Maps

789 maps found.

1908, Edzell Woods Ref. RNC699430
1902, Pelsall Wood Ref. RNC802722
1899, Norton's Wood Ref. RNC794703
1903, Ramsden Wood Ref. RNC813217
1902, Radmore Wood Ref. RNC812747
1919, Bishop's Wood Ref. POP641178
1919, Broadgreen Wood Ref. POP650935
1925, Booth Wood Ref. POP646011
1923, Cotterhill Woods Ref. POP678604
1920, Cousley Wood Ref. POP679124
1903, Wood End Ref. RNC872446
1902, Wood End Ref. RNC872450
1898, Wood End Ref. RNC872457
1902, Wood Lane Ref. RNC872720
1903, Wood Road Ref. RNC872771
1903, Wood Seats Ref. RNC872775
1920, Abbey Wood Ref. POP618426
1921, Wrockwardine Wood Ref. POP874992
1946, Bricket Wood Ref. NPO649711
1946, Browns Wood Ref. NPO653172

Books

4 books found. Showing results 385 to 4.

Memories

2,407 memories found. Showing results 161 to 170.

Forss Estate

I stayed in a little wooden chalet with my Companion, Sis Remund, when we were Missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, on the Forss Estate. I remember the beautiful river, the sea of blue-bells in the ...Read more

A memory of Forss Ho (Hotel) in 1993 by Stephanie Reynolds

Bicycles And A Happy Hunting Ground.

Being the offspring of parents otherwise engaged, and only partially supervised by a succession of Nannies, whose only concern was that we should be clean and respectably dressed when we got up to mischief, we ...Read more

A memory of New Milton in 1950 by Roger Williams

Boyhood Days

My aunts and uncles lived in East Howle and I was a regular visitor around and before 1950. The two families lived opposite one another in what I think may have been "railway cottages" and my cousins totalled 9. In those days you got ...Read more

A memory of East Howle

Poetry

This poem was sent to mac by Mrs S. Holmes: Death of Chelmsley Wood The sheer delight of summer afternoons, As through the fields in cotton frocks we walked, The long grass licking at our gangly legs, While we in deep contentment ...Read more

A memory of Chelmsley Wood in 1995

St Albans Summer Holidays In The 1950s

A child from Thanet taking annual last week of August holidays with an adored great aunt at Chiswell Green, travelling by train to Victoria Station, London, taking the Greenline to ...Read more

A memory of Frogmore in 1953 by Sandra Dudley

Boyhood Memories

I was born in 89 Abbot Street, just off Sunderland Road, in 1932, then we moved to the Gateshead end of Redheugh Bridge. When the Second World War started we moved to 20 Brussel Street. The Davidson family lived in the flat above ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead in 1940 by Allen Flynn

Before The Town Centre Was Built ...

My family came to Basildon in 1957 as part of the overspill from London. My late father was a toolmaker and was offered a job and a house. Money was tight and we made out own entertainment. Collecting wood from the ...Read more

A memory of Basildon in 1957 by Susan White

46 Bridge Road, Cove

46 Bridge Road at Cove is very significant to me because I was born in Bridge Road, no 46, on 29th June 1943, in the photo of Bridge Road it is the second house on the left, opposite Cove Supply Stores, so I'm sure my mother would ...Read more

A memory of Cove in 1943 by Graham Davis

Walks

Going on long walks and picnics up the woods with my mum and 4 sisters, it started out with just us but by the time we had walked through the village we had half the village kids with us! Great times, sandwiches and weak warm juice.

A memory of Cheddington in 1964 by Susan Wesley

Halton Gorse Cottages And Castle Road

I too spent my school holidays in Halton village, my grandparents were Lillian and Benjamin Atkinson, they lived in Gorse Cottages, you had to go up the steps from the underpass to get to it, or down the steps ...Read more

A memory of Halton in 1955 by Beryl Gordon

Captions

663 captions found. Showing results 385 to 408.

Caption For Lickey, Cofton Wood Tea Rooms C1955

The proprietor, F York Jones, used to advertise proudly that Cofton Wood Tea Room had 'special arrangements for supplying jugs of tea without waiting, even on the busiest days.'

