Maps

9,439 maps found.

1945, North Poorton Ref. NPO793836
1947, North Reddish Ref. NPO793853
1947, North Scarle Ref. NPO793888
1947, North Side Ref. NPO793906
1946, North Side Ref. NPO793915
1947, North Stack Ref. NPO793931
1946, North Tamerton Ref. NPO793971
1946, North Watford Ref. NPO794054
1946, North Whilborough Ref. NPO794074
1946, North Willingham Ref. NPO794084
1946, North Wraxall Ref. NPO794128
1919, The North Ref. POP846480
1899, North Barningham Ref. RNE792896
1896, North Benfleet Ref. RNE792924
1897, North Blyth Ref. RNE792950
1896, North Brentor Ref. RNE792976
1898, North Cadbury Ref. RNE793007
1895, North Cave Ref. RNE793031
1896, North Cerney Ref. RNE793032
1896, North Cheam Ref. RNE793045

Books

39 books found. Showing results 337 to 360.

Memories

1,544 memories found. Showing results 141 to 150.

A Winter Crossing On The North Sea

I well remember the King George Dock as I embarked here with 33rd Signal Regiment (a TAVR unit formerly known as the Lancashire and Cheshire Yeomanry). We were en route to Germany having a posting to ...Read more

A memory of Kingston upon Hull in 1968 by John Howard Norfolk

Ancestral Home

With my newly obtained lawyer´s degree and after joining a British bank based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, I was sent to London, to follow an international training course of one year, along with my wife Rosemarie and our one year ...Read more

A memory of Car Colston in 1972 by Enrique Martin

Boarding School, Harcombe House.

In 1956 I went to Harcombe House as a boarder. Mrs Jowett was in charge of us - 52 girls. Crocket did the gardens and lived in a cottage on the lane, as did cook. Matron and the housemistress, Miss Haytor, lived in. The ...Read more

A memory of Uplyme in 1956 by Inez Dight

Sentimental Journey April2011

I finally fullfilled a lifetime dream to visit Raughton Head, in particular the church where I was baptised in in September 1944 ie All Saints' Church. During the blitz of the Second World War my father decided ...Read more

A memory of Raughton Head in 1944 by Graham Gaylard

The Droves Connecting The Villages Of Houghton And Broughton

I have many memories of driving around the droves between Houghton, Broughton and up to the Beeches on the Buckboard, an old flatbed Austin 7 owned by Richard Carter and later ...Read more

A memory of Houghton in 1960 by Tom Pennington Legh

Bligh Family

I have recently lost my uncle David James Bligh and I am trying to find some details with regard to his paternal family. I understand that his Grandfather William Frederick Bligh and his mother Elizabeth Rosey lived in Upper Stourmouth ...Read more

A memory of Westmarsh in 1940 by Linda Redmayne

Happy Days

My sister and I used to visit our grandparents, Harry and Lily Bliss, who lived on Sandringham Drive, West Monkseaton. We would come down from Scotland in late June and stay for two weeks. Favourite memories include the Spanish ...Read more

A memory of North Shields in 1958 by Carolynne Briggs

School And Before

I lived in Holly Street, North Kilbowie, I was born there 1949. My gran and grampa moved into 1 Holly Street in 1939 before the Second World War. The stories they knew about the blitz were funny as well as tragic. I lost my ...Read more

A memory of Clydebank in 1954 by John Mac Dougall

Fishing 1965 On The North Forty Drain

We all went to stop on a farm near Landgrick Road in the year 1965 for one week of fishing, we all came from Pinxton and South Normanton, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, catching loads of fish, bream, tench, ...Read more

A memory of Brothertoft

County Oak Tushmore Sports And Social Club

So named because members were from north of Crawley on the main A23 Brighton Road, not big enough to be a village, but a hamlet stretching half a mile north and south of todays Manor Royal Estate original ...Read more

A memory of Crawley in 1954 by Tony Tester

Captions

2,676 captions found. Showing results 337 to 360.

Caption For Hunstanton, The Green And Pier 1907

Hunstanton's chief feature is its distinctive white and red banded cliffs, which rise from nothing at this point to a towering 30 metres just 300 metres further north.

Caption For Old Newton, School C1955

The village school in Old Newton, just north of Stowmarket.

Caption For Glen Helen, The Hotel 1893

Glen Helen is situated about two miles north of St John's, and was developed from 1850 onwards by a Mr Marsden who named the glen after his daughter.

Caption For Meldreth, The Village C1965

This is the small village green at North End - note the pump.

Caption For Redcar, The Pier 1896

Though popular, Redcar suffered for years, along with other Teesside resorts, owing to the reluctance of the North Eastern Railway to operate Sunday services for fear of upsetting the church goers.

Caption For Mullion, The Village 1904

There is another explanation of Mullion's name - it was at one time called Porth Mellin, 'the cove of the mill', and a mill existed here until the 19th century.

Caption For Washfield, Weir 1920

To this end, a large reservoir at Wimbleball, north of Bampton, ensures that the supply of water is constant.

Caption For North Berwick, Marine Hotel And Links 1897

By the beginning of the 20th century, North Berwick was beginning to rival St Andrews.

Caption For Swimbridge, Village C1955

Other pictures of Swimbridge looked north towards a hill, from which this view is taken.

Caption For Staithes, Cowbar Nab 1925

The village takes its name from the staith that has been repaired and reinforced to remain its main defence against the unpredictable North Sea for centuries.

Caption For Castle Morton, Ye Old Robin Hood C1960

Castle Morton has no real known link with England's most famous outlaw, though Robin Hood features as a place name all over the Midlands and the North.

Caption For Barford St Michael, The Green C1960

The porch on the north side of the building is decorated with Norman beakheads that look very similar to faces of wild animals.

Caption For Newmarket, High Street 1922

This photograph looks north along the High Street.

Caption For Blackpool, Clifton Hotel From Pier 1890

A view from the North Pier towards Talbot Square.

Caption For Chester, Northgate 1903

Northgate Street runs north from The Cross; it is here, in the basement of No 23, that remains thought to belong to the headquarters building of the XXth Legion can be seen.

Caption For Sleights, Railway Crossing And Footbridge C1960

The Esk Valley Railway from Whitby to the north-east was begun in 1835 and was completed in 1861.

Caption For Crieff, High Street 1899

On his retreat north in 1745, Prince Charles Edward Stuart held a council of war in Crieff at the Drummond Arms.

Caption For Garelochhead, The Village 1901

In the foreground is the North British Railway Co's line to Fort William and Mallaig.

Caption For Monsal Dale, Hotel C1955

The Monsal Head Hotel commands one of the finest and most photographed views in the Peak District, extending across the Monsal Dale Viaduct towards Fin Cop, and north towards Upperdale.

Caption For Leverington, The Rising Sun C1965

The Rising Sun pub is on one of the roads that quartered the area north and west of Wisbech beside the sea bank of the estuary of the River Nene.

Caption For Preston, New Road 1924

Preston was always a town that you had to pass through to go north to south, but as the popularity of Blackpool increased, so did the traffic east to west.

Caption For Blackpool, From The South Pier 1890

Sail boats and bathing machines dominate the beach area between the North Pier and the South Jetty.

Caption For Gunnislake, Dimson 1906

Industrial housing is dominated by the tall chimney stack and circular kiln complex of the Plymouth Brickworks at North Dimson.

Caption For Chester, Eastgate Street 1891

Before the development of the Tudor-style half-timbered buildings on the north side of the street, the view from the top of the Eastgate looking towards the Cross was much less impressive.