Maps

181,031 maps found.

1883, Kneeton Ref. HOSM50464
1883, Lambley Ref. HOSM50653
1883, Plumtree Ref. HOSM56777
1899, Stapleford Ref. HOSM60441
1883, Stragglethorpe Ref. HOSM60719
1899, Strelley Ref. HOSM60804
1884, Upper Hambleton Ref. HOSM47465
1902, Whithcote Hall Ref. HOSM64877
1883, Lewdown Ref. HOSM51178
1895, Moreton Ref. HOSM54073
1892, Halsall Ref. HOSM47524
1893, Mawdesley Ref. HOSM53352
1895, Orpington Ref. HOSM35010
1895, Farnborough Ref. HOSM45278
1874, Gronwen Ref. HOSM47173
1874, Hindford Ref. HOSM48596
1910, Maengwynedd Ref. HOSM52942
1900, Melverley Ref. HOSM53482
1887, Coombelake Ref. HOSM41732
1888, Fluxton Ref. HOSM45558

Books

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Memories

29,044 memories found. Showing results 1,311 to 1,320.

My Birthplace

II was born in this gorgeous building on July 10th 1966. This is the first time I have seen a picture of it and what a grand building, so sad to see the current state of it. My dad was in the army and stationed at Bovington. We moved to ...Read more

A memory of Yeovil in 1966 by Paul Hewitt

The Wills Family

Ambrose Wills, Inn Keeper and Farmer at the Ashberton Arms West Charleton, buried at the Church. His son George took on the pub and farm when the village was sold by the Marques of Northampton on the 22 of September 1919. ...Read more

A memory of West Charleton in 1900 by James Freeman

My First School

My very first memory is in 1934 when my parents, sister and I came to live in rooms over a private school in The Mount (from memory) near to a new Fire Station that had just been built. I was four years old and my mother was ...Read more

A memory of Chingford in 1930 by Alan Holden

Egg And Chips???

I have a strange but lovely memory of Forest Coal Pit. Mum and Dad worked shifts when we were kids so dad would often take the four of us out and about on his own, but being a 70's dad wasn't so good at cooking or organising a ...Read more

A memory of Forest Coal Pit in 1973

Old Bank House, High Street, Cranleigh

My father was part of the family business, H Freemantle and Sons, who were coal merchants for many years in Cranleigh. During the 1950's and 60's we had our office in the Old Bank House at the entrance to the ...Read more

A memory of Cranleigh in 1960 by Christine Oberlander

Amazing Discovery At Rushton Spencer Church !! 1956

My late father, W Gary Bailey, and my grandfather, Master Builder W Lloyd Bailey (who built all of the houses on Brown Lees Road, Brown Lees ) were conducting maintenance work at the church, namely ...Read more

A memory of Biddulph in 1956 by Rob Bailey

Balidon Fond Memories

I was born on 15th August 1954 at Balidon. I am sure my father told me they had a fishpond as you came into the driveway at the front of the building. When he first came to see me, he went to open the door of a car he must have ...Read more

A memory of Yeovil in 1954 by Julie Frost

Looking For Relatives

My grandfather, Alf Ellacott was one of nine children. His only brother died young but his seven sisters all lived in Blaengwynfi or Cymmer. He moved to Blackpill outside Swansea. My dad would like to find any cousins/second ...Read more

A memory of Blaengwynfi in 1930

Oh For Thing Past.

I was born in 1941 in St Augustine's Rd at the top of Chalk Pit Ave. The memory I have are, the Bull Inn at the corner of Sandy Lane next to Nashes Paper Mills. Ridge ways ? the all one shop, {things past}. Doing paper rounds ...Read more

A memory of St Paul's Cray in 1950 by David Stallwood

Stanford Le Hope School

School trip to the Festival Of Britain Dome of Discovery and what a day we all had

A memory of Corringham in 1951 by Peter Studd

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Captions

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Caption For Cardiff, Castle, South Side C1903

One of the best preserved examples of a Norman motte and keep can be seen inside the grounds of Cardiff Castle.

