Maps

4,509 maps found.

1896, Tower Hill Ref. RNE850927
1896, Sawyers Hill Ref. RNE825806
1895, Scayne's Hill Ref. RNE826370
1898, Sem Hill Ref. RNE827583
1896, Shab Hill Ref. RNE828631
1898, Sheep Hill Ref. RNE829318
1898, Single Hill Ref. RNE831557
1895, Tutt Hill Ref. RNE854646
1897, Wake Hill Ref. RNE859560
1898, Westerleigh Hill Ref. RNE865771
1896, Westgate Hill Ref. RNE866041
1898, Weston Hills Ref. RNE866326
1896, Whelpley Hill Ref. RNE867118
1895, Wimble Hill Ref. RNE870862
1896, Windle Hill Ref. RNE871019
1896, Rose Hill Ref. RNE819976
1896, Ruardean Hill Ref. RNE821491
1895, Rushmore Hill Ref. RNE822941
1898, Saint Hill Ref. RNE823903
1897, Sandford Hill Ref. RNE824990

Books

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Memories

4,101 memories found. Showing results 231 to 240.

I Lived Here

This was the first home I ever knew and remains, to this day, the one I hold as the true definition of 'home'. Waterloo House was where I was brought as a newborn in June 1974, and where I lived so happily until 1980 when we were, ...Read more

A memory of Heptonstall in 1974 by Claire O'brien

Perfect Place

My name was Sandra Goodfellow when I was born at home in Erbistock in 1954. I lived on Twining hill. I had a very happy childhood there with my three siblings, Mum and Dad. I started Erbistock school in 1957. It was a cosy, two ...Read more

A memory of Erbistock by Sandra Bayley

Springfield Terrace

This view shows my house. It is the one at this end of Springfield Terrace - you can see a number of the terrace chimneys peeping out over the top of the hill to the left. We overlook the River Torridge. You can see the old ...Read more

A memory of Bideford in 1890 by Terence Sackett

My Most Memorable Corner

I lived at Corbieton Cottage for 22 years between 1939 & 1961 and this is the view I saw as I came down the hill to go to school, to Sunday school, to Scouts, to the Kirk, to the pub, the Hall, the bowling, the ...Read more

A memory of Haugh of Urr by Jim Cook

Those Were The Days!

I was born in a house on the Eastern Avenue between Cantly gardens and Denham Drive in 1955. I moved to wales to go to uni in 1975. I worked as a Saturday girl in Barton’s the bakers in Gants Hill for a ridiculously low wage. ...Read more

A memory of Gants Hill by Gill Fitzgibbon

Tracing My Father

Hi Bill tellford I'm trying to find out about my dad I am to believe he work at the bakery in 1963 when I was born I think his friend was Frank Smith he was called Laurence Carew a black man if you can help in any way to trace him thank you my email is sheilapresley63@hotmail.com or 07456406046

A memory of Roundthorn by Sheila Brook

Fabulous Memories.

I was 17 years old when this photo was taken. Four years later I went into the Motor cycle shop on the right and bought an eighteen month old BSA Rocket Gold Star. Without question the finest bike I ever owned. I remember selling ...Read more

A memory of Altrincham by lesandve

The Printing Works Premises.

The property on the left of the photograph marked 'Printing Office' is where I grew up and lived until my student days. My parents operated a bakers and confectionery business from the premises. In 1890, when a printing ...Read more

A memory of Ingleton by Claire Allen

The Coronation

In 1953 very few households had television. I remember going along to the Fourways cafe on Coronation Day with my parents so that we could watch the Coronation on the television. My sister was only 3 and I was 5. The cafe was ...Read more

A memory of Borough Green in 1953 by Marian Smith

Bellesfields Road Of Stockwell Road In The War

At 26 Bellesfields road Brixton off Stockwell Road, lived James Greenfield a Police Constable, who lived with his mother Florence Sarah nee Tyler, at this address before he married Dorothy Thomas at Holy Trinity Church Tulse Hill on August the 3rd 1940.

