Maps

789 maps found.

1902, Tettenhall Wood Ref. RNC846165
1902, The Wood Ref. RNC846569
1902, Wollerton Wood Ref. RNC872279
1902, Wood Dalling Ref. RNC872435
1903, Newton Wood Ref. RNC791999
1902, Renshaw Wood Ref. RNC815369
1947, Crow Wood Ref. NPO684835
1947, Clinkham Wood Ref. NPO670746
1946, Clowance Wood Ref. NPO671236
1947, Bolton Woods Ref. NPO645681
1945, Boyatt Wood Ref. NPO647494
1947, Burnley Wood Ref. NPO656473
1946, Cannock Wood Ref. NPO660653
1895, Furnace Wood Ref. RNE710220
1896, Gustard Wood Ref. RNE723694
1896, Holme Wood Ref. RNE738724
1895, Higham Wood Ref. RNE733787
1897, Ireton Wood Ref. RNE744283
1898, Leigh Woods Ref. RNE754839
1895, Cliffe Woods Ref. RNE670604

Books

4 books found. Showing results 313 to 4.

Memories

2,407 memories found. Showing results 131 to 140.

Church Street Ref:E21047

The picture is of the bottom end of Church Street; the old Morris Traveller was my father's car and it is parked as seen outside 72, Church Street. I was born in Edenbridge, and lived in this house until I was 17. I ...Read more

A memory of Edenbridge in 1958 by Lesley Peters

Wood Farm Camp

I remember Wood Farm Camp. My dad was stationed there for three years & my mother, sister, dad & I lived at number 64. I remember the little pigs from the farm down the lane coming into the garden and me having to shoo ...Read more

A memory of Malvern Wells in 1952 by Angela Mcdonald

My Father Bob Barnard Lived In Overton As A Boy. His Words Are Below:

I was born on 29th November 1928, and lived in Southsea in 1939, and during August my parents, little sister, and I went for a short holiday by coach to stay with an Aunt and ...Read more

A memory of Overton in 1940

Memories

We (me and older brother and sister), stayed in a relatives bungalow really close to the sea several years.. disjointed but strong memories :- - pebble dashed walls - those garden walls made of preformed concrete blocks with patterned ...Read more

A memory of Jaywick

Young Days In Bexley

Other peoples memories are bringing back some of my own. Walking from Bexley to the Regal for Saturday morning movies across the heath. Frog spawn from the river at the mill. Walking to school past the brewery to the ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath in 1945 by Michael Gorst

Bridge Of Muchalls School

My name in 1950, was Joan Wood. We lived in Newtonhill but went to Bridge of Muchalls School. It was a lovely little school. We were taught by Miss Betty and Miss Mary Geddes. Every year we had a concert - ...Read more

A memory of Bridge of Muchalls in 1950

Circus!

Just to the left of this pub was the entrance to the woods where my parents used to take me for walks when I was very young.

A memory of Hockley in 1964 by Dominique Payne

Perivale, 1964 1994

I was born at 194 Bilton Road in June 1964 and my name was Jackie Wall. I attended Perivale Nursery School, then the infant school and followed by the middle school. I was terrified of the headmistress Mrs Charlton, but ...Read more

A memory of Perivale by Jackie Gindrat

The Halcyon 1950's

I lived with my family in Connaught Gardens from being born in 1949 to late 1960 when we moved to Shiremoor. At the end of our street was an overgrown, rubble strewn wasteland which we called 'The Croft'. A natural childrens ...Read more

A memory of Forest Hall in 1950 by Malcolm Wild

Part 7

There was no running hot water, no gas, no bathroom and no flushing toilets. Electricity was used for lighting and if you were lucky, a wireless set. Most sets were run from accumulators, a sort of battery, which you had to take to ...Read more

A memory of Middle Rainton in 1945 by John Harvey

Captions

663 captions found. Showing results 313 to 336.

Caption For Ambleside, Stock Ghyll Force 1886

The waters of Stock Ghyll rise just below the summit of the Kirkstone Pass, north of the town, and plunge through this wooded gorge before joining the River Rothay and eventually entering Windermere.

