Maps

241 maps found.

1924, Ribble Valley Ref. POP1190848
1919, Valley Park Ref. POP858563
1919, Valley Truckle Ref. POP858570
1921, The Valley Ref. POP846556
1921, The Valley Ref. POP846557
1920, Knatts Valley Ref. POP749631
1924, Low Valley Ref. POP768585
1924, Rimswell Valley Ref. POP816897
1922, Pleasant Valley Ref. POP807542
1940, Bourne Valley Ref. NPO646917
1947, Ribble Valley Ref. NPO1190848
1947, Lledr Valley Ref. NPO1190913
1947, Team Valley Ref. NPO845599
1946, Golden Valley Ref. NPO717283
1947, The Valley Ref. NPO846555
1946, Valley Bottom Ref. NPO858460
1897, Ogmore Valley Ref. RNE796101
1896, Low Valley Ref. RNE768585
1895, Rimswell Valley Ref. RNE816897
1898, Ribble Valley Ref. RNE1190848

Books

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Memories

499 memories found. Showing results 61 to 70.

Hq 90 Group

I spent most of 1952 at R.A.F. Medmenham and very much enjoyed my stay there. By then discipline had begun to be relaxed and we were able to wear civilian clothes off duty.. I was even able to bring my bicycle from home which opened ...Read more

A memory of Medmenham in 1952 by Roy Carne

Childhood Memories Of Lower Cwmtwrch

Sometime in the late 1940s my family moved from Upper Cwmtwrch to the Gurnos Council Estate in Lower Cwmtwrch and lived there for the next nine years. I have many memories of the place. The main source ...Read more

A memory of Lower Cwm-twrch in 1940 by David Lougher

My Beginning...

My name is Russell Ham. I was born on May the 10th, 1962. I was adopted at about the age of six weeks, I think. The best thing that ever happened to me. I arrived at number 5, Thomas Street, in the summer of 1962, to the home of ...Read more

A memory of Gilfach Goch in 1962 by Russell Ham

Chivenor 1949

I was 19 years old, in the R.A.F. at Chivenor from October, 1948 to June, 1949 and was at the dance-hall in Barnstaple one of those nights in April, 1949. Across the room was the loveliest girl I had ever seen, brown wavy hair to her ...Read more

A memory of Barnstaple in 1949 by Kenneth Hughes

Memories

I was born in Dunfermline in 1955. I lived in Dunnimarle Street in High Valley Field x

A memory of Dunfermline

Hawthorn

I had a very happy childhood growing up in Hawthorn until I left at the age of fifteen to join the Royal Navy in 1960. Hawthorn consisted of two distinct halves separated by a 'main road'. The top site had flat roofs while the ...Read more

A memory of Hawthorn by Ronald Toghill

Tintwistle Days!

My recollections are from the mid 1950s to early 1960s. These were happy days wandering the Longdendale Valley and the Torside Reservoir, usually with guitar slung over my shoulder in the company of Olwen Brown, a local 'Tinsel' ...Read more

A memory of Tintwistle in 1956 by Malcolm Povah

Moving Away

I was born in Redhill hospital in 1948 and lived in Shirley Avenue. I went to Downland School which was a stone cottage called Pound Cottage just before Stanley Close. There was Cherry Tree Cottage about 3 doors up, they used to sell ...Read more

A memory of Old Coulsdon by Margaret Collins

Colerne In The Second World War Continued

Those of us at Colerne school who passed our 'scholarship' exam at the age of about eleven usually went on to Chippenham Secondary School, which probably goes under a different name now: it's at Hardenhuish, ...Read more

A memory of Colerne in 1940 by John Bunting

My Childhood In Knatts Valley

I was born in Knatts Valley, in a bungalow belonging to George and Elsie Lines of Lynwood, friends of my mother and father. George became my Godfather, and one of my names is also George. I was supposed to have been ...Read more

A memory of Otford in 1940 by Rod Duffy

Captions

753 captions found. Showing results 145 to 168.

Caption For Laxey, The Waterfall 1896

In 1930 a flash flood swept down Laxey Valley with sufficient force to destroy the central section of the T-rocker, though it was later restored.

