Maps

789 maps found.

1896, Knowl Wood Ref. RNE750491
1896, Lingards Wood Ref. RNE756323
1895, Petts Wood Ref. RNE805513
1899, The Woods Ref. RNE846575
1896, Priory Wood Ref. RNE811185
1898, Radmore Wood Ref. RNE812747
1896, Ramsden Wood Ref. RNE813217
1896, Shenley Wood Ref. RNE829666
1895, Oakley Wood Ref. RNE795589
1898, Wood Norton Ref. RNE872739
1896, Wood Stanway Ref. RNE872778
1898, Wood Street Ref. RNE872779
1899, Woods Bank Ref. RNE873855
1896, Woods End Ref. RNE873861
1899, Yardley Wood Ref. RNE875593
1895, Winding Wood Ref. RNE871010
1896, Wood Burcote Ref. RNE872419
1898, Wood Dalling Ref. RNE872435
1899, Wood End Ref. RNE872455
1899, Wood End Ref. RNE872456

Books

4 books found. Showing results 553 to 4.

Memories

2,407 memories found. Showing results 231 to 240.

Maes Y Llan Where I First Lived

These houses are in Maes-y-llan.My father Den and mother Hilda Wildblood with my sister Anne were the first to live in Number 6 when the houses were built in 1948 I believe.I was born in 1954 and it was my first home ...Read more

A memory of Meifod in 1955 by Larry W

Family Day Out Clerkenwell To Caterham 1925

The above photo depicts Dorothy Connor (nee Step) aged 10, with her late Mother Elizabeth Step (aged 46) and her Sister, Florence Step (aged 21) having alighted from the 159a Bus which brought them from ...Read more

A memory of Caterham by Elisabeth Connor

My First And Last Jobs In Hull

This is a photo of the Derringham Branch of the Hull Savings Bank where I started as a junior bank clerk at the age of 16 on 31st August 1965, probably around the time when this photo was taken. It certainly ...Read more

A memory of Kingston upon Hull in 1965 by David Farrow

My Early Years In Salford

I was born in Salford, at 15 School Street in 1951. My first school was Stowells Memorial, I think the headmistress was a Miss Dent. There was a butchers shop one the corner with the same name as our family, but I don't ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1951 by Jacqueline Timperley

Reminiscing

I was born in NW London. My first visit to Woburn Sands was about 1950 when my Uncle Ted and Aunt Ada moved here. They lived at the 'Dene' Aspley Hill. Aunt Ada did the housework for Mrs Russell the owner of the 'Dene' and my uncle ...Read more

A memory of Woburn Sands in 1950 by Roy Batham

Holmwood School Pupil.

I have many memories of my time at Holmwood School. I joined as a day boy in 1968, when the Headmaster was David Glass and I left around 1973 when the Headmaster was Johnny Clegg. I remember the trips we had in the old school ...Read more

A memory of Formby in 1968 by Alan Browning

Eric Smith''''s Greengrocer''''s 21 Lordship Lane Se22

My Dad, Eric Smith, opened a Greengrocer's shop at number 21 Lordship Lane in 1962. At that time there was a traditional butchers shop one side and a grocery shop the other side. Opposite was a piano ...Read more

A memory of Dulwich in 1962 by Debbie Williams, Nee Smith

Ackroyd Coffee Bar

Just down the road from the Shoulder of Mutton pub was Ackroyds coffee bar. In the 60s we young ones would meet, listen to the juke box, drinking frothy coffee. The horse and cart outside the pub belonged to Herman Wood the local milkman. The cart was a daily sight outside the pub.

A memory of Clayton West in 1966 by David Johnson

Happy Days In Thorne Park

Happy days in the paddling pool and on the swings, the old parkie taking your name for riding your bike in the park, what did he do with all the names? Remembrance Day in the park in 1963 as a cub, Mr Metcalf leading us. ...Read more

A memory of Thorne in 1962 by Nigel Shearman

Living With Nanny

I remember well living with my nanny in Neames Forstell, she was Rose Beake, a formidable lady, but oh how I loved her. I remember going to Selling school, and if it rained or snowed being brought home in the police car by Sargeant ...Read more

A memory of Selling in 1954 by Pam Tinsley

Captions

663 captions found. Showing results 553 to 576.

