Maps

1,651 maps found.

1924, West End Ref. POP864034
1925, West End Ref. POP864037
1924, West End Ref. POP864045
1919, West End Ref. POP864049
1919, West End Ref. POP864055
1919, West End Ref. POP864056
1919, West End Ref. POP864069
1921, West End Ref. POP864077
1919, West End Ref. POP864079
1920, West End Ref. POP864083
1947, West End Ref. NPO864033
1947, West End Ref. NPO864034
1947, West End Ref. NPO864042
1946, West End Ref. NPO864047
1947, West End Ref. NPO864050
1947, West End Ref. NPO864074
1946, West End Ref. NPO864076
1946, West End Ref. NPO864080
1903, West End Ref. RNC864042
1899, West End Ref. RNC864056

Books

19 books found. Showing results 169 to 19.

Memories

2,049 memories found. Showing results 71 to 80.

1961 To 1977

My family lived in Goodyers Ave. Dad had #65 built in 1960/61 for around £13k by the next door neighbour who sold us the plot. Best mates were Antony Draper [Oakridge Ave], Chris Francis [Craighall Ave],Caroline West [Links Drive] ...Read more

A memory of Radlett by Nigel Peart

East Horsley In The Sixties

I grew up in East Horsley, where I attended St Martin's C of E Primary School. We had no car and we lived nearby so we always walked to the primary school and my mother walked to the shops on Bishopsmeade Parade. When ...Read more

A memory of East Horsley by Diana Johnson

Going To The Shops...

As a fully paid up member of the 'Baby Boomer' generation, born in 1947, I've been reading all the stories posted on this lovely website (which - like many others, I suspect - I came across purely by chance). I was born in Perivale ...Read more

A memory of Wembley by Peter Taylor

Ilderton Road

I became a Bermondsey boy after moving from a prefab where I was born in the big snow in 1947. We lived at 14 Caulfield Road, Peckham, just around the corner from Jordans Dairy in Lugard Road s.e.15. (The last dairy farm in London). ...Read more

A memory of Bermondsey by Terry Baker

West End

I was born on a not very pleasant day in February 1954! We lived in the Dunkirk area of the West End below the factory/mill on Dunkirk Lane. We had "The Green" to play on, Warley Road, and then the "Top Park" further up when we were a little ...Read more

A memory of Halifax by Thomas Gledhill

Another Slice Of Life In Burghfield And Sulhampstead

My Grandfather George Thomas Cooper 1880 to 1957 lived at Hebron a Detached Victorian House ( which is opposite what today is Coopers Place, named after my late Father Phillip George ...Read more

A memory of Burghfield Common by Andrew Cooper

Old Hall Our Family Home

My late husbands maternal Grandfather was CPMunn who lived at Sundridge Old Hall for many years . His Mother was brought up there and went to a convent school nearby. I remember in later years taking her to old girls ...Read more

A memory of Sundridge by Pauline Hutchings

Marks & Spencer

I remember M & S very well in West Ealing. Around the fifties they had St Michael toys. One I remember was a milk float, it had little crates with bottles in them. It was made of polythene as a lot of toys were then. Also they ...Read more

A memory of West Ealing by Nick Beard

Born In 1942 Lived In Westbrook Road

Born in 1942, Lived in Westbrook Road. Attended Heston Infants School, Heston Junior School and Spring Grove Central School. I have lots of memories, but reading other people’s entries has reminded me of names of ...Read more

A memory of Heston by Carol Gaches

Memories Of St Gorran

I can vividly remember seeing Miss Richmond & Miss Charlton...........Miss Richmond would whip me with a riding crop as I was a Anglican and not Catholic hence I was picked on..............they would make the boys drop their ...Read more

A memory of Manaccan by bmwsimon

Captions

1,994 captions found. Showing results 169 to 192.

Caption For Tilbury, The Ferry C1960

Sir Edwin Cooper designed the landing stage, baggage halls and offices in the late 1920s; the end of them can be seen on the left.

