Maps

2,499 maps found.

1946, Upper Hill Ref. NPO857456
1946, Upper Morton Ref. NPO857662
1946, Warmley Ref. NPO860826
1897, New Passage Ref. RNE790269
1898, New Town Ref. RNE790379
1898, Parkfield Ref. RNE801384
1897, Little Bristol Ref. RNE756960
1898, Little Stoke Ref. RNE758004
1898, Longwell Green Ref. RNE767247
1898, Lower Hamswell Ref. RNE769296
1898, Lyde Green Ref. RNE770861
1898, Marshfield Ref. RNE775149
1946, Lower Hazel Ref. NPO769319
1946, Falfield Ref. NPO702984
1946, Filton Ref. NPO705621
1946, Oldbury-on-Severn Ref. NPO797342
1946, Rodford Ref. NPO819264
1946, Rudgeway Ref. NPO822488
1946, North Common Ref. NPO793077
1946, Mayshill Ref. NPO775897

Books

23 books found. Showing results 1,633 to 23.

Memories

1,577 memories found. Showing results 681 to 690.

Ww2

My husband's father Frank Baker, worked at Starting Post Farm on All Alone Road near Idle. His cousin Albert Drew, was in the fields with him when a German air plane came down. Does anyone have any memories of this and know the time of day ...Read more

A memory of Saltaire in 1941

Holloway Sanatorium

The ballroom had huge paintings on the walls. In particular I recall one of Sir Walter Raleigh. The patients' dining room had those lovely murals. We were issued a key which unlocked all of the doors in the hospital ...Read more

A memory of Virginia Water in 1961 by Patricia Hampton

Happy Memories

I came from a family that lived in Eltham, South East London, and we spent many a happy year at Jaywick. We did not have much money and my aunt used to treat us every year to a holiday. Me, my mum, my cousin Debbie and my aunt would ...Read more

A memory of Jaywick in 1973 by Karen Smith

Bellahouston Hotel Glasgow

Apart from a weekend visit to see a football match some ten years earlier I had never been to Glasgow so you can imagine that it came as something of a shock to be offered an attractive job in the city in 1975. My ...Read more

A memory of Glasgow in 1975 by John Howard Norfolk

Woodhurst 1962

I was a pre nursing student in1962 at the South London Hospital for Women. As part of our course I was sent to work at Woodhurst for 6 months, prior to beginning my S.R.N training. Woodhurst was the convalescent home linked ...Read more

A memory of Pease Pottage by Valarine Cooper

Some Memories Of Croydon In The In 1950s

I was born in Croydon in 1948, and lived there until 1960. Some of my memories are going to the fish & chip shop in Surrey Street and munching on the chips as we walked home to Edridge Road. Also, the ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by Robin Poole

The Real Heart Of Dagenham

We moved to Dagenham from Plaistow in East London when I was two years old. We moved to Leys Avenue, on the Rookery Farm estate. It was out in the sticks then with the remainder of Rookery Farm still in business with ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham in 1950 by Tom Baker

Fleet Airarm

I was 17years old when I came to work at the Fleet Air Arm at Worthy Down. I wanted to join the army but, my Father wouldn't allow me to. So I joined the Naffi, and they sent me to Worthy Down - I loved my time there. Once I was ...Read more

A memory of Worthy Down in 1952 by Eileen Groenenberg Roche

Watchfield/Naafi/Aerodrome Notes

This was the NAAFI shop that served the military quarters at Watchfield, which housed the then many miltary and civilian staff of the Royal Military College of Science, and some of the students at the college, ...Read more

A memory of Watchfield by Richard Hodder

Coffee Bars

I was born in Croydon in 1945 and lived in Victoria Place near Duppas Hill Lane. I went to the Howard School, then on to St Andrews School. My friends and I used to go to a coffee shop in South Croydon, I think it was it was in Lower ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1959 by Clifford Carver

Captions

2,476 captions found. Showing results 1,633 to 1,656.

Caption For Rothwell, Jesus Hospital C1955

South of the church, and facing the market place, is Jesus Hospital which was founded in 1591 for 26 poor men.

