Maps

9,439 maps found.

1945, North Shoebury Ref. NPO793902
1947, North Skelton Ref. NPO793921
1947, North Stainmore Ref. NPO793934
1945, North Walsham Ref. NPO794036
1945, North Wembley Ref. NPO794062
1946, North Widcombe Ref. NPO794083
1946, North Wootton Ref. NPO794122
1946, North Batsom Ref. NPO792904
1946, North Beer Ref. NPO792919
1899, North Cadbury Ref. RNC793007
1903, North Cave Ref. RNC793031
1912, North Collafirth Ref. RNC793070
1899, North Corner Ref. RNC793094
1900, North Corner Ref. RNC793095
1898, North Cray Ref. RNC793132
1903, North End Ref. RNC793237
1903, North End Ref. RNC793243
1898, North Fambridge Ref. RNC793277
1903, North Featherstone Ref. RNC793282
1900, North Heasley Ref. RNC793474

Books

39 books found. Showing results 121 to 144.

Memories

1,544 memories found. Showing results 51 to 60.

Best Years Of Our Lives

My name is David Cannon I was born in Dagenham in 1947 at my maternal grandmothers house but immediately moved to Alfred’s Way Barking opposite the Volunteer pub to live with my Gran and Grandad Cannon. They had lived in ...Read more

A memory of Barking by David Cannon

We Called It 'charnwood Forest'.

My memories of the home are all very positive. I would have been 6 yrs old, and recovering from pneumonia. Coming from the Children's Hospital in Derby, the drive over was memorable. A big black car, very ...Read more

A memory of Woodhouse Eaves by Patrick Knight

The Star

This is taken from outside the Star and shows (as does H252583) the system that prevailed before the Star became not just a pub but a roundabout eg things could turn right down the Broadway and Muster Green North was still a through ...Read more

A memory of Haywards Heath

Life As A Young Boy In Saltdean

THE LIFE & TIMES OF DONALD CHARLES WILLIAMS Personal recollections from Don Williams from Hailsham who lived in Saltdean from 1937 to 1952 - Many thanks for these wonderful stories & photo's of Saltdean in ...Read more

A memory of Saltdean in 1940 by Don Williams

My Time In North Finchley

During the 2nd WW, my dad signed up with the Belgian section of the Royal Navy. On leave, he met up with my mum and married her in Christchurch in 1944. I came along in 1945. After the war my dad returned to Belgium, ...Read more

A memory of North Finchley in 1953 by Christine Moeyaert

Cinemas In Croydon

I lived in Croydon until 1969 (the year I got married and moved away). My Dad - Len Marsh - was a Cinema Manager with the ABC chain, and we lived very near the Rex Cinema, Norbury, closed in 1962. Dad was based there for a time, ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by Colin Marsh

Hammett's Farm.

This building was known to us as Hammett's Farm, properly West Orchard Farm, in the Higher End area of St Athan. Arthur Hammett and his wife ran the farm and I occasionally helped to deliver milk from the farm around the village from ...Read more

A memory of St Athan

Dagenham Heathway

I am 74 and was born at 4 Northfields gardens on may 11 1947. And remember when my nan lived at 14 Sterry road just off the Heathway She had a Dalmatian called chukie I used to go to Marino’s for sweets and mum and dad took my ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham by Barbara Findlow

Wightman Road

I was born in England and lived at 399 Wightman Road for seven years of my life from 1961 t0 1968. My parents were poor immigrants from Jamaica, W.I. Our family consisted of myself, my sister, my brother and my parents. I remember our ...Read more

A memory of Hornsey in 1961 by Ava Watson

Emigration To Ottawa, Canada

Ottawa has been my Home Base for nearly fifty years, having lost my faith of a future in UK during a troublesome strike by miners which was crippling the UK economy - no doubt the miners thought that the closure of ...Read more

A memory of Ottawa by Edward Williams

Captions

2,676 captions found. Showing results 121 to 144.

