Maps

776 maps found.

1895, White Post Ref. RNE868287
1903, Bagley Green Ref. HOSM59950
1880 - 1900, Hungryhatton Ref. HOSM55741
1894, Monxton Ref. HOSM57551
1921, Pested Ref. POP805368
1940, Pested Ref. NPO805368
1896, Pont Ref. RNE808470
1920, Pootings Ref. POP808889
1897-1898, Pested Ref. RNC805368
1919, Pont Ref. POP808470
1895, Pested Ref. RNE805368
1900, Pont Ref. RNC808470
1946, Pont Ref. NPO808470
1946, Pootings Ref. NPO808889
1895, Pootings Ref. RNE808889
1902-1903, Pont-Faen Ref. RNC808623
1900-1902, Pont-Faen Ref. RNC808627
1903-1910, Pont-Rhythallt Ref. RNC808665
1903-1910, Pont-Rug Ref. RNC808670
1901, Pont-Siân Ref. RNC808678

Books

1 books found. Showing results 49 to 1.

Memories

2,734 memories found. Showing results 21 to 30.

St Day Evacuee Lost Memories

I too was one of the London evacuees taken to St Day school to be selected by a villager; Miss Murton a shop owner took me into her home. Miss Murton gave up her shop with the rationing and coupon counting. Can anyone tell ...Read more

A memory of St Day in 1940 by Joan Barnard

Mine And My Mum Avrils Memories

My memories relate to the year 1977 when I arrived in Cropwell Bishop to stay with my Great Uncle Wilf and his wife Dorothy fresh from New Zealand. They lived at the old Post Office in the village of Cropwell ...Read more

A memory of Cropwell Bishop by Brenda Bowden

Ann & Vic Norman's Shop

My mother Joyce Stannard worked at the shop in this picture in the foreground with the canopy next to the wine merchants. When she started it was a little wool shop owned by Miss Wright - she sold it to the Norman's who expanded ...Read more

A memory of Cobham in 1960 by Julia Stannard

Fair Oak As It Was

My first day of school was September 1965 at Fair Oak Infants. It wasn't too bad the first day as my Mum was allowed to stay at the back of the classroom, but after that I was left on my own. I became very ...Read more

A memory of Fair Oak in 1965 by Gary Houghton

Snowing And Floating

Can't be too specific about the year, just know I was young. Perhaps we'd not been long in our house on Carr Lane, having lived in Dronfield before. What a treasure this house was, running water, separate bedrooms and ...Read more

A memory of Dronfield Woodhouse in 1956 by Raymond Gee

Rainy Days & Sundays

We used to go to Art Gallery & Museum on Sundays, especially if it was raining. We took the tramcar from Possilpark right to the door. My sister and our four brothers spent many happy hours there looking in wonder at all the ...Read more

A memory of Glasgow in 1940 by Mary Dudgeon

Post Office

This photograph has changed little I think apart from the demolishing of the public toilets on the right. The wooden notice board on the railings advertised the weekly films featured in the "Mem" and always drew my attention as I walked ...Read more

A memory of Pontycymer by David Jones

The Slate Islands Easdale

                                                  THE SLATE ISLANDS                                                         By Walter Deas Some 24k (15 miles) south and west of Oban lies an area with interesting old ...Read more

A memory of Easdale in 2005 by Walter Deas

1945 To 1966

My grandparents, Jabez Smith and Kate his wife owned the post office in Coombe Valley Road, formerly Union Road, before and during the war. Their daughter Rose Moss (my Mother) ran it from the age of sixteen. They also owned and lived in ...Read more

A memory of Dover by Ken Moss

Visiting This Shop

I started Gainford School in 1954 & remember Miss Browns little shop crammed full with habberdashery, stockings (nylons) hankies, knitting-wool, etc., everything you could possibly want - an oasis in this small village. She ...Read more

A memory of Gainford in 1955 by Faith Spence

Captions

1,653 captions found. Showing results 49 to 72.

Caption For Worcester, Foregate Street 1936

The Gaumont Cinema is a bingo hall now, and the Post Office is a J D Wetherspoon's pub, The Postal Order.

Caption For Hale, Victoria Street 1907

Hale is a typical example of a suburban post office in the Edwardian era. Housed in Kennerley's drapery store, local mail would be sorted and delivered from here.

Caption For Swansea, Castle Gardens C1965

The offices of the Swansea Evening Post are to the right. Now demolished, this building had variously been Town Hall, factory, jail, and post office. In its place there is just grass.

Caption For Wordsley, High Street C1965

The shop next to the post office used to belong to E C Whitney, a manufacturer of clerical clothing such as cassocks, surplices and stoles.

Caption For Crawley Down, The Village C1950

In our photograph, the village stores and post office were sheltered from the roadway behind trimmed hedges.

Caption For Thelwall, The Post Office C1955

The post office and the village shop were at the heart of Thelwall life in the mid 1950s.

Caption For Stadhampton, The Post Office And Village Store C1960

Henry Gibbs ran the post office, filling station and village store for many years.

Caption For Monks Eleigh, The Street C1955

Following the closure of the post office and stores in March 2003, a community shop and post office opened in the barn of the Swan in December 2003.The single-decker bus is approaching another now

Caption For Preston, The Post Office And War Memorial C1960

The Main General Post Office is on the left of the photograph. Gone are the days when it opened seven days a week from 7.30am to late in the evening.

Caption For Leysdown On Sea, Station Road C1955

Leysdown is the most easterly village of the Isle of Sheppey.

Caption For Bashall Eaves, Post Office, Café And General Stores C1955

The café is in the building at the top of the lane, with a post office and grocer's under the signs.

Caption For Haywards Heath, The Broadway C1950

Coventry Motor Company (later Caffyns) was the most centrally situated in the Broadway, whilst Dinnages were and still are in Sussex Road.

Caption For Medstead, Post Office C1955

The village shop and post office are featured prominently in this picture.

Caption For East Challow, Post Office And Village Hall C1965

Bristol cigarettes and Brooke Bond tea could be purchased at the Post Office Stores, run by M S Beevers at the time of this photograph.

Caption For Cadnam, The Forest Stores And Post Office C1960

The post office at Cadnam certainly has plenty of stock and a variety of advertisements. A Calor Gas stockist, the shop also boasts Brooke Bond and Walls ice cream.

Caption For Chideock, The Village 1922

Another view of Chideock Post Office (right), looking eastwards to Mervyn House, Staddlestones, and Rose Cottage (centre).

Caption For Exning, Chapel Street C1955

The post office on the corner has advertisements for the Doric Cinema, Newmarket. The post office and its sign have now been transferred to the second terrace house.

Caption For Madingley, The Ruined Windmill 1909

Here we see an old post windmill in its last stages of decay. It appears that the mill has been used as a source of firewood.

Caption For Crickhowell, High Street 1898

On the other side of the road is a lamp post advertising the post office.

Caption For Dulwich, The Village C1960

But the post box has crossed the road to be near the new Post Office on the left, and the pillared building on the extreme left is now a Pizza Express.

Caption For Mundesley, The Post Office C1955

Originally built as an estate office for Thomas Wakeling, this building eventually became the permanent home of Mundesley Post Office in 1910.

Caption For Broad Hinton, The Post Office C1945

This is Post Office Lane, and the village post office was located in the cottage on the left for many years up until 1966.

Caption For Ringwood, Avon Castle 1891

The Post Office C1960 Bransgore, north of Christchurch, grew over the years as a sprawling residential village.

Caption For Mellor Brook, C1955

Because Samlesbury Hall was so near, the area was popular with walkers and day trippers in the post-war years.