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Maps

9,439 maps found.

1898, Ashgrove Ref. RNE627681
1898, Newbridge Ref. RNE790680
1883, Littleton Ref. HOSM51691
1883 - 1884, Camerton Ref. HOSM39909
1882 - 1883, Corston Ref. HOSM41919
1882 - 1883, Wilmington Ref. HOSM64675
1899, Blackrock Ref. RNC642884
1919, Ashgrove Ref. POP627681
1919, Walcot Ref. POP859619
1898-1899, Newbridge Ref. RNC790680
1899, Larkhall Ref. RNC753102
1946, Littleton Ref. NPO758332
1946, Southdown Ref. NPO835533
1946, Townsend Ref. NPO851265
1898, Ridge Ref. RNE816496
1899, Timsbury Ref. RNC848600
1899, Radford Ref. RNC812716
1899, Littleton Ref. RNC758332
1899, Northend Ref. RNC794238
1946, Corston Ref. NPO678148

Books

39 books found. Showing results 2,593 to 2,616.

Memories

1,550 memories found. Showing results 1,081 to 1,090.

Sproul Family

My father, Joseph MacNab Sproul, his brothers, sisters and parents always lived and were born in Washington, they are all gone now and I am trying to find some information on them. My grandparents were Samuel and Ellan, I was told ...Read more

A memory of Washington by John Sproul

Willington.Co. Durham.

I was brought up by my parents, Tom and Norah Hill in Willington, along with my 5 siblings. We moved from North Terrace to Brown Avenue on Dene Estate. I often went to play on the swings and top-hat just outside the Miners ...Read more

A memory of Willington by Pamela Wigley

The Emmet Family @ Moreton Paddox

I don't have a memory as such. My grandfather was deputy head gardener at Moreton Paddox until he retired in the late 1950s. He lived in North Lodge at Moreton Morell. I believe the Paddox were owned then by ...Read more

A memory of Moreton Paddox in 1900 by Robert Smith

Happy Childhood Memories.

HAPPY CHILDHOOD MEMORIES. In the summer of 1952 (I was 7 years old) my grandmother took me on a 'Farm Holiday' in Bedford to stay with friends. At this time I lived as a child in 'industrial Newcastle upon Tyne'. We ...Read more

A memory of Bedford in 1952 by David Armstrong

A Long Walk

I was born in Devonshire Road in 1961. I remember walking with my mum down Powell Road, through Pellhams Alley, past the North Parade post office, past the police station and along the High Road towards Langdon Hills. My mum had ...Read more

A memory of Laindon by Peter Long

Heather And Gorse Clog Morris Entertain At Haytor And Christow

It was the weekend of the Royal Wedding and on Sunday, the day before the May Bank Holiday, our friends in Grimspound Border Morris were in a party mood. Our own group of ...Read more

A memory of Haytor Vale in 2011 by John Howard Norfolk

Music At The Rink

I played guitar with a skiffle group in a talent competition at the Rink during the 1950s. Frankie Vaughan appeared there and I saw the Temperance Seven and Screaming Lord Sutch, amongst others, on the Rink stage. Many of ...Read more

A memory of Spennymoor

Working At Owen & Owens And Arcade Music Shop

I lived in North Finchley from 1949 till 1968 and my maiden name was Battams. I have many fond memories. I started my first job on the day after my 15th birthday as I was only 14 when I left ...Read more

A memory of North Finchley in 1965 by Linda Stein

Gaumont Rex Prince Of Wales Cinemas

My strongest memories of Lewisham is there being three cinemas there. The Gaumont (where I saw the Beatles live in the 1960s) - I went to Saturday morning pictures there. The Rex cinema, just by the bridge ...Read more

A memory of Lewisham by Jackie Walder

Rose Cottage, Ranmore Common

We have an heirloom picture of relatives, one was said to be the Gamekeeper at Ranmore. It is of four people, one of them an infant, perhaps aged six in a smock, and the elder, whose name eludes me as I write, ...Read more

A memory of Ranmore Common in 1860 by John L Tooze

Captions

2,676 captions found. Showing results 2,593 to 2,616.

