Maps

789 maps found.

1945, Collier's Wood Ref. NPO675575
1946, Bromley Wood Ref. NPO651649
1902, Warley Woods Ref. RNC860802
1946, Donnington Wood Ref. NPO692041
1946, Hill Wood Ref. NPO736068
1947, Holme Wood Ref. NPO738724
1940, Cousley Wood Ref. NPO679124
1947, Gipton Wood Ref. NPO713938
1898, Wood End Ref. RNC872458
1902, Wood Gate Ref. RNC872635
1901, Wood Walton Ref. RNC872792
1901, Woods Cross Ref. RNC873859
1903, Woods End Ref. RNC873861
1903, Woods Moor Ref. RNC873876
1924, Clinkham Wood Ref. POP670746
1920, Coolhurst Wood Ref. POP676827
1920, Binley Woods Ref. POP640248
1920, Tewin Wood Ref. POP846197
1921, The Woods Ref. POP846575
1919, Stock Wood Ref. POP839720

Books

4 books found. Showing results 505 to 4.

Memories

2,407 memories found. Showing results 211 to 220.

Netherthong In The First World War Part 2

Throughout the course of the First World War many local organizations raised money to send parcels to local soldiers. This was particularly relevant at Christmas and the presents included shirts, ...Read more

A memory of Netherthong by Michael Meitiner

Childhood

In the 1960s I lived in Ogilvie Terrace and spent lots of days wandering happy and safe in Deri. I remember the nut wood, picking whinberries, Doreen's shop, the gas pipes where we balanced and luckily did not come to harm, the horse-shoe ...Read more

A memory of Deri in 1960 by Lesley Kavanagh

Evacuation

I was evacuated about 1943. I can remember a field, I think of cauliflowers, opposite, and a bluebell wood somewhere at the bottom of the road. The people next door were called Ackridge(I don't know if that's spelt right), they had ...Read more

A memory of Cudworth in 1943 by Jean Nicholson

Drayton Jottings

Drayton Jottings. Auntie Alice, in Kings Avenue, regularly seen, out on her front doorstep, she kept it clean, the 'raddled' red stone was buffed to a shine, 'Old fashioned traditions', here continued,so fine. one day, ...Read more

A memory of Market Drayton by Allen Warrender

Bearmans

Bearmans was the big department store on the site which is now occupied by the Coop or Leo's. I remember the toy department at Christmas was fantastic with an enormous model train layout in the centre of the floor which would take ...Read more

A memory of Leytonstone in 1956

Memories Of Swithland

My first memory of Swithland Village goes way back to the days when I was very young. The war was over and we had become accustomed to Holidays at Home instead of going to the sea-side. My parents bought a chalet in what ...Read more

A memory of Swithland in 1947 by Janet Ramsey

Days Gone By

My memories of Greyabbey date back to 1940 just after the Blitz when Mum and her 3 sisters plus one sister-in-law with a bunch of kids relocated to Cardy, a small community appox. 3 miles from Greyabbey. I was 8 years of age at the ...Read more

A memory of Greyabbey in 1940 by Joe Murphy

I Remeber Hutton Residential School

I was a 'student' at the institution from about 1948 to 1953. I remember some of the staff. Head master was Mr Higdon, Teacher of wood work and house master was Mr McFadon. there was Gov Reily, Mr & ...Read more

A memory of Shenfield in 1953 by Peter Le May

Summer Trips To Martin"S

My sister Pauline and I used to come here with our mother, and sometimes father, on hot summer days, around 1948 to 1952 (age 6 to 10). We commuted three stops from Reading South in electric trains. I basically learned ...Read more

A memory of Wokingham in 1950 by Peter George

Where I Was Born

My Beginning, at Sole Street near Cobham Kent. (9th March 1946 - 2nd January 1951) I was born on Saturday March 9th 1946 at 3.29pm at Temperley, The Street, Sole Street, Kent. I was delivered at home by the ...Read more

A memory of Sole Street in 1946

Captions

663 captions found. Showing results 505 to 528.

