We had left Carlisle on our way south via Shap Fell when we were caught in a blizzard and the ...Read more

A memory of Carlisle in 1940 by Douglas Robinson

The Trust And St Marys Church

I lived my first 17 years, from 1932, in Horden at the Trust Hotel and remember Lumleys store. I was an altar server at St Mary's around the early 1940s and the vicar at the time was the Reverend Walton. My sister ...Read more

A memory of Horden in 1949 by Jack Cook

Dukeshouse Wood Camp School Hexham (Part One)

My school was one of the first to go to Dukeshouse Wood Camp School just outside Hexham. This was in November 1945 shortly after the Second World War with the lads from  Gateshead at Alexandra Road school. ...Read more

A memory of Hexham in 1945 by Les May

Captions

2,476 captions found. Showing results 1,033 to 1,056.

Caption For Bourton On The Water, View From The Memorial C1955

This Roman road runs from the mouth of the River Humber in the north-east of England to Devon in the south-west. So you could say that it has been on the tourist route for thousands of years.

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 Bude, Harbour 1890

The Bude Canal, in which these schooners are moored, was built in 1823 to carry sand inland to improve farmland, but it ended up carrying all manner of cargoes including coal from South Wales.

Caption For Hampstead, Viaduct And Pond 1898

The five-arch later 19th-century red-brick bridge still rather pompously carries a narrow roadway across the pond in the south west angle of the Heath.

Caption For Church Stretton, The Longmynd Hotel C1965

The Longmynd Hotel has a superb site half-way up the hill with wonderful views towards the south.

Caption For West Runton, The Church C1960

In 1920 a new roof was placed on the south aisle and the old lead recast for a total cost of £500.

Caption For Rhossili, Rough Sea C1950

Edgar Evans, who died with Scott at the South Pole, was born at Rhosili.

Caption For Euxton, Wigan Road C1955

This view looks south along Wigan Road to the Anderton Arms, now managed as an Italian restaurant.

Caption For Bourne, North Road C1955

This is the extremely busy A15 main road heading north to Folkingham, Lincoln and eventually the Humber Bridge and south (the way we are facing) to Market Deeping and Peterborough.

Caption For Stilton, High Street C1955

It is actually made in nearby counties, and was originally brought to Stilton for shipment south by coach.

Caption For Harlow, The Lawn Tower Block C1955

It was designed in the shape of a butterfly, so that the sitting rooms look south over the landscape. It received a Festival of Britain award.

Caption For Launceston, The Priory 1938

The priory was razed to the ground during the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539, and these ruins were discovered in 1886 during the construction of the London and South West Railway.

Caption For Launceston, The Priory 1938

The priory was razed to the ground during the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539, and these ruins were discovered in 1886 during the construction of the London and South West Railway.

Caption For North Berwick, Tantallon Castle 1897

In 1388, the 2nd Earl of Douglas invaded the Earl of Northumberland's domain to the south. Douglas raided far and wide; then, after capturing Northumberland's standard, he returned home.

Caption For London, Ludgate Hill And Circus 1897

A locomotive of the L C & D Railway has just left Holborn Viaduct Station and thunders south over the bridge, steam ballooining out over the roofs. Below, traffic crawls miserably up Ludgate Hill.

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.

Boston, St Botolph's Church From N.W. 1890

From the south you can see the Hall’s plan clearly, with the central Great Hall behind the three timber-framed gables of Hickman’s 1597 stair and corridor addition.

Caption For Ebbw Vale, From Beaufort Hill C1960

Before this date there were three separate industrial settlements, Beaufort in the north, Ebbw Vale in the centre, and Victoria in the south.

Caption For Beauchief, The Abbey C1950

Beauchief is four miles south of Sheffield, but all that remains of the Premonstratensian Abbey founded by Robert Fitz Ranulf around 1183 is the west tower.

Caption For Sonning, Village 1904

South of Thames Street the through traffic can be avoided. In this view we look down Pearson Street, with the High Street off to the left beyond the cart.

Caption For London, Houses Of Parliament 1890

From the south bank, near Westminster Bridge, completed in 1862, this view shows the bell tower known universally by its great bell, Big Ben.

Caption For Loose, The Valley 1898

Loose is situated just south-east of the Medway; it is an unusual village that spills down the hillside towards the valley bottom, and is surrounded by hop and fruit gardens.