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Maps

12 maps found.

Books

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Memories

7,548 memories found. Showing results 331 to 340.

Everetts Corner

I couldn't believe my eyes when I was just punching in Haymill Secondary School and pictures of Cippenham popped up!  I lived just around the corner from Everetts corner on Washington Drive.  It seemed like every day when I was ...Read more

A memory of Cippenham in 1960 by Jan Dixon

Bettws Memories

I was born and lived in Betws until I was nine. I remember attending the Chapel behind the Oddfellows pub and enjoying the Christmas parties we had held in the hall next door. Mrs Perry's shop was always a ritual every day ...Read more

A memory of Bettws in 1976 by Heather Hopkins

Happy Times In Maldon

My family and I moved from London in 1955 to Maldon, following a visit the year before with our Sunday School outing, and we moved near to the Prom. We had such happy times living there and as children my friends and I used to ...Read more

A memory of Maldon in 1955 by Yvonne Borrett

Childhood Wwebsters Village Shop

I was born in 1951. My parents owned the W Websters store in Barmoor Lane. I believe the old premises is now known as Orchard Cottage. I remember the sandshoes for sale dangling from the rafters and the butter was ...Read more

A memory of Ryton in 1957

Re Story Of Tales From My Father

I still hear all the tales of those days from my father,who spent his holidays at Number 37 with the Offer family and was sent there during the Second World War as a child, he also knew your father Reginald ...Read more

A memory of Compton Bassett by D G

Lymington In The 1940s

My maternal grandmother and mother were both born in Lymington, my mother attending the grammar school in Brockenhurst (I remember as a small boy her pointing it out to me from the train) In 1944, when the V1 'doodlebugs' ...Read more

A memory of Lymington in 1944 by Brian Veall

Coastguard Station

We came to Bolt Head in 1950, my father having joined the Coastguard service after being in the Royal Navy for 40 years. I found it quite a way to cycle to work, I worked in the post office in Malborough. I used to go rabbiting ...Read more

A memory of Bolt Head in 1950 by Patricia Perring

Bryn Gearge

I well remember Bryn Gearge ,when we were younger he lived across the back lane from our house. He raced pigeons and often we had to go and look for my father at dinner time as he would be talking to Bryn about pigeon racing.

A memory of Caerau in 1966 by Brenda Smith

A Great Place To Live

Having been born and brought up in Buckhusrt Hill in the 1960s and 1970s and 1980s and now living in Kent, it reminds me what a unique place it once was. My immediate memories are of Lords Bushes and living in Forest ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill by Andrew Evans

Growing Up In A Small Village

My parents moved to Twycross from London in the early 1960s. We lived on Sheepy Road next door to Mr Charlie Brooks and Louie Jones. On the opposite side were Stan and Ilma Jones and Len Gibbs and his daughter Joan. I ...Read more

A memory of Twycross by Tracy Wright

Captions

2,471 captions found. Showing results 793 to 816.

Caption For Wiveliscombe, The Square 1962

The tile-hung building to the right of the Square has woodwork elaborately carved with figures, fruit and mythical animals. Constructed as the Court House in 1881, it became a bank, then the library.

Caption For Ribbesford, Blackstone Rock C1965

We are downstream from Bewdley, and the course of the River Severn can again be defined in this photograph by the line of trees.

Caption For Cheltenham, High Street C1950

The imposing building in the left foreground is home to Lloyd's Bank; it replaced the town's Assembly Rooms in 1900.

Caption For Llanelli, Stepney Street C1960

The new-found cleanliness following the demise of the tin plate industry can be clearly seen here.

Caption For London, Old Waterloo Bridge C1900

A hackney carriage and a horse-drawn cart pass under the first Waterloo Bridge.

Caption For Stockton On Tees, Town Hall C1955

The Town Hall stands prominently in the centre of the High Street and dates from 1735.

Caption For Richmond, Castle Walk 1893

This Georgian promenade around the base of the castle provides impressive vistas of the river below and across to the other side.

Caption For Eamont Bridge, Mayburgh Henge 1893

Just south of Penrith, Mayburgh Henge is a circular bank of earth and stones of about 1.5 acres, with one 10ft stone at the centre. It is thought to have been built between 1000BC-2000BC.

Caption For Eamont Bridge, Mayburgh Henge 1893

Just south of Penrith, Mayburgh Henge is a circular bank of earth and stones of about 1.5 acres, with one 10ft stone at the centre. It is thought to have been built between 1000BC-2000BC.

Caption For Harlow, Paddling Pool C1965

Families with small children could always come to one of the many paddling pools in the area.

Caption For Uttoxeter, The Girls' High School C1955

The Staffordshire Education Authority acquired the Hall on Dove Bank in 1919 and named it Uttoxeter Girls' High School.

Caption For Uttoxeter, High Street C1965

In the middle distance on the left are Bagshaws, estate agents in the town since 1871.

Caption For Sambourne, The Green Dragon C1965

The village lies south of Redditch, with Studley and Astwood Bank encroaching from east and west.

Caption For Calne, High Street C1960

This view looks down the High Street towards the Strand.

Caption For Hemingford Grey, The River C1960

This is a famous view of the Ouse as it bends towards the parish church. The photograph is taken from the slipway near the green.

Caption For Haverhill, High Street C1965

We are looking north towards the church. On the right, we can see the carriage entrance of the Red Lion next to Carter's the jeweller's; further on is Barclays Bank, which was re-fronted in 1822.

Caption For Mapledurham, The Lock 1890

Further down the Thames, Mapledurham Lock by-passes another weir.

Caption For Cuckfield, Broad Street C1960

At this road junction is the Cuckfield branch of J W Upton (the Haywards Heath furniture store), next to Lloyds Bank (right).

Caption For Weybridge, The River Thames C1955

Although still labelled Dunton's, the ferry and boat-building business now belongs to the Davy family.

Caption For Sherborne, Cheap Street 1903

In Cheap Street is the Conduit, originally situated in the cloisters of Sherborne Abbey and used as a washing house, or lavatorium.

Caption For Cobham, Mill 1919

Children pose on the reedy banks of the River Mole below the impressive double wheeled mill.

Caption For Hambleton, The Creek C1960

Here at Wardley's Creek, a crew waits patiently as the rising tide approaches its peak to float their yacht from its resting-place, cut from the muddy banks of the inlet.

Caption For Alton, Lenten Street 1928

The white house in the distance has had several names - Rose Cottage, Rose Bank and now (2004) The Old House. It was occupied by the family of Jane Austen's brogher, Frank, between 1808 and 1811.

Caption For Newent, Broad Street C1965

On the right, the imposing 18th-century brick frontage of Lloyd's Bank, with its stone pediment and columned entrance, faces the small shops across the road.