Maps

1,865 maps found.

1891 - 1892, Grange Park Ref. HOSM46753
1885 - 1886, Park Village Ref. HOSM45112
1903-1904, Park Gate Ref. RNC1190923
1897-1909, Manor Park Ref. RNC773971
1897-1898, Park Corner Ref. RNC800484
1898-1901, Park End Ref. RNC800509
1899-1901, Park End Ref. RNC800511
1899-1901, Park Gate Ref. RNC800925
1898-1899, Park Town Ref. RNC801258
1901-1904, Park Village Ref. RNC801263
1901-1904, West Park Ref. RNC864822
1903-1908, West Park Ref. RNC864832
1898-1899, Westwood Park Ref. RNC866589
1899-1901, Hampton Park Ref. RNC726255
1897 - 1908, Manor Park Ref. HOSM53083
1897-1899, Leigh Park Ref. RNC754826
1898-1899, Park Gate Ref. RNC800927
1902-1903, Park Hill Ref. RNC800988
1899-1900, Park Hill Ref. RNC800999
1898-1899, Park Town Ref. RNC801259

Books

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Memories

4,373 memories found. Showing results 741 to 750.

Family Connections 1950's To 60's

My grandparents, aunts and uncles, plus my mum and dad used to live in Bowyers House down the lane from the Phipps Arms pub. My grandad, dad and uncles used to work in the Old Tanyard. I remember the smell ...Read more

A memory of Westbury Leigh in 1953 by Michael Moore

Gervis Road Collyhurst Flats 1945 1964

My name is Tom Smith. I was born in 17 Gervis Rd, Collyhurst Flats in August 1945. My dad was Jack Smith and my mam was Ada; there were 6 kids, John, Mary, James, (me) Andrew, and Arthur. To me the flats ...Read more

A memory of Collyhurst in 1945 by Tom Smith

St. Catherines Church

I was at Mount Pleasant School as a boarder for 6 years from 1946 to 1952. The school was in Dalmeny Road but apparently was taken down in 1965. I have been trying to find anyone who attended this school. Before going to ...Read more

A memory of Southbourne in 1948 by Michael Chambers

Childhood Memories We Never Forget

To anyone reading this; I was born Valerie Harding and lived in Wedges Mills and I remember so many things about my childhood in Cannock. The Maypole dancing at John Woods school, attending Church each Thursday ...Read more

A memory of Cannock in 1953 by Valerie Van Ramesdonk

Good Memories

I spent a few days in London for the Queens Diamond Jubilee last year. I decided to pay a visit to where I use to live in Welling. After reading some of the stories it certainly brought back memories. Like going to the Embassy on ...Read more

A memory of Welling in 1950 by Ron Collins

Alice Bacon

Was my teacher at school 1940 (ish), was MP and in the Labour government hierarchy. She lived on Castleford Road near Greens newsagents on the corner; a very strict teacher but had time for pupils. Her father was Ben Bacon who was ...Read more

A memory of Normanton by Eddie Downing

Church Street Ref:E21047

The picture is of the bottom end of Church Street; the old Morris Traveller was my father's car and it is parked as seen outside 72, Church Street. I was born in Edenbridge, and lived in this house until I was 17. I ...Read more

A memory of Edenbridge in 1958 by Lesley Peters

Southdown Bus Station And Clair Meadow

I used to play in the old Clair Meadow and remember the drinks machine which sold pink milk in a wax carton by the tree at the footpath entrance to 'the rec' on Perrymount Road which is still there...I ...Read more

A memory of Haywards Heath in 1969 by Jason Went

Flowerpot Chapel

Called 'Flowerpot', presumably, because of the urns on the top of the facade. It could seat nearly 2,000 - making it one of the largest chapels in Britain. Sadly destroyed by fire in 1975. Now the site of a car park.

A memory of Redruth in 1975 by Pete Slee

Entertainment In The 1950''''''''s

Uxbridge was blessed with 3 cinemas; The Odeon, the Regal and the Savoy (the oldest of the three it stood on the corner of Vine St and the High St). The Odeon, I think, had the biggest productions as it had a wider ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge by Philip Cousins

Captions

2,180 captions found. Showing results 1,777 to 1,800.

