Maps

1,865 maps found.

1921, Park End Ref. POP800507
1920, Park End Ref. POP800508
1924, Park Gate Ref. POP800918
1925, Park Head Ref. POP800966
1924, Park Head Ref. POP800975
1924, Swinton Park Ref. POP843999
1919, Queen's Park Ref. POP812315
1920, Queen's Park Ref. POP812316
1919, Park Hill Ref. POP800999
1920, Park Street Ref. POP801231
1920, Park Town Ref. POP801259
1897, Park Gate Ref. RNE1190923
1895 - 1914, Grange Park Ref. HOSM65589
1882, Old Park Ref. HOSM55662
1886, Grove Park Ref. HOSM47187
1885 - 1886, Park Village Ref. HOSM56117
1879 - 1899, Black Park Ref. HOSM37910
1898-1901, Grange Park Ref. RNC719033
1898-1899, Grange Park Ref. RNC719034
1903-1904, High Park Ref. RNC733343

Books

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Memories

4,372 memories found. Showing results 711 to 720.

Ward 6, Park Hall

I have a postcard that my father sent to his mother in 1926 when he was 12 years old having just had one of about 100 operations in his life for polio. He was in Ward 6 at the time being a sort of guine pig sadly. Does anyone out there know if Ward 6 referred to the wards named please?

A memory of Oswestry in 1920

My Grandmother, Sarah Regan

My grandmother's funeral was in April of 1959; she used to live at 2 Johns Avenue from1910 to 1943 when she moved to her daughter's house in Harrow. My grandfather, John Regan, was also buried there in July ...Read more

A memory of Hendon in 1959 by Michael Dickson

Growing Up With The Dinosaurs.

I lived in Thicket Grove which had the Thicket public house at the top. Crystal Palace Park was a very short walk away. During the school holidays we would spend our days in the park. Mum would pack us a picnic ...Read more

A memory of Crystal Palace in 1953 by Maureen Langley

Bretts Farm Romford Rd Aveley

I arrived in Aveley in 1957/58 I was herdsman at Bretts Farm, Romford Road and worked for David Watt. Once a year we would take the young cattle through Belhus Park then along Daglen Drive, up Stifford Road to Ford ...Read more

A memory of Aveley by Alan Tarrant

Hard Times But Happy Days

We lived on Park View facing the library and Queens Park which had its own museum and everything a victorian park could offer two young brothers yearning for adventures. We would ride our guiders all over that park, and ...Read more

A memory of Harpurhey in 1960 by David Hooton

Town Hall Roundabout

Living in Watford from the early 1950's, I well remember the Town Hall roundabout before they moved it. Can't recollect whether it was nearer or further away. I can recollect, not far from a pub called the OBH, or almost ...Read more

A memory of Watford in 1952 by Jacqueline Hathaway

Watford's Lost Factories

Living in north Watford from 1952 to 78, I have fond memories of factories such as the British Moulded Hose. Not a nylon stockings factory as its title may sound, but an asbestos factory which I remember one day caught ...Read more

A memory of Watford by Jacqueline Hathaway

Evacuation To Fonab Castle Sept.1939

Evacuation - September 3rd 1939 The government decided that mothers and children should be moved to the countryside away from areas at risk from bombing. On the 3rd, parents and children all gathered at their ...Read more

A memory of Pitlochry in 1930 by Anne Jackson

Growing Up In Edgware

I was actually born in Bushey but I grew up in Edgware. I always thought it a funny little town but in it's own way it was beautiful. The parks were beautiful and always had Rose Gardens and ponds to visit. Walking was a way ...Read more

A memory of Edgware in 1961 by Edna Ryan

Brixton Fondly Remembered

I was born in coronation year 1953 at the Annie McCaul Hospital in Jeffreys Road, Clapham. I grew up at 20 Plato Road, just off the Acre Lane in Brixton in the 50s and early 60s. What a fantastic time it was. I fondly ...Read more

A memory of Brixton in 1959 by Bob Mandale

Captions

2,180 captions found. Showing results 1,705 to 1,728.

