Maps

181,031 maps found.

1881, Wickwar Ref. HOSM64543
1909, Chirk Ref. HOSM40944
1909, Gyfelia Ref. HOSM47294
1909, Overton Ref. HOSM55910
1898, Rhosrobin Ref. HOSM57730
1909, Bedwell Ref. HOSM58231
1882, Wymondham Ref. HOSM35468
1882, Hackford Ref. HOSM47308
1882, Silfield Ref. HOSM59256
1913, Ravenscar Wood Ref. HOSM40311
1883, Yelverton Ref. HOSM35473
1901, Barwick Ref. HOSM37267
1901, Halstock Ref. HOSM47533
1901, Netherton Ref. HOSM54659
1885, Podimore Ref. HOSM56788
1898, Backford Ref. HOSM36662
1897, Clutton Ref. HOSM41320
1898, Hoole Ref. HOSM48879
1898, Penyffordd Ref. HOSM70868
1909, Pulford Ref. HOSM57212

Books

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Memories

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A Tour Around Prehistoric Stones At Avebury

Avebury is an interesting place to visit for history, archaeology and garden interests. My wife, Elizabeth, and I saw it on Sunday 24th April in bright hot sunshine when the stones are at their best; ...Read more

A memory of Avebury in 2011 by John Howard Norfolk

Forgotten Children

My mother (Doris Daye) was married to a Canadian, Robert Lennox, at this church in January 1941. I was born in July. We lived at 8 The Terrace, Sunning Hill. Aparently he was AWOL and was sent back to Canada some 4 years later, ...Read more

A memory of Sunninghill in 1941 by Colin Lennox

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

Jennie Wren

My Godmother, Jennie Wren, lived in the Easneye Gatehouse, as shown, at around this time, possibly slightly later. This gateway was also used in one of the St Trinian's films, which featured a racehorse which was being hidden at ...Read more

A memory of Stanstead Abbotts in 1964 by Martin Wisbey

My Memories Of Chandler's Ford, Approx. L934/5

In the spring/early summer of 1935 I was admitted to Chanderr's Ford Sanitorium for treatment of tuberular glands in the neck. I spent six months there and have some happy memories of feeding the ...Read more

A memory of Chandler's Ford in 1930 by Doreen Dicker

Purchase

Seeing an advert for sale of The Old School Lower Hartshay began an exciting voyage of discovery. 1884 now anchors my hold on local history and family research. Many have been the times when passers by have been invited in and have ...Read more

A memory of Lower Hartshay in 1980 by Heather Howard

My Memories Of Weymouth

I enjoyed the photos of Weynmouth and other memories - I used to visit my aunt and uncle through the 1950s when they ran a hotel right on the quay called The Edward Hotel, now made into apartments I believe. It was right ...Read more

A memory of Weymouth in 1950 by Gwynne Tilly

Sindlesham

Does anyone have memories of Sindlesham from the 1950s till the late 1960s? It would be nice if someone has. It was such a pretty place.

A memory of Sindlesham by Susan Rumble

Church Farm

My father Kenneth Walker and his father once owned the farm across the road from the parish church. We have photos of the farm before houses were built on fields behind the farm house.

A memory of Barton-under-Needwood in 1956 by Ian Walker

Growing Up

my memory of living in "God's Village" is of days roaming round the grange, going down the fields to the beck, getting to the top of the "Red Ash Pit Heap", coming back round the coke works and spending loads of time messing around the TMS garage, most week nights and all day Saturday and Sunday.

A memory of Trimdon Grange in 1959 by Thomas Spresser

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Captions

29,395 captions found. Showing results 4,537 to 4,560.

Caption For Pegwell, High Street 1907

On the right is the old Belle Vue Tavern dating back to the 1760s, which was an earlier haunt for smugglers.

Caption For Devils Bridge, The Falls C1880

This view shows the 'sublime horrors' of the waterfall that the first visitors came to see.

