Photos

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Maps

1,651 maps found.

1896, Dunham-on-The-Hill Ref. RNE695472
1896, Broken Cross Ref. RNE651571
1897, Broxton Ref. RNE653256
1897, Hand Green Ref. RNE726334
1896, Hartfordbeach Ref. RNE727814
1896, Kingsley Ref. RNE748136
1897, Lache Ref. RNE750766
1897, Higher Burwardsley Ref. RNE733929
1896, Higher Shurlach Ref. RNE734192
1896, Hollowmoor Heath Ref. RNE738294
1897, Hoofield Ref. RNE739897
1896, Fivecrosses Ref. RNE706382
1896, Frandley Ref. RNE709099
1897, Fullers Moor Ref. RNE710096
1896, Ness Ref. RNE788362
1896, Mere Heath Ref. RNE778187
1896, Mouldsworth Ref. RNE784639
1897, Over Ref. RNE798584
1896, Overpool Ref. RNE798787
1896, Norley Ref. RNE792703

Books

19 books found. Showing results 1,921 to 19.

Memories

2,051 memories found. Showing results 801 to 810.

My Childhood

I was born in the town,and spent my first ten years in what would now be regarded as the slums of Stranton, Bower Street, going to school at Oxford Street juniors. In the late 1960s and early 1970s Bower Street and neighouring streets ...Read more

A memory of Hartlepool in 1960 by John Pladdys

My Home Town 1947 1969

I was born in Liebenrood Road Maternity Hospital Reading in 1947 and for my first 5 years I lived in Salisbury Road, moving to Whitley until I left in 1969. I remember as a young child having many photographs taken at Jeromes ...Read more

A memory of Reading by Wendy Fegan

My Very Happy Childhood In New Haw Road!!!

We originally moved in 1957 when I was 5 from Thornton Heath in Surrey to Burleigh Road in Addlestone because my dad had started working for Peto Scott (TV makers) near Weybridge. Then in December 1957 my ...Read more

A memory of New Haw in 1962 by Robin Hope

Watchfield/Naafi/Aerodrome Notes

This was the NAAFI shop that served the military quarters at Watchfield, which housed the then many miltary and civilian staff of the Royal Military College of Science, and some of the students at the college, many ...Read more

A memory of Watchfield by Richard Hodder

A Long Long Time Ago

We were a dyed in the wool London family, some time before World War 11, 1939, we moved from Earlsmead Road to Breamar Road off West Green Road and lived there at number 73 untill 1951, when we moved out into the country to ...Read more

A memory of Tottenham in 1951 by Charles Youens

West Sands Caravan Park

I spent many happy holidays at West Sands. The Embassy club - I can still smell the polished floor. I remember two of the singers. One was JIm (Murphy, I think) and another one the following year called Peter. Somewhere I ...Read more

A memory of Selsey in 1975 by Dallas Hopkins

Evacuated To Mountnessing

During the Blitz, my mother, Gladys Lane and her sister Rose were evacuated from Chadwell Heath to Mountnessing where they stayed at a house called St Leonards. This is the house next to the school, for they stayed with ...Read more

A memory of Mountnessing in 1940 by Christine Matthews

Wor Jackie And Other Memories

David Kemp’s item about Fenham brought back some great memories for me. In the 1940s and early 50s, I lived in Robsheugh Place, round the corner from Ovington Grove. Now I live by the beach in Western Australia, where ...Read more

A memory of Fenham in 1940

West Hill Lodge

Does anyone remember West Hill Lodge, the house on the corner of Stanham Road and Dartford Road, with wonderful fake Elizabethan chimneys? I lived there from 1950 until 1961, when sadly my father sold it, with the two houses next ...Read more

A memory of Dartford in 1950 by Rosie Nunn

Captions

1,994 captions found. Showing results 1,921 to 1,944.

Caption For Eynsford, The Church 1905

St Martin's Church, with its wood-shingled spire, has a tower clock surrounded by a quotation from the poet Robert Browning - 'Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.'

Caption For Andover, High Street 1908

Medieval Andover was established around a market which stands in the shadow of the 19th century church of St Mary, built in the Early English style by a former headmaster of Winchester College and described

Caption For Andover, High Street 1908

Medieval Andover was established around a market which stands in the shadow of the 19th century church of St Mary, built in the Early English style by a former headmaster of Winchester College and

Caption For Fittleworth, Upper Street 1921

Here we see picturesque timber-framed cottages in the centre of Fittleworth, to the south-east of Petworth.

Caption For Chelmsford, High Street 1895

The tenements could only expand lengthways along their own ‘backsides’, and most buildings had a jumble of outhouses, barns and sheds at the rear.

Caption For Lavenham, The Church 1895

This is one of the best-known churches in Suffolk.

Caption For Kibworth Harcourt, Main Street C1955

The Old House (left) dates from 1678, and it is a prominently sited example of English domestic architecture at its very best.

Caption For Epsom, Derby Day 1928

Among them were the Nightingalls of South Hatch in Burgh Heath Road, another father-and-son team; Tom Walls the actor, who won the 1932 Derby with his April the Fifth; and George and Bessie Duller

Caption For Bradford, Cartwright Memorial Hall C1950

The Cartwright Memorial Hall in Lister Park, Bradford, built during the time of Bradford's pre-eminence as one of the major woollen manufacturing towns of the world, now houses one of the city's best museums

Caption For York, Goodramgate 1892

Here we see Victorian street advertising at its best.

Caption For London, St Paul's From Cannon Street 1905

Only by staying with the same employer was there any hope of security and a modest pension.The best positions were with banks and insurance offices.

Caption For Deal, The Esplanade 1899

Yet it has a long history with a number of attractive 18th- and 19th-century houses tucked away in the lanes of the Old Town.

Caption For London, Queen Victoria Street 1897

Only by staying with the same employer was there any hope of security and a modest pension.The best positions were with banks and insurance offices.

Caption For Sonning, Village 1904

The best house in this view is the one with the diagonal chimneystacks, The Grove: it is Tudor, with an 18th-century pink-washed facade and a superb Queen Anne door hood.

Caption For Manchester, Market Street 1889

Here we see Lewis's large and very ornate store at the top of Market Street, just four years after the death of its founder David Lewis in 1885.

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Caption For Fareham, C1965

As the population of Fareham increased during the 1820s and 1830s, there was a need for more schools, another church, a new workhouse, and a library and lecture hall.

Caption For St Annes, Fairhaven Road 1901

Here we see a clean and spacious street with no traffic.

Caption For Woodhall Spa, Golf Hotel C1965

The recent news is that spa water has been found about six hundred feet down, and the Golf Hotel is about to resurrect the spa baths sometime during 2005.

Caption For Glasgow, Crookston Castle 1897

THE MAIN EAST-WEST thoroughfare in Bearsden, one of Glasgow's northern suburbs, is named Roman Road, for it follows the line of a roadway constructed by the Romans in AD 142 along the south side

Caption For Rugby, Clifton Road C1950

By 1711 the church possessed five bells and a set of chimes.

Caption For Barmouth, The Mawddach Estuary C1960

The approach to Barmouth along the estuary is one of the most spectacular scenic routes in Britain, and it has inspired artists and visitors for centuries.

Caption For Stamford, George Hotel 1922

Much of 18th-century Stamford's trade came from its location on the Great North Road, and it had numerous coaching inns.

Caption For Bridport, 1966

A rare shot from a postcard cameraman in that it shows people, close-up and in motion, passing the photography sign for Leslie D Frisby (left).

Caption For Minehead, The Pier 1939

The 'Britannia' was built in 1896 and was one of the best known and one of the fastest passenger ships of its day.