Maps

181,006 maps found.

1884, Tuxford Ref. HOSM62709
1898, Shaw Ref. HOSM58944
1898, Westbrook Ref. HOSM64032
1898, Chesterton Ref. HOSM40731
1877, Clayton Ref. HOSM41106
1914, Benwell Ref. HOSM37520
1895, Dalton Ref. HOSM42841
1895, Dinnington Ref. HOSM43250
1895, Northside Ref. HOSM47653
1895, Hawkwell Ref. HOSM47891
1895, Hazlerigg Ref. HOSM47948
1895, Heugh Ref. HOSM48240
1895, Killingworth Ref. HOSM49915
1895, Palmersville Ref. HOSM56028
1895, Heugh Ref. HOSM57909
1895, Shiremoor Ref. HOSM59239
1901, Carlton Ref. HOSM40091
1884, Clopton Green Ref. HOSM41282
1884, Stradishall Ref. HOSM60716
1901, Woodditton Ref. HOSM64999

Books

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Memories

29,052 memories found. Showing results 1,741 to 1,750.

My Grandmothers House

I have very early memories of visiting my grandmother (my dad's mother) in Whitburn. It's taken me a while to find the address, but I think it was 14 Cleveland View. My memories are a bit vague, I was very young, but I ...Read more

A memory of Whitburn in 1940 by Wendy Aird

The Mill

As a boy myself and my friends would gather our fishing rods and tackle and bike to the mill for a day’s fishing, I caught my first trout standing on the big outlet pipe from the mill, another time we were there and one of my friend fell ...Read more

A memory of Bordon by Paul Vychodil

Beckley Family Long Hanborough

My family can be traced to the 1700s and back to Robert Beckley. I hope to visit the area later this year to see where they lived. If anyone is related to Robert Beckley or any of his descendants I would love ...Read more

A memory of Long Hanborough

Living On Pool Bank New Road

We moved to Pool in 1943 as my father had a job as an aircraft inspector at the factory at what is now Leeds & Bradford Airport. We lived in a house one corner up from the notorious Furze Hill Corner which was a ...Read more

A memory of Pool in 1945 by Ian Scott

Childhood Holidays

I will never know why, but we used to take the train to Lundin Links, and then taxi to Lower Largo. I don't know when these holidays started (I was born in 1957 and there are certainly photos of me around 3 years old). ...Read more

A memory of Lower Largo in 1965 by Keith Palmer

George Alcock

Norma asked about George Alcock. There is quite a lot of info about his history on the search engines. Our daughter Shelley was taught by Mr Alcock at Southfields Primary School, Stanground. This was her last year when she was ...Read more

A memory of Old Fletton in 1970 by Lynda Porter

Fishing Off The Pier

My memories of the area around the Castle are of fishing both off the pier and from the beach at the other side of the castle from this picture, it would have been around 1978/9 while I was still an apprentice at Timex and ...Read more

A memory of Dundee by Derek Cole

The Norden Family Of West Wratting And Weston Colville

I have been researching the Norden Family History for my husband's uncle. His mother was born in London and he wondered why she came to live in Weston Colville with relatives. James ...Read more

A memory of West Wratting in 1860 by Pauline Barker

Fitba In The Big Park

I was born in Suttislea in Nitten in 1947 but my sister and I emigrated to Gowkshill when I was 2 (I think) and lived at 18 Pentland Avenue till I married Isobel from Bonnyrigg when I was 21. I grew up with the Weighands ...Read more

A memory of Gowkshill by John Smith

Old School

Gad's Hill Place was my school when I was 7-9 years old, from about 1950-1953. About 4 or 5 girls of similar ages lived on Thames Sailing Barges at Hoo and went to school together, sometimes by car, but usualy by bus. I don't ...Read more

A memory of Rochester in 1951

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Captions

29,158 captions found. Showing results 4,177 to 4,200.

Caption For Luton, Hoo C1955

Originally designed in 1767 by Robert Adam for the 3rd Earl of Bute, this unique country house was reconstructed in 1843 after a fire in which little of the original building was left untouched.

