Maps

4,509 maps found.

1946, Star Hill Ref. NPO838726
1946, Start Hill Ref. NPO838817
1947, Station Hill Ref. NPO838871
1947, Stepping Hill Ref. NPO839240
1947, Stitchin's Hill Ref. NPO839497
1940, Stone Hill Ref. NPO840334
1947, Studd Hill Ref. NPO842218
1940, Summer Hill Ref. NPO842623
1946, Sunny Hill Ref. NPO842903
1945, Swanton Hill Ref. NPO843552
1945, Swelling Hill Ref. NPO843745
1947, Whinney Hill Ref. NPO867334
1946, Willoughby Hills Ref. NPO870534
1940, Wimble Hill Ref. NPO870862
1946, Winchmore Hill Ref. NPO870924
1947, Wind Hill Ref. NPO870946
1947, Windmill Hill Ref. NPO871072
1947, Windmill Hill Ref. NPO871075
1946, Windmill Hill Ref. NPO871109
1947, Windy Hill Ref. NPO871248

Books

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Memories

4,091 memories found. Showing results 621 to 630.

The Two Bob Gun

At the top of Queens Road in Buckhurst Hill is a small newsagents shop. It was owned by the Mr & Mrs. Silk.  The shop sold papers magazines cigarettes, sweets and a few toys. Situated right across the road from where ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill by Denman Lalonde

Growing Up Near Temple

I remember Temple school. The Knights Templar play. Christmas plays. The youth club on Friday evenings. Friday I'm in love. I was. The glen. Scottish country dancing. The human skull in Anna's cellar. Diving ...Read more

A memory of Temple by Louise Mercer

On Our Way To Longleat.....

After walking the footpath from Rodden Farm we would end up on the main Frome /Warminster road, not far from the start of Friggle Street. This was our route to Longleat we often took on foot during our school holidays. ...Read more

A memory of Elliots Green in 1980 by Jt Davies

Busk Crescent

Late in 1945 my parents moved to 25 Busk Crescent, in Cove. The house was on top of a hill and overlooked the Farnborough airfield. From the front bedroom you could see aircraft landing on the runway. The house was one of a string of ...Read more

A memory of Cove in 1945 by Alan Hickman

Buses In The Snow

I remember the green double decker buses revving up Crays Hill in the snow and jamming their tyres against the curb to try and get up. We lived in Elm Bank on the hill and sometimes witnessed the buses sliding side-ways back ...Read more

A memory of Crays Hill in 1977 by Helena Mead

Delamere By Sid Grant

The Jewish Fresh Air Home and School was founded in 1921 by Miss Margaret Langdon, MBE, MA (1890-1980) and located at Blakemere Lane, Delamere near Norley, in the beautiful Cheshire countryside.  My time spent there was from ...Read more

A memory of Delamere in 1930 by Sid Grant

Grannys House

my grandparents lived at 77 Old Hill, third house just behind tree, Mr and Mrs Thomas.  I lived there till they built the Wimpy estate on fields behind my mum and dad, then got a council house. I loved living on the old hill, the ...Read more

A memory of Bolsover in 1957 by Linda Geraghty

Memories Of Stone Hills.

This picture was taken from the corner of the Co-operative shop and features the Cherry Tree public house before it was turned into Waitrose. In about 1965, my friend’s mother remarried and my family was invited ...Read more

A memory of Welwyn Garden City in 1965 by Ken Barker

Gourock My Home Always

I was born in Gourock in 1960 and lived there until I married and moved to the States. I love living here but my heart belongs to Gourock and seeing these pictures brings me home again. My life growing up there is the ...Read more

A memory of Gourock in 1960 by First Name Last Name

Pathway

The picture shows the alleyway that runs between Cockshot Hill and Smoke Lane, I used this cut through to take my children to school in the 1990's. Today (2006) the cottages shown are still there.

A memory of Reigate in 1990 by Lesley Stratton

Captions

1,924 captions found. Showing results 1,489 to 1,512.