Caption For Horsham, The Carfax 1907

St Mary's Church 1907 Moving north-east to the western end of the Sussex Weald, we reach the town of Horsham, which expanded greatly after the railway arrived in 1848.

Caption For Stanmore, The Broadway C1965

On the left are the shops which came with the 1930s transformation of this previously rural area, while on the right is the Ernest Bernays Memorial Institute of 1870, only really attractive when compared

Caption For Walditch, Village 1899

This is a fine example of Bridport`s eastern countryside, with the Dorset Downs falling away into the Marshwood Vale (far left) from the heights of Eggardon Hill and woods of Knowle Hill (left), in

Caption For Marden, High Street C1955

Marden lies nine miles south of Maidstone. In this quintessential village scene, we see the village bobby standing next to the red telephone box, with a café selling ice creams behind.

Caption For Baldock, White Horse Street 1925

This view looks back towards the site of photograph No 77098.

Caption For Windsor, Castle Hill 1914

The original tower was probably the first part of the castle to be built of stone, though its internal buildings were still wooden.

Caption For Cheam, Ewell Road C1955

On the left, two uniformed schoolboys, probably from either Sutton Grammar or Sutton High School, are about to pass the hedge in front of Cheam Hall as they make their way towards the main junction.

Caption For Headcorn, The Village 1903

During the 15th century, Headcorn was a cloth-making centre which prospered with the arrival of Flemish weavers, and its single, long street has several fine buildings dating back to that time.

Caption For Bramfield, The Street C1955

The roof of the former vicarage can be seen between the pub and the bus shelter of c1953. On the left is the garden of Thomas Neale's almshouses of 1723, demolished in 1968.

Caption For Bebington, Higher Bebington Road C1960

For all its evocative name, Higher Bebington Road is quite short in length; it services Bebington High Sports College, the Higher Bebington recreation ground and the local branch of Wirral

Caption For Borrowdale, The Hotel C1870

This very early postcard view of the Borrowdale Hotel, with Grange Crags behind, shows the Lake District as it was before the tourist invasion really took hold.The traffic-free minor road meanders

Caption For Rockingham, The Village C1960

This photograph was taken about five years after R353020 (pages 62-63) and further down the hill towards the centre of Rockingham.

Caption For Portland, Chesil Beach 1890

Boats are on the Chesil Beach between Chiswell and Victoria Sqaure (top left), with Portland Harbour on the other side of the pebble bank (centre background), in a panorama north-westwards from Paradise

Caption For Kingsbury, Kingsbury Road C1960

Kingsbury Underground Station is situated some distance to the north-west of the original village centre, and within a range of not unattractive shops, seen on the right, with their pitched dormered and

Caption For Houghton Le Spring, The Broadway C1955

Hidden behind the trees is the parish church of St Michael and All Saints; burial place of Bernard Gilpin (died 1583), cleric, orator, philanthropist, and founder of Houghton Grammar School.

Caption For Whitby, From Tate Hilll 1885

Taken long before the days of amusement arcades and the bandstand, this photograph shows that Pier Road and the Crag consisted solely of dwelling houses, probably occupied mainly by the fishing community

Caption For Worcester, The Cathedral Quire 1891

This view of Worcester Cathedral was taken looking west along the length of the quire and nave to the great west window.

Caption For Petworth, Lombard Street 1906

Lombard Street is one of the least changed streets in this delightful market town, a tangle of narrow lanes and alleys winding to the east of the towering walls of Petworth House's grounds.

Caption For Tongwynlais, Castell Coch C1960

Castell Coch has featured in a number of films, both for screen and television.

Caption For Chesham, Town Hall 1897

Chesham has been a market town since 1257 when Hugh, Earl of Oxford, obtained from King Henry III a grant of a weekly market and annual three-day fair.

Caption For Groby, The Village C1960

A lovely composition of local stone cottages in the lee of the tree-shrouded parish church.

Caption For Abingdon, The Bridges From The Church Tower C1945

Here we see the river bridges and Nag's Head island, which separates the main river on the right and the back water on its left.