Caption For Troutbeck, The Valley C1880

The Troutbeck valley is one of the most peaceful in the Lake District, and in this view, taken from the old coach route between Windermere and Penrith, the essentially rural nature of much of the district

Caption For Kington, Church Street 1956

Kington was also once described as having a 'maze of narrow streets … where too many of the old houses have been refronted, but still have the attraction of a wildly irregular skyline'.

Caption For Bodmin, Fore Street 1931

The Market House was built of granite in 1839-40 for the sale of meat, poultry and butter, and the four carved ox heads above the pillars (left) are a notable feature of the street frontage.

Caption For Bridlington, Harbour 1913

The Quay and the harbour were once separate from the rest of the town. The present harbour walls date from the middle of the 19th century; they are built on the site of previous medieval walls.

Caption For Exmouth, The Seafront 1918

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.

Caption For Lincoln, Pottergate And Cathedral 1890

This rural scene, about a mile east of the city centre along Monks Road, is now much changed.

Caption For Mells, The Manor And Church C1965

Mells Manor, largely Elizabethan, was built on the site of a medieval monastic manor.

Caption For Wokingham, Broad Street C1955

From this elevated view point we get the impression of what must have appeared a somewhat green street.

Caption For Windsor, Albert Memorial Chapel, East 1895

Queen Victoria commissioned George Gilbert Scott to create the highly decorated interior of this 15th century Chapel to commemorate her husband, Prince Albert, who died in 1861.

Caption For Bolsover, The Castle 1902

The ruins of the once luxurious state rooms at Bolsover Castle. It was probably in these rooms that the Duke of Newcastle lavished thousands of pounds on entertaining Charles I.

Caption For Studland, The Beach 1925

Studland has one of the best and least tampered-with beaches in Dorset - a real reminder of those halcyon days when such luminaries as George III promoted the merits of sea bathing.

Caption For Milton Keynes, Woughton On The Green 2005

There is but sparse evidence of Anglo- Saxon life in the city area.

Caption For Ilkley, West View Park 1906

In the middle of West View Park, opposite the paddling pool, was the bandstand. Here at the turn of the century ­visitors were entertained by Pierrot shows and bands. To the left is Wells House.

Caption For Yardley Gobion, Village Green C1965

Further west, on the Stony Stratford to Northampton road, is another Yardley.

Caption For Manchester, Owens College 1891

This is the quadrangle of Owen's College, with the gateway out to Oxford Road on the right of the picture. In 1886-7 the Museum part of the college was among the buildings added to the complex.

Caption For East Grinstead, Old Houses, High Street C1960

Dedicated to St Swithun, a Bishop of Winchester from 852 to 862, this imposing structure, dating from the 1790s, stands on the site of an earlier church that had been reduced to ruins by the collapse

Caption For Royston, St Benedict's Priory And Melbourn Street 1929

This patterned red-brick Victorian building was occupied from 1916 onwards by the Benedictine nuns of the Adorers of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, of Montmartre, OSB and used as a novitiate house, before

Caption For Castle Bolton, Bolton Castle And The Village 1911

In the backgound are the ruins of Bolton Castle, which was built by Richard Scrope in the 1380s.

Caption For Shalford, The Village C1955

Our third tour starts in Shalford, in effect a suburb of Guildford on the east side of the River Wey where the Tillingbourne meets it.

Caption For Abingdon, East St Helen Street From Town Hall Roof 1900

From the Market Place our town tour heads south along perhaps the best street in Abingdon for the survival of older buildings: East St Helen Street.

Caption For Darwen, Bold Venture Park 1896

This view from the top of Whitehall Park looks over the flower beds to Darwen beyond.We can make out quite a few of the mill chimneys, but not the most famous of them all, the square 300ft India Mill

Caption For Southborough, London Road 1900

This is the same scene as photograph No 37890 in the opposite direction, four years later, revealing the rich assortment of buildings and businesses which had developed along this stretch of the main

Caption For Redditch, Evesham Street C1955

Earlier pictures of Evesham Street show Cranmore Simmons on the corner, a family-run furniture business established by Alfred Simmons in the 1920s.