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Maps

4,509 maps found.

1925, Station Hill Ref. POP838871
1920, Stitchin's Hill Ref. POP839497
1919, Stoke Hill Ref. POP840079
1919, Stone Hill Ref. POP840328
1921, Stone Hill Ref. POP840333
1919, Stoner Hill Ref. POP840621
1919, Stoney Hill Ref. POP840691
1920, Strawberry Hill Ref. POP841544
1925, Toft Hill Ref. POP849249
1919, Tot Hill Ref. POP850738
1919, Tote Hill Ref. POP850751
1919, Tower Hill Ref. POP850926
1920, Tower Hill Ref. POP850930
1919, West Hill Ref. POP864388
1920, West Hill Ref. POP864404
1919, Westhall Hill Ref. POP866056
1925, Whinny Hill Ref. POP867352
1921, Wick Hill Ref. POP869774
1921, Silver Hill Ref. POP831344
1919, Sleepers Hill Ref. POP832646

Books

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Memories

4,110 memories found. Showing results 701 to 710.

Rememberinggraysandrookhalldellroad

I wasn't born in Grays. In fact had a very disrupted childhood due to my father initially being in the army. However I spent one week at Quarry Hill Primary school at the end of the school year before moving to Grays ...Read more

A memory of Grays in 1953 by Joan Rowe

Childhood Memories

My sister Margaret and I would walk from our "Yarford Cottage "through the US army camp at Tetton Park on our way to school which was then next to the church. Charlie Barrett was the game keeper, Captain and Mrs Pawson ...Read more

A memory of Kingston St Mary in 1943 by David Selley

Memories Of Aberkenfig

I think this was in the mid fifties. We lived at 15 Dunraven Street and at the top of the street there was quite a steep hill (it's all closed off now) and at the top of the hill was an entrance to the Forestry Commision ...Read more

A memory of Aberkenfig by Jeffrey Warner

Fort Street (1950s)

Fort Street, in North Motherwell, was a very close-knit community in the 1950's, which is why I still remember the following names: Mr and Mrs Darroch lived at number 21 with their children John, Denise and Keith. Mr Bill Rae, ...Read more

A memory of Motherwell by John Cunningham

We're My Roots Lay

I was born in Kelstern 1954, the house I was born in my gran and grandads was next door to the school, sorry to say neither of these exist today, but times move on as they say. My grandparents were Bert and Margery Vickers. My ...Read more

A memory of Kelstern by johnh.appleton

Johnson & Clarks 2

Yep I worked weekends on J & C in the ironmongery Stilletto Heel section, at Christmas reverted to the toy dept. used to but my recored from the department on 1st floor, two very helpful young ladies whose name I have forgot, and ...Read more

A memory of Staines by billtherid

Salford "Its My History"

Salford forms much of my family’s history, although I only spent a little time there, leaving when I was very young, some years ago I started to wonder how? why? what? brought both my families the HARRIS family on my Dad’s side and ...Read more

A memory of Salford by Peter Harris

1973 Demolition Year For The Market Buildings

I arrived in Wolverhampton when demolition of the market buildings was under way. The buildings in front of the church (in the photo) must have already been long gone, but the buildings on the side of ...Read more

A memory of Wolverhampton

Temple Hill Shops

My Grandmother and Grandfather had the hardware shop (Frost) for a long time. I remember going out with my Dad and my Grandfather on the paraffin round (Esso Blue and Pink) around Dartford. I was very young and found it great fun, but ...Read more

A memory of Dartford by tjdodd

The Awakening

On the right of the photograph the second shop belonged to Arthur Sansom, the Newsagents and Confectioners. It has a sign board above the shop front: PICTURE POST. In the Easter holidays of 1959 at the age of 14½, I took my first ...Read more

A memory of Locksbottom

Captions

1,924 captions found. Showing results 1,681 to 1,704.

