Maps

2,499 maps found.

1899, Hall End Ref. RNC725106
1904-1905, Hamilton Ref. RNC726058
1904-1905, Hareleeshill Ref. RNC727160
1925, High Shields Ref. POP733486
1919, Hinton Ref. POP736877
1919, Holbrook Common Ref. POP737618
1919, Hawkesbury Ref. POP728820
1919, Hawkesbury Upton Ref. POP728823
1919, Heath End Ref. POP730019
1925, Hebburn Ref. POP730398
1925, Hebburn New Town Ref. POP730400
1919, Hanham Green Ref. POP726501
1919, Staple Hill Ref. POP838619
1919, Stoke Gifford Ref. POP840061
1919, The Folly Ref. POP846357
1919, The Rocks Ref. POP846513
1919, Totteroak Ref. POP850804
1919, Townwell Ref. POP851286
1919, Rudgeway Ref. POP822488
1919, Pullens Green Ref. POP811492

Books

23 books found. Showing results 2,329 to 23.

Memories

1,577 memories found. Showing results 971 to 980.

Old Times

I was born at Gwaenfarren House in Merthyr Tydfil and lived at 70 Bryncelyn Ave with my father, step-mother and brother Barrie until I left to join the RAF in 1970. I can remember the old prefabs being knocked down and the new ...Read more

A memory of Nelson in 1953 by Kevin Cale

Bristol's Christmas Steps, Lewins Mead Bs1

This is one part of ancient Bristol that has survived, virtually unchanged apart from the signs but the city beyond is very different. At one time sailing ships moored at the bottom of these steps before ...Read more

A memory of Bristol by Paul Townsend

The Llandoger Trow History

Bristol's historic King Street. The Llandoger Trow inn on right of photograph.King Street is a 17th-century street in the historic city centre of Bristol. The street lies just south of the old town wall and was laid out in ...Read more

A memory of Bristol by Paul Townsend

Rock

Underdown was a magical place, a narrow island of rock left by quarrying at some time in the past. This photo is taken from the western end. At the eastern end there was a copse and the top of the island merged back into the side of a ...Read more

A memory of Sampford Peverell in 1956 by Bruce Thomas

Ormston

My dad John lived in Broomhill and married my mother Evelyn Crackett from Amble in 1947. I don't now anything about my dad's family other than his mother who's name i don't know died in1958 and he had a sister, Mary Stewart, still living ...Read more

A memory of North Seaton in 1947 by Maureen Burton

November 5th 1954

I, at the tender age of fourteen, arrived in Croglin on November the 5th, 1954. It was 'Bonfire Night' and as strangers in the village I did not know a single soul. However the bonfire for the celebrations had been situated in the ...Read more

A memory of Croglin in 1954 by Walter Moscrop

Reminiscence

Yvonne Colwell's notes brought back memories of a few families, but I can't place St John's Lane, even though I lived in Pantycelyn until I moved in the late sixties after the prefabs were demolished. Both my parents are now ...Read more

A memory of Nelson by Ray Davies

My School

I was born at Filleigh and went to Filleigh Infants School.  But then at eleven years old went to school at South Molton Secondary Modern. It was 1953 and the school was quite new, opening in 1952 if I remember correctly. As I ...Read more

A memory of South Molton in 1953 by Michael Tucker

South Devon

I lived in Kingskerswell from August 1963 to July 1974, first in Lyndhurst Avenue and then in Weavers Way.

A memory of Kingskerswell in 1963 by Peter Bannister

Across The Years!

My Grandmother, Grace Mary Enticknap (later Gravett) was born in Hambledon in 1906. I have just found this out researching my family history, and am so excited to find these old photographs of the village - and nearby Witley ...Read more

A memory of Hambledon in 1900 by Lucille Parker

Captions

2,476 captions found. Showing results 2,329 to 2,352.