Caption For Harpenden, Village Pond 1897

With a gorse-clad common, walks through fields and woods and a car factory just up the road in Luton, what better place for a dream come true?

Caption For Devizes, St Mary's Church, Interior 1898

The wood sculpture of a pelican over the south door could have been a roof corbel.

Caption For Seal Chart, The Church 1901

It is situated next to the primary school in wooded country on the chart ('la chert' means 'common').

Caption For Ribchester, The New Bridge C1955

The photograph looks to the south bank, where a footpath follows the river downstream through Marles Wood to Salesbury Hall.

Caption For Tideswell, Church Chancel 1896

In the foreground on the left are examples of the splendid wood carving which is such a feature in the church; it was executed by a local family, the Hunstones.

Caption For Dagenham, Church Street C1950

The shops on the left remain, although the owners have changed; P G Wood & Son is now Krishna's Village Store.

Caption For Romford, North Street C1960

& Son's steam lorries hiss and puff their way across Golden Lion Corner and City Coaches no longer make the dramatic turn from the narrow North Street, into the Market Place, on their way from Wood

Caption For Woodmansterne, Chipstead Valley C1955

The slopes below Banstead Wood make a fine vantage point above Outwood Lane meandering on its way towards Kingswood.

Caption For London, Whitehall C1910

On the right is the just completed War Office, and beyond is the Office of Woods and Forests. Bus routes 11 and 24 still run down Whitehall today.

Caption For Alfriston, Market Square C1955

We can see old shops in the photograph— S Selvey, the grocer, and Wood, the butcher.The ancient market cross has been knocked down by vehicles and restored several times.The scene is similar today

Caption For Chester, The Cathedral, The Choir Looking West 1888

The superb wood carving dates from 1380, and on the misericords it depicts vivid scenes of medieval life and legend.

Caption For Bath, From Rainbow Woods 1929

past the villas of Bathwick across the northern half of the city, we can see how the formality of the ramrod-straight Great Pulteney Street to the left contrasts with, in the right distance below the woods

Caption For Bath, Theatre Royal C1965

The entrance block of the theatre was formed from Beau Nash's first house in Bath, a pre-Wood era building of 1720 with heavy moulded window surrounds and cornices.

Caption For Ivy Hatch, The Village 1901

Dunk's Green 1901 Some fine stone and brick cottages and an oast house stand along the road leading towards Mereworth Woods near the village centre of Plaxtol, on the edge of the Ragstone Ridge

Caption For Cromford, From Harp Edge 1890

This view from the wooded heights of Harp Edge above Cromford shows Arkwright's Masson Mill in the centre of the picture, with Willersley Rocks above and the River Derwent on the right.

Caption For Hawthornden, 1897

Located nine miles south of Edinburgh, Hawthornden stands high above the river North Esk amid a densely wooded estate.

Caption For Wakefield, Wood Street C1953

Also in Wood Street in the 1920s was Hyland's Car and Boat showrooms.

Caption For Ascott Under Wychwood, C1950

Along the Evenlode, that gentle Cotswold stream, stands a string of villages all 'under Wychwood', that ancient wood that still remains one of the most extensive stretches of woodland in Oxfordshire, but

Caption For Exmouth, The Plantation 1890

The Plantation and Madeira Walk below The Beacon and Louisa Terrace are a delightful stretch of green wooded shelter on hot days.

Caption For Ivy Hatch, The Village 1901

Dunk's Green 1901 Some fine stone and brick cottages and an oast house stand along the road leading towards Mereworth Woods near the village centre of Plaxtol, on the edge of the Ragstone Ridge

Caption For Rochdale, Carr Wood Waterfall 1895

Just downstream of Carr Wood waterfall is this smaller weir, whose race carried water via a flagstone channel under fields to the left to the Ashworth Estate corn mill.

Caption For Holne, The Dart Valley 1890

The steep, densely wooded gorge below Dartmeet is a wild, inaccessible place, and farmers, exhibiting their usual good sense, have never tried to cultivate it.

Caption For Doncaster, Sprotborough Hall 1900

By the 1650s Lionel Copley had become one of the leading ironmasters in South Yorkshire, thanks to a leasing arrangement with the Earl of Shrewsbury which gave him access to Shrewsbury charcoal woods and