Maps

9,439 maps found.

1919, North Wootton Ref. POP794122
1947, North Blyth Ref. NPO792950
1940, North Charford Ref. NPO793040
1947, North Close Ref. NPO793061
1945, North Coker Ref. NPO793068
1945, North Curry Ref. NPO793141
1947, North Dykes Ref. NPO793200
1947, North Elham Ref. NPO793209
1947, North End Ref. NPO793217
1946, North End Ref. NPO793227
1940, North End Ref. NPO793231
1945, North End Ref. NPO793232
1945, North End Ref. NPO793235
1946, North End Ref. NPO793240
1947, North End Ref. NPO793241
1946, North End Ref. NPO793249
1945, North End Ref. NPO793251
1946, North Evington Ref. NPO793272
1946, North Green Ref. NPO793414
1946, North Green Ref. NPO793415

Books

39 books found. Showing results 865 to 888.

Memories

1,544 memories found. Showing results 361 to 370.

My Time In Peterlee Starting In 1955

My family and I moved to Peterlee in the Autumn of 1955. We lived in Thorntree Gill. Petelee was quite new then. We could see the North Sea from my parent's bedroom window. At that time there were no schools, ...Read more

A memory of Peterlee in 1955 by Margaret Sewell

Back In The 50s

In the late 50's I moved to Rochford Road, just a few hundred yards from the airport. My dad, had learned to fly in Canada during the war and was now back working as a booking clerk for British Rail at Prittlewell. As a ...Read more

A memory of Southend Airport in 1958 by Colin Prentice

Lost Village Of East Holywell

I was born in East Holywell in 1946 and lived at 24 North Row. By then there were only 2 rows of houses left. We lived with my grandmother, Eva Barnfather, who had been there since the turn of the century. Like my ...Read more

A memory of East Holywell in 1950 by Maureen Thurlow

The Halcyon 1950's

I lived with my family in Connaught Gardens from being born in 1949 to late 1960 when we moved to Shiremoor. At the end of our street was an overgrown, rubble strewn wasteland which we called 'The Croft'. A natural childrens ...Read more

A memory of Forest Hall in 1950 by Malcolm Wild

Part 12

Hetton Council then cleaned up the remainder of the site, put on topsoil, and turned it into a sort of small park. There are some articles I have from the local paper published at the time giving a bit more insight to what happened. ...Read more

A memory of Middle Rainton in 1945 by John Harvey

The Tarry Beck

I remember pulling George Thompson from the beck at high tide. The streets were Prospect Place, Customs Row, Cargo Fleet Lane, South View, Bristol Street, Dover Street, Chester Street, Cambridge Rd and one I don't remember. I lived ...Read more

A memory of Cargo Fleet by Donald Bennett

My Home Town

Hi, I was born in LLay north Wales in June 1939, three weeks later we moved to Walkden. The family joke was, I was the cause of the WW2. We lived at 67 Westminster Road, just down from where the monument was originaly located. Whilst I ...Read more

A memory of Walkden in 1944 by David Norris

The Good Ol Days

I was born in north London in 1951. We moved to 3 Penzance Road when I was about 6 months old, I lived there until 1972. I remember Wallies van, buying broken biscuits from the shop in Petersfield Ave, playing runouts and tin tan ...Read more

A memory of Harold Hill in 1951 by Raymond Smith

George And Dragon, Ashton Under Lyne

My mum and dad ran the George and Dragon. It was my dad's first pub after leaving the RAF. I'm almost certain we were the last ones in there before it was demolished. I have very vague memories of the ...Read more

A memory of Ashton by Andrew Holden

Looking For Anyone Who Knew Me

Hi, I was born in 1945 at 9a Rectory Road, Gateshead. I was adopted 6 weeks later by Edna and Jack Dixon. My name then was Joy Dixon. I attended Brighton Road school for 10 years. I left the the north when I was 19 ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead in 1950 by Joy Shaw

Captions

2,676 captions found. Showing results 865 to 888.

Caption For Staithes, The Harbour C1885

Several special fish-trains ran every week on the North Eastern Railway.

Caption For Quorn, High Street C1965

The village sits astride the A6, only two miles north of Mountsorrel, and although deeply embedded in granite country, the buildings in the photograph lack any of that hard-edged quality.

Caption For Richmond, Castle And Bridge 1923

In those days this was frontier country, for though William the Conqueror had won at Hastings, anti-Norman feelings in the North were high and the possibility of a Danish-backed rebellion was never far

Caption For Ware, High Street 1925

We are looking north down the High Street towards its division into East and West streets.

Caption For Tolpuddle, St John The Evangelist C1955

In the north transept is a memorial carved in Purbeck stone to a 12th century priest called Phillip.

Caption For Bedford, The River 1929

In this photograph we look west from the tip of Mill Meadow Island towards the Embankment and the north bank of the river.

Caption For Chesham, St Mary's Church From The River 1897

This view looks north-west across the water meadows towards the church from beside the stream where it passes under Germain Street.

Caption For Scarborough, North Bay From The Castle 1891

From the Castle battlements, there was an excellent view to the north.

Caption For Kirkby Lonsdale, The Royal Hotel 1899

This was originally known as the Rose and Crown, but changed its name in 1840 after the Dowager Queen Adelaide, widow of William IV, convalesced here while touring in the north of England in that

Caption For Nelson, Scotland Road And Leeds Road C1955

Standing in the centre of the town at the junction of roads to Yorkshire and the north is the extravagantly ornate Union Bank Building, occupied by Barclays in the 1950s and now by the

Caption For Smeeton Westerby, Westerby Corner C1955

This attractive village retains its quiet rural atmosphere; it is ranged along its north-south street about a mile to the south of Kibworth Beauchamp.

Caption For Kidsgrove, Liverpool Road C1960

Kidsgrove is situated within the North Staffordshire coal field, and it was at a mine in the area in 1837 that deep mining was being carried out at 975ft below the surface.

Caption For Minchinhampton, The Church, The Rose Window 1901

Holy Trinity overlooks the north end of the High Street, although it stands a little apart as though distancing itself from temporal affairs.

Caption For Clapham, Marianne Thornton School C1970

The houses of Clapham Common North Side, part of the busy A3 London to Portsmouth Road, are visible through the trees.

Caption For Wheatley, Triangle Café C1960

Many of the buildings that were constructed in the north of Oxford during the 19th century were built with Wheatley bricks.

Caption For Sutton Bank, Gliding C1960

The headquarters of the Yorkshire Gliding Club at Sutton Bank, on the edge of the North York Moors high above the Vale of York with views to the distant Pennines, must be one of the most spectacular in

Caption For Oxford, High Street 1890

It was originally intended to educate 'poor boys' from the north of England.

Caption For Bath, North Parade And Abbey 1949

This view, closer in from the junction of North Parade and Pierrepont Street, shows the site of the Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, now a bustling bus station.

Caption For Eversley, The White Hart 1906

The village lies in the north-east corner of Hampshire, in an area of the county now strewn with busy roads and saturated with housing developments.

Caption For Henley On Thames, The Tow Path C1955

One was taken looking towards the bridge; the other was taken looking north-east to the finish- ing line.

Caption For Nunney, The Castle C1960

At the north end of the village is a tall oblong keep set in a neat moat with massive towers at each angle, which was licensed in 1373 for John de la Mare, Sheriff of Somerset.

Caption For Winchester, Cathedral 1922

Jane Austen, the novelist, lies under a slab of marble in the north aisle of the Cathedral.

Caption For Salisbury, High Street 1906

Looking towards the North Gate.

Caption For Croydon, North End C1950

Another view south down North End taken just over half a century after picture No 38651.