Places
26 places found.
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- Town End, Derbyshire
- Town End, Buckinghamshire
- Town's End, Somerset
- Towns End, Dorset
- Town End, Merseyside
- Town End, Cambridgeshire
- Town's End, Buckinghamshire
- West End Town, Northumberland
- Bolton Town End, Lancashire
- Kearby Town End, Yorkshire
- Town End, Cumbria (near Grange-Over-Sands)
- Town End, Cumbria (near Bowness-On-Windermere)
- Town End, Yorkshire (near Huddersfield)
- Town End, Yorkshire (near Wilberfoss)
- Town End, Cumbria (near Appleby-in-Westmorland)
- Town's End, Dorset (near Melbury Osmond)
- Town's End, Dorset (near Swanage)
- Town End, Cumbria (near Ambleside)
- Town End, Cumbria (near Lakeside)
- Town End, Cumbria (near Kirkby Lonsdale)
- Town End, Cumbria (near Ambleside)
- Town's End, Dorset (near Bere Regis)
- West-end Town, South Glamorgan
- Townend, Derbyshire
- Townend, Strathclyde (near Dumbarton)
- Townend, Staffordshire (near Stone)
Photos
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Maps
195 maps found.
Books
160 books found. Showing results 1,417 to 1,440.
Memories
3,719 memories found. Showing results 591 to 600.
Life In The Country
I was stationed in the USAF at RAF Lakenheath. I resided at Church View, Church Road with my wife, 3 daughters, and our 3 Shelties. My oldest daughter Cindy learned to ring bells at the church and was sweet on a local boy, Robert ...Read more
A memory of Hilgay in 1973 by
More Growing Up In Dovercourt
I was born in Dovercourt in 1946, and lived there until 1957. My father, too, worked on Parkeston Quay, but moved to New England depot in Peterborough in 1956 - mother and I followed once I had taken my 11-Plus ...Read more
A memory of Dovercourt in 1957 by
Old High Street Summer Of 1966
The old High Street was a hive of activity especially in the summer months, I remember the Acropolis coffee bar which was run by a Greek family including Archie Aggro who was a very tough character and stood no ...Read more
A memory of Folkestone in 1966 by
Day Trips To Brecon
As a child growing up in the mining village of Cwmtwrch in the 1940's and 50's, I enjoyed the family day trips to the cathedral town of Brecon, especially in summer. The public bus would take us from Ystradgynlais to Brecon,a ...Read more
A memory of Brecon by
Basingstoke Town Hall
I remember the Town Hall from the late 1950's - 1960's. My father, the late Dr Frank Foden MBE, used to be a lecturer at what was then Basinstoke Technical College. He used to write a pantomime each year for staff and ...Read more
A memory of Basingstoke in 1957 by
Saturday Nights In The 60s
How lucky were we, who were teens in the 60's. We had the Beatles, Stones and couldn't even imagine there would be anything like rap . Like most of my friends, my first venture into Carlisle night life was at Bonds in ...Read more
A memory of Carlisle in 1965 by
Wandle Road
Although I was born in Newcastle on Tyne, I came to Croydon when I was nine - about 1958. My maiden name was Fawley, and my parents (Ron and Irene) had a sweet and general shop at 6 Wandle Road. It was near the swimming pool in ...Read more
A memory of Croydon in 1958 by
Wood Hatch, Western Parade
This photo is of the shops in Western Parade, Woodhatch, Reigate. Also in the picture, partially obscured by the trees, is The Angel public house. Woodhatch is a suburb of Reigate, about 2 miles due south from the town ...Read more
A memory of Reigate in 1955 by
Greystone Cottages
My earliest memories are living in no 6 Greystone Cottages. We had no inside loo and had to go to the end of the terrace for the loo. We moved to Hillary Close, Salterbeck for a while to allow modernisation to take ...Read more
A memory of High Harrington in 1953
The Mentone Hotel, The Parks, Minehead
I was born in Birmingham in 1943. My parents and my aunt and uncle (Les and Beat Bradshaw) purchased The Mentone in The Parks around 1949. A double decker bus ran over my leg directly outside Minehead ...Read more
A memory of Minehead in 1949 by
Captions
5,111 captions found. Showing results 1,417 to 1,440.
In Norman times, Bramber was an important port town.
In the far north-west of the county, and almost in Derbyshire, this village must deserve small town status.
In the far north-west of the county, and almost in Derbyshire, this village must deserve small town status.
The promenade provides a curious facility that seems less user-friendly than we might expect today and is more akin to a stadium.
The centrepiece of Brighton was and remains the extraordinary Pavilion or seaside palace.
Redhill grew from nothing after the building of the London to Brighton road in 1807 and the railway in 1841.
The Norman plan for settlements made Boroughbridge the 44th of the 400 new towns. The Romans had been here from AD 72, when they settled nearby at Aldborough about a mile away.
This is the main shopping area of the town; the architecture matches the period of rapid development after the railway arrived.
Diss, this small, stylish town on the Suffolk border evolved around a six-acre pool called Diss Mere which penetrates almost to the edge of the main street.
Elihu Yale, founder of Yale University in the USA, came from the Wrexham area (his family was associated with Erddig Hall), and he is buried at St Giles's church.
The town was sturdily independent of Brighton, and its character was more sombre and genteel, a characteristic reflected in its old Town Hall.
Arthur Vernon, Architect and Mayor The career of Arthur Vernon, architect and JP, born in 1846, is a good example of Wycombe's new class of industrialists and professionals.
This town can be confusing for the visitor, as not only has it two rivers, but also two High Streets.
Another of Cheshire's cotton towns, Hyde was to be the scene of great industrial unrest when in 1848, a local group of Chartists marched through the town to disable the boilers, bringing all
Two doors up there are postcards outside the stationer, bookseller and Athenaeum Library of Evans Harrison. The lamp post on the right marks the site of the town's first post office of 1835.
As nearby Sheffield expanded, so did towns like Oughtibridge in the Don Valley. The river powered mills, but later manufacturing became the mainstay.
The Corporation kept the right to choose the two MPs for the town until 1640. It remained an oligarchy until 1835 when a major reform allowed it to be elected by some of the townspeople.
A quiet lane on the fringes of the town. Washing dries in the breeze in the gardens of plain, mellow cottages. In the background are the two towers of St Nicholas's church.
The school (left) was built in 1840, and provided education for the children of Barkway and Reed. This fine building is remarkably original, and stands on the site of the old Market Square.
This photograph shows looms and other equipment installed in a workshop at the technical school; it shows the importance of the cloth industry to the town.
Looming over the town is the tower of the town hall, clearly more than a little influenced in its design by its more prestigious neighbour at Leeds.
The Midland Bank is on the left, with Stead & Simpson's shoe shop next door. Wide streets denote a planned town.
Holyhead has seen a decline in recent years, although Swift was able to write in 1727 that it was 'scurvy, ill-provided and comfortless', so recent trends may have followed a pattern.
One of the highest towns in Oxfordshire, Chipping Norton gets the 'Chipping' in its name from the Saxon word for market.
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