Maps

593 maps found.

1896, Stevington Ref. RNE839298
1898, Roxton Ref. RNE821333
1898, Swineshead Ref. RNE843877
1896, Willington Ref. RNE870498
1898, West End Ref. RNE864079
1896, Water End Ref. RNE861483
1946, Kempston West End Ref. NPO746030
1946, West End Ref. NPO864051
1946, Willington Ref. NPO870498
1946, Wood End Ref. NPO872463
1898, Green End Ref. RNE720806
1896, Green End Ref. RNE720808
1896, Herring's Green Ref. RNE731860
1896, Duck End Ref. RNE694530
1896, Eastcotts Ref. RNE698117
1896, Hall End Ref. RNE725108
1896, Kempston Ref. RNE746025
1898, Keysoe Row Ref. RNE746762
1946, East End Ref. NPO697176
1946, Eastcotts Ref. NPO698117

Books

2 books found. Showing results 97 to 2.

Memories

169 memories found. Showing results 41 to 50.

Hilgay Village Shop

I attended Downham Market Grammar School between 1953 and 1956, when I left to start work. I lived at Fincham, but was a friend of Cedric Peto (whom we nickmamed Pedro). His parents kept the village shop and I used to visit them ...Read more

A memory of Hilgay in 1955 by Alastair Crichton

Cinema House

This memory is for my Pops, Mr Thomas Raymond Manley who has recently passed on.  We talked for hours about his time in Wales as a young boy.  He lived in Evanstown near Gilfach Goch and had very fond memories of visiting the picture ...Read more

A memory of Gilfach Goch by Becky Manley

Silvery Ouse

I was a summer season driver of these boats during my college holidays in the early 1960s. We operated four boats, Silver Foam, Silver Stream, Silver Crest and my own boat, Silver Dawn, which I believe came from the Norfolk Broads. The ...Read more

A memory of Bedford in 1960 by Edward Donnelly

Rye Grammar School

I have a great-grandfather and several of his brothers who went to this grammar school in the 1830s and 1840s and they all had very nice writing with perfect copperplate. So maybe the severity on the outside was reflected in the ...Read more

A memory of Rye

Oh Happy Days

I was born in Kilburn in Plympton Road on 2nd May 1928 and went to school at Christ Church School and then Salisbury Road School. What a lovely place Kilburn was in those days with the iron railings and gates on every ...Read more

A memory of Kilburn in 1920 by William Bowling

Living In Brentford In The 50's & 60's.

Hi my name is Barbara Ottewill (Nee Hutchinson). I have just had a very enjoyable walk down memory lane by reading articles about growing up in Brentford, written by Alf Winkworth, Eunice Burridge and Pat ...Read more

A memory of Brentford by Barbara Ottewill

Remembering Rose Collins..

Yes I fondly remember Rose Collins working at the Queens Hall Cinema - sometimes she would let us under age kids in for an "A" film as long as we sat next to an adult who didn't mind having kids next to them. I lived in ...Read more

A memory of Brentford by Alfred Winkworth

Ice Cream

Does anyone remember the old ice cream vans that served Plato Road, Solon Road areas off the Acre Lane, Brixton? I have an uncanny and I'm sure not a healthy memory of remembering registration numbers from vehicles from years ago. We ...Read more

A memory of Brixton by Bob Mandale

Mixed Memories Of This Famous Hospital

About the time I was born in 1939, I had two aunts who were nurses in Claybury Hospital. Several years later, in the early 50s, I used to help the milkman from Drapers Farm and one of our biggest ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Bridge in 1963 by Michael Prudence

Old School Girl 1971 75

I was a pupil at Clarendon from 1971-75, when I had to leave after the fire. I wasn't allowed to go to the new school in Bedford, it was too far away for my parents, I was very disappointed. It was a privilege to be a pupil ...Read more

A memory of Abergele by Jane Fairclough

Captions

111 captions found. Showing results 97 to 120.

Caption For Elstow, The Swan Inn 1921

Those on the left were sold to the Bedford Borough Council for £1 in 1974 and restored. The roughcast was stripped and the timbers exposed, and new housing was built behind in Bunyans Mead.

Caption For Bedford, Infirmary 1897

The old Infirmary, designed by John Wing and opened in 1803, fronted Ampthill Road; it was later expanded to be the Bedford General Hospital (South Site).

Caption For Bedford, The Park C1960

At the end of the smart De Parys Avenue, Bedford Park was laid out to designs by the noted park designers William Barron and Sons from Derby in 1883 during Hawkins's first mayoralty.

Caption For Luton, Vauxhall Motors C1955

Scaffolding on the right indicates that the Bedford van production facility was undergoing an upgrade, and building works immediately beyond the bridge (which also contained part of the van production

Caption For Knebworth, London Road C1965

All the needs of a developing small town are in evidence - the Bedford lorry loaded with builders materials, Charles Love & Son's ironmongery and radio/TV engineer's (right), Lisles petrol station (near

Caption For Bedford, Bunyan's Statue 1898

Undoubtedly Bedford's most famous son - if only because of his imprisonment as the result of religious intolerance - John Bunyan was born into a tinker's family and lived something of the high life before

Caption For Kings Norton, The Church Of St John The Baptist C1955

was built at the cost of just over £20,000 in just over one year, apart from the spire, for Squire William Fortrey by local architect John Wing (1728-94) of North Luffenham, Hallaton and finally Bedford

Caption For Kempston, The Barracks C1955

has been given a new lease of life as a Masonic lodge, although part of the original Barracks, including the Keep, is to remain as a link to the Regimental War Memorial sited on the opposite side of Bedford

Caption For Kings Norton, The Church Of St John The Baptist C1955

was built at the cost of just over £20,000 in just over one year, apart from the spire, for Squire William Fortrey by local architect John Wing (1728-94) of North Luffenham, Hallaton and finally Bedford

Caption For Luton, Wardown Park 2002

Military vehicles from the local Vauxhall Bedford factory were tested at Wardown Park during wartime.

Caption For Bedford, Bunyan Memorial And Church Green C1955

Undoubtedly Bedford's most famous son - if only because of his imprisonment as a result of religious intolerance - John Bunyan was born into a tinker's family and lived something of the high life before

Caption For Worthing, Marine Parade 1890

By 1894 the two smaller lodging houses, inappropriately named Great Terrace (right on above photograph), had been constructed at the southern end of Bedford Row.

Caption For Luton, Vauxhall Motors C1955

Bedford truck designs became the basis for a new breed of army vehicles; the QL made history as the company's first 4 x 4.

Caption For Luton, The Andrew Carnegie Public Library 1924

At the time, boys were travelling to Dunstable, Bedford and St Albans. The new Luton Modern School opened in 1908.

Caption For Hemel Hempstead, Box Moor 2005

He sold the property the next day to the Earl of Bedford and Peter Graye of Leicester.