Caption For East Blatchington, Church 1891

The field in the foreground, with its flint wall, lies to the south of East Blatchington Farm; the view looks south down Blatchington Hill, the village main street, with Belgrave Road passing in front

Caption For East Grinstead, College Lane 1907

The cottage on the left has gone, but the stone wall to the street survives, as does the cottage with two bay windows beyond, Hill Cottage.

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 Chalfont Common, Post Office C1965

East of the Misbourne, beyond Gravel Hill, Chalfont Common was one of Chalfont St Peter's three commons.

Caption For Luton, Manchester Street C1955

As one of four major thoroughfares leading to the Town Centre, and formerly called Tower Hill, Manchester Street's importance was typified by the presence of many privately-owned shops and businesses and

Caption For East Finchley, High Road C1965

At the foot of the hill is the brick and concrete underground station of 1939, designed by Charles Holden and L H Bucknell.

Caption For Edgehill, The Castle Inn 1922

As early as January 1643 a pamphlet had been published titled 'Apparitions and Prodigious Noyses of War and Battels seen on Edge Hill near Keinton in Warwickshire'.

Caption For Sudbury, Market 1904

Market Hill is lined with elegant Georgian buildings, with St Peter's Church at the top.

Caption For Aberdovey, The Front 1895

It is sheltered from the north wind by hills rising to the sombre Welsh mountains south of Cadair Idris. Today it is popular for watersports, but formerly it was an important sea port.

Caption For Moorsholm, Freebrough Hill C1955

Freebrough Hill, located on the edge of Moorsholm on the A171 Guisborough- to-Whitby moor road, is steeped in legend.

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Caption For Rye, 1894

Like Winchelsea on the other side of the River Brede valley, Rye is a hill town at the end of a ridge between the Tillingham and Rother rivers.

Caption For Chipping Norton, The Cotswolds C1960

It is said that the name Cotswold originated because of the cotes (sheep pens) that were found across the wolds (rolling hills).

Caption For Debenham, High Street C1955

At the top of the hill is Bleak House, a former inn of c1540.

Caption For Crakehall, The Village 1900

Crakehall, 1 mile north of Bedale, is two villages in one - this is Little Crakehall, with its race (left) for three corn and flax mills.

Caption For Windmill Hill, Posey Green C1955

The village hall on the right has given way to houses, but the cottages on the left remain.

Caption For Corfe Castle, From The West 1890

Tucked under East Hill are the towers of the outer bailey around to the outer gatehouse (right).

Caption For Quorn, High Street C1965

Quorn ('Querendon' in 1209) means 'the hill from where millstones were obtained'.

Caption For Preston, Timber Quay, North Side C1955

Even before the docks opened, timber-carrying ships from all over Europe would come into these sheltered waters near Penwortham Hill and unload.

Caption For Luton, Wellington Street 1897

Wellington Street was also the site of Luton's first cinema, located in one of the buildings on the crest of the hill; it opened in the early 1900s.

Caption For Luton, Vauxhall Motors C1955

The rear building on the hill is the famous J Block, the heart of car production and site of the first buildings erected for the company in Luton.

Caption For Leicester, Police Station, Charles Street C1955

With its rusticated ground storey and ashlar-faced upper storeys, designed by Noel Hill in 1933, it fails to match in design quality other police stations such as Hammersmith by Donald McMorran, 1938

Caption For Harrow On The Hill, Old School House 1906

Harrow Park winds away to the east of the High Street, past one or two rather grand houses, to arrive at Deynecourt at the foot of the hill.

Caption For Stourbridge, High Street C1965

The words 'Old Bank' inscribed over the entrance of the building in the centre refer to Waldron and Hill, the first bank to open on this site in 1780.

Caption For Aberdovey, The Front 1895

It is sheltered from the north wind by hills rising to the sombre Welsh mountains south of Cadair Idris. Today it is popular for watersports, but formerly it was an important sea port.