Caption For Harrogate, War Memorial And Prospect Place 1923

We can see two church towers on the horizon: to the left is the 1860 West Park United Reformed church, and behind the trees, looking out over the site of Harrogate's first railway station,

Caption For Fakenham, Market Place C1955

The market place is surrounded by well-kept 18th-century buildings, but parking is a problem.

Caption For Sabden, Clitheroe Road C1960

On the left, Shell and Exide petrol pumps, a sign for Park Drive cigarettes, and new-style windows fitted into dwellings indicate progress.

Caption For Dyffryn Ardudwy, The Village C1955

Parked on the road further up the street is a Mini estate, which was first sold in 1960.

Caption For Cheam, Baptist Church C1955

Whitehall is on the extreme left of this photograph, taken at this junction of Park Lane and The Broadway; the widening of the Malden Road has yet to take place.

Caption For Croxley Green, 1897

Croxley Green lies east of the River Chess, separated from Rickmansworth by the open space of Rickmansworth Park and Croxley Hall's woods.

Caption For Skegness, The Pier Hotel C1955

Butlin's amusement park is in the foreground.

Caption For Bedford, St Paul's Square C1955

In this view, the market place is mostly a car park, with market stalls along the south side of the Square - one is visible at the left.

Caption For Roundhay, The Drinking Fountain C1960

The council paid £139,000 for the park in 1872, it being one of a number of acquisitions by the authority over the previous 20 years.

Caption For Aylesbury, The Vale Park C1950

The fields, now The Vale Park, lay between the railway station of 1839 and the gas works at the foot of the hill and the Bear Brook stream.

Caption For Aylesbury, The Vale C1955

The Park was formally opened on 1 July 1937. It is remarkably little changed, apart from the line of tall Lombardy poplars which went in the 1990s and the removal of the hedges.

Caption For Aynho, Park House C1955

Aynho, on the Oxfordshire border south of Banbury, is a beautiful ironstone village dominated by its great mansion, Aynho Park House.

Caption For Bridport, West Street C1965

Opposite a Ford Anglia is tightly parked (left) between a couple of Morris Minis.

Caption For Great Meols, Birkenhead Road C1940

This view of Birkenhead Road was taken very early in the wartime decade - the parked vehicles lack the white painted edges to the front and rear wings, and none of the windows in the houses

Caption For Malmesbury, Memorial And Post Office C1950

The van parked by the Gothic-style Methodist church (left) belongs to W Redman & Sons, the butchers, whose premises are next door to G H Handy, a tobacconist`s, which was once

Caption For Roundhay, The Drinking Fountain C1960

The council paid £139,000 for the park in 1872, it being one of a number of acquisitions by the authority over the previous 20 years.

Caption For East Budleigh, The Village C1955

On the right-hand side of the street by the parked car is the village inn, the Sir Walter Raleigh, named in honour of East Budleigh's most famous son.

Caption For Shipley, Glen 1909

High above here an amusement park was established with an aerial ride, Japanese gardens and a switchback railway.

Caption For Pitsea, The Memorial C1955

When this area became a tortuous gyratory system, she was shifted to Howard Park.

Caption For Crakehall, The Hall 1900

It was the country seat of the Duke of Leeds, who lived at Kiveton Park in south Yorkshire. Down by the beck is the 17th-century corn mill, once owned by the Neville family of Middleham Castle.

Caption For Kings Langley, Village Pound C1960

The equivalent today would be the parking clamp and council vehicle pound!

Caption For Haywards Heath, Perrymount Road C1965

Not every residential unit would have a garage, hence the need for designated parking spaces as well.

Caption For Tewkesbury, Church Street 1907

On the near side of the street, parked close to the butcher's and optician's, is a motor vehicle whose registration letters AB 100 mark it as being one of the earliest to take to the road in

Caption For Wisbech, Young's Memorial 1901

Within the park is the memorial column dedicated to Richard Young (1809-71), a local shipping magnate, Member of Parliament, five times Mayor of Wisbech and Sheriff of London and Middlesex.