Caption For Bradford On Avon, The Canal C1955

The town of Bradford-on-Avon can be seen in the distance clinging to the valley side.

Caption For Carlisle, The Lake District Mountains 2005

Only the narrow Eden Valley offers an opening, running south-east to Stainmoor and lowland England.

Caption For Chandler's Ford, Winchester Road C1965

Chandler was the ancient miller who occupied the little mill in the valley; the ford was negotiated by passing stagecoaches.

Caption For Coniston, The Parish Church 1929

This view from the church tower looks towards the wooded slopes of High Guards and up the valley of the Yewdale Beck.The whitewashed cottages of the village cluster around the church where the

Caption For Clydach, Lower Fall 1893

Here, about a mile below Devil's Bridge, the river's waters fall rapidly as they travel down the narrow and steep-sided Clydach Valley to the Usk.

Caption For Dartmoor, Lustleigh Cleave From Ravens Tower C1871

Lustleigh Cleave, one of the Moor's most scenic valleys, lies to the west of Lustleigh itself and was cut by the River Bovey.

Caption For Coniston, From Church Tower 1906

This view from the church tower looks towards the wooded slopes of High Guards and up the valley of the Yewdale Beck.The whitewashed cottages of the village cluster around the church where the

Caption For Llandudno, Conwy Valley 1890

Only a short distance from the vigorously booming Llandudno, this faded lime- washed farmhouse reminds us that earning a living in the less hospitable reaches of the valley was somewhat more

Caption For Llanelli, Parc Howard C1955

Across the small valley is a pleasant mixture of modern semi-detached and older terraced houses.

Caption For Combe Martin, Newberry Beach 1926

The deep, sheltered valleys of this part of the coast were at one time noted for their market gardens, which grew a variety of produce, but were most famous for their strawberries.

Caption For Spaldwick, Village 1906

The church in the background is known as 'the cathedral of the valley'.

Caption For Eype, Ships Light's Shop C1955

The thatched roofs of the Ship Light's and Port Cottage lie in the valley at Lower Eype.

Caption For Ynyshir, The Park C1965

As we have seen even the smallest colliery village wherever it may be in the Rhondda Valleys has its own park. This one looks more suited to the youngsters of the area with its swings and slide.

Caption For Beaminster, The Square C1955

Beaminster (pronounced Bemmister) is situated in a deep valley, surrounded by a ring of picturesque hills, with a gap broken by the singing waters of the River Brit.

Caption For Mildenhall, The Old Bridge 1952

Sitting in the delightful Kennet valley a couple of miles east of Marlborough is Mildenhall - known locally as 'Minal'.

Caption For Widecombe In The Moor, The Church C1871

This tiny hamlet, tucked high up in the East Webburn river valley, huddles about its central green. St Pancras Church, with its lofty pinnacled tower, was built in granite in the 14th century.

Caption For Bingley, Old Market House 1894

Set in the valley of the River Aire, Bingley was once the classical picture of a 19th-century worsted-weaving and textile town, with its great mills and tall smokestacks.

Caption For Bingley, Old Market House 1894

Set in the valley of the River Aire, Bingley was once the classical picture of a 19th-century worsted-weaving and textile town, with its great mills and tall smokestacks.

Caption For Sheffield, Crookes Valley Park C1955

The lake at Crookes Valley Park is in fact one of Sheffield's older reservoirs, converted for use as a boating lake and for fishing.

Caption For Alkham, C1960

Alkham is an attractive little village nestling in the valley of the river Dour between Folkestone and Dover.

Caption For Caldecott, The Green C1955

Caldecott is situated in the rural Welland Valley; its origins go back to Roman times. The Plough Inn and the surrounding houses are mostly built of local stone and tiled with Collyweston slate.

Caption For Rhayader, Claerwen Dam C1955

Three years old when this photograph was taken, it is one of four dams in the Elan Valley which supply water to Birmingham.

Caption For Bodiam, Castle 1902

The great medieval castle at Bodiam was built in the Rother valley in 1386 against a possible French attack.