Caption For Camberley, St Paul's Church 1907

His grave, in St Peter's, Frimley, contains a cross made up of wood from that ship.

Caption For Tadworth, Cross Road C1955

This view was taken at the crossroads of Woodfield Road, Barnett Wood Lane and Craddocks Parade, the 1930s three- storey flats over shops.

Caption For Bisham, Abbey And Church 1890

Situated between the River Thames and Quarry Woods, made famous in Kenneth Grahame's 'The Wind in the Willows', Bisham is one of Berkshire's most historic villages.

Caption For Lindfield, Bower House And Church 1957

The church of St John the Baptist is mainly 13th-century and has a wood-shingled broach spire. The village has many historic houses.

Caption For Waddesdon, The Manor, West Front 1897

Lodge Hill was then a bare hill, but the Baron imported vast numbers of mature trees to give it its present wooded character; teams of horses toiled from far and wide to haul the trees to their destination

Caption For Bradford On Avon, View From The Quarry C1955

This view from Grip Wood shows the rear of the Tithe Barn, which defines the southern edge of Barton Manor Farm.

Caption For Lazonby, The Church C1955

Not long after, the enthusiastic wood-carving cleric Canon Wilson adorned the interior with much of his own work.

Caption For Wrea Green, The Duck Pond C1965

Lovers' Lane was glorious with bluebells and wood anemones in spring.

Caption For Bowness On Windermere, Sailing Boats 1896

Almost certainly a race or regatta is in progress, as the distinctive boats of the Royal Windermere Yacht Club pose gracefully against the wooded shoreline.

Caption For Peaslake, The Cross 1939

This is the centre of this secluded little hamlet tucked away on the north side of Hurt Wood, with its modest stone war memorial isolated on a triangular green, opposite the village shop and post office

Caption For Alderley Edge, Stormy Point C1955

The stone platform on the left has a memorial plaque on it to the Misses Pilkington, whose efforts in the 1940s ensured the Wizard Woods were saved from development and handed over to the National

Caption For Wakefield, Wood Street C1953

The abundance of Union Jacks and other flags in this view of Wood Street suggests that the photograph was taken in 1953, the year of Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation.

Caption For Eynsford, 1905

The church of St Martin was originally Norman; its spindly 13th- century wood-shingled spire is augmented by a brightly-painted clock-face, which was added the year before this photograph was taken

Caption For Whiteleaf, The Cross And The Chilterns 1897

The bare chalk in this view of the Whiteleaf Cross is nowadays not seen so clearly; the downs have since become covered in trees and scrub, with woods in the middle distant field.

Caption For Silverdale, Road To The Beach C1955

Silverdale is a beautiful limestone village in the midst of woods and craggy outcrops.

Caption For Sudbury, Police Station 1906

The police station was demolished after the opening of the new station in Acton Road in 1967 - the site is now a wooded traffic island.

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 Westdean, 1921

Here we see a rural scene in a fold of the Downs - now much more wooded and obscured by trees. A stack yard is in the foreground, with round and rectangular corn ricks.

Caption For Widnes, West Bank 1923

This area had been regarded as a holiday resort, and had been known as Wood-end 150 years before. The square tower, centre, is St Mary's Church, built in 1908.

Caption For Windsor, Castle Hill 1914

When Windsor was besieged by the Dauphin of France in 1216, part of its defences were still wood and earth, though in 1221 its castellan Engelard de Cigogne was authorised to commence a series of works

Caption For Rusper, The Village 1909

Set in remote and well-wooded rolling countryside west of and utterly remote from Crawley, Rusper has a gently curving main street with many good houses and cottages.

Caption For Abinger Common, Wotton House, The Hunt C1965

The diarist John Evelyn described the 'delicious streames and venerable Woods' around Wotton.

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Caption For Wray, C1955

Still pleasantly rural, with views of woods and the distant Bowland Fells, this village stands near Wennington Hall, where Peter Hesketh, founder of Fleetwood-on-Wyre was born.

Caption For Chalford, The Church 1900

Not far from Stroud, the village of Chalford clings to the steep wooded hillside of the Golden Valley.