Caption For Ascot, South Ascot Church 1901

The main north porch has a small south porch attached to the angle between nave and transept.

Caption For Leicester, Cavendish House, Abbey Park C1955

The Abbey of St Mary de Pratis, which is laid out in the north- west angle of the park, was one of the largest in England of the Augustinian Order.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Broad Street 1900

We are looking north-westwards up Bell Street from the Assembly Rooms. Middle Row juts out (bottom left), and the raised pavement leads to Bell Cliff (bottom left).

Caption For Newark, The Castle 1895

This photograph shows the north-west wall of the ruined castle towering above the river Trent.

Caption For Guisborough, Westgate 1899

In this delightful and evocative view, we see the north or `top' side of Westgate.

Caption For Ware, Ware Park Sanatorium 1925

Ware Park, rebuilt in the 1880s by William Parker, is located about three-quarters of a mile north-west of Bengeo on the outskirts of Hertford.

Caption For Coity, Castle 1899

Coity Castle stands less than two miles to the north-east of Bridgend. There is a legend of how Payn de Turberville acquired Coity following the Norman conquest of Glamorgan.

Caption For Edgware, George V Memorial Gardens, Canon's Park C1955

The present building on its site, now the North London Collegiate School, dates from 1910, and it is difficult to say with absolute certainty whether any of the original fabric is incorporated in the structure

Caption For Lyme Regis, Victoria Pier 1912

This view is north-eastwards to Black Ven (top left), Charmouth and Cain's Folly (centre right).

Caption For High Wycombe, The Abbey 1906

To the north of the town, Crendon Lane was gated near where the station now is, and a track wended its way towards Amersham over Wycombe Heath, an area infested by highwaymen.

Caption For London, The Old Curiosity Shop C1875

This caused the Sardinian Chapel to be moved several hundred yards north.

Caption For London, Old Curiosity Shop C1950

This caused the Sardinian Chapel to be moved several hundred yards north.

Caption For St Ives, The Broadway 1901

On the left is the North Hunts Constitutional Club, now the offices of Ewing Reeson, photographer.

Caption For Worthing, South Street 1899

An 1821 Act of Parliament specified financial limits within which Worthing Town Commissioners could purchase land to erect a building to hold their meetings and provide and maintain a town clock.

Caption For Stourport On Severn, River Severn And Bridge C1955

Wood Green Farm still cultivates acres of pasture on the north bank of the Severn as far as Burlish Top, but changes came about after World War II.

Caption For Kippax, The Leeds Road C1960

To transport the huge coal output, the North Eastern Railway ran the line to nearby Castleford from 1878.

Caption For Stonyhurst, The College 1899

The house, which was at one time the largest building in the north of England, was built by Sir Nicolas Sherburn (Shirburn) around 1690.

Caption For Wetherby, Market Place 1909

The playground was the street, with the girls allowed on the south side, the boys on the north side near the Black Bull.

Caption For Glasgow, The Stock Exchange 1897

Victorian Glasgow may have been a parvenu compared with Edinburgh, with its ancient history as Scotland's capital and its 18th-century reputation as the Athens of the North, but Glasgow's unparalleled

Caption For Thorp Arch, Church 1893

To the north of the village is the massive Thorp Arch industrial estate, developed during the war as a munitions factory directly on the Wetherby to Church Fenton railway line.

Caption For Glastonbury, The Abbey, St Joseph's Chapel 1927

This photograph is a good general view of the chapel looking from the north-west.

Caption For Binfield, All Saint's Church C1955

Victorian iron screens are on the west, north and south of the chancel.

Caption For London, The Old Curiosity Shop 2003

This caused the Sardinian Chapel to be moved several hundred yards north.

Caption For Southsea, Dagmar Terrace 1890

In the meantime, development, in the main of a residential nature, continued to spread north and east across Portsea Island.