Places
36 places found.
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- Burgess Hill, Sussex
- Brierley Hill, West Midlands
- Cotswold Hills, Gloucestershire
- Kelton Hill, Dumfries and Galloway
- Box Hill, Surrey
- Turners Hill, Sussex
- Cleeve Hill, Gloucestershire
- Biggin Hill, Greater London
- Beacon Hill, Surrey
- Mill Hill, Greater London
- Leith Hill, Surrey
- Scayne's Hill, Sussex
- Cross Hills, Yorkshire (near Silsden)
- Harrow on the Hill, Greater London
- Winchmore Hill, Greater London
- Northwood Hills, Greater London
- Walton on the Hill, Surrey
- Muswell Hill, Greater London
- Clee Hill, Shropshire (near Doddington)
- Berry Hill, Gloucestershire
- Forest Hill, Greater London
- Ide Hill, Kent
- Quantock Hills, Somerset
- Crays Hill, Essex
- Longfield Hill, Kent
- Crockham Hill, Kent
- Herne Hill, Greater London
- Amersham on the Hill, Buckinghamshire
- Hill Ridware, Staffordshire
- Tan Hill, Yorkshire
- Forty Hill, Greater London
- Windmill Hill, Sussex
- Boyn Hill, Berkshire
- Wheatley Hill, Durham (near Peterlee)
- Horndon on the Hill, Essex
- East Hill, Kent (near Swanley)
Photos
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Maps
4,509 maps found.
Books
3 books found. Showing results 1,225 to 3.
Memories
4,091 memories found. Showing results 511 to 520.
Working In Dartmouth Road
I worked at the gas board showroom on Dartmouth Road. It was next door to the bank on the corner of London Road. As well as selling gas appliances and receiving payment on gas bills we used to sell bags of "shillingsis!" for ...Read more
A memory of Purley by
Early Days Of Blackhill
My name is Stephen Yallop. I lived in Blackhill from the early 1960s. I used to live in Gallagher Terrace. I went to the Tin Mill infant school, I remember the teachers as Mrs Dunne the headmistress. Mrs Ferguson and ...Read more
A memory of Blackhill in 1966 by
Wooden Bridge
My uncle Bill Wright lived & worked in Chester from the war period to 1963. He was a widower and had a damp old ground floor of a rather grand house beside the wooden bridge across the Dee. My Aunts , his sisters would go up from ...Read more
A memory of Chester in 1958 by
Raf Base
I was born at the RAF base 2 Drone Hill where my father was based. I am now 54 years old and in July 2004 after losing my mother I came up to Coldingham to revisit the base, which to my surprise in now a caravan site, and the house that I ...Read more
A memory of Coldingham in 1954 by
Shaftesbury's Bad Reputation!
Shaftesbury's position high on a hilltop with only a meagre water supply meant that water had to be brought up to the town from wells at the bottom of the steep slopes, usually by horses and donkeys carrying barrels. ...Read more
A memory of Shaftesbury by
Whitewebbs Lake And Second Woods
Wonderful walks from Clay Hill, past the golf course and on over the bridge on the stream and up through the woods. Little children with their mothers clutching bags of bread to feed the ducks and swans on the lake. An ...Read more
A memory of Enfield in 1950 by
Pittley Hill
I can remember the late 50s, early 60s, coaches from Scarborough used to stop here, the titles says why, it still brings back my childhood memories when I drive past.
A memory of Moorsholm in 1959 by
Little Hills Pit Lane
Born 1937 Kiveton family. Remeber getting on the bikes with my friends, riding over what we called the little hills down the pit lane to the tunnel top. Carrying an old clothes horse and a blanket, that was our tent. Take ...Read more
A memory of Kiveton Park in 1940 by
I Lived In Caerau On And Off During The Period 1950 1958
My mother's parents lived in Lloyd St for many years. Grandad (known by me I am told as 'dampa') was a coal miner at the pit up the hill from Lloyd St and I remember him showing me the pit ponies ...Read more
A memory of Caerau by
Mile Oak Portslade 1938 To 1950
Hello, I was one of the few children who lived in Mile Oak Road and and also played on Broomfields Farm, we lived at no 222 which was the second to last house before the road dropped down the hill to Mile Oak. The old ...Read more
A memory of Mile Oak in 1947 by
Captions
1,924 captions found. Showing results 1,225 to 1,248.
Perched high on its hill, Alton Castle dominates the area.
Spring Hill Corner is an ancient junction where Springhill Lane branches off the Wolverhampton road towards Lower Penn.
There was also an annual pony sale, attended by travellers, on Market Hill.
In the background at the top of the hill we can see the tower of the parish church of St Cuthbert, which replaced the original now ruinous church of St Mary on the famous Panorama Walk.
The buildings on the hill are the upper part of Brimscombe village, with Walls Quarry and Burleigh to the right.
This sprawling riverside village lies between the beech-clad hills of the Chilterns and the windswept slopes of the Berkshire Downs.
But the real give-aways are the large TV aerials, doubtless struggling to get any reception – Machynlleth is surrounded by verdant hills.
He was also a land-agent, who sold plots at Laindon and Langdon Hills for £5 a time.
Gun Hill takes its name from the Gun Inn, further up London Road at Bowers Gifford.
This view looks across the ornate, wrought iron gates of the Ladybower Dam towards the newly planted regimented forestry on the slopes of Win Hill.
A little higher up on a hill, peeping over the top of the Royal Marine Restaurant (far right) is the Trinity Theatre, which today houses the Cowes Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society.
We are looking back up Crown Hill, with the sign of the Crown on the left.
On the northern slopes of Cothelstone Hill, Parkend Lodge overlooks an entrance to the estate, which takes its name from the Norman de Coveston family who first held the manor.
Many of the villagers worked for the Lascelles family before the village was sold off to pay death duties at about the time this picture of Stock's Hill was taken.
Race Hill was once the main road into Launceston from the south; it leads down to the South Gate, which is the last remnant of the old town walls.
This photograph shows a vastly different prospect from that we can see today: the rows of fields on the opposite shore are gone, and the houses of Newton Ferrers extend two-thirds of the way up the hill
The great attraction is the firm wide sands, on which donkeys, swings, cocoanut-shies, and other amusements for excursionists will be found in full activity during the season.
Crown Hill was the setting for an unusual wager in 1936: a Grays confectioner was bet that he could not cycle backwards up the 1-in-7 road.
Right at the top in the centre can be seen some of the buildings of Fryern Hill Hospital, an isolation hospital well out of Eastleigh when it was built in 1912.
Set on a hill above the valley of the Nene, Stanwick lies on the A605.
In this region the fertile farmland ascends to the top of the hill, and it is pleasing to note hedgerows, not stone walls, dividing the fields.
At the top of Lantern Hill (centre right), 100 feet above sea level, stands the Chapel of St Nicholas, patron saint of sailors, fittingly enough, and also of scholars.
The Welsh name for the Sugar Loaf is Pen Y Fal, meaning 'top of the round hill'.
Occupying a hill-top, Preesall grew as a small market around a corn mill and two pubs, both of which are shown here, the Black Bull and the Saracen's Head.
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