Caption For Lyme Regis, The Harbour C1955

The wooded skyline above the town extends from Rhode Barton and Thistle Hill to Penn Hill and Timber Hill.

Caption For Okeford Fitzpaine, C1960

The village, seen from Okeford Hill with Piddles Wood beyond (left), was estate-owned until April 1966, when it was auctioned by Sturminster Newton estate agent Arthur Richards.

Caption For Swindon, The Goddard Arms, High Street C1950

Looking East from Wood Street An inn has stood on this site for 400 years.

Caption For Graffham, The Village C1955

Located in a remote region north of Petworth, the village was originally formed in a clearing in the woods. The local wealden clay district is remarkable for large oak trees.

Caption For Daventry, High Street C1948

On the extreme right is Wood Bros, wine merchants, and above the shop there were two flats, both rented at one time by BBC trainee engineers and their fami- lies.

Caption For Balcombe, The Village C1955

This village is noted for its beautiful woods, a railway tunnel under the Balcombe Forest and a brick viaduct over the Ouse valley. The church of St Mary was built in 1847.

Caption For Middleton, The Market Place C1955

The Assheton Arms, an old coaching inn, is at the bottom of Long Street, with the Williams Deacons and Salford Bank, designed by Edgar Wood, to its right.

Caption For Frensham, The Little Pond C1965

Nowadays the ponds are owned by the National Trust, along with Frensham Common with its pine woods and heaths, and they are still as much a major tourist attraction as they were in the 1960s.

Caption For Swithland, Reservoir C1965

A mile or so south of Quorn, the camera looks north towards the weir, with Hawcliff Hill and Buddon Wood to the left.

Caption For Groby, The Pool C1960

Before the birth of theme parks, a day out in the late 1950s (when comparatively few people owned a car) was by Midland Red bus to Groby Pool, Swithland Woods and Bradgate Park, with the

Caption For Belvoir Castle, 1890

Beyond the thick wooded cover, the more open land of the deer park is corrugated by the medieval ridge and furrow of open field cultivation.

Caption For Kilndown, The Church 1901

Over the ensuing five years he also enriched the interior with a riot of colour, featuring painted wood, stone, glass and tiles.

Caption For Belvoir Castle, 1890

Beyond the thick wooded cover, the more open land of the deer park is corrugated by the medieval ridge and furrow of open field cultivation.

Caption For Warrington, Bridge Street C1950

The plainer frontage of Roberts' shoe shop is followed by the protruding shop windows of Hancock and Wood, shielded by sun awnings. Next comes the National Provincial Bank (now demolished).

Caption For Warrington, Bridge Street C1950

Hancock & Wood and Roberts shoe shop are almost all that remain of this 1950s scene.

Caption For Rye, Mermaid Street 1901

The three-gabled house on the right, Hartshorne House or the Old Hospital, 15th-century and 1576, was described in 1863 as 'an unsightly pile of wood and plaster too dilapidated to allow the lowest to

Caption For Kilndown, The Church 1901

Over the ensuing five years he also enriched the interior with a riot of colour, featuring painted wood, stone, glass and tiles.

Caption For Rochdale, Simpson Clough 1895

Cheesden Brook passes under Ashworth Road, flowing to the right to join Naden Brook as it leaves Carr, Gelder and Bamford Woods.

Caption For Plaistow, The Village C1955

Located in a remote region north of Petworth, the village was originally formed in a clearing in the woods. The local wealden clay district is remarkable for large oak trees.

Caption For Holmbury St Mary, Post Office C1965

The Frith photographer's desire to take views of post offices has led him to ignore the beautifully-situated village centre around its green and also the good 1879 church, designed, built and

Caption For Piddinghoe, The Village C1955

The scene is more wooded now.

Caption For Wymondham, The Abbey 1891

Inside there are elaborate wood and stone carvings, a hammer-beam roof and a modern altar-screen, which is a war memorial.

Caption For Kilburn, The Village Centre C1965

Born in the village was the 'mouse man', wood carver and furniture maker Robert Thompson (1876-1955). His intricate carvings can be seen in churches across the world.

Caption For Devils Bridge, The Falls C1880

The awful height of the fissure which the bridge bestrides a hundred feet above the observer, rendered doubly gloomy by its narrowness, and the wood which overhangs it; the stunning noise of the torrent