Places
23 places found.
Those places high-lighted have photos. All locations may have maps, books and memories.
- Harrow, Greater London
- Pinner, Greater London
- Stanmore, Greater London
- Harrow on the Hill, Greater London
- Hatch End, Greater London
- South Harrow, Greater London
- North Harrow, Greater London
- Wealdstone, Greater London
- Harrow Weald, Greater London
- Harrow Green, Suffolk
- Headstone, Greater London
- Rayners Lane, Greater London
- Roxeth, Greater London
- Eastbury, Greater London
- Pinnerwood Park, Greater London
- West Harrow, Greater London
- Little Stanmore, Greater London
- Queensbury, Greater London
- Harrow Hill, Gloucestershire
- Greenhill, Greater London
- Belmont, Greater London (near Stanmore)
- Canons Park, Greater London
- Pinner Green, Greater London
Photos
178 photos found. Showing results 81 to 100.
Maps
265 maps found.
Books
2 books found. Showing results 97 to 2.
Memories
291 memories found. Showing results 41 to 50.
Pub Sign At The George
The George Hotel was newly decorated and it re-opened with a special day around 1985. The horse drawn Whitbread Brewery dray arrived and the newly painted pub sign was unveiled by the mayor. Everything looked great and a ...Read more
A memory of Ruislip in 1985 by
My Apprentice Days With Northmet Electricity (Eeb)
I was born in Elmgrove Crescent Harrow in 1933 and lived in Pinner Road North Harrow, moving to Wealdstone in 1934. I started at Bridge Scool in 1938 and followed on to Belmont Sec. Modern School ...Read more
A memory of Kenton in 1948 by
Stanley Road, South Harrow
I lived with my foster family in Stanley Road South Harrow, during the war. Our house backed on to the gas works and I always wanted to climb the gasometer which I did eventually with a friend from across the road. At ...Read more
A memory of South Harrow in 1940 by
A Family Business
To anyone local to Dorchester this was a familiar scene day in and day out for almost 50 years. My grandfather Ben Courtney started selling 'fruit and veg' in 1947 from hand-carts on the roadside. His son Doug started in 1950 ...Read more
A memory of Dorchester in 1955 by
The Capitol Cinema
I remember being taken to the Capitol by my sister to watch the Disney film Bambi. We sat through it three times, I was taken ill the next day and my sister got the blame. The Capitol had a ventilation fan under a hole in the ...Read more
A memory of Barking in 1950 by
My Childhood In Hornchurch
My parents bought our house in Mansfield Gardens in 1934 for £500. It had no garage but nobody in the road had a car anyway. My name was Jenifer Shearring. I went to North Street Primary School, infants and juniors ...Read more
A memory of Hornchurch by
Hatch End 50/60/70s Memories
As I’ve only just stumbled on this web page so offer excuses if it’s past its sell by date. I lived in Sylvia Ave Hatch End from 1951 (as a babe in arms) until I married and moved away in 1976. My recollections may now ...Read more
A memory of Hatch End by
Plumpton Close
My grandparents Jack and Beral Storey lived at 8 Plumpton Close with their kids Ricky, Stevie, Sharon and Darrell. My dad was Stevie who sadly passed away in 1980. I spent every weekend at my nan's and have great memories like ...Read more
A memory of Northolt in 1977 by
Church Parade At St Margaret's Church In Hooley
During the period we lived in the Fruit Shop in Hooley (see Hooley pages) I belonged in the Girl Guides and my Sister Moira was in the Brownies. (Actually, when we moved into the Fruit Shop I was ...Read more
A memory of Chipstead by
Westbourne House
I was about five or six when we moved the Westbourne House, Mount Park, Harrow on the Hill. Mount Park use to be private an there was a couple called the Morrisons who were in charge of opening and closing the gate. ...Read more
A memory of Harrow on the Hill in 1948 by
Captions
108 captions found. Showing results 97 to 120.
Ivy-covered Littlemore Cottage (left) stands beside the stream from Water Barrows; gritty heathstone- walled 17th-century Cockles Cottage is on the right.
This is the approach road from the Barrow in Furness direction to Newby Bridge, now the A590, with the Swan Hotel on the far side of the bridge.
For many years the river at Barrow has possessed a watery magnetism which has drawn people from the city to its banks on warm summer days, either to enjoy a picnic, or to venture onto the
This was once a magnificent chambered long barrow that was covered with a brilliant white chalk mound.
In pre-world war two days, most travellers toured their patch by train and tram, hiring a barrow-boy if necessary to trundle their wares between calls.
Lynn had forgotten to do so, and Barrow Council had to publicise for the architect 'Ira' to unveil himself to them.
The Great Western Railway ordered two fast triple-expansion steamers, costing £55,000 each, from the Naval Construction & Armaments Co, Barrow-in-Furness, for the Weymouth-Jersey summer service.
It is possible that bodies were left here on funerary platforms to decompose, before a skeletal burial was carried out later in one of the many long barrows that surround the area.
The landscape of hills, bar- rows and earthworks remind us of the beginnings of civilisation with the Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age settlements and hill forts.
To the left are round barrows breaking the now contracted sky line, the wandering bunches of sheep, the wheeling plovers, the friendly white-tailed wheatears, and the skylarks innumerable filling
It was built to help ships navigating the River Lune and to guide ships to Glasson docks - it was not built for the benefit of Barrow-in-Furness, as the town was only a small fishing hamlet at the time
A major Bronze Age barrow was excavated in 1854 where Sandy Lane comes close to the railway.
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Memories (291)
Books (2)
Maps (265)