Caption For Durham, Silver Street C1955

Silver Street is typical of the narrow winding streets that lead to the focal point of the city, the Market Square.

Caption For Luton, Luton Hoo C1955

Originally designed in 1767 by Robert Adam for the 3rd Earl of Bute, this unique counrty house was reconstructed in 1843 after a fire in which little of the original building was left untouched.

Caption For Hartlepool, The Beach 1903

The crews of the fishing boats prepare to hoist sail once they have cleared Hartlepool.

Caption For Sawbridgeworth, Bell Street C1960

Bell Street, part of the original town of Sawbridgeworth, runs from London road eastwards towards the church and the school.

Caption For Ardingly, The Village C1950

Ardingly is a village overlooking the Ouse valley, north of Haywards Heath. The 14th-century church of St Peter has an impressive tower. Ardingly College, situated nearby, is a notable Public School.

Caption For Windmill Hill, The Windmill C1955

It is a post-type windmill where the body is turned to the wind by means of a long tailpole. The front and sides of the mill body and the roundhouse roof are clad in sheet iron.

Caption For Broad Chalke, All Saints' Church C1955

All Saints' is known as the cathedral of the Nadder Valley. Its crossing tower is possibly of the 14th century; it is buttressed by simple moulded half arches at the east end of the nave.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Cannington Viaduct 1903

The viaduct, supported on nine piers, is 609 feet long and 93 feet high.

Caption For Walmer, Castle 1892

Along with Deal and Sandown, Walmer was one of the 'Three Castles which keep the Downs'.

Caption For Abinger Hammer, The Village 1928

On the road linking Guildford and Dorking, this hamlet was one of the medieval centres of the local iron industry, and is named from the hammer-pond that worked a furnace here.

Caption For Reigate, The Pageant 1913

This event, staged on a hot June day, marked the acquisition of the sixty acres of Colley Hill, overlooking the town, by the National Trust after a lengthy fund-raising campaign to gather the £5000 needed

Caption For Catterick, The Village 1913

Catterick has three greens; this one looks along Sour Beck to the 15th-century parish church of St Anne, financed by the owners of nearby Brough Hall.

Caption For Nottingham, University, Hugh Stewart Hall C1955

Nottingham University started in the city in 1881 on South Sherwood Street.

Caption For Liverpool, Ss Paris, Library 1890

of accommodation, eating haute cuisine food and drinking the very finest of wines.

Caption For Kilby, Main Street C1965

Kilby is a Scandinavian form of the Old English 'cilda-tun'; the first part means 'child', or more probably 'young nobleman'.

Caption For Kegworth, St Andrew's Church C1965

Dragwell, adjacent to A R Tarlton's chemist's shop (left), runs between Derby Road and Nottingham Road on the north side of the church, which stands prominently above the River Soar.

Caption For Ashwell, The Church Of St Mary The Virgin C1951

The spire of St Mary's dominates the village and the surrounding countryside. It has overlooked pleasure, tragedy and, it is said, the supernatural.

Caption For Ickleford, The Church And Lychgate C1960

St Katharine was the patron saint of millers, saddlers, wheelwrights and teachers - all trades and professions which appropriately flourished in Ickleford.

Caption For Luton, Vauxhall Motors C1955

The fact that is was possible to park on the side of the hill without a problem makes this photograph one to be treasured. The building on the left is K Block, with F Block on the right.

Caption For Stafford, Pennycrofts Court C1965

The Stone and Eccleshall roads used to divide in front of the Waggon and Horses public house, but by this time a roundabout had been built to the rear of it, on the left.

Caption For Penrith, Lowther Lodge 1893

This castellated building dating from 1877 was designed for Henry Lowther, 3rd Earl of Lonsdale to guard the entrance to the drive up to Lowther Castle.

Caption For Bolton By Bowland, The Green 1921

We see the Green from the far side.The village (the name means 'the dwelling by the bow of the river') has two greens; because it was all part of the Pudsay estate, there was no pressure to expand

Caption For Measham, The School C1965

In the mid to late 1950s, this pattern of school building was springing up everywhere.