Places

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Maps

26 maps found.

1940, Strood Green Ref. NPO841958
1940, Strood Green Ref. NPO841960
1895, Strood Green Ref. RNE841959
1940, Strood Green Ref. NPO841959
1896, Strood Green Ref. RNE841960
1920, Strood Green Ref. POP841958
1920, Strood Green Ref. POP841959
1898, Strood Green Ref. RNC841959
1898-1909, Strood Green Ref. RNC841960
1895, Strood Green Ref. HOSM60933
1920, Strood Green Ref. POP841960
1895, Strood Green Ref. RNE841958
1897-1900, Strood Green Ref. RNC841958
1920, Stroud Green Ref. POP841986
1945, Stroud Green Ref. NPO841987
1896, Stroud Green Ref. RNE841987
1898, Stroud Green Ref. RNC841987
1946, Stroud Green Ref. NPO841984
1919, Stroud Green Ref. POP841984
1946, Stroud Green Ref. NPO841986

Books

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Memories

58 memories found. Showing results 1 to 10.

Memories Of Sutton Lodge, In Sutton Lane—Just South Of The Great West Road, Heston/Hounslow

Recorded by Nicholas Reid, Canberra, Australia. I was christened in the Anglican church at Heston in 1959, though for obvious reason I don’t have any memories ...Read more

A memory of Heston by Nicholas Reid

Pear Tree House Skeeby

After living in Richmond I bought and renovated Pear Tree House (on the right of this 1913 picture) in 1972.  The previous occupants had died and when I found the house it was covered in ivy and I understand at one time Funeral ...Read more

A memory of Skeeby in 1972 by Terry King

Growing Up In Cold Ash

I spent the early years of my life in Cold Ash and Thatcham. We lived in a detached house on Cold Ash Hill called Midway. I believe it has since been renamed. The house was built by my grand father Alfred Gadd, the carpenter, ...Read more

A memory of Cold Ash by grahamfsmith

The 40/50s

It was the 118 bus Colin. It went from Clapham Common to Mitcham Cricket Green. I also remember well those wonderful Leo's ice lollies. After those awful slabs of lard between 2 wafers that went soggy they were magic - Walls's! My family ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham by Paul Croxson

Tottenham Lane 1957 65

I was born in Muswell Hill Cottage Hospital in 1957. We lived at the off licence in Tottenham lane opposite the police station....Victoria wine. I went to Rolkesly Infant and Junior and had best friend Robert in the infant ...Read more

A memory of Hornsey by Jo Oliphant Hope

War Years Changed Everthing

I was one year old when WW2 began - in 1938. Most of my visual memories stem from that time. I remember, without any facts to support them, the large white house that stood in the grounds of Waitrose Car Park and was in ...Read more

A memory of Barnet in 1949 by Roland Wood

One Day At A Time

A precised extract from the chapters in my biography relating to wartime evacuation, and particularly to Garnant. I stared morosely out of the window and watched the landscape slip by as the steam train chugged its way through ...Read more

A memory of Garnant in 1940 by James Tait

My Old Gran, 1950s

My name is Peter Smith. I have some wonderful memories of Ryde. The flying boats in East Cowes is one of them. The trams that ran through Ryde, before the underground stock was bought in from London. I remember being severly told ...Read more

A memory of Ryde in 1957 by Peter Smith

Wilcot School

I went to Wilcot School from 1943 to 49. Miss Brooks taught little ones. Big boys had to fetch water from the well for each classroom. The crate of milk bottles stood next to the tortoise stove that heated the classroom but we had to ...Read more

A memory of Wilcot in 1949 by Dorothy French

It Was Great In Its Time; May It Now Rip

I remember this hospital with great affection and gratitude. I was there for nearly 4 years as a student and then staff nurse 1966-1970. It was never ever called 'Royal', its title was The Canadian Red Cross ...Read more

A memory of Taplow in 1966

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Captions

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Caption For Sabden, Wesleyan Church And Wesley Street C1960

It was only a mile away that George Fox, the Quaker, stood on the 'nick' of Pendle in 1652 and declared himself moved to start a religious order, the Society of Friends.

Caption For Margate, The Fort 1887

Now occupied by the Winter Gardens, the Fort, also known as Fort Green, stood high up on the sea cliff east of Margate Harbour where a gun battery had stood during the Napoleonic wars.

Caption For Brompton, Cockpit Hill C1960

This village has three greens.

Caption For Great Longstone, The Cross C1950

The old market cross on the village green at Great Longstone has stood there since medieval times, when the village was granted the right to hold a weekly market.

Caption For Breachwood Green, Lower Road C1965

Outside the row of terraced cottages at Breachwood Green near Hitchin stands a pristine Ford 100E model. In front of one of these houses stood the community's well.

Caption For Bushey, High Street C1955

On the right, close to the tail of the sleek American Plymouth car, is a small green on which stood the village pump.

Caption For Ascott Under Wychwood, The Green C1950

This scene is still instantly recognisable from the green, where seats encircle a shade giving tree.

Caption For Enfield, The Rose And Crown, Clay Hill C1955

Today, where the manor once stood is the site of Pearsons Ltd, the department store. Nothing remains of the original building.

Caption For Hemel Hempstead, Cranstone Bridge, Gadebridge Park 2005

A fire engine house stood at the entrance to Gadebridge, and a new Fire Station was built on the site in 1905. The building, part of a pseudo-Tudor block, still stands in Queensway.