Caption For Shap, Abbey 1893

Shap Abbey, near the banks of the River Lowther, was founded by the 'white canons' of the Premonstratensian order at the end of the 12th century, but it was dissolved, like so many others, in 1540.

Caption For Saffron Walden, The Common 1932

We are looking north-west, with St Mary's left of centre.

Caption For Lulworth Cove, The Village C1960

An inland view from Britwell Drive (foreground), looking northwards over the car park and a dozen coaches at the end of the B3070 in Lulworth Cove hamlet.

Caption For Mevagissey, The Harbour 1904

Around the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, the majority of large fishing boats at Mevagissey had originated from elsewhere in Cornwall, mainly from the west.

Caption For Gawcott, Main Street C1960

Gawcott, a mile and a half south-west of Buckingham, lies at the head of a stream (flowing north into the River Ouse) whose course runs along the right-hand side of this road.

Caption For Sheffield, Ecclesall Church C1965

Completed in 1789, All Saints' survived in its original form for less than sixty years before it was remodelled and the west tower added.

Caption For East Wittering, Beach 1930

There are two Witterings - East and West.

Caption For Reading, The Arcade 1896

Reading's covered market was built in a landlocked site entered via the Corn Exchange from Market Place and the great archway from Broad Street.

Caption For Loch Katrine, Trossachs Pier C1890

The famous steamer SS 'Sir Walter Scott' was built on the River Clyde, then transported by barge up Loch Lomond, and dragged by horses up the steep incline from Inversnaid along to the west end of the

Caption For Herstmonceux, Hailsham Road C1965

Back on the main road, this is the real centre of the modern village; there is a good range of shops and pubs, and the school, Herstmonceux Church of England Primary School, lies behind the fence on

Caption For Oxford, 'the Eights' 1922

Here, seen from the tow path along the west bank, looking north towards Christchurch Meadow, the annual Eights Week is in full swing at the end of May when the college boats race each other.

Caption For Shoeburyness, West Beach C1955

East of Southend, the Thames meets the North Sea at Shoeburyness and its long journey ends.

Caption For Ascot, South Ascot Church 1901

Attributed to Pearson and built in the Early English style, this large, red-brick church was built in 1896-7, so it was relatively new in Francis Frith's photograph.

Caption For Caernarfon, The Castle 1890

We are looking west towards the Eagle Tower, with the Queen's and Chamberlain Towers on the left.

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Caption For Eype, 1922

The thatched roofs of Ducks Bottom (left), the old post office (centre) and Vine Cottage (right) nestle in the heart of pastoral Eype hamlet in the coastal valley west of Bridport.

Caption For Stow On The Wold, The Square C1950

This view shows the west end of the Market Square.

Caption For Wetherby, River Wharfe 1909

In the 1920s, Tom Richmond's West End Boating Stage offered rowing, Canadian-style skiffs and punts.

Caption For Queniborough, The Village And St Mary's Church C1955

The thatched cruck cottage, with its museum-piece petrol pump and the amazing interlocking of roofs, lead the eye inexorably to the needle-like spire, which crowns the pink granite tower of the church.

Caption For Stow On The Wold, The Square C1950

This view shows the west end of the Market Square.

Caption For Oxford, 'the Eights' 1922

Here, we are on the tow path along the west bank, looking north towards Christchurch Meadow; it is the end of May, and the annual Eights Week, when the college boats race each other, is in full swing.

Caption For East Grinstead, High Street 1904

This view looks back west from the far end of the High Street, beyond the infill buildings.

Caption For Whitchurch, Oving Road C1955

Oving Road leads west uphill from the north end of the High Street - the architectural quality does not fall off.

Caption For Hemel Hempstead, View From Adeyfield Road C1960

At the southern end of the High Street the road branched to the east into Saffron Lane, later known as Queen Street.