Caption For Dunsop Bridge, Hodder Bridge 1921

Hidden among the trees in the centre of our photograph is a foot (and animal) bridge just a few miles outside Dunsop Bridge.The hill on the left is called Knot or Sugar Loaf.

Caption For Charlton Kings, Charlton Hill From Cirencester Road C1955

Until the 1960s, Charlton Kings railway station stood half a mile up the hill from this spot - its site is now an industrial park.

Caption For Preesall, The View From Preesall Hill C1955

On the hill stood Preesall village school.

Caption For Mill Hill, The Golf Club, Barnet Way C1955

Look south away from Stirling Corner and past Mill Hill Golf Club bordering Thistle Wood and Scratch Wood (a rural name now adopted by the local motorway service station), and take a moment to reflect

Caption For Penrith, From Elm Terrace 1893

New substantial dwellings for the town's burgeoning middle class rise up towards Beacon Hill.

Caption For Uley, The Tumulus C1960

Generally known as Hetty Pegler's Tump, named after a local landowner (Tump being a Cotswold word to indicate a small hill or mound), this Neolithic long barrow a mile to the north of Uley

Caption For Hastings, The Beach 1925

The steep, turfy slopes of its East and West Hills have recently been made more accessible by means of a lift.

Caption For Woolsthorpe, The Village C1955

This is not Isaac Newton's Woolsthorpe, but the village west of Grantham in rolling countryside right on the Leicestershire border; it has fine views of Belvoir Castle a mile away on its hill on the other

Caption For Arundel, Castle And Bridge 1902

The castle, much enlarged by the Dukes of Norfolk, along with their Roman Catholic cathedral, dominates this picturesque hill town, giving it a distinctly French character in distant views.The bridge over

Caption For Blaenau Ffestiniog, Oakley Quarries 1901

The non-slate rocks form huge tips of waste material that scar the hills around, creating a surreal and fantastic landscape.

Caption For Lulworth, Castle Inn 1903

The carefully tended vegetable garden ascending the hill behind shows how important self-sufficiency was in these remote hamlets, in the days before motor vehicles and supermarkets.

Caption For Whitchurch, High Street C1955

Here the photographer looks across the High Street westwards from Church Headland Lane with the start of Market Hill to the left of the thatched cottage, Cobwebs.

Caption For Old Sarum, From The South 1913

This picture is taken from the area of Hudson's field, looking northwards to the hill of Old Sarum.

Caption For Kersey, The Church C1955

The terrace stepping down the hill on the left is dated 1880.

Caption For Fairford, High Street C1955

Like other wool towns in the Cotswolds, such as Stroud, Painswick and Woodchester, Fairford has a 'Rack Hill'.

Caption For Anderby Creek, Beach Road C1960

The far distant houses are built on the sand hills, and would get the full force of any gales.

Caption For Luccombe, The Village 1901

South of the A39, we climb from lush pastures towards Exmoor and the well-wooded Holnicote Estate and Dunkery Hill, much of which are owned by the National Trust.

Caption For Minehead, Quay Street 1903

Behind are spectacularly steep pine-clad hills.

Caption For Wellington, The Square 1912

Wellington, about ten miles south-west of Taunton at the foot of the Blackdown Hills, is an attractive market town with its focus where South, Fore and High Streets meet.

Caption For Othery, Main Road C1955

From Bridgwater we head south-east into Sedgemoor to Othery, a village built on a low hill that rises 60 feet above the Moors.

Caption For Gunnislake, Fore Street C1950

Motorists heading out of Cornwall from Callington must descend a steep hill through the old mining village of Gunnislake, which is situated in the Tamar valley close to the Devon border.

Caption For Allenheads, Slag Hill Cottages C1965

It was here, dur- ing the heyday of the lead mining industry, that the lead was smelted in a mill, though the only intact remnant today is the peat house.

Caption For Goodworth Clatford, The Village C1965

Barrow Hill runs off to the left with modern houses.

Caption For Symondsbury, 1899

Symondsbury is an intimate little village positioned between two rounded hills, and probably on the route of a medieval road linking Bridport and Axminster.