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Places
36 places found.
Those places high-lighted have photos. All locations may have maps, books and memories.
- Yosemite National Park, USA
- Yellowstone National Park, USA
- Gardens of Stone National Park, Australia
- Worcester Park, Greater London
- Langley Park, Durham
- Killerton Park, Devon
- Swinton Park, Yorkshire
- Goodwood Park, Sussex
- New Parks, Leicestershire
- Gidea Park, Essex
- Rokeby Park, Durham
- Hawkstone Park, Shropshire
- Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire
- Gunton Park, Norfolk
- Erddig Country Park, Clwyd
- South Park, Surrey
- Eastwell Park, Kent (near Ashford)
- Highams Park, Greater London
- Raynes Park, Greater London
- Grange Park, Merseyside
- Tong Park, Yorkshire
- Bush Hill Park, Greater London
- Park Street, Hertfordshire
- Grange Park, Greater London
- Wembley Park, Greater London
- Lambton Park, Durham
- Motspur Park, Greater London
- Roundhay Park, Yorkshire
- Grove Park, Greater London (near Eltham)
- Baddow Park, Essex
- Park Gate, Hampshire
- Shillinglee Park, Sussex
- Kiveton Park, Yorkshire (near Wales)
- Park, Somerset
- Park, Wiltshire
- Park, Cornwall
Photos
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Maps
1,865 maps found.
Books
1 books found. Showing results 841 to 1.
Memories
4,383 memories found. Showing results 351 to 360.
Bank Holidays
Eastenders without gardens used to flock to Chingford Plains on a Bank Holiday to enjoy the grass and forest. Crowded buses used to terminate at the Royal Forest Hotel and then park in the front of the hotel ready for departure. Later ...Read more
A memory of Chingford in 1958 by
Rose View
1970 - 1984: As you look at this photo the last building on the right, the barn like cottage with the small window, is Rose View. My mum and dad bought it for £1,000 in 1970, and set to work modernising it as I was due 1971 and my brother ...Read more
A memory of Polgooth in 1970 by
Chisholm Cottage
My great-great-great grandparents lived opposite Wesley Chapel in the late 1800s, behind the trees on the right-hand-side of the 1901 Wesley Chapel photo. During the 1830s, Richard JACK (b1813) and some of his brothers moved to ...Read more
A memory of Hartlepool in 1880 by
Goldthorpe In The Fifties
I was born in 1946 and lived in Manor Avenue. Cricket with dustbin lids propped up with a house brick in the "backins" were our stumps and we played from dawn to dusk during the summer holidays...except during Wimbledon ...Read more
A memory of Goldthorpe by
Rivacre Baths.
For those who never saw (or may have forgotten), the photo shows the view you had after coming in through the main entrance. The large fountain can be seen in the foreground, and was enjoyed by many children as they ran around ...Read more
A memory of Little Sutton in 1947 by
More Foggy Beacon Park
I also remember a foggy Beacon Park, probably 1954. I used to live in the Close, my father being a minor canon, and went to a nursery school (Mrs Allen's) on the other side of the park. I think that one of my parents would ...Read more
A memory of Lichfield in 1953 by
Saturday Afternoon Shopping
I do remember Andover about this time. We lived in Tidworth at the time and my father had a car with petrol allowance as he was a Barrack officer. We went to Andover, mum, myself and him every Saturday afternon and had to ...Read more
A memory of Andover in 1946 by
Getting Married
I remember marrying my first husband at The Garth on 10th July 1982, now a registrar's office. The grounds are not as well kept now, but it is still a lovely park.
A memory of Bicester in 1982 by
A Tiny Hamlet Lost In Time
The year was 1970. Myself and a friend were typical 15 year old youths of the time, well, typical for our type of neighborhood. We had long hair, pierced ears, denim jeans and jackets and owned but a couple of shillings ...Read more
A memory of Trelights in 1970 by
A Beautiful Place
I arrived in 1953 to live with my father and stepmother in Marbury. I have very mixed feelings of my life here. The countryside was beautiful, my love of nature and animal life has never left me. Bill's lawns (our name for the ...Read more
A memory of Marbury in 1953 by
Captions
2,161 captions found. Showing results 841 to 864.
The Bank Café lies on the right, and it is clearly a warm summer day in view of the number of parked cars at the bottom of the hill.
Note the pram parked by the spring.
In the mid 19th century, many middle-class residents of central Leeds began to move out to the north of the city near to the country estates of Beckett's Park and Hollin Hall, and Headingley became a rather
A parked motor bike and sidecar is the only traffic.
To the front of the view is the lifeboat house and boat park. The lifeboat was once crewed by women when the men of the crew were caught in a squall.
This is one of Exmouth's two bowling greens - the other is at the back of the town at Phear Park. The high ground beyond is Gun Cliff Gardens, off Carlton Hill.
This monastic cell of St Mary’s Abbey in York, of which the chancel remains, is now in a municipal park and is surrounded by a bowling green and fenced football pitch.
The bus station is still doubling up as a car park in this view, where a lone Southern National service awaits departure time.
After this photograph was taken, the car park was enlarged and extensions were built, but the place now lies derelict waiting to be demolished.
A future awaits, but the closest sign here of modern styling is in the faired-in headlights of the Ford Prefect parked just behind the passing cyclist - a stately soul, basket ready for
The ever-changing coastline has very much dictated the fortunes of Aldeburgh, but one thing which has not changed is the activity of local fishermen, who park their boats on the shingle bank which runs
The originally 14th-century pinnacled tower of St Mark's parish church watches over Ilkeston's wide Market Place, with the town's war memorial in the foreground.
The area of pollarded trees has been developed into the countryside park.
With the spread of suburbs around the larger settlements, functional but small shopping centres were established to cater for a growing population, with handy parking for the increasing number of car owners
Here we see a busy scene, with parked cars on the right and an open-topped bus bound for Southend chugging down the Street on the left.The picture is taken from close to the railway bridge, looking
This hotel was built in 1873 for the 4th Earl of Carnarvon, who lived at nearby Pixton Park, and it became a centre for hunting and fishing.
By the mid 1920s the Midland Bank building, beyond Lewis and Godfrey's drapery store, had replaced Sidney Park's shop. The Royal George Hotel had by now ceased business.
Take away the trees, update the shop frontages and turn the road into a dual carriageway, and you see Mutley as it is today, except that the Hyde Park Hotel (from where this view was taken) is now on
Where the ships are tied up there is now an extended car park. This area was once noted for its shipbuilding, but only one yard survives today, with a sizeable dry dock.
By the 1950s the town had to cope with increasing traffic, and the square provided a handy solution before the construction of purpose-built car parks.
The shadowy side of the street rises from Chapel Cottage and Chideock Court (with the vintage car parked beside the railings) to Alice Cottage and what is now the Old Post Office.
It provided a crossing of the Dee from the Watergate to nearby Curzon Park, as well as for traffic heading to and from the direction of Wrexham.
No road signs or parking restrictions here. The tea stall and the small Walls ice cream stall are doing a roaring trade. There are swing boats and roundabouts for the little ones.
Willenhall recently won a national lottery grant to restore the park.
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