Maps

3,664 maps found.

1946, Wingfield Ref. NPO871382
1895, Farley Ref. RNE703419
1898, Dunkirk Ref. RNE695531
1898, Durrington Ref. RNE696013
1897-1898, Quidhampton Ref. RNC812406
1897-1899, Ridge Ref. RNC816498
1919, Highway Ref. POP734724
1919, Halfway Ref. POP724984
1919, Holloway Ref. POP738268
1919, Hudswell Ref. POP741816
1919, Huish Ref. POP741871
1919, Kilmington Ref. POP747312
1919, Knighton Ref. POP749716
1946, Heywood Ref. NPO732228
1945, Holloway Ref. NPO738268
1940, Horton Ref. NPO740858
1940, Dunkirk Ref. NPO695531
1940, Easton Ref. NPO698713
1919, Longfield Ref. POP766884
1919, Pitton Ref. POP806948

Books

16 books found. Showing results 25 to 16.

Memories

113 memories found. Showing results 11 to 20.

Sixties Longleat

Many fond memories of Longleat over the last 46 years: the freedom we all enjoyed as villagers to roam across the estate - the sixth Marquess was always very generous in this respect. The remains of the American hospital were still ...Read more

A memory of Longleat in 1966 by Geoff Pridmore

Happy Memories

I lived and went the junior school from 1964 to August 1965, the school's headmaster was Mr Smart, he was a fantastic teacher. I then went to Alnwick Secondary Modern, the name I can't recall. I have such fantastic memories of ...Read more

A memory of Alnmouth in 1965 by Terence Mckinlay

Childhood

I did get the privilege to revisit Mitcham again this year. The fair green has changed little, there is now a main road running striaght to Tooting Broadway opposite the fair green, where the Bucks Head pub was there is a paved off area and ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1964 by Marion Lane

Motorbikes In The Square

My mate John Lavois (known as Johnny Dustman) had a BSA Super Rocket and frequented the square. Also memories of the late Wilbur Wallace on his Manx Norton and "Flash" on his BSA Gold Flash, Chris Embling (Douglas Dragonfly), ...Read more

A memory of Wantage in 1964 by Keith Willey

Kevin Devine Remembers Little Jim's Cottage

In the early 1960s as a small boy, this was the home of my grandmother and grandfather, Hilda and John Guy. I remember going to visit them with my mother, Cynthia Joan Devine, formerly Guy. I used to love ...Read more

A memory of Polesworth in 1963 by Victoria Devine

Sir G Richards

I was but a young lad of 13 when I were to stay in a small village called Oare with my brother-in-law and sister within a cottage of which was named the China Cottages. The cottages originally had ceilings as low as five feet ...Read more

A memory of Milton Lilbourne in 1963 by Roland Mitchell

I Used To Live There

I used to live with my family in the Black Horse Pub from around 1963-1965.  I left just after starting secondary school.  I still live in Wiltshire and often drive through Tilshead for a trip down memory lane.  I am now in my ...Read more

A memory of Tilshead in 1963 by Rose Newitt

Memories Of A Temporary 'home'

At the time, I was in the RN, serving in a Joint Servce org attachd to the Army at Wilton. My wife and I lived in Manor Road, just off London Road. Most of our shopping was done at weekends, starting off with a 'refuel' ...Read more

A memory of Salisbury in 1962 by David Jones

Memories Of My Childhood

I was born in 1956, in Wiltshire, but my first memories are of Pawlett, where we moved, when I was very small. It was a smaller, quiter village than it is even now. I went to the village school, on the village green, next to ...Read more

A memory of Pawlett in 1961 by Rene Rees

Barry Hammond

Though I have never been to the fair city of Chesterfield, I had a good army mate whom I served with in Corsham in Wiltshire. I have been trying to find him for years, who knows, someone on this site MIGHT just know of him, a stab in the dark, maybe !!

A memory of Chesterfield in 1960 by Brian Williams

Captions

77 captions found. Showing results 25 to 48.

