Maps

181,031 maps found.

1905, Porthallow Ref. HOSM56962
1881, Boconnoc Ref. HOSM38182
1881, Braddock Ref. HOSM38566
1881, Sandylake Ref. HOSM43453
1881, Lerryn Ref. HOSM51192
1883, Sileby Ref. HOSM59366
1895, Loughton Ref. HOSM34851
1887, Highfield Cadwell Ref. HOSM39760
1888, Grimoldby Ref. HOSM47130
1887, Sutterby Ref. HOSM60960
1888, Worlaby Ref. HOSM65173
1904, Ashby Ho Ref. HOSM36295
1904, Oulton Ref. HOSM70839
1904, Pakefield Ref. HOSM56018
1903, Rushmere Ref. HOSM58304
1883, Cornbrook Ref. HOSM59205
1883, Cornbrook Ref. HOSM65080
1885, Kimcote Ref. HOSM50084
1900, Hewelsfield Ref. HOSM48244
1907, Downton Ref. HOSM43573

Books

442 books found. Showing results 12,985 to 13,008.

Memories

29,038 memories found. Showing results 5,411 to 5,420.

Ramblings Of A Septuagenarian.

My grandparents, Ernest and Ada Forrester lived, with my aunt Bess, Dad's sister, in the tiny cottage attached to the Congregational Chapel on The Green. They were the Chapel caretakers. In return they lived ...Read more

A memory of Newton Burgoland by janetdscrivens

The First Attempt To Demolish Lawson School.

A young man called Howard Watson, lived in Dover Street, owned a convertible sports car. Beautiful thing,maybe a Triumph with a bonnet that opened forwards. His Dad was sitting in it on the top common and ...Read more

A memory of Cargo Fleet by artlynas

Mays

I worked in mays for 20 years and worked with scores of girls ,it would be nice to talk with some of them .nice girls ,pity about the job

A memory of Ebbw Vale

Marchant

Im looking for information on my mums side of the family

A memory of Bramley by Wendy Daniell

Pear Tree Lane House?

My grandmother (Edith Florence Pawley) worked in service in Shorne (I have a very badly damaged photo). I have a postcard written to her from her fiance, addressed to her c/o Mrs Levy, Court Wood, Pear tree Lane, Shorne, probably ...Read more

A memory of Shorne by dtpankhurst

Rekindle Your Cargo Fleet Friendships

I would just like to add another note...there is a site on Facebook I have just joined..it's great..Cargo Fleet Times..a lot of people and memories and also people most of you have mentioned on here are also on there..you can rekindle your friendships

A memory of Cargo Fleet by sharon.pearson1964

Old Bentalls Springbridge Rd

I remember in the fifties there was an exhibition by British Rail showing the future. Father Xmas was visited there and presents received. Later on visits to the china and kitchen departments were what interested me. The ...Read more

A memory of Ealing by Nick Beard

Coming Into Halifax Via North Bridge

As a child we used to return in the car down the hill towards North Bridge and the game was to be the first to spot Wainhouse Tower amongst all the other mill chimneys there were at that time (late 50s/early sixties). ...Read more

A memory of Halifax by leura123

Tales Of A Wandering Vocal/Sharpshooter

I so remember the 7777 club & the owner Clem Williams ....Clem would book my show several times through the year & I considered him a friend I used to love the rides in his old Rolls Royce ...I often ...Read more

A memory of Maesteg by steve.eagles1

Growing Up In Buckhurst Hill 60's 70's

I used to live in The Meadway, and went to St Johns infants School-a few memories of playing on 'the boxes' at play/lunchtime. These were actually old beer crates, and long before health and safety spoiled ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill by Richard Morgan

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Captions

29,395 captions found. Showing results 12,985 to 13,008.

Caption For Otford, The Archbishops Palace 1895

Built by Archbishop Warham in the early 16th century, this small manor house, consisting of a three-storey brick tower, a gallery (later turned into cottages), and the single-storey storehouse beyond

Caption For Saxby, The Church C1955

St Peters was designed by architect George Richardson in 1789 (for Robert Sherrard, 4th Earl of Harborough) in the Classical manner that Pevsner describes as 'an attempt at combining the tradition of

Caption For Heswall, Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital C1965

The Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital, Heswall was opened in 1911 on a 9-acre site bordering Telegraph Road.