Caption For Newtown Linford, C1960

regulation signs do little to enhance an otherwise idyllic scene on the A50 Leicester-Coalville (Bradgate) Road, looking across to All Saints' Church, standing adjacent to the entrance to Bradgate Park

Caption For Tonbridge, Barden Park, The Avenue 1890

Barden Park House and its estate was in the possession of the Abrey family during the latter part of the 19th century.

Caption For Manchester, Exhibition Tobogganing Slide 1887

Here we see one of the most popular parts of the Exhibition, the Tobogganing Slide. This attraction stayed when the Exhibition closed and the site became White City Amusement Park. As

Caption For Walsall, Park Street 1967

A hundred years or so before this picture was taken Park Street was already a street of shops.

Caption For Heswall, Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital C1965

The site is now occupied by a supermarket, which may or may not have greater social benefit, and sick children are catered for at Arrowe Park Hospital, with the reassuring backup of Alder Hey in

Caption For Byfleet, High Road 1951

The Lloyds TSB bank (right) in Bedford Park style of 1879 promised greater things than its dismal surroundings in the High Road.

Caption For Chipping Norton, High Street C1945

on the left, dates from 1842; its imposing stone portico faces onto the High Street rather than the Market Square - which, as has become common in the modern age, is being used as a car park

Caption For Ealing, Grammar School, The Green C1955

It is now part of Ealing and West London College. At the right are the walls to Walpole Park. Next door is St Mary's, one of the village's original 18th-century houses.

Caption For Manningtree, High Street C1955

In the High Street there are a few parked cars, but no pedestrians, apart from the two women and a child in the doorway on the right.

Caption For Latimer, The Water Splash 1897

The water splash is the weir which dams the park lake in which fishermen cast flies for trout.

Caption For Newtown Linford, C1960

regulation signs do little to enhance an otherwise idyllic scene on the A50 Leicester-Coalville (Bradgate) Road, looking across to All Saints' Church, standing adjacent to the entrance to Bradgate Park

Caption For Bowness On Windermere, The Tennis Courts 1925

Here we have a summer scene showing part of the Glebe area behind the Promenade. People in the shelters watch the play on the three public tennis courts.

Caption For Aberdare, Ystradfellte Falls C1955

Situated in the Brecon Beacons National Park, these splendid waterfalls are still a major tourist attraction in the area, although they are associated with a number of tragedies.

Caption For Great Meols, Railway Inn C1965

The 'new' Railway Inn opened along Birkenhead Road on 1 December 1938, allowing the old inn to be pulled down and the site turned into a car park.

Caption For Berkhamsted, The School, The School House C1960

Parked by the side of Kings Road and opposite the memorial are a gleaming black Rover 14, a Riley 1.5 and an early F-type Vauxhall Victor.

Caption For Hayfield, Kinder Road C1960

organised to deliberately publicise the situation where ramblers were excluded from large areas of mountain and moorland by a few grouse-shooting landlords, became an important catalyst for the National Parks

Caption For Hitchin, Market Place C1965

A motor historian's delight, this view of the old Market Place shows it being used as a car park on market day.

Caption For Hadleigh, The River Bret 1922

From this favourite picnic spot, we can see the parish church standing proudly in the centre of the picture with the trees to its right covering the new market and car parks.

Caption For Godmersham, The Church 1906

Amid scenery loved by the author Jane Austen, who was a frequent visitor here when her brother Edward Knight owned the adjoining 560-acre Godmersham Park, the River Stour flows quietly past

Caption For Aylesbury, Canal And Hills And Partridges Lock 1897

This view looks south-west along the canal past the last lock, No 16, Hills and Partridges Lock, to Park Street Bridge. (Hills and Partridges works have now long gone.)

Caption For Bridport, West Street C1965

Opposite a Ford Anglia is tightly parked (left) between a couple of Morris Minis.

Caption For Luton, Vauxhall Motors C1950

The fact that it was possible to park on the side of the road without problem makes this photograph one to be treasured.

Caption For Harthill, General View C1960

Taken from Winney Hill, this photograph looks over Harthill in the northerly direction of Kiveton Park collieries.

Caption For St Albans, Cathedral And Abbey Church From Verulamium Park C1955

Much of the original structure was built using rubble from the remains of the Roman town of Verulamium, which stood close to the present Verulamium Park.