Caption For Cheam, The Lumley Chapel, Interior 1890

The carved alabaster tomb of the first Lady Lumley, who died in 1592, dominates this view of the chapel's south side.

Caption For Swindon, The White Hart, Oxford Road C1950

The original inn stood on the opposite side of the road, on the south- western corner of what is now the busy Oxford road into Swindon.

Caption For Bransgore, The Crown Inn C1960

It employed 600 staff in and around Romsey, and its bitter appeared in almost every pub in the south of England. Strong's was taken over by Whitbread in 1969 and ceased trading in 1979.

Caption For Preston, New Post Office 1903

The original Preston Post Office had been at the south end of Wide Shambles in a building leaning on the side of the shambles.

Caption For Uttoxeter, Cattle Market C1965

Uttoxeter cattle market was the biggest market south of Nantwich. Before the foot and mouth outbreak of 2001, it hosted fat and store cattle sales on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays.

Caption For Birkenhead, Charing Cross 1967

The ornate building on the right was built as the North & South Wales Bank. On the left is the Grange Hotel, a large and well-known pub.

Caption For Westbourne, County Gates 1913

The building was demolished in 1975, but the pedestrian archway can now be found in Branksome Chine (just south of Wilderton Road).

Caption For Barnstaple, From The Railway Station 1894

To the right, a London & South Western Railway meat van waits to collect meat from the slaughterhouse (centre left).

Caption For Loftus, Town Hall C1955

A peculiarity of Loftus town hall is that there is no south-facing clock face, because funds were low and this face was mostly out of sight, so expense was saved by only buying three faces!

Caption For Teddington, Houses In The Grove 2005

Houses were built on most of the remaining available land - this was mainly between Park Road and Sandy Lane; to the north and south of the High Street; and along Fairfax Road.

Caption For Seaton, The Church C1955

Seaton is situated on Rutland's south- eastern edge, about half a mile from its border with Northamptonshire, overlooking the Welland Valley.

Caption For Cardiff, Duke Street And The Castle C1955

Yet the family who had done so much to establish Cardiff,had driven the South Wales coal industry, had built the gothic fancy Castell Coch, and boasted an estate of 22,000 acres passed on a mere £437 as

Caption For Preston, Church Street 1929

Preston was always a town that you had to pass through to go north to south, but as the popularity of Blackpool increased, so did the traffic east to west.

Caption For Wareside, The White Horse C1955

Situated on the uplands to the south of the River Ash, it straddles the B1004 road between Much Hadham and Ware.

Caption For Standon, High Street And Church C1965

Unique in Hertfordshire, Standon parish church has a detached bell tower and a porch at the west end rather than on the south wall.

Caption For Wood Green, Alexandra Palace C1965

The Palace was built to rival the Crystal Palace on Sydenham Hill in South London.

Caption For Swindon, High Street 1948

Looking South to Marlborough Road The buildings to the left stood next to the Old Town Hall on the Market Square.

Caption For Boroughbridge, The Devil's Arrows 1895

They stand in a line running north to south and at intervals of 200 to 370 feet.

Caption For Berkhamsted, The Castle C1960

Here are the remains of a circular keep, the southern barbican, and two wing walls on the south side of the motte.

Caption For St Annes, Lightburn Avenue C1955

We are standing in South Promenade, with the Chadwick Hotel on the corner. Lightburn Avenue was named after the second lighthouse at St Anne's.

Caption For Castle Acre, The Priory, The West Front 1891

It is late Norman, apart from the large pointed window over the middle arch; on either side of this are two smaller arches which led to the north and south aisles.

Caption For Bridport, East Street 1904

Opposite, carrying the plate for South Street, is the Town Hall (right).

Caption For Kings Norton, The Church Of St John The Baptist C1955

From the south the full beauty of the church can be seen as it floats above the fields.

Caption For Winchcombe, North Street C1950

Unusually, this river flows north to join the River Avon at Evesham; most Cotswold rivers flow south-east to join the Thames.