Caption For Shildon, Church Street C1965

In 1921, locomotive and rolling stock manufacturing in the North East provided 6300 jobs; by 1951, the figure had risen to 11,000.

Caption For Streetly, Entrance To Sutton Park C1965

Sutton Coldfield itself is to the east, while Streetly borders the park to the north-west.

Caption For Fordingbridge, The Village C1960

The local policeman (centre) goes on his daily beat around this peaceful village – a sight not to be seen now. The

Caption For Freeby, St Mary's Church C1955

This is a pretty church in a small village to the north east of Melton Mowbray, on what was once a route through to Sproxton.

Caption For Chorley, Market Street C1960

Chorley Town Hall, with its clock and spire, show up (right) at the north end of the street.

Caption For Thornaby, Mandale Road And Five Lamps 1957

Trams used to run along Mandale Road between Norton and North Ormesby, but that was more than seventy years ago.

Caption For Bridport, East Mill 1904

East Mill and its mill pool, looking eastwards from the north bank of the River Asker towards houses beside East Road (centre).

Caption For Twickenham, The Fox Inn 2005

This profitable use for the local land had swept away the old rabbit warrens by 1800; the only trace of them left is the reference to the Warren Footpath on old pictures of the riverside from Marble

Caption For Streetly, Entrance To Sutton Park C1965

Sutton Coldfield itself is to the east, while Streetly borders the park to the north-west.

Caption For Bradwell, From The Bridge C1955

Bradwell is a bustling little former lead mining village on the south side of the Hope Valley in north Derbyshire.

Caption For Plymouth, St Andrew's Cross 1900

While St Andrew's was still a smoking ruin, someone wrote the word Resurgam (Latin for 'I will rise again') above the door of the north porch (left), and ever since it has been known as

Caption For Chorley, Market Street C1960

Chorley Town Hall, with its clock and spire, show up (right) at the north end of the street.

Caption For North Walsham, Market Place 1921

Much of this prosperous market town, north of the Broads, was rebuilt after a major fire in 1600.

Caption For Liverpool, The London And North Western Railway Hotel 1890

This view of St George's Plateau shows the London & North Western Railway Hotel; it was built by the London & North Western Railway Company, and opened in 1871.

Caption For Brighton, Devil's Dyke 1894

Here the photographer looks north-west from near the hillfort that occupies the crest of the ridge, towards Poynings village and the scarp of the South Downs beyond at North Hill and Newtimber Hill.

Caption For Bridport, West Street 1949

A remarkably foreshortened shot, westwards down West Street, with the 1785-built arch (far left) being the north- west corner of the Town Hall.

Caption For Magham Down, Old Road C1955

Our first rural tour heads eastwards, skirting to the north of the Pevensey Levels, those great marshes largely drained during the Middle Ages, and following the road that heads for Ninfield

Caption For Ranmore Common, The Post Office C1955

West of Dorking up on the chalk and just inboard of the North Downs escarpment, and west of the valley cut by the River Mole, is Ranmore Common.

Caption For Glastonbury, Market Place 1896

The town was laid out north and west of the Abbey precincts, with the Market Place at the junction of High, Magdalen, Benedict and North Load Streets.

Caption For Calne, Newcroft Road C1960

According to the Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office, about 50 private houses were built in Bryans Close Road in the angle of North Street and Oxford Road in 1930.

Caption For Market Rasen, Town Hall Cinema C1955

The Town Hall, in the 1950s a cinema, was demolished; now a gruesome 1960s Co-op mars the north-west corner of the Market Place, which has the fine parish church to its north side.

Caption For Hailsham, High Street 1900

Now past the North Street junction, Frith's photographer is looking north past the covered wagon with its load of barrels and sacks towards the pedimented gable of the 1868 Wesleyan church

Caption For Blanchland, The Village C1935

It is unusual in that it is an L-plan building incorporating the Abbey chancel, crossing and north transept with its 13th-century tower and 14th-century belfry.

Caption For Waterlooville, London Road C1965

London Road is not the main road to London any more.