A memory of Brixton by Gemma Gemma

Captions

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Caption For Grindleford, The Village C1960

Grindleford's war memorial (left) at the foot of Sir William Hill in the upper part of the village is based on the design of Eyam's Saxon preaching cross, and so it repeats the strange truncated appearance

Caption For Chideock, Village 1912

Chideock, always pronounced without the 'e', is set in a landscape of ancient ridgeways and rolling hills.

Caption For West Lulworth, The Village 1903

The village street curves around the foot of Bindon Hill as it approaches the cove, with the Cove Hotel next to the thatched cottages on the left.

Caption For Luton, Corn Exchange C1950

These premises were on Market Hill at the top of George Street, opposite the old Corn Exchange. They made way for Debenhams in 1978.

Caption For Coverack, From The South West 1938

Development dating from the 19th and early 20th centuries has crept up the hill away from the little fishing harbour on the east side of the Lizard peninsula.

Caption For Staintondale, The Village C1960

During the reign of King Stephen in the 12th century, the original owners of Bell Hill Farm, Staintondale, rang a bell or blew a horn every evening to act as a guide to travellers.

Caption For Northfield, The Black Horse 1949

The Great Stone Inn is one of Northfield's older drinking establishments, as is the Old Bell House, Bell Hill.

Caption For Marske, Village 1913

Marske is an attractive and unusual Swaledale village, neither nuclear nor linear, nestling in a fold of hills just above the River Swale.

Caption For Devonport, Hms Lion And Implacable 1890

Fittingly, it stands high on a hill over- looking the dockyard from which HMS 'Doris' would have sailed to South Africa.

Caption For Bromyard, Tower House C1965

This beautiful building stands in Tower Hill, part of Bromyard that has been virtually cut off from the rest of the town by a new bypass.

Caption For Runcorn, All Saints Church 1894

It was designed by Anthony Salvin and built using stone from the nearby Runcorn Hill quarries.

Caption For Melplash, The Village 1912

South Warren Hill rises to form the skyline in this picture, taken from the highway between Rose Cottage (left) and Rock Cottage (right).

Caption For Claughton, C1955

Claughton Hall, a Tudor mansion near the church, was moved stone by stone higher up into the hills.

Caption For Hope, Moorgate And Lose Hill 1920

Lose Hill, at 1,563ft, is the eastern extremity of a fine ridge which runs from Mam Tor.

Caption For Uley, The Village C1960

landscape here is a fine example of the continuing denudation of the Cotswold Scarp; it is of great interest to geologists, as the outlying peaks and downs were once connected to the main hill

Caption For Caversham, St Peter's Hill 1908

St Peter's Hill climbs out of the village towards Caversham's striking parish church of St Peter, which occupies a pleasant setting above the Thames.

Caption For Swansea, General View From Hill 1893

This panoramic view is very evocative of two major factors in the city's history: the rolling hills which surround it, and the rows of terraced worker's cottages, which testify to the city's once significant

Caption For Saffron Walden, St Mary's Church, From The High Street C1955

St Mary's, standing on Bury Hill, can be seen from most parts of the town. The fine brick-faced buildings on the right are Frank Bailey's garage, with a repairs workshop behind.

Caption For Roseberry Topping, 1932

It is not the highest of the Cleveland Hills: Burton Head rises to 1,485 ft, but Roseberry is acknowledged as offering the finest views.

Caption For Tiverton, Country View C1960

Close to Tiverton, this could be said to be archetypal Devon: rolling hills, cultivated fields and a small farm tucked away from the world.

Caption For Swimbridge, Village C1955

Other pictures of Swimbridge looked north towards a hill, from which this view is taken. Of note is the amount of tree surgery that has taken place, particularly around the church.

Caption For Westbury Leigh, The Village C1950

This view looks towards Leighton House on the hill. The post office and general stores in Leigh Street was, and still is, important to the community.

Caption For Allithwaite, Kirkhead Tower C1965

It is thought that the first church in the district, predating Cartmel Priory, would have been on Kirkhead, giving the hill its name.

Caption For Goodwood, The Racecourse 1904

High on the South Downs, an enthusiastic crowd, many of whom have cycled up the steep hill to the Trundle, enjoy the atmosphere of 'Glorious Goodwood', a week of racing that still begins on the last Tuesday