Maps

70 maps found.

1897, Bowling Bank Ref. RNE647338
1900, Bowling Green Ref. RNC647344
1896, West Bowling Ref. RNE863755
1919, Bowling Green Ref. POP647344
1940, Bowling Green Ref. NPO647346
1947, Bowling Green Ref. NPO647341
1902, Bowling Green Ref. RNC647340
1899, Bowling Green Ref. RNE647340
1899, Bowling Green Ref. RNE647342
1896, Bowling Green Ref. RNE647343
1921, Bowling Green Ref. POP647342
1902, Bowling Green Ref. RNC647342
1947, Bowling Green Ref. NPO647340
1946, Bowling Green Ref. NPO647342
1919, Bowling Green Ref. POP647346
1898, Bowling Green Ref. RNE647341
1896, Bowling Green Ref. RNE647345
1890 - 1892, West Bowling Ref. HOSM63758
1895, Bowling Green Ref. RNE647344
1895, Bowling Green Ref. RNE647346

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Memories

480 memories found. Showing results 11 to 20.

1970's Poolsbrook

I lived in Poolsbrook from 1964-1981. We lived on Staveley Road after moving out of the doctors surgery up stairs I think, don't remember that bit to young. Poolsbrook had a good community in the 70's great school and play areas. ...Read more

A memory of Poolsbrook

4 Years At The Castle School Stanhope

In 1945 I was placed in South Hetton Remand Home at the age of 10 by Sunderland Magistrates Court.(I had a difficult homelife with a very physically abusive stepfather, otherwise I would have been fined 5 ...Read more

A memory of Stanhope in 1946

4th June 1961 Jfk Passes Through

It was 4th June 1961 and John F Kennedy was due to pass by Brentford on the Great West Road. The M4 had not yet been built. I went with my friend Graham around 7pm and joined the many people sitting on Macleans wall ...Read more

A memory of Brentford by Nick Beard

60s A Time Of Change

I lived in Southall ( west ave ) until the company my father worked for ( Cramic Eng ) moved to Oxfordshire. I and my two brothers went to Tudor road primary where in my year we were joined by Surinda Pal one of the first Sikh ...Read more

A memory of Southall by tross70559

A Back Hander

I was a chain lad when the M1 was being constructed. I was working for Amy's, the asphalt company. Amongst other things I was to make cups of tea and also collect thousands of pounds in wages for the work force. My boss who's name I ...Read more

A memory of Barnsley by Roland Mitchell

A Game Of Soccer In The River

Every year there would be a game played in the river in the village using the bridges as goal posts and is, as far as I am aware still played today. It would be around 1955 that my late father, Frederick ...Read more

A memory of Bourton-on-the-Water in 1955 by George Tarte

A Life In Consett

I was born in Consett in 1951 and spent all of my life here, I can remember lots of things mentioned in previous letters especially the Rex, I spent lots of Saturday mornings there, also Rossi's and Dyambro's on Saturday ...Read more

A memory of Consett in 1951 by John Cook

A Million Miles From A Game Of Football.

I wrote this piece for a writing group exercise in April/May 2019, near my home in NE Scotland. LIttle did I know then that some of the memories would form part of my Mum's Eulogy just three months later. The ...Read more

A memory of Wembley by shea.carol

A Recorder And A Rolls!

It was August 1955. School summer holidays and when they were over, it would be time for me to begin junior school back in my Midlands home town. My mother had been preparing for that big event, purchasing embroidered cloth ...Read more

A memory of Penzance by brucehaycock

A View From The Band Stand

I was born in 1965, the year the photo was taken and at the time my dad was a gardener at Parc Howard. I remember going to visit him almost every day, in the summer months, with either my grandmother or mother. This was ...Read more

A memory of Llanelli in 1968 by David Charles

Captions

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Caption For Macclesfield, The Victoria Park C1955

From the bowling green we can just see the High School and the houses on Fence Avenue through the trees on the right.

