Maps

2,499 maps found.

1912, South-Haa Ref. RNC835698
1920, South Chingford Ref. POP1188995
1903, Athersley South Ref. RNC628309
1947, South Anston Ref. NPO834336
1947, South Bank Ref. NPO834372
1945, South Beddington Ref. NPO834403
1946, South Brewham Ref. NPO834448
1947, South Broomhill Ref. NPO834457
1947, South Carlton Ref. NPO834486
1947, South Corrielaw Ref. NPO834557
1946, South Croydon Ref. NPO834579
1947, South Duffield Ref. NPO834641
1947, South End Ref. NPO834661
1947, South Goldstone Ref. NPO834779
1940, South Gorley Ref. NPO834781
1947, South Gosforth Ref. NPO834783
1946, South Hackney Ref. NPO834812
1898, South Acre Ref. RNE834320
1896, South Acton Ref. RNE834323
1899, South Anston Ref. RNE834336

Books

23 books found. Showing results 721 to 23.

Memories

1,580 memories found. Showing results 301 to 310.

Lost Opportunity?

I was born in Drayton in 1943 and was at Solent Road School and the Northern Grammar School for Boys. I then went to London University and subsequently worked abroad while returning to Portsmouth regularly where I have my UK Home ...Read more

A memory of Portsmouth by Sir Roger Fry

Lancing In The Fifties And Sixties

My family moved to Lancing when I was six months old, living first in Orchard Avenue and then Tower Road, which had a bad reputation - totally undeserved! I liked the fact that there were always children to play ...Read more

A memory of Lancing by Avril Boyd

Best Holiday Ever

When I saw this photo, and read the memory by Jill Graham, I have to admit that tears filled my eyes. I stayed at Ashleigh with my parents and sister in the 60s. It was the first time that my parents had ever booked a holiday ...Read more

A memory of Allendale Town

The Oriel, Racecourse And The Later 60 S

The racecourse was pretty much my home all my life, Kempton Avenue. Sorry, a bit of a personal ramble here mixed with my remeniscing about me to put into context; I was born in Ealing in 53 of Welsh family (5 older ...Read more

A memory of Northolt by Nick Parr,

Mining My Archive

At the age of ten, my father moved me and the rest of the family from Low Fell to Esh Winning, without consulting any of us, including my mother. He had bought a tumble-down holiday cottage, situated between the pit-heap and the ...Read more

A memory of Esh Winning by David Woodhead

Best Childhood Ever

We moved to the prefabs in South Road, South Ockendon in 1949 From London, my sister and I started school in the village school the headmaster was Mr Impy after that we went to the new school which was called Mardyke School ...Read more

A memory of South Ockendon by Jean Compton

My Grandmother Had A Boarding House

My grandmother had a boarding house on Grand Parade on Hayling Island through the fifties into the sixties. Our summer holidays every year were to visit her in Hayling Island with all our extended large ...Read more

A memory of Hayling Island

Newbury Way And Rayners Gardens

I'm Steve and the earliest memories are of Newbury Way, a lower half of a 2 bedroom maisonette with an open coal fire and larder including a concrete slab to keep stuff cold. I recall riding my three wheeled bike ...Read more

A memory of Northolt by Steve White

Abseiling

My mother raised money abseiling down the flat. She also abseiled down Table Top mountain in South Africa....and built a Well. This also has a darker memory.... It was from the 8th floor. I bore witness. SQR

A memory of Jarrow

Wood House

Early C20 formal gardens and parkland designed and landscaped by Thomas Mawson and implemented by Robert Mawson of the Lakeland Nurseries, Windermere, surrounding a house designed by Dan Gibson with a ground plan by Thomas ...Read more

A memory of Taw Green by Tonnie Keith

Captions

2,476 captions found. Showing results 721 to 744.

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 Seaburn, Lower Promenade C1955

The Bank c1955 The village of Whitburn lies between South Shields and Sunderland. On the north side of the village green is this raised terrace.

Caption For Frome, Christ Church Street West 1957

On the right is South Parade; the notice above directs us to Sheppards Barton Chapel.

Caption For Ladram Bay, From High Peak C1965

All of this coastline can be walked by following the South West Coast Path, ancient routes originally taken by the coastguards who patrolled the lonely coast.

Caption For Woodchester, C1955

Lying between Stroud and Nailsworth, the parish includes the villages of North and South Woodchester.

Caption For Eastbourne, Channel Trips C1955

sea-front hotels the ground climbs gently to the Wish Tower, one of a chain of coastal fortlets from the Napoleonic Wars, and beyond that are the great cliffs and Downs of Beachy Head, where the South

Caption For Caerphilly, The Castle 1893

If you look to the extreme left of it you can just make out the south water gate, which at this time was high and dry. The water defences extended to this side of the dam.

Caption For Chesterfield, Church Interior 1896

Both the tower and the south transept were added during the 14th century.

Caption For Redditch, Evesham Street C1955

This is the south end of Evesham Street, but none of this survives.

Caption For Bisley, The Hen And Chickens C1955

The ranges run south- east to north-west, with the targets below the number boards on the bund, or earthwork, behind them.

Caption For Cropthorne, 1901

At the south-eastern corner of Worcestershire stands Cropthorne, a pretty village just off the Evesham to Pershore road.

Caption For Harwich, Church Street 1954

A view looking south towards St Nicholas' church of 1821 and the adjoining Three Cups Hotel, part of which dates from the early 16th century.Admiral Nelson and Lady Hamilton stayed there.

Caption For Croxley Green, 1897

A magnificent oak tree dominates the common land and the pleasant nearby houses of this little hamlet on the southern outskirts of Rickmansworth, where, on land to the south-west, the famous Croxley

Caption For Paignton, Gerston Hotel 1907

The railway (then the South Devon, which was taken over by the great Western in 1878) came to Paignton in 1859, and eventually ran through to Kingswear.

Caption For Romsey, Broadlands 1898

Situated to the south of the town, overlooking the Test, Broadlands is an imposing porticoed house remodelled in classical style by 'Capability' Brown and John Holland in the mid 18th century.

Caption For Ludlow, The Broad Gate 1923

It is the south gate in the medieval town walls; it is now almost lost amongst the later buildings that have since been attached to it.

Caption For Didsbury, Parish Church C1955

St James's, Skinner Lane was remodelled no less than three times during the 19th century, in 1855, 1871 (chancel) and 1895 (south aisle).

Caption For Hope Cove, Cottages 1890

Hope is one of the more remote corners of Devon, located on the west side of the South Hams, six miles from Kingsbridge.

Caption For Cardiff, Roath Park 1896

additional areas added, the park totalled a grand 102 acres, which follows the Roath Brook between fashionable Cyncoed and Penylan to the east and Heath, Cathays and Roath to the west and south

Caption For Bussage, Church 1910

The porch and the three-bay south aisle were added in 1854 by G F Bodley.

Caption For Dover, Admiralty Pier 1906

In 1906, plans for Admiralty Pier were amended to allow the building of a station for the South Eastern & Chatham Railway. Two years earlier, transatlantic liners had begun to use the port.

Caption For Stretton, Church C1960

Stretton - the name comes from the Old English, and refers to a settlement on a Roman road - is a small hamlet south of Clay Cross.

Caption For Nutfield, Kings Mill 1906

There were two flourishing mills north and south of Nutfield, with this southern one still operating until recently, when it was featured in a film documentary.

Caption For Burton Fleming, The Church C1960

There was once a south aisle, but this was removed, as was the chancel arch. A small turret clock, with two dials, was erected in the tower in commemoration of Queen Victoria's jubilee.