Caption For Beer, Pillow Lace Workers 1901

A lace maker works at a floral sprig of Honiton lace outside her cottage door at Beer in South Devon.

Caption For Devizes, The Castle C1955

This is a view from the south-east, and shows the Ladies' Gate on the right and the bowed fernery on the left. The brickwork of the original windmill can be seen on the Round Tower.

Caption For Exmouth, From The Cliff 1918

The cliff walk now forms part of the South West Coast Path, the national trail which winds around the West Country peninsula.

Caption For Southborough, The Parade 1896

Since it was gradually absorbed to become a suburb of Royal Tunbridge Wells, this small village south of Tonbridge supported a number of businesses in its commercial centre.

Caption For Southwell, The Minster, The West Towers 1895

All that remains of the Saxon building is a carved doorhead in the north transept and some paving in the south transept.

Caption For Porthcurno, The Station C1883

This remote spot in the far south-west corner of Britain has played a major role in world communications and commerce.

Caption For Weymouth, Beach Show 1899

The coast here, turning to the south, forms a wide, open bay. The esplanade extends for about a mile, and is lined with elegant houses and defended by a substantial sea-wall.

Caption For Petersfield, The Spain C1965

Much of the limewashing was carried out in The Spain, and carts coming in from the south- easterly direction would be taken through the shallow cart-wash in the Heath Pond, where the boardwalk

Caption For Wendover, From The North East 1901

The photographer is looking south-west across the pretty market town of Wendover, which lies on the edge of the Chilterns.

Caption For Dublin, Christchurch Cathedral, The Earl Of Pembroke's Tomb 1897

The full-length figure (which bears the arms of FitzOsbert of Drogheda) is probably a replacement procured by the Lord Deputy, Sir Henry Sidney, when the original effigy was broken when the south nave

Caption For Burnley, Scott Park 1896

Some said that Burnley did not need parks, as the Pennines of South Lancashire are only ten minutes away, and some lovely countryside surrounds the town.

Caption For Cheam, Burdon Lane 1925

These splendid trees had already overseen the widespread development of substantial suburban houses south of the village and the station which had begun in the years following the First World War.

Caption For Manorbier, Castle C1955

The four-storey round tower in the distance at the south-east angle, strongly built, remains today in perhaps the best state of preservation of all the castle buildings.

Caption For Newark, Balderton Gate C1955

Balderton Gate is the next turning south-east off Cartergate. Here we have a glimpse of the 237 feet high spire of St Mary Magdalene's.

Caption For Ardingly, High Street C1955

Ardingly hosts the South of England Show, an important agricultural event with livestock competitions and horse jumping, and has often been visited by members of the royal family.

Caption For York, Walmgate Bar C1885

This is the principal entrance from the south-east; travellers would then cross the city and leave it at Bootham Bar.

Caption For Keswick, Castlerigg, Druid Circle 1895

To the south-west is another stone in the direction of the midwinter sunset, which is a far more useful calendar date for ancient agricultural communities.

Caption For Wilmington, The Long Man C1960

The design of this huge, ancient giant, on the South Downs near Eastbourne, is cleverly elongated vertically to counteract the effect of foreshortening when viewed from below the hillside.

Caption For Brook, The Dog And Pheasant 1957

A little south-west of Witley, the route passes the tile-hung Dog and Pheasant pub on the A286 Haslemere Road; it stands opposite the village cricket ground with the 1923 village hall.

Caption For Wonersh, The Village C1955

South-east of Shalford, Wonersh has an old core with some fine timber-framed houses, including the 16th-century Grantley Arms pub; there are more old houses along the winding The Street, which starts

Caption For Charminster, The Village 1913

We are looking south- eastwards from West Hill across to the Victorian villas on the sylvan summit of East Hill, glimpsing the tower of the parish church (left).

Caption For Swindon, The Rose Gardens, Town Gardens 1948

The small sculpture of Pan was later moved to a new position on the lawn south of the rose gardens. The octagonal seat shown in the background was removed in later years.