Caption For Torquay, The Bowling Green 1906

Torquay Bowling Club was founded in 1892 on the recreation ground; it moved to Princess Gardens in 1913, apparently after an elephant wrecked the green.

Caption For Garelochhead, The Village 1901

The hills in the background overlook Loch Long and are known as Argyll's Bowling Green. In the foreground is the North British Railway Co's line to Fort William and Mallaig.

Caption For Garelochhead, The Village 1901

The hills in the background overlook Loch Long and are known as Argyll's Bowling Green. In the foreground is the North British Railway Company's line to Fort William and Mallaig.

Caption For Camberley, Recreation Ground Gardens 1931

The tennis courts and bowling green are to the left.

Caption For Rhymney, Park, The Bowling Green C1955

The figures on the bowling green reveal that this facility was well used, despite its exposed position.

Caption For Grangetown, The Bowling Green C1955

Lying close to the gardens in picture T121004, the bowling green is another representation of rest and recreation in an area surrounded by heavy industry.

Caption For Stokenchurch, The Common C1955

Looking across Bowling Green to the south side of Oxford Road, these houses are mainly early and later 19th century.

Caption For Cliftonville, 1918

The Lawns, Cliftonville's rectangular-shaped cliff-top open space, with its bowling greens and seats high above the sea, is shown here some ten years after picture 60374 was taken, possibly in the

Caption For Redditch, Abbey Stadium Sports Ground C1965

As well as indoor facilities (see R84059, above), an athletics track, tennis courts, soccer pitches and a bowling green are all available at the sports centre, which occupies a semi-rural site not far

Caption For Sheffield, Crookes Valley Park C1955

Here we have a view of the cafe and tea garden, the boathouse, bowling green and tennis courts.

Caption For Norwich, Eaton Park Yacht Pond 1932

The park also has tennis courts, bowling greens, cricket pitches, flower gardens and a miniature railway: all the requirements for 1920s healthy outdoor leisure.

Caption For Norwich, Eaton Park Yacht Pond 1932

The park also has tennis courts, bowling greens, cricket pitches, flower gardens and a miniature railway: all the requirements for 1920s healthy outdoor leisure.

Caption For Camberley, London Road 1936

The tennis courts and bowling green are to the left.

Caption For Bingley, Five Rise Locks C1955

Today, the house at the bottom left corner is no more, and the grass is kept in bowling-green condition by the resident lock keeper.

Caption For Guildford, Castle Grounds Fish Pond 1906

The Castle grounds include the 200-year old bowling green, and were laid out as a pleasure garden when Guildford Corporation bought the Castle in the 1880s.

Caption For Churchtown, The Punch Bowl Inn C1955

The Punch Bowl Inn was formerly known as the Covered Cup, a reference to the three chalices contained within the emblem of the Butler family, who held the manor.

Caption For Cardiff, Roath Park 1931

In the distance the encroaching modern era is further evident by the tennis courts and bowling green - both installed around the time of the First World War.

Caption For Chelmsford, The Tower Gardens 1925

Today they accommodate cricket pitches, a bowling green and formal gardens, as well as tennis.

Caption For Lincoln, Monks Abbey 1890

This monastic cell of St Mary's Abbey in York, of which the chancel remains, is now in a municipal park and is surrounded by a bowling green and fenced football pitch.

Caption For Plymouth, The Hoe 1902

The Bandstand (foreground) once stood on the site of today's public bowling green before moving to this site near Smeaton's Tower.

Caption For Pontefract, Friarwood Valley Gardens C1960

Pontefract General Infirmary now overlooks the bowling green in this oasis of greenery near to the town centre.

Caption For Worthing, Marine Gardens C1965

During the 1930s two additional bowling greens were laid out at separate locations within the borough, one at Marine Gardens in 1930 (see W147157) and one at Church House Grounds in 1937.

Caption For Redditch, Abbey Stadium Sports Ground C1965

As well as indoor facilities (see R84059, above), an athletics track, tennis courts, soccer pitches and a bowling green are all available at the sports centre, which occupies a semi-rural site not far