Maps

1,865 maps found.

1946, Monk's Park Ref. NPO782638
1947, Moor Park Ref. NPO783204
1947, Park End Ref. NPO800503
1946, Park End Ref. NPO800507
1946, Park End Ref. NPO800509
1946, Park End Ref. NPO800510
1945, Park Gate Ref. NPO800923
1947, Park Head Ref. NPO800976
1946, Park Hill Ref. NPO800999
1947, Park Village Ref. NPO801263
1946, Park Wood Ref. NPO801331
1920, Grange Park Ref. POP719035
1919, Hill Park Ref. POP735901
1919, Leigh Park Ref. POP754825
1919, Leigh Park Ref. POP754826
1946, Hill Park Ref. NPO735902
1947, High Park Ref. NPO733342
1947, High Park Ref. NPO733343
1947, Grange Park Ref. NPO719032
1946, Grange Park Ref. NPO719033

Books

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Memories

4,373 memories found. Showing results 621 to 630.

Childhood In The 1950s

It breaks my heart to see how the years, short-sighted councillors and rapacious businessmen have ruined this once noble and beautiful seaside resort. How could anybody have countenanced destroying this view for the ...Read more

A memory of Bridlington by Geoffrey Harrison

Tin Tan Tommy

I moved to the hill as a child with my brother and sisters in the early 1950as to Dagnam Park Square. We had a lovely wood there to play in. Tin Tan Tommy was our best game, standing on the sand bin spying out the other kids and ...Read more

A memory of Harold Hill in 1956 by Alby West

Childrens Home

I attended Onslow County Secondary school in the late 1950s. I remember there were several children attending who came from that children's home at Pilgrim's Way. I always remember them as being well adjusted and extremely well ...Read more

A memory of Guildford in 1959 by Cheryle Cox

Shirley Avenue

I lived as a child in Croydon. My memories were the shops, tea at Alders, a special treat of milk shake at Macdonalds (there was only one at that time and it tasted better!). There was a sweet shop at the bottom of Shirley Avenue where ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1980

Manor Road Sidcup

I was born in Farnborough hospital in June 1956. My mother is Austrailian and my father grew up in and around Bridgwater in Somerset. From the period of 1956 -1960 we lived in the top flat at 12 Manor Road (now sadly gone), the ...Read more

A memory of Sidcup in 1956 by Julian Bishop

Family Picnics In 1950s

In the 1950s my family made regular summer trips to a scenic and elevated spot somewhere in the general area of Aylesbury for family picnics.  I have a few b&w snaps - one of which shows a road wide enough for two ...Read more

A memory of Aylesbury in 1955 by Susan Coleman

Further Afield

Osterley Park became within striking distance of my Hounslow home once I had a bike and from about the age of 12 (1960) would cycle there with a school friend with our bottles of pop and jam sandwiches, to roam the grounds and ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow in 1960 by Susan Coleman

My Memories Of Cromer

Born in 1947 in Suffield Park, as was, Cottage Hospital on Overstrand Road. Lived in Links Avenue until 1959. My memories are vast. I went to school in the centre of Cromer which is now converted to senior citizens ...Read more

A memory of Cromer in 1952 by Lindsay Williams

War Years In Earley

I lived in Clarendon Road until 1954. Does anyone remember the V1 doodlebug that crashed in Whitenights Park, causing a huge crater? In those days we would spend a lot of time in Earley Woods at the back of the allotments at the ...Read more

A memory of Earley in 1940 by Lewis Shaw

Simms Cross

I was born at 9 Frederick Street, in 1941, and my earliest memory is of flags, streamers and buntings strung across the street every time a soldier came home 'from the war'. I don't know why, but the Union Jack flag absolutely terrified ...Read more

A memory of Widnes in 1941 by Jackie Worrall

Captions

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Ref. B647017
Caption For Burley, C1955

A man is hunched over his parked car (right), no doubt tinkering with the engine. Further on and to the left are a family who might have just popped into Lloyds Bank to withdraw some cash.

Caption For Hill Head, C1955

The road leads all the way round the shore here, and today there is a car park behind the third building.

Caption For Gainsborough, Bridge Street C1955

On the left is now either cleared or a car park, and the road is much wider. Here the river Trent is the boundary between Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire.

Caption For Stanstead Abbotts, High Street C1955

Apart from the more modern cars parked at the kerbs, little has changed in the village.

Caption For Preston, War Memorial 1926

There had been a Boer War memorial on this site before this, but it was moved to Avenham Park. You can see it in some of our earlier photographs.

Caption For Chepstow, Beaufort Square 1906

The markets, which were so important to the town, were held here until they moved to a new site by St Mary`s Church, where there is now a car park.

Caption For Nottingham, Arboretum 1902

The original idea behind the creation of the Arboretum was to give the citizens of Nottingham a scenic park in which to relax.

Caption For Chesham, Blucher Street C1950

The tall building beyond and all those on the left beyond the Baptist Church were demolished for car parks, inner relief roads, and a roundabout: Blucher Street is very much truncated nowadays

Caption For Leysdown On Sea, Station Road C1960

More than 40 years later, many visitors continue to pour in to stay at a resident caravan park offering karaoke and clubland singers on the entertainment bill.

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 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 Watford, Cassiobury Park And Iron Bridge Lock 1921

Here we see two horse-drawn narrowboats, 'Linnet' and 'Evelyn', at the attractively-sited lock in Cassiobury Park, Watford.

Caption For Thurmaston, The River C1965

In 1965, there were just a few hopeful fishermen here, and some neglected boats, but now the area has been transformed into Watermead Country Park, with its marina, golf range, sports

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Caption For Evershot, C1960

These woods around Melbury Park lay at the heart of the Fox-Strangways family lands of the Earls of Ilchester.

Caption For Daventry, Recreation Ground C1965

Steads's factory has now disappeared, to be replaced by Tesco's supermarket and obligatory car park. Fortunately, the Rec still survives.

Caption For Bosham, Village 1902

Further round to the east the road along the shore disappears under water at high tide, a fact which many first-time visitors discover to their cost if unwise enough to park on the road at low

Caption For Cardiff, Fidlas Road C1965

A caravan is parked up in the first driveway just above the Morris 1000 on the road, whilst in the background a triple arch carries the railway.

Caption For Runcorn, Cottage Hospital 1923

It was designed by James Wilding, a Liverpool man who was associated with a number of buildings in the town and who also played an important part in the development of Runcorn Hill as a park once the

Caption For Penruddock, The Village C1955

Penruddock is a small village on the edge of the Lake District National Park, about five miles west of Penrith. Its name is thought to be Celtic in origin.

Caption For Congleton, The Cloud And Timbersbrook C1950

The houses shown here are part of the tiny village of Timbersbrook. The chimney belongs to the Silver Springs Dye works, established here because of the purity of the water.

Caption For Leeds Castle, 1892

Since then it has become a full-blooded tourist attraction, set in its 500-acre park. right: MAIDSTONE

Caption For Camberley, High Street C1955

At the top is the junction of Heatcote Road and Park Road.

Caption For Cardiff, Park Hotel 2004

Park Street taxi rank still operates but is no longer equine!

Caption For Preston, Sessions House, Harris Museum, Library & Art Gallery 1913

There had been a Boer War memorial on this site before this, but it was moved to Avenham Park. You can see it in some of our earlier photographs.