Caption For Cleveleys, Jubilee Gardens C1950

It featured a paddling pool, tennis courts, a pitch and putt course and a bowling green, where Lord Stanley bowled the first wood.

Caption For Ardleigh Green, Southend Road C1955

Ardleigh Green Road reaches the Southend Arterial Road (A127) and beyond is Squirrel's Heath Road heading for Harold Wood.

Caption For West Runton, The Roman Encampment 1922

Either way, it is nice to relax and have refreshments among the wooded hills, especially after driving there in convertibles such as those parked at the gateway.

Caption For Hawarden, Old Castle 1888

The path beckons the visitor to venture into the woods to discover the story that this castle might tell.

Caption For Chester, Bridge Street 1888

As well as Newman, who had an interesting line in metal trunks and chests, bird-cages and bicycles, there was Thomas Wood & Sons for lamps and household appliances, including zinc baths, and Shaws

Caption For Hutton, Village C1955

This secluded community lies in a wooded valley on the outskirts of Guisborough.

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Caption For Evershot, C1960

These woods around Melbury Park lay at the heart of the Fox-Strangways family lands of the Earls of Ilchester.

Caption For Yetminster, View From Tarks Hill C1960

We are looking north- eastwards from one of the public footpaths across Tarks Hill over Mill Lane and Brister End (centre) to the twin peaks of Honeycombe Wood (top left) and Lillington Hill

Caption For Abbey Dore, Dore Abbey C1965

It was restored by the 'Good Lord Scudamore' and re-consecrated in 1634. The restoration of the roof required the wood of 204 Herefordshire oak trees.

Caption For Plympton, St Mary's 1890

The monks had their own path through the woods to the church, where they had their own pews.

Caption For Osmington, The Bay, Chalet Centre C1960

Increasingly wooded these days, the valley also hides the old coastguard cottages and the replacement coastguard cottages. John Jefferson was the Victorian chief officer of the coastguard station.

Caption For Abbey Dore, Dore Abbey C1965

It was restored by the 'Good Lord Scudamore' and re-consecrated in 1634. The restoration of the roof required the wood of 204 Herefordshire oak trees.

Caption For Leeds, Temple Newsam Gardens C1960

Temple Newsam was bought by Leeds Corporation in 1922 from Edward Wood, the future Lord Halifax.

Caption For Eling, The Quay C1955

This photograph somehow conveys the feel of a picturesque West Country creek, with its thickly wooded shore and little boats stranded at low tide. The scene has changed little today.

Caption For Forest Green, The Smithy 1924

This smithy in this Wealden hamlet snuggled beneath the woods below Leith Hill was still busily occupied in the repair of farm machinery and the shoeing of horses.

Caption For Balderstone, Commons Lane C1955

Mellor Brook is the nearest village of any size in this well-wooded area.

Caption For Hastings, From East Cliff 1891

The picturesque cliffs, coves, glens and wooded scenery that surround Hastings appealed to the Romantic tastes of the years after 1800.

Caption For Whitby, St Ann's Staith 1886

It was now firmly on the map: its narrow crowded alleys and harbourside streets, its ruined abbey and its souvenirs made from jet, fossilised wood found in the local area, proved a magnet for day trippers

Caption For Leeds, Woodhouse Moor 1897

Temple Newsam was bought by Leeds Corporation in 1922 from Edward Wood, the future Lord Halifax.The first house known to have been built here belonged to Thomas, Lord Darcy, who was executed for

Caption For Alderley Edge, The Edge 1896

With the Hough on the left and looking towards Waterfall and Clockhouse Woods, the path up the Edge, originally an old right of way from the Hough over to Macclesfield, has recently been

Caption For London, Crystal Palace 1900

After the Exhibition, it was moved to wooded parkland at Sydenham in south-east London.

Caption For Whitby, St Ann's Staith 1886

It was now firmly on the map: its narrow crowded alleys and harbourside streets, its ruined abbey and its souvenirs made from jet, fossilised wood found in the local area, proved a magnet for day trippers

Caption For Wallasea Island, Ferry Pier C1965

The floating jetty we see here has disappeared, to be replaced by a more substantial structure, but large chunks of the original wood still litter the marshes.