Maps

1,865 maps found.

1905, Park End Ref. RNC800502
1902, Park Lane Ref. RNC801158
1902, Park Village Ref. RNC801264
1903, Queen's Park Ref. RNC812309
1902, Rise Park Ref. RNC817138
1902, Old Park Ref. RNC796982
1921, Rise Park Ref. POP817138
1925, West Park Ref. POP864824
1923, West Park Ref. POP864826
1924, Westwood Park Ref. POP866587
1945, Hill Park Ref. NPO735901
1920, Hampton Park Ref. POP726255
1923, Manor Park Ref. POP773965
1923, Grange Park Ref. POP719032
1919, Grange Park Ref. POP719034
1920, Grove Park Ref. POP723036
1923, Park Hill Ref. POP800988
1921, Park Hill Ref. POP801006
1921, Park Lane Ref. POP801158
1925, Park Village Ref. POP801263

Books

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Memories

4,373 memories found. Showing results 591 to 600.

Child Memories

When I was a young lad I spent most of my school holidays at roughwood park With my grandad who was the grounds man for many years not sure for how many This was in the mid sixties His name was Cecil melonie. I drove past a ...Read more

A memory of Roughwood Park by mjdrew89

Magical Dysart

we lived at 15 relief st dysart in the early 50s moved there from kirkcaldy we had to move out when they started to demolish the place so sad it was great place to grow up in I was about six or seven yrs old when we moved there, went ...Read more

A memory of Dysart

Hayes 1949 1971

I was born in Hayes at 3, Botwell Lane which was a big old house (now grade 2 listed) divided into three flats. As a young child it was a creepy old place and said to be haunted. I believe nuns lived there at one point and during the war ...Read more

A memory of Hayes by m.claxton

My Childhood In Wolverhampton 1946 1955

I played in the standing corn stooks behind our house, had my first pony/horse ride at Dixon's farm where my horse went berserk in a potato field, so I was put onto and stayed on a horse lead. I flew my ...Read more

A memory of Wolverhampton by Alan Hickman

My Childhood In Hornchurch

My parents bought our house in Mansfield Gardens in 1934 for £500. It had no garage but nobody in the road had a car anyway. My name was Jenifer Shearring. I went to North Street Primary School, infants and juniors from1950 ...Read more

A memory of Hornchurch by jenny

Pitts Cottage

My nan Eliza Geal or Jelly as she was known, worked at Pitts Cottage doing the cooking in the 50-60s she lived at Park Cottages just down the road and her husband Sunny worked on the Squerrys Estate which was run by a Major Warde, his son ...Read more

A memory of Westerham by timddeacon

Kings Holiday Camp

It would have been mid August 1970 when I had my first holiday here, together with my parents, aunt, and our two dogs. I was 8 years old. It was 50 years ago this month. We rented a chalet for two weeks. There was a duck pond in ...Read more

A memory of Canvey Island by f.a.t.strahan

Expat Memories From Australia

Billy Benson here. I now live in Victoria Australia, but I grew up in Aveley and lived at 5 Crescent Walk. Loved the pictures of the local shops and the old town. My family moved to Australia in 1963. I have been back since on ...Read more

A memory of Aveley by billbenson1

Victoria Road

I lived in Victoria Road from 1945 to 1958. I remember the prefabs at the Ilford Lane end of the road. The odd numbered houses in Victoria Road started at number 7. I never understood why that was as I don't think there were houses there ...Read more

A memory of Barking by ronfer1945

Where I Grew Up....

- catching the Tillingbourne Valley Bus bus at the top of Newlands Corner to go to school in Shere and afterwards in Peaslake as a child - as a child being terrified and frozen when taken by my older sister sledging down the hill ...Read more

A memory of Newlands Corner

Captions

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Caption For Church Crookham, The Cross Roads C1960

The first car on the left seems to be parked on the bend; the driver might have got away with this in 1960, but today this would be highly irresponsible.

Caption For Dorking, St Martin's Church 1890

Meetings were first held at the Red Lion Hotel until a meeting house was established in Church Street; it still stands in the car park of the King's Arms.

Caption For Abingdon, The River C1960

This view was taken from immediately by Burford Bridge, in the public park on the Oxfordshire bank.

Caption For Titsey, Botley Hill Farmhouse C1950

He lost control of his Spitfire and crashed in Titsey Park.

Caption For Bridport, East Street 1937

The freedom of the road, when roadside parking was an inalienable right, can be seen in a view westwards to the Town Hall (centre) from opposite the Golden Road Cafe (far left).

Caption For Hurst Green, The Cross 1950

Again we see an empty road, but motor traffic has made an appearance in the form of two parked motor cars, one alongside a striped sign post to Clitheroe.

Caption For South Benfleet, The High Street C1960

This was a centre for smuggling in the 19th century, with tunnels under what is now the car park.

Caption For Holton, The Village C1960

The further building is the Lord Nelson, whose sign has been moved to the car park. Note the classic bubble car of the period (right).

Caption For Stockton On Tees, Ropner Park C1965

The park, situated along the Yarm Road, was the gift of Sir Robert Ropner, and was opened by the Duke and Duchess of York on 4 October 1893.

Caption For Neath, Victoria Gardens 1898

This fine public park in the heart of Neath was opened in 1897.

Caption For Kettering, Sheep Street C1955

One of the older United Counties single-deckers parks outside the library.

Caption For Bude, Canal From The Bridge 1890

The quay to the right belonging to Hockin & Co is now a car park. In the right distance, the building that used to be a blacksmith's shop is now a museum. Houses line the left hand bank.

Caption For Borehamwood, Theobald Street C1955

Next to the car park of the Crown public house on the right, the creeper-covered cottage advertises the services of the local coal and coke merchant J W Roberts.

Caption For Birkenhead, Storeton Road And Halfway House Hotel 1954

Prenton Park, the home of Tranmere Rovers, is not far away, so the pub would be busy on home match days. The arrangement of the traffic light poles looks rather unusual.

Caption For Richmond, The Channel 1929

The coffee merchant E W Coleman's van is parked outside his shop (centre); beside its window is an LNER train timetable - Station Road is off to the left.

Caption For Richmond, Market Place 1929

The few people with motor cars park them at will. The ball finial of the Obelisk looks new; it had been replaced in 1907.

Caption For Prestbury, Deep Street C1960

Cheltenham's famous racecourse is named Prestbury Park after the village that is situated at its outskirts. Prestbury was home to Fred Archer, the most celebrated jockey of his age.

Caption For Clee Hill, The Village C1955

The main shop in the town is the one beyond the parked cars - then a branch of the Co-op, it is now a combined store and post office.

Caption For Rochdale, Broadfield Park 1895

Councillor Edward Taylor and Alderman George Leach Ashworth, who was twice mayor of Rochdale, were largely responsible for acquiring the 16 acres that form the park.

Caption For Frodsham, Overton Church C1965

The present St Laurence's church dates from the 12th century but was restored and partly rebuilt in the 1880s.

Caption For Aveley, The High Street C1955

Aveley is a small village situated a few miles to the east of Rainham and close to the Thames and Essex Marshes.The parked bicycles on the right, no cars to be seen and the crowd waiting for the bus

Caption For Seaton, Seafront 1922

A group of local lads, one with a delivery bicycle, congregate for a chat by the parked van.

Caption For Aldeburgh, High Street 1909

Outside Constance and Ward's, the ironmongers (right), carts are parked at an angle, just as cars are today.

Caption For Stroud, Stratford Park, The Childrens Playground C1965

Set in open land, with mature oaks nearby, Stratford Park playground has always proved a popular magnet for parents with young children, who now mostly travel there by car.