Caption For Sherfield English, The Hatchet Inn C1965

Situated to the west of Romsey, Sherfield English lies close to the county boundary with Wiltshire.

Caption For Cricklade, High Street C1950

This small Wiltshire market town has a long, roughly north-south High Street, seen here looking north from the junction with Bath Road.

Caption For Limpley Stoke, The Village C1955

This Wiltshire village grew up on three roughly parallel terraces on the steep and well-wooded Avon valley side, with the parish church at the south end.

Caption For Exmouth, The Strand 1906

This earlier view of the Strand shows the Wiltshire & Dorset Bank on the left and the Commercial and Temperance Hotel in the far distance.

Caption For Masham, The Druids Temple C1960

This miniature model of Stonehenge in far-off Wiltshire was erected by William Danby of Swinton Hall, Ilton, near Masham in around 1820 as a folly to interest and impress visitors to his estate.

Caption For Trowbridge, Silver Street And Town Hall 1900

Home brewed Wiltshire Ales can be obtained at the New Inn, and Ushers Ales are still brewed today in the town.

Caption For Broad Hinton, The White Horse C1955

It is amateurish in design, and the least impressive of all the Wiltshire horses.

Caption For Goodworth Clatford, St Peter's Church 1965

Near the Wiltshire border, St Peter's contains a tablet which recalls a chorister's dedicated service in this church.

Caption For Broad Hinton, The White Horse C1955

It is amateurish in design, and the least impressive of all the Wiltshire horses.

Caption For Calne, Church Street C1965

At No 23 is Rosa Lewis Cole, confectioner, and next door at No 24 is Wiltshire & Sons, butchers; their grocer's shop is opposite (left) at No 22.

Caption For Combe Down, Church Road C1965

Westbury Avenue, to the right, was named because of its view to Westbury White Horse in Wiltshire.

Caption For Calne, Holy Trinity Church C1960

The school friends Brian Gregg, Rod Goodway, Roger Hartley, Bob Duke and Andy Rickell were discovered by pop impresario Micky Most, who lived in Wiltshire at the time.

Caption For Lechlade, The Moorings C1955

Wharves and warehouses were built alongside the river to accommodate the trade in cheeses from all parts of Gloucestershire and North Wiltshire.

Caption For Warminster, Christ Church C1950

This church was built as part of the 'suburban' church movement for dealing with the expanding industrial towns of Wiltshire.

Caption For Bristol, Union Street C1965

The business was founded by Joseph's father, who had come to Bristol from Wiltshire.

Caption For Hever, The Village 1906

Hever is intimately associated with Anne Boleyn, who spent her childhood here in the company of her father Sir Thomas Bullen, the Earl of Wiltshire, whose tomb is at the little church of St Peter.

Caption For Bradford On Avon, Holy Trinity Church 1914

On the wall of the nave is 'one of the loveliest fragments of sculpture in Wiltshire, the portrait of a 13th-century lady, with curls in her hair, and hands clasped'.

Caption For Ashton Keynes, High Road C1955

This Wiltshire village is known locally as the village of four crosses, all medieval.

Caption For Beckhampton, The Waggon And Horses C1955

The petrol station opposite, once owned by Frank C Harcombe, according to Kelly's Directory of Wiltshire 1939, is now a parking area.

Caption For Calne, Church Street C1965

Wiltshire & Sons (left of photograph) opened their first supermarket in the 1960s, which later became Gateway in 1973.

Caption For South Tidworth, Old Cottages C1962

South Tidworth is situated in the Test Valley, but in the 1974 boundary changes it ended up in Wiltshire.

Caption For Swindon, High Street And Goddard Arms C1950

This building opened as the Wiltshire & Dorset Bank in 1885 and is now used as offices and as a hairdresser's salon.

Caption For Trowbridge, Fore Street 1900

Trowbridge is the county town of Wiltshire, chosen in 1888 for reasons of communication.

Caption For Bruton, King Alfred's Tower C1955

The last tour heads west from the Wiltshire border to Devonshire; we are never far from Dorset to the south.