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Maps

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1919, Frampton Cotterell Ref. POP709059
1925, Harton Ref. POP727939
1919, Henfield Ref. POP731301
1919, Rockhampton Ref. POP819125
1919, Soundwell Ref. POP834255
1919, Pilning Ref. POP806184
1919, Old Sodbury Ref. POP797155
1919, Over Ref. POP798586
1919, Newton Ref. POP791708
1919, Nimlet Ref. POP792273
1919, Pucklechurch Ref. POP811370
1919, New Cheltenham Ref. POP789517

Books

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Memories

1,580 memories found. Showing results 661 to 670.

A Long Time Ago

My father Leonard Alfred Passfield was born in South Ockendon, in 1916 to Fred Passfield and Emily Jane who lived in North Street. Many are the stories he told me of his early life in South Ockendon. He had three brothers, Ken, ...Read more

A memory of South Ockendon in 1910 by Robert Passfield

The Stables

As a young arrogant doctor with an imposing E-Type Jaguar, I was privileged to live at the stables with assorted collegues. One a gynaecologist, now in Cape Town, one a London based psychiatrist of vivid eccentricity and one more, ...Read more

A memory of Wheatfield by Michael Smith

Granny's House

This was the childhood home of my maternal grandmother - Louise Kate Leftwich - her father was the miller. She lived here until 1903 when she married George Barnes and came to settle in South Africa. Various members of the family ...Read more

A memory of Pirbright in 1890 by Betty Richmond

Evacuation 1940 1944

Our whole family were evacuated from Bow, London, to Kingsthorpe in November 1940. This was following the sudden sad death of my father in July 1940 and the blitz that began in September 1940. On our arrival the family ...Read more

A memory of Northampton by Albert Dungate

Memories Of Romford

I was born in 1940 at Recreation Avenue, London Road and have many happy memories of my birthplace. I attended London Road Junior School from 1946 to 1951 and remember three teachers as they were all vegatables, ie the headmaster ...Read more

A memory of Romford in 1952 by Bernard Strutt

Married Life In Bexleyheath

We were married at St Paul's in Northumbeland Heath in 1962 and had reception at the Manor House, Danson Park. I was born in Romford and met my future wife at a party at the girlfriend's house. We courted each other ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath by Bernard Strutt

Highworth

I was only two when I moved here from south London but I remember going to school there just through an alley way off the market square, and headmaster's office was a hut in the playground. Lived in Queens Avenue which were the new ...Read more

A memory of Highworth in 1953 by Janis Read

The Tin School

This is for Martyn Walker. I do remember the Tin School, but not in the 1960s however. I was a student there from 1941-1948. I just found this site by accident, it got me thinking about the Tin School. Then I came across your ...Read more

A memory of Durham in 1940 by Sheila Yarnell

Campsall South Yorkshire Nr Doncaster

I lived in Campsall with my dad Joseph (Joe) Smith, my brother Terry and sister Jeanette. My father worked down Askern pit for many years till he retired at the age of around 55. He passed away in 2009 (Feb). ...Read more

A memory of Campsall in 1974 by Graham Smith

Summer Days At Oystermouth

Memories of The Mumbles by John S. Batts Viewing on-line a collection of Frith’s old photos of The Mumbles has jogged many memories. For me the place was simply known as “Mumbles,” home to a much-treasured uncle ...Read more

A memory of Mumbles, The by John S. Batts

Captions

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Caption For Bakewell, View From The Bridge 1923

The photographer took up his position on the 13th-century road bridge and pointed his camera south towards Haddon Hall.

Caption For Iona, The Beach And The Village 1903

Iona lies just off the extreme south-west of Mull. In 1203, the Benedictines founded a monastery on the island which lasted until the Reformation.

Caption For Tadcaster, Market Place And Kirkgate 1907

Two miles to the south is the hamlet of Towton, where on 29 March 1461 a bloody battle involving an estimated 50,000 troops took place. This picture was taken from the junction with Bridge Street.

Caption For Barry Docks, 1899

It was opened in 1889 and became the greatest coal shipping port in South Wales, handling 11 million tons in 1913.

Caption For Daventry, The Canal C1965

They are heading south on the Grand Union Canal from Braunston Tunnel. At Braunston the canal drops sharply through six locks.

Caption For Acomb, The Old Mill C1955

The mill is just south of the village on the Birkey Burn. The miller's house is dated 1728, and the three-storey mill building is also 18th-century.

Caption For Swynnerton, The Village 1900

Swynnerton lies about three miles south of Trentham.

Caption For Burnley, Towneley Hall 1930

On the top floor the south-east wing contains the long gallery; below it are what are now called the Regency rooms.

Caption For Grantham, High Street C1955

As we look south down High Street we can see that many of the buildings survive today, including the dormered building on the far left.

Caption For Wadworth, The Village C1965

This well-preserved village, built around the old Wadworth Hall, lies just south of Doncaster.

Caption For Wales, Wales Road C1955

This picture looks down the village of Wales towards Kiveton Park, both pit villages which boomed from 1867 during the heyday of the South Yorkshire coalfield.

Caption For Street, High Street 1896

This view looks south-west along the High Street. Beyond Crispin Hall, most of the houses and shops date from the Clark era, with the occasional much lower earlier cottages interspersed.

Caption For Street, The Crispin Hall 1896

The Clarks were philanthropic Quakers, and William provided this splendid institute, The Crispin Hall, named after St Crispin, the patron saint of shoemakers, further south-west along the High Street

Caption For Yeovil, Middle Street 1903

Yeovil is by far the largest town in south Somerset.

Caption For Highbridge, River Brue 1903

South of the town, beyond the stock market, the Bridgwater Road crosses the River Brue, here canalised.

Caption For Polegate, High Street Looking North C1965

An 1870s terrace of yellow brick flats over shops runs south from the scaffolding on the left, but the rest is mediocre 1930s and 1950s suburban building, apart from the Polegate Inn on the right

Caption For Grayswood, Grayswood Road C1955

Back at ground level, this view looks across the pond near the church, past the railings alongside the A283 to the houses on the south side of the Green.

Caption For Burnley, Scott Park 1896

Some said that Burnley did not need parks, as the Pennines of South Lancashire are only ten minutes away, and some lovely countryside surrounds the town.

Caption For Aberdare, Victoria Square C1960

The Bute Arms (further down the street on the left) gets its name from the Marquises of Bute, great landowners in South Wales and important nationally.

Caption For Minehead, The Beach 1906

Cheddar Gorge is one of the most spectacular natural phenomena in south-west England.The gorge cuts its way out of the carboniferous limestone as if it was in the Peak District of Derbyshire; it is an

Caption For Fleckney, The Grand Union Canal C1965

bypasses Fleckney on its eastern side; the photograph looks north east across Second Lock, towards Kibworth bridge and Bridge House, as the waterway winds towards Newton Harcourt and South

Caption For Greenock, Princes Pier 1904

In 1869 the Glasgow & South Western Railway opened a rail link between Johnstone and Princes Pier, Greenock, thereby offering an alternative route to Glasgow.

Caption For Bishopstoke, C1965

Here we are looking south.

Caption For Keswick, Castlerigg, Druid Circle 1895

To the south-west is another stone in the direction of the midwinter sunset, which is a far more useful calendar date for ancient agricultural communities.