Places

5 places found.

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Photos

18 photos found. Showing results 141 to 18.

Maps

573 maps found.

1897, Pipe Gate Ref. RNE806460
1896, Sparnon Gate Ref. RNE836079
1896, Nazeing Gate Ref. RNE788071
1946, Sparnon Gate Ref. NPO836079
1947, Shay Gate Ref. NPO829241
1946, Hicks Gate Ref. NPO732270
1947, Park Gate Ref. NPO800918
1946, Pipe Gate Ref. NPO806460
1945, Plot Gate Ref. NPO807622
1946, Portfield Gate Ref. NPO809631
1946, Princes Gate Ref. NPO810994
1946, Two Gates Ref. NPO854858
1899, Vron Gate Ref. RNE859270
1896, Tardy Gate Ref. RNE845180
1897, Walworth Gate Ref. RNE860289
1898, Stony Gate Ref. RNE840786
1899, Plot Gate Ref. RNC807622
1925, Walworth Gate Ref. POP860289
1924, Trough Gate Ref. POP853727
1925, Park Gate Ref. POP1190923

Books

1 books found. Showing results 169 to 1.

Memories

676 memories found. Showing results 71 to 80.

Pontnewydd Church School

As I remember, the discipline there was tough, but at least you knew right from wrong and if you did something wrong you could expect punishment - nearly always the cane. We all had to attend the church for assembly ...Read more

A memory of Pontnewydd in 1940 by Lance Ford

St John's Gate Broad Street

St John's Gate in Broad Street in Bristol is the only surviving medieval city gateway, at one one time there were seven gates into the old city. Fortified gateways pierced the town wall at intervals. St John's Gateway, ...Read more

A memory of Bristol by Paul Townsend

The Keelings 1940 Evacuees

My sister, Joy, elder brother, Richard and myself, John Keeling, were evacuated to Llanharan in June 1940. After a short time Richard and myself were placed with a lovely old lady at 12 Seymour Avenue, Mrs Surridge. I ...Read more

A memory of Llanharan in 1940 by John Keeling

Mill Road

Well, I guess I don't really have a date to start from, I lived in Aveley Severn Road (Kenningtons). I was born 1964. I've been trying to find Tracey Fenwick, she lived in Ravel Road, but most of all I'm trying to trace Mr and Mrs ...Read more

A memory of Aveley in 1980 by Jan Laverick

Dunsmore People And Happenings Remembered

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION In 1995, when the first edition of this history was published, it seemed incredibly optimistic to have had three hundred copies printed for a market which ...Read more

A memory of Dunsmore by Peter Jewell

Lavender Hill Mob

I was born in Lambeth hospital in 1936. My parents moved into Nepaul Road off Falcon Road. My first memories of the Second World War were the blitz and air raid shelters. We were not bombed out but the estate was saved by ...Read more

A memory of Battersea in 1947 by Edward Nicholls

More Corwen Memories

It was abuot 1950, and we were having what we called PT lessons, the infants teacher Miss Olwen Davies had us playing 'What's the time, Mr Wolf?, culminating with 'Miss' (the wolf) turning and chasing us, shouting "Dinner ...Read more

A memory of Corwen in 1950 by Gareth Hughes

Sir John Colville.

This was the house occupied in the 1970s and 1980s by Sir John Colville, Assistant Private Secretary to 3 Prime Ministers, and Principal Private Secretary to Sir Winston Churchill when he was Prime Minister 1951-53 ...Read more

A memory of Broughton by Thomas Dowthwaite

I Met And Then Married My Blind Date At Alton

I remember as a 16 year old that I was a patient in the Lord Mayor Treloars Hospital, ward 1. I was considered to be a long term patient who was having knee surgery. I had to stay in bed for six weeks, ...Read more

A memory of Alton in 1975 by Stephen Beal

Durinawar

My first memory was of being taken to the air raid shelter on Tower Hill from Keith Lucas Road. I was held up as a babe in arms to see the "wee aeroplanes" that were bombing the R.A.E. I saw three "Flying Pencils" [it appears there were ...Read more

A memory of Cove in 1945 by John Mc Vey

Captions

1,440 captions found. Showing results 169 to 192.

Caption For Shepshed, Bullring C1960

The Westminster Bank, a grandiose building in brick and buff terracotta, dates from 1903.

Caption For Rye, Landgate 1890

This is the only one of the four town gates that survived.

Caption For Reading, St Mary's Butts 1912

The church dates back to Saxon times.

Caption For Hilton, The Church C1955

Next to Hilton's lovely church is the village green, landscaped by Capability Brown, and surrounded by houses dating back to Tudor times.

Caption For Oswestry, Llwyd's Mansion 1957

Llwyd's Mansion dates from 1604.

Caption For Porthmadog, Harbour 1908

Perhaps a rather surprising feature, in view of the date, is the battery of telephone wires on the telegraph pole at the road entrance to the yard.

Caption For Measham, The Parish Church C1965

The church of St Laurence dates from the 14th century; its tower was rebuilt in the 1730s.

Caption For London, The George Inn, Southwark C1875

The building, dating from 1676, is now London's only galleried inn.

Caption For Sudbury, The River 1895

Not far from here are some half-timbered houses dating back to the time when Sudbury was one of the most important weaving towns.

Caption For Bewdley, Bridge 1904

Thomas Telford's three-arched stone bridge dates from 1798 and cost £9000.

Caption For Pembridge, The Church C1960

It dates from the 13th century and has an octagonal ground floor with the upper floors supported on four posts, each of which is a single tree-trunk.

Caption For Castle Donington, Market Street C1955

The photograph is dominated by a brick and stone building typical of its turn-of-the-century date, but in this southern sector of the town earlier houses are to be found, including a stone-faced building

Caption For Skipton, Swadford Street 1923

By this date the motorcar and charabanc had put Skipton firmly on the map as the principal southern gateway to the Dales.

Caption For Farlington, St Andrew's Church C1960

This small church on the outskirts of Portsmouth dates from 1872, and the north aisle from 1875.

Caption For Dublin, Terenure C1900

Dublin had an extensive tramway system, the oldest route from College Green to Garville Avenue dating from 1872.

Caption For Westbury, All Saints Church C1955

The original church probably dates from 1437.

Caption For Forest Row, The Swan 1907

The Swan, which dates back to the Middle Ages, was originally known as the Yew Tree (after a nearby yew) but changed its name in the 18th century when it was a busy inn on the London-Brighton turnpike

Caption For Skipton, Swadford Street 1923

By this date the motorcar and charabanc had put Skipton firmly on the map as the principal southern gateway to the Dales.

Caption For Rochester, High Street 1908

The timber-framed house dates from the late 16th century.

Caption For Eardisland, Staick House C1960

A former rectory, the great hall of this beautiful building dates from around 1300, although parts were added later in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Caption For Pembridge, The Church C1960

It dates from the 13th century and has an octagonal ground floor with the upper floors supported on four posts, each of which is a single tree-trunk.

Caption For Little Waltham, The Village C1965

The house behind the large tree, now felled, has attractive pargeting and dates from the 17th century.

Caption For March, High Street C1955

Ye Olde Griffin is the oldest hotel in March, dating from 1793 and originally a coaching inn with its own brewery on site!

Caption For Newbury, The Wharf C1960

The long, galleried Granary possibly dates back to the reign of Charles II, and is now part of the Museum.