Caption For Potters Bar, Council Offices 1966

This part 16th-century timber-framed building is named after the Wylyot or Williot family, who held the manor in the mid 1300s as an outlier of the manor of South Mimms.

Caption For Crouch End, Clock Tower And Broadway C1965

This area was called Crouche in 1400; the name derives from Old English 'cruc' or cross, but does this mean cross-roads or near to the cross?

Caption For Kingsbury, Church Of St Andrew C1965

In contrast to the picturesque qualities of St Andrews Old Church to its south, the late arrival has a not surprisingly metropolitan arrogance, as it was moved stone by stone from Well Street, close to

Caption For Earith, High Street C1955

It was in Victorian times on the Old Bedford River near Earith that a most bizarre experiment took place.

Caption For Sheringham, West Cliff And Golf Links 1906

Difficult though golf is, the natural hazard of crumbling cliffs on the edge of Sheringham Golf Links normally ensures that golfers practice their accuracy. Here we have two who have not!

Caption For Odiham, High Street C1950

Removal of the ivy enables us to admire the late 18th-century house (with a painter in action, left) and next door, a Georgian façade conceals a timber-framed house dated to 1454-55.

Caption For Odiham, High Street C1960

The first house on the left is a 16th-century timber-framed structure with an early 17th-century façade.

Caption For Greystoke, The Church 1893

The priests of the college were 'chantry priests' who offered masses for the souls of the dead, their founder and benefactors.

Caption For Scaynes Hill, The Post Office C1955

Mid-way between Chailey and Haywards Heath is Scaynes Hill, and this photograph shows the summit of the hill. Though there is still a pub here, it is now called the Farmers.

Caption For Clifton Hampden, From Bridge 1890

A mile east of the Culham Science Centre we reach the charming village of Clifton Hampden on its tree-covered cliff by the River Thames.

Caption For Abingdon, Stert Street 1893

Skirting the modern shopping centre, our tour reaches Stert Street, which runs south towards the Market Place; in the 1890s, it was one of Abingdon's main shopping streets.

Caption For Abingdon, Abbey 1924

After the Dissolution of 1538 nearly all the monastic buildings, including the great church, were demolished, some quickly, others more slowly, until little trace remained of the vast Benedictine

Caption For Abingdon, High Street C1965

The Lion, a fine and historic building, had been largely demolished in the late 1930s and replaced by the pallid neo-Georgian Woolworth's building seen on the extreme left of the photograph and the more

Caption For Swanage, The High Street 1904

Virginia Cottage is on the left, and the shop of shoemaker Fred Cox who was succeeded by Frank Cox.

Caption For Bridlington, Harbour 1913

A bracing north-easterly catches flags and furls the lugsails of three packed boats entering harbour.

Caption For Stanford On Avon, Stanford Hall And The Lake C1965

We are in the extreme southern tip of the county: whilst Stanford Hall is in Leicestershire, the parish church and the village are in Northamptonshire.

Caption For Newark, Castle And Footbridge 1890

As can be seen here, the river formed part of the castle's defences. The landward defences included a moat, a drawbridge and a barbican.

Caption For Toddington, The Green C1965

Marrying the Duke of Monmouth, she sheltered him at Toddington when his scheme to take the throne from James II came unstuck.

Caption For Blackburn, Corporation Park 1895

Blackburn possessed six parks, but Corporation Park was the one laid out on clear Victorian lines. Sixty acres were transformed with terraced walks, as we see here.

Caption For Manchester, Market Street 1889

The art of bartering was just dying out. Fifty years before, you would spend a long time on every purchase discussing the price and making offers.

Caption For Manchester, Owens College, Oxford Road 1895

Here we see the front face of Owen's College on Oxford Road, and you can see similarities to the Assize Court, and even the Town Hall, all of which were designed by Alfred Waterhouse.